union labor with American characteristics

Someone make sure @whstancil.bsky.social sees this from the other place. Posted in response to Bovino getting fired and leaving Mpls.

things used to be better. there was a cheeseburger. i ate the cheeseburger and now it's gone? bring back the old days when i had the cheeseburger

SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity.com - 41m There's only one country on the face of the planet with real aircraft carriers. Actual force projection. And you're gonna miss it when they're gone. It's just China off the waters of your coast. Pax Americana is the greatest thing to happen to humanity. And I get to watch us all realize the price. • Kyle @kylerudy.bsky.social - 45m The rules-based international order will survive without us. SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity.com • 35m Every fucking diatribe and discontent will pale in comparison to what comes after us. My own critiques, our own sins. They will be absolutely nothing in comparison to what comes after. These are the old days, the bad days, the all-or-nothing days. They're back. And we will all reminisce the before. SwiftOnSecurity + Follow @swiftonsecurity.com There is no comfort in understanding that the American communist and socialist and provocateur is one of the greatest villains in the history of Man. They're just too fucking stupid to be convicted. They survive under a pageantry of the moron.

SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com • 1h If one understood China's plans for the IndoPacific they would be violent American neocons that would put nuclear missiles on aircraft carriers.

i've done quite a bit of mentally ill problem drinking and never came up with "communists destroyed america, the best country on earth, and we should nuke China about it" but maybe i'll built different

A screenshot from Twitter. The original tweet reads: "Rapper Kenderick Lamar wore size 29 women's jeans to Super Bowl LIX." The tweet garnered over a thousand replies, most negative. I (Derek Guy) screenshotted that tweet and wrote: "so funny to see history repeat itself. men who wear slim fit and stretch denim—both of which were once considered strictly for women—criticizing kendrick for wearing flares bc they were on the women's aisle. in ten years, you'll be in flares clutching pearls about something else" Then another user replied to my tweet, saying: "Wearing women’s clothes has never been in style, homo."

Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵

Bar charts of employee tenure, salary, and age from the DOGE website. The y axis is unlabeled, and horizontal lines providing some sense of scale are unevenly spaced

not sure what's worse about the DOGE site: unsecured databases, leaking of classified information, or these chart crimes

Flyer announcing: FIGHT FOR FIRED CFPB WORKERS, a CFPB Union Informational Picket on SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15 11am your local time. Meet at your local Tesla dealer including these cities: DC 3307 M St NW, NYC: 860 Washington St, SF: 999 Van Ness Ave, DECATUR, GA: 1580 Church St, CHICAGO: 901 N Rush St, AND your local BIG BANK. Mitts off, Musk!

ORDER. In light of the agreement of the parties at today's scheduling conference and the underlying record, the accompanying order will remain in place until the resolution of plaintiffs' 10 motion for temporary restraining order, which, with the parties' consent, will be deemed to be a motion for preliminary injunction. The Order provides that defendants shall not: delete, destroy, remove, or impair any data, database or other CFPB records; terminate any CFPB employee, except for cause related to the specific employee's performance or conduct; issue any notice of reduction-in-force to any CFPB employee; or transfer, relinquish, or return any money from the CFPB's reserve funds. A hearing on plaintiffs' motion is SET for March 3, 2025 at 10:00 in Courtroom 25A. Members of the public can access the hearing via toll free number 833-990-9400. Meeting ID 208322628. See Order for further details. Signed by Judge Amy Berman Jackson on 2/14/2025. (lcabj2) (Entered: 02/14/2025)

BIG WINS in court order our union is celebrating tonight:

🚫NO MORE MASS FIRINGS/RIFs/layoffs
🚫NO draining CFPB’s bank account
🚫NO deleting or breaking CFPB website & data

(til hearing on March 3)

WE'RE STILL FIGHTING for 160+ illegally fired on Tues & Thurs to get our jobs back! Join us tomorrow!

In my fantasies, Pete & Chasten will have Kamala & Dougie over for weekly potlucks that Michele O. will crash with a bottle of wine & gossip, after which Dr. Jill & Joe bring the dogs over along with some homemade brownies to enjoy while they all sing Karaoke

Remembering someone on here who said “if you actually read Marx, instead of being a trust fund leftist, you would know Marx would vote for Liz Warren”

As we explained, the real drivers of waste in the budget are in precisely the areas Musk was poised to ignore.
prospect.org/economy/2025...

Andrew Cuomo readying NYC mayoral campaign launch The former New York governor, who resigned in 2021 amid scandal, is emerging as the early frontrunner

Those of you who referred to yourselves as “Cuomosexuals” and worshipped this horrible man simply because he spoke in clear sentences during the early days of the pandemic are responsible for this.

Especially those of you who blindly defended his book deal!

I will never, ever forget it.

DOGE AI going rogue and speaking truth

I'm currently in a Budget Committee markup. This is what Republicans want to do:

❌ Slash $880 billion from Medicaid
❌ Cut $230 billion from food assistance
❌ Hand $4.5 trillion in tax breaks to billionaires & big corporations

This is a Republican rip off.

Having given up on finding their own Joe Rogan the Democrats have instead found their own blatantly corrupt shitbag from New York...then immediately fumbled and Trump recovered.

if you scroll hard enough the pot of gold at the end is actually mental health

personally I think Kendrick should have looked directly into the camera and changed the lyrics of "Not Like Us" into a political treatise explaining his exact position on both separation of powers and the immortal science of dialectical materialism. missed opportunity tbh

Crypto guy in 2014: Crypto will revolutionize finance and change how we interact with money

Crypto in 2025:

If you are aware of any employer or labor relations consultant that is involved in persuader activity, contact LaborLab at contact@laborlab.us

Under the law, they must disclose who they are and what they are getting paid to do!

That shit is anti-Italian discrimination.

Real wops use Mayor's Own.

🚨BREAKING | Trump is set to sign an executive order today pausing enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which bars U.S. companies from bribing officials abroad.

An early 2000's cringe fedora with KKKlansaSS City Chiefs logo, m'lady.

Everyone who says sportsball is canonically attached to this exact hat like Tim Pool and his beanie forever.

It can not be undone or edited.

I don't make the rules.

Former Democratic congressman Tim Ryan slams Chuck Schumer's embarrassing protest, saying "that's not the kind of visual we need...Schumer's brand is not good."

His illiquidity is the danger. He has to keep doing shit like this. The Not Actually Real Money Bus must be kept above $200 billion or it will explode. All of this shit is basically debt and blackmail and it's forcing people like Musk into increasingly precarious and dangerous positions.

weird that "denying unanimous consent" and "grinding the chamber to a halt" aren't on the list.

CFPB has $711M? That money should be returned to taxpayers.

As of January 30, 2025, CFPB enforcement actions have resulted in: $19.7 billion in consumer relief Approximate monetary compensation, principal reductions, canceled debts, and other consumer relief ordered. 195 million people eligible for relief Estimated consumers or consumer accounts eligible to receive relief. $5 billion in civil money penalties Approximate civil money penalties ordered.

Framing cutting CFPB as a taxpayer benefit just so corporations can get back to freely ripping people off.

Meanwhile, $19.7 billion in consumer relief.

Alt text: A Twitter post by Brinda Adhikari features a photo of a white SUV with the “China Aid” logo and Chinese characters on its side. The post states that an epidemiologist friend working on malaria in East Africa took the photo and sent it to her. The tweet questions whether China is filling the gaps left by USAID’s absence and urges fixing existing problems instead of creating new ones. The vehicle is parked in an area with other cars and greenery visible in the background.

America’s absence is China’s opportunity.