Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since.
That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.
If you're a cis person who wants to be kind to your trans and nonbinary friends right now, please do not forward us links to stories about trans people being abused, having their rights taken away, or living in fear. We already know. A friendly "hey I hope you're OK" is much more helpful. 💖
Siouxsie Sioux mural on a wall
Siouxsie Sioux graffiti in Bogotá, Colombia.
#art #inspo #goth #graffiti
half-remembering that thing about how most Roman citizens experienced the fall of Rome as simply one day their local bridge went out and nobody came around to repair it
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Dimensions I thought we knew
#art #programming #processing
Wim Wenders's UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD is a meandering masterpiece. It's really (I mean REALLY) bloody long but it manages to stay interesting for the majority of the proceedings. The soundtrack is an absolute all-time banger.
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
NOAA is an absolute mess, and it’ll be worse tomorrow. Please help us. There have already been over 1,000 terminations. It’s not just layoffs—Elon Musk and his staffers are trying to completely dismantle us. Today, there were tons of firings, and more are coming tomorrow.
The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming.
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Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties.
It’s laughable that these people want you to believe that judges can’t restrict the executive, after the last four years, or the last forty. Everything is simply “only we, the Herrenvolk, deserve power.” It is what it is.
According to an NNSA employee, roughly 300 of the agency's 1,800 staff are expected to be fired after the agency was denied a national security exemption. The small organization is responsible for maintaining and upgrading America's arsenal of nuclear weapons, combatting nuclear terrorism, and preventing proliferation around the world.
Holy shit. This is fucking nuts.
This is a great piece.
"As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
An efficient facism does not require much direct state violence. It merely requires the assurance that private violence aligned with the desires of the regime will go unpunished.
Anyone else taking this up?
Everything is beneath Democrats except egg prices. The whole country can be on fire and our basic constitutional rights under threat and they’ll say nothing. God help Trump if grocery prices go up, though
look i'm not saying you should sabotage trump's DEI mccarthyist hotline, I just think this is a funny post you should read
The pace at which Europe's power system is decarbonising is staggering. Fossil fuels now down at 29% of the electricity mix. People can argue over whether it's the source of the continent's economic woes or the answer to them, but they can't deny it's happening. www.businessgreen.com/news/4401330...
I wish every Dem office would read this and internalize it. "The only sensible and dignified course of action is to accept that Republicans are in charge and to focus in on making their unpopular actions as painful as possible...The job of the opposition is quite literally to oppose. Get to it."
The GOP is literally telling you that their main policy goal is to ethnically cleanse the country.
Donate to Wikipedia.
Do it today, and every time one of the broligarchs has a tantrum because he can’t buy it
SCOTUS announces it will hear whether or not LGBTQ inclusive education is unconstitutional.
Not great for LGBTQ people, and could be disastrous to teaching that we have a history and have existed alongside everyone else for centuries.
