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While workers in 40+ cities began their ULP strike today, union baristas are also holding Red Cup Rallies in 17 cities!

Here's a glimpse from Pittsburgh, where Starbucks customers are demanding the company stop union-busting and finalize fair contracts! #NoContractNoCoffee
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The story behind a shady land deal in Florida
The story behind a shady land deal in Florida
Republican leaders in Florida used a sentence slipped into the new state budget to pay more than $80 million in taxpayer money for a piece of property owned by a GOP donor.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Never cross a picket line
November 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Where Might Trump’s Attacks on Universities Lead? Just Look at Florida...

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November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings

“Big tech has made their choice”

www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans…
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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The kids won't remember but the dc press served as ken starr's personal PR firm and basically elevated him to sainthood
Ken Starr, immediately after being fired for his role in the coverup of sexual abuse at Baylor: I should reach out to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

this happened! this is a thing that happened!
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Trump Threatens BBC With Billion-Dollar Lawsuit For Correctly Pointing Out He Supported A Violent Insurrection www.techdirt.com/2025/11/12/t...
Trump Threatens BBC With Billion-Dollar Lawsuit For Correctly Pointing Out He Supported A Violent Insurrection
You might recall that not that long ago Trump managed to get CBS to pay him a $16 million bribe based entirely on a lie: that the network’s 60 Minutes program had unfairly edited an interview…
www.techdirt.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
When Hyundai came to the United States for cheap American labor, they meant they wanted cheap American labor:
Prison Labor Cars
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/pris...
Prison Labor Cars - Lawyers, Guns & Money
When Hyundai came to the United States for cheap American labor, they meant they wanted cheap American labor, which the South is always ready to provide through prisoners. Thousands of workers at…
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Anti-Feminist Media Is Trying to Make Young Women Turn on Birth Control talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...
Anti-Feminist Media Is Trying to Make Young Women Turn on Birth Control
In the aftermath of the 2024 election, explanations for Donald Trump’s decisive...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Fear of immigration arrests near schools in Florida is reducing enrollment, officials say www.orlandoweekly.com/news/fear-of...
Fear of immigration arrests near schools in Florida is reducing enrollment, officials say
The majority of unexpected departures in Orange County were children in immigrant families, said school board member Stephanie Vanos.
www.orlandoweekly.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
‘Starbucks is the largest labor violator in modern history’: Starbucks workers prepare for indefinite national strike therealnews.com/starbucks-is...
‘Starbucks is the largest labor violator in modern history’: Starbucks workers prepare for indefinite national strike
“We've been fighting for a very long time, and we're at the point now where we're done—and workers will go on strike by Thursday if this company does not come back with some new proposals and resolve…
therealnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015

What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Detroit Institute of Arts Workers Form a Union, Shedding Light on Labor Power in the Art World portside.org/2025-11-11/d...
Detroit Institute of Arts Workers Form a Union, Shedding Light on Labor Power in the Art World | Portside
Another beacon has been raised in the art world as the workers of the Detroit Institute of Arts have announced their formation of a union: Detroit Institute of Arts Cultural Workers United. The news comes...
portside.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job:
A tale of three customer service chatbots
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Pluralistic: A tale of three customer service chatbots (12 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
November 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops www.propublica.org/article/port...
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence…
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Scoop: FOREVER WARS obtained a habeas corpus petition filed by a journalist in ICE detention. The evidence against him? His Instagram likes. @attackerman.bsky.social reports:
ICE Caged This Man For His Instagram Posts And Likes
New details about Yaa'kub Ira Vijandre's detention show his posts supporting Palestine and the wrongfully convicted representing, in Homeland Security's eyes, support for terrorism
www.forever-wars.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The Status Interview – Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
The Status Interview – Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List
Over the last couple days I’ve argued both that the denouement of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Orlando Rep. Maxwell Frost slams Senate funding deal offering ‘empty promises’
Orlando Rep. Maxwell Frost slams Senate funding deal offering ‘empty promises’
The funding agreement could reopen the government if approved by the House and signed into law by President Trump.
www.orlandoweekly.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Indiana Casino Dealers Are Bringing Back the Recognition Strike
Indiana Casino Dealers Are Bringing Back the Recognition Strike
The ups and downs of casino workers fighting for the recognition of their union.
inthesetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Those Confederate monuments - long off their granite pedestals in Baltimore - are now in a Los Angeles museum, paint spatters and all. tinyurl.com/yc52x8wn “They're a crystalline symbol of a white supremacist ideology," the curators say
Baltimore’s Confederate monuments: Now in an LA museum, they’re decidedly off their pedestals | Baltimore Brew
Curators call the four bronze sculptures, still owned by Baltimore City, “a crystalline symbol of a white supremacist ideology.”
tinyurl.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM