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AI and Thatcherism comparison is gold.
@pluralistic Predicts the AI Bubble Will Burst | @thetyee
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/07/24/Cory-Doctorow-Predicts-AI-Bubble-Will-Burst/
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AI and Thatcherism comparison is gold.
@pluralistic Predicts the AI Bubble Will Burst | @thetyee
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/07/24/Cory-Doctorow-Predicts-AI-Bubble-Will-Burst/
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Key takeaway from Sarah Taber's most recent video on the #cyclospora lettuce contamination (resulting in explosive diarrhea) in the US: If you want food safety, you need strong worker protections. Ditto for preventing accidents at nuclear power plants.
A sobering thought for Canada, where much of our domestic produce relies on temporary foreign workers, which the UN has called out for having slavery-like conditions.
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Key takeaway from Sarah Taber's most recent video on the #cyclospora lettuce contamination (resulting in explosive diarrhea) in the US: If you want food safety, you need strong worker protections. Ditto for preventing accidents at nuclear power plants.
A sobering thought for Canada, where much of our domestic produce relies on temporary foreign workers, which the UN has called out for having slavery-like conditions.
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"From civil rights activism to community organizing, from theater and education to radio, Marc has been standing for free speech since the late 1950s."
🪧 Marc Steiner: A life standing for free speech | Ep. 8
https://therealnews.com/marc-steiner-a-life-standing-for-free-speech-ep-8 -
"From civil rights activism to community organizing, from theater and education to radio, Marc has been standing for free speech since the late 1950s."
🪧 Marc Steiner: A life standing for free speech | Ep. 8
https://therealnews.com/marc-steiner-a-life-standing-for-free-speech-ep-8 -
✊ AOC: US-Israeli military integration measure “existential threat” to democracy
The measure, known as Section 219, is included in the Pentagon budget bill advancing through Congress.
https://therealnews.com/aoc-us-israeli-military-integration-measure-existential-threat-to-democracy
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✊ AOC: US-Israeli military integration measure “existential threat” to democracy
The measure, known as Section 219, is included in the Pentagon budget bill advancing through Congress.
https://therealnews.com/aoc-us-israeli-military-integration-measure-existential-threat-to-democracy
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🚨 Abdul El-Sayed believes a new Democratic Party is possible
https://therealnews.com/abdul-el-sayed-believes-a-new-democratic-party-is-possible #TRNN #WorkersRights
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🚨 Abdul El-Sayed believes a new Democratic Party is possible
https://therealnews.com/abdul-el-sayed-believes-a-new-democratic-party-is-possible #TRNN #WorkersRights
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Abolition isn't abstract.
⚖️ Press freedom groups warn ‘no newsroom in America is safe’ after House GOP subpoenas left-wing outlet
https://therealnews.com/press-freedom-groups-warn-no-newsroom-in-america-is-safe-after-house-gop-subpoenas-left-wing-outlet -
Abolition isn't abstract.
⚖️ Press freedom groups warn ‘no newsroom in America is safe’ after House GOP subpoenas left-wing outlet
https://therealnews.com/press-freedom-groups-warn-no-newsroom-in-america-is-safe-after-house-gop-subpoenas-left-wing-outlet -
Inside WestJet Flight Attendants’ Decision to Strike
In a typical month, they work up to 35 unpaid hours.
#Canada #canlab #CUPE #unions #workersrights #labour #labor $cdnpoli
https://thetyee.ca/Presents/2026/07/22/WestJet-Flight-Attendants-Decision-Strike/
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Inside WestJet Flight Attendants’ Decision to Strike
In a typical month, they work up to 35 unpaid hours.
#Canada #canlab #CUPE #unions #workersrights #labour #labor $cdnpoli
https://thetyee.ca/Presents/2026/07/22/WestJet-Flight-Attendants-Decision-Strike/
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As someone who is painfully aware of the gaps in available data across the US Census, EEO reports, and Federal hate crime statistics, esp. for persons of MENA descent, I believe the current EEOC proposal to end workforce reporting is a step in the wrong direction.
There is a short period of time available for the public to submit comments on the record. Comments don't need to be long or legal. A few honest sentences about why it matters are enough.
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As someone who is painfully aware of the gaps in available data across the US Census, EEO reports, and Federal hate crime statistics, esp. for persons of MENA descent, I believe the current EEOC proposal to end workforce reporting is a step in the wrong direction.
