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Happy to announce a project I've been working on for some time: The Iowa Workers' Guide to Unions.
A small group of workers wrote this zine to give Iowa workers a baseline education in unions, labor law, workers' rights, & more. Today, we're publishing it digitally & in print 🧵
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Yesterday we learned that of one of our trans sisters, Quin, died from suicide. By the end of her life, she was named Quin Joy, a testament to how hard she fought for personal happiness as a SA survivor. She was & should be remembered as a proud communist and feminist.
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Feel like this is a good illustration of how transphobia is a cornerstone of white supremacy tbh
Gov. Kim Reynolds signs the transgender athlete ban into law. Transgender girls and women will no longer be allowed to play women’s sports in Iowa schools and colleges.
@IowaCapDispatch
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Police presence at the Minnesota state capitol when indigenous people hold ceremony vs police presence at the Minnesota state capitol for an anti-mask rally
#StopLine3
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She loved disco, queer cinema & queer literature canon, anime, jazz, hardcore, her friends, fighting games, & her cat Gray. Recently she was busy learning guitar, & was getting pretty good at it, & was working on music as a part of a band called Literature Club.
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I'll always remember that she fought incredibly hard to live after what happened to her. I hope that she's finally at peace. I'm going to miss her every day.
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This was me!
I'm a transgender public school employee. Taking care of & looking after students is my job. These bills targeting queer youth will harm children - queer children, trans children, cisgender children, children who haven't figured it out yet - & adults.
There were plenty of cops at the Mom's for Liberty meeting making sure protestors didn't have a chance to be heard.
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J*va H*ouse used their facebook page to make a post gaslighting people about the "misinformation" from disgruntled workers, and they're deleting negative comments.
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Trying to draw out a polycule map but there's fog of war
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If you paid enough attention to my likes you may have figured this out but I'm trans. I've been on estrogen for ~9 months.
I'm not confident in my ability to present femme. I won't look femme when you see me. I still use he/him for now. I just want to be able to talk about it.
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@aravosis
@ProudSocialist
@ninaturner
If you dont know any progressives who think Nina Turner speaks to the issues they care about, then you dont know any progressives, and you arent one.
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Also the woman behind me said the "Nazis were good" & "the Holocaust didn't happen"
'Moms for Liberty' are Nazis
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Some friends and I have been working on something & we're running some test prints 👀
(cover art by
@isthisale
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I GOT THE JOB IM GONNA BE AN IOWA CITY BUS TRANSIT DRIVER
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@iowademocrats
Delete this, retract your statement, issue a public apology, resign from your positions, forgo ever having anything to do with political decision making ever again, & repent
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@NiceGamerALTO
@heymartavious
@kanyewest
Hi, guy with a degree in economics here, this is economically illiterate, doesnt bare out in data, and horribly wrong.
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What is the Iowa Democratic party doing right now to ensure electoral wins in 2022? Anything?
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I think what Aaron Bushnell did was heroic, & I think that if you're squeamish about the fact that active duty military may have a part to play in revolution, I urge you to question how you think imperialism can fall without internal mutiny from military rank & file
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A year ago we were all saying "if our government took decisive action to end COVID we could have it under control in like a month or two," which remains true, but nobody says it anymore because nobody believes our government will do anything at all to help us anymore.
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DSM has one city councilor for every ~36,000 residents.
West DSM has one councilor for every ~13,000 residents.
Windsor Heights has one councilor for every 826 residents.
For DSM to have the same ratio of councilors to residents as WDSM does, it would need a 16-member council
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20 minutes before the start of today's Des Moines City Council meeting, DMPD officers arrived in a large cargo van and wheeled 5 or 6 suitcases full of gear, into the area behind the city council Chambers where they typically hang out waiting for the order to arrest people.
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I am interested in meeting Starbucks workers in Iowa who want to have a union
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2024 Iowa Democratic caucus turnout: 12,207
2020: 176,352
2008: 239,000
President Joe Biden has won Iowa's first mail-in caucus, according to officials with the Iowa Democratic Party. Biden received 11,083 votes of the 12,207 that were submitted.
"Uncommitted" came in second, with 480 votes
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The "freedom convoy" is standing on an overpass on i80 eastbound, like 30 minutes outside of Des Moines, in the rain, holding flags. Easily fewer than 20 cars, mostly boomers, & I didn't see more than like 2 umbrellas.
Absolute loser shit.
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Just made a successful motion to create a Rank & File labor Organizing Committee at my local AFSCME union meeting & was designated as chair
Hot girl shit weekend continues
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"we desperately need lib cops"
DMPD trotted out a lib cop to talk to us at a sidewalk counterprotest once & when asked if she would obey an order to kidnap trans kids from their family, she responded "wouldn't you rather have someone open mided take that call?" instead of "no"
Cops are such a tough issue. It’s pretty clear we need them but the ones we have are Trump loving drug and gun dealers who murder dogs for sport.
