Mastodawn

Flta Jul 6, 2023

ArtBear Jul 6, 2023

If you visit #birdsite (eg to promote #Fediverse) you will notice a real quality drop in the ads, and a real shift to more fashy bigot disinfo in the general posts.

Personally I hope #Elon #Musk ruins #Twitter fully before he gets the chance to have a real influence on the #American elections. We saw what happened with #Turkey's elections. #Meme #Politics #USAPolitics #USPol

Flta Jul 6, 2023

chickweed Jul 6, 2023

The United Farm Workers has unionized 500 workers at five farms in New York State.

UFW president Teresa Romero said the victories were made possible by a 4-year-old NY law – the Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act – giving workers a state-protected right to unionize and prohibiting retaliation against farm workers seeking to organize.

The law requires farms to recognize a union once a majority of workers sign pro-union cards.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/06/new-york-farm-workers-ufw-unions

#labor #politics

photo by my son

Union wins at New York farms raise hopes for once-powerful UFW

Five hundred farmworkers have unionized – the biggest success in years for the union co-founded by Cesar Chavez

The Guardian

Flta Jun 23, 2023

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-sets-up-lab-to-study-xi-jinpings-ideas/

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#china #russia #xijinping

Russia launches lab to study Xi Jinping ideology

The center aims at understanding the ideas of the Chinese president and strengthening relations between the two countries.

POLITICO

Flta Jun 23, 2023

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/first-read/poll-61-voters-disapprove-supreme-court-decision-overturning-roe-rcna90415

#politics #dobbs #poll #supremecourt

Poll: 61% of voters disapprove of Supreme Court decision overturning Roe

6-in-10 voters remain opposed to the Supreme Court overturning the national right to abortion, according to results from a new national NBC News poll.

NBC News

Flta Jun 14, 2023

Las Vegas Won't Save the Water It Needs by Just Removing Lawns

https://projects.propublica.org/turf-wars/

#politics #uspolitics #lasvegas #nevada #water #hoa #urbanplanning

Las Vegas Needs to Save Water. It Won’t Find It in Lawns.

Drought-plagued Nevada pledged to do away with 3,900 acres of grass in the Las Vegas area within six years, but a ProPublica analysis found that the state grossly overestimated how much of that grass would likely be removed.

ProPublica

Flta Jun 14, 2023