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☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭People's Union USA, with founder John Schwarz, is initiating a nationwide boycott against Walmart that starts today."Schwarz has cited federal income tax opposition, equality issues, high prices, and a bid to help smaller local businesses as factors behind the blackout."Are you going to participate? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/boycott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#boycott</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#protest</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#communism</a> <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/walmart-boycott-customer-protest-2056133#:~:text=What%20To%20Know,as%20factors%20behind%20the%20blackout" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.newsweek.com/walmart-boycott-customer-protest-2056133#:~:text=What%20To%20Know,as%20factors%20behind%20the%20blackout</a>.

Nathaniel GregoryIt's not a coincidence that every concession <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workers</a> gained in the 20th-century has been taken away by the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalists</a> since the end of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColdWar</a>. Why? Because they no longer fear <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#revolution</a>. As long as that fear of revolution was there, they were forced to make concessions.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Democrats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Liberals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Conservatives</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vote</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Election</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemocraticParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DemocraticParty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DNC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RepublicanParty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RNC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JDVance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biden</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KamalaHarris</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimWalz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TimWalz</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Democracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a>

Geriatric Gardener“Even the Nazis Didn’t Murder Red Cross Workers & Bomb Hospitals, Schools & Ambulances - Israel’s Execution of 15 Red Crescent & Aid Workers Marks a New Low”The latest *essentisl reading* blogpost by veteran UK Anti-Zionist campaigner, Tony <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Greenstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenstein</a>“On 24 April 1945 when Berlin was Liberated the Jewish Hospital Was Functioning, its 800 Jewish Patients Still Alive”<a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2025/04/even-nazis-didnt-murder-red-cross.html?m=1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2025/04/even-nazis-didnt-murder-red-cross.html?m=1</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Press</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israel</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palestine</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Genocide</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Massacre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Massacre</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Hospital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hospital</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RedCross" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RedCross</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Workers</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nazi</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BloodLust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BloodLust</a>

RonSolidarity <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Protest?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Protest</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ProtestMarch?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProtestMarch</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/WashingtonDC?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WashingtonDC</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/BLM?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BLM</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/CounterProtest?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CounterProtest</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/12August2018?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#12August2018</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Workers?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Workers</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/WaitStaff?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaitStaff</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Nikon?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nikon</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayIf the Labour Govt. was serious about helping disabled people get work (rather than a bad faith rationalisation for disabled benefits cuts), what they should be doing is helping ensure that hybrid working (and extensive working from home) is protected & indeed, promoted (and not just for the disabled).The Work Foundation has found hybrid working plays a major role in allowing people with a range of health conditions to manage them.<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/HybridWorking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HybridWorking</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workers</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disability</a> <a href="https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/work-foundation/publications/beyond-the-office" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/work-foundation/publications/beyond-the-office</a>

Petra van Cronenburg<a href="https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@gerrymcgovern</a> And they exploit everything and everone in their <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#greed</a> <a href="https://theconversation.com/africas-data-workers-are-being-exploited-by-foreign-tech-firms-4-ways-to-protect-them-252957" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/africas-data-workers-are-being-exploited-by-foreign-tech-firms-4-ways-to-protect-them-252957</a> via <a href="https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@TheConversationUS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#exploitation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Africa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechBros</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#billionaires</a>

Notte Stellata 🌙Video emerges of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aid</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workers</a> being fired in on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaza</a> - contradicting <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Israeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israeli</a> account of deadly attack . The bodies of 15 aid workers were found in a "mass grave" after the incident <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/video-emerges-of-aid-workers-being-fired-on-in-gaza-contradicting-israeli-account-of-deadly-attack-13342194?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR73zC2e6ZYiDBt4sEz246YUgJBiAPVPky_tmEu0mJFoDUfiYZQVrYRxJ6MALA_aem_opkCq3bWYESuYRWHs05mgg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.sky.com/story/video-emerges-of-aid-workers-being-fired-on-in-gaza-contradicting-israeli-account-of-deadly-attack-13342194?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR73zC2e6ZYiDBt4sEz246YUgJBiAPVPky_tmEu0mJFoDUfiYZQVrYRxJ6MALA_aem_opkCq3bWYESuYRWHs05mgg</a>

