The "meritocracy" exposed: Internal emails reveal how the Trump administration hires legal interns “You MUST be aligned politically with President Trump… GPA is not a strong factor.”

The "meritocracy" exposed: Internal emails reveal how the Trump administration hires legal interns open.substack.com/pub/populari... #RaceToTheBottom

Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of Indonesia After moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and...

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Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of Indonesia

#Nike #capitalism #outsourcing #offshoring #racetothebottom

Paul Schrenderling legt het helder uit. Het is een trilemma: Europese industrie en/of hyperglobalisering en/of sociale en ecologische wetten. Je kunt er maar twee van de drie tegelijk kiezen. In dit geval ‘logische’ maar onverstandige keuze van de vvd.
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How Trump Put Veteran Care in Crisis - The American Prospect Thousands of staff have left the health care side of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and those who remain are approaching burnout.

How Trump Put Veteran Care in Crisis prospect.org/2026/02/18/v... #RaceToTheBottom

Moderna says FDA refuses its application for new mRNA flu vaccine The Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna's application for a new flu vaccine made with mRNA technology, the company said.

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Olympics Update: Trump Wins Gold in Downhill Presidency “Obama never won this," he boasted.

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#Noem #Miller #RacetotheBottom

"Vi har totalt mislyktes med integreringen av innvandrere de siste årene", sier Høyre på radio. Har vi virkelig det? Eller sitter Høyre-representanten bare og ljuger på radio? Jeg tror det siste.

#racetothebottom

WestJet reversing move to install tight seating layout | CBC News In the wake of a backlash sparked by a viral video, WestJet has cancelled a new seat configuration that squeezed an extra row on board many of its planes and left passengers with less legroom.

"WestJet has pointed out that the reconfiguration underwent a full certification process." We'll that's a garbage certification process then #HumanFactors #RaceToTheBottom www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Scary: a site of power generation becomes a potential black hole for every bit of electricity going
Let's power high speed mass consumerism by a giant foreign company that avoids tax, workers rights and pursues monopolising anything it can

#raceToTheBottom

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Als dat lukt zullen de private equity-boys zich als een sprinkhanenplaag op andere onontgonnen sectoren werpen. En als het niet lukt trouwens ook. #racetothebottom

will dismiss TX applicants as “unprepared”. TX is modeling their #RaceToTheBottom by following OK's lead. TX may even beat OK & become 50th in the nation in education. DEI makes you smarter b/c you learn from other cultures. White Nationalism makes you stupid. If you don’t resist, you’re a loser.

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Horribly good case-study of the need for international solidarity - the work is safer and less damaging now, but the jobs have moved on #racetothebottom
"At its peak, Alang employed more than 60,000 workers. Today, that number has shrunk to fewer than 15,000, according to the union." […]

@theguardian.com @conservatives.bsky.social weird seeing #kemi copying maga policy and outstupid certain ignorant leaders and how no one in the right shuts her up - #racetothebottom - trauma for wearing masks...what a drama queen and how insensitive to those that dies - health over party, you fools

Flames make a tank trade now? #RaceToTheBottom

Divergent responses to the cadre evaluation system reform: contrasting strategies in Chinese cities towards environmental information disclosure The Chinese central government introduced the Cadre Evaluation System (CES) reform in December 2013 to prioritize environmental protection in performance evaluation. However, the impact of the refo...

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Divergent responses to the cadre evaluation system reform: contrasting strategies in Chinese cities towards environmental information disclosure

Chang Liu, Wei Peng, Siyi Zhang, Tingting Xiao, Zhong Liu

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#CadreEvaluation #RaceToTheBottom

I signed this open letter against the blind adoption of "AI" in our science and in our universities, and I urge other scientists and university staff in Germany to do the same.

Otherwise it's a #RaceToTheBottom

Follow Mamdani’s Example This is how you run. This is how you win. This is the politics we need right now. Democratic socialist candidates can inspire people again, and fight the right effectively.

The direction of the Democrat Party.

Same as it always was. #RaceToTheBottom www.currentaffairs.org/news/follow-...

Probably not. The current crop of corporate journalists are the worst of the worst.

#racetothebottom

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This could be extended to white, rural populations in the US with comparatively fewer immigrants than urban areas: these folks buy into MAGA distortions about “drug mules” and “eating your pets”, all to build political energy rooted in fear, for the purpose of stoking a culture war

#RaceToTheBottom

Uurrgh #racetothebottom

De schoorsteen moet roken en de studieschuld moet worden afbetaald, vermoed ik… #racetothebottom

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is doing so, the only one so far, the others trying to emulate his racist, bigoted views
#Scrapingthebarrel
#Racetothebottom

One of our faculty is from Peterborough and made fun of me from being from Sarnia #RaceToTheBottom

Unrelated to the topic of the other thread, a quote from that book I've considered posting a few places. Now seems as good a time as any:

#conventional
#half-conscious
#groove
#rut
#inertia
#momentum
#RaceToTheBottom
#ThatsHowItsAlwaysBeenDone
#ReverseOrderOfCartAndHorse
#BecauseISaidSo

#groovy

Otherwise, it's a nice state you've got there, it would be a shame if companies decided to move away to other states that allow them to completely silence and subordinate shareholders.

#secreg #corpgov #racetothebottom #ESG