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Buzzfeed’s Matt Stopera calls this “Anthony Weiner-esque.”

And the anchor responds: “Those folks protesting Fox, I’m wondering if they would prefer a state-run television network.” Because the protesters are communists, of course. (Via – Buzzfeed)

Russia Today speculates that Wisconsin’s anti-union actions and the resultant protests, which continue to roil the state for the third straight day, may herald a coming Egyptian-style revolution against the wealthy ruling class in America. That’s a bit far-fetched, to say the least, but what’s happening in Wisconsin is riveting. In the clip below, some “small government” Tea Party type …

I haven’t blogged about it here, but most of you have surely read about NYC’s Boxing Day Blizzard “scandal” in which the city’s evil union overlords ordered a slowdown in snow removal in order to embarrass the mayor. The story made national news as yet another example of out-of-control wildly overpaid union workers. Slight problem. It never happened. It turns …

Walmart has launched a new website intent on convincing New Yorkers to pressure city leaders to allow the retailing giant a foothold in the nation’s largest market. The site is being accompanied by a massive radio campaign. Many New Yorkers woke up Monday morning to a radio advertisement by Walmart blasting “special interest” groups for pressuring the City Council to …

Wal-Mart’s years-long battle to gain a foothold in New York City has been ramped up a notch with their hiring of Mayor Bloomberg’s former campaign manager, who will battle unions and community groups before the City Council next month. Steven Restivo, a spokesman for the Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc., told The New York Times in its online edition Sunday …

For many years, a familiar sight for Manhattanites has been the giant inflatable rat stationed outside of businesses and construction sites using non-union labor. But in order to capitalize on the city’s eternal bedbug terror, the rat has been retired. Gothamist reports: Asylum spotted this giant inflatable bedbug outside the Affinia Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Let us hasten to report …

The teabaggers are going crazy with glee because actual open socialists joined in at this weekend’s “One Nation Working Together” labor rally in Washington, DC.

From the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union, an attack ad on the GOP’s voting record on employment issues.

Finally, a great flash mob. Clip description: A flashmob infiltrates the Westin St. Francis hotel in San Francisco and performs an adaptation of Lady Gaga’s song “Bad Romance.” The event was organized to draw attention to a boycott called by the workers of the hotel who are fighting to win a fair contract and affordable healthcare. Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender …

After years of being blocked from a NYC location due to vigorous opposition by labor unions, Wal-Mart may have finally found a location in Brooklyn that the city cannot fight. The site, which is currently vacant, meets many of the parameters of what Walmart is looking for in a New York City location: an as-of-right location in an outer borough, …

Open lesbian Mary Kay Henry has been chosen to lead the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents over two million workers in the health care, public service, and food service industries. Henry will replace retiring president Andy Stern, a longtime and vocal ally of the Democrats. Key locals in New York, Los Angeles, Oregon, and Washington State committed crucial …

Hours after the last World Series game to be played there, Philadelphia’s transit workers have gone on strike. The strike by Transport Workers Union Local 234 will all but cripple a transit system that averages more than 928,0000 trips each weekday. The union represents more than 5,000 drivers, operators and mechanics of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. “There will be …

Union employees of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) are set to begin a strike on Monday. Bay Area residents face the prospect of a commuting nightmare Monday morning after the president of BART’s second-largest union announced that it will go on strike at the end of service Sunday night. If Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, which represents about 900 train …

The National Education Association, the nation’s largest labor union, has endorsed marriage equality, with a couple of slight dodges. From the “new business items” recap of their national convention: 1. NEA will support its affiliates seeking to enact state legislation that guarantees to same-sex couples the right to enter into a legally recognized relationship pursuant to which they have the …

Christianist news site OneNewsNow is first with the word that the National Education Association is considering issuing a resolution in support of marriage equality. The NEA is currently holding its annual convention in San Diego, California. Educator and conservative activist Jeralee Smith called OneNewsNow from the convention to report that the executive council has approved language that will throw the …

Randi Weingarten, the openly lesbian head of the nation’s most powerful teachers union, is resigning as president of the United Federation of Teachers, the group whom she also represents in the union – some say over her long battle with Michael Bloomberg over school control. Randi Weingarten will announce she is stepping from her post as president of the United …

A coalition of New York’s largest labor unions including the AFL-CIO are working with the Empire State Pride Agenda to sway state Senators into the light on marriage equality. Community organizers from the powerful health care union 1199 SEIU and its sister union, building service union SEIU 32BJ, have worked for the past few weeks with the Empire State Pride …