Fallon tries to interrupt in a way that comes off as just a little too desperate and panicked to be completely in on the joke, leading Oliver to ask “Alexa, what is union-busting?” At this point Fallon starts begging the surveillance unit to listen to him, instead of Oliver.“

[…] The clip comes as workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama try to unionize their workforce, and after they got support from President Biden in a video defending the importance of unions.

Amazon’s working conditions are often described as dystopian for good reason.

Come for the digital rewards systems straight out of Black Mirror that track worker productivity, stay for the mandatory graveyard shifts called “megacycles” or lose your job. The company’s success is no small part owed to its inhumane productivity quotas that create unsafe working conditions, which the company then turns around and offers to fix with surveillance―not to mention operations it already conducts to monitor workers’ personal lives in the United States and Europe. The company may flaunt its $15 minimum wage for warehouse workers, but zoom out and you’ll see Amazon is exploiting its monopoly and monopsony power to suppress wages in areas where it is one of the only major employers.

When it comes to union-busting, Amazon is king.

It has only ever had two union elections: one in Delaware in 2014 and the one currently ongoing in Bessemer, Alabama.

That’s because Amazon is religiously committed to busting unions whenever the threat appears, whether that means:  illegally firing workers in retaliation for organizing, breaking the rules of companies it owns to spread anti-union propaganda, hiring people solely to walk around warehouses wearing “Vote NO” buttons, kindly reminding warehouse workers to vote NO while it watches them, and creating a website for workers to visit to learn why Amazon’s exploitation is preferable to collective bargaining rights.”

There’s just

so many of these

and I think it’s incredibly funny but

I just read this bit from the artist and

This is a "plein air" painting which means I set up my easel right across the street of this Chase bank in my city and painted it like it had caught fire. The police questioned me on the spot. Three weeks later Homeland Security was knocking on the door to my home. The question they kept asking me was "Do you hate these banks?" I can honestly say yes.

In regards to posts about racism or intersectionality with race involved you MUST listen. Not respond. LISTEN

What I have seen so many white “allies” do is add onto posts (my own included) to put their own thoughts and opinions. In some cases take the words of the original poster and try to “translate” what is being said to other white people.

Your job as an ally is to uplift our voices. Not add your own.

Please sit down with yourself and ask yourself why you feel the need to insert yourself into a conversation that does not need your opinion. No matter if you agree or not.

White people, your silence is a political act: quelling your ego enough to not comment is a really powerful way to give POC space to express themselves.  If you’re not certain as to whether your comment is necessary, then as a courtesy to POC just keep it as a thought.  Still, here is an (inexhaustive) list to be aware of:

You don’t have anything to add, but you just want to affirm that you agree.  Do not do this.  Just imagine the users you’re talking over as actual people: a circle of black and brown people discussing their mutual experiences, but constantly being interrupted by a white person saying “Yep!”  “I’m white and I agree!”  “We white people need to listen to this!”  What could be more entitled in a conversation that’s not about you?  If you’re reblogging a post, you’re already showing you agree.  That’s uplifting voices of color.  Tacking on a redundant comment in your own (white) words is suppressing voices of color.

Your comment is about racism/privilege/injustice, but is not directly related to the post.  Distracting.  Irrelevant.  Rude.  And, by pulling the thread away from its central idea, you’re making it harder for allies who are still learning to understand how different ideas link together.  Don’t derail.  All issues of injustice are not the same, and specific topics need to have their spaces respected.  If you want to talk about your own experience, you can make your own post somewhere else.

You didn’t fully understand the post.  Injustice is a constantly-evolving beast created through millennia of detailed history that interacts with every facet of our lives.  Its consequences ripple out to touch parts of the world that we don’t even know of.  If you know there’s something in the post that you don’t understand, you can’t even begin to know what’s behind the post that you understand even less.  If you try to analyze it with only half the information, you will lead someone else astray.

I blame @lostbutnot-found 100% because if they hadn't brought it up, I still wouldn't know about that movie existing.

""Your death could not kill our love for you"

"Of darkness and disgrace, we are the human race"

11/10 would watch and rip my heart out again. Cover yourself in glitter more often.

These stats are truly horrifying

Below are a few links to organizations to consider supporting, all of whom are fighting for the rights of AAPI, as always feel free to add on any (credible) links or updates:

Gofundme for the AAPI Community Fund

Stop AAPI Hate

Asian Americans Advancing Justice

useful carrds to get educated on what's happening towards asian community: