United Airlines and the flight attendant union have reached a tentative labor agreement that will take top pay to $100/hr by the end of the contract.
Flight attendants will also finally be paid during boarding if this agreement is ratified.
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This is what ecocide looks like.
ICE under Trump 2.0 built an unprecedented media operation - deploying videographers to raids, pumping out edgy social posts, swiping pop music for hype videos - and the main metric for evaluating its impact shows that Americans now hate ICE more than ever
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
there is no metric by which this is true. even 2028 primary polling (which is meaningless in general but seems like a fair yardstick here) doesn’t have him on top.
just a brazen attempt to impose him on us by the rich and the commentariat.
Check out @emmavigeland.bsky.social's talk with @davidgriscom.bsky.social about his new book The Myth Of Red Texas orbooks.com/catalog/the-...
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JUSTICE GORSUCH claims not to understand this statement, insisting that I now must be applying the major-questions doctrine, and his own version of it to boot. See ante, at 17 (concurring opinion) (“My concurring colleagues all but endorse it today”); ante, at 2, 7, 18 (similar). Given how strong his apparent desire for converts, see ante, at 2–26, I almost regret to inform him that I am not one. But that is the fact of the matter. I proceed in this case just as I did in West Virginia and Nebraska: I consider a delegation provision’s language, broaden the scope to take in the statutory setting, and apply some common sense about how Congress normally delegates. See West Virginia v. EPA, 597 U. S. 697, 756–766 (2022) (KAGAN, J., dissenting); Biden v. Nebraska, 600 U. S. 477, 534– 542 (2023) (KAGAN, J., dissenting). Contrary to JUSTICE GORSUCH’s suggestion, see ante, at 3–7, that conventional method of interpretation will not always favor (or always disfavor) executive officials, given the variety of delegation schemes Congress adopts. I’ll let JUSTICE GORSUCH relitigate on his own our old debates about other statutes, unrelated to the one before us. What matters here is only that IEEPA’s delegation refutes the Executive’s assertion of authority to levy tariffs, without any help from the major-questions doctrine.
Gorsuch also tries to conscript Kagan to the major questions camp in his concurrence, prompting Kagan to write this very funny footnote saying she is not, in fact, a convert to his cause. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Cars covered with snow parked on city street.
Cars covered with snow parked on city street.
Cars covered with snow parked on city street.
Cars covered with snow parked on city street.
Something to keep in mind the next time the city tries to repurpose parking and drivers complain that every last car is necessary at all times. The storm was two weeks ago.
the story here, which Kornacki gets right, is not exemplified in Mejia leading
it's that she's barely beating Malinowski who, while not a leftist, was an anti machine candidate who faced down an absolute money cannon of negative ads from DMFI and the machine
the *machine* lost here spectacularly
CNN: Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost assaulted at Sundance Film Festival event, police say By Aleena Fayaz Updated Jan 24, 2026
NBC News: Man lunges at Ilhan Omar during town hall and tries to spray her with unknown substance January 27, 2026
Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.
Fox's Brian Kilmeade at 6:15am: "What I would do is just bring Tom Homan in" to Minnesota.
Kilmeade at 7:15am: Send Homan!
Kilmeade at 8:10am: Send Homan!
Trump at 8:30am: Sends Homan
www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/m...
RIP Greg Bovino
Two weeks ago this guy announced he was providing legal help to the agent who shot Renee Good. That's how quickly the winds are shifting.
This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
"At the end of the day, it's bigger than me. The things that are going through makes people uncomfortable, imagine how (Palestinians) feel?" he said. "That's the biggest thing. I have no affiliation, no connection, to these people - other than the fact that I am a human being. If you have a heart and you're a human being, and you see what's going on in this world, you check yourself real quick. "I'm sitting here crying about football when there's people dying every single day." Al-Shaair is the Texans' 2025 Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee.
Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
The Packers are trying to help the Bears and the Bears are just refusing to take it - very midwest
Yes - I'm coming to the cottage. DM me lol
Crypto can only survive long-term if it gets access to the publicly backed banking system.
In one fell swoop, the OCC—the regulator for national banks—just approved five (5) bank charter applications by crypto companies.
www.occ.gov/news-issuanc...
Tony Dokoupil, he of the Ta-Neishi Coates book in the backpack of an extremist, nabs the CBS Evening News job
It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
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second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
Drop Site @DropSiteNews Democrats can’t claim to champion a multiracial democracy in the U.S. while defending an Israeli system built on ethnic hierarchy, @EmmaVigeland says: “The two-state solution fiction is just something that buys time here and still undercuts the idea that multiculturalism is a strength. We can’t be making the case in this moment of fascism that racial integration in greater Israel is a threat.”
Majority Report @majorityfm . @EmmaVigeland explains why a one-state solution for Palestine and Israel is necessary x @podsaveamerica
Dems can’t claim to champion a multiracial democracy in the U.S. while defending an Israeli system built on ethnic hierarchy, @emmavigeland.bsky.social says:
“The two-state solution fiction is just something that buys time here and still undercuts the idea that multiculturalism is a strength...
🎙️ Ryan Grim (@ryangrim.bsky.social) joined Emma Vigeland (@emmavigeland.bsky.social) and Sam Seder (@samseder.bsky.social) on Majority Report (@majorityreport.bsky.social).
For sure some of the legacy media outlets are downplaying the protests because they’re aligned with Trump, but I think an even bigger factor is how many elite journalists have a patrician disdain for the idea that politics can happen in the streets and not just the CNN green room.
I think Dems can and should do better than people who are abusive to their staff members