We genuinely need lib cops lol
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I wrote this for her when we were together. Driving one morning last winter, I saw a tree covered in snow, & under it was a perfect ring of vibrant green grass. It gave the stark visual sense that it was quite warm under the tree,& I thought of her
We both really liked cardinals
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I know everyone feels this way but I feel so fucking broken. Those kids looked just like the kids on my route who I care for & who I'm responsible for every day, same ages even. How are we supposed to survive constantly shouldering the weight of all of this fucking heartbreak?
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Theres going to be a candlelight vigil tomorrow at Saddle for the victims at Club Q
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Iowa folks. If you're a worker who is inspired by the Amazon Labor Union victory & are wondering what you need to do in order to have a union at your workplace, dm me
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the Central Iowa IWW, the union I'm in, is hosting a 4-day virtual Organizer Training in September designed to teach workers how to organize unions at their workplaces. If you see this & want to be in it, comment or dm me & we can coordinate getting folks into the training.
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Having to cancel a flight to go see my family at a reunion because my mother said basically that she thinks I'm a man who is pretending to be a woman & is outright refusing to acknowledge me as her daughter whats up
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All eyes on Davenport
It’s 8:34 am. People are calling for the protest to move toward the police. DPD are now carrying Billy clubs. They did not have these 30 minutes ago.
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Holy shit lmao
BREAKING: Iowa State University Democrats disaffiliate themselves from state party after IDP censure of University of Iowa Democrats, row over Palestinian liberation
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If you're transmasc & wanna teach me to pull my pants down I could use a hand
Transmasc transfem solidarity is teaching each other to pull your pants up or down respectively. If you want them to look right 😭
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Wanted to test a hypothesis that the massive pickup truck grills are taller than bus hoods with a larger front-end blind spot.
Orange is the hood height on my Nissan Altima (38 in), red is the hood height of the RAM 3500 in the parking lot (57 in) , & green is the bus (67 in) /?
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The logical implication of "parents' rights" politics under capitalism is that children are property.
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Decided to put my data analytics major to some use today.
This is a scatterplot illustrating the number of COVID tests each day that came back positive in IA. The blue trend line was calculated using Local Regression, and the grey area is the margin of error.
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Moving to Iowa city before & after
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@AltheaCole
@MattWalshBlog
@uiowa
@gazettedotcom
Watching a pedo/self-described fascist come to a college campus as a part of a deliberate campaign to create controversy at public universities, during an epidemic of anti-trans legislation being passed around the state & country, & calling it "unremarkable" gives away the game
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This is the Des Moines UPS local, Tanner is a fucking BULLDOG lmao
A UPS center manager got into an accident at work and the local union sent this letter to management and every employee in the center.
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@THEIOWAPORKCHOP
@RandyOnEd
Surprised you could say anything at all with Charles Koch's dick in your mouth
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Pic of Des Moines' 6th Ave, 1910, showing the streetcars we used to have + buggies & cars
I think the tall building on the right side of the street is the Fleming Building (208 6th Ave). If I'm right, this pic could've been taken at the intersection of 6th & Locust facing south
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@iowademocrats
This is disgusting, shameful, cowardly. You're all freaks. Israel is using US weapons to kill innocent Palestinian civilians. Silencing your own party's youth for correctly understanding injustice is hellish shit. I hope the evil in your hearts rots your bones into dust
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@SenateMajority
Also the article you smugly linked is literally just straight up cop PR, the only sources cited are officers, the corrections department, and, apparently, a consulting firm that makes ~$47 million a year to provide "management and design solutions" FOR COPS AND JAILS
GET A GRIP
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@drewbeck
@panarin_misha
@noname
Lenin wrote about this question in "The State and Revolution."
The working class must keep the state out of the hands of capitalists while capitalist systems are being dismantled. Post-capitalism, wielding state power is less necessary and eventually it "withers away"
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Iowa has the opportunity to vote uncommitted en masse & we should organize ourselves to do that. Maybe we should even knock doors in our community around this issue, idk
here are the remaining states that have an "uncommitted" option
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Iowa's Union Labor being pro-pipeline because they need the jobs is a manifestation of the lack of worker control over industry.
It is workers united in their unions who should be the ones to decide what kind of jobs exist & what work gets done, not capitalists or politicians.
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Not to be sappy but the way my trans friends care for me & hug me & love me is my garden of Eden & loving them back is my religion
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Took a good amount of coordination, but the local IWW union branch is now a statewide organization open to any wage workers in Iowa (except cops) who want to organize, with members across the state.
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If I told you my transition goals is this picture of Rhea Ripley would you understand
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I plan on being at the UAW picket line in Ankeny from 12-6 tomorrow
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6:32 am I get a text saying the snow ordinance goes into effect at *7:00 am*.
6:40 am I get in my car to go to work & find I've already been issued a 35$ ticket.
I should appeal it, right?
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Has the city of Davenport given an answer as to why they think it's necessary to demolish an entire building that only partially collapsed, including sections of the building that were not apparently immediately destroyed by the partial collapse?
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These transphobic bills must be opposed not (only) by liberal protest, but (also) by militant class struggle. Strikes, workplace action, etc.
If the AFL cant be the organization to guide the Iowa labor movement towards this idea, then we must build the organization that will
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🚨🚨🚨Urgent Action🚨🚨🚨
Fash are gonna be at the Des Moines Central Library to try to crash the drag queen story hour. We're gonna be there to tell the to fuck off. Pull up.
