of note, CUPE leadership was willing to go to jail over the strike. for a sense of what they struck over, see these two articles from Spring Magazine, and CUPE’s “Unpaid Work Won’t Fly” page

When we everyday people see patterns, we then make deductions from them that tend to be accurate. […] Let people see evidence and make their own deductions

…no? as humans, our pattern recognition, while well refined, often still causes us to make completely incorrect inferences from nothing. even restricted to the realm of the medical: you need only look at what people think made them sick versus what actually does; most people will blame food poisoning on the last thing they ate, or their sickness on the last person they encountered, even when there are many other possible reasons for their sickness.

also: a pre-print by definition has not been subject to rigorous peer review–it’s roughly analogous to a draft–so i would be exceedingly hesitant to even assert something like it having “good data.” even if you’re the author you wouldn’t definitively know that at this stage.

Duncan is an interesting guy these days. he is one of a number of Republicans who was basically run out of the party for refusing to be fascist and autocratic enough, and he was formally expelled from the party last year after endorsing Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris. i doubt he has sufficient distance or credibility to make it through a Democratic primary, but you never know. the Republican-to-Never Trumper-to-Democrat pipeline has been a pretty successful move for other people

the “chart” is just the thumbnail for the submission, so yeah; you have to actually click through, since that’s the point of a link aggregator

the Supreme Court is not a legitimate institution and you should be screaming at the Democratic Party to annihilate it if they ever come back into power, because otherwise it will be yet another reason this country croaks

the study: Majority support for global redistributive and climate policies

We study a key factor for implementing global policies: the support of citizens. The first piece of evidence is a global survey on 40,680 respondents from 20 high- and middle-income countries. It reveals substantial support for global climate policies and, in addition, for a global tax on the wealthiest aimed at financing low-income countries’ development. Surprisingly, even in wealthy nations that would bear the burden of such globally redistributive policies, majorities of citizens express support for them. To better understand public support for global policies in high-income countries, the main analysis of this Article is conducted with surveys among 8,000 respondents from France, Germany, Spain, the UK and the USA. The focus of the Western surveys is to study how respondents react to the key trade-off between the benefits and costs of globally redistributive climate policies. In our survey, respondents are made aware of the cost that the GCS [a global carbon price funding equal cash transfers] entails for their country’s people, that is, average Westerners would incur a net loss from the policy. Our main result is that the GCS is supported by three quarters of Europeans and more than half of Americans.

Overall, our results point to strong and genuine support for global climate and redistributive policies, as our experiments confirm the stated support found in direct questions. They contribute to a body of literature on attitudes towards climate policy, which confirms that climate policy is preferred at a global level17,18,19,20, where it is more effective and fair. While 3,354 economists supported a national carbon tax financing equal cash transfers in the Wall Street Journal21, numerous surveys have shown that public support for such policy is mixed22,23,24,25,26,27. Meanwhile, the GCS— the global version of this policy—is largely supported, despite higher costs in high-income countries. In the Discussion, we offer potential explanations that could reconcile the strong support for global policies with their lack of prominence in the public debate.

the crowsourced sheet, which is still taking submissions: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/158rlsPk0jxXwh3GIKl2YP1W84dPLC_2RXZnMjaG5bVw/edit?usp=sharing

for context: Shawn Fain has been pushing for this since at least the beginning of 2024. so by the time the date happens, he will have been organizing this for over four years–that is the kind of lead time you need for this to not just be toothless posturing (and there’s a decent chance it still won’t be nearly as sweeping as you might expect of a general strike due to low US union density).

you can’t just organize a general strike on the fly, and this is an actual one with actual backing from unions that’s been organized since well before our current issues. and currently it’s a struggle to even get many unions to align their contracts in a way that would be conducive to the date (since that’s not a thing you can just do, you have to negotiate that), so it’s not even a guarantee that the over three years of lead time given is sufficient.

‘Uber for Getting Off Antidepressants’ is just… something else. what are these buzzwords

see also State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’ from The Handbasket

this is likely to benefit him tremendously in the gubernatorial race, where he’s running in the Democratic primary but has generally been the third or fourth wheel to this point. if you’re curious about more details of how he’s been protesting, DocumentedNY has you covered:

To representatives of Delaney Hall, the mayor was staging a publicity stunt. But to the mayor, Delaney Hall was pitting his city in a direct confrontation with the Trump administration’s deportation agenda. Delaney Hall, Baraka claimed, was violating city and state laws by contracting with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and by prohibiting him from entering the facility, they were evading the enforcement of city codes.

In April, the city of Newark filed a lawsuit to block Delaney Hall from reopening and to allow city officials to inspect the facility for code violations. The Trump administration has since attempted to intervene to stop the lawsuit.

For nearly three hours, the mayor and his staff, along with over a dozen protesters who chanted “Say it loud, say it proud, immigrants are welcome here,” waited to be allowed in.

Nearby, two bulldozers from the Newark Department of Public Works, each carrying a large concrete slab, were parked nearby as a veiled threat to the detention center’s management, insinuating that if they do not comply with the city’s mandates, the mayor might order the facility to be barricaded.

When asked if he planned to place barricades outside the facility, Baraka, who is currently running for governor of New Jersey, smirked and stated he was entertaining the idea.

additional flavor text to this tense situation: Pakistan blamed a terrorist attack on India literally earlier today

disagreement is fine, but both of you need to chill out a bit

you can find a May Day event here

this is good because the guy was like 80, and he sucks. hopefully he’ll be replaced by someone more progressive and willing to actually recognize the situation we’re in

if you’re going to be this confident, have the decency to be correct instead of saying something incredibly stupid like calling congestion pricing an infringement on “freedom of movement”. if you can drive into lower fucking Manhattan–one of the most car-free areas in the country, because a huge portion of NYC residents don’t drive a car and don’t need to drive a car because they have reliable public transportation–you can pay a toll.

there will likely be in excess of a million people out on the streets today; there are at least 1,200 recorded Hands Off! protests today in addition to about 70 other scheduled protests against people like Elon Musk or rallying for Palestine. easily the largest mobilization so far either way–there are substantial protests in almost every city larger than about 100,000 people, and many significant ones in cities smaller than that