Ta, Erik. Yesterday, I texted the head of our CBO to find out what I have to do to stay in my union as a retiree. I heard elsewhere that I'll pay $5 or $6 a month. 1199-SEIU represents many, many healthcare workers who, before the Union, had wages stolen from them by predatory agencies. It includes home health attendants, CNAs, food workers and the clean-up crews in hospitals, and many more worthy people. I went to Albany with several busloads of Union members for a lobbying day. Almost everyone in the Union is a POC, many of them women, many of them immigrants. This is a labor force without which the USA would fall apart. Solidarity forever.
I'm a Union maid. My husband is a Union man, as was my father, mother, elder sister, and brother-in-law. My jerk of a younger sister is a right-to-work idiot. Her practice (she's a chiropractor, and a good one) would fall apart without insurance money.
Cant we sue in the UK or the EU or the ICC to get the Epstein Files released? Can’t Interpol show up and confiscate the computers under an international warrant and say Fuck You to Todd Blanche? An Intetnational Treaty is the Law of the Land.
Was by there couple years back as the work on it was ongoing. I think it would be appropriate to go by train, and I think it's doable from my rural Illinois locale.
This would be a nice side trip for anyone planning to visit the Obama Library.
Before you pack up your kids to go down there, just know the main attraction is the state booths. And not every state offers an interactive attraction.
Real missed opp on the food aspect though. A Taste of the States would’ve been fun.
They could have done more "traveling" things like they did at the bicentennial which had several exhibits going all around the country for about a year so that many people had the opportunity to see and participate.
We're too fucking cheap for decent things now. A "state fair" that looks like it was put on by someone who has never set foot in a state fair ever.
Being from the Mon Valley of Pittsburgh Baconz can say my family and I have a PRO Union stance every day of the week. And twice on Sundays for over 100 years.
Also, prison is one of the places I could see a willingness to really read Marx. You can only do so many pushups. Dude isn't exactly an easy or pleasant read.
The first time I actually read Karl Marx was in a philosophy class about three years ago. It was just a little essay but wow it was brutal to read. The man is not a wordsmith.
Speaking of the Sedition Act, most people (at least those who haven't taken Constitutional Law classes) don't know that the phrase "falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater" refers to a violation of that law. (Also, virtually everyone forgets the "falsely.") It's not from Debs's case, but it's from right around the same time: Schenck v. United States, a 1919 Supreme Court decision involving the Sedition Act prosecution of Charles Schenck, the general secretary of the Socialist Party, for handing out anti-war flyers to men registering for the draft. That's the conduct that, in the view of a unanimous Supreme Court, was so far outside the bounds of what a civilized society can tolerate that it didn't warrant First Amendment protection any more than the "falsely shouting fire" hypothetical.
Moral of story, or one of them anyway: the current Supreme Court sucks, but it is by no means the first one to have done so.
Arguably even worse than the one 14 years earlier that produced the heinous monstrosity known as Lochner v. New York, which basically held that all government regulation of employment is an unconstitutional violation of "freedom of contract." To his credit, Justice Holmes, author of the Schenck opinion, dissented in Lochner. But it became the law anyway, and it was a disaster for anyone who worked for wages.
"Solidarity might extend across the working class, but it hit a brick wall on the issue of race."
This is the most frustrating part of every failed labor movement. By denying access to women, blacks, etc. the labor movement creates it's own scabs. Everyone has to be protected or capitalism will use those shunned workers to break the organization.
More labor history goodness? Woot!!
While there is a lower class I am of it, while there is a criminal class I am in it, while there is a soul in prison I am not free.
Be of cheer, for the Cross is Bending, and the Night is Lifting. I am prepared to receive your sentence.
This was all back before Republicans hated trains because socialism(!) .
They still do for much the same reasons.
