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man, Adams is so terrible he's got the public library shitposting him
SO BASICALLY PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE JUST 0.4% OF THE NEW YORK CITY BUDGET, BUT THE MAYOR IS TRYING TO CUT THE LIBRARY'S BUDGET WAY BACK. I’M TALKING $58.3 MILLION! LIBRARIES ARE ALREADY CLOSED ON SUNDAYS BECAUSE OF PREVIOUS CUTS AND MOST BRANCHES WILL BE OPEN FOR JUST FIVE DAYS A
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Irish tenant farmers in pre-Famine Ireland had a form of rent control called “burn your landlord’s barn down and leave a note that you’ll be back if he doesn’t lower the rent.”
I think about that a lot.
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the deputy editor of foreign policy doesn't understand how American universities connect to weapons research and production
I do not think that American universities play an important role in the IDF logistics chain
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underrated that Hakeem Jeffries is, instead of focusing on leading a minority that’s a minority because of Kathy Hochul and the New York Democratic machine, stumping for a garbage anti-worker nominee advanced by Kathy Hochul and the New York Democratic machine
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If Biden loses re-election, partisans are going to blame progressives. They're going to blame Arab voters.
They're going to point fingers everywhere but Biden, who believes he's the only one that can beat Trump, when all evidence says he's the only person that can lose to him.
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Every GOP candidates talking about breaking teacher unions.
Why? Because education unions are the backbone of organized labor, and they're the sole force fighting for public education and American students, and these ghouls can't stand either thing.
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Drew Barrymore is a scab.
"'The Drew Barrymore Show' is a WGA covered, struck show," a spokesperson told THR after Barrymore said her show would be returning. "It has stayed off the air since the strike began on May 2nd, but has now (unfortunately) decided to return without its writers"
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personally I think it's fairly concerning when elected officials start saying that American citizens are "unfit to govern themselves" because they don't like the democratic decisions that are made
I’m glad President Biden agrees that Washington, D.C. is unfit to govern itself.
D.C. must never become a state.
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Artists cancelling or postponing concerts in solidarity with workers on strike? Taylor Swift would never.
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The
@UAW
is throwing out a 70 year playbook on how to run bargaining and strikes, and completely blindsiding the Big Three while doing it. Every labor leader and member should be watching and taking notes.
This is amazing stuff, and it's possible because of
@UAWD_Reform
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look i don't care if people love biden or not, i certainly don't, but tomorrow we're gonna have pictures of an American president on a picket line and that objectively fucking owns
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I want to be crystal clear that every Justice on the Supreme Court except Jackson is an enemy of organized labor.
FIRST SCOTUS ruling: Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. Teamsters, an 8-1 decision with Justice Jackson the sole dissenter. Court loosens standards by which companies can sue workers for causing damage to company property via strikes. Barrett writes.
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Unions file with OLMS and disclose literally all of their expenditures.
Organized labor engages in, as a matter of law, a level of transparency and disclosure that no other private organization engages in.
@lou1519may
@thehousered
@jbouie
Unions make an awful lot of money, yet never show where it all goes.
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Saying "breaking teacher unions" is really just saying "breaking organized labor," and we need to treat it that way.
Every GOP candidates talking about breaking teacher unions.
Why? Because education unions are the backbone of organized labor, and they're the sole force fighting for public education and American students, and these ghouls can't stand either thing.
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i'm only 75% joking when i say we're getting dangerously close to a general strike in Los Angeles
Breaking news: Los Angeles City workers represented by SEIU 721 are set to strike on Tuesday - the first major labor protest of its kind in over 40 years.
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someone riddle me why he's down big in michigan, i can't even begin to fathom
2024 Michigan GE:
Trump 47% (+8)
Biden 39%
.
Trump 42% (+11)
Biden 31%
Stein (G) 6%
Manchin (NL) 4%
Mapstead (L) 1%
Glengariff Group/
@detroitnews
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@Local4News
, 600 LV, 1/2-6
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Unions don't fight for workers. Workers fight together, in their unions. Those fights are often fraught, flawed, and imperfect. Collective action is messy. But there's no choice but to continue fighting.
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I think one of the most stunning moments I had in my 20s was when I realized just how deeply stupid people in positions of authority and prestige often are
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With SEIU's ceasefire statement, the two largest labor unions in the United States -- NEA and SEIU -- have both called for ceasefires.
Those two unions alone represent something like a quarter or a fifth of all union members.
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Few things illustrate the depraved nihilism of right wing politics better than people getting mad over feeding school kids breakfast.
