while teamsters and UAW get a lot of attention i feel like people miss out that the average working class person in the US today is (1) a woman and (2) working a service job

Well they found a way to get the birth rate up

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social.

70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge.

30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation.

7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported.
sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

A century of failure 😏🤦🏾 still haven't learned their lesson. Keep going Ukraine 🥃

The Reports of MAGA Abandoning Trump Are Greatly Exaggerated The narrative that Trumpworld is beginning to sour on the president is the real "fake news."

Plus Michael Harriot for the scorching WIN on this one www.contrabandcamp.com/p/the-report...

When you realize you paid above market rates for your bribe to settle your legal problems

Lithium - 0.4 yuan/Wh = $0.06/Wh = $60/kWh
Sodium - 0.6 yuan/Wh = $0.088/Wh = $88/kWh

the job:

whoa this is unhinged

shocked not shocked anyone in trump land thought it was a good idea to put this guy in front of a microphone. wow.

I'm kind of curious about that myself.

Taemin at Coachella wearing loose-fitting vanilla suit with attached long shoulder cape contrasted to porn bodice of draped strands of silver bugle beads playing peekaboo with his chiseled torso.

Contemplating new screen.
Love the mixed-signals costume😸

There has, unfortunately, been a recent and fairly hysterical backlash on the Right to same-sex marriage, adoption, surrogacy, IVF and, quite frankly, any kind of families and family planning beyond teenage virgin girls marrying older men and having as many babies as it is possible for them to have, regardless of their ability to care for them. They spent a few years pretending that they had overcome the whole “hating gay people” thing, then pretended that they didn’t hate gay people, only trans people, and now — I believe as a result of being cordoned off on Xitter, with almost zero exposure to normal people — they have fully returned to their roots. --Robyn Pennacchia

A whole crispy & delicious paragraph in just two sentences😺

Colorado Catholic Preschools Hate The Gays But Love State Funding. What's A Supreme Court To Do? And the Catholic Church had been doing so well lately.

Colorado Catholic Preschools Hate The Gays But Love State Funding. What's A Supreme Court To Do?
www.wonkette.com/p/colorado-c...

By Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social

I realize I shouldn't torture myself by going to over to Not Twitter, but I am honestly simultaneously fascinated and horrified by how obsessed these people are with misery.

Like, it's endless prattling (from men) on about how women will be MISERABLE if they put off getting married & having kids.

every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

Like Trump’s other spurious political proescutions, this is borrowing a page from his private sector penchant for litigation as a weapon to make the target’s life hell. He doesn’t have to win. He gets to publicly smear them & cost them a lot of money & stress even when they ultimately win.

And Alex Jones is still crazy. Megyn Kelly still believes Jesus was white. Andrew Schulz still hates Black women. Joe Rogan is still a thick-necked white boy who is fascinated by white supremacists. Candace Owens will never stop cooning and Stephen A. Smith will continue fellating Sean Hannity, Fox News and anyone who gives him a check to buck dance for anti-Blackness. Whether it's prominent people seeking to avoid accountability for this dumpster fire or regular white people trying to prevent their own spontaneous combustion, these turncoats never cared what Trump was doing until they felt the heat. And when Trump completes his presidency, Republicans will resume their attempts to burn America to the ground. As for me, I suggest that we offer them no absolution or respite. After all, we didn’t just tell them that America’s roof was on fire… We also tried to explain that we were the water. So let this motherfuckers burn.--Michael Harriot

💰Money Quote

The Reports of MAGA Abandoning Trump Are Greatly Exaggerated The narrative that Trumpworld is beginning to sour on the president is the real "fake news."

How the mighty have not fallen.

The Reports of MAGA Abandoning Trump Are Greatly Exaggerated
open.substack.com/pub/michaelh...

"By the time your community finds out about the data center, they’ve been working on it for years. It’s urgent to get the word out. And find your local experts. We have amazing people in Tucson who know about water and energy and were able to combat the propaganda of these companies."

Want to Resist a Data Center? These Organizers Share How They Did It. Organizers from Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Arizona share strategies for resisting data centers in other communities.

"The community resistance on both sides of the aisle is so enormous. This feels like the one thing that is connecting everybody together."

My new @truthout.org roundtable with three organizers across the US fighting data centers - and their lessons for others.

Trump Hits a Home Run for the Green Transition Rising oil prices from Trump’s Iran conflict may speed global demand for EVs and renewables, strengthening China’s lead in the clean energy transition.

Trump's Iran war has cemented China's position as #1, it's very MAGA cepr.net/publications...

Will be interesting to see how the sulfuric acid shortage caused by the Republicans closing down the Strait of Hormuz has on the market for sodium ion batteries if the closure lasts as long as it now appears that it will.

the shift to a winner-take-all distribution of electoral votes? a partisan project. the development of the mass political party? a partisan project. antislavery and reconstruction? a partisan project. even direct election of senators comes out of populist agitation in the late 19th century.

if there is a path to either national nonpartisan redistricting or proportional representation, it is going to go through one party or another. but the first step toward it actually happening is for that party to win power, and you go to war with the system you have, not the one you want.

On April 21st, A New Directive
NSPM-7, Represents An All Of
Government Effort To Dismantle
Left Wing Terrorism,Which Means
They Don't Like Us Anymore.....😭

Yes.
TAX THE BASTARDS
A known device for making plutes scream

And at this point, we as a country have already run enough versions of the "Just reach out humbly and respectfully to Republican base voters with policies that will materially benefit them and they'll see reason and stop voting for lunatics, grifters and fascists" experiment to understand that it never fucking works and never will. This strategy was the sum and substance of the entire Obama administration, which had to immediately set to work cleaning up after the various catastrophes Bush and the Republicans had left behind. The Right reacted with an eight-year-long racist primal scream followed by the nomination and election of the King of the Birthers. --driftglass

Been enjoying driftglass today.
TAX THE BASTARDS
That'll make 'em scream😼

Hyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social • 50m Like I said a while ago, at least we know who he is and what he stands for, unlike the parade of relative nonentities running against him. And yeah, him being funny > Gavin Newsom finding new ways to show his lack of humanity.

He's talking about Steyer. This is nonsense. Tom Steyer has never held a political office. He's a billionaire paying for his campaign. CA needs someone w experience in governing. That's @xavierbecerra.bsky.social - US Congressman, CA AG, Biden's HHS Secretary.

#XavierBecerra #California

The YES has won in Virginia; voters approved the constitutional amendment to adopt Dems' congressional gerrymander.

This is likely to deliver a 10-1 (Dem) congressional delegation in November, compared to 6-5 (Dem) now.

The remaining obstacle: State supreme court will be weighing in still.