Rachel Sandalow-Ash
@racheljsa.bsky.social
Union lawyer, Jewish socialist, rider of trains. She/her. Views are my own.
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why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections?
in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.
in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.
July 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections?
in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.
in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.
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a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
Opinion | The MAGA Movement Is Not a Debating Society
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September 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
Come work with me! Our union is hiring an organizer to build power among biomedical workers (think: doctors, nurses, PAs, public health researchers, etc.) in NJ. We're fighting for a healthcare & education system that puts people > profit.
DM me with questions!
www.unionjobs.com/listing.php?...
DM me with questions!
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Organizer / Lead Organizer / Senior Organizer - AAUP : New Jersey — Union Jobs Clearinghouse
Organizer / Lead Organizer / Senior Organizer - AAUP : New Jersey — Union Jobs Clearinghouse
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September 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Come work with me! Our union is hiring an organizer to build power among biomedical workers (think: doctors, nurses, PAs, public health researchers, etc.) in NJ. We're fighting for a healthcare & education system that puts people > profit.
DM me with questions!
www.unionjobs.com/listing.php?...
DM me with questions!
www.unionjobs.com/listing.php?...
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Thousands call out UC leaders following UC Berkeley’s ‘capitulation’ to federal government www.dailycal.org/news/campus/... @dailycal.bsky.social
Thousands call out UC leaders following UC Berkeley’s ‘capitulation’ to federal government
Numerous coalitions of the academic community — at UC Berkeley, statewide and globally — have banded together to express concern toward UC’s recent compliance with President Donald Trump’s administrat...
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September 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Thousands call out UC leaders following UC Berkeley’s ‘capitulation’ to federal government www.dailycal.org/news/campus/... @dailycal.bsky.social
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Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
karenattiah.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
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RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
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A worker was killed. Dozens detained.
Dr. Jonathan Caravello, A CSU faculty member and US citizen, was brutalized & disappeared by ICE for observing.
Trump’s ICE thugs are escalating terror in our communities. Release them ALL.
seiuca.org/press-releas...
Dr. Jonathan Caravello, A CSU faculty member and US citizen, was brutalized & disappeared by ICE for observing.
Trump’s ICE thugs are escalating terror in our communities. Release them ALL.
seiuca.org/press-releas...
SEIU California | SEIU California Demands Release of CSU Faculty Member Brutalized By ICE
SEIU California members call for the immediate release of our brother Jonathan Caravello, PhD, a U.S. citizen and union member, who was brutally assaulted and detained by federal agents as he…
seiuca.org
July 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
A worker was killed. Dozens detained.
Dr. Jonathan Caravello, A CSU faculty member and US citizen, was brutalized & disappeared by ICE for observing.
Trump’s ICE thugs are escalating terror in our communities. Release them ALL.
seiuca.org/press-releas...
Dr. Jonathan Caravello, A CSU faculty member and US citizen, was brutalized & disappeared by ICE for observing.
Trump’s ICE thugs are escalating terror in our communities. Release them ALL.
seiuca.org/press-releas...
Trying to overturn a democratically-elected left-wing president in the Global South is pretty much the most normal American president (derogatory) thing Trump has done so far!
July 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Trying to overturn a democratically-elected left-wing president in the Global South is pretty much the most normal American president (derogatory) thing Trump has done so far!
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The Senate will soon vote on Trump’s Tax Scam, which would gut Medicaid and SNAP to fund more tax cuts for billionaires.
Call your GOP senators ASAP: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or send an email if you can’t get anyone on the phone: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...
Call your GOP senators ASAP: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or send an email if you can’t get anyone on the phone: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...
July 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The Senate will soon vote on Trump’s Tax Scam, which would gut Medicaid and SNAP to fund more tax cuts for billionaires.
Call your GOP senators ASAP: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or send an email if you can’t get anyone on the phone: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...
Call your GOP senators ASAP: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or send an email if you can’t get anyone on the phone: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...
