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Labor educator. Philadelphian. Brunonian. Once and future English Teacher. (she/her)
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OlĆŗfįŗ¹Ģmi O. TĆ”Ćwò
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if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either
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Emissary Of Night | ŁŁŁŁ
12 days ago
Ų±ŁŁ ŁŲ¶Ų§Ł ŁŁŲ±ŁŁ
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli
12 days ago
Pretty happy for this as final edit. Excited for the milky way core to pop back up without the moon for a couple days starting Saturday. Will I brave the 107 degree desert heat to capture it? Do I even have to ask?
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Only took a cross country flight, a two hour drive, and hanging out with
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13 days ago
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Can confirm
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jentrification
14 days ago
āThis cannot be sustainableā: The U.S. borrowed $50 billion a week for the past five months, the CBO says ehfuckingscuseme???!!!
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The U.S. borrowed $50 billion a week for the past five months, finds the CBO: 'Our fiscal problems will not solve themselves' | Fortune
"We need policymakers to come together, agree to reduce deficits ... and put our national debt on a downward sustainable path as a share of the economy."
https://fortune.com/2026/03/10/treasury-debt-borrowing-five-months-deficit-warning/
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed
15 days ago
Nearly 6 hours since a GOP congressman said āMuslims donāt belong in American society,ā not a single member of Republican leadership in the House will weigh in.
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Raider
23 days ago
Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.
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Charity Bowl Help Desk Dan - Bowl Kicks Off on 4/20
26 days ago
There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana (Also I really want to try a Korean style Poā Boy)
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Governor Tim Walz
27 days ago
This has nothing to do with fraud. The agents Trump allegedly sent to investigate fraud are shooting protesters and arresting children. His DOJ is gutting the U.S. Attorneyās Office and crippling their ability to prosecute fraud. And every week Trump pardons another fraudster.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein š
28 days ago
"I didnāt apologize for having MS or being disabled, neither of which I have control over. I apologized because my actions caused harm and offense. I apologized because it was the right and respectful thing to do. I apologized because even with my disability, Iām still part of the human family"
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Two Things for Sure
The BAFTAs tried it.
https://robertjonesjr.substack.com/p/two-things-for-sure?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=626678&post_id=189053957&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3p512&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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Joaquin Castro
about 1 month ago
An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.
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Chris Murphy
about 1 month ago
This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the ābaby jailā in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But itās routine. And disgusting.
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Working Class History
about 1 month ago
#OtD
13 Feb 1913 82-year-old labour activist Mother Jones was arrested in West Virginia for supporting a coal miners' strike. Convicted in a military court and sentenced to 20 years in prison, she was pardoned after serving 85 days. More on the Mine Wars:
workingclasshistory.com/2018/06/09/w...
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Mother Jones
about 1 month ago
Individually, each post could easily be dismissed, but taken together, they seem to form something more deliberate: a stream of repurposed Nazi propaganda for the everyday personās feed.
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The US government will not stop sharing Nazi propaganda
And their supporters are loving it.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/nazi-propaganda-trump-white-house-dhs-kristi-noem-social-media/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=slack
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ProPublica
about 1 month ago
5/ āI have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive mealsā¦going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick hereā¦ā From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
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Mica Rosenberg
about 1 month ago
Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words:
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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āI Have Been Here Too Longā: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICEās Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters
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Don Moynihan
about 1 month ago
*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen *Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record *In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release *He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation
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Neil Stenhouse
about 1 month ago
Screenwriter Chris Morgan: In Fast & Furious 7 I wrote about the Godās Eye device - able to connect to any camera in the world- as a cautionary tale Jeff Bezos: At long last we have created the evil Godās Eye device that almost kills the whole Toretto family in Fast & Furious 7
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Marisa Kabas
about 1 month ago
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
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Will Bunch
about 2 months ago
It can happen here - in Pa. coal country I went to tiny Tremont, Pa. to see how a former Big Lots warehouse for cheap goods would become an island in a U.S. gulag archipelago, warehousing 7,500 human beings from ICE raids My special report on an American nightmare
www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont, Pa., that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in a $119 million ICE deal.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-detention-warehouse-schuylkill-county-20260205.html
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Starbucks Workers United
about 2 months ago
If Starbucks wonāt respect workers at the bargaining table, they donāt deserve our clicks or orders. Our call to action is simple: š± Delete the Starbucks app.
