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Peter Clare

@pmclare.bsky.social

Retired community organizer, lawyer, teacher. Father husband.

23 Followers  |  11 Following  |  136 Posts  |  Joined: 13.11.2024  |  1.5062

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Capital Over Democracy: The Tipped Wage Fight in Washington, D.C. In a democracy, the people's will is supposed to shape policy.

Capital Over Democracy: The Tipped Wage Fight in Washington, D.C.
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06.05.2025 17:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Trump’s War on the Federal Government Will Stifle Black Progress For generations, government jobs helped build the Black middle class. With Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE, those days may be over.

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16.04.2025 17:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Did Integration Destroy the Black Community? There’s been much conversation lately about whether integration destroyed the Black community or not.

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Walmart fires 6'4" cisgender woman threatened by man who thought she was trans

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Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist National Gallery of Art

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30.03.2025 03:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump moves to strip unionization rights from most federal workers It’s the latest effort in the president's drive to disempower the federal bureaucracy.

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29.03.2025 04:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You’re already on stolen land. You might as well pay rent. And yes, if you’re wondering: this post is for white settlers.

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28.03.2025 19:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bill to Overturn CFPB Overdraft Fee Rule Would Hurt Families, Allow Big Banks to Keep $5 Billion in Excessive Fees Sen. Tim Scott (SC) and Rep. French Hill (AR) Introduced Resolutions to Overturn a CFPB Rule Capping Big Bank Overdraft Fees at $5

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27.03.2025 12:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Patients Fare When Private Equity Funds Acquire Nursing Homes

Capitalism is the problem www.nber.org/digest/20210...

26.03.2025 20:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants | CNN Business Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wag...

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26.03.2025 19:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Coalition including ELC sues Trump Administration for Dismantling U.S. Department of Education, Hurting All Students Coalition including ELC sues Trump Administration for Dismantling U.S. Department of Education, Hurting All Students

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24.03.2025 14:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Map of Protests | List of Protests - Google My Maps A map of protests by We (the People) Dissent. Go so thepeopledissent.substack.com for weekly lists and updates. Layer 1: Protests March 22, March 23, and March 24-28 Layer 2: Protests prior to March ...

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Krassenstein on Substack BREAKING: 34,000 people have showed up in Denver, Colorado this evening to see Bernie Sanders and AOC fight oligarchy and authoritarianism. Impressive! People are clearly angry at how things are ...

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22.03.2025 21:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In over half of U.S. States, Student Debt Exceeds the State Budget. The Economic Impact is Extreme.

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21.03.2025 23:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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March Campaign Orientation, online — Free DC Interested in this effort and want to learn more about how you can be part of it? Join our next online Campaign Orientation on Wednesday, March 26.

Highly recommend you join the movement
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21.03.2025 18:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Real Hunger Games: When Black Kids Were Forced to Battle for White Amusement With the release of Sunrise on the Reaping, we must remember that real Black boys were once forced into "Negro battle royals"—America’s own twisted Hunger Games.

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21.03.2025 01:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Dismantling the Department of Education Would Harm Students | NEA The Trump administration is taking a wrecking ball to public schools—inflicting damage on millions of students across the country in the process—to pay for tax handouts for billionaires.

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20.03.2025 22:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Resistance is alive and well in the United States Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.

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20.03.2025 19:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Encourage Representatives to pass the DC Local Funds Act — Free DC In the next week, we want every member of the House to hear from a DC resident that the DC Local Funds Act is an important bill that has unanimous bipartisan support to pass.

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20.03.2025 17:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Article on Jackie Robinson’s military career restored to defense department website An article on Jackie Robinson’s military career has been restored amid a US government purge of material considered to be related to DEI

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20.03.2025 00:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Right Builds Power. The Left Hosts Rallies. That's Why We Lose. Lessons from a Former Bernie Organizer and AOC Staffer

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18.03.2025 19:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Schumer postpones book tour due to ‘security concerns’ amid anger from Democrats over government funding fight

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DC History Conference

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Senate Democratic sources say Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is giving plenty of room to centrists in his caucus to vote for the House-passed continuing resolution (CR) if doing so is the only way to avoid a government shutdown at week’s end

13.03.2025 21:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks amid Trump cuts Two USDA programs provided $1.1 billion in funding for schools and food banks to purchase food from local farms and suppliers.

www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/11/u...

12.03.2025 20:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Recess at the Capitol Recess at the Capitol

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12.03.2025 17:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Historic Montgomery Bus Station, Freedom Riders Museum part of DOGE-ordered sell-off The building housing the historic Freedom Riders Museum appears to be part of a DOGE-ordered sell-off of federal properties.

www.alreporter.com/2025/03/06/h...

12.03.2025 02:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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