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Florida Senate approves measure targeting public sector unions • Florida Phoenix A proposal backed by a conservative think tank and Gov. Ron DeSantis that could prove to be another major hit to public sector labor unions in Florida won approval by the GOP-controlled Senate on…

Florida Senate approves measure targeting public sector unions
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hey i wrote about this yesterday and compared our tech oligarchs to the planter class of the South pre-civil war
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This Day in Labor History: March 7, 1932. Several thousand unemployed workers marched toward Henry Ford’s River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Upon reaching the complex, Henry Ford's hired thugs opened fired and killed some of them! Let's talk about Ford and his horrors!!!

"The comeback kid!" is the storyline the media runs on scandal plagued fuck ups that they like and want to help

BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon

At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me

Inside Plastic Executives’ Late-20th-Century Campaign to Blame Consumers for Their Industry’s Waste This TPM Cafe article is an excerpt from PLASTIC INC.: The Secret...

“The Crying Indian” had helped muddy public understanding of what was causing the waste deluge, what might fix it — and even what the problem was:
Inside Plastic Executives’ Late-20th-Century Campaign to Blame Consumers for Their Industry’s Waste
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While measles outbreak spreads through Florida, Republicans advance vaccine exemption bill A child receives a vaccine. A bill that would expand vaccine exemptions for public K-12 schools is headed to the Senate floor. The bill (SB 1756) would

While measles outbreak spreads through Florida, Republicans advance vaccine exemption bill www.cltampa.com/news/while-m...

Bill allowing Florida to designate domestic terrorist organizations passes in House It was approved in the GOP-controlled Florida House Tuesday, despite complaints by Democrats that the measure lacks guardrails.

Bill allowing Florida to designate domestic terrorist organizations passes in House www.orlandoweekly.com/news/bill-al...

Minnesota Fraud, Trump’s Lawsuits, and His Big Pentagon Budget Minnesota’s $250M pandemic fraud is tiny compared with PPP, Medicare, Trump lawsuits, and military spending—arithmetic exposes political exaggeration.

Minnesota Fraud, Trump’s Lawsuits, and His Big Pentagon Budget cepr.net/publications...

Betting Against Increased Taxes, DraftKings Is Spending Big on Illinois State Races The sports gambling industry is pouring more than a million dollars into local Illinois races in a gambit to evade regulations and higher taxes.

Betting Against Increased Taxes, DraftKings Is Spending Big on Illinois State Races inthesetimes.com/article/debug

Sean O’Brien sold workers and unions out to Trump—these Teamsters are running to oust him. “As a labor leader, [O’Brien] should be disqualified…. Donald Trump has done nothing to help the working class, only the people in the Epstein class.”

Sean O’Brien sold workers and unions out to Trump—these Teamsters are running to oust him. therealnews.com/sean-obrien-...

just fwiw, here are the arguments being made, in order:

1. iran has apologized to its neighbors and admitted it lost
2. this is unprecedented and because of me
3. iran has not surrendered and will collapse if it doesn’t admit it lost
4. i am going to bomb iran more and worse until it surrenders

We are currently outside the ICE Broadview concentration camp where Sunny Naqvi’s family believes her to be held after being detained in O’Hare by federal authorities.

"Iran is a big country, filled with many Iranians." -> things our media apparently does not know

as any intellectual or student of history will tell you, middle east wars deal with problems once and for all

Trump Has Made the U.S. War Machine a Spectacle—And It’s Spectacularly Unpopular In Iran, Trump has brought the full extent of the war machine out into the open. Let’s channel public anger into organizing.

Trump Has Made the U.S. War Machine a Spectacle—And It’s Spectacularly Unpopular inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

Songs for Good: The Sudden Resurgence of the Protest Song SUBSCRIBE

Songs for Good: The Sudden Resurgence of the Protest Song portside.org/2026-03-06/s...