Ta, Erik. Yesterday, I texted the head of our CBO to find out what I have to do to stay in my union as a retiree. I heard elsewhere that I'll pay $5 or $6 a month. 1199-SEIU represents many, many healthcare workers who, before the Union, had wages stolen from them by predatory agencies. It includes home health attendants, CNAs, food workers and the clean-up crews in hospitals, and many more worthy people. I went to Albany with several busloads of Union members for a lobbying day. Almost everyone in the Union is a POC, many of them women, many of them immigrants. This is a labor force without which the USA would fall apart. Solidarity forever.
You, sir, are a hero. More than that, you are a Union man.
I'm a Union maid. My husband is a Union man, as was my father, mother, elder sister, and brother-in-law. My jerk of a younger sister is a right-to-work idiot. Her practice (she's a chiropractor, and a good one) would fall apart without insurance money.
👍👍👍👍👍👍solidarity forever, the union makes us strong
OT: This is going to leave mark ... https://bsky.app/profile/normeisen.bsky.social/post/3mp7gt35nbk2h
Still marveling: a fed. judge ruled DOJ has conceded it's violating the Epstein transparency law--the one Trump signed
@katiephang.bsky.social sued to force compliance & won
& Acting AG Blanche's silence was treated as admission
DOJ now has one week to release the redacted names
Cant we sue in the UK or the EU or the ICC to get the Epstein Files released? Can’t Interpol show up and confiscate the computers under an international warrant and say Fuck You to Todd Blanche? An Intetnational Treaty is the Law of the Land.
I don't expect the DoJ to comply, but at least this brings Trump's best friend back into the news cycle.
"DOJ now has one week to release the redacted names"
Or what? I feel like that's the question that actually matters.
Or they'll get sued again!
OT: When narcissism goes wrong....
Abdohassan
@abdohassan.bsky.social
As it turns out the reflecting pool is just an extension of himself: one huge overflowing container of never-ending shit.
https://bsky.app/profile/abdohassan.bsky.social/post/3mp5vpembx226
how can blue state governors start using the pretense that djt (or PG David Steiner) interfered with the delivery of the mail?
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5939636-trump-postal-service-voter-data/
but what even are judges these days?
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/25/nx-s1-5869755/judge-blocks-postal-service-proposal-to-restrict-mail-in-voting-under-trumps-order
There is a Nice Time for this story. On the south edge of Chicago, The Pullman Historical Park has been established. I want to go.
Pullman National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service) https://share.google/qjww8Zi0ueyw4fWbM
Was by there couple years back as the work on it was ongoing. I think it would be appropriate to go by train, and I think it's doable from my rural Illinois locale.
This would be a nice side trip for anyone planning to visit the Obama Library.
Chicago. How can you not love it?
I love Chicago. The entire city is a museum of American architecture, and I love the Field Museum, among many others.
The city has preserved some of the best Architecture this country has. It’s lovely and its people are nice.
Been there many times but there's never enough time to do all the cool stuff. I mostly just adore being on the lakefront/Loop in summer. It's magic.
Thank you for that. I am planning on visiting the Obama library in the next year or so hopefully.
OT Christina Henderson
@chenderson
6h Went to the Great American State “Fair” yesterday so you don’t have to.
Not a funnel cake, corn dog, bucket lemonade, or fried Snickers in sight. The only ride is the Ferris Wheel. It’s not that kind of state fair, y’all.
Saxophones were not added to this recording.Christina Henderson
https://x.com/chenderson/status/2070461904900767866?s=20
Heard that the Ferris wheel broke.
https://xcancel.com/chenderson/status/2070461904900767866?s=20
What a maroon. He's never been to a fair. No merch? No food booths? No butter animals? No fair!
surely deep fried butter and ice cream?
@chenderson
Before you pack up your kids to go down there, just know the main attraction is the state booths. And not every state offers an interactive attraction.
Real missed opp on the food aspect though. A Taste of the States would’ve been fun.
Massachusetts McDonald's burger, Florida McDonald's burger, etc.
Also, a bunch of States didn't bother turning up.
Not even Alaska bothered.
Massachusetts didn't.
Connecticut didn't.
I saw the "booth" space.
Sad weak poop.
I've seen bigger better sales conferences.
