Steve Katz

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So sorry to hear that after a long struggle with cancer and months in hospice, this world has lost @noshortcuts.bsky.social. Jane epitomized the heart, soul, brilliance, and power of a leader and organizer. May her memory be a blessing. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/b...

Jane F. McAlevey, Who Empowered Workers Across the Globe, Dies at 59www.nytimes.com An organizer and author, she believed that a union was only as strong as its members and trained thousands “to take over their unions and change them.”

May her memory be a blessing.

Hearing that Jane passed away this morning. An immense loss. Her teachings changed much of my life. If you've never read her work, you should make it a priority to do so today.

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And arguably what I am enjoying most is that this is not the hero theory of history. We’re not seeing a charismatic leader carry the election through rhetoric and force of personality. We’re seeing populations say: nope. I like the power of nope.

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What news from France?

Madrone

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This is also why this issue gets more ongoing attention than SCOTUS/immunity: it is unresolved and evolving, even if it is not as important. bsky.app/profile/mbkp...

The biggest issue with Biden coverage is that he’s now The Story, which means that most of the press is focused on The Story and not any of the context or consequences. If we were having a serious discussion about qualifications for presidency, age, and the two main candidates, I’d be fine with it.

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An aspiring dictator & convicted felon w history of treason may win the presidency. Profoundly corrupt SCOTUS justices undermined the constitution and gave him immunity from prosecution for past & future crimes. This is all political journalists should be writing about 24/7. We’re at the precipice.

Sounds about right

It's 53 years since the infamous Powell Memorandum was penned; 42 years since the Federalist Society came into being. In that period of time, conservatives have organized alliances with Big Business, Big Money & Big Religion to all but destroy the New Deal, women's & civil rights AND our government.

Also, this kicker at the end:

She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

Why is this the top story @nytimes.com we know why.

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Nations with “fully functioning democracy” beginning with. Of course France is in the “fully functioning” group at 23, so maybe not. US at 29: “flawed democracy” worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...

Sort of an American #Brexit without the really good bread

The demise of Chevron is being widely interpreted as an expansion of judicial power. It is that, but it also and more profoundly an expansion of power of moneyed interests. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-money-...

The Money Coupdonmoynihan.substack.com What the fall of Chevron deference means for state capacity

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Epistemological violence against the marginalized leads to actual violence against everyone else

Good to see my pals at Center for Investigative Reporting/ @motherjones.bsky.social / Reveal take this on. www.motherjones.com/press-releas...

The Center for Investigative Reporting Sues OpenAI, Microsoft for Copyright Violationswww.motherjones.com

#journalism #BigTech #public

Whoa - big news outta Sacto just now: California Senate votes 27-7 on Senator Steve Glazer’s iSB 1327 to tax Big Tech data-mining to fund hundreds of millions of dollars worth annually of journalist employment tax credits. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Breaking news: California Senate advances a major data mining tax to fund journalism jobsmattdpearce.substack.com Senator Steve Glazer's Senate Bill 1327 secures a two-thirds majority.

Somebody give Tofel some money: dicktofel.substack.com/p/how-i-woul... #journalism #philanthropy #showmethemoney

How I Would—and Wouldn’t—Give Away Millionsdicktofel.substack.com Do's and don'ts for journalism philanthropy

Some really good news out of Hawaii: a “historic” settlement in response to litigation brought by Our Children’s Trust repping 13 youth - to fully decarbonize the state’s transportation systems no later than 2045. #climate #hawaii #nature www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

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Thanks for Reggie Jackson for saying this, and contempt and defiance, in advance, to the worthless shitbirds who will say he shouldn’t have and that he oughta leave if he doesn’t like it. Regrettably those worthless shitbirds are now fairly mainstream. sports.yahoo.com/mlb-at-rickw...

MLB at Rickwood Field: Reggie Jackson recalls racist treatment in Alabama in stunning interviewsports.yahoo.com For three minutes, Mr. October laid out in stunning detail what it was like to be a Black player in Alabama in 1967.

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Rs: We gotta put biblical rules in schools Me: Holy shit! Like a debt jubilee every 7 years? Rs: Haha, no, not that one Me: like "you shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt"? Rs: Hahaha not that one either Me: so, uh, which rules exactly? Rs: Oh, you know the ones

The Treniers (the original rock and rollers) and Willie Mays (he’s on the record, too!) Thanks Willie. duck://player/UduDreaZq6c

The Treniers - Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song)youtu.be May 6, 2011. Willie Mays's 80th birthday. Happy birthday!

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Great stuff here. No one could have written this better than Ray. defector.com/willie-mays-...

Willie Mays Was Baseball | Defectordefector.com Willie Mays, who died Tuesday at the richly merited old age of 93, was baseball itself, more than anyone else ever connected with the game. Not just the best player, which he was. Not just the most jo...

Which was the reaction I had watching the new Biden ad w him talking to reglar folks …”uhh, I dunno Joe, not sure this’ll close the deal…"

This really seems like the crux of it: People understand that the system is unfair, but they saw what it looked like when Trump fought tooth and nail to help out rich bigots and they don’t see that kind of ferocity in the other direction from Biden. And they need it.

The Bay out there and everlasting peas up close. Bald Hill looking easterly #nature

Happy place #nature

I think we’re safe using the F-word to define what’s on the agenda “If Trump Wins.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Hey ChatGPT: define “fascism”: chatgpt.com/c/f9a045bd-b... #fascism #politics #elections #Trump

I think we’re safe using the F-word to define what’s on the agenda “If Trump Wins.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Hey ChatGPT: define “fascism”: chatgpt.com/c/f9a045bd-b...