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Judge denies Trump's second bid to scrap TSA union deal | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-denies-trumps-second-bid-to-scrap-tsa-union-deal/

✊🏿 How One Black Labor Union Changed American History
#politics

How One Black Labor Union Changed American History
A century ago, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters launched a union drive against a railroad giant, changing the course of the 20th century and forever entwining the causes of labor and black civil rights.

Merz sagt, wie es ist: Mit Rentensenkungen gewinnt man in Deutschland keine Wahl - Ein seltener Fall von Ehrlichkeit, findet Horst Schulte. Doch immer mehr kritische Stimmen in der Union zeigen: Vertrauen in die Politik fehlt. Reformen sind überfällig!
#Rente #Vertrauen

Merz sagt, wie es ist: Mit Rentensenkungen gewinnt man in Deutschland keine Wahl
Die Junge Union stellt sich gegen die Rentenpläne der schwarz-roten Regierung. Kanzler Merz steht unter Druck, da auch ältere Unionsabgeordnete zweifeln. Ohne glaubhafte Zusagen bis 2031 drohen Abstimmungsniederlagen. Nötig sind Prioritäten und ein verbindlicher Reformplan.

'Why is Sherrill DOGE-ing New Jersey?': Resignation letters to longtime government workers cause confusion (Daniel Han/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/15/sherrill-doge-new-jersey-union-00729507
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p29#a260115p29

AFSCME Members Help Win Fight To Repeal Utah Law Taking Away Union Rights | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-12-16/afscme-members-help-win-fight-repeal-utah-law-taking-away-union-rights

Some top California Democrats join Governor Gavin Newsom in opposing a ballot initiative led by a healthcare union seeking a one-time 5% tax on $1B in assets (Bloomberg)

The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota filed a class action Thursday against the Trump administration,
accusing immigration agents of racially profiling members of Minnesota’s Somali and Latino community
throughout the ongoing surge of federal enforcement in the Twin Cities.
“Over the past six weeks, the Trump administration has increased its deployment of federal forces by the thousands,”
the ACLU said in a press release.
“Masked federal agents in mil…

There's a subscribers-only podcast which Lesley Riddoch has put out (which unfortunately means I can't link to it), in which she interviews Sara Salayers.
Salayers points out that the Union with England Act, 1707 (linked) is specifically conditional (§XXV) on the Claim of Right Act, 1689 (also linked); and that the Claim of Right Act forbids government from prosecuting people on 'stretches of old... laws'.

“…Republican lawmakers are now openly acknowledging that President Trump would face impeachment and removal if he attempted to invade Greenland. This comes as European troops have landed on the island, with plans to soon raise a European Union flag in a clear show of unity and deterrence.”
https://

Some of our members in Game Workers Unite Ireland were in Paris for a game union summit today and joined the STJV and other European game worker unions for a solidarity protest outside Take Two offices.
The blatant union busting firing of the Rockstar 31 workers can not stand. Reinstate them now!
Work in games in Ireland? Join us 👉 https://fs…

Auf dem Deutschlandtag der JU erinnert der Bundesvorsitzende Winkel, wie stark die Junge Union #Merz auf seinem Weg zurück an die Spitze unterstützt hatte.
Ohne die Junge Union wäre Merz nicht Parteivorsitzender und nicht Kanzlerkandidat geworden. Und ohne die JU hätte die CDU die Bundestagswahl nicht gewonnen.
So, jetzt wisst ihr, wer uns die ganze Misere eingebrockt hat!

