She raised concerns about her company's contracts with ICE. Then she lost her job Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.

She was fired after questioning her company’s contracts with ICE

www.npr.org/2026/04/21/n...

Striking workers and our members outside a Carls Jr in North Hollywood rallying with CAFFWU flags and a banner that says SEIU 721 says: Los Angeles, take action for fast food workers

TODAY: Carl’s Jr workers are ON STRIKE due to workplace violence and paid sick leave violations.

Management has continuously lied about our rights to paid sick leave, further proving the need for Know-Your-Rights trainings for fast food workers, as laid out in the #FastFoodFairWork Ordinance. 🧵

one would think having your friendly neighbour be cranking out potash and nat gas for fertilizer would be great.

Wonder if this means theyre going to go for that mine in Michigan

There’s a slowly growing possibility they just outright collapse their own agricultural sector for no reason

I’m often looking for expert suggestions of alternative questions to assess tofu views

Hello Claude AI I cannot function as an adult human how do i make food ovim the food ovout the hot eat the food

Screenshot of an In These Times article headlined “Community Persists for USPS Letter Carriers While Conditions Worsen,” by Maximillian Alvarez, dated April 22, 2026. Below the headline is a large photo of a group of bundled-up letter carriers and supporters gathered outside a post office in Detroit, smiling and holding black protest signs reading “Fair Contract Now!” and “Fight Like Hell!” A caption notes the rally took place on February 22.

USPS letter carriers are holding onto the community ties that make the job matter, even as routes get longer, conditions worsen and a contract fight looms.

@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports that what’s at stake is a public service millions rely on.

inthesetimes.com/article/usps...

Mythbusting Texas' Reactionary Past A new book doesn't romanticize our state's history, but it does establish a neglected throughline of solidarity.

In books: The author's intention is clear—to sketch a distinct throughline connecting the left organizers of the Texas present to the radicals of the Texas past. Think of it like laying down an ideological I-35 for us to follow.

Headline: World’s biggest condom maker set to raise prices due to Iran war

oh great now where am I supposed to get my world’s biggest condoms

SEIU campaigns harder and has a much more robust political operation. Member engagement matters. Having a robust political program and clear leadership from the top matters.

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library Scholars and political observers point to declining labor unions, on the one hand, and rising white identity politics, on the other, as profound changes in American politics. However, there has been ...

We also have good evidence of unions as one of the very very few social institutions that push white adults towards less racist attitudes

God it's not even an accurate depiction of the teamsters, and O'Brien went all in on his dumb stunt! After the dog and pony show of an endorsement process in the IU, the big locals all came out strong for Harris.

my post making fun of Palantir CEO Alex Karp with the perfect reply Taika's Wario

I'll never see this dweeb again without thinking "Taika's Wario" and that's why I can never log off

shout out @die-hardman.com

Are we supposed to say pray over leftovers?
Like, "Lord, it's me again with this spaghetti..."

HOLY SHIT

When I hear people talk about the Eastlands and what happened at Camp Mystic last summer, I hear the same things I heard growing up.

Camp Mystic is inside a safe, Christian bubble--even when 27 girls died there. The owners are good Christian people, who bring children closer to God.

Fed up with big games only on streaming? So are some Ohio lawmakers. • Ohio Capital Journal An Ohio lawmaker, fed up with not knowing how to watch Cleveland Cavaliers games without subscribing to a dozen services, is looking into drafting legislation to prevent exclusive streaming deals for…

An Ohio lawmaker, fed up with not knowing how to watch Cleveland Cavaliers games without subscribing to a dozen services, is looking into drafting legislation to prevent exclusive streaming deals for professional sports. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/22/f...

Data Colonialism: AI Data Centers on Indigenous Land The artificial intelligence industry’s data center boom is the latest chapter in a long history of environmental racism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota a...

The artificial intelligence industry’s data center boom is the latest chapter in a long history of environmental racism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne activist Krystal Two Bulls, the executive director of Honor the Earth.

Jay Bhattacharya has ordered that a paper showing the effectiveness of COVID19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and hospitalization be suppressed and hidden.

This man has been crying nonstop about political censorship for 6 years.

But he’s the one who is actually doing it.

The Drudge homepage right now

a wizard (why’s pfp), a skeleton minion (Claude) approached “i’ve read through your notifications, they wish to harm you m’lord” close up on the wizard “oh dear… block them all.” the skeleton minion crawls away “yes m’lord, Claude shall block the non-believers, yes…”

Zionist doxxing campaigns upended their lives. Now they’re suing for damages. Canary Mission faces a class-action lawsuit under a new Illinois anti-doxxing law.

Canary Mission faces a class-action lawsuit under a new Illinois anti-doxxing law.

“AI haters blocklist” aka members of the “thinking is good, actually” club

New poll: 55% support impeaching Trump Support for impeachment rivals levels during Donald Trump's first presidency, when he was impeached twice, and for impeaching Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal

Support for impeaching Trump is at 55%, according to a new Strength In Numbers/ @Verasight.io poll, with 37% of adults opposed. Crucially 1 in 5 of Trump’s own voters support impeachment.

Read and share:

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22...

Organizers in Memphis are fighting Elon Musk's AI data centers in the city that rely on polluting methane gas turbines. "We are unfortunately a cautionary tale about what will and possibly can happen if you don't have the right rules and guardrails in place," says @keshaunpearson.bsky.social.

ADOBE: welcome to photoshop. what would you like to do. here is an AI tool
ME: i would like to draw a rectangle. i am selecting the rectangle tool
ADOBE: did you say AI?
ME: rectangle please
ADOBE: sorry but i can only do that in an insane way now. here is a new layer and a vector for some reason

DOJ joins effort to repeal Nebraska in-state college tuition for certain immigrant students • Nebraska Examiner The Justice Department is working with Nebraska officials to pull back from a state law that allows certain undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition.

START YOUR DAY: With an effort involving Nebraska's attorney general and the federal government to step back from a state law providing in-state tuition to some immigrant kids who grew up here and graduated from Nebraska high schools.

From Erin Bamer:

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Pa. lawmakers say regulations on AI in education, student privacy are coming • Pennsylvania Capital-Star Pennsylvania lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are working to draft guidance regulating how schools use artificial intelligence in the classroom, while also devising protections for student privacy...

State lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are working to draft guidance regulating how schools use artificial intelligence in the classroom, while also devising protections for student privacy and data.

From @wesa.fm

As part of the restoration of the rule of law, every lawyer in the Trump admin who touched this file needs to go to jail.

Sanctions and disbarment are what you do for private abuses of the legal system. Abusing the government power of criminal indictment is another matter, and they keep doing it.