Paul Blest
@pblest.bsky.social
play music in Long Relief, work at More Perfect Union. The real truth about it is, we’re all supposed to try
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"Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices."
Nice investigation by @barryyeoman.com & @jocelynzuck.bsky.social!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Nice investigation by @barryyeoman.com & @jocelynzuck.bsky.social!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices
A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for everything from frying pans to Frosted Flakes
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices."
Nice investigation by @barryyeoman.com & @jocelynzuck.bsky.social!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Nice investigation by @barryyeoman.com & @jocelynzuck.bsky.social!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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MY LATEST: Dollar General will pay at least $15 million to settle claims that it overcharged shoppers at many of its 20,000 stores. Earlier, @jocelynzuck.bsky.social and I reported that the chain failed 4,300+ price-accuracy inspections over four years. @theguardian.com @michaelwhudson.bsky.social
Dollar General agrees to pay $15m to settle price-gouging claims
Company settles allegations it failed to honor shelf prices in multiple states, and customers anywhere in US may be eligible for repayments
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
MY LATEST: Dollar General will pay at least $15 million to settle claims that it overcharged shoppers at many of its 20,000 stores. Earlier, @jocelynzuck.bsky.social and I reported that the chain failed 4,300+ price-accuracy inspections over four years. @theguardian.com @michaelwhudson.bsky.social
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Wrote this fun piece about women who quit their corporate city gigs for Hallmark jobs! It was a real blast to report out (and lowkey inspiring) www.bustle.com/life/hallmar...
Burned Out At Work? Maybe You Need A "Hallmark Job"
What it's really like to quit the corporate grind, find charming work in a tiny town, and marry a local fisherman.
www.bustle.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Wrote this fun piece about women who quit their corporate city gigs for Hallmark jobs! It was a real blast to report out (and lowkey inspiring) www.bustle.com/life/hallmar...
Last week, we published an investigation into Poland Spring, the corporate-owned bottled water brand famous in the Northeast.
During a drought this summer, the company said it was cutting back on withdrawals from Maine aquifers, but we found data showing they were pumping even more. Link below:
During a drought this summer, the company said it was cutting back on withdrawals from Maine aquifers, but we found data showing they were pumping even more. Link below:
December 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Last week, we published an investigation into Poland Spring, the corporate-owned bottled water brand famous in the Northeast.
During a drought this summer, the company said it was cutting back on withdrawals from Maine aquifers, but we found data showing they were pumping even more. Link below:
During a drought this summer, the company said it was cutting back on withdrawals from Maine aquifers, but we found data showing they were pumping even more. Link below:
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I spoke with @hellgatenyc.com about our negligent landlord and the dangerous conditions they’ve created in their rent-stabilized buildings (including in my own apartment).
A ceiling collapse in a Crown Heights apartment over Thanksgiving weekend is the latest sign of neglect inside buildings owned by billionaire Joel Wiener’s Pinnacle Group.
Now, tenants are intensifying their calls to halt the current bankruptcy auction of 93 rent-stabilized Pinnacle buildings.
Now, tenants are intensifying their calls to halt the current bankruptcy auction of 93 rent-stabilized Pinnacle buildings.
All They Want Is a Landlord Who Doesn't Suck
And more news for your Wednesday.
hellgatenyc.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I spoke with @hellgatenyc.com about our negligent landlord and the dangerous conditions they’ve created in their rent-stabilized buildings (including in my own apartment).
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If any news outlets would like to chat about Pinnacle, I’m happy to connect you to our tenants union @thecity.nyc @hellgatenyc.com @wnyc.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
If any news outlets would like to chat about Pinnacle, I’m happy to connect you to our tenants union @thecity.nyc @hellgatenyc.com @wnyc.org
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Our negligent management company (Pinnacle) has allowed our apartment building to degrade so considerably that a pipe burst in our bathroom and destroyed our kitchen.
December 1, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Our negligent management company (Pinnacle) has allowed our apartment building to degrade so considerably that a pipe burst in our bathroom and destroyed our kitchen.
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looking for someone in the greater charlotte area who has spectrum internet to test something for me. if you do pls DM or signal me: @jason.404
November 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
looking for someone in the greater charlotte area who has spectrum internet to test something for me. if you do pls DM or signal me: @jason.404
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If you're reporting ICE sightings outside of the Ojo Obrero app, PLEASE make sure you at least try to follow the SALUTE reporting format so that your info can be as helpful as possible.
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
If you're reporting ICE sightings outside of the Ojo Obrero app, PLEASE make sure you at least try to follow the SALUTE reporting format so that your info can be as helpful as possible.
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Sandwich man leaving court
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Sandwich man leaving court
Talked with the @discourseblog.com buds on Friday about elections tomorrow and beyond www.discourseblog.com/p/discourse-...
Discourse Pod #02: Elections Preview!
Paul Blest joins us for an early look at some key 2025 and 2026 races
www.discourseblog.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Talked with the @discourseblog.com buds on Friday about elections tomorrow and beyond www.discourseblog.com/p/discourse-...
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
Surprise Crutchfield sisters record means we’re getting six more weeks of fall
October 31, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Surprise Crutchfield sisters record means we’re getting six more weeks of fall
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The Trump administration has denied it canceled what would’ve been one of the largest solar projects in the U.S.
I stand by my reporting, as I was first to break the cancelation. A quick thread about why…
I stand by my reporting, as I was first to break the cancelation. A quick thread about why…
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
heatmap.news
October 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The Trump administration has denied it canceled what would’ve been one of the largest solar projects in the U.S.
I stand by my reporting, as I was first to break the cancelation. A quick thread about why…
I stand by my reporting, as I was first to break the cancelation. A quick thread about why…
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Michigan Avenue right now.
October 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Michigan Avenue right now.
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Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
bit.ly
October 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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ICE just gassed a group a civilians near the Rico Fresh supermarket intersection on Armitage in Chicago - bystanders say this was in response for being heckled from the street.
October 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
ICE just gassed a group a civilians near the Rico Fresh supermarket intersection on Armitage in Chicago - bystanders say this was in response for being heckled from the street.
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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
October 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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Seeing how @sbworkersunited.org seamlessly connects right-wing culture-warring to workplace safety & the need for a fighting American labor movement like this underscores just how poorly most incumbent unions have met this moment despite having more $ and influence: www.fingers.email/upgrade?offe...
October 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Seeing how @sbworkersunited.org seamlessly connects right-wing culture-warring to workplace safety & the need for a fighting American labor movement like this underscores just how poorly most incumbent unions have met this moment despite having more $ and influence: www.fingers.email/upgrade?offe...
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Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.
Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.
Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.
October 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.
Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.
Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.
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JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I'll take the bullheaded, deeply flawed, 1990s quest for authenticity and cultivating a core which you shouldn't sell out over this any day. Any day.
Fuckin yikes, man
September 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I'll take the bullheaded, deeply flawed, 1990s quest for authenticity and cultivating a core which you shouldn't sell out over this any day. Any day.
Man why is this guy a billionaire and not a heel wrestling manager. This is humiliating for the rest of us
Crypto billionaire Brock Pierce, speaking at Fraunces Tavern in downtown Manhattan alongside Rev. Al Cockfield, says he's launching the "draft Eric back campaign" to try to get Eric Adams back in the mayoral race.
More about it here: www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/30/b...
More about it here: www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/30/b...
September 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Man why is this guy a billionaire and not a heel wrestling manager. This is humiliating for the rest of us
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Ezra Klein keeps saying that "politics is about winning power" and Democrats have "gotten way out of step with the public" on immigration and trans kids in sports but he is blind to the fact that to win power you have to convince people you have the right position, not cede to the other side
September 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Ezra Klein keeps saying that "politics is about winning power" and Democrats have "gotten way out of step with the public" on immigration and trans kids in sports but he is blind to the fact that to win power you have to convince people you have the right position, not cede to the other side