President Trump has ended collective bargaining rights for more than one million federal workers. Unions have sued to block the move, but agencies are terminating contracts as litigation continues.
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President Trump has ended collective bargaining rights for more than one million federal workers. Unions have sued to block the move, but agencies are terminating contracts as litigation continues.
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
Deep hype: "overpromissory dynamic that constructs visions of civilisational transformation through a network of uncertainties extending into an undefined future, making its promises nearly impossible to verify in the present...maintaining attention, investment, and belief" arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19749
“Kennedy — the guy in charge of our entire nation’s health policies and their implementation — was, the CDC doc told MSNBC — explicitly boosting the idea of “weaker” Americans dying so those left will create a genetically superior America. …”
If we let Bob Kennedy, MAHA madness, and his billionaire patrons redefine America as a place where only the strong survive, we will lose not just our health but our souls… hartmannreport.com/p/maha-madne...
Seniors, never trust unexpected cold calls, texts or emails regarding your finances, banking, credit, retirement accounts, etc. YOU contact your financial institution directly if there’s a question. cordcuttersnews.com/ai-powered-s...
Just visited the ruins of the Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island. I was looking for a sign announcing that RFK Jr. will begin renovations soon because, you know: Make Smallpox Great Again.
Does pushing India closer to China and Russia make America great again? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
“Residents of rural communities and people with disabilities will have even more limited access to health care. Families with low incomes who rely most heavily on community health clinics and support from state and local health departments will have fewer resources available to them.”
“Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health.” Courage is contagious! 3 CDC Directors resigned. 9 former CDC leaders write an op-ed. Who will catch courage next? What act of courage are you planning for this week? Gift link to op-ed: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o... @nytimes.com
JB Pritzker to CBS on Trump deploying troops: "He'd like to stop the elections in 2026 or, frankly, take control of those elections. He'll just claim that there's some problem with an election, and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control if, in fact, he's allowed to do this."
Trump isn’t just axing the Constitution. He’s axing something we all love. Watch. https://youtu.be/HS7IJaB5NDc?feature=shared
“Stop giving money to billionaires!” “Impeach RFKJr, Tulsi Gabbard and Kristy Noem!” There’s a procedure Democrats can use. “If we don’t see people stepping up, goodbye America as we know it!”
Who all saw Ali Velshi’s “Where is the party” monologue this morning, re Democrats? 🔥🔥💥
“Critics say” is about as informative and useful as “Trump says.” 🤷♂️
Here’s what we are barreling towards: India and China sign massive trade agreements (coz of Trump), buoyed by Russian and Iranian oil. New markets and alliances open up in the East, all with the US on the outside and without the sway they once had. This is the price of America First.
India and China fought a war in 1962 over border disputes. They’ve never been allies, which has been to our geopolitical and economic advantage. Thanks to Trump’s insane tariffs the two manufacturing/pharma/tech giants are teaming up, accelerating their rise…and our subsequent downfall.
Thank you, my friend. I am aware that another imposter is using/stealing my content and posting it on YouTube. Can I ask all of my Team Justice friends to please report the imposter YouTube channel that bears the name "Glenn Kirschner NBC." Thank you.
The government has failed us. So we are stepping in. #media4good @msnbc.com
“Jobs disappear and the markets cheer.” On Labor Day 30 years ago, I issued a warning the growing divide between workers and the super-rich. Watch. youtu.be/8rW1kkAV-gw
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
“The difference in prices isn’t a coincidence, it’s the result of a transport system that rewards pollution. We analysed 142 routes across 31 countries and the result shows that for a majority of cross-border trips, rail remains far more expensive than air. Here are 3 key reasons why: …”
3 Reasons why flights are far cheaper than trains and why that has to change www.greenpeace.org/internationa... the Super-Rich&utm_source=bluesky
"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
In Bellingham: “Garcia found the response a little dismissive. It was like “they didn’t read my email at all,” she said. If the response seemed impersonal, that might be because almost none of it was written by a human. Records show that it came from ChatGPT: …”
Development of government AI policies at the state and local level is largely led by IT departments. In a recent nationwide survey of 300 state and local government IT directors, nearly 80% said they were concerned about a lack of clear regulations on AI use.
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American cities have an Article 5 just like NATO: “An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.” 👍
FEDERAL AGENTS TAKE NOTE… It’s not just Chicago standing strong. Other blue cities and governors are ready to unite against Trump’s federal invasion. I’m not an attorney, but this point seems huge: if federal agents break state or city laws, they can prosecuted. And Trump cannot pardon them.
“They result from the nation’s 47th president believing something comically incorrect and clinging to it in the face of all evidence to the contrary. They happen because the president is astonishingly ignorant — in the words of one of his top advisers in the first term, “a moron.””
“His lying and temper tantrums aside, evidence abounds that the president's most important, and dangerous, feature is his ignorance.”
