Nathan Smith

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“America is sleepwalking into authoritarianism, and if there’s anybody out there that is a member of a labor union that is safe and doesn’t think this applies to you, he’s coming for you. They’re coming for you.” inthesetimes.com/article/drop...

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

some resources for protestors A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions and how to defend against them crimethinc.com/2021/01/04/a...

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has initiated legal action against Elon Musk for buying votes which violates Wisconsin’s election laws.

Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies. In Denmark: - Health care and college are free.   - The starting wage is $22/hr. - Paid parental leave is 1 year. - Paid vacation is 6 weeks.   - All workers get pensions.

Blindly posting “general strike!” whenever something bad happens is not useful. If however a local (or national…) labor council called for a mass sick out on a certain day, say May 1, and got all their members to commit, that could actually be something.

“It’s just the beginning of the playbook. This was the soft target.” Atul Gawande, a former senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., talks about watching Donald Trump and Elon Musk make the agency a guinea pig for the government-wide purge now under way.

NEW: When Marco Rubio abruptly halted foreign aid, cleanup crews in Vietnam were forced to abandon one of the largest chemical spills in the world for weeks. Left exposed: open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange.

Elon Musk reposted a tweet that equated public service workers with genocidal murderers. Our nurses, educators, firefighters and sanitation workers make our communities strong. Elon has no idea what working people go through. Read our full statement: m.afsc.me/1kk

We just announced we're done fucking around with Fascists. We're opening a Resistance nerve center at our tap room in Madison and are gonna fight back. Read more to volunteer and to join our introductory zoom call next Wednesday night at 7 pm open.substack.com/pub/kirkbang...

Musk and Trump just fired over a dozen employees at Madison's local VA. Two out of touch billionaires who have never served in uniform slashing an agency that serves our nation’s veterans. This will mean slower services and longer wait times. Our vets deserve better.

Musk is pouring $1.5 million into Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court race.

“Just admit that you were lied to, and then fight back.”

Since 1492, they've come after us. They've come after our lands, our water, our mothers, sisters ... our children. Here they come again. My latest for @thenation.com.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

I don’t care that Mitch McConnell fell. I care that democracy is doing the same.

Sad day, I’m out of outrage. At least our hens are laying. (It was never about the price of eggs you totalitarian fucks) Visit www.penzeys.com for your spices!

NEWS: Sources tell me that DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor next. DOL workers have been ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for—or risk termination. “We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”

When millions of struggling workers want to join unions, Trump's decision to neuter the NLRB is blatantly illegal. It is also a huge gift to Musk, Bezos & other billionaires who want to abolish the only federal agency that can stop their union busting. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

trump’s already blamed ATC for this, and obviously an investigation is underway, but we know he does this to distract attention from himself and his policies. In a couple of hours he’ll be blaming Biden and DEI. The spineless opposition party - *crickets*

Finishing up a book on the dangers of AI, tech-industrial complex, and income inequality just in time to read about the techniques used by authoritarians to maintain power. Welcome to the trump-musk dystopia and the opposition thereof.

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social. propub.li/3DGXECO

3 nominations at the Annie Awards! Thank you! 🐈‍⬛

it's weird that people are homicidally angry at corporate America when a CEO hired four months ago fires the entire workforce of a 40-year-old company five days before Christmas with no severance and no benefits www.cnn.com/2024/12/20/b...

Finally starting the cinema dive after finishing The Living Dead by George Romero and @danielkraus.com!!

I know this is probably temporary with an incoming anti union administration. But today I’ll take this win and when they take it away for a second time, we organize.

BREAKING! A Dane County Judge just ruled that public employees have the right to unionize throughout Wisconsin. I voted against Act 10 more than 13 years ago, and am thrilled our public servants are able to once again organize and make their voices heard. spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee...