I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
OTD in 2011, Wisconsin passed Act 10, a singularly brutal anti-union law that sent the state’s union membership rate plummeting, even compared to other anti-union states. Check out our interactive maps to see how unions in your state fared over time! cepr.net/publications... @ceprdc.bsky.social
You have to make sacrifices for the very clear and articulated objectives of our War in Iran that is also not a war that we’ve also already won
And yet...
Merriam-Webster, dictionary extraordinaire, Recent examples of burdensome used in a sentence: Economic Policy Institute economic analyst Nina Mast, whose research focuses on child labor standards, disagreed that the reporting system was overly burdensome to employers. Find out why Indiana's reporting system was NOT burdensome to employers, and how it functioned as one of the last remaining protections to monitor how teen workers were being employed and what work they were being made to do in Nina's latest at https://www.epi.org/blog/indiana-lawmakers-are-once-again-trying-to-weaken-child-labor-laws-bill-sponsored-by-business-owner-would-enable-employers-to-hide-child-labor-violations/ Nina has also written on how "no tax on tips" and "no tax on overtime" are misleading and NOT the boon for workers the policies have been promoted to be.
Avid dictionary user and Policy and Economic Analyst @ninamast.bsky.social fights for U.S. worker rights, esp for the least protected like children. You've probably seen her on TV, read her work, heard her on podcasts.
And she has 👏 ARRIVED 👏 with a mention in @merriam-webster.com.
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.
Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)
This is an atrocity.
Our paper (with José A. Jurado) studying how attacks against journalists affect news media activity in Mexico is now available online and forthcoming at the JDE!
Free access link here:
lnkd.in/d4DqvRqU
We have posted our AI policy
An introduction: socopen.org/2026/03/09/s...
And the policy:
socopen.org/ai-policy/
According to a federal court, Trump's IRS illegally shared confidential taxpayer information with ICE 42,695 times.
from W. E. B. Du Bois:
A SNAPSHOT OF TRUMP'S ECONOMY—judged by his own goals: manufacturing jobs are down 100,000 since Trump took office, private-sector job growth is the weakest we’ve seen outside a recession in more than 20 years, and the unemployment rate for U.S.-born workers has increased.
Figure title: "US-born unemployment rose in 2025 and 2026" Figure subtitle "Unemployment rate for US-born workers, by year"
Let's check in on how Trump's assault on immigrants is helping US-born workers...
This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
BREAKING:
The Justice Department just posted online three FBI interviews that had been missing from the massive trove of Epstein files initially released.
They're related to unsubstantiated sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump.
DOC 1: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?
Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory Iranian attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility. “I guess,” he says. “We plan for it. But yeah, you know, we expect some things. Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will.”
Remember this when Donald Trump tells you we can’t afford health care.
The SAVE Act would require American citizens to show documents like a passport or birth certificate to register to vote. Our research shows that more than 21 million Americans lack ready access to those documents.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
I think there is something wrong with our healthcare system.
healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/when-even-...
WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?
NOEM: Yes
WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?
NOEM: No.
'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.
"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
New reporting finds that Trump's DOJ took over and quashed a state investigation into Epstein's New Mexico ranch in 2019.
As the walls close in on Trump, he'll do anything — including launch full-scale wars — to distract the public.
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.
The President of the United States.
Black and white photograph of a roadside memorial next to railroad tracks. The memorial features a white cross inscribed with "RIP LOS 32 BRACEROS SEP 17 1963." A larger dark cross stands behind it. Two small flags, the United States flag and the Mexican flag, are mounted on the white cross. Flowers and foliage are at the base. The background shows a flat horizon under a sky with scattered clouds. ALT text via Gemini AI
Via Gemini AI: A black and white photograph of a farmworker wearing protective clothing, a face mask, and sunglasses while holding bunches of broccolini. The worker is positioned under a shaded structure next to packing boxes in an outdoor field. Bunches of produce are piled in the foreground, and one is captured mid-air.
"photographs from the edge 28 -
BROCCOLINI HARVESTERS
Photographs by David Bacon
davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2026/02/phot...
A Southpark writer just created this website, to draft Barron Trump.
🤣👏💕
www.draftbarrontrump.com
Great to see The Wage Standard on the Next Big Idea Club must-read list! bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com/i/189408339/...
