Quinn Martindale @qmartindale@soc.ialis.me
NLG + DSA in DFW
https://twitter.com/QMartindale
I believe we will win paid sick time in Dallas.
Amazing to watch the ghouls of the American foreign policy establishing trying to rain on the Korean peace parade.
Come to our DSA_NorthTexas Electoral Working Group Meeting tonight at 8pm at the HPB at 5803 E Northwest Hwy!
Another example of how qualified immunity means that you don't actually have any rights against the police. Plaintiff was detained for four hours after police killed her dad, but can't sue even though there was no probable cause for the cops holding her.
http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/17/17-10201-CV0.pdf
Glad to see @SolidarityUS here
Via @BryLaVe of Houston DSA
My desire to get off twitter is intensifying.
Oh also.
Now that it’s possible (lol) to assume gender via the name.
Can you please remove the Gender on our ID cards, passports, social security, …
I wish I used this more than I used twitter.
Heard two guys talking about forex trading as a hobby over lunch.
Good news everyone!
https://dsafresno.org/ now actually points to a thing!
That thing is currently a very empty thing, so we need to work on adding more things to the thing, buuut baby steps!
Also it's hosted on github pages for now; hopefully I'll work out a better solution soon.
'More than 500 cafeteria workers who serve food at #Facebook have unionized to push for higher wages and more affordable health benefits, UNITE HERE Local 19, a union that represents Northern California workers, said Monday.
The move to unionize comes as thousands of contract workers such as janitors, security guards and shuttle bus drivers at other major Silicon Valley tech firms, including Apple, Intel and Google, have done the same...'
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/24/hundreds-of-facebook-cafeteria-workers-join-union/
Jury hung on some of them, but at least one got hammered in sentencing.