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Reporter/Producer for @MorePerfectUs . I write Progress Report. Fan of the Mets, Liverpool, Scunthorpe United, and Godzilla.

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2 years
Incredible that Dr. Oz killing 300 puppies is only the second-most toxic secret revealed about a Republican Senate candidate tonight
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It's funny that Republicans are finally able to rerun an election over and over again and yet they still can't win
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A bunch of marching Nazis bumping into one another as they try to figure out Metrocards on their way back to Hoboken is a Mel Brooks scene
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Many thousands of #nyc commuters use these turnstiles correctly every day. But these white nationalist demonstrators who marched here on Saturday seemed to struggle with it.
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Ke Huy Quan was born in Vietnam, fled to Hong Kong, and then came to the United States as an eight-year-old refugee. The White House last month released a new rule that would ban refugees that stopped in another country before arriving at the US border.
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"My journey started on a boat. I ended up in a refugee camp ... They say stories like this only happen in the movies. I cannot believe this is happening to me. This is the American dream!" - Ke Huy Quan #Oscars
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Jay Leno crossed the picket line during the 2007 writers' strike by going back on air and writing his own monologue. He also told his production staffers not to look for new jobs and then 80 of them got fired.
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Jay Leno Upholds Tradition, Brings Donuts To Picket Line To Show Solidarity
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Howard Schultz just unveiled his big plan to win back unionizing Starbucks workers: "We are going to be in the NFT business."
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Ron DeSantis’s staff had to pull the sign from the lectern before his press conference about rural broadband today because they misspelled it. This is what happens when you ban books, guys. This is a preview of the education system in Ron DeSantis’s Free State of Florida.
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If the leading national media can’t call an avowed white supremacist a white supremacist, we’re doomed
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Has a single Democrat in Congress, the White House, or the DNC spoken out about this? If Cassie was fired for speaking out on behalf of some conservative cause, she’d be speaking at CPAC, Fox News’s top story, and getting nonstop support from GOP politicians.
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BREAKING: Starbucks has fired one of the leading @SBWorkersUnited union organizers in Buffalo. Cassie Fleischer worked at Starbucks for five years. She helped Elmwood become the first unionized store in company history and is on the union's bargaining committee.
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Remarkable statement from the White House, defending its tepid response to abortion by trashing... the left.
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CBS doing a nice friendly segment on birthday boy Henry Kissinger, who gets to be 100 years old after overseeing the deaths of at least 4 million people.
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In six years James Cameron will be on TV discussing why it was a mistake to create an artificial intelligence network with the capability of manufacturing beefy cyborg soldiers that can travel back in time
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Ken Klippenstein
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James Cameron: “I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field."
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I’m a wealthy center-right Princeton grad who now lives in DC and works as a political columnist, and every one of my many close working-class friends have been texting me nonstop about how mad they are about some student debt being canceled.
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This may be the worst headline I've ever read from any major national news outlet. The Times transforms DeSantis's aggressive, state-sponsored campaign of bigotry into a savvy brand-building venture by an edgy politician.
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Derrick Palmer, VP of @amazonlabor union, tells me that along w/ 3 other warehouses in Staten Island, they’ve got Amazon workers in 18 states ready to start organizing their facilities. Like the @SBWorkersUnited win in Buffalo, today’s victory could spark a nationwide movement.
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Manchin and Sinema took a blow torch to Joe Biden's agenda, spent an entire year gutting the promises that Democrats made to the American people, and of course they're the ones getting praise from liberals right now as progressives are called bad team players.
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Favorite sign from the @nynurses strike today at Mt. Sinai
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"Vote harder... and go fuck yourselves."
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To call working with a trans person a “self-induced injury” legitimizes the bigoted hysteria kicked up by right-wing hate groups. “Objective journalism” doesn’t mean human rights are up for debate.
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Roughly two months after Bud Light endured a self-induced injury that torpedoed sales, the brand continues to lose ground to its competition. But there are signs the worst might be over.
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Senate Democrats are starting to call on Biden to take up @ElieNYC ’s idea to use federal buildings to provide abortion care, especially in states where abortions will soon be banned.
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lol Joe Manchin brags about sinking Build Back Better in an ad he just cut for a Republican candidate for Congress. Democrats were never going to get this guy on board for any part of their agenda.
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@elonmusk You lost $200 billion in two months’ time
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SCOOP: A Starbucks tech worker confronted executives over plans to create branded NFTs. “Regardless of how you spin it, it is going to destroy the planet,” he told Howard Schultz and other execs. “You’re getting snowed.” This followed a long presentation on Starbucks’ NFT plan.
