Here at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.
Jen Bendery
Despite all your hard work, Trump does not care how much you’re struggling.
In fact, he loves it.
White House reclassifies federal epidemiologists and other scientists from civil servants to “at-will” hires www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...
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The long-anticipated “Schedule F” order strips job protections meant to safeguard federal employees from political interference
Dr. @katiejwells.bsky.social testified before the House Workforce Protections Subcommittee. As healthcare becomes a major frontier for gig-based work, she highlighted how gig nursing platforms are targeting policymakers with legislation that upends worker protections & exposes patients to risks.
Sometimes it feels like we are living through a Christopher Guest mockumentary.
Jennifer Ouellette
Video
Committee on Education & Workforce Democrats
The safety and health of working people should NEVER be put at risk so corporations can make even more money.
@actorsequity.bsky.social President @thebrookeshields.bsky.social is right. ALL workers deserve the workplace safety and health protections that come with a union contract.
There ought to be a law....
Never before have I been so riveted by scaffolding going up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm...
AI Now Institute
Schooley
Risk/risk comparison is often used to dismiss public concern, and the arguments usually ignore how risks are cumulative.
Latest example: data centers. They add unnecessarily to existing environmental health risks. We don't have to take on all such hazards to be "right" in opposing this one.
The evidence has been growing, but now it is indisputable: phasing out subminimum wages for workers with disabilities doesn't harm employment for those workers. thehill.com/opinion/fina...
AFL-CIO
The Iran War bumped inflation over nominal wage growth for 2 months.
That means real wages actually shrank last month by 0.8%.
Data centers aren’t more wasteful of land, water, power than lots of other industrial or agricultural uses that don’t generate the same kind of public pushback. What’s also interesting is that everyone on here tries to make this out as an anti-AI thing and this polling shows that isn’t true.
Airplane WiFi might have been a huge mistake if people really can’t keep themselves from watching videos with sound on and no headphones
