And what do the bourgeoise Democrats do? Where are the town criers? Nah, because they are fucking millionaires, so they want their portfolios and perverse records protected. And it all comes down to s
Ahh, the fucking South African Nazi, look at him, look into those fucking pork eater’s eyes. Any chance of electronic warfare trained on his fucking jet?
Wall Street, uh? May all your fucking portfolios burn in Hell.
Listen to how Racist-Rapist Trump’s Team is going for the MLK Junior and Rosa Parks jugulars.
Hero beyond heroes: On Dec. 1, 1955, RosaParks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala. bus. But please understand that the “tired seamstress” trope is a mythology that robs Parks of her truth: She was a freedom warrior and had been so for decades before that day.
As she said later: “I didn’t tell anyone my feet were hurting. It was just popular, I suppose because they wanted to give some excuse other than the fact that I didn’t want to be pushed around.”
If you don’t know the real, radical Rosa, you have some reading to do. I suggest the remarkable book, “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” by Jeanne Theoharis
Always a queer 24 Hour News Cycle in LaLaLand.
Yeah, fucking MAGA and libertarian mutts bringing this shit up to show their fucking shallow fucking brain-stems: Jew York Times!
Why Is It So Cold in the South If the Planet Is Warming? Here’s What We Know.
A mass of air called the polar vortex has escaped the Arctic and plunged southward. Some scientists see the fingerprints of climate change.
Ward helps us catalogue the various risks facing Earth’s oceans, how the Atlantic Ocean’s currents are slowing due to warming, what happened in Earth’s history when ocean currents stopped, and why a reduction in elephant poaching is contributing to the destruction of coral reefs. Peter Ward is a Professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington. He is author of over a dozen books on Earth’s natural history including On Methuselah’s Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions; Under a Green Sky; and The Medea Hypothesis, 2009, (listed by the New York Times as one of the “100 most important ideas of 2009”). Ward gave a TED talk in 2008 about mass extinctions.
How’s fucking heroin addict RFK Junior loving this news?
More than 1,100 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency received notice this week that they were deemed to be on probationary status and warning they could be fired immediately, according to an email obtained by CNN.
Probationary employees receiving the email have been working at the agency for less than a year. The emails began to go out on late Wednesday afternoon, according to an EPA union official.
The same message will be sent to other agency workforces, a White House official said. Across the US government, the latest data shows there are more than 220,000 employees on probation.
“As a probationary/trial period employee, the agency has the right to immediately terminate you pursuant to 5 CFR § 315.804,” the EPA email to probationary employees reads. “The process for probationary removal is that you receive a notice of termination, and your employment is ended immediately.”
“Each employee’s status will be determined individually,” the email adds.
Doomsday my ass!
The Army’s helicopter was performing “doomsday” training when it collided with the jet above Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, according to a new report.
The helicopter was flying a route that’s part of a military plan to evacuate senior government officials to safety if the U.S. is attacked, Reuters reports. The military mission is known as “continuity of government” and “continuity of operations.”
Meanwhile, three black boxes — one from the Black Hawk helicopter and two from the American Airlines jet — have been recovered from the wreckage in Washington D.C.’s Potomac River, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
At least 41 bodies have been recovered so far, officials said. All 67 people involved in the mid-air collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport are presumed dead.
All three service members onboard the helicopter have now been named by the Army.
And this is the fascist fucking country in a nutshell: You can’t feed hungry people but plenty of food for the gulls, dogs, felines:
Members of the local nonprofit Neighbors Feeding Neighbors claim the City of Eugene is violating their constitutional rights by increasing permit fees and harassing volunteers to cease operations at the Washington Jefferson Park in downtown Eugene.
NFN, formerly known as the Breakfast Brigade and Eugene Catholic Workers, has been serving hot breakfast, beverages, takeaway lunches and more to local residents in need at Washington-Jefferson Park near 5th and Washington Streets for more than 10 years. The organization also hands out resources like sleeping bags, blankets, tarps, clothing, socks and shoes, hand warmers and personal hygiene items from 9-10 a.m. Wednesday through Saturday.
On Tuesday, the nonprofit hosted a press conference at the park to address its ongoing dispute with the city over the right to serve those in need within the community.
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A cunt society! This fucking white racist fucking cunt society. Look at the fascist, with his grey suit and the fucking freaks smiling behind him! So much for HIPAA and the right to fucking medical privacy:
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun on Wednesday waded into a legal fight over the release of abortion records while signing a health-focused tranche of executive orders.
“All I’m trying to do is just make sure that our laws are enforced according to what the Legislature put out there,” he told reporters during a news conference.
Indiana’s abortion ban allows the procedures in limited circumstances: if there is a fatal fetal anomaly, if the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest, and if the pregnancy risks the mother’s health or her life.
Braun’s order directs state agencies to ensure that Indiana’s abortion laws are “fully and faithfully executed,” including for terminated pregnancy report submission. Health care providers already must fill out the forms for every abortion performed and submit them to the Indiana Department of Health.
IDOH aggregates data from the records and releases it quarterly. But the agency and an anti-abortion group — backed by Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita — are entangled in an ongoing legal battle over the release of individual forms. A trial judge sided with the Indiana Department of Health and dismissed the lawsuit seeking public release of the individual filings. That case is now being appealed.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 establishes federal standards protecting sensitive health information from disclosure without patient’s consent.
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Loss of heat differential at the poles. 1,000 PPM!
Coal, cement, oil, deforestation, 2,500 poisons a year cooked up by Capitalism.
