Betsy Z
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📣She’s at it again! The governor is selling out toddlers for tax cuts for top earners. Join our rally Monday from 11:30-1 at the Convention Center, 777 NE MLK, to demand Preschool for All be rolled out as approved 2:1 by voters! RSVP and bring friends! actionnetwork.org/events/prote...
Protest: Tell Kotek Hands of Preschool for All!
Governor Kotek is cozying up to big business yet again. Bring your friends and PFA supporters to tell her to save PFA!
actionnetwork.org
December 5, 2025 at 7:49 AM
📣She’s at it again! The governor is selling out toddlers for tax cuts for top earners. Join our rally Monday from 11:30-1 at the Convention Center, 777 NE MLK, to demand Preschool for All be rolled out as approved 2:1 by voters! RSVP and bring friends! actionnetwork.org/events/prote...
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Federal workers continue to be targeted for protecting critical public services. Workers at FEMA who defended disaster funding are now on administrative leave for a 2nd time. But federal workers stand with communities & we will not be silent. We stand with these workers. thehill.com/policy/energ...
thehill.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Federal workers continue to be targeted for protecting critical public services. Workers at FEMA who defended disaster funding are now on administrative leave for a 2nd time. But federal workers stand with communities & we will not be silent. We stand with these workers. thehill.com/policy/energ...
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Oh wait, it turns out the United States is *also* committing war crimes with drones near our borders, too.
Our DUI-hire Secretary, Pete Hegseth, ordered the military to “kill everybody,” so the JSO sent a second strike to kill the survivors of their first illegal strike. This admin is anti-human.
Our DUI-hire Secretary, Pete Hegseth, ordered the military to “kill everybody,” so the JSO sent a second strike to kill the survivors of their first illegal strike. This admin is anti-human.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Oh wait, it turns out the United States is *also* committing war crimes with drones near our borders, too.
Our DUI-hire Secretary, Pete Hegseth, ordered the military to “kill everybody,” so the JSO sent a second strike to kill the survivors of their first illegal strike. This admin is anti-human.
Our DUI-hire Secretary, Pete Hegseth, ordered the military to “kill everybody,” so the JSO sent a second strike to kill the survivors of their first illegal strike. This admin is anti-human.
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new seasons strike authorized for next month. can donate to the strike fund here: www.nslu.org/donate
November 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
new seasons strike authorized for next month. can donate to the strike fund here: www.nslu.org/donate
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May her memory be for a revolution that lights all of our way home. ❤️🔥
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
May her memory be for a revolution that lights all of our way home. ❤️🔥
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Chris Murphy on possible military strikes on Venezuela: "It's pretty clear it's just an effort to distract people from the rising prices and the Epstein scandal. No one wants a war with Venezuela ... and by the way, it's wildly illegal."
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Chris Murphy on possible military strikes on Venezuela: "It's pretty clear it's just an effort to distract people from the rising prices and the Epstein scandal. No one wants a war with Venezuela ... and by the way, it's wildly illegal."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Deep loss.
Deep loss.
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Deep loss.
Deep loss.
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@sbworkersunited.org members are electing strike captains and getting customers to pledge not to cross picket lines. They’re amassing in front of stores with signs, borrowing a slogan from UPS Teamsters: “Just Practicing for a Just Contract.” labornotes.org/2025/10/stri...
Strike Captains and Practice Pickets: Starbucks Workers Aim to Bring a Contract Home
Unionized Starbucks workers are electing strike captains and getting customers to pledge they won't cross picket lines. They’re amassing in front of stores with picket signs, borrowing a slogan that U...
labornotes.org
October 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
@sbworkersunited.org members are electing strike captains and getting customers to pledge not to cross picket lines. They’re amassing in front of stores with signs, borrowing a slogan from UPS Teamsters: “Just Practicing for a Just Contract.” labornotes.org/2025/10/stri...
Good news!!
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco said the cuts appeared to be politically motivated and were being carried out without much thought.
Judge blocks Trump administration from firing federal workers during shutdown
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco said the cuts appeared to be politically motivated and were being carried out without much thought.
www.oregonlive.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Good news!!
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Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.
Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.
Shame.
Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.
Shame.
October 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.
Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.
Shame.
Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.
Shame.
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BREAKING NEWS: We just won a court order blocking the Trump administration's illegal demands for personal data of SNAP recipients.
October 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
BREAKING NEWS: We just won a court order blocking the Trump administration's illegal demands for personal data of SNAP recipients.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Funny how the solution to a "collective action problem" is right there in the name.
Collective action.
Collective action.
October 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Funny how the solution to a "collective action problem" is right there in the name.
Collective action.
Collective action.
Cruelty is the goal, as ICE transfers detainees between facilities and between states, making it outrageously difficult for attorneys to represent their clients.
In addition, there is not even universal requirement for legal representation for ICE detainees.
In addition, there is not even universal requirement for legal representation for ICE detainees.
ICE’s tactics of transferring detainees between states and hiding them from legal representation allow the agency to ignore proper due process laws. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social reports:
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How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers
‘It seems like cruelty is the point,’ one attorney said.
trib.al
October 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Cruelty is the goal, as ICE transfers detainees between facilities and between states, making it outrageously difficult for attorneys to represent their clients.
In addition, there is not even universal requirement for legal representation for ICE detainees.
In addition, there is not even universal requirement for legal representation for ICE detainees.
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Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
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Trump has escalated his attack on Portland by deploying more Feds to Portland for the purpose of intimidating and silencing our community, so that we comply in advance with his fascist regime. Don’t acquiesce. Join an org, talk to your neighbors and build solidarity networks to keep each other safe.
September 27, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Trump has escalated his attack on Portland by deploying more Feds to Portland for the purpose of intimidating and silencing our community, so that we comply in advance with his fascist regime. Don’t acquiesce. Join an org, talk to your neighbors and build solidarity networks to keep each other safe.
What do you think?
No amount of convincing and irrefutable evidence of the genocide will convince Western leaders to halt support for Israel, because it isn't in their interests. The only thing that will stop the genocide is to make it more costly than profitable.
Western leaders aren’t cowards for continuing to support Israel — they’re committed imperialist ideologues
No amount of convincing and irrefutable evidence of the genocide will convince Western leaders to halt support for Israel, because it isn’t in their interests. The only thing that will stop the…
mondoweiss.net
September 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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“We estimate that all Starbucks has to do to reach a fair contract is invest the equivalent of an average day’s sales to address the economic issues that remain, including increasing our take-home pay and improving hours and staffing,” Eisen said in a written statement.
Starbucks bargaining at a standstill
Nearly four years after the first Starbucks coffee shop unionized, workers still don’t have a contract.
nwlaborpress.org
September 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
“We estimate that all Starbucks has to do to reach a fair contract is invest the equivalent of an average day’s sales to address the economic issues that remain, including increasing our take-home pay and improving hours and staffing,” Eisen said in a written statement.
