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Stop streaming ICE recruitment ads NOW! The Trump administration has funneled billions of dollars into these dystopian ICE recruitment ads. Meanwhile, cities are being terrorized by ICE agents who are running rampant with abuses of power, s...

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Federal judge again blocks National Guard deployment to Oregon A federal judge late Sunday night blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon, including hundreds of out-of-state soldiers.

A federal judge late Sunday night blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon, including hundreds of out-of-state soldiers.

I can’t wait to do it again

In good news: Today I watched @natalierobinld.bsky.social teach a group of artists about unionization and then I got to see a group of attorneys at the Federal Bar Association-Chicago learn from and respond to @collaboraction.bsky.social's film about the trial of the men who murdered Emmett Till.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.

There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.

They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

The biggest cut to health care cut ever. The biggest cut to SNAP. Tax hikes for working people.

The largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in U.S. history.

There’s a reason Republicans are only working on this bill in the dead of night.

In December, Nancy Pelosi intervened to keep AOC from getting the top spot on the oversight committee, and giving it to 74 year old Gerry Connolly, despite him having cancer.

Now, he's dead. Have the past 5 months been an important time for Congressional oversight?

Nearly 200 fired federal workers who screen coal miners for black lung are now back on the job, after a judge ordered their reinstatement.

U.S. District Court Judge Irene Berger said the Trump admin could not legally end the program, which was started by Congress.

I just watched the episode of the Gilded Age where the state militia faces the workers on strike and the workers win. We are always on the right side of history.

A *quarter* of Hawaii’s prison population is actually incarcerated in Arizona, thousands of miles from home.

Trump’s current prison partnership with El Salvador did not come out of thin air and should be understood as an escalation of practices that already go on every day in this country.

Republicans tee up federal worker benefit cuts to pay for tax cuts Federal workers hired in 2029 would contribute nearly 10% of their basic pay toward a less generous pension if they wish to retain their civil service protections under House lawmakers’ budget reconci...

Refuse to serve on an at-will basis? Pay a substantial pension surcharge.

Federal workers hired in 2029 would contribute nearly 10% of their basic pay toward a less generous pension if they wish to retain their civil service protections under House lawmakers’ budget reconciliation proposal. 😡

N.Y. Budget Deal Includes School Cellphone Ban and Public Safety Changes Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a $254 billion state budget agreement that includes tax credits. A measure to restrict mask wearing was watered down.

Breaking News: Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the framework of a roughly $254 billion state budget agreement for New York, ending a monthlong stalemate.

Federal workers are our neighbors, friends, and family who want to serve their communities. Elon Musk and his DOGE are completely upending their lives and gutting the essential services that federal workers bring to life and others rely on every day.

But he had to by 180 days anyway right?

Huge shoutout to everyone this is what a global boycott looks like. Tesla just reported a staggering 71% drop in profits compared to Q1 of 2024. It’s working. Keep the pressure on.

I’ve never flown first class before and I have some thoughts. Why is everyone so mean? I know the answer but also. And I think everyone is white.

Inside a Union’s Fight Against Trump’s Federal Job Cuts Leaders of the union representing government workers say their battle is galvanizing but also alarming. “It’s insulting to say,” one said, “that we are lazy.”

The President’s executive order eliminating collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of federal workers is union busting.

AFGE and all of America’s unions are fighting this outrageous attack with everything we’ve got.

BREAKING: The Education Department will begin collection on student loans that are in default next month, including garnishing wages for up to 5.3 million borrowers.

TODAY at 5 PM in Chicago: OSHA and NIOSH workers are speaking out about the cuts putting workplace safety at risk.

📍 SEIU Healthcare, 2229 S Halsted
Hosted by @chicagolabor.bsky.social and @deptofworkers.bsky.social.

Bring Our Local 100 Brother Home Please take a few minutes to send a pre-written letter to your representative and senator: Tell them to demand SMART apprentice Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's return to the United States! Background ...

Now is the time to be even louder for Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Write Congress and tell them to bring our SMART Union brother home NOW!

Old mobile phones and keyboards. Overlaid text reads: FT Exclusive: EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones to avoid espionage

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

Kentucky Unions Stand Up to Halt Deportation of Two Hundred Workers Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances-Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, received notice this month that ...

USA: Kentucky Unions Stand Up to Halt Deportation of Two Hundred Workers www.labornotes.org/2025/04/kent...

How federal workers without a union can still act like a union See and share how federal workers can fight back against Trump's cuts regardless of their status with the FLRA.

How federal workers without a union can still act like a union

See and share how federal workers can fight back against Trump's cuts regardless of their status with the FLRA.

Trump Announces ‘Termination’ of ‘Illegal DEI’ Settlement Over Raw Sewage in Poor, Majority-Black Alabama Communities - Inside Climate News The Trump administration announced Friday that it was terminating a historic settlement aimed at improving wastewater treatment services for Alabamians in majority-Black communities harmed by raw sewa...

The Trump administration cancelled a requirement of Alabama to clean up raw sewage flowing into yards where kids often play in rural, impoverished, majority-Black communities, calling the cleanup requirement “illegal DEI.” 1/3
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LFG! See you May 1! ✊🇺🇸✊
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#philly #union @afscme.bsky.social

Pictured is a filing from the National Labor Relations Board website showing a petition for certification of a labor organization as the representative of a collective bargaining unit. The employer is the Independence Seaport Museum located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There are 32 employees in the proposed bargaining unit made up of All eligible full-time and regular part-time professional and non-professional staff employed by the Independence Seaport Museum. Excluded: All other employees represented by other labor organizations and employees who are employed by third-party contractors, confidential and managerial employees, guards and supervisors as defined by the ACT.

NEW: 32 museum workers at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philly are unionizing with @afscme.bsky.social @afscmedc47.bsky.social.

BREAKING — DOGE will descend upon Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) buildings tomorrow, an agency source tells me.

FDIC is responsible for insuring all commercial/personal US bank accounts for up to $250k and regulating banks. Scary in light of Trump’s manipulation of markets this week.

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