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My late father was a brilliant physicist-mathematician. He was one of the first civilian scientist engineers grabbed by NASA when it was created. I wanted to follow in his footsteps by becoming a theoretical physicist. Alas, I could not master the math needed as that is the language of physics. 🙁 So, I compromised by going into the study of English. But I always believe in the first law of physics: energy can never be created nor destroyed. It can only be changed. The ultimate question is if energy isn’t created, where does it come from??

LieparDestin

HELLO FRIENDS!

A LATE HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU ALL!

My extended break has done my once weary mind well so will kick off tomorrows open thread, hope you’ll all.come say hi 🙂

Aint Supposed to Die A Natural Death

Welcome home, LD.

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And how! 🙂

Hola mi amigo!! How is JD doing, too?

Greene wants to give the Antioch Idiot a congressional medal YEEESH!!!!!

Any way that publicity junkie can keep her ugly mug in the limelight–pizz on her.

Gets worse every year Halloween candy and Christmas items out at the same time, Thanksgiving gets trampeled like a black friday door rush. I heared of “only” 3 shootings this year on crazy Friday

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Holy shit. Local 600, the largest UAW Local, voted 69% in favor of "one member, one vote."
A "slap in the face" from "ground zero of the Administration Caucus," (who campaigned against one member, one vote) according to one activist I spoke to.
— Jonah Furman (@JonahFurman) November 29, 2021

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This is an embarrassment to journalism. https://t.co/EJsj7r5CUd
— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) November 29, 2021

tbf, we have embarrassments to journalism in abundance.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/29/nyregion/chris-cuomo-andrew-cuomo-sexual-harassment.html

Thousands of pages of new evidence and sworn testimony released on Monday show the extent to which former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo relied on a group of allies, including his younger brother, the CNN host Chris Cuomo, to strategize how to deflect and survive a cascade of sexual harassment charges that eventually engulfed him.
Beginning last December with the first public accusation by a former aide, Lindsey Boylan, the records lay out in unvarnished detail how the tight-knit group of advisers discussed a series of increasingly drastic steps to manipulate the press, discredit his accusers and retain a grip on power that became less and less tenable.
After debating the legality of the move, they agreed to pass Ms. Boylan’s personnel file to reporters, portraying her as politically motivated and unhinged. They sought — and failed — to rally dozens of former female aides to pen an op-ed defending him.
And Chris Cuomo pressed to take on a greater role in crafting his brother’s defense, including phoning into strategy calls. At one point, he even ran down a secondhand tip that another woman accusing the governor of unwanted advances at a wedding was lying. (She was not.)
The previously unseen materials, including video of the former governor answering questions under oath, were produced earlier this year by investigators working for Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, and undergirded the damning report she released in August that ultimately led to Andrew Cuomo’s resignation.

I hope they go after Cuomo for the real serious white-collar crimes he pulled along with the sex stuff!

If were lucky both will be out of work

For-real journalism is disappearing like the Arctic ice floes.

A regional office of the NLRB on Monday ordered a new election at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama where workers opposed a union.
It was not clear when the new election would take place, and Amazon can appeal the decision to the board in DC https://t.co/kFbQHo5tgr
— Drogon (@drogon_dracarys) November 29, 2021

Lex wont be happy –Awwwww 😉

Rep. Omar’s statement on her conversation with Rep. Lauren Boebert. pic.twitter.com/B5JJVijXKI
— Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) November 29, 2021

Amazon Alabama Workers to Hold New Union Vote, Federal Labor Official Rules

Dont hold your breath

Benny

Workers at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, will have another chance to unionize after a federal labor official called for a new vote Monday.
The ruling by a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board was made public Monday. It follows an earlier recommendation from an NLRB hearing officer that there was enough misconduct by Amazon during the election to justify a new vote.
The first vote, held in April, fell well short of the support the union needed to win the right to represent nearly 6,000 workers there.
“Today’s decision confirms what we were saying all along — that Amazon’s intimidation and interference prevented workers from having a fair say in whether they wanted a union in their workplace — and as the regional director has indicated, that is both unacceptable and illegal,” said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, the union seeking to represent nearly 6,000 workers at the warehouse. “Amazon workers deserve to have a voice at work, which can only come from a union.”
The regional director found that actions by Amazon amounted to “flagrant disregard” of the rules for conducting a vote, and “made a free and fair election impossible.” Among the issues in the complaints was a mailbox at the entrance to the warehouse near signs that encouraged employees to cast ballots opposing the union.
The director also found that the company engaged in an extensive campaign of interrogating workers with respect to their support for the union “thereby interfering with their rights to an election free of coercion and interference.”
In an aerial view from a drone, the Amazon fulfillment warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama during the unionization drive there earlier this year. A new vote has been ordered at the warehouse following union complaints against Amazon's efforts during the first vote.
In an aerial view from a drone, the Amazon fulfillment warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama during the unionization drive there earlier this year. A new vote has been ordered at the warehouse following union complaints against Amazon’s efforts during the first vote.
Amazon (AMZN) expressed disappointment in the decision and vowed to continue its efforts to defeat the union.

Benny

The spokeswoman said a union would hamper the efficiency of improving company policies quickly and nimbly. The company has previously said that it didn’t violate labor laws and treats workers fairly.
Amazon can appeal the decision to the NLRB’s governing board in Washington, the agency spokeswoman said. The NLRB is a federal government agency in charge of enforcing U.S. labor law in collective bargaining and worker disputes. With Democrats holding a majority of the five-person board, labor researchers expect it to side with workers more regularly than during former the administration of former President Donald Trump, a Republican.
Another election could occur within in the next several months, and the NLRB might schedule a vote before its governing board rules on Amazon’s appeal, the agency said.
Working conditions for Amazon warehouse employees have been in focus since the pandemic triggered widespread lockdowns of schools and offices, boosting online shopping and demand for Amazon’s products and services.
Amazon workers in several facilities walked out last year over working conditions. The company has strict performance ratings and break policies that have drawn ire from labor activists and some government officials. Amazon has also been found to record higher injury rates than the national average, according to federal workplace data. The company has disputed those figures, saying it reports injuries more comprehensively than other companies.

I grabbed the first article from CNN; this is from WSJ and gives more info.

Benny

Here’s more from WSJ:

Lisa Henderson, the regional director overseeing the case for the NLRB, ruled that Amazon’s actions throughout the mail-in union election were grounds to nullify the results and hold the vote again.
In her ruling, she said she agreed with an NLRB hearing officer in early August who found that the mailbox Amazon set up “interfered with the laboratory conditions necessary to conduct a fair election.” That is because it could have made employees believe Amazon played a role in collecting and counting ballots, she said. Amazon wasn’t found to have accessed any ballots submitted through the mailbox.
In addition, employees could have perceived the company as tracking their vote through “vote no” pins and tags it handed out because Amazon managers could see which employees took the pins, the hearing officer said.
Amazon has said the collection box was installed as a convenience to employees, and that it didn’t seek to intimidate workers throughout the vote.
The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union would face an uphill battle on any new vote, given the margin of victory and employee turnover at the facility, labor researchers say.

Idiots

.@JamaalBowmanNY represents Riverdale, a tough place in which to defend Palestinian rights. Yet he does so more courageously than 95% of the Democrats in Congress. And they want to expel him for attending a J St event? This verges on leftist self-parody. https://t.co/KRwXOMj8CE
— Peter Beinart (@PeterBeinart) November 30, 2021

Not a good PR move by DSA. It’s also a bit stupid on their part.