You guys... this case is *WILD*

This guy seemed insane, but I got curious cause all the Apple blogs are smearing him so I went into PACER...

21 month long trial, 176 docket entries, including finding of warrantless search & unlawful arrest, & sealed ex parte (Apple?) filings

https://twitter.com/appleinsider/status/1768643689159463397

U.S. District Court, California Northern District (San Jose), Case No. 5:22-cr-00251-EJD-1

1/x Docket Report

🧵 This 12/29 NLRB charge is complicated & I didn't have the energy to explain it last night, but let me try now. There's 3 parts to it. First, Apple tried to get me to sign something called a discovery "protective order" to make my pay/benefits/perf reviews & complaints secret.

https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1740871615574147158

The Orders can be abused in litigation. They're meant for Trade Secrets or other protected info, & doc/topic specific, not blanket. A party Motions & lobby a judge why they think they need it. Apple tried to coerce me to voluntarily enter a very broad 1 for everything in my case.

🧵 Luke Munn, "Chip, body, earth: Toxic temporalities of Intel processor production" (2020)

"The worker’s body becomes a vessel of labour-power to be exhausted, poisoned, & then dispensed with; land & water become an industrial resource to be depleted, contaminated & discarded." They "used TCE & benzene in production & degreasing of processor chips. Working intimately w/ the chemicals workers internalized burns & bleaching w/ long-term injuries to organs. Chemicals seeped into the earth below factories. Processor production enfolds chip, body & earth."

There's something I want to write about in depth, but don't have time now, yet its too timely to skip

I dug deep into the ebooks antitrust suit against Apple

Apple harassed, & got smear articles published about, & harassing emails sent to...their federal court-appointed monitor When the US Court appointed a monitor to ensure Apple stops violating the Sherman act, Apple didn't respond well

The monitor? A prior DOJ Inspector General, & special counsel on Iran-Contra

Apple's response to him included direct & indirect harassment, intimidation, & smears

LOL

https://twitter.com/EPAoig/status/1685673628652777473

https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1642006874626162689

🧵 Remember in May 2021, when Apple entered into a real estate 'mega deal' w/ my ex-landlord Irvine Co, for property on toxic waste clean-up sites, the same weekend Apple mysteriously closed my worker's comp claim abt toxic waste chemical exposure?

Let's see how they're doing... Here's a map of the area: Apple, Synopsys, LinkedIn

For ex-coworkers who were there or moved in later, this includes: Mary 5-6, 12, 14-18; Palomar 1; & Almanor 1

The area is a toxic hellstew & the county environmental health dept keeps yelling at them about a half-arse cleanup

🧵 I'm reviewing my 2020 medical records now I know Apple was venting silicon fab poison in my apartment windows at the time of my mystery illness

Things that didn't make sense with a Brownfield clean-up site, now make a lot of sense with ongoing releases

Like Arsenic poisoning On September 9 2020, I went to the hospital for a big blood draw to conduct my own medical monitoring program on myself - after exposing myself to the chemicals in my apartment the night before

& that night I had a 3am death spell

v-blog of that night:

Apple's hazardous waste training manual says that in case of a hazardous waste spill or leak

1) employees SHOULD NOT clean up the spill

2) employees SHOULD call the Worldwide Loyalty team

3) Worldwide Loyalty will liaise with EH&S to determine if Apple has to tell the gov I'm sorry, Apple, you're doing what with 'infectious agents'?

🧵 In 2020, I was severely ill & disabled from solvent exposure at my home

This was the origin story for everything thats happened after

It's even more poignant now knowing about Apple's silicon factory next door

In March 2021, I published this article:
sfbayview.com/2021/03/i-thou… I tried to get the local press to write about what happened - the illness & toxic waste - but they refused, afraid of the property manager (Irvine Company)

So, I drafted an article myself & finally found one local paper willing to publish the story.

Please support SF Bay View!!

Remember that time in Sept 2020

1 week after I discovered my apartment was built on toxic waste

& solvent exposure explained my severe illness

& I reach out to Apple's "Safety" team asking for help

& next day I mention there is an Apple building next door registered with EPA & then same day I report I found out about (what was Apple's secret silicon fab plant)

then Apple's Real Estate EH&S team manager calls me on the phone

She suggests (knowing I'm next to Apple's factory) that I use Apple's paid 'extreme condition leave' to move out of the apts

🧵 The EPA FOIA release on Friday included 4 reports labeled "Enforcement Sensitive Info - for Internal Use Only"

I told EPA but also said I won't give them back; EPA then claimed it was on purpose

The report revealed EPA had responsibility for my toxic waste apartment complex

https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1649259130245246976

EPA's report on the Synertek (Honeywell) Superfund site (with TCE plume under Apple's silicon fab plant & the giant apt complex where I Iived)

Notes: a groundwater well *at the apts* has increasing solvents. EPA wrote: 'talks w/ state for possible transfer of site back to EPA'

In September of 2019, the US EPA identified that levels of trichloroethene (TCE) in the outdoor air around my Apple Superfund office & across the 2km "Triple [Superfund] site" had been persistently increasing to the point it now exceeded health/safety levels for pregnant women. EPA: "We're concerned cause TCE concentrations are often exceeding indoor air residential & school limit of .5 ug/m3. EPA also set short-term exposure limits for TCE at 2 ug/m3 for fetal heart defects in 1st trimester of pregnancy. We appear close to exceeding it in ambient air."

