Damon Silvers
@damonsilvers.bsky.social
Senior Advisor to the AFL-CIO and the AFT. Senior Council to Jubilee USA. Visiting Professor of Practice, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London. Posts are solely my personal opinions and not that of any organization.
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Damon Silvers on X: "Standing tall for our brother Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia and the US Constitution! #FreeKilmarAbregoGarcia Bravo @nabtu @AFLCIO !" / X
Standing tall for our brother Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia and the US Constitution! #FreeKilmarAbregoGarcia Bravo @nabtu @AFLCIO !
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Check this out —Sean McGarvey, President of the Building Trades-leader of 2 million Union construction workers— demands Trump bring home and free our brother SMART Union apprentice Kilmar Armando Abrego-Garcia—illegally kidnapped by Trump and imprisoned in El Salvador x.com/damonsilvers...
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Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......
February 9, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......
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Kids like 7-year-old Mia write about missing their friends and family, wanting to go back to school, and not sleeping or eating well at the Dilley detention center in Texas. These stories expose the inhumanity of this administration's immigration policies.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s 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...
www.propublica.org
February 10, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Kids like 7-year-old Mia write about missing their friends and family, wanting to go back to school, and not sleeping or eating well at the Dilley detention center in Texas. These stories expose the inhumanity of this administration's immigration policies.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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"A threat to anyone’s constitutional rights is a threat to us all. Today, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Government’s [view], American citizens could be subject to the same treatment. This Court will not allow such an unraveling of the Constitution."
BONUS RULING: Judge Thomas Johnston, a George W. Bush appoiintee in West Virginia, used a recent ruling to warn of the dangers of defying due process for immigrants because of what it could also mean for Americans. It's worth a read.
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February 10, 2026 at 1:54 PM
"A threat to anyone’s constitutional rights is a threat to us all. Today, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Government’s [view], American citizens could be subject to the same treatment. This Court will not allow such an unraveling of the Constitution."
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Congrats to the Volkswagen workers and our @uaw.org family in Chattanooga! This tentative agreement is a historic milestone that will inspire other workers across the South.
Workers in the South, and across the country, are hungry for strong union contracts and respect on the job.
Workers in the South, and across the country, are hungry for strong union contracts and respect on the job.
After making history as the first Southern autoworkers outside the Big Three to join the UAW, the 3,200 workers at VW Chattanooga have won a tentative agreement that provides 20 percent across-the-board wage increases, affordable health care, real job security, and more.
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🔗 uaw.org/uaw-reaches-...
UAW Reaches Tentative Agreement with Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Marking Historic Breakthrough for Southern Autoworkers - UAW | United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of Americ...
Autoworkers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant have won a historic tentative agreement with the company. After making history as the first Southern autoworkers outside the Big Three to join the UAW, th...
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February 5, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Congrats to the Volkswagen workers and our @uaw.org family in Chattanooga! This tentative agreement is a historic milestone that will inspire other workers across the South.
Workers in the South, and across the country, are hungry for strong union contracts and respect on the job.
Workers in the South, and across the country, are hungry for strong union contracts and respect on the job.
Remember who did this. He has a name. He is one of the richest people in Earth and he thought firing his war correspondent in Kyiv was ok. That name is Jeff Bezos.
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
February 4, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Remember who did this. He has a name. He is one of the richest people in Earth and he thought firing his war correspondent in Kyiv was ok. That name is Jeff Bezos.
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🤝 Laying the foundations for fair multilateral collaboration.
IIPP Professor @damonsilvers.bsky.social contributed to an article in @lemonde.fr on how to create a framework capable of generating shared prosperity and nurturing stable democracies.
✍️ Read the article here: buff.ly/B3sYarF
IIPP Professor @damonsilvers.bsky.social contributed to an article in @lemonde.fr on how to create a framework capable of generating shared prosperity and nurturing stable democracies.
✍️ Read the article here: buff.ly/B3sYarF
February 3, 2026 at 11:30 AM
🤝 Laying the foundations for fair multilateral collaboration.
IIPP Professor @damonsilvers.bsky.social contributed to an article in @lemonde.fr on how to create a framework capable of generating shared prosperity and nurturing stable democracies.
✍️ Read the article here: buff.ly/B3sYarF
IIPP Professor @damonsilvers.bsky.social contributed to an article in @lemonde.fr on how to create a framework capable of generating shared prosperity and nurturing stable democracies.
✍️ Read the article here: buff.ly/B3sYarF
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It’s murder
Alex Pretti’s shooting death ruled a homicide, medical examiner says share.google/1i5ik26xFOBn...
Alex Pretti’s shooting death ruled a homicide, medical examiner says
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office released the findings Monday regarding the Jan. 24 death of Alex Pretti.
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February 3, 2026 at 5:31 AM
It’s murder
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HUGE TEXAS UNION WIN: @iamunion.bsky.social leader Taylor Rehmet was just elected to the Texas Senate! This win kicks off a wave of union candidates across the state.
While parties are trying to reconnect with the working class, we’re running union members up and down the ballot — and winning. ✊
While parties are trying to reconnect with the working class, we’re running union members up and down the ballot — and winning. ✊
February 1, 2026 at 5:18 AM
HUGE TEXAS UNION WIN: @iamunion.bsky.social leader Taylor Rehmet was just elected to the Texas Senate! This win kicks off a wave of union candidates across the state.
While parties are trying to reconnect with the working class, we’re running union members up and down the ballot — and winning. ✊
While parties are trying to reconnect with the working class, we’re running union members up and down the ballot — and winning. ✊
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Scorching opinion. The Judge wonders if the Trump administration even knows about the Declaratiion of Independence. bsky.app/profile/rwei...
February 1, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Scorching opinion. The Judge wonders if the Trump administration even knows about the Declaratiion of Independence. bsky.app/profile/rwei...
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Our labor movement could not exist without the work of Black union members and leaders.
During #BlackHistoryMonth and every month, America’s unions celebrate the elders and ancestors who came before us and those fighting now for racial justice in the workplace and beyond.
During #BlackHistoryMonth and every month, America’s unions celebrate the elders and ancestors who came before us and those fighting now for racial justice in the workplace and beyond.
February 1, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Our labor movement could not exist without the work of Black union members and leaders.
During #BlackHistoryMonth and every month, America’s unions celebrate the elders and ancestors who came before us and those fighting now for racial justice in the workplace and beyond.
During #BlackHistoryMonth and every month, America’s unions celebrate the elders and ancestors who came before us and those fighting now for racial justice in the workplace and beyond.
My Baltimore neighbors in the frozen streets on Friday. So proud of the Charm City www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/comm...
Photos: Baltimoreans Join National Shutdown to Protest ICE
Crowds gather at Hopkins Plaza as part of a nationwide strike—which called for no work, school, or shopping on Jan. 30—in objection to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts.
www.baltimoremagazine.com
February 1, 2026 at 10:22 PM
My Baltimore neighbors in the frozen streets on Friday. So proud of the Charm City www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/comm...
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Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.
January 28, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.
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Doesn't appear to say unpaid leave, and they remain unnamed.
So two murderers are on a vacation, is what we can gather at this point.
So two murderers are on a vacation, is what we can gather at this point.
Breaking News: The two federal agents who opened fire on Alex Pretti, a Veterans Affairs nurse, in Minneapolis on Saturday have been placed on leave, a U.S. official said. The move came as more Republican leaders broke with the White House’s handling of the shooting. nyti.ms/4bXJtIu
January 28, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Doesn't appear to say unpaid leave, and they remain unnamed.
So two murderers are on a vacation, is what we can gather at this point.
So two murderers are on a vacation, is what we can gather at this point.
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Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 29, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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Westbrook, ME community members form a human wall to keep local workers safe from ICE www.mainepublic.org/maine/2026-0...
Westbrook community members form a human wall to keep local workers safe from ICE
At apparel manufacturer American Roots in Westbrook, staff and community volunteers are trying to protect immigrant workers by standing watch as they arrive and leave for the day.
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January 27, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Westbrook, ME community members form a human wall to keep local workers safe from ICE www.mainepublic.org/maine/2026-0...
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Via email, House and Senate Democratic leadership demand that "Kristi Noem should be fired immediately, or we will commence impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives... We can do this the easy way or the hard way."
January 27, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Via email, House and Senate Democratic leadership demand that "Kristi Noem should be fired immediately, or we will commence impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives... We can do this the easy way or the hard way."
