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Workers are the experts on their jobs. That’s why unions are leading the way on AI, bargaining for a say in how it’s used at work every step of the way.

Today is the first day of Rail Safety Week. 🚂 TTD is calling on lawmakers to maintain high safety standards and adopt common sense safety reforms that protect railroad workers and communities across the country. Our statement: ttd.org/news-and-med...

Happy National Voter Registration Day! It’s the perfect time to make sure you and your friends, family, co-workers and neighbors are registered to vote. It takes one minute to make sure your voice is heard in this upcoming election ✊

Working people aren’t afraid of the future. We organize it. That’s what @smart-union.bsky.social members are doing across the country: organizing new workplaces, winning strong contracts and making sure the jobs powering our future are good union jobs.

As luck would have it, Sean from New York, who used to work for a pool company, was nearby to talk about this blue stuff.

Unhinged and too unstable to be the leader of this country, can’t handle facts in his fragile ego of a mind!

Big surprise that Acosta was a piece of shit back then because he’s been nothing short of piece of shit ever since!

The President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump…

Corporations will spend billions on union-busting attorneys and union-avoidance specialists to silence workers, but at the same time say there’s no money for better working conditions. Workers deserve better. Unions are how we take back our power and win.

HAPPENING NOW: I'm at a @transportdems.bsky.social markup to build on the historic progress we made with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. I'm offering 3 amendments to prevent biased profiling on the roads and to support our rail system—a key industry in my home state.

New Golden Age...for terrible presidential poll numbers.

Correspondents dinner shooter case raises concerns about security on trains

Rep. Frank J. Mrvan (D-IN) scolded Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick after the Trump administration official appeared to laugh at job losses in his district.

Remember just last week NIPSCO saying it was labor causing rate increases, lol

Absolutely ridiculous when the bottom 10% pay more than a multi billion dollar corporation!

H.R. 1897 is moving fast in the House and could hit the floor for a full vote as soon as tomorrow. This bill would gut the Endangered Species Act forcing economic impact considerations into listing decisions, limiting your ability to challenge bad science in court,

It's #TransitWorkerAppreciationDay 🚊🚍 Working from sunrise to sundown, transit workers get us to our destination safely. They are an integral part of our communities & we will keep fighting to protect their rights in Congress. To all the transit workers out there, thank you!

Rail workers and their families rely on the Railroad Retirement Board for access to their hard-earned retirement, sickness, & unemployment benefits. TTD, IBT, AAR & ASLRRA urge Congress to give RRB sufficient resources to serve railroaders:

The Department of Labor was created to protect all working people. Weakening labor enforcement that protect wages and safety on the job because they are union members is a blatant and outrageous attack on *all* workers’ rights.

The Indiana House and Senate have both passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements for businesses to document the employment of child workers. If this bill becomes law it would enable employers to hide child labor violations, according to @epi.org.

The Justice Department has withheld thousands of documents from the Epstein files, including FBI documents that detailed a woman’s unverified allegations of sexual misconduct against President Trump, according to a review by WSJ. on.wsj.com/4crnNVt

The grift that keeps on grifting.

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Tonight is a full boycott of the State of the Union. If there’s one thing Trump can’t stand, it’s low ratings 😉 MoveOn and MeidasTouch announced they’ll host a “People’s State of the Union” rally at 8:30 p.m. ET near the Capitol on the National Mall.

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

As America’s largest transportation labor federation, we advocate for the strongest possible protections for passenger & commuter rail workers who face risk of violence on the job. We thank Senator Tammy Duckworth & Senator John Hoeven for introducing the Passenger Rail Crew Protection Act.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Trump is letting Mississippi get away with a massive welfare scandal that channeled money to Brett Favre and others. The state was supposed to pay $100 million for allowing embezzlement from a federal program for needy families. But the penalty was dropped. www.huffpost.com/entry/minnes...

Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich — not the poor or immigrants or any other group of people vilified as scapegoats. The richest 1% evade $163 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has yacht and private jet tax deductions. Hello?

Worker perspectives improve the safety of our transportation systems. We welcome the reinstatement of the Rail Safety Advisory Committee, but we urge full reinstatement of labor reps, who serve as a counterweight to powerful profit-seeking industries: ttd.org/news-and-med...

Indiana Black Legislative Caucus unveils 2026 session agenda

I knew Trump was giving tax handouts to giant corporations, but I wanted to find out just how big ONE tax handout really was. It's shocking.

Mark Cuban: Dems are “not offering any solutions and they’re certainly not saying ‘Break up the big insurance companies, break up the big hospital networks.’ At least if they said that, it would show that they understood what the hell was going on.” lnk.thebulwark.com/3L9cCFO

Someone told me to watch this SNL sketch about America’s “media-opoly.” It feels eerily prophetic given the Warner Bros/Netflix/Paramount merger saga. Watch.

Trump's DOT — which is stacked with corporate insiders — is gutting safety rules at Big Business' behest. Deregulation is another form of trickle-down economics, where the financial gains go to the top, and nothing trickles down except risks and losses.

AOC: Trump has been saying the economy is booming, but it’s really only seven tech companies. They’re driving this growth in just one sector: AI. So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion…

That’s the America I want!

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Twelve Federal Aviation Administration facilities saw staffing shortages Monday night. Burbank, Phoenix and Denver had the worst staffing problems. Newark, Jacksonville, Chicago, DC, and Indianapolis and other locations were also short staffed due to the government shutdown.

The majority party in Congress sets the voting schedule. House Republicans canceled votes for all of the entire week. They haven't scheduled a vote since September 19.  Remember that the next time they try to blame the shutdown on Democrats.

Trump promised an infrastructure bill for 4 years in his first term. Said it was coming in 2 weeks many times. Never delivered one. Democrats then delivered critically needed funding for crumbling infrastructure. Now Russ Vought is taking that away. But only in blue states.

Even as South Shore Line trains zip along the new set of tracks between Gary and Michigan City as part of the massive NWI Double Track project, other rail construction projects are either underway or planned.

Trump/Vance/Stephen Miller are busy spreading blatant lies and glossing over violence committed by the far-right. They're establishing a justification to unleash the government against anyone who opposes MAGA. All of this must be understood against the backdrop of Trump’s declining popularity.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Sanders BBQ Supply made the NYT’s top restaurant list — and will expand to Hyde Park next year. blockclubchi.co/4pCz2ib