circularfish

@ circularfish @beehaw.org

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2y ago

VW Workers in Tennessee Vote for Union, a Labor Milestone
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circularfish @beehaw.org 2y ago
Yes, and those exploitative labor relationships so popular in the South serve to reproduce an embedded social structure that favors the usual suspects. Pic stolen from an excellent piece in the NYT yesterday from Jamelle Bouie.

2y ago

VW Workers in Tennessee Vote for Union, a Labor Milestone

Such a great development. We can talk all we want, but votes like this one are where the rubber actually hits the road in terms of shifting power from capital to labor.

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2y ago

Trump has been unable to post bond for $464 million judgment, his lawyers say

www.nbcnews.com /politics/donald-trump/trump-unable-get-bond-464-million-judgment-lawyers-say-rcna143860

2y ago

A New York Times reporter was asked why they consistently frame things as bad for Biden but never bad for Trump.

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circularfish @beehaw.org 2y ago

A viable Trump candidacy courts controversy and sells subscriptions. End of democracy? We will worry about that later.

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2y ago

Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’

talkingpointsmemo.com /news/inside-a-secret-society-of-prominent-right-wing-christian-men-prepping-for-a-national-divorce

2y ago

The Deep Weird: Consequences of the Rabbit Hole

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circularfish @beehaw.org 2y ago

"My husband, Wesley, and I join hands in prayer around our kitchen table. Then we worry about the Mexicans."

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2y ago

Republicans complain Joe Biden had too much energy at SOTU

www.newsweek.com /republicans-joe-biden-energy-state-union-1877209

2y ago

Parts Washer: What solvent are you using?

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circularfish @beehaw.org 2y ago

I use mineral spirits, and have not had issues. Some folks recommend this stuff, But I have not tried it: https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/crown-psc-1000-parts-cleaner-5-gal

2y ago

There is something wrong at the New York Times

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circularfish @beehaw.org 2y ago

The problem as I see it is not that they have been critical of Biden, but that they are not ringing the alarm bells loudly enough over some of the batshit garbage Trump has been spewing recently. “Dictator on day one”, cutting off funding for schools that require vaccinations, etc.

It is reminiscent of the “both sides” criticism moderates get — in an effort to provide even coverage, they are functionally giving the crazy and the corrupt a free pass.

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2y ago

States can’t remove Trump from ballot, Supreme Court says

www.politico.com /news/2024/03/04/states-cant-remove-trump-from-ballot-supreme-court-says-00144673

2y ago

House Bill 500 Takes Away Kentucky Workers’ Lunch and Rest Breaks and Cuts Their Pay - Kentucky Center for Economic Policy

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circularfish @beehaw.org 2y ago

This inevitably happens in states and in industries with low or no union participation. Reason number 1,000 why workers have to stick together. Unionize … and strike.

2y ago

The Lesser of Two Genocides

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circularfish @beehaw.org 2y ago

There is room for a lot of good faith debate here, but FWIW I reckon It is a mistake for the left to prematurely roll over and telegraph an inevitable Biden vote (whether on this or any other issue) just because Trump would be worse. The time for that utilitarian calculus is much closer to November. Right now, if you want policy change — you have to raise hell.

As much as you love to hate ‘em, this is what the Tea Party and their ideological successors got right about wielding power within their own party. When the time comes, by all means circle the wagons and vote pragmatically, but during primary season you have to come across as a credible threat to the party power structure.

I’ll personally be willing to (attempt!) to shame my progressive friends into voting blue, say, around October. In the meantime, I am proud of folks for speaking their mind and standing up for human rights.

2y ago

Supreme Court stalls Trump’s federal election trial while weighing his immunity bid

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circularfish @beehaw.org 2y ago

They know exactly what they are doing.

2y ago

Ex U.S. spies warned the Hunter Biden scandal had Russian fingerprints. They feel vindicated now.

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circularfish @beehaw.org 2y ago

Vaccines don't work. Global warming is a lie. The United States is not a democracy. Babies are too small to be seen with the naked eye and can be frozen and thawed out. Biden is corrupt because Vladimir Putin said so. Am I missing anything?

2y ago

Finished the cat paths!

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circularfish @beehaw.org 2y ago

This is wild. Mine would be raising a racket at 3am playing in the tubes. Is it relatively quiet?

