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[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

America: where working-class people are financially punished for attaining an education to enter our labor force.

That’s ass-backwards!

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

A friendly reminder this Labor Day that unions didn’t win weekends and the minimum wage and laws against child labor and sick leave by being nice, polite, or respectful. They won by fighting. They won by striking and struggling and being radicals. And we have to do the same.

[David DeWitt @DC_DeWitt]

After the House Bill 6 law at the heart of a $1.3 billion bribery scandal eliminated most energy efficiency programs, Ohio utilities have gone from above average to among the worst in the country, according to an analysis that was released last week.

https://t.co/NbZnXRb9ry

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The clearest picture of corporate greed in this country is CEO-to-worker pay ratios.

At the 100 lowest-paying major US companies, CEO pay averages $15.3 million.

Median worker pay at these companies is just $31,672.

That’s a ratio of 603 to 1.

How can anyone defend this?

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The California legislature is considering a bill to make striking workers eligible for unemployment benefits.

Striking workers currently aren't eligible for unemployment, despite being out of work.

John Fetterman has also introduced a bill in Congress to remedy this problem.

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

Not the central focus of this story but Libs of TikTok added an inflammatory caption to a video posted by a school librarian before sharing it with her followers. The school then had SIX DAYS of consecutive bomb threats.

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

One of the things about “just Google it” or “do your own research” (no shade or shaming anyone, I’ve done it often) is that the lack of media literacy means people don’t have fully developed research skills nor the practiced discernment to separate out quality information.

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

This new rule would affect 3.6 million salaried workers, effectively ending a major and regular abuse by corporations where they force salaried employees to work for free. This is a huge labor win. Being announced right before Labor Day is just icing on the cake.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Thanks to the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling this May, the EPA was forced to remove protections from most of America's wetlands this week.

Harlan Crow's firm lobbied for the rollback while he secretly plied Justice Thomas with gifts.

Anyone see a problem here?

[Academics Write @academicswrite]

For those who have asked, here is a link to a blog that describes a the paper. https://t.co/MZT9aCrkUr

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

Hearing congresspeople pushing “the brain does not finish developing until the age of 25” stuff with the context of multiple states pushing adult trans bans should 100% show how they intend to keep pressing to adult trans bans over the next year.

[Veles ↙↙↙ @Menkvi]

The idea that James Barry's identified gender was female, and that he presented as a male in order to progress his career, is not supported by the evidence. There is not single source, public or private, in which Barry genders himself as female. He lived his private life as a man

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Under current law workers on strike can't start getting food stamps, even if they're out of work for months.

But now Senator John Fetterman has introduced a bill to repeal this restriction on striking workers and their families getting food stamps.
https://t.co/BR3fAOTIxe

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

If the CEO of McDonalds stopped working, the company would still make money.

If the cooks stop working, McDonalds wouldn’t make a dime.

Don’t tell me those cooks don’t deserve a living wage.

[David DeWitt @DC_DeWitt]

LaRose keeps pivoting back to telling Ohioans to simply change Ohio Revised Code while ignoring the fact that Ohio’s gerrymandered legislature can simply overturn citizen initiative laws whenever they like, with no protection or recourse for the citizen voters.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Why is healthcare so expensive in America?

In the past few years, some hospital CEOs have seen their salaries increase by as much as 700 percent. Yes, you read that correctly.

Say it with me, Medicare for All.

[5hahem @shaTIRED]

what gets me about the “natural” argument is most of the shit we do is unnatural. like, girl we are talking primates typing in small computers, wearing garments made of random fibers, getting around in rolling chunks of metal and then some. who actually cares about natural? 😭