Starbucks is a multi-billion dollar company. Their CEO made 6,666x what the average barista made last year. It’s time for them to get serious, finish negotiating a strong union contract and invest in @sbworkersunited.org baristas who power their profits.

#USA: RSF joins a coalition of organizations calling for the release of journalist Mario Guevara from ICE custody. Guevara's detention and possible deportation sends a chilling message of intimidation to all international journalists who are working in the US legally. rsf.org/en/usa-100-d...

This should be getting a lot more attention. And no journalist should sign it. "The idea that a member of the Pentagon press corps or a reporter writ large can only write what the government tells them to, that's not how it works in the United States of America." www.rawstory.com/pentagon-267...

The League has consistently & boldly spoken up in the face of rising authoritarianism. Now we are putting words into action. We encourage millions in our Unite and Rise movement to show up in defense of democracy. Lean in locally. Commit to act: bit.ly/4g5RcEq @lwvus.bsky.social @lwvva.bsky.social

Things to watch out for:

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate. I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man. Never change your last name.

As tariffs and shifting trade policy reshape global markets, Iowa soybean farmers say the pain is showing up everywhere on the farm www.thegazette.com/agriculture/...

Nurses in Iowa are up against a massive anti-union campaign from UnityPoint Health, which is spending $34,000 a day to stop the union. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social has the story. prospect.org/labor/2025-0...

On Sunday morning, some of the first people to swim in the Chicago River again after almost a century helped raise $100,000 for research into ALS, a fatal neurological disorder known also as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

We have to adapt to endure in a post-information age, where we are told there are no facts, only politics. open.substack.com/pub/steveins...

Maine’s border towns feel decline in Canadian visitors: ‘Half our community is gone’

President Donald Trump said prominent billionaires – including media mogul Rupert Murdoch and tech founder Michael Dell – could be part of a deal in which the U.S. will take control of the social video platform TikTok. https://to.pbs.org/3IAIdyL

“This policy operates as a prior restraint on publication which is considered the most serious of First Amendment violations,” we told @kenbensinger.bsky.social “The government cannot prohibit journalists from public information merely by claiming it’s a secret or even a national security threat.”

oklahoma state government is not ok bsky.app/profile/wsua...

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

absolute goals

Seems like it's happening faster.

Got up before dawn this Friday to go on CNN to talk tariffs and farmers and how not having a China trade deal (they have bought NO soybeans from us since May, they usually buy $13 billion) is going to devastate agriculture heavy states like ours (20% of our economy). youtube.com/shorts/KWK3K...

The termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social is insane. They’re claiming that white men are a protected marginalized group

SOYBEAN FARMER🧑‍🌾 : “It’s not good for anybody. Best case scenario is we never have to talk about tariffs again. Free trade is the answer.” China is now buying $0 from us — and soybeans are Tennessee’s #1 cash crop. Why don’t @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn etc. care? 😕

“Trey’s death evoked the collective memory of a community that has suffered a historic wound over many, many years and many, many deaths." Colin Kaerpernick is paying for an independent autopsy for Demartravion “Trey” Reed, a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tree.

"Disney+ She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany publicly canceled her Disney+ subscription and encouraged others to do the same,"

Don't apologise for your dog showing up during the Zoom, apologise for hiding him all this time

A new cross-border investigation, supported by RSF, reveals how #BigTech giants like Google & Meta lobby to weaken rules meant to protect journalism & democracy. From #Brazil to #Indonesia, the report exposes nearly 3,000 lobbying actions from murky networking to disinformation campaigns.

One new detail from yesterday morning: apparently one of the first problems the Lege is gonna address is Johnson County having local control over our own damn flagpoles. littlevillagemag.com/jon-green-jo...

ohp did a thing

Murphy: "These things work in tandem. The Trump administration offers something to these big companies that will make their owners billionaires then in turn the big companies repress political speech or serve as Trump's propaganda machine. It's a quid pro quo that seems to be happening in open view"

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

"America’s entire power structure has been taken over by the very same sort of dumbasses who have been yelling at all of us on the internet for years." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-ye...

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

solidarity from Iowa ✊

Accurate statement. (I spent years of my life writing about the reassertion of state power over the Russian media, aided by oligarchs and large companies that gained control over private media outlets.) www.bleedingheartland.com/laura-belins...

Censorship never stops with just one book, one newspaper, one person. The end goal of censorship is always complete control. For Christ's sake, Kimmel just showed a video of the President's own words. Stop capitulating. It will never save you in the end.

President Donald Trump said licensed television networks are "not allowed to" criticize him, suggesting that the federal government could take their licenses away.

The next jester to mock the mad king will lose his head

Protesters criticize changes to Iowa Department for the Blind training program

To a gathering of residents in Dubuque Tuesday, David Cwiertny, director of the Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination at the University of Iowa, said there is “no such thing as risk-free water.” www.thegazette.com/environment-...

Margaret Klein is running unopposed for Waterloo City Council? is this correct?

Love this labor story from my fellow labor reporter colleague Sean Kitchen in Pennsylvania: keystonenewsroom.com/2025/09/09/r...

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New Mexico is the first state in the nation to guarantee no-cost universal child care. Starting Nov. 1st child care will be made available to every parent in the state, regardless of income. The average annual family savings are estimated at $12,000 per child.

2/ Karen tells her story in her own words here: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

The Washington Post can't claim to defend free speech while firing Karen Attiah for exercising hers. The Post should be a newsroom that promotes the freedom of ideas, speech and the press.

Silverio Villegas González, a 45-year-old father and cook from Michoacán, Mexico, who was shot and killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Franklin Park was remembered as a “kind soul” and a devoted father,” by his loved ones. trib.al/JlFHa1Z