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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
December 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
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“The president finds the one sparkle in there and that’s all he wants to talk about.”
—on cherry-picking one quarterly measure of GDP while ignoring jobs, wages & affordability. youtu.be/U_GVwBvHG54
—on cherry-picking one quarterly measure of GDP while ignoring jobs, wages & affordability. youtu.be/U_GVwBvHG54
Who Gains From Trump’s Economy? Justin Wolfers on Tariffs, Taxes, and Prices
What matters more: one shiny GDP number, or the gut‑punch of your weekly grocery bill?
This segment features economist Justin Wolfers dissecting the gap between President Trump’s triumphant economic…
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December 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
“The president finds the one sparkle in there and that’s all he wants to talk about.”
—on cherry-picking one quarterly measure of GDP while ignoring jobs, wages & affordability. youtu.be/U_GVwBvHG54
—on cherry-picking one quarterly measure of GDP while ignoring jobs, wages & affordability. youtu.be/U_GVwBvHG54
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"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
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There is zero justification for this photo to be redacted
December 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
There is zero justification for this photo to be redacted
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The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”
December 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”
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Dirty secret of Israel’s weapons exports: They’re tested on Palestinians in Gaza
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From the palestinenews community on Reddit: Dirty secret of Israel’s weapons exports: They’re tested on Palestinians in Gaza
Explore this post and more from the palestinenews community
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December 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Dirty secret of Israel’s weapons exports: They’re tested on Palestinians in Gaza
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This Russian sabotage campaign really is amping up, isn't it?
The IISS has produced a comprehensive open-source database currently available on Russian sabotage operations across Europe and its periphery. It captures the full spectrum of activity with physical effects: from sabotage on undersea cables to GPS blocking across multiple domains and geographies
December 27, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This Russian sabotage campaign really is amping up, isn't it?
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Just 10 days after this photograph was taken, Faris was fatally shot in the neck while he stood confronting an Israeli tank in Gaza with a stone. He was 14.
As we near the end of the year, Palestinians, in the darkest hour of their colonial struggle, need the world’s attention more than ever.
🎄🍉♥️🙏
As we near the end of the year, Palestinians, in the darkest hour of their colonial struggle, need the world’s attention more than ever.
🎄🍉♥️🙏
December 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Just 10 days after this photograph was taken, Faris was fatally shot in the neck while he stood confronting an Israeli tank in Gaza with a stone. He was 14.
As we near the end of the year, Palestinians, in the darkest hour of their colonial struggle, need the world’s attention more than ever.
🎄🍉♥️🙏
As we near the end of the year, Palestinians, in the darkest hour of their colonial struggle, need the world’s attention more than ever.
🎄🍉♥️🙏
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163 years ago in Mankato, 38 Dakota men were hung in the largest mass execution in our nation’s history.
I’m grateful to the riders who continue to remind us the importance of fighting for accountability and healing for the Dakota people.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
I’m grateful to the riders who continue to remind us the importance of fighting for accountability and healing for the Dakota people.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Dakota riders return home to Minnesota via horseback, honoring legacy of Dakota 38
Dakota riders completed a journey of hundreds of miles to honor the 38 Dakota men executed in 1862 — the largest mass execution in U.S. history. The annual rides ending in Mankato serve as a poignant ...
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December 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
163 years ago in Mankato, 38 Dakota men were hung in the largest mass execution in our nation’s history.
I’m grateful to the riders who continue to remind us the importance of fighting for accountability and healing for the Dakota people.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
I’m grateful to the riders who continue to remind us the importance of fighting for accountability and healing for the Dakota people.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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This coming election cycle
We have work to do
We have work to do
December 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This coming election cycle
We have work to do
We have work to do
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I wrote this a year ago and it hit a nerve. It is still relevant today:
Each time I have sat down to write something I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...
Each time I have sat down to write something I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...
We Are on Our Own
From Marc | Our institutions are not going to save us. Only we can do that.
www.democracydocket.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I wrote this a year ago and it hit a nerve. It is still relevant today:
Each time I have sat down to write something I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...
Each time I have sat down to write something I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...
