Ben Fergu
Ben Fergu
@benfergu.bsky.social
Fan of On Cinema, Tim & Eric, the Best Show, Double Threat, MST3K, Flight of the Concords, etc. Wished I still lived in Minnesota.
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i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected
Program's up! 30+ teams share evidence abt impacts on health, educ, & econ + community response. Great folks @ziibiing.com @ottergoose.net @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social @chrisuggen.bsky.social @casemcnich.bsky.social @ngraetz.bsky.social @craigstetter.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/u/1...
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This week, we caught the following bosses union-busting: Trane Technologies (MI) Westport Axel (MI) Cherry Coating (TN) Cherry Coating (GA) Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (WA) Haven Services (OH) ENDEAVOR HEALTH (IL) CHS (MT) laborlab.us/resource/uni...
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Very small amount of votes from Fargo... Josh Boschee narrowly ahead. 🤞 resultsnd.sos.nd.gov#bucket=resul...! #VOTE
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Replying to @charlesgaba.com
Of the 6 special elections coming up on Tuesday: --2 are Dem districts (OK HD-71 & MA HD-Brist03) --2 are *deep* red districts (OK HD-74 & FL HD-03) --2 are pretty red, but potentially flippable based on this year so far: FL SD-19 (R+17): Vance Ahrens FL HD-32 (R+20): Juan Hinojasa
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Replying to @gelliottmorris.com
Rare for a public poll, we did a survey experiment to test whether priming respondents about the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia impacts support for Trump's broader immigration agenda. It does. Support for blanket deportations fell 20 points after hearing about Garcia's case.
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Articles about substack’s nazi problem: www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/... www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-a... thehypothesis.substack.com/p/heres-why-... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... (Free link: archive.is/uyugO)
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Bosses hated the Biden-era job market where they had to fight over employees instead of abusing them, so used their control over the media to turn inflation into the number one issue, predict a fake recession that never happened, and try to convince Americans to tank the economy. It worked.
The Indeed job postings index is down 2.5 points nationally since Jan 20, DC has fallen 10.6 points--the trend is continued cooling in labor demand