Mike Elk (Mike Elk on Bluesky - Moving There)
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Yinzer labor reporter @PaydayReport often in 🇧🇷 . Emmy Nominee. Alum: @Guardian. @UEunion fam. Autistic⚾️ Jew. Falo Português [email protected]
Pittsburgh & Rio de Janeiro
Joined July 2009
BREAKING: Chris Smalls has been released from Israeli detention and is returning to the United States .
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Early Thursday morning, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced that Amazon Labor Union founder Chris Smalls had been released from Israeli prison.
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The largest Canadian union has denounced the IDF beating Amazon union leader Chris Smalls, while most US union stay silent. His own union leader, Teamsters President Sean O'Brien instead went on Tucker Carlson.
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Folks, Greetings from the Burgh, where local PBS TV station WQED announced that they intended to lay off 19 employees. WQED to Lay Off 19 Employees WQED was the 1st public television station in...
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WQED was the 1st public TV station in US. Now, as a result of $1.8 million in federal funding cuts, they are laying off 19 staffers.
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PITTSBURGH — In response to the recent elimination of federal funding for public broadcasting, WQED Multimedia has taken steps to ensure its long-term financial stability, including laying off 19...
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WTF, Trump paved over the Rose Garden and it wasn’t even a major news story?!?! .
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President Donald Trump’s paved makeover of the White House’s Rose Garden is nearly finished.
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Big thanks to a reader from Texas who donated $100. Only $208 to go to reach our monthly goal to support labor reporting.
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RT @yourunionbro: Wow @AFLCIO you still have not made statement on our Union Brother Chris Smalls abduction. Unbelievable!! He’s been beate….
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This AI-generated biography of me is a little creepy
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Ford Paid $800 Million Tariff Hit in Q2
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The levies on imported parts helped wipe out the company’s net profit in the second quarter.
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RT @commondreams: On Monday, details emerged that not only was Smalls detained, but he was physically beaten by the IDF. He was the only Bl….
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Despite Smalls having been profiled by every major media outlet in the U.S. when he successfully led the union drive at Amazon, not a single major media outlet has covered his violent detention by...
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RT @KweenInYellow: Regina Spektor stopped her show mid-performance to have an audience member removed for shouting "free Palestine". Anot….
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RT @leloveluck: Sky News reporter says journalists were told by Israeli officials that aid drops into Gaza could be cancelled if media onbo….
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Sky News goes on board a Royal Jordanian Air Force plane for one of the first aid drop flights since Israel announced they could resume.
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Woah, Pod Save America guys call for cutting off military assistance to Israel & admit they were previously part of the problem.
There has to be a total mindset change in the Democratic party. When the war ends, we are not going back to the pre-October 7 status quo.
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RT @BrianMteleSUR: In June, ex-Congresswoman Carla Zambelli, once a rising star in Jair Bolsonaro's Liberal Party, fled Brazil shortly afte….
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RT @LailaAlarian: The @nytimes atrocity propaganda piece “Screams Without Words” completely fell apart as cases and details were found to h….
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RT @AbbyMartin: “I’m a father. I love my kids to death. I don’t want them to grow up in a world like this. As a US citizen, I’m putting my….
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RT @MikeElk: @HarshaWalia Every major outlet profiled Chris Smalls for winning Amazon union drive. But now none have covered Chris Smalls….
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This week, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) boarded the Handala, a ship associated with the Flotilla Freedom Coalition, that was attempting to reach Gaza with supplies for starving Palestinians. The...
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RT @egrystar: Top US labor misleaders say nothing about genocide or the abduction of solidarity activists in international waters. https://….
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On Monday, details emerged that not only was Smalls detained, but he was physically beaten by the IDF. He was the only Black member of the Freedom Flotilla on the Handala.
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