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The GOP, which has often claimed to be the "workers' party," will attempt to use its rules package to exempt itself from federal labor laws by preventing House staffers from unionizing.

From @ddayen@twitter.com:

https://prospect.org/labor/2023-01-04-congress-house-gop-congressional-staff-unions/

BOOM: #KevinMcCarthy has just lost the FIFTH vote for #SpeakerOfTheHouse. House Republican disunity, division, and dysfunction deepens.

Meanwhile, ALL OUR 212 Members are UNIFIED behind #HakeemJeffries.

Leonard Nimoy at a #NOW rally in 1989. His sweater reads "PRO-CHILD, PRO-FAMILY, #PROCHOICE". His sash reads "HONORED GUEST". His pin reads "HONORARY SISTER".

#LeonardNimoy was #Jewish and spoke fluent Yiddish. His parents were first-generation #Ukrainian Jewish #immigrants who fled the Soviet Union and he was born in 1931 in Boston. Jewish activists have always been at the core of support for #abortion rights.

#MayHisMemoryBeABlessing.

https://www.tumblr.com/delphinidin4/690529825685946368/his-sweatshirt-reads-pro-child-pro-family

#socialmedia #tumblr

Do you know who Cheryl Johnson is? You should. Ms. Johnson is the Clerk of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. In lieu of an elected Speaker of the House, she is in charge. This is the first time a black woman has been the presiding officer of the U.S. House of Representatives. Let's hope it takes two years for the Republicans to pick their 'speaker'.

Albertsons bought Safeway. Now Kroger is buying Albertons.

Combined they would control ~22% of the US grocery market, with revenue over $200B.

Add Walmart, these brands would control 70% of the grocery market in 167 cities across the country.

This is why antitrust matters.

#Tesla plunges off a cliff at Devil's Slide on CA's Highway 1, requiring "multiple air ambulances" to rescue critically injured kids. https://www.ksbw.com/article/car-goes-over-cliff-at-devils-slide/42379850

President Biden just eliminated all Electoral College counting loopholes that will prevent the next Trump from trying to cling to power by pressuring the Vice President and using slates of fake electors. https://youtu.be/Rslen25CjW8

How can Democrats regain the working class?

By fighting corporate America's ability to:

—raise prices higher than their increasing costs.

—suppress wages and bust unions.

—bribe lawmakers to cut their taxes and dole out corporate welfare.

President Biden is set to nominate Dr. Ashish Jha as the new permanent director of the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy. To do his job, he'll have to hold pharmaceutical companies to account.

From @MaxMoranHi@twitter.com and @revolvingdoorDC@twitter.com:

https://prospect.org/health/2023-01-02-ashish-jha-white-house-pandemic-preparedness-director/

Damage to 🇺🇦 ecology caused by Russia is estimated at 35.3 billion dollars - Oleksiy Reznikov

This morning in the UN Human Rights Council more than 140 diplomats refused to listen to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov’s futile attempt to justify unacceptable military aggression. Watch them leave the Council Chamber.
https://v.redd.it/pqu3sv11ask81

Original tweet : https://nitter.privacydev.net/tilbots/status/1609731089865621505

RUSSIA IS LOSING THE AIR WAR IN #UKRAINE

The Russian air force lacks fully trained pilots and has made poor use of the few good pilots that it has, according to a report by the Royal United Services Institute, a British think tank

#MOG

https://l.smartnews.com/Tsx9c/YrSRY1

One of the strangest pieces of legislation ever enacted in California took effect Jan. 1, giving state residents and visitors the same power to threaten the gun industry that Texans now wield over abortion providers.

Some gun-rights advocates have called California’s law “performative legislation,” but Craig Peters, a partner at Altair Law in San Francisco, said SB 1327 “points out the absurdity” of Texas’ approach and the bad precedent it set.

Here’s how it works: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-01/californians-will-soon-have-their-chance-to-sue-the-gun-industry

WATCH: Elise #Stefanik knew #GeorgeSantos was a fraud yet she enthusiastically endorsed him for Congress.

The House #Republican leadership is complicit in the fraud Santos perpetrated against the public.

BOOST this post if you agree Elisa Stefanik can't remain silent and MUST disavow George Santos.

Great read on creating your own luck for the first day of a new year - thanks @swyx: https://www.swyx.io/create-luck/