M-orons A-re G-overning A-merica shorturl.at/Y5yPL
Brandon Johnson signed an executive order barring the city's police from collaborating with federal officers on civil immigration enforcement operations, and U.S. military personnel on police patrols.
More name changes afoot… Department of Defense = Department of War Department of Education = Department of Keeping You Stupid Center for Disease Control = Center for Crackpot Conspiracies Department of Agriculture = Department of Subsidies for Farmers going broke from tariffs
“Deadman and Goose Islands continue to be managed jointly by The Nature Conservancy; …only researchers from the University of Washington's Friday Harbor Laboratories are allowed access, helping assure that Deadman Island and Goose Island will remain pristine ecological sites long into the future.”
#OnThisDay in 1948, a Seattle woman won an island in the San Juans in an essay contest sponsored by an Orcas Island real estate agency. historylink.org/File/22966
Is this generation blaming? Is there an assumption that all Boomers are billionaire oligarchs? Were Ronald Reagan et al, the authors of trickle down and other detrimental policies, Boomers? Did the entire Boomer generation impose Citizens United on us?
“Dunn said Hawaii's royal family sent siblings David Kawānanakoa, Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole and Edward Keliʻiahonui to study abroad at St. Matthew's Military School, an elite school …not far from Santa Cruz, with the aim of preparing them to be worldly and well-informed modern rulers.”
In 1885, royal Hawaiian brothers were studying at a military school in California. There, they introduced a sport known as "surfboard swimming." The Princes of Surf exhibit tells what happened next.
Thank you for the talking points. 😐
I’ve asked this before, but I’ll repeat the question here. Exactly where was this so-called “well-regulated militia” in that Minneapolis school?
GOP responses to mass shootings: Step 1: Blame it on mental health, not guns Step 2: Vote to cut funding for mental health Repeat I live outside the US, and I can assure you: the rest of the world has people with mental health problems. What they don't have is easy access to unlimited guns.
Ports across the country were planning to become economic hubs for the growing offshore wind industry. The Trump administration is cancelling grants to build the infrastructure for it.
Meanwhile, Trump-supported, energy sucking AI data centers are burgeoning. 🤷♂️
I thought abt buying the same coffee maker I purchased a year ago to bring to work until I noticed that the price recently went up $80 (40%) & yeah that’s absolutely not happening.
Unfortunately, what Trump will leave behind is a country in shambles.
Heckuva job, Donald
“He no longer has any truth-tellers to advise him — he has purged all of them. And a president who’s flying blind, without anyone around him to tell him he’s about to crash, will inevitably crash. …But at least the nation will see him for who he is and consign him to the dustbin of history.”
Rest assured. The seeds of Trump’s destruction have already been sown. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-263
Evil. *This* is end-stage capitalism: Genocide for profit.
It's not Trump who normalizes autocracy. It's the rest of American news media. The Guardian can and should stand apart as the one outlet unafraid to declare autocracy is here. Stop asking. Declare. Has Trump succeeded in normalising American autocracy? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Journalists should see it, too. Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
@kenmartin.bsky.social …
Mayors of big cities are frustrated the national party isn’t making more use of them. Imagine the DNC integrating, and highlighting, what Democrat mayors across the country are doing with such great success ... instead of trotting out talking points. www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
RFK Jr must be fired. He’s too deranged and full of himself to leave voluntarily. So it’s vital to convince Trump that keeping Kennedy around drains his own political power and thus his personal wealth by so visibly endangering the health of everyone in the U.S. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The ones who were erased from history or denied patents because they were Black. He doesn’t want less “negative,” he wants less truth. If you doubt my point, look at recent actions. The Trump administration already tried to erase the Tuskegee Airmen from the Pentagon website.
Trump says museums focus too much on the “negative aspects” of American history, like “how bad slavery was.” And plans to purge cultural institutions. But be clear: he’s not talking about alternately uplifting Black inventors, builders, and leaders we were never taught about…
In recent public remarks about deploying the National Guard to Chicago, Donald Trump said: “I have the right to do ANYTHING I want to do. I’m the president of the United States.” Not even a King has that right. Certainly no president. Who knew a non-drinker could be so drunk with power?
Life for Palestinians in Gaza has gotten worse under Trump, not better. So where are Jill Stein and Cornel West now? They aren’t leading protests in DC outside the White House, no rallies. Almost like the whole 2024 thing was just performative.
The replies are probably more accurate than the headline. 🤔
For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers. Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us. Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work. It was a hoax.
“…390 million years ago, when plants began to take root above ground. The accumulation of woody biomass altered atmospheric conditions enough to influence aquatic oxygen levels. The research draws a clear connection between oxygenation of the ocean and the evolution of most modern vertebrates.”
New research shows deep-ocean oxygenation occurred 100 million years later than previously thought, aligning with the growth and spread of land plants. Once oxygenated, the ocean hosted rapid animal evolution, leading to the rise of modern vertebrates: https://bit.ly/3HAbUzH @uwess.bsky.social
Instagram is a terrible platform, basically unavailable to anyone not a Zuckerberg fan.
“On February 26, 2012, the John T. Williams Memorial Totem Pole was erected at Seattle Center and became part of the City's public art collection.”
“John T. Williams was descended from a long line of woodcarvers of the Ditidaht First Nations band on Vancouver Island. He had lived in Seattle for decades and was a familiar figure at Pike Place Market and the Seattle waterfront, where he often worked on woodcarvings and small totem poles.”
15 years ago today, Native American woodcarver John T. Williams was fatally shot by a Seattle police officer. historylink.org/File/10296
“Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has led to any number of unintended consequences, but none so quick and profound as the consolidation of the Nordic and Baltic regions under the NATO umbrella, following Finland’s and Sweden’s accessions to the alliance in the past two years.”
A friend in need…
Talk to Putin, then fire your Russia expert. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“And citizens, regardless of how they voted, need now to check their attitudes. This is no longer a post-electoral moment. It is a pre-catastrophic moment. Trump voters are caught in the notion that Trump must be doing the right thing if Harris voters are upset…”
Some of the names have changed since I wrote this last November, but the central reality is, sadly, upon us. snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ?...
It's one of the most famous rock songs ever — Bohemian Rhapsody — and now, for the first time, it's been translated with Queen's blessing into Zulu.
The media have defined themselves this way so strongly, they’re so boxed into corners now, I don’t think they know how to escape it without looking ridiculous.
Don’t forget the Clinton Foundation “scandal,” another nothing-burger, that included Stephanie Ruhle’s daily harangues on her morning show.
Let us not forget that Republicans are able to destroy America today only because the mainstream political press went on a months-long feeding frenzy over Hillary Clinton's email server.
But that won’t fit Trump’s preconceived notions, so he’ll just continue pretending that he’s winning. 😐
Corporate America’s playbook: 1) Exploit workers to maximize profits 2) Use profits to buy Congress 3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws 4) Use these laws to further exploit workers 5) Repeat Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.
“When President Joe Biden ran for reelection at 81, his age and health were subjected to persistent scrutiny. Fox News and MAGA Media personalities relentlessly pumped out absurd claims about Biden’s health as if he was secretly on the brink of death and promoted “Dementia Joe” hysteria.”
The @status.news newsletter looks into the current president's "visible bruises" and asks: Why are the country’s biggest newsrooms silent? www.status.news/p/trump-heal... [paywall likely]
The acting head of the CDC is a tech bro with no medical training who embraced Covid conspiracy theories. Talk about malpractice.
Republican Rep. Barry Moore was heckled so badly at his Alabama town hall that he literally left out the back door in the middle of the event. Moore didn't offer concluding remarks or even bid good night to the rowdy crowd as they chanted "Shame!" during his exit. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
The government's colossal failure to respond after Hurricane Katrina led to major reforms at the nation's top disaster agency. Now, the Trump administration has reversed some of those changes.
Fascism. "If this were happening somewhere else – in Latin America, say – how might it be reported? Having secured his grip on the capital, the president is now set to send troops to several rebel-held cities, claiming he is wanted there to restore order..." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
FFS.
“You cannot argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience” -Mark Twain This is why the medical experts are leaving the CDC.
“Bottom line, I’d rather have a great forecaster who’s never read an EO than a policy muck who’s taken one meteorology class,” he said, referring to executive orders.” skagitvalleyherald-wa.newsmemory.com?publink=2e26...
Wow: French President Emmanuel Macron just called out Trump at a major press conference with the German Chancellor 😳
Important victory in our fight for affordability and jobs. As Governor, I was proud to stand with labor and business to file a brief in this case. It’s important to make sure Washington’s voice is heard as one of the most trade-dependent states in the nation.
Technologist Victor Riparbelli sees a future where students interact with AI avatars rather than read and write. We ask teachers and kids what they think and how they're using AI right now.
Here's what happens next:
“One crucial thing to understand is that Trump is facing a completely self-inflicted disaster here. He probably could have gotten Republicans in Congress to vote for insane trade policy. But he was impatient, and wanted to start ruling as a dictator right away.”
And I was planning a quiet evening ... paulkrugman.substack.com/p/an-emergen...
🍃🦓💩🌸 🐝 The smell of fall is in the air and so is the sweet aroma of Woodland Park Zoo’s coveted Zoo Doo! It goes fast, so now is the time for gardeners to place their bulk orders for the zoo’s poopular compost. Pickups will be available over three weekends this fall: zoo.org/zoodoo
After Grand Jury REFUSES To Indict Protestors Of Felonies, Trump's DOJ Brings Misdemeanor Charges youtu.be/yVrvy1xKdjE?...
Like Putin, they seek to rule over a scorched earth wasteland. Seems an odd, self-defeating ambition. 🤔
Lawyers are demanding the release of a longtime Oregon resident arrested by Border Patrol while fighting a Washington state wildfire, saying Friday that the firefighter was already on track for legal status after helping federal investigators solve a crime against his family.