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The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for.

UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.

Our full statement below. ⬇️
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Working While Homeless: In America, It’s All Too Common

Nobody is really addressing this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/b...

What does the world need? One Gay More 🏳️‍🌈 Watch this spin on the Les Miserables classic from Jeffrey Seller’s recently Pride protest concert at the Kennedy Center! See more at the link in our bio. TikTok video by BroadwayWorld

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It'll be interesting to watch NYC/S Dems in the general election for Mayor. Will the people who always yell at us to STFU and support the nominee, support the one we picked? Or, more likely, will their fear of progressive politics result in a push for the harasser?

David Hogg @davidhogg111 Follow The same establishment that is spending millions to destroy Zohran will say in a few months that we need to spend millions on polling and testing to win back young people. Open your god damn eyes- it's free. Adam Carlson @admcrlsn •3h The final three days of early voting were the youngest of the entire period. 47% of early voters are age 18-44. x.com/ gothamist/stat... Early Voting By Age Group (Raw Votes Cast) Age Group Days 1-4 Days 5-6 Days 7-9 Total (Days 1-9) 18-24 8,487 4,941 13,096 26,524 25-34 29,557 15,620 45,195 90,372 35-44 20,591 10,365 31,488 62,444 45-54 14,438 7,411 23,252 45,101 55-64 19,159 10,548 27,079 56,786 65-74 23,131 14,055 24,861 62,047 75+ 16,071 10,346 15,483 41,900 Early Voting By Age Group (Share of Early Electorate) Age Group Days 1-4 Days 5-6 Days 7-9 Total (Days 1-9) 18-24 6.5% 6.7% 7.3% 6.9% 25-34 22.5% 21.3% 25.0% 23.5% 35-44 15.7% 14.1% 17.4% 16.2%

david hogg off the top rope on the other site

Young Democrats vs. the Gerontocracy — On with Kara Swisher “Democrats in disarray” is more than just a trope — after last year’s disastrous elections, Democrats are openly fretting about how to pull the party out of its crisis. Kara speaks to a panel of mille...

Sarah McBride is a powerful voice for change and a leader for whom out of touch Dems should step aside.

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This book is riveting and so, so infuriating. It follows 5 families in Atlanta who are struggling to remain housed and paints deeply compassionate portraits of each unit. It reads almost like a novel but is outstanding journalism

New Yorkers vote in mayoral primary as polls show Mamdani leading Cuomo Leftwing Zohran Mamdani, 33, sees surging support in race with former governor for Democratic nomination

NYC mayoral race is a demo of why Dems suck and lose: 1) they unite to defeat people like Mandami despite real appeal to everyday voters; 2) they'll get behind a sexual harasser like Cuomo to stop it. Unresponsive to people and complete hypocrites. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Art of Organizing 18 Tips from UAW Organizer Brian O. Shepherd

Good advice for all activism. The first three for a taste:

Be quiet
Stop Being Weird
Trust Workers

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"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

The 10 richest Americans got $365 billion richer in the past year. Now they’re on the verge of a huge tax cut | CNN Business Despite a brief market scare, the richest 10 Americans got $365 billion richer over the past year, according to a new analysis from Oxfam.

Musk got $186 billion. Def in need of a tax cut.

edition.cnn.com/2025/05/21/b...

"The world's richest man is killing the world's poorest children. And he's doing it with glee"

- Bill Gates

Walz: When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child has? Government just big enough to fit in your bedroom, your womb, and apparently now in your toy chest.

That means you're also part of a narrow-window cohort that went to college with a typewriter but graduated with a PC?

Bill Gates says his Foundation will close in 2045 and decries Musk for USAID cuts Microsoft co-founder accuses Trump ally of ‘killing the world’s poorest children’ by slashing US aid funding

I'm not the biggest fan of Gates, but the contrast is clear: one reads books, consults experts, engages in thoughtful action; the other's a jagoff who shows up with a chainsaw and thinks he's funny.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is how it's supposed to work - of, by, and for the people. Not jagoffs with chainsaws, once smart people with worm brain, or wannabe kings or popes.

thehill.com/policy/healt...

Foreign nationals are prohibited from contributing to Donald Trump’s campaign.

But Trump’s memecoin scam allows foreigners to influence U.S. policy by putting money directly in his pocket.

This unlawful graft must be stopped.

The American Age Is Over Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.

"We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order."

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

1914 - Wilfred Owen

...
The foul tornado ...
Is over all the width of Europe whirled,
Rending the sails of progress. Rent or furled
Are all Art's ensigns. Verse wails. Now begin
Famines of thought and feeling. Love's wine's thin.
The grain of human Autumn rots, down-hurled.

FFS

The First 100 Days: Trump’s Honeymoon with Young Men May Be Over It is now well known that Donald Trump performed unusually well among young men in 2024- but that support may be starting to evaporate.

The quick gathering and subsequent loss of support among young voters should be interpreted as a large voting bloc looking for real change, and not dismissed as low information or low intelligence. We can win them back.

youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/the-first-...

$8 billion of US climate tech projects have been canceled so far in 2025 Battery, solar, and wind projects are getting killed in record numbers. Here’s a map of all the cancellations so far this year.

So much winning,. www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/21/1...

Chuck Schumer's favorability reaches 20-year low in New York poll Schumer is underwater with voters in deep blue New York, according to a new Siena College poll.

The headline undersells it: disapprove is 49%, approve is a miserable 39%. GTFO already.

www.newsweek.com/chuck-schume...

“This happens today: if the investments in the banks fall slightly… a tragedy… what can be done? But if people die of hunger, if they have nothing eat, if they have poor health, it does not matter! This is our crisis today!”

-Pope Francis

135 cardinals will elect the next pope. Francis picked 108 of them. (RNS) — Francis, who died April 21 at age 88, stands to have an outsize impact on the vote for his successor.

Here’s something to get your head around: the conclave is fresher and more diverse than the Democratic Party.

religionnews.com/2025/04/21/t...

History always has a lesson.

The CFPB Has Been Gutted The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

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I won't boycott a newspaper that has real investigative journalists when they're in such short supply, but we do need to keep beating on editors at NYT.