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If you have a R senator, seriously call their office tomorrow & say vote against this bill. Say you don’t wan’t three times the budget of NASA going into a sprawling immigrant detention infrastructure. That you don’t want to kick folks you know off Medicaid. That you don’t want solar taxed. reps.fyi
The budget is a statement of values. The budget is policy. This budget is awful.
June 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
If you have a R senator, seriously call their office tomorrow & say vote against this bill. Say you don’t wan’t three times the budget of NASA going into a sprawling immigrant detention infrastructure. That you don’t want to kick folks you know off Medicaid. That you don’t want solar taxed. reps.fyi
The idea that California — home to Silicon Valley & Hollywood — can’t raise taxes on the rich to fund Medicaid for all poor residents is absurd.
Balancing a budget by taking away healthcare from the most vulnerable isn’t “responsible.” It’s social murder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
Balancing a budget by taking away healthcare from the most vulnerable isn’t “responsible.” It’s social murder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
Newsom Signs Budget That Includes Health Care Cuts for Undocumented Immigrants
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June 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The idea that California — home to Silicon Valley & Hollywood — can’t raise taxes on the rich to fund Medicaid for all poor residents is absurd.
Balancing a budget by taking away healthcare from the most vulnerable isn’t “responsible.” It’s social murder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
Balancing a budget by taking away healthcare from the most vulnerable isn’t “responsible.” It’s social murder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
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Sounds like the nationwide injunctions on noncompete agreements, student debt relief, the COVID vaccine mandate, and much more are all lifted now? Or wait is this only that nationwide injunctions aren't allowable for Republican policies?
June 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Sounds like the nationwide injunctions on noncompete agreements, student debt relief, the COVID vaccine mandate, and much more are all lifted now? Or wait is this only that nationwide injunctions aren't allowable for Republican policies?
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These 37 House Dems agree with Republicans that an adult international student sitting in a parked car with a can of beer should be deported.
I'm not being sarcastic. That is what the bill they voted for would do.
Read more: jonathancohn.medium.com/i-know-why-h...
I'm not being sarcastic. That is what the bill they voted for would do.
Read more: jonathancohn.medium.com/i-know-why-h...
June 27, 2025 at 2:53 AM
These 37 House Dems agree with Republicans that an adult international student sitting in a parked car with a can of beer should be deported.
I'm not being sarcastic. That is what the bill they voted for would do.
Read more: jonathancohn.medium.com/i-know-why-h...
I'm not being sarcastic. That is what the bill they voted for would do.
Read more: jonathancohn.medium.com/i-know-why-h...
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"The federal agency tasked with helping military family members gain legal status now refers them for deportation, government memos show."
There is no other word for this than evil. They are perverting systems designed to help people in order to meet harmful, irrational quotas.
There is no other word for this than evil. They are perverting systems designed to help people in order to meet harmful, irrational quotas.
ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their baby
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans.
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June 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"The federal agency tasked with helping military family members gain legal status now refers them for deportation, government memos show."
There is no other word for this than evil. They are perverting systems designed to help people in order to meet harmful, irrational quotas.
There is no other word for this than evil. They are perverting systems designed to help people in order to meet harmful, irrational quotas.
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Judge Farbiarz finds there are extraordinary circumstances here, and no flight risk or danger to community. Also the punishment claim is substantial enough to justify release. He orders Mahmoud Khalil RELEASED ON BAIL.
June 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Judge Farbiarz finds there are extraordinary circumstances here, and no flight risk or danger to community. Also the punishment claim is substantial enough to justify release. He orders Mahmoud Khalil RELEASED ON BAIL.
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NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant.
This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.
This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
June 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant.
This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.
This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.
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All of these violent, lawless ICE officers terrorizing communities and hiding their faces weren't just hired this year.
It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.
It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.
June 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
All of these violent, lawless ICE officers terrorizing communities and hiding their faces weren't just hired this year.
It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.
It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.
Some days I feel like we are no different from people who lived thousands of years ago, that everyone was dealing with the same challenges of imperfect people trying to build a decent society...
And other days I'm like "huh so marital rape was illegal in some states until 1993."
And other days I'm like "huh so marital rape was illegal in some states until 1993."
May 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Some days I feel like we are no different from people who lived thousands of years ago, that everyone was dealing with the same challenges of imperfect people trying to build a decent society...
And other days I'm like "huh so marital rape was illegal in some states until 1993."
And other days I'm like "huh so marital rape was illegal in some states until 1993."
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May 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Many people are “anti-immigrant” in theory but pro-immigrant when it comes to their own neighbors and coworkers.
Instead of running to the right on immigration, Dems should lift up stories like Carol’s and make the affirmative case for immigrant rights.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
Instead of running to the right on immigration, Dems should lift up stories like Carol’s and make the affirmative case for immigrant rights.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
A Missouri Town Was Solidly Behind Trump. Then Carol Was Detained.
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May 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Many people are “anti-immigrant” in theory but pro-immigrant when it comes to their own neighbors and coworkers.
Instead of running to the right on immigration, Dems should lift up stories like Carol’s and make the affirmative case for immigrant rights.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
Instead of running to the right on immigration, Dems should lift up stories like Carol’s and make the affirmative case for immigrant rights.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
I’m finding two bits of centrist punditry hard to reconcile:
1. Liberals are too pedantic and condescending; and
2. Liberals are failing to put forward a values-driven framework for how people (particularly men) should live their lives.
Which is it??
1. Liberals are too pedantic and condescending; and
2. Liberals are failing to put forward a values-driven framework for how people (particularly men) should live their lives.
Which is it??
May 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I’m finding two bits of centrist punditry hard to reconcile:
1. Liberals are too pedantic and condescending; and
2. Liberals are failing to put forward a values-driven framework for how people (particularly men) should live their lives.
Which is it??
1. Liberals are too pedantic and condescending; and
2. Liberals are failing to put forward a values-driven framework for how people (particularly men) should live their lives.
Which is it??
Horrifying. This decision will hurt millions of pregnant women nationwide. Without a CDC recommendation, insurance often doesn’t cover vaccines. So this policy will deny people healthcare on account of their pregnancy, effectively a form of sex discrimination:
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
Trump Administration Live Updates: U.S. Ends Recommendation of Covid Shots for Healthy Children and Pregnant Women
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May 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Horrifying. This decision will hurt millions of pregnant women nationwide. Without a CDC recommendation, insurance often doesn’t cover vaccines. So this policy will deny people healthcare on account of their pregnancy, effectively a form of sex discrimination:
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
Submit a comment TODAY to tell the FDA to keep COVID-19 boosters available for everyone!
GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
www.statnews.com
May 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Submit a comment TODAY to tell the FDA to keep COVID-19 boosters available for everyone!
We should call the Trump admin's attack on international students (and maybe also international postdocs) at Harvard what it is: an attempted mass firing of UAW workers.
Dems in Congress must fight back.
@uaw.org @hgsuuaw.bsky.social @haw-uaw.bsky.social
Dems in Congress must fight back.
@uaw.org @hgsuuaw.bsky.social @haw-uaw.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 2:52 AM
We should call the Trump admin's attack on international students (and maybe also international postdocs) at Harvard what it is: an attempted mass firing of UAW workers.
Dems in Congress must fight back.
@uaw.org @hgsuuaw.bsky.social @haw-uaw.bsky.social
Dems in Congress must fight back.
@uaw.org @hgsuuaw.bsky.social @haw-uaw.bsky.social
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Heartbreaking essay from our colleague & fellow @haw-uaw.bsky.social union member, unjustly imprisoned since February: “I hope that the judge rules Wednesday that I can be released, so I can return to my lab. There is a data set that I’m halfway finished analyzing. I want to go home and finish it.”
Opinion | The Science I Would Be Doing if I Weren’t in ICE Detention
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May 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Heartbreaking essay from our colleague & fellow @haw-uaw.bsky.social union member, unjustly imprisoned since February: “I hope that the judge rules Wednesday that I can be released, so I can return to my lab. There is a data set that I’m halfway finished analyzing. I want to go home and finish it.”