There is a short period of time available for the public to submit comments on the record. Comments don't need to be long or legal. A few honest sentences about why it matters are enough.
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The folks who print your paper money and set interest rates deploy scabs in violation of Canadian federal labour law.
#Canada #cdnpoli #strikes #labour #labor #solidarity #PSAC #generalstrike #workersrights
https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/labour-board-bank-of-canada-broke-law-replacement-workers
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The folks who print your paper money and set interest rates deploy scabs in violation of Canadian federal labour law.
#Canada #cdnpoli #strikes #labour #labor #solidarity #PSAC #generalstrike #workersrights
https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/labour-board-bank-of-canada-broke-law-replacement-workers
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Yesterday, my husband and his colleagues in the Federal Civil Service were laid off for a new Trump program privatizing TSA - a return to the days before 9/11 while Trump bombs the Middle East.
They held the line, working for America without pay for months. They kept us safe while eating from food banks and having their union gutted by Kristi Noem. They wrote weekly emails to Elon Musk and Big Balls justifying their jobs. Nobody got a $10k bonus - they just got fired.
Trump, MAGA, and Russell Vought’s Project 2025 have terrorized, demoralized, and bankrupted Civil Servants who made America work for everyday people. Trump is dismantling the framework of our country so he can cut taxes for billionaires, fund a reckless and useless war, and put money in his pocket. He couldn’t care less about working people.
Privatizing TSA does more than throw dedicated and trained patriots on the street. It jeopardizes national security by emphasizing profits over security, dividing loyalties, and creating a vulnerable patchwork of aviation safety. Trump doesn’t care. The private companies taking over are probably paying kickbacks to him and his children.
Trump and MAGA devastated working Americans whether they’re farmers, teachers, nurses, small business owners, or Civil Servants. I knew this would happen - it’s all in the fascist manifesto Project 2025. Nobody around me listened until it was too late.
Good luck, America. My husband and me were supposed to be looking ahead to retirement. Now we’re scrambling for survival. Trump and MAGA may not bury us, but they’re trying.
#workers #workingclass #workersrights #union #unionstrong #MAGA #Project2025 #FederalWorkers #TSA #nationalsecurity #economy #jobs #DOGE #Trump #GOP #fascism #oligarchy #VoteBlue #democracy
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Yesterday, my husband and his colleagues in the Federal Civil Service were laid off for a new Trump program privatizing TSA - a return to the days before 9/11 while Trump bombs the Middle East.
They held the line, working for America without pay for months. They kept us safe while eating from food banks and having their union gutted by Kristi Noem. They wrote weekly emails to Elon Musk and Big Balls justifying their jobs. Nobody got a $10k bonus - they just got fired.
Trump, MAGA, and Russell Vought’s Project 2025 have terrorized, demoralized, and bankrupted Civil Servants who made America work for everyday people. Trump is dismantling the framework of our country so he can cut taxes for billionaires, fund a reckless and useless war, and put money in his pocket. He couldn’t care less about working people.
Privatizing TSA does more than throw dedicated and trained patriots on the street. It jeopardizes national security by emphasizing profits over security, dividing loyalties, and creating a vulnerable patchwork of aviation safety. Trump doesn’t care. The private companies taking over are probably paying kickbacks to him and his children.
Trump and MAGA devastated working Americans whether they’re farmers, teachers, nurses, small business owners, or Civil Servants. I knew this would happen - it’s all in the fascist manifesto Project 2025. Nobody around me listened until it was too late.
Good luck, America. My husband and me were supposed to be looking ahead to retirement. Now we’re scrambling for survival. Trump and MAGA may not bury us, but they’re trying.
#workers #workingclass #workersrights #union #unionstrong #MAGA #Project2025 #FederalWorkers #TSA #nationalsecurity #economy #jobs #DOGE #Trump #GOP #fascism #oligarchy #VoteBlue #democracy
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⚖️ Loving sports in an age of authoritarians: A conversation with Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff
Love the World Cup but hate FIFA?
https://therealnews.com/sports-in-an-age-of-authoritarians-dave-zirin-jules-boykoff
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⚖️ Loving sports in an age of authoritarians: A conversation with Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff
Love the World Cup but hate FIFA?
https://therealnews.com/sports-in-an-age-of-authoritarians-dave-zirin-jules-boykoff
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TSA Administrator Nominee Should Withdraw or Be Voted Down by Senate
#tsa #nationalsecurity #homelandsecurity #federalworkforce #WorkersRights #union #unionstrong #idiocracy #MAGA #trump #project2025
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The Guardian view on Chinese workers picking up the pen: poetry in motion | Editorial
By EditorialA food delivery rider has won the country’s highest literary award. It is part of a growing trend for writing by labourers
#China #Books #Poetry #Culture #MaoZedong #Communism #Workersrights #Women #TheGuardian #Editorial
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Got another "translation job" offer today.