#DeleteTheApp
bit.ly/deletetheapp
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Bill Grueskin
about 2 months ago
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
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Washington-Baltimore News Guild
about 2 months ago
The Washington-Baltimore News Guild strongly condemns the layoffs announced today at The Washington Post. These cuts represent yet another blow to a newsroom that has already been pushed to its limits and a disservice to the readers who rely on The Post for rigorous, independent journalism.
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Ben Mullin
about 2 months ago
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
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Alex Hanna
about 2 months ago
I went to college with Aliya. Here, she speaks to Congress about being assaulted by ICE in Minneapolis, pulled violently out of her car, and taken to detention, where she blacked out. "You have no reason to believe you will make it out alive if you already being called a body."
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Alex Hanna
about 2 months ago
Meta now forcing all employees to use AI tools and tying it to employee performance, according to
@theinformation.com
. HR said "this is not an activity trackerāitās an impact-evidence starter" That's a fun way to rebrand workplace surveillance.
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Aaron Rupar
about 2 months ago
This is just insane. Itās only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and
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Merriam-Webster
about 2 months ago
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jamelle
about 2 months ago
the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
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Justin Hendrix
about 2 months ago
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by nameāciting facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html
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Jacob Soboroff
about 2 months ago
Walz told me that when he spoke to Trump on the phone the president compared the immigration operations in Minneapolis to the military mission he ordered in Venezuela.
www.ms.now/news/walz-sa...
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Walz says Trump compared Minneapolis surge to Venezuela mission
The Minnesota governor tells MS NOWās Jacob Soboroff that the reference shows where Trumpās head is. The White House denies that.
https://www.ms.now/news/walz-says-trump-compared-minneapolis-surge-to-venezuela-mission
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Victor Ray
about 2 months ago
As
@hebagowayed.bsky.social
and I wrote in our Guardian article on abolishing ICE, this is Homan threatening to gun down Americans for using their free speech rights to accurately describe ICE as fascist secret police.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Molly Jong-Fast
about 2 months ago
This is what letting RFK jr go wild on health looks like
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Brett Banditelli is my treasured friend, even though Iām not coming to see him in person this week. (Again.)
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Starbucks Workers United
about 2 months ago
BREAKING: Last night, the Schuylkill Yards Starbucks location won their union... officially making EVERY Starbucks in West Philadelphia unionized! CONGRATULATIONS to the baristas who are organizing to win a better future for workers everywhere āš„
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Joel S.
about 2 months ago
To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
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[SCUTTLEBUTT]
about 2 months ago
there's space between winning and won. don't stop now.
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Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber
about 2 months ago
My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking
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Chris Geidner
about 2 months ago
"I insisted that the agents let me assess him. Normally, I would not have been so persistent, but as a physician, I felt a professional and moral obligation to help this man, especially since none of the agents were helping him."
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Brandy Zadrozny
about 2 months ago
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
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Andy Vitek
about 2 months ago
This should be the baseline energy expected from every elected Democrat in the country going forward.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS
about 2 months ago
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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Asha Rangappa
about 2 months ago
I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, āItās like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?ā as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
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Chris Hayes
2 months ago
!!!! "Aides to Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attyās office and FBI agents based in MN to shut down a civil rights investigation into an officerās fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability, according to three people briefed on the discussions."
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Chris Sims
2 months ago
ICE just crashed a car at my intersection (due to their own shitty driving) and immediately got out and tear gassed observers.
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Don Moynihan
2 months ago
Currently, the organizational leadership of ICE/CBP is telling agents to be more aggressive, not less. This fits with a pattern of impunity we see with authoritarian security forces. For example, the are rewarded for the number of arrests, which incentivizes indiscriminate arrests.
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Don Moynihan
2 months ago
This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
2 months ago
šØHOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
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