The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against berry grower Wish Farms in California saying that managers, supervisors, and crew leaders subjected female workers to unwanted touching, sexual demands, and sexual comments for years. 🧵

A grassroots movement in Montana has over 50,000 signatures to ban corporate spending in elections, which is enough to meet the statewide requirement. The initiative would prohibit corporations, nonprofits, trusts, and "artificial persons" from directly funding candidates, parties, or elections.

Texas is planning to transfer 5,000 disabled students in Houston to "hub" campuses, which will potentially segregate them from the students in their neighborhood schools. 🧵

politician with blood all over their hands: "all anyone wants to talk about is the blood on my hands, and it really hurts my feelings, so can we just stop talking about the blood on my hands? what about that arab guy thousands of miles away, he has blood on his hands, but you're not saying anything"

After 101 years of serving its rural community, Sturgis Hospital in Michigan has officially shut down. This is really bad news for the residents of Sturgis who are now forced to travel very far distances just to get emergency care. 🧵

‪Happy Father's Day to my fellow Americans who know our leaders lock up more fathers and break up more families than anywhere on Earth‬, and who know that the forced reproduction of fatherless households for mass incarcerators to stock up on free labor is an economic strategy from the pits of Hell

A teenager in California was detained at a routine ICE appointment 1 day after graduating high school with honors. Wilber Urbina Garcia was planning to register for fall courses at El Camino College to pursue medicine. Teachers and school staff prepared character references seeking his release. 🧵

A Connecticut mother is suing the federal government after masked, armed ICE agents surrounded her vehicle while she was taking her children to school, removed and handcuffed her without displaying a warrant, and abducted her without properly confirming that the children had a caretaker. 🧵

House Republicans approved a budget to eliminate the federal government's only dedicated arts-education grant. Cutting this will hurt the artistic development of a lot of children. 🧵

There's a violent cult with nukes that's been aggressively bastardizing a longstanding faith for their own imperialist agenda and stealing our money for decades, and a majority of libs on Bluesky can't even muster the words that are required to condemn them, let alone take any action to counter them

Trump's feds are trying to whitewash US history at our national parks by removing at least 51 exhibits from 37 sites about topics like slavery, Indigenous genocide, and climate change.

"All of Lebanon must burn!" - ancient Zionist proverb

Florida is making a move to ban undocumented students from enrolling in their state colleges altogether. For context, roughly 8,000 undocumented students graduate from high schools in Florida every year.

New York has expanded free community college for eligible adults ages 25 through 55 who can have tuition, fees, books, and supplies covered while pursuing associate degrees in designated high-demand fields listed below:

I'm no stranger to being disappointed by JGL. In my youth, there was a "comedy" starring him and Seth Rogen that was in theaters for a month already which meant it'd be empty so I brought a date for some action but the movie was all about cancer. Top 5 worst sexual experiences for me. Curse you JGL.

Happy Juneteenth! Just a reminder that USA never abolished slavery. The 13th amendment actually allows incarcerated people to be used as slaves. This is why our corporate overlords love mass incarceration so much and why they'll never support policies that reduce crime.

Once you realize we're just "economic units" to our billionaire overlords and they're "programming" us to be stupider and stupider because millennials and Gen Z got too smart too fast, everything will make more sense with AI, algorithms, disinfo, media monopolies, surveillance, data centers, etc.

According to federal ICE data, DACA recipients with no criminal charges or convictions are being deported or detained. This is so messed up. What happened to only going after violent criminals and people who are dangerous?

Rep. Rashida Tlaib introduced a bill called the Find Our Families Act requiring the Department of Homeland Security to provide an accurate online locator for people detained by ICE including timely information about arrests, locations, and transfers. 🧵

The DOJ is investigating 43 school districts across 3 states to evaluate how they teach topics like sexuality and gender identity. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Democratic member of Congress from Massachusetts Lori Trahan has betrayed her constituents by proposing a bill to impose a 3-year freeze on state regulation of AI model development.

Imagine it's your first week as a cop in Mississippi... you answer a call about alleged "stolen diapers," someone in your squad lynches a baby, your superiors call it justified, and now you're suited up like a stormtrooper standing guard outside a friggen Walmart, throwing smoke bombs at protesters

Today is the 55th anniversary of the "War on Drugs" that ruined millions of lives, and a new study has officially confirmed what we all knew: addiction treatment is blocked by policy and payment barriers like insurance coverage gaps, low reimbursement, prior authorization, and documentation burdens.

Rapper "Mystikal" aka Michael Tyler was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of third-degree rape. He took a plea agreement to avoid a first-degree rape conviction, which carries a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.

Nearly 1,000 auto workers in Michigan went on strike for 10 days forcing Dauch/American Axle to agree to a contract that raises wages by 36% over 4 years, gives immediate raises to long-term workers, adds paid holidays, and stops any increases to healthcare premium costs.

