Will millionaires flee states that try to tax them? Wrong question.
Why are we improvising tax policy state to state when it’s the federal government that should be dealing with health care, child care and affordability?
There we go! Listen here:
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Seven people hold blue signs that say "ProPublica workers on strike for a fair contract."
A group of 10 people pose for a photo while holding signs that say "ProPublica workers on strike for a fair contract."
A screenshot of 25 people on a Zoom meeting.
Yesterday, our members in New York, D.C., Chicago and across the country walked out to demand a fair contract.
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Economy too weak, prices too high, and war in Iran? The comparison to the 1970s is easy to make. But I think it's the wrong one. I write for @bloomberg.com about the parallels our economy has right now with the mid-aughts.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more.
They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.
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A newsletter from me! I talk about the technical words that economists have a hold over, words that carry enormous weight in how we view the economic struggles people experience.
What is a recession? If nothing else, its a lens into how people view the unemployed.
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Today, my fellow founding worker-owners and I are launching a subscription drive to @feedravenous.bsky.social. We are a group of experienced and award-winning food journalists here to publish thoughtful writing and incisive reporting from around the food world.
www.weareravenous.com
Hello my name is Alex Goldman and I used to host the Reply All podcast. A lot of people liked that show. Now I make @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social which if you liked reply all you’d probably like well. The thing is that a lot of people who liked Reply All don’t know my new show exists.
Adding this to the meme folder
ICE killed Silverio Villegas González 4 months before Good & Pretti. No officials in Illinois are doing things like this.
One battle after another (me pulling up Illinois primary guides ahead of tomorrow’s vote)
Screenshot from The Fugitive: US Marshall guy asking Tommy Lee Jones as Deputy Gerard, “If they can dye this river green today…”
Screenshot from The Fugitive, con’t: “…why can't they dye it blue the other 364 days of the year?”
A question pondered by sages since the beginnings of philosophy
Meme showing that the MN flag actually represents a loon with mouth wide emiting some sort of frosty energy beam
Reminder for the first annual #LoonDay
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..
Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.
Conservative corporate media takeover is bad no matter which way you slice it, in part because news influencers—who a lot of people get their news from instead of traditional news media—rely heavily or entirely on traditional news media sources that they comment on and aggregate for their audience
The best thing you can do in light of the Ellison takeover of Warner Brothers invest your time, energy, and money in supporting independent creators and independent distribution networks and independent venues. It is absolutely crucial to make independence a viable option.
Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.
Off the top of my head:
www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email
Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.
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Letz go even bigger and better,,, ALL Female US Olympians and Paralympian medalists are invited out to celebrate in Viva Las Vegas for the SHE GOT GAME Weekend ,,,
Hit a guy up and LETZ GOOO
The U.S. primary hockey team declined Trump's invitation to attend the State of the Union.
If they had integrity, the men's team would follow their lead and do the same.
www.thedailybeast.com/us-womens-ho...
A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced.
https://to.wttw.com/4rZGMLg
Whether they are closing today or not, it is undeniable that the general strike had pushed people in some way. Restaurants are making statements explaining why they’re not closing, expressing solidarity, and pledging to donate % of sales. People are engaged and that says something.
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
The MN Frost just did a moment of silence for Alex Pretti and we are now chanting “ICE out now”
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
The Timberwolves-Warriors game in Minneapolis has been postponed by the NBA, sources tell ESPN, in wake of a man shot and killed Saturday in a confrontation with federal agents in the city. It's the second shooting there in a week, third this month, involving a federal officer.
