@heysandhya.bsky.social
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
December 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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[GIFT LINK] Lots of folks are sharing this incisive commentary from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on the Nazi tattoo candidate and the Democrats' insistence that we have to tolerate a smidge of racism to appeal to the working class.
She, of course takes, that apart.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
She, of course takes, that apart.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
[GIFT LINK] Lots of folks are sharing this incisive commentary from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on the Nazi tattoo candidate and the Democrats' insistence that we have to tolerate a smidge of racism to appeal to the working class.
She, of course takes, that apart.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
She, of course takes, that apart.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
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this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...
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🚨 BREAKING: In a 66-48 vote, Republicans in the North Carolina House officially pass their new Trump-approved congressional gerrymander targeting the state’s Black voters. More to come.
Background:
Background:
‘Blatant Discrimination’: North Carolina Advances GOP Gerrymander at the Expense of Black Voters
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🚨 BREAKING: In a 66-48 vote, Republicans in the North Carolina House officially pass their new Trump-approved congressional gerrymander targeting the state’s Black voters. More to come.
Background:
Background:
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white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
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my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
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Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
bit.ly
October 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired
September 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired
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As many as 3% of long-haul truckers are trans, drawn to the autonomy and stability the job can offer—though the environment is becoming more difficult. A forthcoming documentary follows one trucker on a holiday route.
A Sep 6 event at The Fruit is fundraising for the film, which has Durham ties.
A Sep 6 event at The Fruit is fundraising for the film, which has Durham ties.
Forthcoming Documentary to Follow the Journey of a Trans Trucker
Even as the industry becomes more fraught "people are making their lives happen in red states," says Sowj Kudva, a Durham resident and the editor of The Trans Trucker Project.
indyweek.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
As many as 3% of long-haul truckers are trans, drawn to the autonomy and stability the job can offer—though the environment is becoming more difficult. A forthcoming documentary follows one trucker on a holiday route.
A Sep 6 event at The Fruit is fundraising for the film, which has Durham ties.
A Sep 6 event at The Fruit is fundraising for the film, which has Durham ties.
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Breakthrough study: COVID-19 reactivates dormant breast cancer, triggering deadly metastasis (shown in mice). In humans, cancer survivors who got COVID had 4.5× higher cancer-related deaths—and 1.4× greater breast cancer.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs - Nature
Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by epidemiological d...
www.nature.com
July 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Breakthrough study: COVID-19 reactivates dormant breast cancer, triggering deadly metastasis (shown in mice). In humans, cancer survivors who got COVID had 4.5× higher cancer-related deaths—and 1.4× greater breast cancer.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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UPDATED: The woman at the center of my reporting speaks out. For the first time, she shares what it felt like to be denied prenatal care simply for being unmarried.
wellsrachelm.substack.com/p/pregnant-w...
#reprorights #reproductivehealth #tnleg
wellsrachelm.substack.com/p/pregnant-w...
#reprorights #reproductivehealth #tnleg
Exclusive: Pregnant Woman in Tennessee Denied Care for Being Unmarried (Updated)
The 2025 Medical Ethics Defense Act allows physicians to deny care to patients whose "lifestyles" they disagree with
wellsrachelm.substack.com
July 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
UPDATED: The woman at the center of my reporting speaks out. For the first time, she shares what it felt like to be denied prenatal care simply for being unmarried.
wellsrachelm.substack.com/p/pregnant-w...
#reprorights #reproductivehealth #tnleg
wellsrachelm.substack.com/p/pregnant-w...
#reprorights #reproductivehealth #tnleg
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Our governments are forcing us to watch Palestinians starve to death
A bipartisan endeavor
We kept saying genocide and it has been and also that can make it hard to appreciate this is a new level to it
Mass, irreversible starvation
A bipartisan endeavor
We kept saying genocide and it has been and also that can make it hard to appreciate this is a new level to it
Mass, irreversible starvation
I think this is the most horrifying post I have ever read.
July 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Our governments are forcing us to watch Palestinians starve to death
A bipartisan endeavor
We kept saying genocide and it has been and also that can make it hard to appreciate this is a new level to it
Mass, irreversible starvation
A bipartisan endeavor
We kept saying genocide and it has been and also that can make it hard to appreciate this is a new level to it
Mass, irreversible starvation
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"And while Zohran had this inspiring heart of New York campaign, we were harnessing a different part of being a New Yorker which is being a huge hater...and harnessed the renewable energy that is New York’s desire to hate some asshole."
nygroove.nyc/dream-campai...
nygroove.nyc/dream-campai...
'The ultimate guerilla hating campaign:' DREAM helped beat Cuomo. So what's next?
'We were harnessing a different part of being a New Yorker, which is being a huge hater.'
nygroove.nyc
July 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"And while Zohran had this inspiring heart of New York campaign, we were harnessing a different part of being a New Yorker which is being a huge hater...and harnessed the renewable energy that is New York’s desire to hate some asshole."
nygroove.nyc/dream-campai...
nygroove.nyc/dream-campai...
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Honestly, the NYT siding with Idi Amin and saying that Indian-Ugandans are not Africans is not something I saw coming.
July 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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crying, screaming, throwing up
June 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
crying, screaming, throwing up
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🚨 THREAD: What just happened in Los Angeles is not normal, and it differs from past deployments of the National Guard in key ways that you need to understand. This is a breakdown of the history, the playbook, and why this move reeks of bad faith.
June 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
🚨 THREAD: What just happened in Los Angeles is not normal, and it differs from past deployments of the National Guard in key ways that you need to understand. This is a breakdown of the history, the playbook, and why this move reeks of bad faith.
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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