Cardinal Joseph Tobin—“One way that we say 'no' is that. . . We say names. We pray for the dead," Tobin said. "We mourn for a world, a country, that allows 5-year-olds to be legally kidnapped and protesters to be slaughtered." www.ncronline.org/news/cardina...
Cardinal Tobin: Pray, mourn and say 'no' to ICE funding
In a reflection delivered during an online interfaith prayer service hosted by Faith in Action, Tobin employed some of the strongest language yet by a U.S. cardinal to condemn the Trump administration...
www.ncronline.org
January 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Cardinal Joseph Tobin—“One way that we say 'no' is that. . . We say names. We pray for the dead," Tobin said. "We mourn for a world, a country, that allows 5-year-olds to be legally kidnapped and protesters to be slaughtered." www.ncronline.org/news/cardina...
The Trump Administration Is Lying to Our Faces. Congress Must Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...
Opinion | The Trump Administration Is Lying to Our Faces. Congress Must Act.
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January 25, 2026 at 9:44 PM
The Trump Administration Is Lying to Our Faces. Congress Must Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...
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Alex Pretti, the victim in today's horrific killing by federal agents, was a nurse and AFGE union member. His loved ones say he cared about helping others through his work and in his community. May his memory be a blessing to all those who knew him.
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apnews.com/article/immi...
The man killed by a US Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis was an ICU nurse, family says
Family members say the man who was killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis was an intensive care nurse at a U.S.
apnews.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Alex Pretti, the victim in today's horrific killing by federal agents, was a nurse and AFGE union member. His loved ones say he cared about helping others through his work and in his community. May his memory be a blessing to all those who knew him.
apnews.com/article/immi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
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This administration's statements belie what we can see with our own eyes.The federal govt's actions today—both the killing and the cover-up—are a disgrace. Since the president will not, we must call on Congress to act to create accountability 4 this federal malfeasance.
www.aft.org/press-releas...
www.aft.org/press-releas...
AFT’s Weingarten Responds to Shooting of Second Protester in Minnesota
WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after federal agents shot and killed a second Minnesotan:“I was in Minnesota yesterday, joining tens of thousands of people gat...
www.aft.org
January 25, 2026 at 12:53 AM
This administration's statements belie what we can see with our own eyes.The federal govt's actions today—both the killing and the cover-up—are a disgrace. Since the president will not, we must call on Congress to act to create accountability 4 this federal malfeasance.
www.aft.org/press-releas...
www.aft.org/press-releas...
The @MNAFLCIO statement on the murder of our @AFGENational union brother Alex Jeffrey Pretti. He cared for our nation’s veterans in an ICU. He gave his last measure of devotion for our republic and for his fellow workers. @AFLCIO
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mnaflcio.org/news/stateme...
Statement on ICE’s killing of AFGE member Alex Jeffrey Pretti
Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bernie Burnham made the following statement on ICE’s killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti this morning in Minneapolis:“For the second time in less than three weeks, a Minnesotan ...
mnaflcio.org
January 24, 2026 at 11:49 PM
The @MNAFLCIO statement on the murder of our @AFGENational union brother Alex Jeffrey Pretti. He cared for our nation’s veterans in an ICU. He gave his last measure of devotion for our republic and for his fellow workers. @AFLCIO
mnaflcio.org/news/stateme...
mnaflcio.org/news/stateme...
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Chief Strategist for Rand Paul.
January 24, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Chief Strategist for Rand Paul.
The @MNAFLCIO statement on the murder of our @AFGENational union brother Alex Jeffrey Pretti. He cared for our nation’s veterans in an ICU. He gave his last measure of devotion for our republic and for his fellow workers. @AFLCIO
mnaflcio.org/news/stateme...
mnaflcio.org/news/stateme...
Statement on ICE’s killing of AFGE member Alex Jeffrey Pretti
Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bernie Burnham made the following statement on ICE’s killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti this morning in Minneapolis:“For the second time in less than three weeks, a Minnesotan ...
mnaflcio.org
January 24, 2026 at 11:42 PM
The @MNAFLCIO statement on the murder of our @AFGENational union brother Alex Jeffrey Pretti. He cared for our nation’s veterans in an ICU. He gave his last measure of devotion for our republic and for his fellow workers. @AFLCIO
mnaflcio.org/news/stateme...
mnaflcio.org/news/stateme...