Job numbers are through the roof. Where are all the interviews with new workers? presswatchers.org/2024/10/job-... New from me.

Job numbers are through the roof. Where are all the interviews with new workers? | Press Watch

News coverage of official reports – like the wildly positive jobs report issued Friday morning – lacks human faces.

Being an Afghan woman is enough to qualify for asylum (i.e., no need to show that the particular woman applying would be subject to persecution in Afghanistan)Being an Afghan woman is enough to qualify for asylum (i.e., no need to show that the particular woman applying would be subject to persecution in Afghanistan)

SPstevepeers.bsky.socialOct 4, 2024 3:39pm

on today's CJEU judgment on Afghan women refugees and EU law www.theguardian.com/law/2024/oct...

EU court rules gender and nationality enough to grant Afghan women asylum

ECJ ruling follows Afghan women’s challenge to Austrian court refusal to give them refugee status

This this this

“The signs read ‘Reclaim America,’ a phrase the white nationalist group Patriot Front uses regularly." Remember that no matter what his weird spokespeople push back, in the year of our lord 2024, this was no accident. newrepublic.com/post/186763/...

Trump Team Unveils Disturbingly Racist Signs at Campaign Rally

Someone on Trump’s campaign thought it was a good idea to hand out signs with a slogan regularly used by a white nationalist group.

The whole "judges keep politics out of their work" thing has always been silly, but Neil Gorsuch doing book tour events with Megyn Kelly and Ben Shapiro might be the strongest evidence yet that the justices aren't even pretending to take it seriously

The Conservative Justices Do Not Care About What You Think

Most Americans disapprove of the Court's lurch to the right. But the justices who control the Court are not listening to most Americans.

What a tool.

By @gabyplantbio.bsky.social#plantscience#academicskynph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Current challenges for plant biology research in the Global South

In an attempt to address the large inequities faced by the plant biology communities from the Global South (i.e. countries located around the tropics and the Southern Hemisphere) at international con...

"One candidate has a plan to address the crisis that caused Helene; the other plans to ignore it entirely." A powerful piece by my friend and colleague Melissa Hanson who lived through Hurricane Helene and sees the climate stakes of this election. www.scientificamerican.com/article/hurr...

I Wasn’t Prepared to Be a Climate Refugee

A climate advocate learns firsthand on the price of climate change in our lives, and calls for voters to head off future disasters

For Asheville folks who need food:

This is terrifying. Monsters.

SKsharonk.bsky.socialOct 4, 2024 3:49pm

good lord, this is genuinely some fascist shit