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I teach things, read things, and very occasionally make things. Trying really hard to be a better person, but it's slow going. Leftist enough to know I'm in danger in the Deep South. Partner with @LurkingFarmer (When one of us comes into play, you can usually find the other one).
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Is it too much to ask that, when people list books online, they write descriptions that sound like they've actually seen the book on offer? "spine may have creases" "dust jacket may be missing" "may contain stains that do not obscure the text." When considering what is essentially a pig in a poke, THE SUBJUNCTIVE IS NO-ONE'S FRIEND.

Why don’t they have a newsletter

Why are they still on Twitter

Why don’t they move out of Texas/Florida?

Why don’t they burn everything down

Why are they still in that job

All judgement. No solutions.

How do you want people who can barely sit up in bed and only get support and financial help from one community to survive?

How?

Y’all always have a bunch of judge shit to say and

ABSOLUTELY
NO
FIXES

that work UNLESS those people have you same privilege.
Why don’t they

Latest comic: The Labor Channel

#LaborDay #labor #work

OMFG THIS IS SO HUGE!!!

WHAT THIS MEANS: If a company attempts to dissuade their workers from forming a union...

THE UNION IS AUTOMATICALLY FORMED WITH OR WITHOUT A FORMAL VOTE AND THE COMPANY MUST IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZE IT.

Jumping up and down because OMFG THIS IS BIG!!!

https://newrepublic.com/post/175207/national-labor-relations-board-nlrb-rules-companies-union-bust

Companies That Try to Union-Bust Will Be Forced to Recognize Union, NLRB Says

The National Labor Relations Board just made it a whole lot harder to union-bust.

The New Republic

Where there is no escape from the heat-The Boston Globe

“During a recent hot stretch, those who run a puppy-training program at Old Colony [Correctional Center], where inmates raise service dogs for veterans, temporarily took their dogs out of the prison, according to the incarcerated man and a spokesman for the program.

“Conditions here are considered too cruel to house a dog but are okay to house human being.”
#dogs
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/19/metro/where-there-is-no-escape-heat/

Where there is no escape from the heat

Even dogs have it better than some held in our prisons and jails, which can be like kilns in the summer, sickening those inside and making conditions dangerous for everybody.

The Boston Globe
He gets a New York charge, he gets a Florida charge
He gets a DC charge, he gets a Georgia charge
He enters the pleas that remind him of the good times
He enters the pleas that remind him of the better times
Florida’s Black history standards are even worse than reported

OPINION: While critics have singled out the part of Florida’s Black History standards referencing the “benefits of slavery," theGrio found numerous examples of Caucasian Race Theory embedded throughout the curriculum.

TheGrio