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Scott Littlehale

@slittlehale.bsky.social

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Build Housing, Protect All Workers, Organize. California construction labor union research analyst and campaigner since 2003. Research finds that union membership, collective bargaining, and quality jobs are good for people and society, actually.

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Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · Nov 22

Recent replies question my approach to housing construction challenges, summarized as:
1) Pay workers a locally appropriate self-sufficiency wage, with retention-promoting, intra-industry-portable fringe benefits
2) Attack other socially negative sources of production costs.
Here's my argument👇

Cover page from report: "Rebuilding California: The Golden State's Housing Workforce Reckoning," by Scott Littlehale, January 2019. URL:
https://faircontracting.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Rebuilding-California-The-Golden-States-Housing-Workforce-Reckoning.pdf

Screenshot of the table of contents to the report Rebuilding California (see prior pic), consisting of 10 sections.

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Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 2h

This is good! Also, I look forward to hearing about their solidarity in a future popular front effort to raise Riverside’s minimum wage, including for those who do landscaping etc for the city’s private HOAs😉

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Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 3h

Shitty pictorial evidence. Skunk seems utterly un afraid of us.

Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 3h

Looking at the bay with a slightly different angle right now. Beautiful, beats last night’s walk in the rain.

MP @mapp.bsky.social · 3h

Good evening San Francisco

Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 3h

Dog had a close encounter with a skunk just now and emerged unscathed.
Feeling #Blessed.😂

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 3h

It’s actually 7. California, Kentucky, Maine, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Vermont are slated to begin their window shopping period tomorrow and learn what their ACA premiums will be for 2026.

Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 4h

Tomorrow, six more states will be able to view their 2026 health care costs.

On average, they'll find their premiums have doubled.

It's not complicated: Washington Republicans spiked health care premiums for 22 million Americans.

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 17h

Making buses run faster may sound almost comically modest for a self-described democratic socialist.

But Mamdani’s push for fast buses is more radical than appears, since it targets who controls the most valuable resource the city owns: the streets. /1

nathannewman.substack.com/p/the-revolu...

The Revolution Will Arrive on Time: Why Mamdani's Fast Bus Socialism Is More Radical Than You Think

Mamdani's promise to Speed Buses is in in the Tradition of the Sewer Socialists Who Strengthened Local Control of Urban Infrastructure

nathannewman.substack.com

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David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social · 17h

NPR's veteran defense reporter Tom Bowman: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon Pass

www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

www.npr.org

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 2d

Multiple listens persuaded me: this is a good album.
Purchased

gabigamberg.bandcamp.com/album/where-...

Where the Earth Bends, by Gabi Gamberg

12 track album

gabigamberg.bandcamp.com

Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 2d

For Cox to have risen to power in the same state that reelects Mike Lee gives me some slender reed of hope that civil war isn’t inevitable, that agents of a less violent politics can win on the right. That said, I know little about him besides what he said in the interview.

Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 2d

As opposed to Shapiro, after listening to Cox for 30 minutes I believed that he was coming from a place that genuinely does believe we need a functioning competitive but unifying political structure where victories aren’t rigged and the balance of power is variable over time.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · Nov 17

UPDATE: Got a good pelican shot.

A pelican in the air with its mouth open and anchovy, it's looking at us.

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Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 2d

I recommend listening to the Ezra Klein interview with Spencer Cox, the Gov. of Utah.
The interview with Shapiro, otoh, wasn't worth even the 30 minutes I lasted.

Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 2d

Our political economy is so messed up. With public institutions infiltrated more and more by private wealth and politically coded profiting seeking, broad trust that those institutions matter for the public good will continue to deteriorate. Which is BAD for our democratic-rule-of-law project.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 5d

So Dominion Voting Systems, which won almost a billion dollars in settlements over false claims of counting irregularities, has been sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote to a Missouri firm that will finally be in position to make those false claims reality.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Dominion, voting firm targeted by false 2020 election claims, sold to new owner

Company, which reached $787.5m defamation settlement with Fox News, becomes new entity called Liberty Vote

www.theguardian.com

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texasiswhereillbe.bsky.social @texasiswhereillbe.bsky.social · 7d

It’s wrong that we need helmets, goggles, breathing mask and head to toe padding to peacefully protest. This entire situation is not just on shit for brains, it’s on SCOTUS more than him. This could not be going on if they followed they constitution.

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Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 2d

Duck Player within DuckDuckGo works nicely for ad-dodging ...

Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 3d

Meritocracy in action.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 3d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

there's something here

A normal-versus-normal matchup is what politics used to be — persuasion, messaging, negotiation, compromise. Behaving this way will lose against someone donning body armor while calling you an antifa domestic terrorist MS-13 gang member. And the guy in the body armor will always lose to the guy in the inflatable frog suit.

3x3 grid charting how aura farming, shitposting, and acting normal interact

Aura Farming Shitposting Acting Normal
Aura Farming Stronger aura farmer wins Shitposter wins Aura farmer wins
Shitposting Shitposter wins Society loses Acting normal wins
Acting Normal Aura farmer wins Acting normal wins We live in a society

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 4d

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 4d

very good interview! Your exposition and application of Frankel's dual state framework for authoritarian approaches to law were clear and engaging.

Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 4d

saw them live on the Time the Revelator tour in Brooklyn. So good.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Francisco Miranda, who was born in California, was detained by masked agents, taken away in an unmarked van and held for several hours at the ICE office in Portland.

ICE arrests US citizen in Oregon. Attorney decries ‘illegal abduction’

Francisco Miranda, who was born in California, was detained by masked agents, taken away in an unmarked van and held for several hours at the ICE office in Portland.

www.oregonlive.com

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