AI Michaels

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The tl;dr This is union-busting, written as a statute. A company union is not a union, it is a way for management to dilute/interfere with the power of the union. Company unions have been unlawful since 1935, because everyone recognizes it is an attempt to union bust. This is trying to undo that.

Not a populist: GOP VP candidate J.D. Vance introduced the Team Act (with Marco Rubio) to empower companies to establish and dissolve “employee involvement organizations” (a.k.a., company unions), a long-standing goal of GOP business leaders: www.rubio.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

www.rubio.senate.gov

The MLB all star game uniforms look like someone colored an old photograph with a highlighter

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The all star uniforms look like a Super Nintendo game that didn't get a license from MLB

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The reason that the language of domestic abuse and the language of authoritarianism looks the same is because it's just the same thing on a different scale.

#DomesticViolenceWheel

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Biden is CRUISING right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9eG...

2024 07 16 17 19 55 NAACPwww.youtube.com

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every day I feel like I'm losing my mind as people look at a statistically tied race where one guy is a felon with deeply unpopular positions who ALREADY LOST THIS EXACT RACE and are like "he is 100% for sure going to win"

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contracts don’t mean very much if the National Labor Relations Board can’t or won’t enforce existing labor law, and Trump appointees to the NLRB and the courts simply will not allow labor law to be enforced. That’s all O’Brien should need to know: he’s puffing up a threat to his members’ contracts.

Dumbass. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-patsy

You Patsywww.hamiltonnolan.com We don't have time for this bullshit.

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Do not obey in advance.

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literally any outcome to this year feels equally likely to me. biden wins? sure. trump wins? sure. trump loses, scotus makes him prez anyway? we've already done that once. both candidates pass, due to age? ok. something more catastrophically violent and unpredictable happens? yeah, I could see that.

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I’ve made a lot of jokes about the J.D. Vance sparkling water story from Hillbilly Elegy, to the extent that it probably sounds made up, but you owe it to yourself to read the real thing if you haven’t

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That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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it's not that he's changed his mind about trump, really. it's more that he's changed his mind about hitler.

I get that he’s taken it all back, including when he said he feared Trump would be America’s Hitler, but I guess my position is… I have never gone to work for someone I’ve ever in any point in my life compared directly to Adolf Hitler… and it’s a fair question… www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump Taps J.D. Vance as Running Matewww.rollingstone.com Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he has selected Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his 2024 running mate.

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amazing how much insane sciencey witchcraft goes into making the special lightning brick that folks can use to go on twitter and post "Earth is flat, science is fake, it was better when everyone lived in farming subsistence times"

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in 2013 I saw a man get a 100,000 hour probation on the SomethingAwful forums and today I saw him come off probation and immediately pick up the same argument, quoting a reply from 2013, absolute next-level hater, I can't even imagine, my man is the Count of Monte Posters

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I find the circumlocutions like “died by suicide” to be awkward, so if we’re looking for an alternative to “killed themselves” we could just start saying “called the police.”

Ugh www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Illinois woman who called police over possible intruder killed by deputies, attorney sayswww.nbcnews.com Sonya Massey, 36, died after an early-morning encounter with deputies from the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office on July 6, authorities said.

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one year anniversary of dating Son Wukong. he makes me drive us everywhere despite owning a magical flying cloud and never has any money... but that expanding pole though...

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Saw some news coverage this morning that kept emphasizing how "packed" the rally was but conspicuously never indicated how many people were in attendance or the size of the event space lol

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Dear media: now that you’re suddenly concerned with political violence, please pay a little attention to the fact that social media, and especially Twitter, is an absolute cesspool of implicit and explicit death threats, almost entirely directed from far-right extremists towards Dems and liberals

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All the calls for “everyone” to “cool down the rhetoric” etc feel like how families so often put the burden of keeping the peace on the family members who are already working hardest at that, since the difficult/abusive folks are unfixable/cannot be reasoned with.

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We do need to return to by-default non-violent political expression in the United States, but this is going to be a larger project than thoughts-and-prayers-ing it, and any progress towards it starts by turning the faucet off in November by relegating the main proponent of it to political history.

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Two months ago Greg Abbott pardoned a murderer who texted a friend "I might go to Dallas to shoot looters" then drove into a BLM protest in Austin and killed a protester. The universal response from conservatives to the pardon was "Yeah! Woo-hoo!" Now they say liberals should turn down the rhetoric

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It all happens on X!

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of COURSE

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Hey remember when Sarah Palin literally put a target on Gabby Giffords and then someone shot her in the head and Republicans said Palin did nothing wrong? I think about that when I hear them say non-violent terms like “threat to democracy“ caused this.

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Look, you can’t expect the cop to risk his life to confront the shooter, it’s not like the shooter is an unarmed black man with his back turned

of COURSE

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Well I'm given to understand that today & for a VERY limited time, our nation's political violence party is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame. Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...

Gambling In Casablancawww.the-reframe.com Being blamed for a world of political violence by the people who force us to live in it, and are now shocked-shocked!—by it. Navigating the daily trauma of living in a bully's paradise.

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spent my whole life seeing, among other things, "liberal hunting license" bumper stickers. a "fun" little "joke" about killing my loved ones.