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Elon Musk and Jared Kushner at the World Cup with the Saudis. Nobody doxx him, Elon deserves his private time with his family.
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This isn't a joke, Howard Schultz just told Starbucks workers that sometime this year, they're going to introduce Starbucks NFTs. Also, some vague promise of new benefits.
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Kathy Hochul barely survived her re-election campaign in a dark blue state and just nominated an anti-abortion, anti-union conservative to be the Chief Justice of the state's top court. An absolute disaster of a governor.
@AndrewGiambrone
Andrew Giambrone
1 year
new: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul has nominated Hector D. LaSalle, the presiding justice of the state supreme court’s second department, as chief judge of the state court of appeals, NY’s highest court. if appointed, LaSalle would be the first Latino chief judge on the court, says Hochul
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The NLRB just filed a lawsuit against Starbucks for firing the person behind this working class hero fursona
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Starbucks has fired 75+ pro-union workers. The company has earned 300+ unfair labor practice charges. It refuses to offer equal pay increases to workers at 200+ stores. Nor will it bargain with its union members. Calling it "co-creating" may be a stretch.
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Starbucks News
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We've embarked on a journey, alongside partners, to co-create the future of Starbucks. This includes a “reinvention” of the company, designed to improve the lives of partners, the experience of customers, and the health of our communities. (1/2)
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There is no "gun debate," there's just people who don't want kids to get massacred and people who are fine with kids getting massacred
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The lead organizer of the Starbucks union drive in Memphis has just been fired. She's a shift supervisor who upper management had bullied for months and months. Another worker at the store has also been fired today, I'm told.
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Welcome! I was just fired! 😡
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Bill Ackman wasn’t so worried about transparency at MIT when he tried to cover up his wife accepting a huge donation from Jeffrey Epstein
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Bill Ackman
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Last night, no one at @MIT had a good night’s sleep. Yesterday evening, shortly after I posted that we were launching a plagiarism review of all current MIT faculty, President Kornbluth, members of MIT’s administration, and its board, I am sure that an audible collective gasp
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Remember, these workers decided to unionize after Starbucks fired their manager, Brittany Harrison, who was sick with cancer, for being a whistleblower. Incredible story.
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More Perfect Union
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BREAKING: Starbucks workers in Mesa, AZ have WON their union election 25-3. The Power & Baseline store becomes the 3rd unionized Starbucks in the country. The team watched the votes come in together. Starbucks workers have now filed to unionize in 107 stores in 26 states.
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SCOOP: The NLRB just hit Starbucks with yet another lawsuit over brutal union-busting and firing workers in Arizona. Much more to come on that situation and other union-busting tactics over the next few days.
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Honestly, as a Jew, this feels more antisemitic to me than most anti-Zionist rhetoric. There are a whole lot of Jews who are anti-Zionist, who oppose a right-wing government's war on civilians. Would you say someone is anti-Catholic if they condemned the Vatican's abuse coverups?
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Ryan Grim
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A new House resolution, which may be voted on as early as tonight, "clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is antisemitism." This comes after a previous resolution hinted at that claim, but did not fully state it. So now Congress wants to leave no question. But there's an
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@NYCMayor dude the cops missed him the first time and then a bodega worker found him before cops could get there. stop lying
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On Thursday night, every teacher in Manatee County, Florida was told to remove every book from their classroom library. It’s a result of Ron DeSantis’s BoE requiring that every book gets vetted for things that upset conservatives.
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@elonmusk You bought this website for $44 billion, not sure you’re the best judge of what things should cost, pal
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Hakeem Jeffries is urging Democrats to confirm an anti-choice, anti-union Republican judge to be Chief Justice of the state's highest court. A court that just cost Dems four seats and a likely majority in Congress. The worst part? It's not a surprise.
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"Judge Hector Lasalle is highly qualified to be the chief judge of the state of New York. Period. Full stop," @RepJeffries says, adding LaSalle should be given the same rights as every other chief judge nominee to get a vote in the Senate.
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I was in the room for this conversation and it really was a true dialogue, not a photo op. Bernie asked *so many* questions about these workers’ lives — and they opened up with heartbreaking stories.
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EXCLUSIVE: We got an inside look at the conversation between @BernieSanders and unionizing Starbucks workers. Workers opened up about Starbucks’ abusive workplace and sinister union-busting campaign. “This is the bullshit that corporations often do,” Sanders told them.
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Democrats spent the first week after the Roe draft leak asking supporters for money. They’ve started the second week telling those supporters to shut up.
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It's not exactly a one-to-one comparison, assuming Quan's family applied to come to the US before getting here, but what's important is that the WH is pursuing a cruel policy that will stop countless people like Ke Huy from coming here, finding a safe home, and pursuing dreams.
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SCOOP: There was a series of tense exchanges between Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and a pro-union barista during a meeting in Long Beach on Friday. “If you hate Starbucks so much, why don’t you go somewhere else?” Schultz reportedly told the barista.
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Democrats appointed a solid NLRB but didn’t fund it while in full control of government. They didn’t even bother to vote on the PRO Act, yet unions still saved them in NV, PA, and NY this election. And now Dems are crushing a strike on behalf of billionaires. What a joke.
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It’s hard to emphasize just how big an upset it will be if @amazonlabor wins this election in Staten Island. Amazon went all-in on union busting, following workers home and calling cops on organizers regularly. Like Starbucks, their cruelty may backfire.
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Deadline’s story on Ezra Miller’s latest crime represents the absolute apex of Hollywood trade publications. Nothing will ever top this. Astonishing. Peak performance.
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There are now 75 unionized Starbucks stores across the country. There will be even more pending NLRB review. It hasn’t even been nine months since @SBWorkersUnited launched.
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More Perfect Union
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BREAKING: It’s a clean sweep! Starbucks workers in Portland, OR have won all four of their union elections today. @SBWorkersUnited won 9-0 at the South Grand store, giving the union at 37-2 overall victory in four stores today.
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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz today said that the company was “threatened by the assault of unionization.” An hour later, Starbucks fired union leader @lailaddaltonn for trying to protect herself from ongoing harassment by managers.
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@Phil_Lewis_ We’re numb to this stuff now because it’s relentless but this the sort of shit that would spark riots and overthrown governments in many countries
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And Starbucks has been burning *a lot* of money on trying to stop @SBWorkersUnited . Breaking lots of labor laws, too. Here’s our latest investigation into their illegal tactics:
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It's incredible what happens when people are able to vote on fair, non-gerrymandered maps. The 2018 ballot initiatives to institute independent redistricting commissions are an unspoken MVP here tonight.
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Jeff Timmer
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Michigan State Senate flips to Dems for first time since 1983. Repeat. Nineteen Eighty Freaking Three.
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Howard Schultz just put out a statement about the tension he had with a Starbucks worker in Long Beach on Friday. It links to a snippet of video that they sent me last night. Starbucks wouldn’t send more than that — ie when he shushed the worker & told them to leave Starbucks.
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Yesterday, Democratic leaders shared the stage with a violent anti-semitic, Islamophobic televangelist. Today, Democratic lawmakers are slandering peaceful protestors who were brutalized by cops at the DNC. Tomorrow they'll send fundraising emails pretending to oppose fascism.
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Congressman Brad Sherman
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Was just evacuated from the #DNC after pro-terrorist, anti- #Israel protestors grew violent, pepper spraying police officers and attempting to break into the building. Thankful to the police officers who stopped them and for helping me and my colleagues get out safely. (1/2)
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@GovRonDeSantis You’re two days late, the party’s over. Apologize to your natural gas donors and stick to bullying children, Barney Rubble.
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Mitt Romney, trying to defend Howard Schultz, asks whether non-union store employees make less than union store employees. Schultz confirms that is the case — which, as the NLRB has ruled, is illegal.
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Biden wouldn’t be giving this speech about our crumbling democracy if Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema hadn’t chosen protecting their corporate donors over the American people.
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Follow @MorePerfectUS for all of our coverage of the Starbucks union campaign and the company’s pratfalls. Also, I wrote about why Starbucks and Amazon cannot stop these young worker-driven union drives no matter how much money they burn.
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Late-breaking labor news
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Democrats have treated Ilhan Omar worse than Republicans have
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@NelStamp Not sure what murdering dogs had to do with heart surgery (and I’ve had them at that hospital!) but Dr Oz sure was prolific
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I’m told @SBWorkersUnited is brewing up a venti unfair labor practice charge against Starbucks based on these comments from Schultz
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More Perfect Union
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BREAKING: Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says that the company will never engage with @SBWorkersUnited . For months, Starbucks has claimed it’s engaging in “good faith” bargaining with the union, as required by law. Now Schultz is revealing that Starbucks has been lying.
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Starbucks’s decision to harass ~50 organizing workers in Buffalo was an all-time catastrophe. It led to a national uprising, millions in legal fees, multiple boycotts, having to hire those workers back, and now, they have to bargain a union contract with hundreds of stores.