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I think it’s becoming more clear that the Teamsters may actually be serious about an endorsement for Donald Trump, and I’m trying to brace myself for the liberal meltdown and how all unions are going to get hit in the blast radius.
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why is a sitting senator filming a constituent asking him a question
Last week, Fetterman got on Fox News to criticize Biden's liquified gas export pause.
In 2018, he had joined Sunrise and
@RepDanielle
to rally against fracked gas pipelines.
When a constituent asked why he flipped, he mocked her, then walked into a member-only elevator.
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why do liberals persist in believing that catching conservatives in moments of hypocrisy is actually politically effective
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the New York Democratic Party is, without peer, the most craven and cynical nest of vipers in American politics
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every time someone asks me to “compare the jobs” in explaining why execs deserve bigger raises than UAW members, I think to myself “you’re right, UAW members work way harder than some Harvard legacy failson jackass, 40% really is lowballing it.”
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the road to hell is paved with moments of utter cowardice like this
.
@SenatorDurbin
told reporters today that Dems would not seek accountability for Sam Alito because “there’s no recourse other than impeachment.” That’s wrong—a dodge to justify his and his party’s abdication of oversight.
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Any article on American political violence that spends half its word count on Leon Czolgosz and the Years of Lead, with only a throwaway reference to lynching and no explicit mention of the Klan, is fundamentally unserious.
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one of the reasons I like Shawn Fain is that he openly rejects the idea that charismatic labor leadership is what builds working class power
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The media: THE GOP IS COURTING LABOR!!
The GOP candidates, right now: THE PROBLEM WITH EDUCATION IS THE TEACHERS UNIONS
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This is a huge deal because it makes farm workers in California -- along with some farm workers in other states -- the only private sector workers in the nation with a statutory right to form a union via card check.
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The thing that kills me is that when Biden and Democrats talk about democracy, they’re talking about it in the narrowest sense possible: whether we have functional elections.
It’s divorced from the deeper democratic questions that got us here in the first place.
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99% of the questioning of UAW's strike strategy makes clear that people don't put two and two together that strikes are about bargaining leverage
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I'm begging people to use their platform to direct funds and resources toward the striking workers themselves instead.
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Honestly, Mick Lynch and
@RMTunion
— and all the striking workers in the UK — should be inspirations on both sides of the Atlantic.
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She removed this from the recycling and took it into another room.
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I don't think it's unrealistic to say that
@SEIU
is on the verge of winning one of the most important pieces of labor legislation since the NLRA.
A little bit on why. 🧵
#AB257
, which just passed CA Senate, gives workers a seat at the table with employers.
"It means workers can both put food on the table and put gas in the tank."
"I'm overjoyed...(AB257) would change my life completely."
It's time for
#UnionsForAll
across the country.
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This has crossed the line from scabs to full blown fascist collaborators.
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“we’ve murdered tens of thousands and it hasn’t even made a dent in Hamas” isn’t the argument you think it is
One of the greatest misconceptions of the war, in my view, is that Hamas has taken heavy losses and is somehow on the ropes.
It is not. Hamas has returned to 90 percent of Gaza, mostly because Israel left every place it "cleared." The evidence for this is that Israel has gone
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hear me out: golden opportunity for the government to buy Twitter at a discount and nationalize it
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
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mindblowing message
COVID vaccines will be available in Missouri soon, if you're in to that sort of thing. If not, just keep scrolling!
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It’s honestly astonishing to watch sectarians and armchair left-liberals come for UAW 4811 when they’re doing more than any other union local in the country to directly support Palestinians in Gaza.
They’re literally calling for a political strike, which is nearly unheard of.
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If you follow this logic, nonprofit unions, public sector unions, and unions for union staff aren’t legitimate unions.
A boss is an unelected dictator exploiting workers for personal gain. The NPC is an elected body of unpaid volunteers representing tens of thousands of people who actually pay DSA out of their wages for the privilege of being a member.
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with strikes, please keep an eye for what the union is asking for people to do. not individual members of the union, not supporters, the union itself, because the union is the only thing that’s collectively answerable to the people on strike.
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upholding the rule of law by *checks notes* disregarding it so the cops Feel Good
TODAY:
After refusing to follow the ordinance banning such stops, Pittsburgh Police pulled over a Black man in Homewood for using his turn signal late.
Six officers searched the car.
Police resumed these stops because the police chief claims they are a morale boost for officers
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Unions are for all workers, not just skilled tradespeople.
Union workers are the most highly trained, highly skilled workers in the entire world. That’s not a joke; that’s a fact.
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a lot of folks seem to think that if you keep repeating job statistics it’ll magically make people feel differently about how difficult it is to pay their bills
The cost of housing: one very big reason that people don’t *feel* as good about the economy as the rest of the economic data (and many liberals) suggest they should—one that has nothing to do with partisan polarization.
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Throwing your staff under the bus is a hell of a look for a "pro-labor" guy.
Sen.
@JohnFetterman
tells me he “1000%” still supports funding the expansion of LGBT community center in Philadelphia, and blames staff for slip-up:
“It wasn’t my decision.. it was a perfunctory letter that was issued by the staff. I was not part of the process”
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Rutgers got literally all of their demands except one, and they got a path forward on that. I was there when they struck the deal.
What is going on here with people turning wins into defeats?
The schools that abandoned their camp/demands for a seat at the table and didn’t really get anything in return?
wtf is going on here?
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I'm going to bet that UAW is going to argue this is a lockout, which (at least in many states) allows workers to claim unemployment. Not sure about Michigan.
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I don’t think folks fully appreciate how systematized UAWs approach to bargaining is, especially at the Big Three, and how big a departure this is from their normal mode of doing things.
I don’t know that any other union has as programmatic an approach to collective bargaining.
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everyone that cares about the future of the American labor movement is locked in on the UAW strike and it's amazing to see
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The Teamsters sold out CWA and NewsGuild members still on strike at the Post Gazette. Utterly craven betrayal of solidarity.
"I was deeply disheartened by the shocking settlement reached by the Teamsters Local 211/205, a once-respected union. In exchange for severance payments, the Teamsters agreed to dissolve their union at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and end their strike."
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@adamwren
@SecretaryPete
big W to
@LeverNews
for pushing Buttigieg hard enough for him to hand you this scoop
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For those keeping score, no showing to a bargaining meeting is evidence of bargaining in bad faith.
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Folks that spend enough time in organizing either grow to understand they don’t need to be friends with or even like someone to be in solidarity with them, or they burn out.
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Want to echo
@JonahFurman
’s point and emphasize that a tentative agreement is called tentative for a reason.
Workers have the final say, and a victory lap on the TA is intended to put pressure on them to ratify.
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UAW is in a hugely unique position to wreck some shit because they organized the entire production, assembly, and distribution networks under a single contract, and can gum it up with strategic strike action.
the bargaining flexibility that provides is unreal.
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personally i don't think that a union official needs to meet with a fascist three days before the anniversary of their attempt to overthrow democratic governance but ymmv
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The talking points against union staff or nonprofit staff having union rights are identical to the talking points against public sector employees having union rights.
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millionaires aren't sending their kids to public schools my man
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what was the margin of victory in 2020 my man
I truly give up. The banner headline on CNN is Protest Vote Against Biden Exceeds Expectations. They got 13.4%. On what planet is that a great success worthy of a banner headline? He got over 80% without campaigning. This is a great example of everything wrong with the media.
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Look, I get that Biden ain’t great, but I’d suggest learning just a bit more about American history before making this laughable of a claim.
Also arguably one of the worst strike breakers ever to hold the office of President.
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This bullshit isn't anti-Zionist, it's anti-Semitic and racist, and helps absolutely nobody.
I don’t believe the official Holocaust story anymore. I don’t know what actually happened but I do know we have been lied to. If you can’t criticize or even ask questions about a historical event without being labeled a “Nazi” & in some countries, arrested, something isn’t right.
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Every time I hear union members over 50 complain about young workers not getting it, I want to ask them what year they tiered their pension and wages.
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Those arrested include card-carrying members of
@UAW
, and a "pro-labor" Senator is comparing them to fascists.
I can tell that Fetterman ignored the feedback given to his office from Pennsylvania union activists telling him that attacking ceasefire supporters is attacking labor.
I fully agree with the White House—these “protests” are antisemitic, unconscionable, and dangerous.
Add some tiki torches and it’s Charlottesville for these Jewish students.
To
@Columbia
President Minouche Shafik: do your job or resign so Columbia can find someone who will.
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This may be true, but I’m wary of stuff like this that distracts from the fact that no matter how effective and good she is, she won’t get that chance because the Court is broken.
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@hamiltonnolan
I was at Mizzou and involved in organizing when the football players threatened to boycott a game during the 2016 primaries. It turned into widespread threats to defund the university and ads about “woke” students. I don’t think there’s a shortcut that’ll take down DeSantis.
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I was on a one day strike about eight years ago, when unions weren't nearly as popular as they are now.
The facilities staff union showed up, unasked, picket signs ready, and I started crying in the middle of a rally speech.
That's the shit that scares bosses.
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PSA: Biden and Congress have no legal authority to intervene in the UAW strike. 💫
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Lotta words to describe strikebreaking.
