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SEIU Local 1000 @seiu1000.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s official: #Local1000 members voted to authorize an Unfair Practice Strike in response to the State’s alleged bad-faith bargaining. For the first time in our union’s history, we will go on strike. >>>

The image shows an announcement for SEIU Local 1000 with a ballot box and paper. The text reads "Results are in!" and "Unfair Practice Strike Vote." At the bottom, it states, "SEIU Local 1000 members vote yes to authorize unfair practice strike." In the background, there are people holding SEIU signs.

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So far they’ve announced Sacramento locations, but I assume they’ll have Bay, LA, Central Valley, and San Diego locales selected soon.

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Almost can’t believe they spent dues partying here

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Wow they don’t make state workers like this anymore

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

By 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.

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Random 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?

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My 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 👇

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RealWage · CA State Worker Pay

Look up California state employee job classifications, salary ranges, bargaining units, and alternate range criteria from CalHR pay scale data.

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Should I make the rate of exploitation and surplus value* calculator next? Y/N *Hot take: state workers can create surplus value

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Under Governor Gavin Newson, California—a supposed union friendly bastion—has left every state sector union further behind.

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The most common administrative position earns 15% less than they did in 2009.

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

For the largest bargaining unit, they average ~$4000 less than they did 50 years ago.

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Indexed to their wages in 1974, all workers (excluding law enforcement, doctors, and nurses) earn less than they did during the resignation of Richard Nixon.

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

realwage.site

RealWage · CA State Worker Pay

Look up California state employee job classifications, salary ranges, bargaining units, and alternate range criteria from CalHR pay scale data.

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Don’t mind me, I’m just vibe banking a $30 trillion economy

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Xi read ‘Business Secrets of the Bolsheviks’ by Mark Corrigan

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Chopped uncs ftw! Beamtown is back baby!

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

structural crisis machine go brrrr

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Interesting. I just described myself as a "historian of fascism" without thinking about it. Am I? I guess it turns out I am.

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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...

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The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises

Readers: 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 ...

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

November 5th SCOTUS will decide. Not holding my breath.

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

TIL that the rise in precious metals is a vote of no confidence in the American bond market

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Reading her piece in Dissent it dawned on me that what MAGA means by working class isn’t even really an identity EP Thompson sense, but a crude inheritance. “Meemaw worked in a coal mine, that’s why i’m a working class guy who employs a dozen subcontractors.” www.dissentmagazine.org/article/fami...

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Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection - Dissent Magazine

The growing militancy of the Republican right is less about an alliance of small business against big business than it is an insurrection of one form of capitalism against another: the private, uninco...

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Have you read Melinda Cooper on this (or listened on the Dig)? She says US idea of class is completely baffling.

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Would you like to sit down to my PR trap and help yourselves to a glass of humiliation and self-embarrassment?

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Seems they are animated by aggrieved sense of not being normal and motivated to replace America’s multicultural polity with a white christian one by any means.

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Hegseth, 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.

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

What’s up with these Cthulhu ass ads all over Trump’s feed? He’s been messing with that elder god tech

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Worth testing various hypotheses

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

The ads are rapidly getting recession coded

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

☝️ One Battle After Another reference. Go see it!

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The Trump admin said “Deploy Van Halen”

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Each tiny mistake from Trump’s team is one butterfly wing’s flap away from a world war

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

they’re gonna make a trump car

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Flawed certainly, but military strategist consensus is he was a genius who transformed modern warfare.

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

And that could be massively leveraged by the left if we study what’s working for our adversaries.

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Forget 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.

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Thinking 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.

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I intend to reintermediate immediately

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Wrote 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.

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Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 10/09/2025

Horrors 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.

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

If Trump deported the liberal justices, I think SCOTUS would rule in his favor

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Slightly diminish a book Triassic Median

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The secret to their longevity

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Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

“It’s going to fight… not not to lose.”

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