Ach ja „die Sorgen der Bürger ernst nehmen“ – bislang hat niemand in Union und SPD meine Sorgen darüber ernst genommen, daß wir allen ernstes mit Waffengewalt dafür sorgen, daß Menschen im Mittelmeer ersaufen, weil irgendeinem Stammtisch diejenigen, die da ankommen, auf die falsche Art nicht woke genug sind.¹
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¹sie heißen das normalerweise irgendwas mit Kultur und zivilisiert – so nennen sie ihren Rassismus

The Los Angeles Times Guild reached a tentative agreement with management after more than three years of bargaining, averting a strike authorized by members (Tess Patton/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/los-angeles-times-guild-averts-strike-tentative-agree…

LA Times Guild Averts Strike With Tentative Agreement After 3 Years of Bargaining
The union of journalists will meet Monday to outline the proposed deal with management "on all outstanding issues in the contract"

Erasmus is back.
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme | European Union | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/16/uk-to-rejoin-eu-erasmus-student-exchange-programme?CMP=Share_An…

Well, this is Republican-level crazy.
▶️ Doctor Explains Why They're Terrified to Speak Out - More Perfect Union
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eVgIlDsBXZY&si=5Mp-CZzg8YBPBVtd

Shapiro Lecture, Catholic Theological Union: Rewilding the Tree of Life - Jewish Law and Theology in the Time of Climate Change. https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20137768/shapiro-lecture-catholic-theologica…

„Diese gescheiterte Wahl ... zeigt, dass die Unionsfraktion ein desorganisierter Haufen unter einem entweder überforderten oder lustlosen Vorsitzenden Jens Spahn ist, in dem jeder seine persönlichen Vorbehalte über die perspektivische Politikfähigkeit der Großen Koalition stellen kann.“
„Mit ihrer Verweigerung signalisiert die Union nicht nur, dass sie gerne Stimmen von der Linken nimmt, wenn sie’s braucht, aber nichts zu geben bereit ist, wenn es mal nützlich wäre. ..

Das Planungs- und Beschaffungsbeschleunigungsgesetz (BwPBBG) zur schnelleren Aufrüstung der Bundeswehr wird 2025 nicht mehr verabschiedet. Vertreter von Union und SPD bestätigten dies gegenüber Reuters, da ein Kompromissversuch scheiterte.​
Der Streit dreht sich um Verbote von Windrädern nahe Bundeswehr-Standorten und Radaranlagen, was in der SPD Bedenken vor einem Stillstand des Windausbaus weckte.
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Ich bin einigermaßen fassungslos. Das darf doch alles nicht wahr sein.<…

Post-Gazette Closure: SCOTUS Decision Ends 240-Year Legacy https://pghguild.com/2026/01/07/pittsburgh-post-gazette-owners-couldnt-bust-the-union-so-they-shut-down-the-paper/

Post-Gazette Closure: SCOTUS Decision Ends 240-Year Legacy
The PG shuts down its 240-year-old paper after losing court battles over workers' rights. Discover the details behind this historic closure.

I got a few updates about my investigations on EU emission databases after the 39C3 talk and the corresponding newsletter I published. Update below the article:
https://industrydecarbonization.com/news/errors-and-inconsistencies-in-european-e…

Errors and Inconsistencies in European Emission Data
Factories that suddenly have emissions a thousand times lower than before, unexplained data gaps, and inconsistent CO₂ emissions from different data sources are some of the issues one finds when having a closer look at the European Union's emission databases.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Blondie:
🎵 Union City Blue
#Blondie
https://carnivalstar.bandcamp.com/track/union-city-blue-blondie-cover-ftr-allegra-lusini
https://open.spotify.com/track/7nO9qoxbNqtO2iyS3GZNZr

NFL memo outlines priorities for new referee CBA https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47270473/with-referees-union-cba-set-expire-end-nfl-outlines-priorities-memo-teams

RE: https://union.place/@syndicalism/115851917060716668
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Bargeld rocks!
- Inklusion
- (Un)Abhängigkeit vom Stromnetz
- (Un)Abhängigkeit von Visa/Mastercard
Europe is Rediscovering the Virtues of Cash - Slashdot https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/14/1436212/europe-is-rediscovering-the-v…

US teachers union says it is leaving X over sexualized AI images of children (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/teachers-union-says-its-leaving-x-calling-ai-images-children-the-last-straw-2026-01-13/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p165#a260113p165

Deutsche-Liga-Ticker - LIVE: So steht es bei Union Berlin gegen Leipzig #News #Nachrichten

So the city of Houston is blaming its firefighters for clicking on a link in an email the city sent to them that intended to share information about the firefighters’ promotion exam but instead linked to a bunch of social security numbers in the clear.
Houston data breach exposes firefighters’ personal info, union says they’re being blamed

Houston data breach exposes firefighters’ personal info, union says they’re being blamed
Houston firefighters say they’re being unfairly blamed after a city email exposed 7,500 Social Security numbers in a data breach.

