The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.
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The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.
As the Times story on the CA Billionaire Tax Act notes, if the Act is adopted in Nov. of 2026 it will impose a tax on all individuals who were resident in CA as of Jan. 1 (i.e., next Thursday). It is very unlikely billionaires can really move before then. Is that constitutional, though? Read on.
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More seriously, as most readers here know I helped draft the CA billionaire tax initiative text and you just can't get out of it by setting up a couple of LLCs in Florida. We have thought about how to block these fake paper moves for 4 years.
It’s exhausting to keep demanding better from establishment Dems too beholden to capital to ever challenge the billionaire elite’s GOP puppets. We’re wasting time as our democracy crumbles into dust.
Instead, we should vote them out & replace them with reps who WILL vote to impeach Hegseth
An illustrated cartoon shows a person swinging a wooden bat into the leg of someone trying to walk past them. The text above reads, “How to kindly explain to someone that picket lines aren’t meant to be crossed.”
For all the mfers who say workers just serve coffee, just deliver packages, just stock shelves, just clean rooms, just prep food, or just check in guests, remember this, they keep our communities running every day. And when they’re on a picket line, you respect it.
While CFT hasn't endorsed a candidate yet, I personally am glad candidates are talking about the hoarding of massive wealth. youtu.be/lZ30OLS87zg?...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
Thank YOU for working with @cftunion.bsky.social on this great bill!
Amazing to see AB 800—my 2023
Workplace Readiness bill—in action! 🙌🏼This month, LAUSD adopted a resolution to bring workplace rights education to high schools, empowering the next generation of workers!
Thank you to everyone who played a roll in making this happen👏🏻!
Take a little trip to the polls and vote YES on Prop 50!
Head to cftfightback.org to hit the phones ☎️ with us!
Let’s do this California! 🗳️
@generalmotors.bsky.social is making a huge mistake by eliminating CarPlay and android auto from their cars. We don’t want your user interface.
@volkswagen.bsky.social is stopping production of the “ID Buzz.” In my opinion they should have made a real bus with westfalia characteristics and not a minivan. Even the eurovan was better than the buzz.
A wealth tax would fix this
BFT members filled the school board chambers to remind the board and district to "Support Berkeley Educators". BFT members have been working with an expired contract...We CAN'T WAIT. Fair contract now! @cftunion.bsky.social @californialabor.bsky.social
The Economic Policy Institute has updated their data on teacher salaries vs the comparable labor market. This failure of our system is not only another example where workers are being left behind, but also a stark reminder of how we are failing our kids.
www.epi.org/publication/...
Give em hell! It’s insane we expect flight attendants to prep and help clean airplanes for free.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/w...
Boebert: What we’re seeing in LA is an insurrection
Pritzker: You don’t know understand what insurrection is. It is outrageous that you are asking that when you are the one condoning the pardoning of people that attacked police.
Statement from CFT President Jeff Freitas on the outrageous treatment of Senator Alex Padilla at a Department of Homeland Security press conference earlier today in Los Angeles.
Those hugs are from all of us, David!!!
Now they need to drop these fake charges.
OUTRAGED.
SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."
My report:
Ridiculous. There is no substitute for a well trained human educator.
On one level, “Heat Index” is just a small failure of an ecosystem on life support. But it is also a template for a future that will be defined by the embrace of artificial intelligence across every industry—one where these tools promise to unleash human potential, but instead fuel a human-free race to the bottom. Any discussion about AI tends to be a perpetual, heady conversation around the ability of these tools to pass benchmark tests or whether they can or could possess something approximating human intelligence. Evangelists discuss their power as educational aids and productivity enhancers. In practice, the marketing language around these tools tends not to capture the ways that actual humans use them. A Nobel Prize–winning work driven by AI gets a lot of run, though the dirty secret of AI is that it is surely more often used to cut corners and produce lowest-common-denominator work.
The problem with AI is not what it *can* do in a perfect world. It's what people actually use it for. The Chicago Sun-Times/Philly Inquirer AI-generated newspaper debacle is a pretty good preview of the AI future/present. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
It’s amazing that so much of the press has already gotten bored of covering ACTUAL ONGOING TYRANNY and would rather go back to BIDEN OLD.
Thanks to the many workers who keep our schools safe, clean, and provide crucial services to every student!
Ethan Molina wears his graduation stole as he stands in front of his home in Fresno on May 14, 2025. Molina, a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe in Arizona and a senior at Clovis West High, was told by the school district that he could not wear the stole to his graduation ceremony. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local Quote: “It’s not political or anything. I didn’t really get why they’d deny it.” Source: Ethan Molina, a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe in Arizona and a senior at Clovis West High, was told by the school district that he could not wear the stole to his graduation ceremony.
Many school districts require students to undergo a lengthy process if they want to wear tribal or other cultural regalia at graduation. A new bill would eliminate those obstacles.
cal.news/43edoGl
📸 Larry Valenzuela
$TSLA @teslatakedown.com @alexwinter.com @markruffalo.bsky.social
Students play during recess on the first day of school at Loma Vista Elementary School in Salinas on Aug. 8, 2023. Photo by Semantha Norris, CalMatters Hed: After Trump’s crackdown on DEI in schools, judge rules he can’t cut off funding
California K-12 schools got a reprieve today when a judge blocked President Donald Trump’s order to eliminate diversity programs or risk losing federal funding. buff.ly/vdlmriQ
📸 Semantha Norris
