Very good news: Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tenn., passed a historic vote to join the United Auto Workers, the union said Friday, becoming the first Southern auto factory to approve a union with an election since the 1940s. The union’s unofficial vote count, which still must be confirmed by federal labor officials conducting the ballot, showed …
Some Saturday Respite: A Periodic Post…
I continue to be astonished at the fundamental, to-the-bone soulless moral depravity that seems to be required in Trumpworld. I know I shouldn’t be surprised given how clearly and how often they’ve told us who they are. But I guess I’m glad that I still have that reflex moment of “unbelievable!” when presented with stuff …
The Lawless Right Wing Junta on the Supreme Court
We’ve been enduring a slow-rolling judicial coup since 2000, at least. We’ve just entered a new phase, in which the Supreme Treason caucus just decided that states do have what we fought the Civil War to deny: the right to ignore federal rule at will: A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a stay on …
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Three Months That Changed The World (Respite)
Time for another thread, and perhaps a break from our exhausting round of ragegasms. I don’t have anything particularly useful to offer, so I’m afraid that what you get is some random musing on some science-y stuff. Yesterday afternoon I was reading a fascinating essay by Abraham Pais* on Einstein and quantum theory (as one …
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Trump: Bottled in Bond
Seems our favorite adjudged rapist and fraudster is having a spot of bother raising half a billion: [That link leads to Friedman’s feed, as the post itself seems to be visible only to Bluesky users.] TL:DR–no one in the rather small universe of insurance companies that provide such bonds will take on such an enormous …
Chilling…
The Wall St. Journal tells a happy tale today…if you happen to have your nest egg invested in “an industry leading manufacturer of pistols, revolvers, rifles.” That would be Smith & Wesson, whose shares are up as almost 28% since the opening today as I write this–on news that year-over-year revenue and per-share earnings are …
The Tree of Liberty…
Don’t want the day to go by without bearing witness to yet another tribute to Moloch demanded by the idolators of the gun. This is a fractal tragedy. The shooter, who killed himself, was a high school student who seems to have been bullied since elementary school whose younger sister had recently been targeted …