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Beth Williams
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There is a lot less news reporting coming out of Gaza since Israel killed the entire Al Jazeera team of journalists.
August 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Cutting Medicaid and SNAP will lead to mass death, full stop.
11pm on a Saturday night the Senate just voted to leave millions and millions American to die
June 29, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez, a respected farmworker advocate, has been violently detained by ICE - targeted for his work as a labor organizer

CONTACT: WA AG: 360-753-6200
CONTACT: WA Governor: 360-902-4111 and/or governor.wa.gov/.../send-gov-ferguson-e-message
DONATE to Lelo's defense: bit.ly/4l2Pdmn
March 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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If you want to help disabled people fight New York's proposed mask ban... wear a mask.

If more people would mask up in solidarity, these important accessibility tools would be harder to ban.

Help us normalize masking and protect your health in the process!
March 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Today I confronted “border czar” Tom Homan who came to Albany to do Trump’s bidding — push for mass deportations, carry out the assault on working class New Yorkers, and justify the unjustifiable detention of legal permanent resident and father-to-be, Mahmoud Khalil.
March 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Every faculty who supported police on campus, every one who refused to sign letters of support for their brutalized students: you laid the bricks for politicians to believe they have the authority to crush student voice.

Your racism against Palestine is corroding everyone's freedoms.
March 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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The federal government has historically discriminated against Black farmers. The recent funding halt from the Trump administration presents yet another hurdle to those who have spent decades fighting for equity in farming.
Black farmers among those left in limbo amid federal funding freeze
The federal government has historically discriminated against Black farmers. The recent funding halt from the Trump administration presents yet another hurdle to those who have spent decades fighting ...
www.npr.org
February 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Op-ed: Increased federal funding for Black farmers—not less—will help US agriculture become more resilient as our climate changes.
Op-ed: Black Producers Have Farmed Sustainably in Kansas for Generations. Let’s Not Erase Our Progress.
Increased federal funding for Black farmers—not less—will help US agriculture become more resilient as our climate changes.
buff.ly
February 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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January 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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just very worrying on a lot of levels newrepublic.com/post/190555/...
Trump’s Immigration Threats Are Already Wrecking the Food Industry
Immigrant farm workers are too scared to show up to work.
newrepublic.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Really grim. He murdered a man for being homeless, and got away with it because the man was homeless. We should be clear about this and the fascist implications here.
A judge has dismissed the manslaughter charge against Daniel Penny, who is accused of choking Jordan Neely to death on a NYC subway train
Judge dismisses manslaughter charge against Daniel Penny in subway chokehold trial
The jury said it was unable to come to a unanimous decision on the charge of manslaughter.
gothamist.com
December 6, 2024 at 9:51 PM