Baby Cheetah (Marxist)

“The working masses are hungry for revolutionary change”

—Rep. Rashida Tlaib at DSA convention

The Cause of Labor is the Hope of the World

Coen Brothers’ The Big Labubu

Eight Men Out (dir. John Sayles, 1988)

The Ocean's Eleven team is a nice, healthy collection of men of various demographic backgrounds, who SUPPORT each other and ALLOW each other ROOM for EMOTIONAL VULNERABILITY, and they also ROB CASINOS.

Just stay for a week

Most people trying to salt genuinely want to get hired. If this is the standard Cowen wants to pursue, that sucks, but it shouldn't interfere in most of what people think of as salting. Still, those trying to salt should keep this standard in mind. 5/5

Toering governs all salting cases, and Regions are required to determine whether the Toering standard has been met as part of its initial investigation. Before soliciting charged party evidence in these cases, Regions should focus their initial investigative efforts and resources on obtaining evidence from the charging party. Regions should ensure that the evidence gathered bears on the two legal issues in Toering: whether the alleged discriminatee applied for employment and possessed a genuine interest in being hired.

This is demonstrated by the standard he's asking regions to use, which asks them to look, in cases involving salts, at whether "the alleged discriminatee applied for employment and possessed a genuine interest in being hired." 4/

To be clear, doing that is totally legal, and the employer refusing to hire someone in that circumstance is illegal (NLRB v. Town & Country Electric, 516 U.S. 85 (1995)). But Cowen's memo is about trying to avoid people who are trying to get rejected from being able to pursue their claims. 3/

As a general rule, job applicants are employees under Section 2(3) and are protected from discrimination under the Act. 4 In Toering, however, the Board determined that those protections were being abused in salting cases where salts “…have engaged in conduct clearly intended to provoke a decision not to hire them, or have engaged in antagonistic behavior toward the employer that is wholly at odds with an intent to be hired.” (emphasis in original)5

Salting, as the term is used colloquially, means seeking a particular job in order to organize on that job. But as Cowen is looking at it, salting includes applying to a job as an open union supporter in order to get denied the job, usually to set up an Unfair Labor Practice charge. 2/

This is a bad memo from Cowen, but it's important to understand that what the Board thinks of as salting differs slightly from how its used more generally. The standards Cowen articulates here are wrong but probably shouldn't touch most instances of salting 1/

DSA stands for Dads and Sons of America

Howell resigning, it should be noted, doesn't eliminate any liability he has for potentially violating his duty as an officer of the union

Fortunately, Zohran seems like a natural coalition builder while Johnson was kind of the opposite from the start. I personally had major reservations when I heard he was running against defund. Then he explicitly asked CDSA to stay away after all we'd done on the CTU strike. Real Warren shit.

Thanks to everyone who showed up and to our co-sponsors for rallying to protect trans youth! None of us are safe until all of us are safe. DSA will keep fighting for gender affirming care for all. Become a member today and join the fight! act.dsausa.org/donate/membe...

Last weekend, we joined @socialists.nyc volunteer appreciation day to celebrate the thousands of members—old and new—who knocked on doors, made phone calls, and organized day after day for our victory in the primary.

Onward to November and beyond.

Art can't just be a luxury for the few. That requires a city where artists can actually afford to live and create, and where musicians don't just receive recognition but fair pay.

That's what @local802.bsky.social organizes for and I'm so proud to have their endorsement.

If you haven’t already, now is a great time to start not supporting Gavin Newsome for president

That is a sick fuckin goal

In 2028 DSA should endorse the only presidential candidate who can take on and beat the fascists, Pigasus J. Pig

Is this how I would prepare bean fries? No of course not, I'd heat up those beans and do like English poutine with the beans and like a Red Leicester

If I stopped innovating what would I be?

Neither is ketchup but that's still tasty with fries

tbh I'd fuck w those bean fries

Labor Loves Cool James

Today's endorsement by the hundreds of unions and more than a million workers of @nyclabor.bsky.social is a profound honor and a responsibility to deliver for working people. I will strive to live up to it each and every day as your Mayor.

Reconstruction 3: Threeconstruction

Big news: The NYC Central Labor Council - AFL-CIO just announced that it is endorsing Zohran

This is one way to free up the resources for his Department of Community Safety

I said something similar yesterday, but also we shouldn't say it too loud or they might stop