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it is our duty to win | labor student @cornellilr | @cornellydsa | he/him

[nick @unionnick]

Gotta wonder how @TeamsterSOB, @TeamsterRnF, and their allies feel about the candidate O’Brien propped up torpedoing the Teamsters’ most significant new organizing priority and throwing away years of work in the courts by the Teamsters’ attorneys

[nick @unionnick]

Incredible read. Trump’s Amazon settlement deserves as much attention as the Ticketmaster and IRS settlements — an open-and-shut case brought by the agency tasked with protecting labor rights, sabotaged to aid Trump’s corporate allies.

[Josh Eidelson @josheidelson]

New @BW feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge https://t.co/WhkEoRk0JF

Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews

[nick @unionnick]

the median democrat voter’s position rn is “fuck israel.” the median dem elected officials’ position is unconditional military support and mild criticism of all of the people leading it, the war they roped us into, and maybe the settlements. can’t imagine why no one buys it

[nick @unionnick]

is anyone actually supposed to believe that people who showed up at the israel day parade are this shocked and appalled to encounter a senior member of the israeli cabinet? eliyahu was there too and advocated for dropping nukes on gaza — like where are they suggesting the line is

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

Some of the most pathetic shit I’ve ever seen

[nick @unionnick]

@_danielle_carr how the characters’ organizing relationships with each other change has nothing to do with the gadget. and repurposing tech intended to make global supply chains more efficient as a means to organize is fundamentally aligned with successful global union campaigns

[nick @unionnick]

@lucas_s21122 like i thought it was a bit much but then i saw the movie and now i’m ideologically invested in making sure as many people see it as possible

[nick @unionnick]

Read about Brylane first, page 3 https://t.co/fOcK36zfpS

[nick @unionnick]

I went in blind and you should too but if you are a union organizer of any kind you need to see I Love Boosters — see it tonight, tomorrow, run don’t walk etc

[Patrick Daugherty @RotoPat]

Asking Jaxson Dart after the Giants lose 20-17 in overtime to the Titans in Week 3 to fall to 0-3 if Donald Trump won the 2020 election

[nick @unionnick]

This part is crucial. We can’t allow the grassroots backlash to right-wing redistricting, the hollowing of the VRA, and antidemocratic FedSoc judicial interventionism to be subverted by “back to normal” liberalism. Nobody will fight for a system they had no faith in before Jan. 6

[nick @unionnick]

This is such a good piece. Feels impossible to disagree with its assessment of the right’s strategy re: 2028. I’m sure it’ll be argued that the Left/labor isn’t ready to meet the moment as laid out here, but the only alternative to getting ready fast is obvious and dire.

[Geese Magazine🪿 @geesemagazine]

The coup is coming. We cannot protect decaying institutions that are being weaponized against us. Revisiting the failures of 2021, T.E. Moon (@TEMoon333) notes that the nationalist right has spent years preparing for 2029. The next January 6th is coming, and it will not be a chaotic riot, but a calculated, institutional steal.

While the liberal establishment begs captured courts for a remedy, the Left must reorient its entire psychological posture. We need an offensive insurgency—a hostile takeover of the Democratic ticket, followed by the state. Audacity, more audacity, and always audacity.

https://t.co/1WjZOWLBtR

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

It’s wild how booing AI has completely broken some commencement speakers. They’ve gone from, “You can do anything if you put your mind to it” to “Shut up and eat shit, fuckers. Being here is supposed to make ME feel good, not you.”

[DEI speedwagon (all eyes on Cuba) 🌹🇵🇸 〽️ @uhshanti]

this morning I’ve seen that Hanania thinks Graham Platner is a loser for making $60K but also that the globe emoji crowd thinks a union train operator making six figures is a grave injustice, it would be easier if the centrists all told us exactly what our salaries should be

[nick @unionnick]

total shocker that an ideology that paints more than half of americans as “fail[ures] at life” is losing purchase in our politics

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Graham Platner says he and his wife make $60K a year combined.

Isn't this an indication you've failed at life? Why would this be something you brag about?

[nick @unionnick]

@harrisondubay @NJSciretta saying that paying workers more for more difficult/skillful work will make us “an exceptionally poorer society” when US wealth distribution looks like this is so incredibly stupid

[nick @unionnick]

@mattkalish The normal online sports bettor is losing their limited disposable income on your intentionally addictive product because you pay off politicians to underregulate you. It’s just shocking that the prediction markets somehow have more fairness issues than you guys do

[nick @unionnick]

Honestly the only persuasive “prediction markets aren’t gambling” argument I’ve heard is that they take advantage of consumers in ways sportsbook legally could never lol. Wild seeing a founder of DraftKings as the voice of reason

[Matt Kalish @mattkalish]

Why is it 93-1 if you bet $10 and 38-1 if you bet $1000 on something

[nick @unionnick]

@carinemhajjar Your piece
ignores the substance of students’ questions to Kotlikoff — his aggressive suspension of nonviolent protesters on campus. If Kotlikoff hadn’t quashed the kind of protest that has existed on campuses for decades, he wouldn’t be faced with questions “in parking lots.”

[nick @unionnick]

@melnickjeffrey1 An ad-hoc committee of the chair and vice chairs. Not even the standard corporate “pay a law firm to rubber-stamp” approach

[nick @unionnick]

Cornell students are not buying the trustees’ “independent investigation”

[nick @unionnick]

Update: Cornell Trustees have completed their investigation into Cornell’s President, finding him innocent, and have concluded that Cornell police were independent in their investigation of their boss. Kotlikoff is kindly not retaliating against the students he hit with his car.