Anthony Catania 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🍇 🫒 🚊
@tonyallanorma.bsky.social
Union Strong
M/J/K/R ⚾️ 🏈 🏀 🏒 #LFGM
Grandson of Immigrants
Retired Telecom CWA District 1
Democratic Socialist
Jure Sanguinis Italiano
Europhile
🚫 Finance, CRYPTO, NFT or religious freaks
📍ozone park/sicilia
M/J/K/R ⚾️ 🏈 🏀 🏒 #LFGM
Grandson of Immigrants
Retired Telecom CWA District 1
Democratic Socialist
Jure Sanguinis Italiano
Europhile
🚫 Finance, CRYPTO, NFT or religious freaks
📍ozone park/sicilia
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No child should go hungry simply because their parents are immigrants. As mayor, I’ll join @newyorkstateag.bsky.social in using every lever of government for the families who fear if they can afford tomorrow’s meals.
November 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
No child should go hungry simply because their parents are immigrants. As mayor, I’ll join @newyorkstateag.bsky.social in using every lever of government for the families who fear if they can afford tomorrow’s meals.
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Zohran Mamdani's challenge as mayor of New York will be to handle the routine needs of the city "in a better way" and let residents "see the improvements in the day-to-day city services," says Dean Fuleihan, who will serve as first deputy mayor in the new administration.
Zohran Mamdani’s Top Deputy on How to Deliver an Affordability Agenda
Zohran Mamdani will be taking office as mayor of New York in just five weeks. His transition team continues to make announcements about the new administration, recently unveiling a 400-person advisory...
www.democracynow.org
November 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Zohran Mamdani's challenge as mayor of New York will be to handle the routine needs of the city "in a better way" and let residents "see the improvements in the day-to-day city services," says Dean Fuleihan, who will serve as first deputy mayor in the new administration.
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The first federal investigation into Border Patrol corruption and “excessive violence” was launched in 1930; by 1933, the government had fired every single working agent.
Fast forward to today, and the agency's sexualized workplace leads to harassment and assault, according to former agents.
Fast forward to today, and the agency's sexualized workplace leads to harassment and assault, according to former agents.
“He’s an agent. No one will believe me over him.”
The case of an alleged rape at the Border Patrol Academy, and the culture of silence that helped keep it from public view.
www.motherjones.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The first federal investigation into Border Patrol corruption and “excessive violence” was launched in 1930; by 1933, the government had fired every single working agent.
Fast forward to today, and the agency's sexualized workplace leads to harassment and assault, according to former agents.
Fast forward to today, and the agency's sexualized workplace leads to harassment and assault, according to former agents.
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Astoria the Wild Turkey walks around the Beer Garden in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️
November 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Astoria the Wild Turkey walks around the Beer Garden in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️
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Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
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Do you remember Checker Cabs? This #NYTMCollection photograph from the Ralph Curcio Slide Collection shows a Checker Cab on Park Avenue, between 41 and 42 Streets in 1976.
November 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Do you remember Checker Cabs? This #NYTMCollection photograph from the Ralph Curcio Slide Collection shows a Checker Cab on Park Avenue, between 41 and 42 Streets in 1976.
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Returned to my beloved Central Park this morning, and was warmly greeted by a stunning Northern Cardinal! I so appreciate some of these beautiful birds staying with us through the winter! ❄️❄️❄️ #Cardinal #CentralPark #birding
November 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Returned to my beloved Central Park this morning, and was warmly greeted by a stunning Northern Cardinal! I so appreciate some of these beautiful birds staying with us through the winter! ❄️❄️❄️ #Cardinal #CentralPark #birding
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🗣️ ain't no power like the power of a union, cuz the power of a union won't stop!
We're EIGHTEEN DAYS into our national ULP strike and only getting louder. Let's hear it for baristas in Gardner, MA for holding the line! #nocontractnocoffee
We're EIGHTEEN DAYS into our national ULP strike and only getting louder. Let's hear it for baristas in Gardner, MA for holding the line! #nocontractnocoffee
November 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🗣️ ain't no power like the power of a union, cuz the power of a union won't stop!
We're EIGHTEEN DAYS into our national ULP strike and only getting louder. Let's hear it for baristas in Gardner, MA for holding the line! #nocontractnocoffee
We're EIGHTEEN DAYS into our national ULP strike and only getting louder. Let's hear it for baristas in Gardner, MA for holding the line! #nocontractnocoffee
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Labor organizer Mother Jones died on this day in 1930.
“I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.”
“I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.”
November 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Labor organizer Mother Jones died on this day in 1930.
“I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.”
“I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.”
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
A Warning from 1994 of a Two-Tiered Society | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
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Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
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600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
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In Western New York, excursion trains don’t take dainty strolls through the snowflakes. They obliterate snowdrifts to smithereens. This is the Arcade & Africa’s GE 65-Ton Switcher #112. Photo by Jackson Henneberry-Gregoire.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
In Western New York, excursion trains don’t take dainty strolls through the snowflakes. They obliterate snowdrifts to smithereens. This is the Arcade & Africa’s GE 65-Ton Switcher #112. Photo by Jackson Henneberry-Gregoire.
