‘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…
WayBack Wednesday: Paul Ryan and His Principles
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…
Friday Serenade: Big Oil. Big Food. Big Utilities. Big Pharma. Big Pacs. Then There’s The Rest Of Us
The Bigs vs The Smalls No Need To Guess Who's Winning. People Much Smarter Than Me Writing At CommonDreams.org and CrooksAndLiars.com Produced Multiple Articles With The Details. A few excerpts: Price-Gouging Corporations Helping Drive…
The Real Joe Manchin: Shafting American Workers
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…
Monday Ménage: Edition People, Corporations, and The Isms
Useem. Wolfe. Mills. The political concerns of members of the corporate elite are affected by three competing principles. These principles have fundamentally different implications for the ways in which business managers participate in policy…
Friday Serenade: Lotta Lotta Lotta Lotta Work To Do
Who CARES? They Did! Billionaires Received Taxpayer-Funded Stimulus Checks During the Pandemic In March 2020, as the first wave of coronavirus infections all but shut down the U.S. economy, Congress responded with rare speed,…
Wednesday WayBack: Crisis And Calamity
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…
Labor Day. Good News Bad News
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…
Infrastructure Privatization. Unemployment Benefits Slashed. Bipartisanship. Yay!
Ya Always Gotta Find The “Other” So That Ya Can Hide The Real Grifters They're calling it 'unemployment insurance program integrity' but the proposal is nothing more than "cutting unemployment insurance for infrastructure".…
Hey, The Other Joe, Wake Up!
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…
Danger Ahead: Anti-Democracy Drift
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…
Monday Ménage
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…
International Workers Day
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…
Monday Ménage
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…
History As Reminder: GOP Jobs Edition
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…
OK, Now Give Up Hope
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…
Monday Reminder: America, Pay Attention
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…
Atrocious Congress
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…
A Wretched Human Being
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;…
Americans Need A Hand Up…
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…
Two Week Reminder
Don’t Let Them Take It. The Replay
Is Prez The Super-Spreader?
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…
Don’t Let Them Take It
Story Remains The Same
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…
May Day USA 2020
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…
Same Topic, Different Story, Same Image
Donald J. Trump and his team have now openly declared that he is above the law rather than, as our Constitution provides, a public servant whose duty is to faithfully execute the law. His…