2y ago

Donald Trump fraud verdict: $364 million penalty in New York civil case

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circularfish @beehaw.org 2y ago

Add the Carroll verdict and we are North of $440 million in about 3 weeks.

Edit: Also need to calculate statutory interest on top of this. Appeal bond is going to be brutal.

2y ago

Livestream audio of Supreme Court arguments over Trump's removal from Colorado ballot

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circularfish @beehaw.org 2y ago

Yes, judging by the tenor or the questions it probably won’t even be close. They may end up ruling that Section 5 requires enabling legislatIon to be passed before state enforcement of Section 3 can proceed, but who knows. I think the fix is in on this one, regardless of the actual merits of the legal theories.

I’ll also go out on a limb and say that even though I am viscerally with Colorado here, a victory could easily turn into chaos once GOP-controlled courts in battleground states start engaging in a tit-for-tat. I can already hear the MTG-caliber arguments about humane border policy equating to insurrection.

The upcoming immunity case is going to be way more problematic for Trump, I think.

2y ago

Livestream audio of Supreme Court arguments over Trump's removal from Colorado ballot

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circularfish @beehaw.org 2y ago

This one was always going to be a long shot. The real story here (or one real story, I guess) is why nobody had the guts to ask Thomas to recuse himself.

2y ago

This is the wildest obituary I've ever read.

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circularfish @beehaw.org 2y ago

Rolling Stone following a rich tradition started by the late, great Hunter Thompson. His obit for Nixon is an absolute classic.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-was-a-crook/308699/

2y ago

George Santos expelled from Congress

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circularfish @beehaw.org 2y ago

Our distinguished House Speaker voted against expulsion.

3y ago

Trump and allies plot revenge, Justice Department control in a second term

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circularfish @beehaw.org 3y ago

This is frightening stuff. I feel like it should be at the top of every newscast, every conversation, but somehow we seem to be sleepwalking into the end of democracy. A “nah, can’t happen here” attitude, coupled with Trump fatigue, social media distractions, struggling to make ends meet, and good old fashioned apathy, are going to get people killed.

3y ago

Ex-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows granted immunity, tells special counsel he warned Trump about 2020 claims: Sources

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circularfish @beehaw.org 3y ago

Too early to tell for sure, but Georgia is starting to look grim for Trump, Inc. The state RICO statute by its nature lends itself to rolling up these “wink, wink, nudge, nudge” type conspiracies that are hard to prove individually but taken together show a coordinated pattern of conduct. With every co-conspirator who rolls over and takes a plea deal in return for testimony, it gets easier to prove, and more worrisome for those left.

Open question is whether the Fulton County DA can prove the requisite RICO predicate acts. I think they are trying to pin them on false statements and an unlawful attempt to influence an official, as well as the county election office interference, but it would be interesting to see a dispassionate analysis that evaluates the likelihood of success with those allegations.

Also unclear is what impact Meadows’ testimony in the Federal case will have, if any, on the Georgia proceedings.

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3y ago

Ex-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows granted immunity, tells special counsel he warned Trump about 2020 claims: Sources

abcnews.go.com /amp/US/chief-staff-mark-meadows-granted-immunity-tells-special/story

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3y ago

Jenna Ellis pleads guilty in Georgia election interference case

thehill.com /regulation/court-battles/4272209-jenna-ellis-pleads-guilty-georgia-election-interference-case/

3y ago

How Unions CRUSH Capitalists

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circularfish @beehaw.org 3y ago

It is one thing to hop on the internet and complain about the system (like we are doing now), but another to actually do something about it.

Unionizing - and then actually striking for better pay and conditions - are the most immediate ways to move the ball. As he says, workers have not historically improved their conditions by working harder, but by refusing to work en masse.

3y ago

A deputy, an insider or Trump? The race for US House Speaker

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circularfish @beehaw.org 3y ago

As pointed out time and time again, the MAGA caucus is interested in maximum chaos for social media clout, not governing. It will be interesting to see how much of the ‘mainstream’ GOP goes along with this idiocy.

I get the sense they are pretty spineless, because after all, who wants to anger the base and have to give up the fancy Washington restaurants to return to the sticks and live among the rubes once the inevitable MAGA primary challenger takes you out?