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I work. I read. Some bike. No Trump, no oligarchs. Free Palestine. Government to make lives better. Willing to fight. Stop the death penalty. Ahimsa.
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“Food for thought: Pumpkin pie made possible by migrant workers.” 🥧 open.substack.com/pub/americas... #WeFeedYou
Don't Ghost The Immigrant Farmworkers Behind Every Pumpkin Harvest
Every fall, immigrants are among the farmworkers who harvest billions (yes, billions!) of pumpkins so families can carve, decorate, and bake their way through the spooky season.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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the utter moral rot of these people compared to the maternal fear of this woman trying to protect her son from the brutal conditions she’s facing.
November 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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American journalists could be a little more like this, tbh
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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SOON …

The GOP: “In order to make cars more affordable to the average American, we will be eliminating the seatbelt mandate. Then Americans will have the freedom to go flying through their windshields.”
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Love this!
The names, photos, & background stories of 1,575 rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, are up on "Wall of Shame," an installation by artist Phil Buehler in Brooklyn. This #CupOfJoe is #ArtAsResistance.

Never forget Pedo President’s role in this.
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Israel launches major assault in West Bank city as helicopters shoot at homes
<article data-history-node-id="431975" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-launches-major-assault-west-bank-city-helicopters-shoot-homes" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-launches-major-assault-west-bank-city-helicopters-shoot-homes" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel launches major assault in West Bank city as helicopters shoot at homes</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;forces launched an extensive military assault on the northern occupied West Bank city of Tubas on Wednesday.</p> <p>Troops stormed&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a>&nbsp;homes in the early morning hours in the towns of Tammun, Tayasir and Aqaba, turning several houses into temporary military barracks. Residents were forcibly removed from their homes.</p> <p>Israeli forces also closed roads and erected earth mounds, obstructing the movement of people across the area.</p> <p>According to local media, Apache helicopters were seen flying over the city, reportedly firing arbitrarily at civilian homes.</p> <h3><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-apache-helicopters-shoot-civilian-homes-tubas">Read more:&nbsp;Israel launches major assault in West Bank city as helicopters shoot at homes</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="align-center media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="An Israeli soldier takes part in an operation in Tubas in the occupied West Bank on 26 November 2025 (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="4972659c-88e5-4817-a0bc-c09d2ded1185" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/Tubas-West-Bank-Israeli-soldier-26-November-2025-Reuters.jpg" width="1400" height="788" alt="An Israeli soldier takes part in an operation in Tubas in the occupied West Bank on 26 November 2025 (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>An Israeli soldier takes part in an operation in Tubas in the occupied West Bank on 26 November 2025 (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>
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November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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“A coalition of educators, school districts, unions and an advocacy organization for people with disabilities sued the Trump administration in federal court on Tuesday, arguing that the government’s latest attempt to dismantle the Education Department was unlawful.”
School Groups Sue to Stop Dismantling of the Education Department
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November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I've shared on here before, why more cops do not and cannot reduce the murder rate in US cities.

I've shared that criminal justice reformers have known what does work, and has worked in dozens of US cities. It's now driving record low homicide in Chicago and Baltimore♥️🕊️

Now let's talk cop killings
Baltimore Streets
YouTube video by Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan
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November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Hollywood loves our trauma. Black actors are more likely to win awards when playing roles tied to slavery, servitude, or trauma.

Lupita Nyong’o opens up about what happened after her Oscar win. Hollywood kept offering her more parts as an enslaved woman, pushing the same stereotype again and again.
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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🚨Imagine ICE conducting a raid on your PRIVATE PROPERTY.🚨
Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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California SHOWED UP for Starbucks workers 💜
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol isn't listening to his workers.

So we went directly to his luxury California office.

#NoContractNoCoffee
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Last month, ~5million borrowers likely defaulted on their student loans, deepening the student debt crisis. Fallout from student debt can wreak havoc on borrowers’ lives, and is entirely preventable. Particularly when system won’t use borrower legal protections protectborrowers.org/falling-off-...
Falling Off the Student Loan Default Cliff - Protect Borrowers
This blog is part one of a three-part series that examines the shadow network of vendors that control the federal student loan market and the role they play in driving student loan defaults.
protectborrowers.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Neguse: "Many of these Republican members are heading to the exit for a reason. They realize they're going to lose the midterms next year. The president is deeply unpopular. His economic agenda is devastating working families across the country. They'll pay an electoral price in 11 months."
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Reporter: What kind of concessions are the Russians going to have to make?

Trump: Well, they’re making concessions. Their big concession is they stop fighting and they don’t take any more land.
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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have someone in your life who loves you as much as the democratic party loves rural white voters who will never vote for them
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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important to realize just how seriously feelings of powerlessness in the face of vast structures & a learned understanding of the futility of individual effort are generational givens that anybody my age or older (work hard! succeed! things work out!) has no way to fully grasp—but we need to try
Young people feel like we've lost agency over our lives. We can't *really* pick where to live, or whether to change jobs, or how many kids to have -- the cost of living makes us feel trapped.

Younger candidates can powerfully speak to that emotional truth. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/young-c...
Young Candidates Can Speak to the Affordability Crisis Because They’re Living It
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Please read this opening statement by Assata Shakur from her trial in New York in 1976.

She wrote this almost 50 years ago, but it speaks so clearly to the current moment that it could have been written yesterday

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November 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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At a Democratic shadow hearing on Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and mass deportation, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) didn’t hold back.
Waters & Crockett’s Fiery ICE Speeches
At a Democratic shadow hearing on Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and mass deportation, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) didn’t hold back.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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A mayoral candidate is repeatedly asked to condemn Hamas and denounce anti-Semitism simply because he's Muslim.

A sitting president who promotes white nationalism, employs gutter racists and dines with literal Nazis is given a free pass.
A mayoral candidate saying maybe the city should cover the cost of bus rides gets the full socialism panic treatment before he even tries it.

A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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We warned you that self-driving cars would just create self-driving traffic jams, and here they are.

The car industry has no solution to the shortage of space in cities. Public transit, cycling, and walking are all part of the answer, but cars are not.
Waymo privatized another public street:

Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco

Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.

The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.

OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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These numbers are devastating.

And it cannot be understated that Black women are bearing the brunt of this unemployment assault
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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This one means a lot: just woke up to find that THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US has been named a New York Times Notable Book of 2025.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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November has warmed an average of 2.4°F across 92% of US cities. And in 31% of cities, temperatures have increased by 3°F or more.

Read my latest article in collaboration with @climatecentral.org for free now:

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It's not your imagination - Thanksgiving is warmer
November has warmed an average of 2.4°F across 92% of US cities. And in 31% of cities, temperatures have increased by 3°F or more. The climate crisis is reshaping traditions whether some people want t...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Continuing from @pioneerpress.bsky.social article above.

1) When cops/agents attack calm politicians and reporters, you know something is wrong.

2)The apparent level of violence on display is alarming. What happened right before this arrest that requires immediate hospitalization?

📸: John Autey
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM