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[NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact]

Los Angeles city officials are investigating after striking union members accused NBCUniversal of chopping off the tops of some of the trees along their picket line to purposely deny them shade

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Everybody should watch this so we can finally end this debate.

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

During the WGA Strike of '07/'08, David Letterman did a bit on the AMPTP. As relevant now as it was then.

[🇺🇸Josh Keaton🇵🇪 @joshkeaton]

Oh so now these companies want the government to step in? When the workers actually have some collective power? Hoping for another railworkers forced pro-corporate contract? More socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor. #SAGAFTRA

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

Celsa sent us this photo from where she is harvesting cherries in Grandview WA. Workers wrap their fingers to prevent blisters from forming due to the repetitive work. Celsa earns for $4.50 for a 22 lb bucket. The highs have been in the upper 90° this last week. #WeFeedYou

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

In light of the Supreme Court rulings this week, let’s look at its image as an "impartial" body.

An investigation by ProPublica showed that its judges can be bought and sold like any other politician.

Here’s what you need to know about the Court’s billionaire bribe scandal

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[Sarah Kate Ellis @sarahkateellis]

The ADF's obsession with targeting LGBTQ people is unhinged and drastically out of touch. Everyone should understand the truth: ADF is an anti-LGBTQ group trying to abuse levers of government to push discrimination and keep their warped sense of control. https://t.co/K3NmuCxHNG

[Aaron Abernethy @theronster]

One of the best threads I’ve ever read in Twitter, perfectly analogising the Rogan/Musk vaccine bullshittery.

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

This is one of the most interesting free school lunch papers - when districts implement universal free school lunch, it puts competitive pressure on grocery stores, resulting in lower food prices for *everyone* even if they don't directly benefit from school lunches

[Ihor Lachenkov @igorlachenkov]

❗️The undermining of the Kakhovska HPP dam is not only one of the biggest ecological and humanitarian disasters in the east of Europe that led to the flooding of vast territories and many settlements, but is in fact the biggest crime against food security in the world.

The Kakhov reservoir was the heart of one of the largest irrigation systems in Europe. It was the southern regions of Ukraine that supplied the countries of the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe with wheat, corn, sunflower and sunflower oil, soybeans and soybean meal.

We call on everyone who cares about the fate of our planet and the environment, who declares their status as environmentalists and defines nature protection activities as their goals — to take all possible measures in order to record these violations, bring the culprits to justice, and make it impossible to commit such barbarism in the future.

@IUCN @ConservationOrg @nature_org @FoEint @earthwatch_org @TheWSC @SierraClub @EnvDefenseFund @NRDC @globalwild_cc @WorldResources @conservationall @CenterForBioDiv @ifawglobal @earthjustice @UCSUSA @savingoceans @earthisland @intlrivers @oceana @FaunaFloraInt @EIA_News @theGEF @wspa @UNESCO

The world and our planet will face catastrophic consequences if you choose inaction!

[UNICORN RIOT @UR_Ninja]

BREAKING: This morning in Atlanta, Georgia authorities raided a home with a SWAT team to arrest 3 organizers of a bail fund used to help #StopCopCity protesters get out of jail.

https://t.co/n9UxUfnHOq

[(((Rebecca Etzine))) @Betzine]

ahem: *IF BROADWAY EMBRACED DIGITAL THEATRE, THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO DEPEND ON FIFTEEN MINUTES OF SCREENTIME IN AN AWARDS SHOW TO KEEP THEIR SHOWS RUNNING*

British theatre has been doing this for literal decades now. Pull your heads out of your asses and FIGURE IT OUT.

[sloane @sloanesloane]

I keep seeing discussion about how ""AI"" image/text generators won't ever be as good as humans but one thing im not seeing discussed is how that doesn't even need to happen for it to kill off entire creative industries bc the majority of ppl have NO arts/media education/literacy

[Brian Merchant @bcmerchant]

At the onset of the Industrial Revolution, entrepreneurs investing in machinery knew that their tech couldn't "replace" cloth workers, who at the time made up England's largest industrial workforce. The work it produced was cheaper, shoddier, and still required humans to oversee.

[Brian Merchant @bcmerchant]

But machinery *did* give them an excuse to ignore trade rules, hire cheaper (read: child) labor, and to organize work in a factory system, where they would have more control over workers—and where they would profit directly off of the workers' labor.

[Brian Merchant @bcmerchant]

This is essentially what the purveyors of AI—OpenAI, Midjourney, et al—are aiming to allow corporations to do today. AI generated art can't replace human artists, but it's certainly cheaper, and to plenty of clients it will be "good enough." Human artists are already losing work.

[Laura Palmer Raids @Marxicology]

Jordan Neely’s murder should remind us that the pretexts for lynchings often boiled down to discomfort felt by whites around Black people. Further, they weren’t done in secret. They were public spectacles, attended by white families for community building and lauded by newspapers

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

This is the graph everyone needs to see for International Workers' Day.