Exactly. The full weight of the White House propaganda and legal apparatus bearing down on one day laborer and his family for months simply because the addled despot can never be wrong.
It’s really atrocious how they threw the full force of the federal government at this one guy because he embarrassed them by being innocent of everything except trying to live his life.
Only one of many, unfortunately. But he got publicity so he had to be destroyed.
Only one of many, unfortunately. But he got publicity so he had to be destroyed.
Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
December 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Exactly. The full weight of the White House propaganda and legal apparatus bearing down on one day laborer and his family for months simply because the addled despot can never be wrong.
new major arcana just dropped we got
- The Pervert
- The Wet Dog
- The Laborer
- The Guy Who Looks Exactly Like You Flying A Hot Air Balloon Into Power Lines
- The Biker
- The Awesome Skeleton
- The Awesome Biker Skeleton
- The Yearner
- The Creature
- The Pervert
- The Wet Dog
- The Laborer
- The Guy Who Looks Exactly Like You Flying A Hot Air Balloon Into Power Lines
- The Biker
- The Awesome Skeleton
- The Awesome Biker Skeleton
- The Yearner
- The Creature
December 16, 2025 at 3:50 AM
new major arcana just dropped we got
- The Pervert
- The Wet Dog
- The Laborer
- The Guy Who Looks Exactly Like You Flying A Hot Air Balloon Into Power Lines
- The Biker
- The Awesome Skeleton
- The Awesome Biker Skeleton
- The Yearner
- The Creature
- The Pervert
- The Wet Dog
- The Laborer
- The Guy Who Looks Exactly Like You Flying A Hot Air Balloon Into Power Lines
- The Biker
- The Awesome Skeleton
- The Awesome Biker Skeleton
- The Yearner
- The Creature
As a lifelong day laborer. This image is beyond offensive.
December 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
As a lifelong day laborer. This image is beyond offensive.
Once again reminding everyone that generative AI's true purpose and why CEO's around the world are pushing its use is to take the laborer out of labor. "Developing concept art" with AI eventually just leads into replacing the job of concept artist with someone you don't have to pay for it.
sigh
December 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Once again reminding everyone that generative AI's true purpose and why CEO's around the world are pushing its use is to take the laborer out of labor. "Developing concept art" with AI eventually just leads into replacing the job of concept artist with someone you don't have to pay for it.
Top court upholds ruling ordering Nippon Steel to compensate family of late wartime forced laborer
www.upi.com
Top court upholds ruling ordering Nippon Steel to compensate family of late wartime forced laborer - UPI.com
twp.ai
December 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Top court upholds ruling ordering Nippon Steel to compensate family of late wartime forced laborer
rare laborer Vitalia, she will be teaching big sis how to blacksmith today
December 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
rare laborer Vitalia, she will be teaching big sis how to blacksmith today
Willian Giménez González, Chicago day laborer and beloved worker leader in Chicago, is now free from ICE custody. I spoke to him about his ordeal, and what solidarity looks like in this moment. "They should do more to stop this so we can stop living this nightmare," he said.
“There Is a War Against Us”: Worker Leader, Released from ICE Custody, Speaks Out
Willian Giménez González is free, but he worries about thousands of others who were abducted from the Chicago area.
inthesetimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Willian Giménez González, Chicago day laborer and beloved worker leader in Chicago, is now free from ICE custody. I spoke to him about his ordeal, and what solidarity looks like in this moment. "They should do more to stop this so we can stop living this nightmare," he said.
i grew up w tools in my hands
my dad is a self-taught carpenter and an architect
i been building shit since before i can remember
first paying job as a laborer/apprentice carpenter was at 18
my dad is a self-taught carpenter and an architect
i been building shit since before i can remember
first paying job as a laborer/apprentice carpenter was at 18
December 14, 2025 at 6:57 AM
i grew up w tools in my hands
my dad is a self-taught carpenter and an architect
i been building shit since before i can remember
first paying job as a laborer/apprentice carpenter was at 18
my dad is a self-taught carpenter and an architect
i been building shit since before i can remember
first paying job as a laborer/apprentice carpenter was at 18
Willian Giménez González, Chicago day laborer and beloved worker leader in Chicago, has been released from ICE custody. I spoke to him about his 47-day detention, and what solidarity looks like in this moment. "I owe my freedom to being organized," he says.
“There Is a War Against Us”: Worker Leader, Released from ICE Custody, Speaks Out
Willian Giménez González is free, but he worries about thousands of others who were abducted from the Chicago area.
inthesetimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Willian Giménez González, Chicago day laborer and beloved worker leader in Chicago, has been released from ICE custody. I spoke to him about his 47-day detention, and what solidarity looks like in this moment. "I owe my freedom to being organized," he says.
but nora i'm communing with the ineffable soul of humanity
i'm not some kind of (scoff) skilled laborer doing a task i'm good at
there's just an undefinable Secret Thing that makes it good when i do it, and that Secret Thing always happens to be missing in things i don't like
i'm not some kind of (scoff) skilled laborer doing a task i'm good at
there's just an undefinable Secret Thing that makes it good when i do it, and that Secret Thing always happens to be missing in things i don't like
December 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
but nora i'm communing with the ineffable soul of humanity
i'm not some kind of (scoff) skilled laborer doing a task i'm good at
there's just an undefinable Secret Thing that makes it good when i do it, and that Secret Thing always happens to be missing in things i don't like
i'm not some kind of (scoff) skilled laborer doing a task i'm good at
there's just an undefinable Secret Thing that makes it good when i do it, and that Secret Thing always happens to be missing in things i don't like
Being a dog is less degrading than being a wage-laborer
December 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Being a dog is less degrading than being a wage-laborer
Such a good service Laborer he is. 🩶🤍🩶
December 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Such a good service Laborer he is. 🩶🤍🩶
“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.” - Louis Nizer
7/7
7/7
December 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.” - Louis Nizer
7/7
7/7
"Across the planet we are living in a prison..The Gulag equation “criminal = slave laborer” has been rewritten by neoliberalism to become “worker = hidden criminal.” The whole drama of global migration is expressed in this new formula.."
www.guernicamag.com/john_berger_...
www.guernicamag.com/john_berger_...