Virginia bill would expand collective bargaining rights to all local and state public sector workers Virginia bill would expand collective bargaining rights to all local and state public sector workers

Virginia bill would expand collective bargaining rights to all local and state public sector workers www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I-Z...

Federal judge blocks DeSantis executive order declaring CAIR a ‘terrorist organization’ Hiba Rahim, executive deputy director for CAIR-Florida, speaking in the Capitol in Tallahassee on Feb. 2, 2026. (Photo by Mitch Perry/Florida Phoenix) A

Federal judge blocks DeSantis executive order declaring CAIR a ‘terrorist organization’ www.cltampa.com/news/federal...

Orlando airport authority launches food drive for TSA workers affected by DHS funding lapse A lapse in federal funding for DHS is about to hit home for Transportation Security Administration officers who work at Orlando airports.

Orlando airport authority launches food drive for TSA workers affected by DHS funding lapse www.orlandoweekly.com/news/orlando...

Florida Legislature 2026: The rules only matter when they want them to House Republicans are hiding behind a rulebook they have ignored in the past to duck tough votes on development and vaccines.

Florida Legislature 2026: The rules only matter when they want them to jasongarcia.substack.com/p/florida-le...

Eyeing Voting Rights, Liberals Aim to Secure Wisconsin’s Supreme Court through 2030 In the April election, Wisconsin liberals are hoping to expand their majority on a body that could be a critical backstop for voting rights during the next presidential race.

Eyeing Voting Rights, Liberals Aim to Secure Wisconsin’s Supreme Court through 2030 boltsmag.org/wisconsin-su...

The Double Whammy Of The CBS, Warner Brothers Mergers Will Be A Layoff Nightmare You might recall that Paramount and CBS had only just started to lay off workers in the wake of the merger with David Ellison’s Skydance. Now, after Ellison (or more accurately his dad and th…

The Double Whammy Of The CBS, Warner Brothers Mergers Will Be A Layoff Nightmare www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/t...

Bill Criminalizing Mail-Order Abortion Pills as 'Drug Trafficking' Heads to Governor Mailing abortion drugs to patients would be a crime under a bill passed by the Mississippi Legislature.

NEW: A Mississippi bill criminalizing mail-order abortion pills as "drug trafficking" is headed to the Missisisppi governor's desk after passing both the House and Senate.

@heatherharrison.bsky.social reports: www.mississippifreepress.org/bill-crimina...

A Rising Gap Between Older and Young Workers - Conversable Economist The US economy, like much of the rest of the world, is headed into the teeth of what economists sometimes bloodlessly call the "demographic transition:" that is, birthrates are falling as life…

A Rising Gap Between Older and Young Workers conversableeconomist.com/2026/03/06/t...

Texas county GOP missed deadline to report primary results It’s not clear how — or if — a state law about reporting requirements will be enforced. Republicans hand-counting in two other counties did not miss the deadline.

Calhoun County GOP missed deadline to report primary election results after choosing to hand-count ballots

A Helpful Explainer Of Kansas's Lunatic Anti-Trans Law | Defector Last Thursday, the Kansas State legislature passed SB 244, overriding a veto by Governor Laura Kelly and enshrining anti-trans law as unhinged in its fury as it is disheveled in structure. Here at…

A Helpful Explainer Of Kansas's Lunatic Anti-Trans Law
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Indiana Court Blocks Near-Total Abortion Ban Plus: Ohio court dismantles key parts draconian fetal remains law and Supreme Court rules against California law protecting trans kids.

Indiana Court Blocks Near-Total Abortion Ban rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/03/06/i...

Keep ICE out of Stores, Say Starbucks Workers Since more than 4,000 ICE agents descended on the city of Minneapolis, Starbucks barista Alex Rivers has tried to balance the exacting focus the job requires—baristas are expected to write on every…

Keep ICE out of Stores, Say Starbucks Workers www.labornotes.org/2026/03/keep...

THE CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT HAD TO TELL THE POLICE HE'S FUNDING HE WORKED ON THE CITY COUNCIL OF LOS ANGELES