Moms for Liberty (fascist losers) are organizing to protest Drag Story Hour at the Central Library tomorrow. Counter-protests are also expected
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"We spent money on a billboard telling you to go to a website & donate money to us, which we'll spend on a billboard telling you to go to a website & donate-"
Exciting news - we just launched our
#ReynoldsWorkforceCrisis
billboard and website. Our billboard is up just south of the Capitol to welcome lawmakers back for session - chip in to help us keep it up longer!
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Elderly residents living near fourmile creek begging & demanding city council not to displace them via imminent domain, even threatening to sue to keep their homes, only for city council to vote unanimously to proceed anyways was really difficult to watch.
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@OrganizerMemes
Not thrutext but once I was calling voters in CO and the script had us ask what issues they face in their communities.
Asked a guy what issues he thinks are important, he responds "ever head of the Illuminati?"
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Report: protestors at Cal Poly Humboldt drank the university president's whiskey 🥃
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Genuinely not sure how any of us are supposed to mentally come to terms with the fact that Biden's COVID strategy has been somehow far worse than Trump's
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Voting discourse aside it's good & also really funny that Royceanne Porter did not win back her seat
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Regretfully I must report that apparently, for some reason, "Thin Blue Line Gumby's Pizza Car" is a thing that exists.
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ISU IS UNIONIZING! If you're an ISU graduate student, sign this form! Share for wider reach!
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SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS STRIKE LETS FUCKING GO BABY
The strike would begin on Aug. 23. Negotiations broke down Monday over alleged sexism and disrespect, but the sides returned to the table Tuesday.
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I mean this when I say it:
KC tenant organizing is the model we need to deploy in every city in the Midwest. Tenant organizing & union organizing builds an organized working-class base that can be mobilized to win local elections in the absence of a workers party formation
BREAKING: The majority of KC Tenants Power-endorsed candidates dominated their elections and will serve the people of Kansas City as members of City Council. THIS IS THE PEOPLE'S CITY.
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What is the actual material driving force that causes this kind of insecurity in people? Because I feel it too, I feel like people are probably more happy in my absence when it's probably not true, apparently we all do that, but *why*?
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🚨🚨🚨 IOWA FOLKS 🚨🚨🚨
Urgent Mutual Aid Request - A local trans mother is facing eviction & needs $300 by the 5th in order to keep her housing. We're gonna raise her the money & keep her in her home.
Venmo @ Rswilson
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@uiowa
Create an in-person, 1 credit course for international students to enroll in to allow them to remain in the US. Follow suit with other colleges around the country.
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The speed at which Starbucks workers are organizing shows that organizing to-scale against chain corporations is possible, & their fight represents the type of organizing that needs to be happening in every chain, among every union in the service industry.
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Another vehicular assault in Iowa City tonight. On the first night of protests, I witnessed a red truck drive through the crowd as we took the streets. One night, on Highway 6, the small group redirecting traffic away from road blockage was attacked by cars 3 times.
@eliowa
Folks are circled in the street here, the car drove accelerated through and sped off. Hard to miss this group. The car ran into people but so far people I've talked to said no one was injured, just v shaken.
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The simple truth is that such a community does actually exist here, we built & are building it without your help, that you dont even know it exists speaks to how profoundly you've alienated yourself from it by being a weird freak online, that community hates you, & you deserve it
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"What makes him a fascist? Who knows?"
🧐🧐🧐
The lecture by
@MattWalshBlog
at
@uiowa
was an unremarkable event, one that would have left almost no impression on me — until I was trapped by protesters and made to fear for my safety.
My latest for
@gazettedotcom
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I was really worried that I wouldn't be able to afford both the Uhaul to Iowa City & my upcoming HRT appointment, but because my friends helped me I don't have to worry about affording either & I won't have to forgo being on HRT, I love you all ❤️
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Went to the Ras Smith round table for a couple hours last night. It was more or less what I expected, real mixed bag.
Some of the good things:
- He's explicitly pro restoring Chapter 20, Iowa's currently emaciated public sector collective bargaining code
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I was a full time student working 30 hour weekends
This made me fail/drop classes, I didn't graduate on time, & I was on academic probation. Still, exactly 0$ of those dollars *ever* went to student loans.
It went to rent & food. My card used to get declined buying groceries.
Here’s a novel way to avoid that college “debt trap” - get a job while going to school.
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@JonahFurman
I sensed 3 main themes:
a) every worker must go back to their locals & start building a R&F caucus (if they don't have one)
b) there are 2 coexisting terrains of struggle: reform struggle within AFL-CIO unions, & the formation of new militant class struggle unions without
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FUNDRAISING REQUEST: one of the urgent needs of people in Winterset is to clean the laundry salvaged from their homes. Folks are in need of some $$$ to buy detergent & to pay to use the laundromat. We don't need much, even $100 could be enough.
Venmo donations to @/Rswilson
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Not enjoying the slow-grinding existential dread that results from living a life - not necessarily in which everything goes wrong - but in which nothing seems to go right either
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