Notices by Diligence Jones (deliachristina@sfba.social)

A friend's workplace received notice their staff is forming a #union and she wanted to talk about how to handle. (She's on the leadership team.)

After listening to her describe all the jankery going on (capacity issues, infrastructure gaps, morale, culture, norms issues, etc) I saw everything clearly.

Her staff is using unionization as a proxy for change management. Sadly, forming a union isn't going to expand their donor base, expand their capacity, change the terms of their federal grants, or turn folks into better managers.

But it will bring clarity and structure of sorts.

And that's what I told her.

Her staff is asking for clarity and the leadership team hasn't provided it. So now they're going to be a unionized shop -- this is an opportunity to make the implicit explicit. The leadership team has to be prepared for that but they aren't.

Neither is the staff. They want shared decision-making and they're about to get hit with a quagmire of nonprofit decisions. Hope they're ready.

#BensonUpdate

Benson doesn't need those talking buttons. He makes his needs very clear.

After our post-work walk, which was supposed to be 10 min but *someone* dragged it to 45, Benson stomped into the kitchen, grabbed his food bowl (and then ripped out the slow feeder), and dropped it in front of me.

Message received, good buddy.

He got fed.

It's enraging.

The absolute betrayal.
Not just in this context between Chavez and Huerta in the migrant workers' movement.

But in all spheres of a woman's life: touchpoints of trust VIOLATED BY MEN.

Coaches
Doctors
Professors
Bosses
Coworkers
Comrades
Priests
Pastors
Friends
Husbands
Fathers
Family
Allies

We don't need to wait for our 'enemies' or strangers to abuse us when the men we TRUST are willing to do it.

Fucking FUCK.

Once again, men soaked in patriarchy are the weakest link. Not even your leftist politics can wipe off that stench.

FUCK.

Grabbed from a coworker on Slack.

This is the way.

Also, CA's Cesar Chavez Day is now Farmworkers Day.

So.....that NYT piece about what a fucking horrifying rapist shitbird Cesar Chavez was.

I'm so FUCKING TIRED of how *men* can't keep their fucking dicks out of liberation movements. What the fuck is wrong with them?

Can we just build a future without men, please? Just for the safety, dignity, and peace of everyone else?!? Fuck!

And my god Dolores Huerta...the strength of titans.

Mar 31 is Cesar Chavez day in CA and I'm just going to rechristen it Dolores Huerta Day and spend it cussing out men.

Fuck dudes.

Someone on Reddit said as soon as his parents decided to name him Wilford Brimley he turned 50.

Snort.

“Karp’s message is loud and clear: My technology will take political capital away from one of your greatest enemies—liberal women with degrees—and give one of your favorite demographics to patronize—working-class men—more political power to transfer to you.”

These fucking women-hating weirdo assholes.

I used to think my nemesis was the finance bro. My mistake. It's the Tech Bro. Specifically, this kind.

https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power

WTF kind of question is this, Duo?!?
WHEN would I ever ask this?!?

#duolingo

@jeridansky

Exactly.

I don't know if folks are paying enough attention to the CA gov's race.

It's currently a clown car of Dems with a few MAGA - and 1 MAGA in disguise - thrown in.

Which means that June 2nd (the primary) is going to be a hot mess of epic proportions.

It's also complicated.
Because while it is *absolutely imperative* CA remain blue, the type of Blue matters, too.

For my work, CA must continue to be a place where worker-friendly and gender-friendly policy incubation advances so that we here in CA and in other states can build a bulwark against further civil rights deterioration of the govt.

Having a 'run CA like a business' mod or a cop-friendly mod would make putting up a strong resistance to Trump impossible.

I've heard accounts that #brianmcginnis wife wasn't told where he was taken or if he had medical treatment for a while and his family/friends couldn't find him after he was taken into custody.

Has he been released?

This may be one of the most effed up racist things ever that an AI has ever done.

https://apnews.com/article/washington-dol-spanish-accent-ai-3a1b8438a5674c07242a8d48c057d5a3

I feel like all of my cylinders are firing on rocket fuel. Everything just needs to chill the FUCK out. Jesus.

Minnesota Twin City neighbors are still going through it. That so-called 'draw down' was a ploy to get media to leave and it worked. ICE and Border Patrol are still everywhere and they haven't stopped.

There's a lot going on everywhere but if you can still be a witness and amplification point for Minneapolis/St Paul, that would be great.

#ICEOut
#minneapolis

The White House is garbage.

I don't care that Bovino was thrown under the bus.

I want ALL of them under a bus.

Nothing less.

#FuckICE
#CoupBackDammit

And here.

Again -- I really don't care that this is the line for a lot of folks. I knew it would be (because American White Supremacy).

But now is the time to make as much of this as possible.

All lives matter, right?

This is your time to shine. Make some trouble.

2/2

https://www.tavernresearch.com/research-and-writings/52-say-excessive-force-56-say-too-far

Turns out America really doesn't like it when the government kills nice white people for no good reason.

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https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/53878-more-americans-view-ice-shooting-minnesota-unjustified-than-justified-january-9-12-2026-economist-yougov-poll

In 2026 the Heritage Foundation’s 2026 blueprint, Saving America by Saving the Family kicks into gear.

People who are NotMen, this is for y'all.

This is the State moving into a phase where control is achieved through your bank account rather than violence.

⛓️The Financial "Tether" (FAM Tax Credit)
The Policy: Heritage proposes a $17,670 tax credit (matching the current adoption credit) but limits it to married, biological parents, paid over 4 years (Heritage Report, p. 12-15).
The Trap: By conditioning thousands of dollars in survival capital on "first marriage" and biological parenthood, the state creates a "Marriage Bonus" that acts as a penalty for anyone choosing an alternative path.

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Also, if anyone remembers, that Luigi trial is going horribly for the prosecution.

Thanks to the sloppy ass cops and their sloppy ass shenanigans.

It's like one big ol' civil lawsuit just waiting to happen.