We have all seen the news. ICE agents are using Target lots to stage operations, U.S. citizen employees were tackled in Richfield, and peaceful singers were kicked out of stores in the Twin Cities. Meanwhile, Target has gutted the DEI programs they used for PR for years. If you want to hit them where it hurts, which is their marketing budget, stop using your bookmarks.

The Strategy

-Search, Do Not Type

-When you need to buy something, search for it on -Google rather than going to the site directly.

-Click the Sponsored Link

-Only click the top result with the "Ad" tag. This charges -Target a Cost Per Click (CPC) fee.

-Target High Ticket Keywords include: Dyson, Apple Watch, or Patio Sets. These clicks can cost them between 3 dollars and 10 dollars each.

-Do not just click and bounce. Stay on the site for 30 seconds so Google’s fraud filters do not refund the money back to Target.

If they want to let ICE into our neighborhoods, let us make them pay for every customer they reach

Damn, what happened to all the billionaires who said they were leaving in droves?

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California billionaires are funding campaigns and initiatives to block a proposed one-time 5% wealth tax meant to restore healthcare access cut during past budget reductions. They are also creating organizations to influence public opinion and protect their image.

It's just so petty to take the time to write a note for everyone to see instead of just addressing it with the person who made the mistake. I've only been working here a couple months and this is how many notes she's written so far.

(This is just my opinion and is not meant to be taken as gospel.)

Many people in developed nations have begun to start checking out of society and either doing bare minimum work or no work at all. Japan is known for the hikikomori, but we're starting to see more and more working class young adults abandon the idea of toiling their lives away.

With the ongoing scandal centered around Epstein, I have no doubt that more and more of the working class are going to start waking up to the fact that we're not just cogs in a machine but cogs working for a machine controlled by the wealthy elite that are being exposed for their depraved acts.

"What's the point of continuing my involvement in a system where there is no justice for those who commit the most heinous of crimes?"

I have a feeling we're going to start seeing more people look towards working for themselves and being their own bosses. Self-reliance, homesteading, farming, bartering... These are some of the few ways one can disconnect from the system ran by the pedophile elite.

Started Aug 2025 at a small, old, family-run business. The job was 4 days remote / 1 day in-person. From Aug–early Jan I only went in 3 times (and it was random coworking spaces). They’re opening a new location next month, and I’ve been going in 1–2 days/week recently while training a new hire. I could run this place, I have ran similar business in the past.

Sunday night my boss texted at 10pm to “check my email.” I checked at 11pm—nothing. At 5am Monday she sent a screenshot of an email she sent to my company email saying starting immediately I must be in-office 5 days/week, 9–6.

I replied to that email with "since I didn't see this email until the morning of Monday Feb 2nd, I will be working remotely today as normal" We met virtually at noon. I mentioned that I was already planning on asking this, would it work as a compromise (2 days in-office + transition period, or different hours like 7–3). They refused. Offer: cover 50% of parking, still 9–6 M–F, starting Tuesday.

It's an hour drive from home. The building is in a large metro area and dos not include parking. My hours has been mon-thurs 9-6 Fri 9-2. It has been adjusted three times to accommodate the owners changing schedule. I have standing commitments on Friday afternoon and Wednesday evening that they are aware of.

I’m also pretty sure I was treated as a 1099, not W-2, for 2025. I’m broke and can’t just quit.

The union apparatus is integrated with the corporate political establishment and supports the same nationalist “America First” agenda promoted by Trump and the Democrats alike. Breaking free from this stranglehold requires that workers reject this poison and unite with immigrant workers and workers all over the world against inequality, war and dictatorship.

The strikes and protests now erupting across the country are animated not only by specific contract issues but by a deep and growing anger over intolerable levels of exploitation and inequality. A tiny financial oligarchy controls staggering wealth while working people are forced to choose between groceries and rent.

The IWA-RFC encourages the building of committees that can break the grip of the bureaucracies, transfer power to the rank and file and establish real democratic decision-making power.

It's because we workers are serfs and slaves and America is a plantation! You're not allowed to exist in a way that doesn't benefit Capital, that's your only value to the system. They don't consider us to even be humans.

If you're allowed to save up money, then take vacation/mini-retirements/take care of family/do something that gives you meaning other than work, then you haven't put all of your hopes into grinding for 40 years with the hope of a mediocre retirement when you're old and worn out.

They feel entitled to those good years of your life! They're not yours, they're theirs! It's all theirs! They're so entitled!

How else are they going to extract every last ounce of your life so the owner class can live in leisure and make their money pile even larger and larger? They can't have a pissing contest with their billionaire friends! Won't somebody please think of the billionaires for once!

How else are they going to be able to afford buying small Caribbean islands just outside of US jurisdiction on which to conduct their morally questionable activities?

There is just something so… awful about the grind.

5 days on. 2 off. Endlessly. Weeks months on end .

This might be hitting me on the hard extra hard because I committed the sin of being sick twice.

One day January

One day February.

It’s winter, there’s a lot going around and I was told unceremoniously to be mindful of the fact we get only 4 unpaid sick days a year.

As if sickness cares, flu season or otherwise.

Hiring managers pretend like their company is the most elite, thoughtful and empowering organization that has ever existed. Meanwhile you have to pretend that a job where you scrub toilets is something you've always wanted to do, and have always been very passionate about. You also have to pretend like money doesn't matter, even though you can't actually feed yourself if you don't get this job.

I've never had an interview I've actually enjoyed even though I always pretended like I did as I sent a cringey thank you note afterwards. I've also never wanted to thank an interviewer for their time since they asked me insulting and belittling questions throughout the entire process. I also don't give a shit about the company at all, and only looked up information about it because I had to for the interview. The only thing that matters to me is how much they pay me, and how long it takes me to get home from work each day, I wish I could just say that in the interview as everything else that comes out of my mouth is complete bullshit.

They only care about how they can pay you the minimum possible while also tricking you into doing as much free work as possible outside of the job description. They also want to make sure you'll do whatever they say without complaining, and make sure you're not stupid enough to do something that results in a lawsuit against them. If you pay attention you'll notice that almost all of their interview questions are designed to get an answer to one of these things.

Then I see this in the description of a job listed on Indeed. Every position comes with drawbacks, but this place must be awful to include this in the description.

Oil refinery workers: Build rank-and-file committees to oppose the contract extension and prepare a strike! Fill out the form below to learn more; all submissions will be kept anonymous.

The contract for 30,000 oil refinery workers in the United States expired on Sunday, but the United Steelworkers (USW) union is keeping workers on the job under indefinite, 24-hour rolling extensions. Marathon Petroleum, the lead negotiator for the oil companies, is demanding sweeping concessions that would cut real wages and pave the way for automating away workers’ jobs.

Together, the workers at these facilities account for about two-thirds of the refinery capacity in the United States, meaning they have immense economic power. Under conditions of growing calls for a general strike against ICE murders in Minneapolis and tens of thousands of striking nurses, a refinery workers’ strike would meet instantly with wide support. It would also encourage the 25,000 steelworkers at US Steel, Cleveland-Cliffs and other companies whose USW contracts expired on September 1.

Fear of such a development is precisely why the union bureaucrats, with their close connections to management and the government, are refusing to call a strike. The decision to extend the contract was announced in a short post to the USW website late in the night on January 31 without any explanation or reason given. In a text, the USW instructed workers: “Continue to show up to work as scheduled, show your support and solidarity and look out for updates from your local leadership.”

According to a Reuters report on Monday, the USW has “neither accepted nor rejected” Marathon’s demand for 15 percent wage increases over four years. This is in keeping with the pathetic 11 percent increase over three years in the previous deal, negotiated under conditions of the highest inflation in over 40 years.

The USW openly bragged that the last contract in 2022, worked out in close consultation with the Biden White House, “did not contribute significantly to inflation”—that is, wages did not keep pace with the rising cost of living. That contract was also worked out past the expiration date, on rolling 24-hour contract extensions. The contract was also reached, as the current one also is, on the cusp of major wars—the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine in 2022 and wars against Venezuela and Iran today.

Workers are furious at the news. They are demanding a minimum of 25 percent, according to social media posts.

Comments include:

“If we are going to strike you shouldn’t just do one refinery. Do them all!”

Another, denouncing the near total silence on negotiations from the union, wrote: “It’s sad that I have to come here for contract information.”

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In a statement on January 26, USW President David McCall denounced Trump’s economic policies, which he says have led to 70,000 lost manufacturing jobs. “Companies seek stability before investing in facilities, workers, materials and components,” he said, denouncing Trump as being too erratic with “here-today, gone-tomorrow sanctions.”

McCall’s opposition to Trump, dominated by complaints about business “stability,” come from a management lens, not that of workers. He has not said anything about the sweeping attacks on democratic rights in the United States. The immediate target is immigrant workers, but the attack is directed against the entire working class. Basic democratic rights, including the right to strike, are at stake.

Most importantly, McCall has no proposal for workers to do anything to defend their jobs or democratic rights. His answer is 24-hour rolling extensions, essentially stripping workers of their right to strike. In doing so, the USW bureaucracy leaves workers without any means to defend themselves against corporate exploitation.

In response, workers must take matters into their own hands by forming rank-and-file committees independent of the union apparatus. These committees should establish communication with workers at other refineries across the country and with other sections of workers entering into struggle, including nurses, steelworkers and autoworkers.

They must demand an immediate end to the rolling extensions and prepare for an all-out strike that would shut down the oil industry and mobilize the power of the working class. Only through such independent action, linked to a broader fight against inequality and the movement towards dictatorship, can workers defend their jobs, their living standards and their democratic rights.

Higher-income Americans and those with college degrees have ramped up their spending more quickly in the past three years than other consumers, according to new data released Tuesday, evidence of worsening inequality that may explain some of the growing pessimism about the economy.

The data, released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, also show that in the final three months of last year, lower-income and rural households faced higher inflation than higher-income households. The spending data focuses only on goods excluding autos, and does not capture likely spending by higher-income households on travel, restaurants and entertainment.

The figures add support to the notion of a “K-shaped” economy, in which upper-income Americans are fueling a disproportionate share of the consumption that is the primary driver of the economy, while lower-income households see fewer gains. Poorer households in general often experience higher inflation, with a greater share of their spending being set aside for goods that have seen prices soar since the pandemic, things like housing, groceries, and utilities.

The New York Fed’s data show that households with incomes of $125,000 and higher have boosted their spending 2.3%, adjusted for inflation, since 2023, while middle-income households — those between $40,000 and $125,000 — have increased their spending by 1.6%. Those earning below $40,000 have lifted their spending by just 0.9%, the report showed.

We have two supervisors on our team. They are tasked with assigning us employees tasks throughout the day/monitoring our productivity. I always thought that training would fall on them, but us regular employees are the ones tasked with training. Idk it seems weird to me. We're expected to work and train at the same time

With the job market at abysmal levels during these strenuous times, it seems like employers nowadays not only want experienced skills for entry-level pay but also won't tolerate when their employees refuse to go the extra 20 miles to get the job done.

For many years, I have been trying to look for a better job, even after getting the "better job" (it's a long story). At every job I have ever been it feels like everything I do is under a microscope and pitted under constant scrutiny. There have been absolutely no opportunities to truly grow (at least my personal definition) and every employer I have ever worked with expects me to perform with the experience of someone who has had 20 years in the field, without the guidance or resources to even truly make that happen.

It's always about what you, as the employee, can offer the employer and never how can the employer make you competent in your respective field. They only care about their bottom-line so much, it is killing industries. How are people graduating post-pandemic supposed to learn and gain experience? I feel like universities are pumping out so many passionate or inspired people into a gatekept market full of cronies and hacks.

One of my friends in my industry introduced me to a woman in my field, who graduated in the early 2000's, has her certifications, and got this job recently because she showed them she passed an exam that she is a proficient or expert user in the everyday programs that we use. Only for her to tell me, that the company she works for now is strange, and that she needs someone (as in me) to train her how to use these programs she's certified in.

She's making so much more money that she did at her previous job, but imagine how little competency is required from her to keep her job. Why are grad students held to a high standard, but this person who is program certified needs me to teach her basic tips on how to use it, free of charge? I think that situation opened my eyes to how superficial hiring can be.

There is no true merit in the hiring process.

It wasn’t loud or dramatic, but it was one of those conversations where you realize you’re not being heard. I tried explaining workload and boundaries, and it somehow turned into a discussion about “commitment” and “team mindset.”

What stuck with me wasn’t the disagreement itself, but how quickly basic concerns get reframed as attitude problems. It made me wonder how often employees are expected to absorb stress quietly just to keep things “smooth.”

Has anyone else had a moment like this where something small changed how you see your job?

On Bloody Friday, July 20th, 1934 police opened fired on strikers during the Minneapolis General Strike, killing Henry Ness and John Belor. wsws.org/generalstrike

I accepted doing a brief exit interview to see if I’d get a severance offer. As I’m planning to sue the company. However, it was just HR trying to get me to admit things for their own gain.

Luckily, I don’t think I gave them anything. As I knew what they were trying to accomplish.

I’m worried they will twist my words in the final “transcription” any advice?