Michael Sainato
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@TheGuardian.com
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/michael-sainato
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The Florida Surgeon General's anti-vax wife claims she has "gifts" entrusted by her husband, including visions and angels who have visited her regularly. She also claimed there are chemtrails outside their house put there by dark forces out to get them
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Guided by angels, pursued by chemtrails: the weird world of Florida health chiefâs influential wife
Brianna Ladapo, the wife of Florida surgeon general Dr Joseph Ladapo, claims her husband wonât work with anyone she hasnât vetted
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/13/joseph-ladapo-wife-brianna
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AZ Republicans dismissed an ethics complaint against Gillette earlier this month over overtly racist comments he made, citing 'free speech,' a stark contrast to the campaigns across the US to get random workers fired for Charlie Kirk related posts or comments
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Arizona GOP lawmaker calls Muslims 'f***ing savages' and âterroristsâ from 'sh*t hole' countries
Arizona Republican lawmaker John Gillette anti-Muslim comments escalate as Gillette calls Muslims 'savages' in interview
https://azmirror.com/2025/09/09/john-gillette-arizona-gop-lawmaker-calls-muslims-fing-savages-and-terrorists/
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A Republican state rep calling for a Democratic Congresswoman to be "tried convicted and hanged" in response to a rightwing account posting misinformation in response to a video about organizing protests and strikes
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A Republican state rep calling for a Democratic Congresswoman to be "tried convicted and hanged" in response to a rightwing account posting misinformation in response to a video about organizing protests and strikes
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The current President of the anti-union Teacher Freedom Alliance Aaron Withe starts out his memoir with the most ignorant anti-science claim "if we evolved from monkeys, why are monkeys still around"
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The Freedom Foundation has, for years, been harassing union members, fueled by wealthy far-right donors
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Meet Tom McCabe: The reckless, unethical, and failing leader of the Freedom Foundation
Over the last four years, McCabe has spent countless resources â including staff hours and donors' money â in a blatant effort to harass workers and coerce them to opt out of their union.
https://accountablenw.org/in-the-news/tom-mccabe/
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The current President of the anti-union Teacher Freedom Alliance Aaron Withe starts out his memoir with the most ignorant anti-science claim "if we evolved from monkeys, why are monkeys still around"
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Julia Carrie Wong
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Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians â "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"
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Microsoft blocks Israelâs use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unitâs access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/microsoft-blocks-israels-use-of-its-technology-in-mass-surveillance-of-palestinians
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c0nc0rdance
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South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu). The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us? (đˇ: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)
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Parker Molloy
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Robby Starbuck is a far-right activist. Meta putting him in the position of being a "bias advisor" for its chat bot is insane.
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In more Disney news, a California court approved a $233 million settlement for wage theft of Disneyland workers
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Disney $233 million settlement with employees wins approval
A California judge has approved Walt Disney's $233 million settlement with 51,478 Disneyland employees who said the entertainment company denied them a living wage.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/disney-233-million-settlement-with-employees-wins-approval-2025-09-17/
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Andrew Alford, the Nexstar exec quoted in firing Jimmy Kimmel, just a few months ago liked a post calling for Adam Schiff to be sent to prison
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The Florida Surgeon General's anti-vax wife claims she has "gifts" entrusted by her husband, including visions and angels who have visited her regularly. She also claimed there are chemtrails outside their house put there by dark forces out to get them
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Guided by angels, pursued by chemtrails: the weird world of Florida health chiefâs influential wife
Brianna Ladapo, the wife of Florida surgeon general Dr Joseph Ladapo, claims her husband wonât work with anyone she hasnât vetted
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/13/joseph-ladapo-wife-brianna
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
4 days ago
In his entire answer he notably never once denies taking the $50,000.