Chuck DarwinON SUNDAY, dozens of <a href="https://c.im/tags/migrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#migrant</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workers</a> in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Taipei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Taipei</a> gathered at the city’s central train station to protest gender violence against migrant women as well as raise awareness about the plight of Palestinian women and children through a flash mob performance. This was in celebration of “One Billion Rising”, an annual campaign against rape and <a href="https://c.im/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#violence</a> held in 60 countries worldwide. The name comes from a statistic that within their lifetime, at least one in three women across the world will have encountered gender violence, which totals to around one billion people. <a href="https://newbloommag.net/2025/04/02/one-billion-rising-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://newbloommag.net/2025/04/02/one-billion-rising-2025/</a>

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻“The story of automation in the US is that it has mostly impacted on manual workers in manufacturing. For example, factory employees — such as carmakers — performing routine tasks have lost their jobs to robots — or lower-cost Asian competitors.<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/IndustrialAutomation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndustrialAutomation</a> has tended to affect lower-skilled, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BlueCollar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueCollar</a> jobs in the “<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/rustbelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rustbelt</a>” heartlands and small-town, less-educated communities in the south and midwest. But a recent study from the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BrookingsInstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrookingsInstitution</a> suggests that the communities most exposed to AI-driven job dislocation will be <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/WhiteCollar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteCollar</a> information workers. The researchers studied the usage of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAI</a>’s <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> tools across more than 1,000 occupations and mapped this against where those jobs were most commonly located. Their analysis suggests that many <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/coders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coders</a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/lawyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lawyers</a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/FinancialAnalysts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FinancialAnalysts</a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/bureaucrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bureaucrats</a> in cities such as San Jose, San Francisco, Durham, New York and Washington DC might want to rethink their futures. But <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/NonOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NonOffice</a>-bound <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workers</a> in places such as Las Vegas, Toledo, Ohio and Fort Wayne, Indiana may be less exposed to AI disruption.”My observation since 2022 when <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ChristopherHohn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChristopherHohn</a> an influential shareholder decided to *speak out* about “reducing its head count and paying (hi-tech) workers less”. [1]This is the decade where extreme (cost) pressure will be forced on White collar workers by the introduction of AI. <<a href="https://archive.md/YqF03" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.md/YqF03</a>> / <<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/04343a69-8204-493c-b8c6-edfbd4057199" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/04343a69-8204-493c-b8c6-edfbd4057199</a>> (paywall)[1] <<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2022/11/15/billionaire-hedge-fund-investor-urges-alphabet-to-cut-costs-no-justification-for-salaries-that-are-too-high/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2022/11/15/billionaire-hedge-fund-investor-urges-alphabet-to-cut-costs-no-justification-for-salaries-that-are-too-high/</a>>

NonilexBet the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UAW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UAW</a> isn’t so happy with <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> now…<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Stellantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stellantis</a> says it will temporarily lay off 900 US <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workers</a> following tariff announcementWhat did they expect?<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jobs</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labor</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inflation</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recession</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trumpcession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trumpcession</a> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/stellantis-says-will-temporarily-lay-off-900-us-workers-following-tariff-2025-04-03/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/stellantis-says-will-temporarily-lay-off-900-us-workers-following-tariff-2025-04-03/</a>

Dr Alexandrina VankeDelighted to see a new book review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by Dr Mitja Stefancic just out in the 50th Anniversary issue of Network, the magazine of the British Sociological Association. Link to the full issue 👉🏽<a href="https://www.britsoc.co.uk/publications/network/network-current-issue/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.britsoc.co.uk/publications/network/network-current-issue/</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sociology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sociology</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/anthropology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@anthropology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/class" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#class</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poverty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inequality</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#russia</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"According to a report from Rachel Maddow on Tuesday evening (which I cannot independently verify), the HHS cuts will close all HHS programs that provide care and support for Alzheimer’s victims and their families."~ Robert B. Hubbell<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFKJr</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HHS</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CDC</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#healthcare</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medicine</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/firings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firings</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workers</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Alzheimers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alzheimers</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/elderly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#elderly</a> /3<a href="https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/we-have-every-reason-to-be-hopeful" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/we-have-every-reason-to-be-hopeful</a>

William Lindsey :toad:“We’ve had a lot of devastating days, but this really is unfathomable. It’s astounding, it will affect patients with all kinds of different kinds of infections, and Americans will suffer, and people will die, and that’s a horrible thing to see coming.”~ Wendy Armstrong, director of infectious diseases at the University of Colorado<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFKJr</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HHS</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CDC</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#healthcare</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medicine</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/firings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firings</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workers</a> /2<a href="https://www.thebulwark.com/p/people-will-die-rfk-jr-kennedy-guts-america-health-bureaucracy-hhs-science-cdc-fda-nih-rif-layoffs-firings-health-and-human-services" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thebulwark.com/p/people-will-die-rfk-jr-kennedy-guts-america-health-bureaucracy-hhs-science-cdc-fda-nih-rif-layoffs-firings-health-and-human-services</a>

William Lindsey :toad:Infectious disease doctor Jade Pagkas-Bather of University of Chicago responds to the Trump administration's mass firing of workers in the CDC and HHS:“We’re going to have patients die. Unnecessary, preventable death.”<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFKJr</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HHS</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CDC</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#healthcare</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medicine</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/firings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firings</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workers</a> /1<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-gutted-rif/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-gutted-rif/</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayAnd here are some examples of the costs & difficulties people have at work... given that these stories come from MPs in the House of Commons, perhaps Keir Starmer & Rachel Reeves might therefore know of some people impacted exactly in the way the TUC suggests disabled workers are....Will that change their mind about disability benefits cuts? I doubt it...<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disability</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workers</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/02/disabled-mps-speak-of-difficulties-they-face-working-in-uk-parliament" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/02/disabled-mps-speak-of-difficulties-they-face-working-in-uk-parliament</a>

OccuWorldSTAND UP FIGHT BACK<a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GwTT7WYJ-yI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GwTT7WYJ-yI</a>In Boston hundreds of students and workers demanded the release of detained student Rumeysa Ozturk.<a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/StandUpFightBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandUpFightBack</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Boston</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RumeysaOzturk</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Release" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Release</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Students</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Activists</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Oppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oppression</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Workers</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Immigrants</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeech</a>

KrissyKatThey are not serious people. <a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/Indiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indiana</a> Sen. Jim Bank calls a fired HHS worker a clown when the voter asks him a question.Poor constituent service reflects Bank's allegiance to the oligarchs and not ordinary people. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/DeptHHS/s/pRVqHp8bt2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/DeptHHS/s/pRVqHp8bt2</a><a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/gop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gop</a> <a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/HoosierMast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HoosierMast</a> <a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workers</a>

☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭The last and final part of Chapter 2 (The Metaphysics of Political Economy) of Karl Marx's "The Poverty of Philosophy": Strikes and Combinations of Workers <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#communism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marxism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/strikes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strikes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workers</a> <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/ch02e.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/ch02e.htm</a>

Jay Drake 🇨🇦 ≠51They (kleptocrat corporate capital) are already beginining to remove tooling equipment from Canadian factories to send south of the border.Time for the Canadian government to nationalize assets of companies that attempt do this and halt them.<a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/article/windsor-auto-workers-block-equipment-from-leaving-tool-and-die-plant/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/article/windsor-auto-workers-block-equipment-from-leaving-tool-and-die-plant/</a><a href="https://mefi.social/tags/Never51" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Never51</a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/CanadaStrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanadaStrong</a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/tariff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariff</a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usa</a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workers</a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/latestagecapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#latestagecapitalism</a>

R. Scott PertOntario Raising Minimum Wage to Support Workers> TORONTO — The <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ontario</a> government is increasing the <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/minimumwage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#minimumwage</a> from $17.20 to $17.60 an hour effective October 1, 2025, to support <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workers</a> and businesses. This annualized <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/wage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/increase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#increase</a> is based on the Ontario Consumer Price Index (CPI) of 2.4 per cent and will bring Ontario’s minimum wage to the second highest provincial rate in <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a>. <a href="https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1005723/ontario-raising-minimum-wage-to-support-workers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1005723/ontario-raising-minimum-wage-to-support-workers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/ONpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ONpoli</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/CDNpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CDNpoli</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/TradeWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TradeWar</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/ElbowsUP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElbowsUP</a>

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