Seriously, I don't blame any State for not bothering, its shite.
Looks exactly like it was thrown together at the last minute by people with no idea what they are doing. Not even a decent budget.
Trump is shit at everything he tries. It's almost impressive how he manages to fuck up everything he ever does.
They could have done more "traveling" things like they did at the bicentennial which had several exhibits going all around the country for about a year so that many people had the opportunity to see and participate.
We're too fucking cheap for decent things now. A "state fair" that looks like it was put on by someone who has never set foot in a state fair ever.
Of course. Most state fairs are fun to wander around stoned off your ass. They couldn't even get Sham Wow Vince to show up.
OMG, LMAO!!!!!
My daughter was *glued to that exhibit* when we went to the Puyallup Fair when she was like 7. It was *hilarious*. XD XD XD
"You like me. You really like me"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YvqpyDWvDyE
Being from the Mon Valley of Pittsburgh Baconz can say my family and I have a PRO Union stance every day of the week. And twice on Sundays for over 100 years.
Don't get me started on women's rights....
Also, prison is one of the places I could see a willingness to really read Marx. You can only do so many pushups. Dude isn't exactly an easy or pleasant read.
"The party of the first part, to be know henceforth in this contract as the party of the first part, shall be called 'The Party of the First Part..."
The first time I actually read Karl Marx was in a philosophy class about three years ago. It was just a little essay but wow it was brutal to read. The man is not a wordsmith.
I can think of someone else who should have run for office from prison.
Speaking of the Sedition Act, most people (at least those who haven't taken Constitutional Law classes) don't know that the phrase "falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater" refers to a violation of that law. (Also, virtually everyone forgets the "falsely.") It's not from Debs's case, but it's from right around the same time: Schenck v. United States, a 1919 Supreme Court decision involving the Sedition Act prosecution of Charles Schenck, the general secretary of the Socialist Party, for handing out anti-war flyers to men registering for the draft. That's the conduct that, in the view of a unanimous Supreme Court, was so far outside the bounds of what a civilized society can tolerate that it didn't warrant First Amendment protection any more than the "falsely shouting fire" hypothetical.
Moral of story, or one of them anyway: the current Supreme Court sucks, but it is by no means the first one to have done so.
Thank you for that history lesson re falsely yelling fire.
According to the 5-4 podcast, the Supremes have always sucked, with little bits of decency sprinkled in occasionally.
Yeah, that was a horrible SCOTUS as well.
Arguably even worse than the one 14 years earlier that produced the heinous monstrosity known as Lochner v. New York, which basically held that all government regulation of employment is an unconstitutional violation of "freedom of contract." To his credit, Justice Holmes, author of the Schenck opinion, dissented in Lochner. But it became the law anyway, and it was a disaster for anyone who worked for wages.
OT: WTF is wrong with these people? https://bsky.app/profile/patriottakes.bsky.social/post/3mp7f6onovk2v
She’s going to be very disappointed
Something’s off about that picture. Compare the width of her magazine vs his. Unless it’s some kind of bb gun, kind of looks like maybe an AI mistake.
Its a 9mm AR "pistol".
Note the tube on the back of the rifle where the stock should be.
These are muppets who buy things because they are "tactical".
Seems to me that they've given up on life.
I'm STILL always shocked and disappointed to find women involved in this kind of shit. smdh
Inevitable MSN Headline:
"Groom Accidentally Shoots Himself on Honeymoon."
More like "kills new wife and gay lover in murder spree".
Does 2 count as a spree?
Oh, I honestly think this ends when she finds his Grindr.
"Wife kills husband and gay lover"?
Probably.
Disgusting soft-headed tools.
"Solidarity might extend across the working class, but it hit a brick wall on the issue of race."
This is the most frustrating part of every failed labor movement. By denying access to women, blacks, etc. the labor movement creates it's own scabs. Everyone has to be protected or capitalism will use those shunned workers to break the organization.
Saaaaaay, You know who else has been interfering with the mail? LOCK HIM UP!
Mr. McFeely?