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Striking workers aren't the only ones who've noticed... #NoContractNoCoffee
November 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Striking workers aren't the only ones who've noticed... #NoContractNoCoffee
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the scala elicoidale, built by giuseppe momo in 1932, is often called the modern bramante staircase.
November 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
the scala elicoidale, built by giuseppe momo in 1932, is often called the modern bramante staircase.
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A rare and beautiful visitor to Central Park today, this Barn Owl resting high in the Pinetum in a fenced-off area. 🦉 ❤️
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A rare and beautiful visitor to Central Park today, this Barn Owl resting high in the Pinetum in a fenced-off area. 🦉 ❤️
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The climate crisis won’t wait and neither will we. With this team, we’ll meet it head-on.
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The climate crisis won’t wait and neither will we. With this team, we’ll meet it head-on.
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The entire labor movement is heartbroken by the senseless attack on @cwaunion.bsky.social Local 2222 lineman and Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe and Army Spec. Sarah Beckstrom just blocks away from the AFL-CIO House of Labor. Our thoughts are with their families.
Our hearts are heavy today after the senseless attack on Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe and Army Spec. Sarah Beckstrom, members of the West Virginia National Guard, who were shot yesterday in Washington D.C.
cwa-union.org/news/release...
cwa-union.org/news/release...
CWA Statement on the Shooting of National Guard Members in Washington, D.C.
Our hearts are heavy today after the senseless attack on Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe and Army Spec. Sarah Beckstrom, members of the West Virginia National Guard, who were shot yesterday in Washi...
cwa-union.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The entire labor movement is heartbroken by the senseless attack on @cwaunion.bsky.social Local 2222 lineman and Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe and Army Spec. Sarah Beckstrom just blocks away from the AFL-CIO House of Labor. Our thoughts are with their families.
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Today in NYC #LaborHistory: Some 400 New York City photoengravers working for the city’s newspapers, supported by 20,000 other newspaper unionists, begin what is to become an 11-day strike, shutting down the papers - November 28, 1953
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Today in NYC #LaborHistory: Some 400 New York City photoengravers working for the city’s newspapers, supported by 20,000 other newspaper unionists, begin what is to become an 11-day strike, shutting down the papers - November 28, 1953
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Starbucks knows where we stand. We’ve been clear: more take-home pay, better hours, & resolution of 100s of ULPs.
Bring us NEW proposals that address these issues so we can finalize a contract. Until then, we'll keep escalating. See you on the picket line!
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/28/s...
Bring us NEW proposals that address these issues so we can finalize a contract. Until then, we'll keep escalating. See you on the picket line!
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/28/s...
Starbucks workers' union escalates strike on Black Friday
The Starbucks workers' union said on Friday it is escalating an indefinite strike to more than 120 stores and 85 cities.
www.cnbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Starbucks knows where we stand. We’ve been clear: more take-home pay, better hours, & resolution of 100s of ULPs.
Bring us NEW proposals that address these issues so we can finalize a contract. Until then, we'll keep escalating. See you on the picket line!
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/28/s...
Bring us NEW proposals that address these issues so we can finalize a contract. Until then, we'll keep escalating. See you on the picket line!
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/28/s...
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BREAKING: A new wave of union baristas are joining the longest ULP strike in Starbucks history! 2,500 union baristas across 120+ stores in 85 cities are now on an open-ended ULP strike. We're SIXTEEN DAYS in and only getting stronger ✊
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 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
BREAKING: A new wave of union baristas are joining the longest ULP strike in Starbucks history! 2,500 union baristas across 120+ stores in 85 cities are now on an open-ended ULP strike. We're SIXTEEN DAYS in and only getting stronger ✊
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If it were Hamas that were constantly bombing and killing hundreds of Israelis, it would not be described as a “test” of the ceasefire. Reporters would be able to call it what it is: a clear-cut violation, whose perpetrators should be held accountable.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-gaz...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-gaz...
The Gaza “Ceasefire” is a Total Fraud
The fire has not, in fact, ceased, and there have to be meaningful penalties for Israel’s violations.
www.currentaffairs.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM
If it were Hamas that were constantly bombing and killing hundreds of Israelis, it would not be described as a “test” of the ceasefire. Reporters would be able to call it what it is: a clear-cut violation, whose perpetrators should be held accountable.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-gaz...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-gaz...
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Evangelicals have a long history of falling in line when presented with charlatans and manipulative, vainglorious narcissists masquerading as saviors.
Why evangelicals couldn't care less about Trump's Epstein scandal
They have a long history of falling for narcissists posing as Saviors.
www.motherjones.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Evangelicals have a long history of falling in line when presented with charlatans and manipulative, vainglorious narcissists masquerading as saviors.