Fellow Prisoners
<p>The best way to understand the world is not as a metaphorical prison but a literal one. </p>
www.guernicamag.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"Across the planet we are living in a prison..The Gulag equation “criminal = slave laborer” has been rewritten by neoliberalism to become “worker = hidden criminal.” The whole drama of global migration is expressed in this new formula.."
www.guernicamag.com/john_berger_...
www.guernicamag.com/john_berger_...
I find the seemingly standard public education/reenactor phrase, "every Roman soldier was a [combat] engineer" more than a bit frustrating.
Every Roman soldier could be a *laborer.* The legions also had much higher status specialist engineers, the praefectus fabrum or architectus.
Different jobs!
Every Roman soldier could be a *laborer.* The legions also had much higher status specialist engineers, the praefectus fabrum or architectus.
Different jobs!
December 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I find the seemingly standard public education/reenactor phrase, "every Roman soldier was a [combat] engineer" more than a bit frustrating.
Every Roman soldier could be a *laborer.* The legions also had much higher status specialist engineers, the praefectus fabrum or architectus.
Different jobs!
Every Roman soldier could be a *laborer.* The legions also had much higher status specialist engineers, the praefectus fabrum or architectus.
Different jobs!
time for your annual reminder that this is bullshit. you can scroll up in the thread I'm quoting for some numbers, but AFAICT his calculation amounts to "Cratchit made more than an unskilled laborer did in his day."
Doesn't mean min-wage workers today are equally destitute.
Doesn't mean min-wage workers today are equally destitute.
December 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
time for your annual reminder that this is bullshit. you can scroll up in the thread I'm quoting for some numbers, but AFAICT his calculation amounts to "Cratchit made more than an unskilled laborer did in his day."
Doesn't mean min-wage workers today are equally destitute.
Doesn't mean min-wage workers today are equally destitute.
So the Roman soldier with this absolutely ubiquitous dolabra (an entrenching tool similar to a pickaxe) is special, not because he is a combat engineer, but because the organization and discipline of the legion, combined with Roman social expectations, make him an effective construction laborer.
December 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
So the Roman soldier with this absolutely ubiquitous dolabra (an entrenching tool similar to a pickaxe) is special, not because he is a combat engineer, but because the organization and discipline of the legion, combined with Roman social expectations, make him an effective construction laborer.
December 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
If you're only paying $180,000 for all this you're dramatically underpaying the 140 people you're hiring—many of whom appear to be sex workers. The pear trees alone are gonna run you $1,500; the animals another $100,000. I guess mayyyybe if you're hiring each laborer for just one hour?
We agree that the gifts are given cumulatively, right? Such that the speaker gets a new partridge twelve days in a row? If so, the math quickly snowballs into financial ruin.
That's 364 gifts in total, netting out to about $180,000.
That's 364 gifts in total, netting out to about $180,000.
December 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
If you're only paying $180,000 for all this you're dramatically underpaying the 140 people you're hiring—many of whom appear to be sex workers. The pear trees alone are gonna run you $1,500; the animals another $100,000. I guess mayyyybe if you're hiring each laborer for just one hour?
The fact that every Roman soldier can be a laborer seems like a small thing but it is, I'd argue, actually quite significant: a lot of armies have troops that for either reasons social status (Sir-Better-Than-You is not digging a trench) or organization aren't really useful for construction work.
December 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The fact that every Roman soldier can be a laborer seems like a small thing but it is, I'd argue, actually quite significant: a lot of armies have troops that for either reasons social status (Sir-Better-Than-You is not digging a trench) or organization aren't really useful for construction work.
I have a laborer at work who frequently wears an “alpha” t shirt. He’s 4’10”. Sure bud, sure.
December 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I have a laborer at work who frequently wears an “alpha” t shirt. He’s 4’10”. Sure bud, sure.
Gualberto Olac's speech today at a press conference at City Hall was beautiful and I want to pull some longer quotes. He was calling for the city to support safe hiring sites for day laborers. "As a day laborer, I have experienced discrimination from people, from the police, and from employers."
December 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Gualberto Olac's speech today at a press conference at City Hall was beautiful and I want to pull some longer quotes. He was calling for the city to support safe hiring sites for day laborers. "As a day laborer, I have experienced discrimination from people, from the police, and from employers."
It's not just being an experienced laborer, it's being part of an team that's experienced *at that particular task*.
December 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
It's not just being an experienced laborer, it's being part of an team that's experienced *at that particular task*.
we’ve been so outsourced, the outsourcing has gone to the cheapest international laborer.
Places like Canada the European Union protect citizens and workers . Not in America it started to change after Nixon and then Reagan, It really kicked into gear with neolibdemocrats pretending tobe Democrats
Places like Canada the European Union protect citizens and workers . Not in America it started to change after Nixon and then Reagan, It really kicked into gear with neolibdemocrats pretending tobe Democrats
December 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
we’ve been so outsourced, the outsourcing has gone to the cheapest international laborer.
Places like Canada the European Union protect citizens and workers . Not in America it started to change after Nixon and then Reagan, It really kicked into gear with neolibdemocrats pretending tobe Democrats
Places like Canada the European Union protect citizens and workers . Not in America it started to change after Nixon and then Reagan, It really kicked into gear with neolibdemocrats pretending tobe Democrats