Except it wasn't a translation job at all.
It was training AI.
For pay that, where I live, wouldn't even reach minimum wage. But of course it was dressed up as "freelance contracting," because apparently exploitation sounds fancier if you invoice for it.
No.
I'm not helping build the machine that's already taking work away from translators while paying translators less than they deserve to teach it.
I'd genuinely rather earn nothing than spend my time feeding your slop machine.Hard pass.
#Translation #Translators #AI #WorkersRights #Freelance #NoAISlop
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Got another "translation job" offer today.
Except it wasn't a translation job at all.
It was training AI.
For pay that, where I live, wouldn't even reach minimum wage. But of course it was dressed up as "freelance contracting," because apparently exploitation sounds fancier if you invoice for it.
No.
I'm not helping build the machine that's already taking work away from translators while paying translators less than they deserve to teach it.
I'd genuinely rather earn nothing than spend my time feeding your slop machine.Hard pass.
#Translation #Translators #AI #WorkersRights #Freelance #NoAISlop
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RE: https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/116958206847346564
This is a big national problem, in large part because #consumers don't realize it's an issue, at all; one which long precedes the #disruption and #abductions of the temporary US regime's white nationalist terror squads. (In the Northeast and #Vermont in particular thank heavens for #migrantJustice / #justiciaMigrante.) Consumer information is key not only to making humane food purchase choices, because those choices directly inform the cohesion and #humanSecurity of larger communities, statewide, nationwide, throughout #Society. You want medical care, affordable homes, good public schools, fuel, water, available jobs with #LivingWages, viable #local #farms, low #Crime -- it all starts with basic humanity in the community. Voting begins with the wallet; with informed purchase choices. And asserting the choice to boycott companies that do harm to any of us.
#workers #workersrights #laborNews #economics #communityPower -
RE: https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/116958206847346564
This is a big national problem, in large part because #consumers don't realize it's an issue, at all; one which long precedes the #disruption and #abductions of the temporary US regime's white nationalist terror squads. (In the Northeast and #Vermont in particular thank heavens for #migrantJustice / #justiciaMigrante.) Consumer information is key not only to making humane food purchase choices, because those choices directly inform the cohesion and #humanSecurity of larger communities, statewide, nationwide, throughout #Society. You want medical care, affordable homes, good public schools, fuel, water, available jobs with #LivingWages, viable #local #farms, low #Crime -- it all starts with basic humanity in the community. Voting begins with the wallet; with informed purchase choices. And asserting the choice to boycott companies that do harm to any of us.
#workers #workersrights #laborNews #economics #communityPower -
Oh. While this topic is up.
Stop blaming Australia for Murdoch. He was birthed here, but as soon as the US offered him citizenship he renounced.
He is not Australian. He’s a product of an ironically globalist capitalism.
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Oh. While this topic is up.
Stop blaming Australia for Murdoch. He was birthed here, but as soon as the US offered him citizenship he renounced.
He is not Australian. He’s a product of an ironically globalist capitalism.
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Murdoch - and I don’t say this without evidence - is a horrible cunt.
If I believed in a hell, I might comfort myself with that. But hell does not exist. Justice needs to be exacted on Earth.
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Murdoch - and I don’t say this without evidence - is a horrible cunt.
If I believed in a hell, I might comfort myself with that. But hell does not exist. Justice needs to be exacted on Earth.
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India's 'Cockroach' movement vows to protest until education minister resigns
> India's "Cockroach" party movement vowed Tuesday to press ahead with their campaign until the education minister resigns, a day after at least 180 people were injured in protests in New Delhi.
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India's 'Cockroach' movement vows to protest until education minister resigns
> India's "Cockroach" party movement vowed Tuesday to press ahead with their campaign until the education minister resigns, a day after at least 180 people were injured in protests in New Delhi.