Man-made chemicals have become a part of everyday life. There are about 85,000 chemicals in commerce, and about 2,500 new chemicals are introduced every year. Very few of these chemical have had adequate toxicological studies to evaluate their health effects on humans and wildlife.
Because of improved methods for detecting chemicals in environmental and biological media, scientists can now identify previously unknown and unregulated “chemicals of emerging concern,” or CEC. Many CEC are chemicals that persist in the environment, are present in humans or other living organisms, and may have the potential to cause adverse health effects. Recent studies have shown that some of these chemicals can act as endocrine disruptors and may interfere with the reproductive and developmental processes of humans and wildlife species.
Some examples of CEC include brominated and organophosphate flame retardants, bisphenol-A and its substitutes, phthalates, arsenic, perchlorate, nonylphenols, synthetic musks and other personal care product ingredients, and industrial chemical additives, stabilizers and adjuvants.
One estimate is that seagrass meadows support the production of a fifth of the world’s biggest fisheries. Their loss threatens food security for millions of people. Reduced acidification of seawater. As the oceans warm, they become more acidic, threatening coral reefs and other marine ecosystems.
Wimpy article: Statement of the UE General Executive Board United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE)
Since Donald Trump assumed the Presidency on January 20, he has issued a flurry of executive orders which will both directly cut living standards for working people and make it harder for us to organize and fight to improve our working and living conditions.
Trump was inaugurated surrounded by the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world. They had reason to celebrate — the world’s billionaires saw their wealth grow by $2 trillion last year, three times faster than in 2023. And with a cabinet full of billionaires, the new administration is poised to carry out a program of continuing to enrich themselves while dividing, repressing and bankrupting the working class. Our country is fast moving towards a more blatant and transparent form of oligarchy — rule by the super-rich.
On his first day in office, Trump appointed Republican Marvin Kaplan as chair of the National Labor Relations Board. The following week, he fired NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, who had moved NLRB case law in a more pro-worker direction since she was confirmed in July 2021, and then, in a move of questionable constitutionality, fired Democratic NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox.
A Trump-appointed board and general counsel will continue the track record of the first Trump presidency, consistently supporting profits for bosses over rights for workers. We can also expect attacks on our union security clauses, whether through legislation or the courts — such as happened during Trump’s first term, when his first appointment to the Supreme Court proved the deciding vote in the Janus decision, stripping public-sector unions of their right to negotiate union security clauses.
Trump has given a prominent role in his administration to Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, a multi-billionaire with a history of vicious anti-unionism and support for far-right and neo-Nazi parties. Musk has been given co-leadership of a new “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), which has tried to sell Congress on $2 trillion in spending cuts. Cuts of this depth are impossible without reductions to the spending required to maintain Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security at current benefit levels.
Regardless of whether Musk is successful in cutting a full $2 trillion, his new department will almost certainly pursue massive cuts to many social safety net programs, including health care, food security, housing, retirement, job-creating climate transition initiatives, and public education. President Trump has already begun ordering freezes on crucial federal aid to state and local governments, and funding for science research and nonprofit agencies that provide services to the American people, leaving thousands of UE members unsure if they will receive their next paycheck — or any paychecks — as of this week.
All of these steps will result in workers being laid off and cuts to the living standards of large numbers of working-class families in the U.S.
Trump’s imperialist foreign policy, with his threats of tariffs and annexations, are also making the world a more dangerous place for all working people, as he raises tensions with not only China but also the European Union, Great Britain, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, and many others.
Most threatening to the ability of workers to stand together and fight for what we need, though, are the efforts of Trump and his billionaire backers to divide the working class through attacks on immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, Black/African Americans, other people of color, and all who disagree with them.
Attacking immigrant workers hurts the entire working class, as employers take advantage of the fear caused by threats of deportation to undermine wages and working conditions, and weaken unions. And removing immigrants’ rights to due process — as the recently-passed “Laken Riley” bill does — threatens the very premise of “innocent until proven guilty.”
Despite the fact that Trump is entering his second term with an even smaller Congressional majority than he had in 2017, there are worrying signs that Democrats — nominally the “opposition party” in our two-party system — will not stand up to his corporate agenda. In January, 46 Democrats in the House joined the Republican majority in passing the Laken Riley bill, and 10 Democrats supported it in the Senate. Some Democrats also seem to be cozying up to the budget-slashing “DOGE” effort.
The fact is that the Republican agenda will not improve the economic situation for working people, and is, in fact, likely to make it worse. It is up to the labor movement, along with other working-class and popular organizations, and any elected political leaders that still stand with working people, to instead unite the working class to oppose the oligarchic agenda of the billionaires and corporations.
The labor movement will need to stick firmly to the basic labor movement principle that an injury to one is an injury to all. We will need to aggressively defend all of our members against attacks on their collective bargaining rights, their wages and working conditions, and their right to participate as full-fledged members of society regardless of their race, religion, immigration status, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We will need to clearly lay the blame for the ongoing cost-of-living crisis on corporations and the oligarchs, and both political parties which enable their greed. Labor needs to demand a positive economic program on behalf of the whole working class. And in addition to fighting for justice in our own country, we will need to continue to challenge our government when it pursues unjust foreign policies.
The actions of Trump and his billionaire supporters have already begun to generate popular resistance, and we can expect to see more. The labor movement needs to play a key role in channeling that anger into an effective fightback. And in order to best fight for a better future for working people, we will need to develop a political organization, such as a labor party, that is independent of the Democratic Party.
Paul Haeder, Author 