More here on the absolutely toxic culture allowed to fester on Tesla factory floors www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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More here on the absolutely toxic culture allowed to fester on Tesla factory floors www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Not the first time Gigafactory workers have accused Tesla of ignoring harassment or violence at work, a problem that is downright rampant in other Tesla factories www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Additionally, it doesn't help a weak job market to toss thousands of people out of work for no good reason
This is not just an Ohio problem. www.rand.org/pubs/researc...
“My little girl was completely burned,” he said. “There was nothing left of her. We could only identify her from her school bag, which she was still holding. She was completely burned.”
"In other visits, she has seen 'people so stressed out they pulled the hair out of their skull.' She said she met a mother who’d been rationing her child’s seizure medicine despite the child having experienced 'one seizure after another.'"
Despite Mr. Trump’s “no tax” branding, overtime pay is still subject to taxes, including payroll taxes and, potentially, state taxes. Some people who work overtime won’t be able to claim the tax break at all. Only Americans who, according to the Fair Labor Standards Act, must be paid time and a half for working more than 40 hours in a week can claim it. And even then, only a portion of the overtime pay — the additional “half” in time and a half — is exempt from the federal income tax.
"No tax on overtime" really just means no tax on the extra pay, but not base pay, made while working overtime and only for the lucky few who qualify for overtime under federal rules, rules that Trump tightened last time around www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/b...
"Nearly $1.3 billion in local, state or federal government grants were awarded to 1,259 crisis pregnancy centers in total between 2019 and 2024"
CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.
At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.
The Trump administration keeps illegally withholding federal funding appropriated by Congress and then keeps losing in court when people sue www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
States are going to have to spend over $1 billion just to upgrade their Medicaid in order to comply with Republicans' new work requirements. A windfall for the consulting companies that have a monopoly on this work. apnews.com/article/medi...
The Trump administration is inflicting unprecedented harm on Minnesota's Medicaid program--on which the most vulnerable people rely--seemingly as political punishment
In Lebanon people are sleeping in cars or sitting in front of schools, which have opened their doors to displaced, because there is nowhere else to go.
I witnessed one woman begin screaming outside one school who said they had no more place. People sat along the walls or on motorised scooters.
Idaho's proposal to essentially end home care is the first sign that last year's tax cut bill could be disastrous for people with disabilities in the U.S.
Terrific, worrisome story from @slooterman.bsky.social
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$300 million mistake
That's the same cost as 25,000 Head Start slots
I just sent my daughter off to her elementary school. I don't have words for the absolute horror of my watching my own government carry out such a monstrous act. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/w...
Democrats negotiated appropriations bills with Republicans and now the Trump administration is refusing to send the money out. Who could have seen this coming.
Former detainees told ProPublica they experienced room searches before January but that they typically were carried out by just two employees at a time, not eight or more. After guards searched Hinojosa’s room following the protest, she said, she and the other residents were unable to locate their colored pencils, which were purchased at the commissary and stored in a little cup atop the writing table where the kids liked to doodle. “Even knowing that we had paid for those ourselves,” she said, “they removed them.”
Children in America's concentration camps have to buy their own colored pencils
EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas's slogan "Biology is not bigotry" has a lot of people asking questions already answered by her slogan.
The EEOC just reversed its own position, which it held for over a decade, that Title VII not only protects trans workers from discrimination but specifically that banning a trans worker from using a bathroom aligned with their gender identity is against the law www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeo...
So much YELLOW
Ev the new Gotham home jersey, I'm bereft, it's horrific. Almost tempted to be a Spirit supporter for those sweet new jerseys (almost)
Trump's Labor Department just proposed a pro-business rule would make it easier for companies to classify more workers as independent contractors rather than employees
-Rescinds Biden era definition
-Implications for gig workers, construction, truck drivers & many more
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period." ERIN REED FEB 25, 2026 88 5 21 Share Kansas Sate Capitol // farzinvousoughian
1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses.
Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked.
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The Trump administration has been unlawfully withholding money that Congress appropriated in so many different ways and for so long that it might be hard to remember that it is illegal, but it is
The most obvious challenge is that it’s not clear how much Trump can do on his own. Under existing authorities, the administration can create portable retirement accounts — modeled on the Thrift Savings Plan used by federal employees — and make them available to workers who currently lack a workplace plan. But the government cannot compel employers or workers to automatically enroll, nor can it unilaterally appropriate funds to provide a universal $1,000 match to all eligible workers. Instead, the administration can facilitate take-up of a benefit that already exists. The bipartisan Secure 2.0 bill, signed by President Joe Biden in 2022, created a “Saver’s Match” — a federal contribution of up to $1,000 annually for qualifying workers who put $2,000 in an eligible retirement account. One problem has been that many eligible workers have had nowhere to put their contributions. Trump’s executive action could create additional account infrastructure, but eligibility would still be constrained. Only workers who make less than $25,000 per year, or roughly $41,000 for couples, are eligible.
Trump's SOTU pledge to give Americans access to retirement accounts isn't some new idea he came up with. It's based on something signed into law by Biden. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
New research with @aaronsojourner.org of the @upjohninstitute.bsky.social posted on @northstarpolicy.org's blog. We find that Operation Metro Surge caused declines in employees working, hours worked, and businesses open, leading to an estimated $106 million wage loss for Twin Cities workers.
One of Zohran Mamdani's key campaign pledges was municipal grocery stores. Atlanta has him beat--the city opened one up last summer and has another coming soon. www.bonappetit.com/story/zohran...
Gotta love "you're an independent contractor and thus have no labor rights and also I am going to force you to sign an exploitative employment contract or fire you" thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...