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admin overrode staff to list immigrants as dead

A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office & put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored. Two days after the SSA purposely & falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency’s Woodlawn, MD, headquarters.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/

Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on The Courts
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The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had not conducted any such performance assessment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

In 2019, Iceland became one of the first countries to approve a four-day workweek. Here's how things have been going for them.

2021: "Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an "overwhelming success""

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57724779

2024: "Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/business/iceland-shorter-working-week-economy/index.html

2025: "The effects of the shorter workweek in Iceland have extended far beyond the office."

https://www.wecb.fm/in-2019-iceland-approved-the-4-day-workweek-nearly-6-years-later-all-predictions-by-generation-z-have-come-true/

https://generalstrikeus.com/

There's momentum building around a general strike in the US. A general strike is an all-industry labor shutdown until demands are met. This seems different from the previous calls for a general strike, although it's early, since there's ongoing work with organizing and network building, and an actionable, actively developing plan, including demand areas. The goal is 11 million people pledging to strike; 3.5% of the population.

If is declaring a trade war, 's want to give him one.

The Canadian Labour Congress is demanding that electricity, oil, gas and critical mineral shipments be cut-off to the

https://canadianlabour.ca/cut-off-u-s-energy-and-resources-now-no-electricity-no-critical-minerals-no-oil-and-gas/

Le dernier n° d'HistoLivre, bulletin de l'Institut CGT d'histoire sociale du Livre parisien vient de paraître !
l'IHS Livre Parisien est une remarquable association, qui fait beaucoup pour le développement et la vulgarisation de l'histoire du livre et de la presse en France.
Je vous encourage fortement à le soutenir.

I don't think there's any newsletter I'm happier to receive than @pluralistic 's Plura List. He pulls no punches.

In the aftermath of shutting down the National Labor Relations Board, Docotorow writes:

«When unions are outlawed, only outlaws will have unions. Unions don't owe their existence to labor laws that protect organizing activities. Rather, labor laws exist because once-illegal unions were formed in the teeth of violent suppression, and those unions demanded – and got – labor law.»

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«Trump is playing Grinch here – he's descended upon Whoville to take all the Christmas decorations, in the belief that these are the source of Christmas. But the Grinch was wrong (and so is Trump): Christmas was in the heart of the Whos, and the tinsel and baubles were the expression of that Christmas spirit. Likewise, labor rights come from labor organizing, not the …

A formerly enslaved person’s response to his former enslaver’s request to move back to to work for him in 1865:

“As to my freedom, which you say I can have, there is nothing to be gained on that score, as I got my free papers in 1864 from the Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of . Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof that you were disposed to treat us justly and kindly; and we have concluded to test your sincerity by asking you to send us our wages for the time we served you. This will make us forget and forgive old scores, and rely on your and friendship in the future. I served you faithfully for thirty-two years, and Mandy twenty years. At twenty-five dollars a month for me, and two dollars a week for Mandy, our …