ghost in the liberry

USSW is posting here again plz give them some love.

I'm actively* working on a 1 pager to explain "Your action performed well on Bluesky, why does this matter" so I can give it to Workers who are mostly IG/Tik tok centric.

*well I should be done it next week

i don’t really understand why this made me start bawling i just really love seeing people try to help each other in creative ways and that this shit is necessary

We don’t really need endless debates about at what point they’ve crossed the line into Being A Fascist Government.

We can just say, “hey, it’s been proven that their actions are hurting people they’re supposed to be serving, & haven’t listened to the majority of the country telling them to stop.”

Think of the economy as like baking a cake. H‑1B visas supply missing ingredients -- high skill STEM workers. If Trump cuts off access: fewer projects get baked, worse recipes get used, or we import the cake. None of those make Americans better off. #TheProfessorIsIn #TeachEcon

Cuomo could never.

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”

Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

Solidarity is how we stop bad bosses from allowing sexual harassment in our workplaces.

And we’ll keep building solidarity and power in our stores, while fighting to ensure every California fast food worker gets a raise and knows their rights.

#UnionsForAll

The BS asymmetry principle: The amount of energy needed to refute BS is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

Thank you to every science communicator who is doing the almost impossible work of countering misinformation every day. Every single one of you is saving lives!

timeline cleanse

Oranges, carrots, grapes – Alejandra, an immigrant farmworker, has harvested all of these through extreme heat and cold.

We spoke with her at a legal clinic we held with @ufw.bsky.social last summer about the harsh working conditions farmworkers like her face day-to-day.

A crew of farm workers wearing the colors of the Mexican flag as they harvested peas on Mexican Independence Day

Today is Mexican Independence Day. This crew of farm workers celebrated it by wearing the colors of the Mexican flag as they harvested peas today on CAs Central Coast. #WeFeedYou

sadly i cannot afford all the streaming services, i only have viki, netflix, iqiyi and sling.

yeah i've been checking every few days and the number is going down but... will i even live that long wahhh

from here viki says it will be available in 701 days :(

where US civil rights came from: public pressure on the supreme court...
(this is the last post, click and scroll up for easy reading):

During our Workers’ Labor Day week of action, at 1,000+ events across the country, America’s unions and allies demanded freedom, fairness and security for ALL working people.

#PEM is a very specific physiological abnormal reaction to exertion of any kind, not only physical. The difficulty in recognizing and defining it is due to a longstanding misconception that equals it to fatigue. The core difference between the two is qualitative & quantitative.

A large low over North America guides smoke over the skies of the eastern US, originating from wildfires on the western side of the continent.

YouTube video by Elle Cordova For our scientists

Keep your chin up, scientists.💕

youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w...

screen grab from watchduty.org showing active fires all up and down the west US coast and mountains from washington state to california and much of the mountain time zone states

holy crap we're on fire again

Trump: If something happens that's really bad, maybe I'll have to just blame AI. bsky.app

A photo montage of a farm worker with buckets of potatoes she picked on top of the American flag with the words not everybody gets #laborday off

Join us in celebrating the people who labor in the fields to put food on our tables.

Únase en celebrar a la gente que trabajan en los campos para poner comida en nuestras mesas.

#WeFeedYou #LaborDay

Central Coast Farm workers wish you a happy #LaborDay

Campesinos de la Costa Central les desean un feliz Día del Trabajo.

#WeFeedYou #SoyEsencial

Post from President Trump on Truth Social: Six people were killed, and 24 people were shot, in Chicago last weekend, and JB Pritzker, the weak and pathetic Governor of Illinois, just said that he doesn’t need help in preventing crime. He is CRAZY!!! He better straighten it out, FAST, or we’re coming! MAGA. President DJT

Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first?

(Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)

From: Charles Borges, Chief Data Officer, Social Security Administration To: Frank Bisignano, Commissioner, Social Security Administration Subj: Forced Resignation from Social Security Administration I am regretfully involuntarily leaving my position at the Social Security Administration (SSA). This involuntary resignation is the result of SA's actions against me, which make my duties impossible to perform legally and ethically, have caused me serious attendant mental, physical, and emotional distress, and constitute a constructive discharge. After reporting internally to management and externally to regulators serious data security and integrity concerns impacting our citizens' most sensitive personal data, I have suffered exclusion, isolation, internal strife, and a culture of fear, creating a hostile work environment and making work conditions intolerable. I have served this Country for almost my entire adult life, first as an Active-Duty Naval Officer for over 22 years, and now as a civil servant. I was deployed during 9/11, decorated for valor in combat during Operation Iraqi Freedom, and graduated from US Naval Test Pilot School. As a civil servant, I have served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow, in the Centers for Disease Control during COVID, within OMB on the Federal CIO Data Team, and now serve as the SSA Chief Data Officer (CDO). I have served in each of these roles with honor and integrity. As the SSA CDO, I am responsible for providing oversight and Governance to ensure the safety, integrity, and security of the public's data at SSA. My position requires full visibility into data access and exchange across all SSA systems and environments. My duties include ensuring compliance with federal data privacy, security, and regulatory requirements, as well as ensuring data is handled in accordance with internal and external policies, standards, and industry best practices. SSA data is among the most sensitive data in the Federal

Government, and the CDO must be well informed about all sensitive data exchanges, storage implementations, and data access concerns. Recently, I have been made aware of several projects and incidents which may constitute violations of federal statutes or regulations, involve the potential safety and security of high value data assets in the cloud, possibly provided unauthorized or inappropriate access to agency enterprise data storage solutions, and may involve unauthorized data exchange with other agencies. As these events evolved, newly installed leadership in IT and executive offices created a culture of panic and dread, with minimal information sharing, frequent discussions on employee termination, and general organizational dysfunction. Executives and employees are afraid to share information or concerns on questionable activities for fear of retribution or termination, and repeated requests by me for visibility into these events have been rebuffed or ignored by agency leadership, with some employees directed not to reply to my queries. As a result of these events, I am put in the intolerable situation of not having visibility or oversight into activities that potentially violate statutes and regulations which I, as the CDO, may legally or otherwise be held accountable for should I continue in this position. Additionally, I cannot verify that agency data is being used in accordance with legal agreements or in compliance with federal requirements. The escalating and relentless daily stress of lack of visibility and exclusion from decision-making on these activities, silence from leadership, and anxiety and fear over potential illegal actions resulting in the loss of citizen data, is more than a reasonable employee could bear. I started this position with high hopes and aspirations for continuing to serve our country and its citizens. However, due to my concerns regarding SA's questionable and potentially unlawful data management practices,

and the inability to exercise my statutory duties as DO, I believe my position is untenable and that this constitutes an intolerable working environment for a Chief Executive tasked with specific responsibilities and accountability. Please consider this letter my notice of resignation from SSA, effective immediately. Very Respectfully, Charles Borges Chief Data Officer, Social Security Administration

#Alt4You

i have similar ME/CFS + autism + CPTSD - i think the ME/CFS wouldn't have taken me down so hard if i didn't have a lifetime of abuse and related stress to try to handle.

now homebound and struggling with trying to balance meds for pain that don't exacerbate brain fog and PEM.

It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu
x.com/dr_demetre/s...

election junk mail from opposition to California vote to counter Texas gerrymandering, from "votersfirstact.org" and "protectfairelections.org", showing that the Republicans are Very Afraid of California voters approving a Democratic response.

it's only been 4 DAYS since this announcement and already getting opposition flyers in my (California) mailbox - GOP is Big Mad

Online behavioral advertising has made surveillance the business model of the internet. By automatically blocking their trackers, @privacybadger.org makes it harder for Big Tech companies to profit from your personal information. You can download Privacy Badger at privacybadger.org.