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Casey Moore
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The face you make when you find out you won your constructive discharge case from Starbucks :)
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Starbucks has closed a store in Memphis yet again today, the fourth time in a week. They closed the same store last Thursday, claiming there was a Covid case. It was the first time they'd closed for Covid. What changed? The store filed to unionize last Monday.
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SSRIs, including Wellbutrin, are the reason I made it through my teen years. To this day, they let me function without OCD or depression hijacking my brain. Please don’t listen to Elon Musk’s bullshit. Take care of yourself. OK, back to covering Musk’s rampant labor abuses.
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The NLRB just dropped a giant lawsuit on Starbucks covering hundreds of union-busting violations in Buffalo over the past eight months. The board is demanding that @aCorns__ , Cassie Fleischer, Danny Rojas, and other fired workers be immediately reinstated.
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@PostOpinions do you think Alito’s draft ending abortion protections and the right to privacy strike you as “rational?" did his vicious anger and citing of Matthew Hale, a 17th century jurist who supported marital rape and execution of witchcraft, strike you as "evidence-based?”
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Danny Rojas was assigned a 5:30 am opening shift in mid-February. They work nights at Trader Joe's, so it left them almost no time to sleep. The day they were fired, they slept a few hours in their car in order to be in on time.
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NEW: Starbucks has fired another union organizer in Buffalo after car trouble made them 26 minutes late for a 530am shift. Leaked video of Danny Rojas’s firing reveals a tense exchange with managers who'd changed Rojas's hours unilaterally weeks earlier.
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Developing: Amazon workers in Northern Kentucky planned a big rally to kick off their union campaign, and Amazon is doing whatever it can to stop them. The company hired a private security company and set up new checkpoints to prevent supporters and reporters from attending.
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I wrote this late last month after the Supreme Court overturned NY's gun control laws, but it stands for abortion rights, too.
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@elonmusk so what about Libs of TikTok and all the mutant right-wingers who sic dementoids to harass children and LGBTQ people? They suspended?
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AIPAC spent $2 million to help Henry Cuellar fend off a progressive primary challenger in 2022, even as this indictment swirled overhead. Democratic leadership pitched in, too. Great work.
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southpaw
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Rep. Cuellar’s indictment presumably puts his D+3 seat, TX-28, in play. He ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination, and reportedly he’s not planning on stepping down.
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Tonight’s raid on Mar-a-Lago should send a chilling message to the rich and powerful: If you openly brag about doing crimes, try to overthrow the US government, and then get caught trying to cover it all up, you may get a visit from the police two years later.
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@likaluca We reported on these horrible racist conditions in several pieces over the summer. Here’s a current Tesla worker talking about it:
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BREAKING: Ron DeSantis's Board of Education just passed its new rules, which makes it legal to fire teachers that "violate" the horrible "Don't Say LGBTQ" law and racist anti-CRT law.
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Quan was able to apply to come to the US from a camp in Hong Kong, but refugees from Central and South America often face different circumstances. They slip through danger in other countries, with little chance of finding a camp that would allow them to apply to come to the US.
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Biden wants to be president of a pre-2008 America, but Trump showed everyone that presidents can do whatever they want because norms are unenforceable. To Democratic voters, the party’s refusal to use even a small modicum of that power to save countless lives is outrageous.
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If Iran tries to shoplift at CVS, the NYPD will be ready to spring into action
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NYScanner
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NYPD ‘closely monitoring’ Iran’s ongoing attack on Israel
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@HawleyMO Are you pro-union now, senator?
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Cassie was the first person recruited for the union this summer. Her hours were cut after Starbucks flooded the store with new hires, so she had to get a second job to survive. Then her manager demanded an impossible schedule and fired her.
@MorePerfectUS
More Perfect Union
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BREAKING: Starbucks has fired one of the leading @SBWorkersUnited union organizers in Buffalo. Cassie Fleischer worked at Starbucks for five years. She helped Elmwood become the first unionized store in company history and is on the union's bargaining committee.
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Labor Day party at Howard Schultz’s $40 million penthouse. @SBWorkersUnited @amazonlabor
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@GovRonDeSantis More people have died of Covid in Florida than in New York, Pennsylvania, & all but two other states. This despite not suffering a wave at the beginning when vaccines weren’t available. Only a sicko is fine sacrificing tens of thousands of lives for a doomed presidential bid.
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Ron DeSantis has emerged as a national figure in part because he uses the power of his office to ban journalists from asking him actual questions. Instead, he relies on right-wing bloggers, including a Three Percent militia goon who stormed the Capitol.
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Breaking: A second Starbucks store in Mesa, Arizona just voted to join @SBWorkersUnited , 11-3. There are now eight unionized Starbucks stores nationwide.
