‘This is psychological warfare’: Starbucks workers allege anti-union firings The National Labor Relations Board has reinstated 28 of the more than 200 pro-union workers fired since late 2021 According to the NLRB, decisions by…
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Lately we have been hearing much from and about Paul Ryan - former Republican Congressman of Wisconsin (1999-2019), former House Speaker (2015-2019), former vice-presidential nominee (2012) - about his opinion on Donald Trump and…

Joe Manchin illustrates that the real division in American politics is no longer left versus right, conservative versus liberal, even Democrat versus Republican. The real division is democracy versus the moneyed interests.   It's…

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday warned Senate Republicans the nation faced a “calamity” unless Congress raises or suspends the debt ceiling. “I think there would be a financial crisis, and a calamity”, said…

America celebrates Labor Day – but are US workers winning? Arindrajit Dube, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, says increased worker bargaining power could last longer-term. Dube says that numerous factors have…

Progressive Caucus Says Biden Would Be 'Foolish' to Keep Pursuing GOP Votes on Infrastructure   These are the same Republican senators who refused to vote for the American Rescue Plan even if some touted…

Reminders     “The radicalization of the Republican Party has outpaced what even most critical observers imagined. We need to grapple with what that should mean for our expectations going forward and start thinking…

Angela Davis. H.L. Mencken. Adlai Stevenson.   I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who…

Happy May Day   International Workers’ Day was established to honour lives lost at the Haymarket Affair / Haymarket Massacre that took place in Chicago on May 4, 1886. The confrontation between police and…

Robert B Reich. Gary J Floyd. DJ Kyos.   Americans have clung to the meritocratic tautology that individuals are paid what they’re worth in the market, without examining changes in the legal and political…

While former Speaker John Boehner continues on his 'I have a new book coming out' rehabilitation tour, beltway press and media pundits laugh at his wine-flavoured jokes about past and current people in politics…

The attempt to include Senator Bernie Sander's minimum wage amendment in the Covid relief bill was killed in the Senate, again. We already know that all Republicans in both chambers of Congress think low-wage…

Propaganda machines in all totalitarian countries habitually depict the dictator as the saviour of his people from some danger real, or more usually imaginary, and as the man of action who decides what is…

U.S. House overwhelmingly passes Omnibus Spending Bill which appears almost as an afterthought to include some - but little Covid relief. 'Congress only has $600 for COVID relief but they managed to cram in…

On This Day In History: 17 December.   1821: Kentucky abolishes debtors' prisons 2020: Jobless Claims Rise To 885,000 Amid Resurgence Of Virus 2020: Republicans refuse to increase spending on a COVID-19 relief deal;…

U.S. Economy Tanking! Covid Breaking Records In Cases And Deaths! Mitch McConnell With His Cadre Of We-Don't-Give-A-Shit Assholes Offer This!   According to Johns Hopkins University, 2,879 Americans died from Covid with 217,664 new…

THE LIST UPDATED: General Gary L. Thomas assistant commandant of the Marine Corps ∼∼∼∼∼∼ Two unnamed White House housekeepers. Admiral Charles W Ray vice commandant of the US Coast Guard. Stephen Miller White House…

Propaganda machines in all totalitarian countries habitually depict the dictator as the saviour of his people from some danger real, or more usually imaginary, and as the man of action who decides what is…

Essential workers, 'not sacrificial workers' On Tuesday, Donald Trump signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act ordering meat processing/packing plants to stay open and for those plants that have already closed due…