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Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today

This brings me so much joy! Thank you Gina 🙏🏾

Kilmar Abrego Garcia should never have been unlawfully deported in the first place.

While I’m glad he’s back in the US, he should be reunited with his family and the Trump Administration must stop targeting him.

We got AFT and NEA in the house this morning making sure our students have everything they need to thrive! Thanks to everyone out in the streets this morning fighting to #ProtectOurKids. #EdMatters

Canceling TSA workers' union contract is an attack on the brave workers who keep our skies safe. The Trump administration is cheating TSA officers—many of them veterans—out of the wages, leave and protections they fought for & won.

SEIU stands with AFGE & the 47,000 TSA officers! seiu.co/3DD9TAF

Some news: A few hours after I filed the draft to this story, CNN laid me off.

As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week.

It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/

I wish people on the left would stop using “diversity hire” or “affirmative action” to describe folks like Hegseth. This reinforces the racist, sexist notion that diversity and affirmative action are promoting unqualified people, doing the right’s work for the.

"For me revolution was never an interim “thing-to-do” before settling down...Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime." — Professor Angela Y. Davis
Happy birthday to the iconic #AngelaDavis

"I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government... I cannot be silent." - Dr King

Happy MLK Day!

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Democrats must restore its connection to working people. It starts with leadership.

Join the DC Labor Council on January 6 for a virtual forum of candidates for chair, where they will share their vision for the future of working people and the Democratic Party
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Two separate terror attacks in the last 24 hours by, apparently, two former US Army soldiers. And the far right is talking about immigration.

Biden Expected to Permanently Ban Oil Drilling in Some Federal Waters The move, expected as early as Monday, relies on a 70-year-old law that could make it difficult for the Trump administration to reverse it.

President Biden is expected to permanently ban new oil and gas drilling in large sections of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, as well as other federal waters. The move relies on a 70-year-old law that could make it difficult for the Trump administration to reverse it.

A hospital visit or prescribed medication that puts you into debt.

Education and childcare you can't afford.

Grocery prices going up, but take home pay staying the same.

Unattainable housing costs

Working people deserve more than they're getting in the richest country in the world. Period.

‘The ultimate I told you so’: Black folks sit back and watch MAGA immigration war "These are white people issues. I’m just gonna sit here and mind my black-assed business."

‘The ultimate I told you so’: Black folks sit back and watch MAGA immigration war

Everybody remember to go get you a library card to help keep them funded

2024 in Review: Strikes and Organizing Score Gains, but Storm Clouds Loom Union workers broke open the cookie jar in 2024, after years of stagnant wages and rising prices. With strikes and the threat of strikes, workers did more than forestall concessions: They gained groun...

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It's like our planet is a plaything for corporations and the ultra rich

WHO chief recounts narrow escape at Yemen airport hit by Israeli missile The World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he and colleagues "escaped death narrowly" when an Israeli airstrike targeted Yemen's main airport.

The World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he and colleagues "escaped death narrowly" when an Israeli airstrike targeted Yemen's main airport.

Robert Reich explains why American democracy has become a oligarchy.Watch More: 10 Ways to Save American Democracy ►► https://youtu.be/3OUbWJrbzog What is Oligarchy? | Robert Reich

Even a system that calls itself a democracy can become an oligarchy if power becomes concentrated in the hands of a few very wealthy people.

For the richest country in the history of the world to allow something like this to happen is a deep, deep shame. But it's also expected when all these cities focus on criminalizing unhoused folks who sleep in public while letting housing costs skyrocket. A damn shame.

All these billionaires growing and doubling their wealth within a few years while hundreds of thousands of people end up in the streets because they can't afford rent (not even talking home ownership) is a crime against humanity. #TaxTheRich

I was told that Grants Pass allowing cities to make being homeless illegal would solve this. I was under the impression throwing people in jail and “cleaning up” their encampments would fix the problem because homelessness was a lifestyle choice by moral degenerates who just needed “tough medicine”.

AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas

AI data centers are multiplying across the U.S. and sucking up huge amounts of power.

New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans

Will banning the visibility of homelessness end the homelessness crisis? Nope and California is a case example.

The people pushing these laws aren't serious. The Housing First model is a humane and effective solution but politicians would rather feed the beast of the prison industrial complex.

These unfair labor practice strikes are an initial show of strength, and we’re just getting started. We’re going to keep fighting until Starbucks gives us a serious economic offer.

Starbucks should know: This is just the beginning.

Unionized Starbucks workers are on strike in:
-California
-Colorado
-Illinois
-Massachusetts
-New Jersey
-New York
-Ohio
-Oregon
-Pennsylvania
-Missouri
-Texas
-Washington

The strike could reach “hundreds of stores” by Tuesday, according to @sbworkersunited.org.

Happy holidays - Starbucks baristas are ON STRIKE!!

We're going on five days of escalating ULP strikes in response to the company backtracking on our promised path forward, starting today in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle - and many more to come!

There is no such thing as “record profits” without workers. An injury to one is an injury to all, we stand in solidarity with our Amazon workers on strike. ✊

When we workers come together and exercise our collective power, we can protect our community and win the rights we deserve. I recommend joining your local union or supporting one. #UnionizeCalifornia