Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Wow they don’t make state workers like this anymore 100
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 07/08/2026By my estimate, inflation, meager raises, and pay cuts cost CA state workers $4,200/y since 2019. Global Workplace Analytics's estimates four days of telework saves state workers $4,280 dollars. Telework offset all the losses. That's why Newsom's RTO order has become a worker flashpoint. 112
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Random Q: If I could do a study of union density based on 40 years of public sector data, but it would cost me $1800 to pull said data, would you(anyone?) chip in? 000
Reposted by Jonah PaulJonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 08/07/2026My union is in negotiations with the State of CaliforniaI and the state has rejected our economic proposal once again, so I made a tool to explore our wage history. No surprise, California has systematically unpaid state worker for 50 years. realwage.site A few takeaways below 👇realwage.siteRealWage · CA State Worker PayLook up California state employee job classifications, salary ranges, bargaining units, and alternate range criteria from CalHR pay scale data. 2167
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Should I make the rate of exploitation and surplus value* calculator next? Y/N *Hot take: state workers can create surplus value 010
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 08/07/2026My union is in negotiations with the State of CaliforniaI and the state has rejected our economic proposal once again, so I made a tool to explore our wage history. No surprise, California has systematically unpaid state worker for 50 years. realwage.site A few takeaways below 👇realwage.siteRealWage · CA State Worker PayLook up California state employee job classifications, salary ranges, bargaining units, and alternate range criteria from CalHR pay scale data. 2167
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Don’t mind me, I’m just vibe banking a $30 trillion economy 010
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Xi read ‘Business Secrets of the Bolsheviks’ by Mark Corrigan 010
Reposted by Jonah PaulRick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Interesting. I just described myself as a "historian of fascism" without thinking about it. Am I? I guess it turns out I am. 4884
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 11/10/2025“This is the age of hubris — a time in which we are going to watch stupid, powerful and rich men fuck up their legacies by finding a technology so vulgar in its costs and mythical outcomes that it drives the avaricious insane and makes fools of them.” LFG! www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...wheresyoured.atThe AI Bubble's Impossible PromisesReaders: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ... 040
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 08/10/2025TIL that the rise in precious metals is a vote of no confidence in the American bond market 000
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Would you like to sit down to my PR trap and help yourselves to a glass of humiliation and self-embarrassment? 020
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Hegseth, a rapist whose own mother disowned him for it, stood before the US top military brass to announce that survivors of sexual assault have no more recourse to the already meager means of military accountability. And you better believe sexual assault is rampant in the military. Sickening. 052
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 29/09/2025What’s up with these Cthulhu ass ads all over Trump’s feed? He’s been messing with that elder god tech 040
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Each tiny mistake from Trump’s team is one butterfly wing’s flap away from a world war 040
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Forget Klein’s obsequious “politics the right way”. Listen to Daniel Martinez HoSang’s thoughtful analysis on how an open racists are winning over racial minorities. 1105
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Thinking about when one of my favorite directors (Ridley Scott) and actors (Joaquin Phoenix) made a film on one of history’s most interesting figures (Napoleon)—failing in basically every respect. An art crime. 000
Reposted by Jonah PaulChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well. 1254064845
Reposted by Jonah PaulBelfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 10/09/2025Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story. 6722611437
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 08/09/2025If Trump deported the liberal justices, I think SCOTUS would rule in his favor 040
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 06/09/2025On this day 50 years ago in Sacramento, Squeaky Fromme did not assassinate President Ford. 010
Reposted by Jonah PaulThe Sacramento Bee @sacbee.com · 05/09/2025The West Sacramento-based railroad operator said the locomotive is a first-of-its-kind and plans to build more.bit.lyHydrogen-powered train debuts in West Sacramento. What are benefits, limits?The West Sacramento-based railroad operator said the locomotive is a first-of-its-kind and plans to build more. 021
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Not to be a drag, but it seems pretty clear the goal of the President dominating the Fed is a calculated end run on the Congress to make sure the midterms don’t matter either way, now or ever again. 000
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 23/08/2025The late great Hannibal Lecter says he never ate anything inappropriate. 010
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 22/08/2025The problem: Microsoft has sunk more billions into AI than any company and has yet to find a profitable or productive enterprise use for it while accelerating an energy and climate crisis. The solution: Tell people that only way to solve the crisis is to use the product that caused it. 041
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 18/08/2025A fascinating interview. The right is winning racial minorities over in large number with affective strategies that the left can in theory employ. However, the more money than god factor of groups like TPUSA may be distorting its success. 042
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Free beer is so powerful it can bring 5,000 people together to celebrate a Lt. Governor's inauguration in a parking garage. If you asked those who attended what a Lt. Governor is, they'd likely answer "the free beer guy." 020
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Ah yes the nuclear warming he was warning us so much about in ‘24 000
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 28/07/2025I liked Eddington. If you didn’t like it, it’s probably for the reasons that I did like it. We are on opposite sides of an irreducible difference that shakes our self-certainty. The only path forward is a Kampf auf Leben und Tod to determine once and for all whose opinion is correct 000
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Amazing things happening at the California state fair. 🧵 1. Shots fired at Paul Krugman 220
Reposted by Jonah PaulNorCal Resist @norcalresist.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Friday Aug 1 6-9pm at Hasta Muerte Coffee, Oakland! Fundraiser for a couple of rad bond funds 14018
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Adding to all the other crimes NY Times perpetuates, it ranked Borat above Pan’s Labyrinth, Uncut Gems, Oppenheimer, Kill Bill Vol 1, and Amour in it’s top 100 movies of the 21st century. 000
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Call me Nucky the way I run a seed oil and artificial coloring speakeasy 000
Reposted by Jonah PaulPatrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 16/07/2025returning to this from me from early 2019, well before epstein met his, uh. demise, about how the secret horrible truth of things is that the horror has always been entirely out in the wide open all along therevealer.org/suffer-the-c... 8519177
Reposted by Jonah PaulGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18/07/2025here are four different images of the new york skyline trump has auctioned for charity 852125528
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 17/07/2025We deserve a city affordable enough for frivolous japery, not one so expensive that we must chicane to survive. 010
