This is SO IMPORTANT. I only wish we had been able to unionize back when I was adjuncting for literally $3,500/class at an ivy league school. (We met with the teamsters (!) but progress was pretty slow.) No benefits, no healthcare.

It’s (was?) classic labor exploitation, too — if you made a fuss, there were hundreds of… Read more

I’m going to keep this brief, so if anyone wants to argue a little more I can elaborate on stuff where I glazed over a seemingly big topic. You know what phrase I hear a lot from the unions? “We’re going back to the basics?” Pray tell union bosses, in what generation did you cultivate “the basics?” Mr. Saunders is a… Read more

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The irony being that Trump supporters in the Rust Belt are heavily unionized. Given the chance, Trump would fuck them all over. Read more

But you’re a pussy for being in a gym at all. What’s the difference? You think that monk finds you to be any less of a tool? Tough guy. Read more

so much for judgement free zone thanks to assholes like you Read more

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I completely appreciate that a low blow is technically defined as blow below belt line (although I know some refs take a more conservative take and count anything below the navel as a low blow)...but this is the problem with low blows in boxing...especially if you are going to argue that it’s a true shot to the nuts… Read more

Rarely do you get the fight where you like both fighters less afterwards. Andre Ward, God bless YOU, man. God bless you believe you can fight Anthony Joshua. God bless you to the canvas. Read more

Great summary of the fight, and of what makes Ward such a good boxer. Elite boxers usually have at least one elite characteristic - power, speed, technique, etc. - that lets them overwhelm even good opponents and covers for whatever flaws they might have. Ward doesn’t have elite power or speed, but his technique is… Read more

HamNo, your prizefighting articles are by far the greatest thing Deadspin produces these days. Great article as always.

I don’t think you can argue that Ward didn’t have any low blows — that said, Tony Weeks certainly was of the opinion that Kovalev was milking every “borderline” shot he could, whether or not he truly… Read more

I applied for a job in a congressional office recently and midway through the process they sent me annual salary: $26,000. In DC. On top of that, this position combined three roles that would ordinarily be done by at least two people. Read more

Glad to see this here — it’s hard to imagine NYC without an independent, journalism-driven Village Voice. One way that folks can help support the VV union, if they happen to be in a position to do so, is to donate a little bit of scratch to their strike fund here: https://www.gofundme.com/village-voice-union-strike-fu… Read more

Alabama already tried the migrant clean up three or four years ago, and the agricultural exports (out-of-state) almost collapsed. Read more

Of course the tax wouldn’t affect businesses. That may have implications for people like Manafort, Kushner, etc. as they move their money through the Caymans on their way to who knows where. Gotta have as much of your cash available when you flee the country.
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Bunch of immigrants work for me. Come into work everyday and do an honest day’s work, everyday. Fuck this bill. Read more

To all outward appearances, at least, it turned out pretty well. Your question might be better directed to non-union employees of other media companies that were acquired and where the founders and officers made off with a lot more money than Nick Denton did. But you be you and keep asking those deep, probing… Read more

I spent 9 years in the US Army; i absolutely loved it, despite being a queer Latina. I only got out because of an injury on deployment. I came home, went to law school, and did my PT, with one goal - get back in (and make both of my brother salute me). A year after graduating from law school, and passing the bar, I… Read more

Yeah, good point. Remember that time we almost invaded Iraq?
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We as a society need to stop overblowing how people who join the military are “heroes.” Meanwhile, federal employees (civilians) are seen as wasteful and useless (see recent EO freezing federal hiring and increasing military). People join the military, I think, for as many self-serving reasons as they do for public… Read more