"This armed attack on Venezuela is not an isolated event. It is the next step in the United States' campaign of regime change that stretches from Caracas to Havana."

“Work harder” stops functioning as advice when the price of housing and insurance rises faster than wages. At that point, economic precarity is a structural issue and not behavioral.

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

Old enough to remember him. Walter Cronkite was known as the most trusted person in America for years.

Fund our planet and its people, not war and climate collapse.

We are stronger TOGETHER. ✊ SAG-AFTRA President #SeanAstin & many #SagAftraMembers SHOWED UP in solidarity for @sbworkersunited.org baristas who are on ULP strike. We support them in their fight for a fair contract & an end to union-busting. #NoContractNoCoffee

Starbucks workers are on strike for a fair union contract, and Equity members can help! Don't cross the picket line, sign the petition and find a local picket site near you at https://www.nocontractnocoffee.org/

Los Angeles #SagAftraMembers, we need you to show your #SagAftraStrong solidarity TODAY. We'll be out on the picket line with Starbucks baristas! Join SAG-AFTRA President #SeanAstin as SBWU members fight for a fair contract. More info: https://ow.ly/yIai50XIJK9

Read President Sean Astin's full statement: www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-pr...

"The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies and democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency."

An Open Letter to Mayor-Elect Mamdani, a Political Moderate www.commondreams.org/opinion/nade...

Despite claims that his administration is lifting up working class Americans, President Trump has undermined labor unions and other federal agencies designed to protect workers since his reelection. We deserve better. Lawrence S. Wittner on @inequality.org

"What Democrats Must Pledge to America, "Share this with any Democrat interested in running for, or remaining in, office, and ask him or her to make the pledge: "These 10 steps are crucial for making America affordable again. We pledge to back every one of them." open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

"The big deception in this country is polarization: red state/blue state, conservative/liberal, fighting each other. The process of deceiving the people, and divide and rule, goes back 2,000+ years, and we’ve got to confront it directly." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do0I...

Congrats to the 21,000 @uptecwa.bsky.social health care, research and technical workers at the University of California on voting to ratify their new contract! After 17 months of negotiations, this new contract is a testament to the power of our solidarity.

We stand in solidarity with our #SagAftraMembers in public media who provide critical services and content to their communities and whose jobs must be protected. https://www.kpbs.org/news/politics/2025/11/13/california-public-media-leaders-say-loss-of-federal-funding-puts-local-news-at-risk

When billionaires can buy elections, you don't have a Democracy, you have an auction. This chart explains why things only get worse for the working class.

"“No Kings” is neither sustained nor ubiquitous, nor a movement. Building a movement requires a broad-based grassroots opposition organization that is independent of the two main parties permitted to participate in U.S. electoral politics. There is no such group or party." rall.com/2025/10/24/t...

A new report from @oilchange.bsky.social finds that the US govt gives the #FossilFuel industry a handout of $34.8 BILLION dollars in subsidies every year — even as everyday people struggle with the cost of living and the climate crisis grows worse & worse. Read more: oilchange.org/publications...

Starbucks @sbworkersunited.org baristas are standing up to corporate greed and Starbucks’ unfair labor practices and demanding the fair contract they deserve. No contract? NO COFFEE!

For years, fossil fuel lobbyists have swarmed international climate summits with a mission to derail progress, spread disinformation & dodge accountability. An international commitment to information integrity at #COP30 can help remove barriers to strong national climate solutions.

“The UN and the World Economic Forum have each declared that Climate Change and disinformation are the greatest threats to Humanity. To truly make this COP the COP of Truth, we need firmly established guardrails against mis and disinformation,” said UCS’s Kate Cell from #COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

Global climate negotiations are complex. #COP30 brings together nearly 200 countries to address a shared crisis. That level of coordination is extraordinary, and disagreement is plentiful. Some reflect genuine differences, but others are deliberate efforts to stall, dilute, or redirect ambition.

"Attorney General Merrick Garland [believed that his office needed] to turn the page from Donald Trump and not look at this as the top of the conspiracy." www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWzV...

The clear takeaway from Energy Analyst Mike Jacobs' study of data center transmission costs from earlier this fall is that data centers should pay for their grid connections—but instead, they’re passing them onto you. Total costs shifted to consumers in '24 was at least $4.3B in just 7 states.

Every one of our endorsed candidates won last night! Join us in sending a congratulations to all.

The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.

Watch @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's inspiring victory speech. This is the future the Democratic Party must embrace. Turn the volume up.

As its new right-wing leadership comes under scrutiny, CBS News was found to have edited out a question from Trump's "60 Minutes" interview in which he was interrogated about his "corrupt" pardon of a crypto executive.

"He should have died in The Hague."​

"The current iteration of the Republican Party is a direct consequence of a political environment that was already in decay because of what Dick Cheney forcefully and intentionally normalized."

Happy Zohran Day to all who celebrate!!

We'd never had gotten Dick Cheney (or Trump) if we'd had a NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE. www.nationalpopularvote.com

Corporate America Accelerates Layoffs As Trump Economy Flashes Red Warning Signs

👋 Good morning! We’re here at #TeacherUnionDay @uftnyc.bsky.social @nysut.bsky.social @rweingarten.bsky.social

1/ Last week, we delivered a letter to @propublica.org's board members, urging them to direct management to agree to a fair contract now. www.propublicaguild.org/updates/to-t...

67 people from the Philippines have announced legal action against fossil fuel giant #Shell. The claimants suffered harm from Typhoon Odette in 2021, including serious injuries, deaths of loved ones, or losing their homes. UCS stands w/ the claimants as they demand compensation. #MakePollutersPay

We showed up & out at the Magnet & Pathways Conference earlier this month, handing out over 750 leaflets & wearing our union buttons. Proud to be #unionstrongatana! #magnetptecon #magpath25

Stage managers and actors are watching closely. We stand with the Local 802 musicians!

With the post-Cold War era now history, we have faced an increasingly dangerous time reminiscent of the years leading to World War I.

Most voters aren’t rejecting Democrats over the culture war. They’re rejecting them because they don’t deliver.

The ongoing struggle for the liberation of the 11,000+ Palestinians subjected to the most extreme forms of torture, has drawn global attention amid the prisoner exchange. rumble.com/v704jva-free...

The brutality, in other words, is the point. It’s not an accident, a side effect, or the result of poor training. It’s intentional. It’s a signal of their broader intentions. Following the classic dictator’s playbook, says @hartmannreport.com.

Attorney General Pam Bondi (Amy Poehler) testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee (Mikey Day, James Austin Johnson, Andrew Dismukes, Ashley Padilla, Jeremy Culhane, and Tommy Brennan)! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSfC...

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it. Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

"But real peace is not negotiated in boardrooms, or awarded on stages. [...] Real peace is built by Venezuelan mothers mobilizing to demand the return of children seized under ICE and migration policies, and by nations that choose sovereignty over servitude." www.codepink.org/nobel_peace_...

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

More than just a set of free-market policies, neoliberalism has always sought to alter society's balance of power in favor of bosses. Its assault on democracy and undermining of unions is now playing straight into the hands of the far right.