FWIW, UPS drivers are unionized.

Two days ago: UPS Violates Teamsters National Contract With Plan for Buyouts

United Parcel Service (UPS) is expected to unveil an illegal plan later this month to buyout full-time employees represented by the Teamsters, a corporate scheme that will directly violate the union’s national contract protecting 340,000 delivery workers.

Not Darth Benedict, the one before him, JPII.

If I owned a TV, I doubt it’d be long before I’d throw something and break it. The last time I watched CNN was three popes ago.

Heaping rubbish on Stalin’s grave is objectively the moderate wing of fascism.

https://livingmarxism.blogspot.com/p/about.html

Living Marxism is the official publication of the Committee for a Communist Labor Party (USA). The CCLP was founded on June 25, 2025 as a pre-party formation for the organization of a communist party in the United States which adheres to Marxism and opposes all forms of revisionism, opportunism, and imperialism.

So this organization is three days old. In other words, it’s nothing but a Blogger site.

https://livingmarxism.blogspot.com/2025/06/statement-on-condition-of-american-left.html

China today has a state-capitalist economy built upon exploitation of the Chinese working class and debt-trap diplomacy. Those who consider the Chinese model to be “socialist” in truth seek to reproduce that same model of capitalism, regardless of whether they intend for it or not.

https://lemmy.ml/u/Slavymuch

LONG LIVE XI JINPING THOUGHT ON SOCIALISM WITH CHINESE CHARACHTERISTCS!!!

Make up your mind.

Neocon I assume you meant. I don’t recall the NYT ever wearing a mask over it. Bill Kristol was a regular columnist during the war on terror.
That Time Thomas Friedman Told Iraq to “Suck on This”

My husband’s family has a trust that owns rental properties. One of them is a commercial property with several tenants. One of the tenants is Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and they use it as a “short-term holding facility” (their description).

I’m sure my index funds hold shares in even worse horrors, as does almost every employer pension.

Then maybe the Senate should get the billion dollar propaganda job over the line that the House passed last year. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1157/all-actions

jwz gotchu fam: Exterminate all rational AI scrapers

Today I added an infinite-nonsense honeypot to my web site just to fuck with LLM scrapers, based on a “spicy autocomplete” program I wrote about 30 years ago. Well-behaved web crawlers will ignore it, but those “AI” people… well, you know how they are.

I’m intentionally not linking to the honeypot from here, for reasons, but I’ll bet you can find it pretty easily (and without guessing URLs.)

It’s kinda funny.

I discovered today that the gig economy food delivery precariat are riding rental electric scooters marketed specifically to them.
https://www.hmpbikes.com/pages/rental-page

laowhy86: This is the End.

I’m sorry, did you just assume my reading speed?

Láthspell, I name him. Ill news is an ill guest.

Two whole people attended a viewing of Captain Colonialism & Ziostormfront.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_the_United_States

They’ve been trying to get at our digital devices for over thirty years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip