Sterling (@s-dudley) — Bluesky Profile

3 hours ago

Remember Javier Bardem is Desi Arnaz. That was Ricky Ricardo saying 'Free Palestine'

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3 hours ago

Michael B. Jordan is the first Oscar winner who might plausibly have made AMVs at one point in his life

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15 hours ago

🏆 On Oscar Day, roll out the red carpet for Norma Shearer!

🎬 Revisit the performance that won her Best Actress for The Divorcee at the 3rd Academy Awards.

Now in the Public Domain, you can watch the full film on the Internet Archive! ⤵️
archive.org/details/the-...

#Oscars #RedCarpet #ClassicFilm

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8 hours ago

Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Now" and "OSCARS.ORG". Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the Oscars website from December 29th, 1996, alongside one from March 8, 2026.

🎬 The #Oscars celebrate movie history, but their website has a history too.

Take a trip back to the early web with this vintage capture of oscars․org, preserved in the #WaybackMachine.

See how Hollywood’s biggest night's site appeared online 30 years ago ⤵️
web.archive.org/web/19961229...

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18 hours ago

republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say

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1 day ago

Virginia General Assembly Passes Historic Legislation to Allow More Than Half a Million Public Service Workers the Freedom to Collectively Bargain

Legislation now heads to Governor Spanberger’s desk

RICHMOND, Va. — Both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly tonight passed historic legislation to allow more than half a million public service workers — including teachers, firefighters, state workers, home care workers and service staff at public universities — the freedom to join a union and bargain collectively for their wages, benefits and working conditions.

SB 378, patroned by Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell, passed the Senate by a vote of 20-18 and the House by a vote of 61-36. HB 1263, patroned by House Democratic Caucus Chair Kathy Tran, passed the House by a vote of 62-34 and the Senate by a vote of 20-18.

While the General Assembly must still pass a budget that funds the legislation, today marks a significant step toward ensuring all workers have the dignity of a seat at the table and a voice on the job.

“At the start of this legislative session, I announced this bill as one of our caucus’s key affordability proposals, and I am proud to deliver a conference report that is one of the most significant advances for workers’ rights anywhere in the country in recent history,” said Leader Surovell. “Senate Democrats will continue to fight for workers, including the public sector workers we rely on every single day for high-quality services that they deliver to our families and communities.”

“At a time when costs continue to rise and public sector workers struggle to rent or buy homes in the communities they serve, we must act to make life more affordable for them,” said Caucus Chair Tran. “From our teachers, to home care workers, to firefighters and frontline workers, public sector employees work hard to provide the best possible services to our families, and they deserve a seat at the table. Together, we will continue to show that Virginia can be one of the best states in the country for both business and workers.”

“I applaud the General Assembly for passing this bill,” said Portsmouth firefighter Kurt Detrick, who serves as President of Local 539, Portsmouth Professional Firefighters and Paramedics “The problem right now is that firefighters, teachers, and other public service workers cannot even begin the process of deciding whether or not we want to collectively bargain unless a few politicians decide that we are worthy of this right. This legislation would put that decision in the hands of the workers, which is where it belongs, and I am glad it is headed to Gov. Spanberger’s desk.”

“It is simply not right that our freedom to be a part of a union is dependent on our zip code. We show up every day and work hard to make our communities better and stronger; we deserve the same rights and freedoms as anyone else,” said Natalie Boyd Thomas of Portsmouth, a social worker who’s been working to organize a union with AFSCME. “Senate Bill 378 and House Bill 1263 will fix this. It’s good that these bills are headed to the governor’s desk so that our local public service workers have a voice on the job.”

“There are several school divisions that have successfully implemented collective bargaining and union contracts in the last five years,” said Nicholas Green, a member of the Education Association of Norfolk and a Norfolk middle school teacher. “Workers in Arlington won the right to speak their native language while at work. Workers in Prince Willi…

“This victory isn’t just a win for us, but for all Virginians who need care. Our care strengthens families, supports communities, and helps Virginia invest in care at home rather than more costly alternatives,” shared Athena Jones, SEIU Virginia 512 home care chapter chair. “I’m proud of our union, and our sibling unions, who have stood united in our fight to ensure that all workers in Virginia are treated with respect and that our rights are protected by law.”

“We are the people who keep the schools safe and clean for the students to get their education, and who keep the buildings clean,” said Wakisha Nunley, a housekeeper for Old Dominion University and member of UNITE HERE. “We deserve change and we deserve it now, and I’m glad it’s about to finally be here, and we will keep fighting until every worker at a public university has the same rights.”

While the Virginia Public Sector Labor Coalition recognizes the passage of this historic legislation as a cause for great celebration, it stands in solidarity in its commitment to the continued fight to ensure all faculty and staff at public universities — including graduate workers, adjunct professors, and tenured professors — have the freedom to collectively bargain.