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If you are anticipating cuts to your SNAP benefits on or after October 1st in your next recertification, or are currently struggling to afford food and groceries, please reach out to me at
[email protected]
for a story I'm working on
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Eric Michael Garcia
4 days ago
BREAKING: Trump goes on a wild and unhinged rant spouting misinformation and easily debunked lies about autism.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Trump;âtaking Tylenol is not goodâ for pregnant women and makes wild autism claims
President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made an announcement declaring that they had found a link between autism and acetaminophen, commonly known as Tylen...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-rfk-jr-tylenol-autism-b2831565.html
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If you are anticipating cuts to your SNAP benefits on or after October 1st in your next recertification, or are currently struggling to afford food and groceries, please reach out to me at
[email protected]
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Starbucks Workers United
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ICYMI: Check out the letter 45+ major organizations sent to Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol last week. Workers deserve a fair union contract⌠No Contract, No Coffee!
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United Farm Workers
5 days ago
UFW remembers Rene Lopez who sacrificed his life for La Causa (1962-1983) On Sept. 21, 1983, Rene Lopez, a worker at Sikkema Dairy near Fresno, was shot to death by company goons hired to harass the strikers who were attempting to bring in the UFW to represent them.
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ProPublica Guild
11 days ago
We canât produce fearless investigative journalism without job security and a fair contract. After almost two years of bargaining, we need your help. Show your support for
@propublica.org
workers by adding your name to our petition:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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Fair Contract Now for ProPublica Guild
We, the workers of ProPublica, provide our readers with deeply researched, unbiased news that holds power to account. This work is more important now than ever, but our staff canât properly contribute...
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-propublica-agree-to-real-job-protections-now
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A 'let them eat cake' moment, cancelling a survey on US food insecurity after enacting the largest cuts to SNAP in history
www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
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Exclusive | Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey
The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s, but now says the report has become âoverly politicized.â
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trump-administration-cancels-annual-hunger-survey-ca3d3793?st=yVnXBd
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The fascist club sandwich; the fascist Hungarian prime minister's racist anti-migrant rhetoric getting quote tweeted with funding conspiracy by a billionaire fascist, getting retweeted by a conspiracy theorist fascist Alex Jones
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The fascist club sandwich; the fascist Hungarian prime minister's racist anti-migrant rhetoric getting quote tweeted with funding conspiracy by a billionaire fascist, getting retweeted by a conspiracy theorist fascist Alex Jones
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Trump's Pardon Attorney Ed Martin met with Alex Jones last week, as Jones is pushing conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's death and mind control, while he appeals civil defamation lawsuits for his Sandy Hook conspiracies
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Trump's Pardon Attorney Ed Martin met with Alex Jones last week, as Jones is pushing conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's death and mind control, while he appeals civil defamation lawsuits for his Sandy Hook conspiracies
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A 'let them eat cake' moment, cancelling a survey on US food insecurity after enacting the largest cuts to SNAP in history
www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
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Exclusive | Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey
The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s, but now says the report has become âoverly politicized.â
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trump-administration-cancels-annual-hunger-survey-ca3d3793?st=yVnXBd
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Attorney investigating Trump critics set to resign, reports say, shortly after president calls for him to be sacked â US politics live
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
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Attorney investigating Trump critics set to resign, reports say, shortly after president calls for him to be sacked â US politics live
Trump said âI want him outâ about Erik Siebert, who has been investigating New York attorney general Letitia James and former FBI director James Comey
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/19/donald-trump-jimmy-kimmel-suspension-abc-federal-reserve-lisa-cook-us-politics-live-news?CMP=share_btn_url
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Nexstar's PR flack claimed, without any evidence, that this was someone else. Alford's LinkedIn premium account, with his entire resume, and years of interactions with Nexstar
www.linkedin.com/in/andy-alfo...
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AFSCME
7 days ago
BREAKING: In a joint lawsuit, AFSCME and AFGE are suing the Trump administration over the unlawful executive order aimed at stripping workers at Voice of America and the U.S Agency of Global Media of their collective bargaining rights.
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Unions Sue Trump Administration Over Union Busting at Voice of America, USAGM
AFSCME, AFGE say move to strip workers of their collective bargaining rights is attempt by administration to silence their First Amendment rights
https://www.afscme.org/press/releases/2025/unions-sue-trump-administration-over-union-busting-at-voice-of-america-usagm
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Andrew Alford, the Nexstar exec quoted in firing Jimmy Kimmel, just a few months ago liked a post calling for Adam Schiff to be sent to prison
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Julia Carrie Wong
7 days ago
It is bad that our industry rewards people who go on TV to brag that they are stupid, unthoughtful and uncaring
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Social Security Works
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Ruffalo: We saw Jimmy Kimmel's show was cancelled. We don't know what the reasons are really...My industry doesn't understand what's happening right now -- but what they do understand is our freedom of speech is being attacked.
