Some Beggarticks (Bidens sp.) at a garden center today. Beggarticks are important pollinator plants and sometimes known as Spanish needles.
Beggarticks are examples of zoochory, seeds are physically transported by animals to other places, specifically epizoochory.
#Trump Insists His Past
Confusion of Obama for Biden Was Done ‘Sarcastically’ While Bragging About His ‘ACED’ Cognitive Test
#Trump acknowledged that he has mentioned former President Barack Obama instead of President Joe Biden in past rallies and interviews but insists that he was not confused, as many have noted, but that he did so “sarcastically” because, of course, he did.
American support for #unions is at its highest level in generations, from 70% (general population) to 88% (Millenials) - and yet, American unionization rates are pathetic.
That's about to change.
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Abruzzo has taken a series of muscular, bold moves to protect American workers, turning the tide in the #ClassWar that the #OnePercent has waged on workers since the #Reagan administration. For example, #Abruzzo is working to turn #WorkerMisclassification - the fiction that an employee is a small business contracting with their boss, a staple of the #GigEconomy - into an #UnfairLaborPractice:
When we talk about the abuses of #GigWork, there's some obvious targets, like #AlgorithmicWageDiscrimination, where two workers are paid different rates for the same job, in order to trick occasional gig-workers to give up their other sources of income and become dependent on the app:
But the #Biden admin, pushed by the party's left wing, made a string of historic, excellent appointments, including #NLRB General Counsel #JenniferAbruzzo, who has set her sights on punishing gig work companies for flouting labor law:
UNITE HERE 11 has brought a case to the NLRB, charging the Instawork, the UC system, Marriott, and Aimbridge with violating labor law by blackmailing gig workers into crossing the picket line.