C.M. Lewis

this is gonna be one of those days powered by caffeine and fury

it is literally impossible to honestly report on desantis's "concern" for white collar workers without noting that he's led the charge to gut collective bargaining rights in Florida

the same ron desantis that gutted collective bargaining rights for all of Florida's teachers is leading the charge on "concern" for white collar workers

absolutely farcical reporting from @nbcnews.com

Politicians are starting to pay a lot more attention to the plight of white-collar workers Rapid advancements in AI have industry and political leaders warning of massive job displacement for white-collar workers. It could reshape U.S. politics.

ron desantis is at the forefront of political concern for white collar workers? are we being fucking for real right now? www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Buffalo at the top of the division, Toronto at the bottom

the natural order has been restored 😌

#1 in the atlantic 😌

buffalo is winning the fucking cup lfg

“the party of procedurally correct warmongering” just a quick note, how’s that going for Labour

why have an opposition party when you can have a managed opposition party

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The US economy

Dave is correct.

Sectoral Bargaining: Principles for Reform An assortment of scholars, think tanks, nonprofit organizations, worker centers, and some unions have recently proposed sectoral…

This is technocratic policy wankery, not a serious proposal to build worker power -- and it actually doesn't *want* to build worker power, per se. It wants bargaining without workers.

Gonna leave this here. concerned-sectoral-bargaining.medium.com/sectoral-bar...

We can't get the PRO Act passed. What's your plan to get this through Congress? The White House? The Supreme Court? What will meaningfully increase worker protections under the law absent a surge of worker organization and militancy, the existence of which makes the premise of this piece moot?

I had a whole ream of issues with this study typed up -- starting with the fact that it deeply misrepresents the findings of a dated study with already-flawed methodology -- but it really just boils down to one thing that clearly has no answer:

What's your plan to make it happen?

I lived a few streets down from the site where the Philadelphia Police Department firebombed an entire city block in 1985, and when I mention it in lecture most of my students seem absolutely incredulous

A very sleepy white boxer sleeping on a bed

I’ve finally figured out how to tire out my large dumb son: take him for a run

HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?"

GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

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and union voters was one of the only demographics that Harris improved on Biden

given that the building trades almost uniformly endorsed Biden and Harris, which has definitely not been their historic posture toward democrats, reasonable argument to make that institutionally unions are more friendly to the Democratic Party (for good or ill) than at any point in their history.

as an outgrowth of this I’ve decided I’m gonna write something on the entirely invented media narrative that organized labor and union voters are somehow meaningfully shifting toward Trump

this is, i know, a massive shock to anyone paying any attention to organized labor.

yeah i mean both of them actually put up something meaningful for labor (not a commentary on the wisdom of the decision, but it's not entirely asinine like IBT endorsing Greg fucking Abbott)

if anything, the prevailing trend is that organized labor behaves incredibly small-c conservatively and doesn't take many risks when it comes to endorsement, and only takes risks in instances where it's a relatively small union that believes it'll benefit significantly if their gamble pays off.

(you could maybe include Lombardo and CCEA, but CCEA is a weird isolated island and Culinary is the heavyweight in NV)

of the most competitive races in the country, i can identify two instances where a meaningful fraction of labor seems to be aligning with Republican incumbents: Mike Lawler (NY-17) and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-1).

literally nowhere else, including gubernatorial/senate/congressional races.

also note on Texas: the Texas AFL-CIO endorsed Hinojosa, who is herself a fucking union member (CWA)

in other words: media narratives about labor support switching to Republicans or otherwise trending "conservative" (however that's interpreted) are bullshit. the same unions that historically have leaned right are continuing to lean right while the vast majority of labor does not.

despite the Teamsters and some trades inexplicably backing Greg Abbott (the dumbest of dumbfuck moves imaginable), the vast majority of organized labor in Texas has not done so (and will not)

ex: Texas AFT has as many members as all of the endorsing unions for Abbott, and endorsed Hinojosa

switching to Ohio: vivek ramaswamy has gotten some support from some of the building trades (which always tend to be smaller and their own little island), but the state's largest unions (OEA, OFT, AFGE, OCSEA, UAW, etc.) have all uniformly lined up behind Amy Acton