Echinocentric @Echinocentric@social.cleverlibre.org

2. Noncompete clauses "block people from working for a competing employer, or starting a competing business, after their employment ends."

Noncompete clauses harm all workers by preventing jobs from opening

This reduces competition for labor and drives down all wages

1. Last week, the FTC proposed a rule banning noncompete clauses.

If the rule is ultimately adopted it would be one of the most dramatic expansions in worker rights in decades.

And not just for people subject to noncompete clauses.

For EVERYONE.

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INTEREST CONFLICT: Rep. Scott Perry REFUSES to rule out serving on committee probing his investigators via @OccupyDemocrats https://occupydemocrats.com/2023/01/08/interest-conflict-rep-scott-perry-refuses-to-rule-out-serving-on-committee-probing-his-investigators/

Congratulations to (the generations of) students who have organized for this over the decades.

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/yale_union_ballot_count

By the time
a pandemic reaches
its fourth year
it is really quite evident
that the problem is not
that too many people
are panicking
but that too many people
are complacent.

“Unlike other attempts to topple governments across Latin America’s history, the attacks on Sunday were not ordered by a single strongman ruler or a military bent on seizing power, but rather were fueled by a more insidious, deeply rooted threat: mass delusion. ... 'If there was no Trump, there would be no Bolsonaro in Brazil. And if there was no invasion of the Capitol, there wouldn’t have been the invasion we saw yesterday'"

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/world/americas/brazil-riots-bolsonaro-conspiracy-theories.html

If you’re still posting on Twitter then you’re actively helping a fascist achieve his goal of controlling the information so he can bend it how he wants.

Waxing crescent moon setting over the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Reno, Nevada.

#Moon #Reno #Nevada #Nightscape #Astronomy #AstroPhotography #Photography #LinuxPhotography #Darktable

Get ready. Republicans will be barking about how President Biden had classified documents in his private office after he was VP

Here’s what they’ll conveniently leave out

The day of discovery was 11/2/2022. The White House Counsel’s Office notified the National Archives. The Archives took possession of the documents the next day.

The. End.

I'm leaving the imploding bird app asap. I am a lawyer with a potty mouth. Hope to meet some new friends and find my friends from the bird app who have already migrated.

#Michiganders
#Detroit
#VoteBlue
#cats
#Politics
#parenting
#Covidisnotover

"Conservatives" don't launch a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol or attempt a fake-electors scheme to steal an election. Fascists do that. Stop describing fascists as conservatives.

Who said no good fashion came out of the 1970s?

#fashion #1970s #70s

#Twitter is restoring some accounts (h/t @oliverdarcy)

Steve #Bannon cheered for the #Bolsonaro insurrectionists who stormed the presidential palace in #Brazil because he has contempt for free elections.

Steve Bannon is a cancer on our politics and should be held accountable.

Democratic revolutions are contagious. Anti-democratic revolutions can be too.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/brasilia-riot-bolsonaro-lula-trump/672677/

Very next day after the domestic terrorist attack in Brasilia:
- 400 arrests
- clear statement with the law and decree that are being put in place
- total condemnation of the terrorists by the conservatives
- "we're going after everyone involved: organizers, sponsors and politicians!"
- the governor of Brasilia was fire

Who's the banana republic now?
#arrestTheTerrorists #January6th

9 January 1942 | The number of prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the evening roll-call was 11,856. Among them there were 9,153 Poles, 2,004 Soviet POWs & 193 Jews.

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See our online lesson that explains the most important aspects of the history of the camp: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_1/

#Auschwitz #history #ww2 #otd #prisoners #numbers #Poles #Soviet #Jews #POWs #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #facts #memory #remember #education #elearning #lesson

Because governments have consistently downplayed the risks of heart disease and other serious conditions after COVID-19 infection, they have left a dangerous opening for anti-vaxxers to spread disinformation about the vaccines.

#COVID #Vaccines #PublicHealth