News: the White House is contingency planning for a possible freight-rail strike, including talks with shippers, truckers & air freight carriers about getting critical food, energy & health supplies to their shelves if rail lines shut down, per WH official
Story on
@TheTerminal
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Bill Maher is a scab.
Real Time is coming back, unfortunately, sans writers or writing. It has been five months, and it is time to bring people back to work. The writers have important issues that I sympathize with, and hope they are addressed to their satisfaction, but they are not the only people
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one of the things that makes
@UAW
’s strike threat particularly credible, aside from their deep organizing, is they have hundreds of millions of dollars in their strike fund — close to a billion.
the big three are going to fold before they can break a strike.
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want to be crystal clear about this:
Bills and Bengals players and their union stopped the NFL from resuming a game after a player had to be taken to the hospital.
workers have the power, and every worker deserves a union.
The NFLPA and everyone in our community is praying for Damar Hamlin. We have been in touch with Bills and Bengals players, and with the NFL. The only thing that matters at this moment is Damar’s health and well being.
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I don’t know, I personally think what should get publicity is the fact that a union of 48,000 is staging the first strike for Palestine in the United States.
But you can do this thing or whatever.
Something that should be getting publicity about the UAW 4811 strike on UC campuses:
UAW leadership sending cease and desist letters to rank and file members regarding campus disruptions…
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A comprehensive rundown of the terms of this proposal (and the counter), from the perspective of a (former) union negotiator. 🧵
(Disclaimer: I have no interest or stake in DSA factional nonsense/am not a member, but I am a
@WBNG32035
member, and these are my union siblings.)
We are willing to compromise. We’ve offered the NPC 2 staff to lay off in addition to the 7 folks who have already left during just this NPC term. This totals more than half a million dollars of additional savings beyond the NPC’s deficit goals. Our MOU:
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My mom was a federal employee and union activist for years, and went through the 2019 shutdown before retiring.
Please be clear: it's not just a government shutdown, it's Congress locking out federal employees. Shutdowns are attacks on federal unions, full stop.
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this is the charisma that famously won her the presidency in 2016
When asked about US voters upset with the choice between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton says:
"Get over yourself. Those are the two choices."
Really glad to see she's learned lessons from her 2016 defeat then!
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So this is a classic boss tactic. As classic as it gets.
You can literally go back a hundred years and find coal bosses running to the courts for injunctions to try to bust worker strikes. 🧵
UC filed for injunctive relief against the ongoing strike of UAW academic workers this afternoon. UAW is prepared to file our response tomorrow. 1/2
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SBWU apparently forcing Starbucks to knuckle under through a huge campaign of organizing, striking, and corporate campaigning, is sort of an indication that resources are good and necessary to beat capital.
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As much as I’m happy that progressives and the left have coalesced around organized labor as our best real hope of building working class power, it bears repeating that imperatives to “organize!” and to “strike!” must be able to answer “to what end?”
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my divisive opinion is now and always will be that electoral work isn't organizing
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Every year, Newsom signs one or two labor bills and then has an absolutely egregious veto so he can keep the corporate donor cash flowing.
He’s not pro-labor, and if California labor wasn’t as strong as it is, he wouldn’t do a damned thing for working people.
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not only is Biden actively supporting war crimes Americans want to stop, he's gonna lose to a fascist in the process.
all because he can't rein in his enthusiasm for bombing children.
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Probably the single most important skill in organizing is being able to deal with failures and missteps and say "well, that fucking sucked, what'd we learn for next time."
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aside from everything else wrong with this head-ass take, the whole "shadowy" thing is doing a lot. it's literally an identifiable rail company, with an identifiable safety problem that rail unions attempted to address, and which was squashed by rail companies + state action.
It's uncomfortable but it really feels like the idea of shadowy capitalists inflicting a terrible industrial accident and coverup on a small all-white rural town with a cinematic name fits the herrenvolkish, heartland-versus-globalists worldview both extremes occasionally share
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I’m gonna do violence with campaign staff a month out from an election, because why not:
What campaign field does is very important (I did it!), but it’s crucial to understand it’s really not organizing.
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"young people are dumb" says former Presidential candidate who famously lost against five raccoons in a poorly fitting suit
Hillary Clinton criticizes pro-Palestinian protests and says many young people she’s spoken to “don't know very much at all about the history of the Middle East or, frankly, about history in many areas of the world.”
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Very proud to be elected President of
@7mountainsAFL
.
Every township and borough in the Seven Mountains is a union town in waiting, and we’re gonna fight like hell to build them.
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