Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled May 2, 2024I love that Caterpillar boots were among the returned items, and in this photo an Amazon worker took, you can clearly see the "CAT" logo near the cat. Cat climbed into Amazon return box, found alive 630 miles away wapo.st/3JJ3vqT
- Untitled May 1, 2024A new cartoon for May Day! This has been an incredible year for unions in the USA - may next year be even better. Unions Have Always Done The Impossible! #PoliCartoon #Union #LaborDay2024 #MayDay2024 #May1st #UBI #LivingWage
- Untitled April 30, 2024People on reddit are fighting about a cartoon I did about why the US health care system sucks and I am enjoying this too too much. https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1ch0l0r/why_us_health_care_is_such_a_terrible_system/?sort=old
- Untitled April 30, 2024I just posted a new cartoon! It's patreon supporters only for now, but in a week or so I'll make it public. :-) https://www.patreon.com/posts/deus-ex-machina-103359912?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
- Untitled April 30, 2024Nothing against Brian, who of course needs and should make a living. But I'm increasingly frustrated by the Substackization of blogging/news writing. To read Brian's work I have to subscribe, which at the lowest price level is $75 a year. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Untitled May 2, 2024
Category Archives: Class, poverty, labor, & related issues
Is there anything left to us but to organise and fight?
(Wisconsin protesters singing Solidarity Forever) They’ve changed the laws in Wisconsin, but we only lose if people stop fighting. And it is a we. ‘An injury to one is an injury to all’ is not just a slogan, but a … Continue reading →
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Are public workers overpaid?
On another thread, Robert writes: People who are paid a market wage are (naturally) somewhat resentful of people who can deploy political power to extract an above-market wage, at the expense of the people being paid market wages. If that’s … Continue reading →
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Microaggressions
My wife pointed me to an excellent, if infuriating, blog last night, and I was up until 2 AM reading through it. Microaggressions is a blog about the little daily fuck-yous that populate the world if your race, gender, ethnicity, … Continue reading →
Krugman on Inequality of Opportunity
Krugman: The first thing one should say is that our system does reward hard work, up to a point. Other things equal, those who put more in will earn more. But a lot of other things are, in fact, not … Continue reading →
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Identity, Class Politics, and the Burgis
Originally posted on my blog The Mustard Seed. My lifelong friend (since 1st grade ya’ll!) and activists and organizer in the Filipino American community, Carlo, recently posted a piece on his blog on Asian American Studies (specifically at San Francisco … Continue reading →
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Apparently I live in a company town
So apparently New Zealand’s latest industrial relations drama has made news around the world. I thought I’d cross-post something I wrote for my blog about the whole thing, so you can get a local perspective. For those just tuning in … Continue reading →
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Austerity: For You But Not For Me
[Reprinted from Echidne of the Snakes, with Echidne’s kind permission.] This European opinion piece on the need for austerity politics has the usual stuff: That’s fine as far as it goes. But how should full employment be defined? Should we … Continue reading →
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Why The Democrats Deserve To Lose: Unemployment, Unemployment, Unemployment
Let me begin by saying that although Democrats deserve to lose, Republicans certainly don’t deserve to win. 1) The economy is in terrible shape. Unemployment is dismal. Long-term unemployment in particular is dramatically worse than it’s ever been. The long-term … Continue reading →
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New political cartoon: A Brief History of Corporate Whining
Click on the cartoon to see it bigger. Happy Labor Day!
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R.I.P. Manong Al Robles: "For years I have been preparing for this thing called the community."
Recently Al Robles, a figure prominent in the San Francisco Bay Area Filipino American community passed away. Here is a short excerpt from a post I did on him: Manong Al was a native San Franciscan and fought for the … Continue reading →
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