The most common union worker you're going to find in America is a black woman who works in health care or like the service industry.

So like these weird outdated ideas that they weren't even true back then.

Like I wrote a whole book about how they weren't even true back then. It's just trying to like

cleanse our minds of that weird stereotype that's just standing in our own way. What's going on everybody?

Welcome to a very special May Day edition of the Bituation Room

podcast, a live stream, later stream, whatever it is to you. I'm so glad you press play, I'm so glad you tuned in, I'm so glad you shared the stream,

and you subscribe to this goddamn channel. I mean, how much fucking fire content must one put out

to convince you that this is where you need to be and this is what you need to listen to

all right clearly more because we have such a good show. Labor author, Kim Kelly is here.

Gonna be breaking down all the things from Starbucks to Amazon to everything else that has led us to this moment, kind of a new upsurge in class

consciousness, labor activity, union activity, we have so far to go, but it is very heartening and exciting.

And so it is a different kind of May Day, and I'm fucking pumped.

Also comedian James Fritz is here and we are not only going to talk about

all things union but we are going to imagine what would a social media platform not run by a

sociopathic billionaire look like what would that be how How could that work?

Would it ever work now that Elon is buying Twitter

or is trying to buy Twitter?

And all we can do is just talk about Elon

every single effing day, and it drives me up the wall. Let's imagine, James and I are going to do that. That's going to be our final segment. You join in and then of course we've got a bonus bish for all the patrons and this time

you know honestly this is some big lib shit of me to do but let's talk about the White House Press Correspondence

Citrin because I thought it was actually okay. Yes I did and I think it look is important for people in power to be able to laugh at themselves

you know until it becomes sort of like a king court jester situation and it's like release the hounds you know that kind of thing but

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