#NoKingsKickOff
@markruffalo.bsky.social
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A class action lawsuit was filed today against Trump's Department of Labor over it's withholding of millions in grants to the the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), an unemployment service program for seniors
democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
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https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1-2.pdf
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Andy Alford, the Nexstar group exec overseeing Kimmel's firing, is a typical out of touch boomer
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Karen Attiah
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I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.
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A class action lawsuit was filed today against Trump's Department of Labor over it's withholding of millions in grants to the the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), an unemployment service program for seniors
democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
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Writers Guild of America West
8 days ago
đ¨ Join us TODAY at 12 PM at the main Disney Gate at 2201 W Alameda Ave in Burbank to protest ABC and tell them to bring back
#JimmyKimmel.đ¨
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Writers Guild Rips ABCâs Decision to Pull âJimmy Kimmel Live!â From Air: âThe WGA Stands With Jimmy Kimmel and His Writersâ
SAG-AFTRA also released a statement following the news, noting, "The decision to suspend airing 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' is the type of suppression and retaliation that endangers everyoneâs freedoms."
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/writers-guild-responds-jimmy-kimmel-suspension-1236374222/
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WGA Statement on ABCâs Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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The following is a statement from the WGA on ABCâs decision to pull âJimmy Kimmel Live!â
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The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmelâs band releases a statement calling the FCCâs pressure on Disney âstate censorship.â
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Chris Murphy
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This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.
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Andy Alford, the Nexstar group exec overseeing Kimmel's firing, is a typical out of touch boomer
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Under Trump, the Department of Labor has pushed out around 20 percent of staff, rescinded benefits, undermined enforcement of labor violations, and is proposing rules that would cut pay and scale back rights for millions of workers
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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âLike working in a prisonâ: cuts, fear and understaffing at Trumpâs labor department
Morale has plummeted as staff charged with protecting US workers feel their core mission is being undermined
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/16/trump-administration-labor-department
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Julie A. Su
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The hardworking & talented investigators at the DOL have an underrated skill in convincing workers to talk about abuses in their workplace even when those workers face retaliation for doing so. Today, those investigators are the ones speaking up about abuses in their own workplace.
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Under Trump, the Department of Labor has pushed out around 20 percent of staff, rescinded benefits, undermined enforcement of labor violations, and is proposing rules that would cut pay and scale back rights for millions of workers
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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âLike working in a prisonâ: cuts, fear and understaffing at Trumpâs labor department
Morale has plummeted as staff charged with protecting US workers feel their core mission is being undermined
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/16/trump-administration-labor-department
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Elizabeth Warren introduces bill to ban employers from running credit reports in hiring
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Elizabeth Warren introduces bill to ban employers from running credit reports in hiring
Exclusive: Massachusetts senator said credit checks in hiring disproportionately affect people of color and women
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/15/elizabeth-warren-credit-reports-employment?CMP=share_btn_url
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Karen Attiah
11 days ago
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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The Washington Post Fired Me â But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America â and it cost me my job.
https://substack.com/@karenattiah/note/p-173531760?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2bz6j
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The Ladapos are headlining a "medical" conference together with a fake doctor who hasn't been licensed since 2019
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Elizabeth Warren introduces bill to ban employers from running credit reports in hiring
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Elizabeth Warren introduces bill to ban employers from running credit reports in hiring
Exclusive: Massachusetts senator said credit checks in hiring disproportionately affect people of color and women
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/15/elizabeth-warren-credit-reports-employment?CMP=share_btn_url
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Clay Higgins voted for David Duke, allegedly put a gun to the head of one of his three ex wives, left a police force after assaulting an unarmed black man and then lying about it, and has a history of overtly racist comments
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Clay Higgins voted for David Duke, allegedly put a gun to the head of one of his three ex wives, left a police force after assaulting an unarmed black man and then lying about it, and has a history of overtly racist comments
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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