"La baisse de l'adhésion Š un syndicat pourrait rendre la classe ouvrière étatsuniennes moins heureuse et plus vulnérable aux overdoses."
https://theconversation.com/declining-

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Blondie:
🎵 Union City Blue
#NowPlaying #Blondie
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

AFGE urges appellate judges to uphold injunction against Trump’s anti-union EOs - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/01/afge-urges-appellate-judges-uphold-injunction-against-trumps-anti-union-eos/410665/

Not-so-pro publica, then. https://union.place/@propublicaguild/115736214313145243 https://union.place/@p…

The European Union on Friday
indefinitely froze Russia’s assets in Europe
to ensure that Hungary and Slovakia,
both with Moscow-friendly governments,
can’t prevent the billions of euros from being used to support Ukraine.
Using a special procedure meant for economic emergencies,
the EU blocked the assets until Russia gives up its war on Ukraine
and compensates its neighbor for the heavy damage that it has inflicted for almost four years.
EU Cou…

EU set to lock up Russia's frozen assets so Hungary and Slovakia can't veto their use for Ukraine
The European Union is set to lock up Russia’s assets in Europe until Russia ends its war on Ukraine and compensates for the damage. The move expected on Friday would allow EU leaders to decide how to use Russian Central Bank assets to support Ukraine financially and militarily when they hold a summit next week. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán opposes the decision. He has accused the European Commission of “raping European law.” The EU has frozen $247 billion in Russian assets. Most…

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 10215 nodes and 11837 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

Reading Paul Krugman talking with Adam Tooze . Re. € crisis in 2012: "Paul DeGraue, Belgian economist said, “this is a panic, the numbers don’t really justify this.” Mario Draghi actually agreed and said three words, “whatever it takes,” that the ECB will stand behind that and will make sure the countries don’t run out of cash. The crisis just evaporated like nothing. *Most effective central bank statement in the history of humanity*, I’m sure." Here is Dhragi's speech:

I've never flown in a helicopter and I'd be keen to fly in one of these if it was even vaguely affordable:
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/caa-canary-wharf-london-cambridge-european-union-aviati…

Flying taxis to take passengers to airports in minutes from 2028, company says
Vertical Aerospace hopes its Valo aircraft, which has a capacity for up to six passengers, can get regulatory approval in three years.

JTN Networks, parent company of Just the News, acquires The Post Millennial and Human Events, which has been featuring columns and podcasts from Jack Posobiec (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/right-wing-media-brands-merge-j…

JTN Networks Acquires Post Millennial And Human Events In Union Of Brands On The Right
JTN Networks, the parent company of Just the News, has acquired the Human Events and The Post Millennial, uniting news brands on the right. Human Events, which was founded in 1944 and has more recently featured columns and podcasts from Jack Posobiec, the MAGA influencer, will end daily publication this month and will be transformed […]

Apple-Brief: EU-Gesetze widersprechen sich und machen Plattformen unsicher
Apple wirft der Europäischen Union vor, dass sich ihre Digitalgesetze gegenseitig in die Quere kommen und mobile Plattformen für Verbraucher unsicherer machen.

union berlins keeper is locked tf in
#fedifc #bundesliga

Shapiro Lecture, Catholic Theological Union: Rewilding the Tree of Life - Jewish Law and Theology in the Time of Climate Change.
https://ift.tt/F4Ve1RY
ResearchGate: Publishers Take Formal Steps to Force Copyright Compliance A summary of…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Yes! Well done nonprofit @… living your values! The #Union makes us strong.
#Utah #jouralism

Ey, SPD. Wenn ihr etwas gemacht habt, was der "Bund der Familienunternehmen" und die Union scheiße finden, habt ihr wohl (endlich mal wieder) was richtig gemacht.

I’d like to hear what precisely the Gov and the Mayor think they’re going to do — and not just •hear•; I want to •see• it happening.
I’d like the teachers’ union and parent groups like Minneapolis Families for Public Schools discuss what they want on this front, and start making good demands.
Maybe this is already happening…but if so, I haven’t heard anything about it yet.
11/

Trump administration moves to nix TSA union contract -- again (Sam Ogozalek/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/12/trump-administration-moves-to-nix-tsa-union-contract-again-00689888
http://www.memeorandum.com/251212/p126#a251212p126

»Die verstärkten Cyberangriffe während der COVID-19-Pandemie haben gezeigt, wie anfällig zunehmend interdependente Gesellschaften für Risiken mit geringer Eintrittswahrscheinlichkeit sind.«
Ich lese in "Richtlinie (EU) 2022/2555 über Maßnahmen für ein hohes gemeinsames Cybersicherheitsniveau in der Union". Den meisten hier wahrscheinlich besser bekannt als NIS-2.

A customs union is a sensible, pragmatic measure, not because of "going for growth", which is a) unattainable anyway and b) ecocidal, but to make life easier for small businesses who send goods to our neighbours.
Davey claims ‘historic victory’ for Lib Dems after tokenistic vote in favour of customs union with EU – UK politics live | Politics | The Guardian

"Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP30?"
#COP30 #ClimateSummit #Climate #ClimateChange

Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP30? - Carbon Brief
According to the provisional figures, 193 countries, plus the European Union, have registered a delegation for the COP30 summit.

Become a piece on an immersive life-sized Monopoly™ board in Union Station, Washington, DC, January 10-12
https://www.visitatlanticcity.com/articles/post/visit-ac-invites-consumers-to-discover-the-de…

Visit AC Invites Consumers to Discover the Destination Through Immersive MONOPOLY Experience
Visit Atlantic City Invites Consumers to Discover the Destination Through Life-Sized, Immersive MONOPOLY Experience at Union Station in Washington, D.C. The interactive pop-up activation celebrates

Given the reticence of its local affiliates to mention it's name, one could get the impression that ACT, the NZ Initiative, Curia, the NZ Taxpayers' 'Union', and the 'Free Speech' 'Union' are keen to avoid drawing attention to their Atlas Network (also responsible for the US' Project 2025) affiliation. Could it be they're keen to avoid more scrutiny of where their funding comes from? 🤔 Assuming their search is trustworthy, on the RNZ website, there'…

#American workers demand illegally seized Venezuelan #oil at least be transported by union maritime workers on US registered ships ...

U.S. Unions Demand Venezuelan Oil Be Imported On American Ships - Post-Gazette Bankruptcy Fire Sale? - WBNA Strike Likely
The four unions demanded that the Trump Administration not allow ships or workers from other nations to export oil from Venezuela into the United States. The unions that say that using American ships argue that it would be easier to impose sanctions on Venezuela.

Excellent analysis and well-argued analysis of the current rupture in Spanish anarcho-syndicalism. Definitely worth your attention:
https://anarchistunionjournal.org/2023/12/07/a-new-rupture-in-spanish-anarcho-syndicalism/

NFL, union agree to model for picking surfaces https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47203298/nfl-union-agree-new-model-picking-playing-surfaces

📢 Bundestag stimmt für Rentenpaket der schwarz-roten Regierung
Der Bundestag hat dem Rentenpaket der Bundesregierung zugestimmt. 319 Abgeordnete stimmten dafür, 225 dagegen, 53 enthielten sich. Damit ist die sogenannte Kanzlermehrheit erreicht. Der namentlichen Abstimmung war ein wochenlanger Streit innerhalb der Union vorausgegangen.
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Bundestag stimmt für Rentenpaket der schwarz-roten Regierung
Der Bundestag hat dem Rentenpaket der Bundesregierung zugestimmt. 319 Abgeordnete stimmten dafür, 225 dagegen, 53 enthielten sich. Damit ist die sogenannte Kanzlermehrheit erreicht. Der namentlichen Abstimmung war ein wochenlanger Streit innerhalb der Union vorausgegangen.