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So much is about to change. The financial markets are shifting to crypto utilization and an over collateralized system (sounds good in theory but is much more complicated); AI is slowly infiltrating white collar jobs, Robotics are slowly infiltrating blue collar jobs.
None of this will stop.
None of this will stop.
December 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
So much is about to change. The financial markets are shifting to crypto utilization and an over collateralized system (sounds good in theory but is much more complicated); AI is slowly infiltrating white collar jobs, Robotics are slowly infiltrating blue collar jobs.
None of this will stop.
None of this will stop.
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Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Published Oct. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Published Oct. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social
Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...
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December 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Published Oct. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Published Oct. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social
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Theres a foolish impulse by legacy media that if & when they cover most stories, it’s simply time to move on. Trump’s ceaseless corruption, criminality, cognitive decline & compulsive, narcissistic hatred gets glossed over in the process. I for one won’t move on until he’s gone & held accountable.
How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
Having a normal Christmas morning
December 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Theres a foolish impulse by legacy media that if & when they cover most stories, it’s simply time to move on. Trump’s ceaseless corruption, criminality, cognitive decline & compulsive, narcissistic hatred gets glossed over in the process. I for one won’t move on until he’s gone & held accountable.
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So the school privatizers issue a “report” that says we need more school privatization (charters, etc), and it gets reported like they have no dog in the fight? Fascinating.
Is @RepMarkWhiteTN still on their “Board of Advisors”?🤔
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Is @RepMarkWhiteTN still on their “Board of Advisors”?🤔
williamsonsource.com/score-releas...
December 27, 2025 at 3:28 AM
So the school privatizers issue a “report” that says we need more school privatization (charters, etc), and it gets reported like they have no dog in the fight? Fascinating.
Is @RepMarkWhiteTN still on their “Board of Advisors”?🤔
williamsonsource.com/score-releas...
Is @RepMarkWhiteTN still on their “Board of Advisors”?🤔
williamsonsource.com/score-releas...
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How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
December 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
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On behalf of everyone in The Resistance movement following the massive EPSTEIN coverup, I want to wish all my fellow Radical Left Scum the happiest of holidays!- ♥️, Mar🐫
December 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
On behalf of everyone in The Resistance movement following the massive EPSTEIN coverup, I want to wish all my fellow Radical Left Scum the happiest of holidays!- ♥️, Mar🐫
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Same fork for self proclaimed leftists who thought they were too good to vote against him.
December 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Same fork for self proclaimed leftists who thought they were too good to vote against him.
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My favorite Dean Martin songs? Gotta be "That is Love" and "Kiss Me Many Times."
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
My favorite Dean Martin songs? Gotta be "That is Love" and "Kiss Me Many Times."
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
December 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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Well said, Hope.
Tim Walz's Daughter Has Blunt Wakeup Call For Don Jr. After He Agrees With MAGA Calling Her Dad Ableist Slur
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December 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Well said, Hope.
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Merry Christmas to all who seek peace, joy and love.
December 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Merry Christmas to all who seek peace, joy and love.
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A country that had begun to make progress in believing women is regressing. In this environment, it becomes more and more difficult for victims to come forward, which means that the people committing crimes against them are going to get away with it. Again.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Which Side Is DOJ on: The Epstein Files
With apologies for writing about such a serious topic as we enter the Christmas holidays, these developments seemed too important to ignore.
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A country that had begun to make progress in believing women is regressing. In this environment, it becomes more and more difficult for victims to come forward, which means that the people committing crimes against them are going to get away with it. Again.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Economic data is a noisy group chat: jobs, GDP, income, prices all talking at once. Each message can mislead if you take it literally. The real task is finding the common story they’re telling together, not falling in love with one statistic.
December 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Economic data is a noisy group chat: jobs, GDP, income, prices all talking at once. Each message can mislead if you take it literally. The real task is finding the common story they’re telling together, not falling in love with one statistic.
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He takes almost as much pleasure in people losing their jobs as he does killing them. Almost.
December 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
He takes almost as much pleasure in people losing their jobs as he does killing them. Almost.