Moderately Sexy Librarian

Striking Starbucks workers urge customers to delete coffee chain’s app Unionized baristas continue to fight for a fair contract and ask public for solidarity as strike stretches into third month

Starbucks workers are asking customers to delete the mobile app amid their ongoing strike to push the corporation to reach a first contract with the union and to stop union busting
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

We need as many eyes on this as possible.

The goal is not impossible and if we can raise at least $3000 for Bex in the next week, that'll bring them up to date with their minimums, rent, medication and transport to radiation treatments.

Rebeka deserves our support. They deserve to live. 💜

Oh my god it’s true

Screenshot from "Tortoise Wins by a Hare," a 1943 Bugs Bunny cartoon. It's a newspaper front page, banner headline: HARE RACES TORTOISE TODAY Further down the page, near the fold, is a much smaller headline: ADOLPH HITLER COMMITS SUICIDE

One of my favorite jokes of all time is "Adolph Hitler Commits Suicide" being a tiny headline under the banner story about a hare-vs-tortoise race ... in 1943, two years before Hitler committed suicide. He was alive and well when the Warner Bros. cartoonists made this joke.

being a trans woman is crazy. "yeah all my opps are billionaire pedophile rapists"

One of the things bothering me about how people are responding to the Epstein files is that there are tons of conspiracies being created and spread about what’s in them, rather than people just believing the victims like they could have been doing for years now

I’m seeing a lot of QAnon stuff being recycled, including allegations of cannibalism that can be read in-between the lines.

As with QAnon, the real problem, that elites abuse people while also conspiring with one another to stay in power, is being replaced by whatever claims gets the most views.

I'm having mine surgically removed due to chronic compassion fatigue, so I'll let you know after the operation.

seth's right, this is heat

I'm not trying to tell anyone what tactics they should agree or disagree with, I have my opinions but I don't think that's a *useful* argument to have when this stuff becomes Discourse.

But if your standard is "no crime," you let legislators dictate protest legitimacy.

Guess who is legislating.

Howard County revokes permit for ICE detention facility in Elkridge Howard County has revoked a building permit for a private detention facility proposed in Elkridge that authorities say is intended for use by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

This effort took a lot of work from local activists.

It can be done elsewhere. Get on board.

www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

I should not have to say this but if you are a legal observer your job is not to go snitch on any and all illegal things.

Your job is SPECIFICALLY AND EXCLUSIVELY to record law enforcement brutality, illegality, and overreach.

It is ABSOLUTELY NOT to snitch on protests you find too spicy.

Lord help me, I keep this man muted for a reason. But

Black block is a TACTIC, not an organization. It's not about "fighting them in the street," it's about avoiding identification by the state.

Which is not unwise right now.

AND FURTHER:

A lot of folks organizing mutual aid ARE THOSE SAME FOLKS

It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser.

What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??

I need people to understand that it’s not just Epstein, it’s the entire rape culture that existed before and after him at every socioeconomic level. That’s why Epstein, who I’ve never thought was particularly smart or interesting, was able to pull this all off—he recognized how abuse functions

Nothing has changed and these masked, armed federal paramilitaries are just as aggressive and lawless as ever.

it really is kinda driving me insane. like... obviously epstein didn't *invent* live-service microtransaction garbage, he's just in the midst of this conversation about it, but it's absurdly comical that so much evil in this world just runs through this one specific guy

Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks.

They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.

Cops are still cops.

The police aren’t suddenly law-abiding saviors now that white people are being threatened by a government “law enforcement” organization.

Your privileged past experiences with cops hasn’t made them the grown-ups in the room that are coming to protect you from fascism.

This person is running for Governor of the state Trump has turned into the Purge and is posting about coffee prices. DC brained fool who needs to fucking quit.

A year into the Trump administration it's impossible to see them as anything else but collaborators.

I’m *extremely concerned* about the way folks are reforming their image of the cops in light of everything that’s happening, even though we only have a handful examples of them disagreeing with ICE, while still being responsible themselves for the murders of Black and brown people across the country

Brett Ratner:

there's two completely unrelated threads here: "it turns out if you fill a social media site with spambots, they spam" and "an ai agent that can execute commands is trivial for a hacker to exploit." & the author ties these together b/c adults who should know better get scared easily by ghost stories

Similarly, I think it's only a matter of time before we get a police procedural that valorizes ICE or CPD.

It'll probably air on Fox TV or Daily Wire +. It'll be worse than the Rookie somehow.

look, what if we all pretend this never came out? just ignore one piece of history forever. I say we give it a try

I Think it'll be Lee Greenwood. It'll be set to the Tune of "Proud to be an American" & the lyrics will barely be changed

Tesla's own Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor Tesla’s nascent robotaxi program is off to a rough start. New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of...

New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of robotaxi mileage, reveals Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher than human drivers, and that’s with a safety monitor in every car.

Tesla has reported 9 crashes involving its robotaxi fleet in Austin, TX.

/1

Just googling the heads of every hedge fund and then searching for them in the Epstein files and almost always finding direct emails or messages where he says he met with them