"It was only supposed to do that for union organizers" Sam Altman said when asked why #ChatGPT encourages people to kill themselves
#AI #satire

From The Maple
How did labour fare in 2025?
In many respects, last year was a mixed bag for workers and unions in Canada. Though union wage gains were relatively healthy, the overall economy continued to cool with unemployment creeping up and many workers still feeling the cost-of-living crunch.

Here’s How Canadian Workers And Unions Fared In 2025
Union wage gains were relatively healthy, but unemployment crept up and workers felt the cost-of-living crunch.

"S.F.’s Union Square comeback is taking shape — despite two major question marks"
Somehow neither of them is the complete lack of bike parking anywhere near the block-wide 7-story Macy's. Biking to and around Union Square sucks.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/…

Shapiro Lecture, Catholic Theological Union: Rewilding the Tree of Life - Jewish Law and Theology in the Time of Climate Change. https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20137768/shapiro-lecture-catholic-theologica…

"it is official U.S. policy to work toward regime change in European countries and to weaken or even destroy the European Union." — @…
I think this has been coming for a long time – since long before #Trump. The interests of the US and of an incr…

New U.S. security strategy calls for regime change in Europe
In this video, I discuss the new U.S. national security strategy, which, to put it mildly, is concerning for Europe. It's largely a document about how the Trump administration sees it as a requirement for continued transatlantic cooperation that MAGA movements come to power in European countries. Watch the

How did the Council approve the #Mercosur agreement, exactly?
«EU capitals now have until 5 p.m. on Friday to lodge any objections and formalize the vote. This so-called written procedure»
https://www.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai, Модест Петрович Мусоргский, All-Union Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra & Samo Hubad:
🎵 Dance of the Persian Slaves (Khovanshchina)
#RimskyKorsakov #Nikolai #МодестПетровичМусоргский

Neuer EU-Geheimdienst in Planung https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10197

„Wer arbeitet, soll sozial abgesichert sein. Schritt für Schritt müssen #Minijobs in reguläre Beschäftigung überführt werden – mit fairen Beiträgen, echten Rechten und realen Aufstiegschancen.“
Auch das ist #CDU, liebe Leute.

Noch vor kurzem hätte ich bei Meldungen wie „EU will auf Drängen der Union das Verbrenner-Aus zurücknehmen“ gedacht, wie schlimm das für's Klima ist. Aber der Drops ist glücklicherweise gelutscht¹, da geht kein Weg mehr zurück, und China macht's vor.
Inzwischen denk ich eher, was für ein Festhalten an einem wirtschafts­politischen Irrweg die Merz-CDU da veranstaltet. Weil sie weder Idee noch Plan haben, wie die deutsche Wirtschaft zu modernisieren wäre, sondern stattdessen an d…

Russland droht der Europäischen Union
Russland hat der Europäischen Union für den Fall einer "direkten Konfiszierung" seines eingefrorenen Vermögens gedroht. Jede Maßnahme der EU zur Beschlagnahmung russischer Vermögenswerte auf Euroclear-Konten werde eine "schmerzhafte Reaktion" Russlands nach sich ziehen, sagte die Sprecherin des Außenministeriums in Moskau, Maria Sacharowa. Entsprechende Pläne berate die EU gerade, sagte s…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Kiew: Übergabe von 1.000 Leichen durch Russland ++
Ukrainische Behörden haben die Übergabe von 1.000 Soldatenleichen durch Russland gemeldet. Nach ukrainischen Angaben sind durch russische Angriffe mindestens zwölf Menschen getötet worden.

The European Union, overcoming deep dissension among its members,
gave the green light to a sweeping trade pact with four South American countries on Friday
that would create one of the largest free-trade zones in the world,
connecting markets with more than 700 million people.
The agreement offers a stark contrast to the amped-up aggression on display this week from the Trump administration.
As Europe worked to extend an era of economic collaboration,
th…

E.U. and South America to Form Free-Trade Zone With 700 Million People
The agreement represents a push for deeper global cooperation, in contrast to the United States’ turning to coercion in its dealings with other countries.

Canada’s privacy regulator to probe billboards equipped with facial scanning tech https://therecord.media/canada-privacy-regulator-to-probe-face-scanning-billboards

Tags are sets. Many apps support tagging of content, but most of them (incl. Mastodon) treat tags only as singular/isolated topic filters, akin to a flat folder-based approach. But tagging can be so, so much more powerful when treating tags as sets and offering users the possibility to combine and query tagged content as sets (think Venn diagrams), i.e. allowing tags to be combined using AND/OR/NOT aka intersection/union/difference operations...
Below is a simple query engine to do jus…

Grand Theft Labour
#workers #unions #gta #canada #solidarity
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/rockstar-grand-theft-auto-layoffs-union-9.6977594

European Union Agrees to Landmark Free-Trade Deal With South America (Patricia Cohen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/business/economy/european-union-mercosur-trade.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p39#a260109p39

European Union 27, under far right climate denialist pressure, opts for lower carbon emissions target and keeps door open for offsets beyond the EU, despite having been given a highly critical report on them.
No coverage that I can find in the UK press.
El tirón antiecológico germina en el plan contra el cambio climštico de la Unión Europea

El tirón antiecológico germina en el plan contra el cambio climático de la Unión Europea
Dos años después de que la UE forzara una histórica petición de abandonar los combustibles fósiles, la presión de los partidos negacionistas se hace notar en vísperas de la Cumbre del Clima de Brasil

Wie unverhohlen Trump und Putin Europa angreifen, bringt die europäischen Konservstiven in eine Zwickmühle:
Petrolobbypolitik machen, eine souveräne Europäische Union aufgeben und Trump in den Arsch kriechen
oder
Machterhalt und damit eben auch Souveränität in Europa sichern und dafür die Abhängigkeiten von ausländischen Diktaturen kappen.
„Beides“, also Machterhalt und für die Petrolobby die Weltverbrennen bekommen sie nur mit dem Modell Belarus hin: Macht im eigen…

I felt weird boosting these two together, but it's not like we can escape this media consolidation hellscape.

Who would have guessed.
Big Tech is paying millions to train teachers on AI, in a push to bring chatbots into classrooms
https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-teacher-union-microsoft-f7554b6550fb90519dd8129acac8e2…

I've never flown in a helicopter and I'd be keen to fly in one of these if it was even vaguely affordable:
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/caa-canary-wharf-london-cambridge-european-union-aviati…

Ich bin so technologieoffen, daß ich überhaupt keinen Grund sehe an überkommenen Politik-Technologien wie der FDP oder der Union weiter festzuhalten¹ – Faschistys waren aus noch grundlegenderen Überlegungen eh von vornherein außen vor.
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¹aber auch die real existierenden Ausprägungen anderer Parteien.
#pol

Condé Nast employees rallied in New York to protest recent firings and suspensions following Teen Vogue layoffs; NY AG Letitia James joined the rally (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/ny-ag-letitia-james-dema…

NY AG Letitia James rallies for fired Condé Nast workers, telling the company 'I'll see you in court'
NY Attorney General Letitia James joined a Condé Nast union rally, protesting recent firings that followed a staff confrontation with HR.

It's finally Friday, so before you stop working for the week, check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Trump cuts off US access to organizations seeking to strengthen cybersecurity,
--Prisoner swap sends alleged ransomware payment negotiator back to Russia,
--CISA retires ten emergency directives at once,
--Cambodian cybercrime kingpin extradited to China,
--Fugitive wanted for Desjardins br…

Trump ends US participation in organizations devoted to stronger cybersecurity
Prisoner swap sends alleged ransomware payment negotiator back to Russia, CISA retires ten emergency directives at once, Cambodian cybercrime kingpin extradited to China, Fugitive wanted for Desjardins breach arrested in Spain, Trans activists hacked Free Speech Union, much more

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow
Hugh Masekela & The Union of South Africa:
🎵 Dyambo
#HughMasekela #TheUnionofSouthAfrica
https://motowngold.bandcamp.com/track/dyambo-dee-yambo-weary-day-is-over
https://open.spotify.com/track/4oEt9Bo9l8op9Y3Jcxm86L

The EU unveils proposed updates to GDPR, including simplifying cookie permission pop-ups, and plans to water down the AI Act, after US and tech company pressure (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changes

Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws
The European Commission has proposed changes weakening EU privacy legislation and delaying parts of the AI Act to make the bloc more competitive globally.

Der DJV hat sich uns angeschlossen:
"Der Deutsche Journalisten-Verband fordert die Regierungen von Bund und Ländern auf, der Plattform X den Rücken zu kehren. Der DJV unterstützt damit die von der Organisation SaveSocial.eu initiierte Petition, das Netzwerk des Milliardärs Elon Musk zu verlassen. Anlass sind jüngste Drohungen von Musk gegen die Europäische Union."
Bisher haben 6500 unterzeichnet:

Keine Macht für Oligarchen: Bundesregierung endlich runter von X
Staatliche Kommunikation ist keine gewöhnliche Werbung, sondern Teil der demokratischen Grundversorgung. Wenn Regierung und Behörden sich an Plattformen binden, die Hass, Desinformation und intransparente Algorithmen dulden oder fördern, stärken sie Strukturen, die demokratische Öffentlichkeit beschädigen.  Ein Ausstieg aus X ist das notwendige Signal, dass demokratische Werte und Grundrechte Vorrang vor kurzfristiger, vermeintlicher Reichweite haben.  Mit dem Wechsel zu offenen, dezent…

📢 Junge Gruppe hält Rentenpaket weiter "für nicht zustimmungsfähig"
Die Junge Gruppe der Union im Bundestag hält die Rentenpläne der Regierung weiter "für nicht zustimmungsfähig". Bei dieser inhaltlichen Position bleibe es, heißt es in einer Erklärung, die dem ARD-Hauptstadtstudio vorliegt. Jeder Abgeordnete werde aber für sich entscheiden, wie er im Bundestag abstimme.
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Junge Gruppe hält Rentenpaket weiter "für nicht zustimmungsfähig"
Die Junge Gruppe der Union im Bundestag hält die Rentenpläne der Regierung weiter "für nicht zustimmungsfähig". Bei dieser inhaltlichen Position bleibe es, heißt es in einer Erklärung, die dem ARD-Hauptstadtstudio vorliegt. Jeder Abgeordnete werde aber für sich entscheiden, wie er im Bundestag abstimme.

Texas agency accused of violating teachers' speech rights on Charlie Kirk
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5676406-texas-teachers-union-charlie-kirk/

"Spain allocates funding for 9.4 GWh of large-scale storage projects"
#Spain #Energy #Batteries

Spain allocates funding for 9.4 GWh of large-scale storage projects
Spain has awarded more than €818 million ($956.3 million) in European Union funding to 126 energy storage projects totaling 2.2 GW of power and 9.4 GWh of capacity.

Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City disciplined three nurses
who spoke to the media and to fellow staff about safety concerns
following an attempted shooting in the hospital’s emergency department last month
— a consequence their union calls unlawful.
The New York State Nurses Association alleges that Mount Sinai’s decision
to write up two nurses and suspend another the day after Thanksgiving for discussing the union’s safety proposals with fellow nurses

Three Nurses Disciplined After Speaking Out on Mount Sinai Shooting Scare
Weeks after a gunman threatened to open fire at the ER, and as they head into union negotiations, care providers say they need better safety protections.

Fucking yes… finally! Thank you, Ireland, Spain, and Netherlands!
“Ireland will not participate in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast on RTÉ, after organiser the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part … Spain’s national broadcaster RTVE and the Netherlands’ AvroTros also announced that they would boycott the contest.”
Maybe we should rename it to the Genocidevision Song Contest?
Now… any more Euro…

Radical Union Organizing In The Nordic Countries
#NorskTut #Norway

"La baisse de l'adhésion Š un syndicat pourrait rendre la classe ouvrière étatsuniennes moins heureuse et plus vulnérable aux overdoses."
https://theconversation.com/declining-

qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Little Dragon:
🎵 Ritual Union
#NowPlaying #LittleDragon
https://bossasaurus.bandcamp.com/track/little-dragon-ritual-union-egon-brainparts
https://open.spotify.com/track/5uTjNzGKCQ50synrf9dWmT

Venezuela's union representing press workers said at least 14 were detained on Monday, including 13 from international media organizations; one was deported (Sibylla Brodzinsky/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan

Western Union plans to launch a dollar-backed stablecoin, USDPT, that is built on the Solana blockchain and issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, in H1 2026 (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/wes…

“a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most.”
Teen Vogue To Merge With Vogue Website; Condé Union Condemns Move
https://deadline.com/2025/11/teen-vogue-merger-vogue-conde-union-condemns-layoffs-1236606081/

Sources: SAG-AFTRA "is building a war room to oppose" the WBD-Netflix merger, including plans for a potential strike (James Franey/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/22/media/hollywood-actors-union-could-strike-over-ne…

Exclusive | Hollywood actors' union secretly plotting possible strike over Netflix-WBD merger: sources
Hollywood actors could go on strike over the planned Netflix-Warner Bros. Discovery tie-up, with their trade union secretly plotting a possible work stoppage in the New Year over fears the merger c…

„Hinreichender Klimaschutz ist ein Partikular­interesse einzelner Interessen­gruppen, die allen aus egoistischen Motiven den Spaß am Leben verbieten und die Wirtschaft ruinieren wollen“ (und keineswegs ein elementares gesamt­gesellschaftliches Interesse).
Das ungefähr ist das emotionale Narrativ, das viele auch große Parteien fahren. Natürlich spricht die Union das nicht in der Form aus,¹ aber jede Wurst, die mit einem „jetzt erst recht“ Gestus auf den Grill geworfen wird, jedes Herzie…

Rockstar says it fired dozens of staff last week due to "distributing and discussing confidential information in a public forum", disputing union allegations (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Largest federal workers' union calls for immediate end to government shutdown (Erum Salam/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/largest-federal-workers-union-calls-immediate-end-government-shutdown-rcna240047
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p72#a251027p72

Ireland has been every bit as important in exporting US Big Tech around the world as the US has been.
But Ireland has another key export, one that is confined to the European Union.
Because every tax haven must be a crime haven,
and because Big Tech's favorite crime is illegal surveillance,
Ireland has exported American tech spying to the whole European Union.
-- @…

Trump has long portrayed European allies as freeloaders that fail to pay enough for their own security and argued that the European Union was “formed to screw the United States.”
💥Now, that hostility is official White House policy.
The Trump administration issued a national security strategy paper this week
that called for European nations to take “primary responsibility” for their own defense,
indicating that the United States should no longer guarantee Europe’s secu…

Trump’s Security Doctrine Leaves Europe at a Strategic Crossroads
A new White House policy document formalizes President Trump’s long-held contempt for Europe’s leaders. It made clear that the continent now stands at a strategic crossroads.

Sources: Condé Nast fired four staffers who were among a group of over a dozen that confronted its HR head over the Teen Vogue closure and other recent cuts (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/06/2025/cond-nast-abruptly-…

Condé Nast abruptly fires 4 staffers after HR confrontation
The firings were an unsubtle message to its employee union that the publisher was taking a harder line in its dealings with employees.