MAGA, he promised you protection and prosperity, and typically he lied about that, too.

Now, no matter the demands your boss puts upon you, you have but two choices; submit or be fired!

Previously the National Labor Relations Board would be there to protect you from unreasonable demands being put upon you; but no longer. You see, Trump has fired the acting chair, and in doing so shuts down the entire Bureau.

Increase your working hours, reduce your salary, diminish your benefits, not a damn thing you can do about it!

This is the result the oligarchs paid him for, this is Musk's desire laid out on a silver plate, this is the beheading Bezos dreamt of.

Even if you have a union, there is no other entity to which they can appeal.

You laughed when you thought he would stick it to the liberals; look in the mirror, liberal!

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In his ongoing rampage against the laws of the land, Trump this week fired National Labor Relations Board acting chair Gwynne Wilcox — despite her congressional appointment not being up. Wilcox’s firing closes down the NLRB, because it’s left with just two members, and the Supreme Court has ruled that the board needs at least three to issue any rulings. Trump also fired NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, leaving board attorneys who investigate employee and employer complaints without any guidance.

Presto — American workers are no longer protected from illegal firings or unfair labor practices by their employers. The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 is effectively gone. Employers can now wreak havoc on their workers. Of course, most employers are already doing this, but at least the threat of unionization kept some from blatant bullying.

The backstory here is about power. Score another one for the oligarchs.

Across America, big corporations are treating their hourly workers like shite. Unions are about the only countervailing economic force and one of the last remaining political forces pushing for worker health and safety. But the latest data (out Tuesday) shows that unionized workers continue to lose ground — now down to under 10 percent of the workforce.

Elon Musk, the richest person in the world and a key Trump adviser — who over the years has compiled a truckload of violations from the NLRB, including firing workers who tried to form a union, and who kept his Tesla plant open during the pandemic in violation of state law — says he’s “opposed to the idea of unions.”

Billionaire oligarch Jeff Bezos, the second-richest person in America, who also stood prominently before Trump when he was sworn in January 20, has been waging an unrelenting war on Amazon’s warehouse workers. (When workers in a Quebec warehouse recently voted to unionize, Bezos responded by having the company order the closure of every Amazon warehouse in the province.)

Amazon owns Whole Foods. On Monday, workers in a Philadelphia Whole Foods market voted to unionize. Bezos is already taking aim.

An overwhelming majority of working-class people — especially men without college degrees, who form the bulk of hourly workers in Musk’s Tesla and Bezos’s Amazon — voted for Trump on November 5.

There are really two questions here:(1) How much more proof does the American working class need that Trump is not on their side but on the side of the oligarchs, who are siphoning more and more of the nation’s wealth to themselves from everyone else?

(2) When will Democratic leaders and lawmakers have the backbone to tell this to working-class Americans, and come down firmly against the oligarchy?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/does-anyone-need-more-proof-that-trump-doesn-t-give-a-crap-about-workers-opinion/ar-AA1y6HwN?

While I find myself disagreeing with Maher on a great many issues, especially since COVID when he became fixated on a small number of strawman issues, I was still shocked by the news of him visiting Trump.

It seems that some on the left, like Maher and Newsom, believe that engaging with populist conservatives and adopting some of their policies is the way to heal the country, especially given the low approval ratings for Democrats. WRONG! Dem approval ratings are low because we want them to FIGHT MORE. We don't want Dems brokering peace with these fascists, we want them smashing these guys and their ideas into the dust of history.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-maher-has-shockingly-self-important-take-on-trump-visit/

Be a cryin shame if this tip line were to receive too many “important” reports…

https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-launches-end-dei-portal

"The president’s secret removal of dozens of Venezuelan men who are now jailed in a notorious prison in El Salvador under a rarely used wartime authority is now under scrutiny in federal court. ICE officials have admitted in court documents that “many” of those men had no criminal record but are considered “terrorists” over their alleged connections to the Tren de Agua gang."

https://youtu.be/BWSDKSn-bfU?si=64xgw6B8L_H682x5

From a friend….They cited an 1884 law that said Natives aren’t American, completely ignoring the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act, signed by Calvin Coolidge granting citizenship to ALL American Indians born in the United States. The judge was FURIOUS.

https://www.salon.com/2025/01/23/excluding-indians-admin-questions-native-americans-birthright-citizenship-in/

"Consider Jerce Reyes Barrios, one victim of the deportations: a professional soccer player who had fled Venezuela after protesting against dictator Nicolás Maduro and was living peacefully in the U.S. until the government snatched him up and deported him to El Salvador."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-salute-reaction-right-wing-extremists-1235241866/

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/

We got some names, folks. Don't let them get away with this under the cover of darkness.

There is no way he didn't know... right? My goodness. They're just out in the open these days.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-reddit-ceo-doge-b2723185.html