Les Bowen 🌲🍎

He/him || UT ➡️ WA via NY, OR & AZ || once reporter, now #bureaucrat || civics/elections nerd || #labor activist || #skeptic

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

Election attorney Ben Ginsberg joined fellow conservatives in co-authoring a report that examined 2020 election lawsuits. “The evidence to back up the allegations of fraud and elections being unreliable simply does not exist,” he says. https://t.co/jL2jUna3K7

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

In July, Stephen Richer lost the Republican primary for reelection. Reflecting on what he’s endured over nearly four years, Richer says he has “seen some ugliness in the character of human beings.” https://t.co/NVWgW4nfDn

[Les Bowen 🌲🍎 @iAmNerdlinger]

Verifying myself: I am nerdlinger on https://t.co/f89bl62V8k. lmsK1sYtvO6ixgBK1VmH3lVdgIIHU6qcmfsF / https://t.co/KYQkw8r1NF

[AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) @wfsec28]

"We care about the people we're serving, and they can't just keep making us do more with less," said ESD employee and WFSE Vice President Ashley Fueston.

"It's the citizens of the state that are getting hurt because then they're seeing longer service times, longer wait times."

[AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) @wfsec28]

📣Big update from the Interpreters United, Local 1671 bargaining table!

✅See the gains we've locked in and when we can expect to hear back from the arbitrator on compensation: https://t.co/Hx9jsMJeNi

#UnitedforWashington #FairContract

[AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) @wfsec28]

📢 We're walking out for Washington to remind management that we're the people who keep Washington running!
💚 Join us at one of our statewide walkouts on Sept 10. We aren't accepting management's paltry contract offers.
👀 Find a walkout near you: https://t.co/dXNVWjYtuV

[AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) @wfsec28]

👋 WFSE is walking out for Washington!
👀 The state has shown us they don’t care about public workers.
🫷We aren’t going to take this! Join us in our walkout to show the state we deserve better! Washington works because WE work!

Full press release here: https://t.co/nZbac7ZmLw

[AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) @wfsec28]

Group grievance filed against Green Hill for failing to address dire safety concerns. Demand to bargain filed with DCYF for failing to notify us when youth intakes were halted. This article was made possible by our members sharing very difficult stories.

https://t.co/YNnkMJUi2E

[AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) @wfsec28]

Every state employee should be paid fairly, be able to afford to live where they work, be able to put in 40 hours and not have to worry about how they will pay the bills. We should be getting ahead, not worrying about falling behind. https://t.co/FdOL2EnVI3

#UnitedForWashington

[AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) @wfsec28]

🪖These WFSE Local 396 members at the Walla Walla Veterans Home are calling for a #FairContract so they can provide the level of care our veterans deserve.

🎖️We owe them so much more. #UnitedForWashington

Get involved at https://t.co/BG25FRLk8g.

[Les Bowen 🌲🍎 @iAmNerdlinger]

@Garrett_Archer Unfortunately, the response rate for the Census in Apache County is one of the lowest in the nation. Most estimates show less than 25% of the county's population self-reported. It's not hard to fathom that there could be 5,000+ more residents than the Census reports.

[Les Bowen 🌲🍎 @iAmNerdlinger]

@Garrett_Archer The U.S. Census also has historically undercounted tribal populations. The population of Apache County is likely several thousand more than what was counted officially in the 2020 Census and carried forward in the official estimates.

[AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) @wfsec28]

Our labor movement is an embodiment of the best human qualities: solidarity, sacrifice, trust. WFSE members know the meaning of #InternationalWorkersDay. It's about picking one another up. An injury to one is an injury to all! #MayDay

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

Happy May Day to the workers of the world! Today is about joy, solidarity, and rebellion, and has been since a Black anarchist named Lucy Parsons led the country’s first May Day march in 1886. The cops called her “more dangerous than a thousand rioters.”

Be dangerous, beloveds.

[AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) @wfsec28]

#administrativeprofessionalsday Being recognized is great. Being recognized with fair pay is even better. We’re honoring support staff, elevating the important work they do and fighting with them for their profession. https://t.co/GIekwx3xKo #UnitedForWashington #FairContract

[AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) @wfsec28]

#administrativeprofessionalsday. Support staff are demanding BETTER. Click here to get involved in our contract campaign: https://t.co/6RT27nXFS9. #UnitedForWashington #FairContract

[AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) @wfsec28]

Regardless of industry, sector, or agency, everyone knows that the wheels fall off without support staff. It's time for their pay to reflect the value of their work.

Get involved: https://t.co/yKeItUCIjV

#administrativeprofessionalsday #UnitedForWashington #FairContract.

[AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) @wfsec28]

Public service shouldn't be a jumping-off point for a career in the private sector. But that's the way it is when you can't make ends meet. This #AdministrativeProfessionalsDay, we're calling on Washington State to do better. Our union is #UnitedForWashington and a #FairContract!

[Les Bowen 🌲🍎 @iAmNerdlinger]

@andynewmanlac It's a lot like the struggles of LGBTQ+ teens. Survive the now. Some of that is unpleasant. With support from others, plan a life as an adult where you can be your authentic self, and seek any opportunity to (safely) do that now. Hang in there. It gets better.

[Les Bowen 🌲🍎 @iAmNerdlinger]

@actionstrategy @hollywelker Alternatively, groupthink results in bias and blind spots that should be avoided by considering that other points of view are valid, even when (and especially when) those ideas challenge the group paradigm.