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Rights to unionize and collectively bargain: State solutions to the U.S. worker rights crisis What does current federal law say about workers’ rights to unionize and collectively bargain? Since 1935, the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) has provided most private-sector workers the statutory...

There are state solutions. Let's work on them now.
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The federal minimum wage remains under the poverty line for any household of any size in 2026. Annual full-time earnings at the federal minimum wage and federal poverty guidelines by household size. NOTE: Federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. Poverty guideline for the 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia. SOURCE: Department of Health and Human Services Poverty Guidelines for 2026

BREAKING: The federal minimum wage remains an official poverty wage in 2026. 😵

The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25/hour falls below the newly released poverty threshold for any household of any size. 1/

How to stop a dictator I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

"In today’s America, the need for narrative leadership is urgent. This is not just about positioning anti-Trump politicians for elections: it’s about what must be done now to ensure that Trump cannot consolidate the powers of an Orbán or Chávez."

www.vox.com/politics/479...

Can Trump’s Plan for Warehouse Immigrant Detention Camps Be Stopped? ICE has the money it needs to turn warehouses into prisons for immigrants. But local pressure stopped one project in its tracks.

Can Trump’s Plan for Warehouse Immigrant Detention Camps Be Stopped? Yes, with local pressure.
theintercept.com/2026/02/17/w...

In case anyone wonders what it’s like to be disabled in alberta, I just had a lady tell me that I was ACCEPTED to the CANADA DISABILITY BENEFIT and would be getting $1400 of past months funding plus $200/mo going forward.

She didn’t understand why I started sobbing.

Thanks to the ucp govt…

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In the midst of all the massively terrible news, let's help each other out and find some joy.
Join us Sunday for a clothing swap and mending session at Underdog Bookstore with Operation Healthy Hearts and Mourning Pug!
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Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.

A student attended a protest targeting companies that supplied Israel with weapons.

He was banned from Cornell University and ICE subpoenaed Google for his personal data, including credit card and bank account numbers:

theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...

Esptein files: release EVERY missing page now! The headlines say the Epstein files are out. The math says they’re lying. Right now, Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice is still sitting on over 3 million pages of evidence that are legally required to

Esptein files: release EVERY missing page now! action.eko.org/a/esptein-fi...

When private equity firms buy hospitals, people die. Add your name: ban private equity ownership of hospitals. action.ips-dc.org/a/inequality... @inequality.org

The plot to undermine the 2026 elections The Trump administration is engaged in a multi-pronged effort to undermine the integrity of and confidence in the 2026 election.

Trump has already shown a willingness to use the full spectrum of federal government power to interfere with state election administration and advance his political interests.

Full details here:

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home.

But did you look at the judge's order?

It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept."

Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Tell Congress: Don’t Weaponize Our Care!

No family should have to choose between protecting the ones they love or accessing the care they need. go.caringacross.org/a/congress-d...

ICE Is Not the Only Problem. Border Patrol Has Acted With Impunity for Decades. Ending immigration agents’ abuses requires reckoning with a long history of cruelty at the border.

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The Farcical Case Against Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for Protest Reporting The Justice Department is weaponizing a law intended to protect those seeking abortions to punish reporters covering anti-ICE activism.

theintercept.com/2026/01/30/d...

Kansas Legislature Passes Trans Bathroom Bounty, Drivers License Revocations “They're using very overtly anti-democratic measures to pass all this stuff because they know that it's unpopular.”

Kansas has passed a bill that would revoke trans people's drivers licenses, forcing them to surrender them for replacements.

It also creates trans bounty hunters that can sue trans people for money.

It goes to the gov, who will veto, but R's can override.

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BREAKING: One of the tipsters from the Epstein docs that DOJ pulled down and put back up has reached out to me. I'll tell you what we know on @meidastouch.com in one hour. As always, we have receipts. Link: www.youtube.com/live/xiSmcNV...

Trump admin is trying to deport LGBTQ+ asylum-seekers to countries where they'd be killed, lawyers say Attorneys say new transfer agreements and court tactics allow the U.S. to sidestep asylum rulings, risking removals to countries where LGBTQ+ people face imprisonment, torture, or execution.

www.advocate.com/politics/imm...

My first remarks since being arrested last night.

Ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon arrested on charges connected to Minnesota church protest Lemon’s lawyer said he was taken into custody after attending protest in which demonstrators disrupted a church service earlier in January

The arrest of Don Lemon is yet another alarming attack by the Trump administration on Americans’ First Amendment rights.

A free press is fundamental to democracy. This is unacceptable & we will continue to fight back. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Dem governors unwittingly share DMV data with ICE, lawmakers warn 40 congressional Democrats are urging blue-state leaders to block ICE access to a database containing residents’ driver license and registration information.

3. ICE is using government data from state DMVs and federal agencies and refuses to answer questions about how that data is used. I'm also leading that fight in the Senate to rein them in, and warned states that care about their residents to stop sharing DMV data with ICE.

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ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.

“Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them.”

How legacy media fell for Trump’s fake “pivot” in Minnesota No, Trump did not "change course."

1. Many large media outlets are reporting that Trump "pivoted" his strategy in Minnesota and has "changed course."

This is what the White House WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE

The only problem is it is not true

Abolish. ice. 💔

The hollow corporate response to the Minnesota killings At the beginning of December, the Trump administration launched “Operation Metro Surge,” sending thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and other federal officers to the…

1. After weeks of silence, the CEOs of 68 large corporations based in Minnesota released and statement on ICE saying... what exactly?

"There are ways for us to come together to foster progress..."

"State, local and federal officials [should] work together to find real solutions..."

It is very hard to figure out how to boycott Palantir.

The corporate enablers of the ICE crackdown How Amazon, AT&T, and Citizens Bank are profiting from the administration’s mass deportation campaign.

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Half of Nashville's population was without power.

Utilities tend to be monopolies, yet many municipalities let them put their customers' lives in danger by allowing power companies to lay lines cheaply (above ground), where they are more likely to be affected by ice and cut off power in the cold.

Nah, @gofundme.com. Do better.

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