C.M. Lewis

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.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

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

same holds in a lot of other high profile races. despite headlines that Graham Platner is the "union candidate" (in fairness, Janet Mills legitimately sucks on labor), the largest unions in Maine have either sat it out entirely or expressed skepticism (Machinists)

despite early attention-grabbing headlines about misguided union endorsements of godawful republicans, in pretty much every instance the unions issuing endorsements are relatively small and isolated unions and the vast majority of labor is going the other way

being at home with my parents is interesting because they’re liberal folks and I’ll tell them news and they’ll say, “that can’t be true” which means two things:
1. they wish it weren’t true
2. the reality of this world’s cruelty is too much for them to look at

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Brady Tkachuk miffed over White House AI-doctored video Brady Tkachuk said he didn't appreciate the AI-doctored video released by the White House that made it appear he was disparaging Canadians.

If you're not a hockey person, what happened here is that one of the MAGA-est dudes in the NHL just got used and embarrassed by Trump because no amount of kissing Trump's ass is enough to make him respect you or hesitate to humiliate you for his own entertainment.

The long 2010s are finally over

sean ryan’s statement on nurul amin shah alam’s death (to me, frankly, a murder) is not enough. buffalo PD should be investigated just as harshly in all this.

look if you can’t channel the impulse to troll people for the bit into union work what are you even doing

fucking disgrace to the legacy of ryan miller’s buffalo sabres

i hope jason zucker throws a slapshot tage thompson’s way in practice

feels not coincidental that four of the five men’s hockey players that skipped the White House are from Minnesota (out of five Minnesotans on the roster)

ok I’m enjoying it at least a little bit still

fwiw the Canadian team is 0% better

well I had a solid few hours to enjoy Crosby and Binnington’s tears before these assholes went and ruined it

i have never seen a more miserable group of human beings than the Canadian men’s hockey team rn