#LABOR

So I was ruminating about RICO, the mafia, FARA, Russian sanctions/expulsions, and Spygate In the 70s and 80s the mafia basically ran NYC. Entire unions, and industries. Hotels and hospitals.
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This post caused me to take the claim that @ben_r_hoffman makes in "approval extraction advertised as production", much more seriously.https://rationalconspiracy.com/2021/04/01/y-combinator-and-equity-theft/ http://benjaminrosshof
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Okay I'm going to get started.https://twitter.com/CarolineGrego88/status/1319772519713415174 First, to be clear: DCH was a racist who, in his Jim Crow era book, dreams about his dominion as a rice planter, speaks
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The wild shit about "blahhh we need programs to teach the youths to be straight!"is that's literally what the early 20th century boom in youth orgs was about.https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1319428800929689600 4H is
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1) Thought we could just let this empty-suit, grifting, self-absorbed sociopath ooze into oblivion, but no, the bloated mook keeps blurting out horseshit to whatever lickspittle will take his calls.
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All right: A THREAD. A long thread. I had a thought I wanted to add to this piece, but it was a bit of a wonky diversion, so I left
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Thread: Today I'll be debunking the Trump's Platinum Plan SCAM with receipts. It's asinine to believe a 2 pg PDF when Trump's 4 yr Nationalist record proves hostility towards
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A more enthusiastic supporter of open data than I you will not easily find, but I must respectfully disagree with this opinion. The problems with policing in this country will
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All the neighbors on my block are meeting right now to make a plan for tonight. We are going to pile a bunch of random stuff —saw horses, wood, old
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I see many people on twitter, asking journalists who are sharing visuals of migrant workers, if the journalists are also helping them reach the destination or if they are just
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Saturday Health Lesson Today's lesson is about: How many calories does a person need/ should they have?What is a calorie? The definition is:"the energy needed to raise the temperature of
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i am sad to say that the Portland IWW is a toxic organization with no accountability. I am still dedicated to the cause of labor but I can no longer
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Karl here. Normally I share a few words on this day every year eulogizing Brandon. Each year I am intentional about highlighting different themes of my memories of him to,
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Mrs. Villar, paano naman po kami magiging competitive kung wala naman subsidy ang gobyerno sa sektor namin. Sa Vietnam at Thailand, malaki ang laang pondo para tulungan ang mga magsasaka
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spicy take: this ignatz really has me fired up and excited for a vision of comics not dominated and steered by sales departments and anticipated criticism the upside of a
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Thread: All at the same time - this is a great and scary read. Having spent eight years broadcasting in the minor leagues in three OUTSTANDING organizations, an article (with
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