You may have heard that public support for unions “has been increasing”—but you probably haven’t heard just how big a deal that is in the context of the last 15 years. Since the Great Recession, we’ve seen the credibility of, and approval for, just about every major institution

Seems like more people should be talking about how a libertarian charter city startup funded by Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, and Peter Thiel is trying to bankrupt Honduras. Próspera is suing Honduras to the tune of $11B (GDP is $32B) and is expected to win, per the NYT 🧵

It's infinitely irritating that euro/Americans treat arabs and Muslims with this weird superiority and contempt as though we did the holocaust and the crusades while its them not us who did both, they are genociding Palestinians and they bomb us all over the global south

first major GM battery plant in the South unionizes with the UAW, 1,000 workers. a potential union anchor for massive factories under construction for the emerging Southern battery belt

The Chicago Teachers Union’s power has always come from confrontational organizing. But now that a former member is the mayor, the union’s strategy is changing. socialistcall.com/2024/09/04/slo…

The UAW is so fucking back

An absolutely devastating loss for all of us. Shutting and barring the doors to open and easy access to knowledge, to appease a bunch of wealthy suits who care nothing about its preservation and dissemination Incalculable loss for all of us

Where are the arrest warrants? How many more have to be killed for the entities that were created to stop indiscriminate bombings take action?

A reminder that “American intelligence” is not a neutral actor. Treating US government sources as inherently truthful is how the mass media manufacture consent for wars. Scholars have been saying this for at least 40 years, yet the NYTimes continues unabated.

🧵The fight for a dignified life for autoworkers and working-class people all over this country has a long, long way to go. Our work and our lives are not meant to be a sacrifice to a handful of billionaires at the top!

They take our communities, like they did in Belvidere. They take our health—and sometimes they even take our life. But they don’t call that class war. They only call it class war when we fight back.

didn’t even know this tweet by my man ian here was going to end up on my timeline but somehow anticipated it anyway, read at the link in bio

the ai danger is neoliberal clowns in high places using it as an excuse to hand out corporate giveaways while throwing militarized police at the poor and homeless they pretend to help.

BREAKING: Apple retail workers in Oklahoma City secured a tentative union contract, the 2nd store to do so at Apple. CWA says highlights include: -Pay increases of up to 11.5% over 3 years -Severance & store closure protections -Worker involvement in scheduling

The Iraq war and the adjacent state sponsored terrorist policies that killed millions of people is how I learned politics mattered to me. The fact that the dems are aligned with Cheney speaks less to how radical Trump is but how far the dems have drifted right in 20 years