“Expanding collective bargaining rights to all public sector workers has been a central focus of our work for years, and we are excited that we have taken a major step towards that goal today,” said Cecelia Parks, Chair of the United Campus Workers of Virginia Political and Policy Committee and a librarian at the University of Virginia. “However, we are disappointed that so many of our members, including faculty, graduate student workers, and many staff were left out of the legislation that passed today. Workers like me are the heartbeat of our public colleges and universities, and we are deeply committed to our students and our institutions. Bargaining would give us a seat at the table to improve our working conditions, our students’ learning c…

“We are thrilled that so many public sector workers will now have the chance to improve their working conditions, but are beyond disappointed that instructional faculty and graduate teaching assistants are being left behind,” said Bethany Letiecq, President of GMU-AAUP and Vice-President of AAUP-AFT Local 6741. “This at a time when teaching is under attack by anti-democratic actors at the highest levels of government. And faculty, even with tenure, are being fired without due process. We will continue to fight for college and university instructors—this is not over by a long shot.”

The legislation builds on a 2020 law, championed by Delegate Elizabeth Guzman (D-Prince William) and Sen. Jennifer Boysko (D-Fairfax), that lifted Virginia’s blanket ban on public sector collective bargaining by allowing workers the freedom to collectively bargain in localities that passed ordinances authorizing the practice. A surge in energy led to more than 80,000 public service workers actively organizing to win collective bargaining rights.

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Authorized by the Virginia Public Sector Labor Coalition, which comprises Virginia AFL-CIO; American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME); American Federation of Teachers; American Federation of Teachers-American Association of University Professors; Communications Workers of America (CWA); SEIU Virginia 512; Virginia Education Association (VEA); Virginia Professional Fire Fighters (VPFF); UNITE HERE; and United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400. The coalition collectively represents hundreds of thousands of Virginia workers.

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2 days ago

the war in Iran has officially gotten as many US troops killed as died in the Afghanistan withdrawal

and it only gets worse from here

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2 days ago

Donald Trump romping in a third consecutive Republican primary after leaving office in disgrace with pending felony indictments and not even being allowed on television to debate the other contenders, after everyone told themselves he was done and would go away quietly. It's enough to make one drink

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2 days ago

God, to be able to split my recent electric bills with somebody

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2 days ago

The Gen Z dating crisis is exacerbating the burden of rising costs of living.

In this essay, I will... 1/138

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2 days ago

this is spoiling something i might have upcoming but i will literally give my life for a Democratic politician to run on collecting more taxes rather than changing anything about tax rates

there's several hundred billion dollars on the sidewalk, all we have to do is pick it up

#GiveTheIRSaNuke

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2 days ago

He sure took the “blue” in bluray seriously

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2 days ago

Calfornia could solve literally all of its problems if politicians were willing to bite the bullet and fix their property tax scheme but instead they would rather handicap the most naturally gifted place on the planet for no reason

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2 days ago

that’ll rally the base

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2 days ago

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

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2 days ago

Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account

Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart”
Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001
Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar at city hall

Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

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2 days ago

why, was there something wrong with how FEMA was responding to disasters

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2 days ago

Tweet from Katie Porter: 0% state income tax for California families making under $100,000. That’s thousands of dollars back in your pocket where it belongs.

As Governor, I’ll work the issue at both ends—lowering taxes for those who are struggling and raising them on the biggest corporations that can afford to pay.

Personally, I think people who are between the third and fourth quintile of income-earners in California should probably pay some income tax.

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2 days ago

😱 Another Friday the 13th.

With that much misfortune we need some good luck. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is on the job with his own lucky foot 🐰🦶

🍀 Luckily we've preserved some good fortune for you in our collections ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias...

#FridayThe13th #Superstitions #Preservation

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2 days ago

my operating theory for vibecession is basically just instagram's effect on beauty standards applied to the economy

people see rich people performing fake prosperity (and normal people performing fake poverty) online every single day, and then COVID made everybody spend a whole year on their phones

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2 days ago

the country is at war and the president is leaving DC this afternoon for a weekend at his private club in Florida that he'll spend with his paying customers

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5 days ago

Insurrectionist Brunch: Trumpists plotted to deploy military on U.S. soil Before the 2024 election, a cadre of MAGA loyalists met over brunch to plot ways for Trump to use the military domestically.

This is just astonishingly great reporting.

All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.

And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

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3 days ago

Surprised he hasn't picked up the South American style presidential sash

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3 days ago

"Imagine if they had an army of gundams, think about what a terror that would be."

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3 days ago

No, Not All Iranian-Americans Support The War YouTube video by The Mary Houlihan Show

youtube.com/watch?v=qTNA...

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3 days ago

Double them first so you can cut them in half back to what they were originally

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3 days ago

im gonna go tidy up the spot where im gonna put my 'fell for blexas again' award cuz im shit like this is gonna make me fall for it again.

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3 days ago

Chia Amisola’s "Elegiac" unfolds browser windows into a generative myth from archived media 🎨🎶📝

Created for the Internet Archive x @GrayArea.org Trillionth Webpage Net Art Commissions, it evokes a web that disappears even as the Archive stays 🌐

More ⤵️
blog.archive.org/internet-arc...

#Wayback1T

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3 days ago

Oh yeah, I’ve recorded and edited all of the League. I’ll be posting new videos starting tomorrow now I’m going to enjoy an egg!

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