Several months ago

It occurred to me for the first time

that DEI 'affinity groups' & 'Employe Resource Groups' (ERGs)

Are "Company Unions"

& Company Unions are unlawful under the NLRA because it interferes with the creation of actual unions

& I cannot stop thinking about it

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1657444363654385664

Linked article has some legal analysis

if there is any 'dealing' between employee group with management (such as worker proposals taken under consideration), its a labor organization! Congrats!

8a2 is implicated if mgmt dominates or interferes with group
jdsupra.com/legalnews/affi…

🧵 Received another batch of EPA FOIA docs

I requested records ranging from Jan 1-Dec 31 2022 abt my Apple Superfund office

I will post more after I have time to recover, but let's start with the hall of shame...

EPA: "it was clear Apple is not addressing most of our comments" Northrop Grumman: Apple does not have and/or refuses to provide as-built drawings of their office building, which they had built

🧵 Hi search algorithm friends

I was quiet about this in hope I could fix it myself, but it's been 3+ weeks of toil & I barely made a dent

I need some pointers on how to unf*** some things Apple apparently did to search results for my name

After digging, I found 4 big problems Apple orchestrated some insane & inflammatory blog & NY Post articles about me in 2022

Publishers refuse to retract or update

Even worse, somehow Apple got these old low quality URLs to stick at the very very top of search results

Meanwhile, good articles are hidden or missing

1987 docs from CIA's FOIA library, declassified in 2011

Apple writes to the CIA Director asking for favors in the bidding process

Apple says they 'aggressively marketed to the CIA'
& wants 'very much to work with the CIA'

CIA responds complaining of unethical conduct by Apple Links:

cia.gov/readingroom/do…

cia.gov/readingroom/do…

The Enron scandal was one of the 1st developments to bring the use of off-balance-sheet entities to the public's attention. The practice of off-balance sheet financing's come under increasing scrutiny after a # of scandals revealed misuse of the practice."
investopedia.com/terms/o/off-ba…

https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1650697044489560071

Because Apple hides its off-books numbers in notes, instead of the tables, its hard to pin it all down - but here's what I was able to gather last night.

Combining just the off-books manufacturing, leases, and purchase obligations... Apple's squirreling away $108 Billion a year.

I'm taking a compliance course & there's a big section on Enron

Apple also uses those SVEs/SPEs, mostly for their real estate projects: data centers, manufacturing plants, biogas sales, etc

How do I check if Apple's reporting their SPEs many fines on the parent's balance sheet? Like, in Dec 2016, 2 of Apple's hazardous waste facilities were fined $450k by the Cal gov

Apple had SPEs for the plants

How do I check if they noted the fine on the parent company's filings? Could they just throw it vaguely under "Accrued expenses"?
sec.gov/Archives/edgar…

🧵 Since the current state of things with Apple seems to be us taking turns torturing each other, & I already had more than my fill from them the last 3 weeks; I think its my turn

My public records request just came back with detailed specs of Apple's secret silicon fab plant ⬇️ If you're new to this part of the party: earlier this year I discovered that across the street from the Santa Clara apartment I moved into & got super sick, is a Apple office where per city records, Apple's clearly doing semiconductor manufacturing & venting solvents at the homes

🧵 Recently, I've dramatically changed my perspective on the entire concept of 'whistleblowing' (much more on that later), & perhaps the biggest take away for me personally, is a new clinical view on how to track the efficacy of a person's attempt to blow the whistle.

Thread ⬇️ Efficacy can be evaluated based on whether the person's disclosures led to the termination of the misconduct in a reasonable time

This can be see in:

1) an investigation into the subject of the disclosures

&/or

2) the exposed institution changing their policies or procedures

In Colorado was "one of the most bitter & violent struggles between workers & corporate capital in the history of the US"

Workers were striking for better work conditions

So the boss, Rockefellers, sent their paramilitary, & then paid the National Guard, to beat & kill strikers

https://twitter.com/portugaltheman/status/1520916275047841799

The US intentionally does not teach their people about the country's history of labor & protest

Instead of a history book, Howard Zinn learned about Ludlow Massacre from a Woody Guthrie song

Zinn wrote about it in The People's History

Here's the song: