Retired union rep, at home in Oregon, which I love. I travel when I can afford it, interests in human origins, photography, fly fishing and restoring our US public lands. Blazer fan, because it's still ok to have fun.
Frank Vehafric
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Farm workers in Soledad, CA, are harvesting broccoli. "Martin" shares, "We work eight-hour shifts. Our bodies get tired from constantly stooping to pick the crop. Walking long hours amidst the broccoli plants is exhausting." #WeFeedYou
Yup
It’s so disingenuous how portlanders who don’t care about the blazers pretend that they and the rose garden have no economic impact on the city. Truly unbelievably braindead takes im seeing over and over and over
The NYT consistently treats normalization of Nazi internet slang (based, goy, among others) as a sign that the slang isn't Nazi anymore
As opposed to a sign that Nazis are reaching kids and it's a major fucking problem
AI investment is fueled by an anti-labor agenda. The goal is to automate jobs away and dismantle unions in the process.
Tell your Congressional reps: legislate national AI-related safeguards to protect workers, consumers & the environment.
United Farm Workers
"unprovoked war is bad, rewarding Iranian leaders for bad behavior is bad, having absolutely no clue what you're doing is bad, blowing up the world economy for social media memes is bad."
Mbsolheim
Trev
"The good vibes Burger King’s Tom Curtis wants you to experience as his company reclaims the flame? It’s balancing them out with the testing of A.I. headsets that monitor employee interactions with customers to assign them a 'friendliness score'"
slate.com/life/2026/06...
Minnesotans who fought back against ICE cruelty are now facing federal charges. The agents who killed Renée Good & Alex Pretti are not.
open.substack.com/pub/saveamer...
I'm so glad I left twitter. Check out all the things they're saying on there every time I check twitter, which I do not use.
Gwen Snyder is uncivil
Farm workers are hard at work harvesting cherries in WA State. The season has just begun and it's still slow. Workers are paid $4 a bucket. When full a bucket weighs 20-25lbs. Workers tell us that on bad days like this, they are only filling 30 buckets in an 8-hr day. #WeFeedYou