A 1-year-old in Mississippi was shot and killed by police after a cop opened fire on a vehicle involved in an alleged shoplifting incident at a Walmart. An adult was also critically wounded. This is a national tragedy. RIP Kohen Kartier Wiley

The mass labor and hunger strike at Delaney Hall is still going on as it enters its FOURTH WEEK. The strike expanded when dozens of detained women joined the protest and introduced a demand to terminate a female guard who's accused of sexually assaulting at least 10 women inside the facility.

Every American needs to closely examine every entity of corporate-backed politics & mainstream media that's come across your eyes in your entire life. Then track the flow of every bribe. And then take a good, hard look at all of our organized religions and the textbooks our teachers taught us from.

You don't want DATA CENTERS in your neighborhood? You don't want FLOCK CAMERAS next to your home?? You don't want KILLER ROBOT DOGS walking your streets??? Wow... so I guess you just want EYE-RAN to have NUKES then, huh?

The fact that federal persecution of campus protesters doesn't even register on either the liberal or conservative radar is evidence of how ideologically-captured both parties are by fascist interests. 2 cults who merge at the end to form 1 cult that works together to gaslight and polarize everyone.

Federal prosecutors on behalf of the Trump admin are charging 8 pro-Palestinian activists associated with the University of Michigan with federal felony conspiracy. This is another fascist escalation in how the federal government handles campus protests. 🧵

9 renewable energy groups are suing the Pentagon and Pete Hegseth because the military has effectively frozen national security reviews for new wind farm projects. Wind supplies 10% of US electricity, making it our largest renewable electricity source. 🧵

A federal judge struck down a Trump policy that made it harder for wind and solar projects to qualify for tax credits. This is the most recent setback in the Trump admin's efforts to sabotage any competition for fossil fuels. 🧵

Whistleblower David Grusch and a bipartisan group of congressional lawmakers gathered at the Capitol, where he said that the US government is actively aware of several distinct types of alien life that range from "corporeal, bipedal-type life" to "sentient, plasmoid life"

An investigation into Mississippi's solitary confinement system says that incarcerated people were held alone for weeks, months, or even years, with lights on nearly all day, little human contact, limited showers, and worsening mental health.

Red Lobster is now an... AI company? 🥴

California, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin are suing the US Department of Education for cutting special-education grants that train educators and support students with disabilities. California alone says over 880,000 students are eligible for special ed, and its grant was worth $10.5mil over 5 years.

The GOP's Farm Bill includes a provision that could force school meal programs to sharply limit imported foods like bananas, broccoli, peaches, fish, and other reliable foods that cafeterias depend on.

Lawmakers in New York passed a law that would ban businesses from setting individual prices based on personal data, such as browsing history, income, or real-time location. It currently sits on Kathy Hochul's desk waiting for a signature. Will she sign it or veto it? 👀

A man in Florida is suing police after they relied on an incorrect facial-recognition result to arrest him for a crime in a city he never visited. The ACLU says police concealed evidence that he couldn't have committed the crime, including facts about distance and license-plate-reader searches.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll found that TWO-THIRDS of Americans disagreed with the rapid construction of AI-driven data centers, and over THREE-QUARTERS worry that AI development could raise electricity costs.

House Republicans advanced a funding bill that would cut fruit and vegetable support for millions of pregnant women, postpartum parents, infants, and young children. This is so messed up.

Palantir's investors have rejected proposals for independent human-rights reviews of their work with ICE, DHS, police forces, and militaries.

Amazon's Ring is facing a class-action lawsuit that alleges their "Familiar Faces" feature collects and stores biometric faceprints from visitors and bystanders without consent. So basically, you don't ever have to own a Ring camera to be surveilled by one.

New York lawmakers passed a one-year moratorium on new large data centers. If it's signed into law, it'd be the first of its kind. It currently sits on Kathy Hochul's desk waiting for a signature. Will she sign it or veto it? 👀

The governor of Colorado Jared Polis betrayed the people of his state by vetoing a bill that would've banned companies from using algorithmic surveillance pricing to set individualized consumer prices and workers' wages based on personal data. Polis has a net worth of approximately $400 million.

A pastor on Long Island was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison for sexual exploitation of children.

Massachusetts is moving closer toward one of the strongest privacy laws in the US. The House passed a bill 146–0 to let people access or delete data held by major companies, require opt-in consent before sensitive data is shared, AND ban the sale of precise location data. All of this is important.

One observation I have about the Dem Party primary in-fighting is that a lot of the political operatives with proximity to the power center of the Dem Party seem to be incredulous as to why Americans organically don't like to support candidates being bribed by right-wing corporations and dark money.

I have questions for Bluesky. Where the heck did all the "resisters" go? What happened to this movement? I've spent like a decade trying to find the leaders of the "resistance", and I ended up nowhere. Was it all just a data harvesting operation? Was it all a grift? Is everyone bots? Are you real? 😩