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The term 'redneck' comes from the West Virginia Mine wars of the 1920s, where labourers wore red bandanas around their necks as a symbol of solidarity during labour strikes.
https://dailyyonder.com/the-unexpected-radical-roots-of-redneck/2022/09/05/
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The term 'redneck' comes from the West Virginia Mine wars of the 1920s, where labourers wore red bandanas around their necks as a symbol of solidarity during labour strikes.
https://dailyyonder.com/the-unexpected-radical-roots-of-redneck/2022/09/05/
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British workplaces and schools have to adapt to keep employees and pupils safe | Letters
By Guardian StaffRuth Wilkinson on employers’ need to safeguard staff during heatwaves, and Christine Özden on keeping children safe in overheated schools
#Extremeheat #Workersrights #Schools #Education #Worldnews #UKnews #Children #Politics #UKweather #Environment #Summer #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff
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‘My shirt is wringing wet’: National Express bus drivers speak out about 40C conditions during heatwaves
By Neha Gohil Midlands correspondentDrivers in West Midlands said heat in cabs was ‘unbearable’ and threatened employee and passenger safety
#Extremeheat #UKnews #NationalExpress #WestMidlands #Publictransport #Environment #Climatecrisis #Unite #Workersrights #TheGuardian #NehaGohilMidlandscorrespondent
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‘My shirt is wringing wet’: National Express bus drivers speak out about 40C conditions during heatwaves https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/national-express-bus-drivers-40c-conditions-heatwave-west-midlands #ExtremeHeat #UkNews #NationalExpress #WestMidlands #PublicTransport #Environment #ClimateCrisis #Unite #WorkersRights
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‘My shirt is wringing wet’: National Express bus drivers speak out about 40C conditions during heatwaves https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/national-express-bus-drivers-40c-conditions-heatwave-west-midlands #ExtremeHeat #UkNews #NationalExpress #WestMidlands #PublicTransport #Environment #ClimateCrisis #Unite #WorkersRights
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Deadly attack on workers highlights Italy's slave-like farms
https://www.dw.com/en/deadly-attack-on-workers-highlights-italys-slave-like-farms/video-77910202
> Four migrant farm workers were burned alive in a car in southern Italy in June for protesting against poor working conditions. The Mafia is most likely behind these murders, as they ruthlessly exploit migrant workers.
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Deadly attack on workers highlights Italy's slave-like farms
https://www.dw.com/en/deadly-attack-on-workers-highlights-italys-slave-like-farms/video-77910202
> Four migrant farm workers were burned alive in a car in southern Italy in June for protesting against poor working conditions. The Mafia is most likely behind these murders, as they ruthlessly exploit migrant workers.
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Many Downtown LA workers are missing out on their legally mandated meal and rest breaks, leading to serious wage violations. It's crucial for employees to understand their rights under California law, as enforcing these can lead to better health, dignity, and compensation. Don’t let workplace pressures deny you your breaks! #LaborRights #DowntownLA #WorkersRights #CaliforniaLaw #WageJustice
Read the full article here: https://www.shirazilawoffice.com/meal-and-rest-breaks-in-downtown-la/
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Many Downtown LA workers are missing out on their legally mandated meal and rest breaks, leading to serious wage violations. It's crucial for employees to understand their rights under California law, as enforcing these can lead to better health, dignity, and compensation. Don’t let workplace pressures deny you your breaks! #LaborRights #DowntownLA #WorkersRights #CaliforniaLaw #WageJustice
Read the full article here: https://www.shirazilawoffice.com/meal-and-rest-breaks-in-downtown-la/
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📰 ‘All Arabs are threatened’: Israel’s expansion won’t stop in Lebanon
“Israel aims to establish a greater Jewish state from the Euphrates to the Nile.
https://therealnews.com/all-arabs-are-threatened-israels-expansion-wont-stop-in-lebanon
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"A group of 70 labour scholars from Canadian universities are sounding the alarm about attacks on workers’ rights."
#Workers #Unions #WorkersRights
https://www.readthemaple.com/collective-bargaining-rights-are-being-undermined-across-canada/ -
📰 Missing the Wood for the Palms
Palm Oil is a bracing and consistently engaging book.
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UK government drops plan to stop paying coastguard volunteers https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/16/uk-government-drops-plan-stop-paying-coastguard-volunteers #VoluntarySector #WorkersRights #GmbUnion #TradeUnions #Politics #UkNews #Society