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Jordan Zakarin
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A Black labor organizer backed by public school teachers just beat a school-destroying neoliberal who ran a race-baiting campaign backed by billionaires. This is a really big deal and a historic moment.
@Redistrict
Dave Wasserman
1 year
And there it is: w/ 484,829 votes counted in Chicago, Brandon Johnson takes the lead over Paul Vallas by 1,111 votes (50.11%-49.89%). You wouldn't want to call it without seeing at least some mail, but it's virtually done.
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Jordan Zakarin
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All told, the US rejects untold numbers of desperate people who have fled their homes with just the clothing in their back. And as was the case for Ke Huy Quan’s family, the US quite often owns some responsibility for the upheaval that refugees are trying to escape.
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Jordan Zakarin
2 years
For those of you praying that I was kidding, here's the video proof. In an address today aimed at unionizing workers, multi-billionaire Howard Schultz revealed that Starbucks is going to get into the NFT business "sometime before the end of this calendar year"
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Jordan Zakarin
2 years
Fuck it, read and subscribe to my newsletter, it's filled with original reporting on politics and grassroots movements as well as opportunities to help stop conservative creeps like Dr. Oz and Herschel Walker
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Jordan Zakarin
2 years
Another Starbucks goes on strike today, this one in Michigan. It's amazing to see just how militant @SBWorkersUnited is becoming against Starbucks' union-busting. There have been strikes in Atlanta, Seattle, Michigan, Boston, Chicago, Utah, and Buffalo over the past week alone
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Jordan Zakarin
10 months
Ron DeSantis’s Florida Board of Education just voted to require schools to teach that slavery was helpful to Black slaves. This is what happens when a racist wannabe autocrat is covered like a presidential candidate and not a racist wannabe autocrat.
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Jordan Zakarin
2 years
What struck me while producing this piece was just how much the Richmond Starbucks workers spoke about how unionizing helped them make friends and overcome social anxiety. The corporate line is that @SBWorkersUnited are a “divisive” outside force, but it’s clearly the opposite.
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More Perfect Union
2 years
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have won their first union in Virginia, 16-1. The Forest Hill Ave store in Richmond is the 21st store to join @SBWorkersUnited . Four more locations are counting ballots now. We spoke to workers in Richmond about how solidarity helped them win.
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Jordan Zakarin
1 year
This sort of inhumane, vile abuse would be a national scandal during any other point in the past century. Now half the country is run by sadistic weasels, so these near-daily human rights violations are normalized and without consequence. Shameful.
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Noah Gray
1 year
Just in on this Christmas Eve- Two busloads of migrants (approximately 50 people) were dropped off in front of @VP residence in 18° weather around 8p two sources tell me. 50 more migrants expected later tonight. Unclear at this time where they came from or who sent the group
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Jordan Zakarin
2 years
BREAKING: Any K-3 teacher that mentions sexual orientation or gender identity in Florida can be fired and have their teaching certificate revoked under a rule proposed by Ron DeSantis’s Board of Education. “Don’t Say Gay” is literally that.
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Jordan Zakarin
2 years
A black woman running for state senate punched by her cop opponent during a protest over the end of Roe v. Wade. This is how they plan to keep power. Expect more of this.
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Bill Bartholomew
2 years
Moment @JenRourke29 struck by who appears to be her Senate opponent @JeannCLugo
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Jordan Zakarin
2 years
It is HBO Max’s moral obligation to mount a year-long Emmy campaign for Fake Angela in #TheRehearsal
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Jordan Zakarin
1 year
At the DC Senate roast of Howard Schultz, where both @SBWorkersUnited workers and the managers that fired them are literally standing on opposite sides of a rope line.
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Jordan Zakarin
1 year
From PayPal to Tesla to his taxes to the labor of Tesla workers and now to office rent payments, Elon Musk has literally stolen his way to his fortune.
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Amanda Terkel
1 year
"To cut costs, Twitter has not paid rent for its San Francisco headquarters or any of its global offices for weeks, three people close to the company said."
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Jordan Zakarin
2 years
The NLRB’s charges against Starbucks in Phoenix focus on two workers: Laila, a 19-year-old managers keep harassing, and Alyssa, who was fired. But there’s also a brief mention of another worker experiencing retaliation. That worker is Tyler, a 21-year-old with autism.🧵
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Jordan Zakarin
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Huge news: The NLRB just released its updated joint-employer rule, and it will have a dramatic impact on unionization at major corporations. Amazon is responsible for subcontractor workers and McDonald’s is on the hook for workers at franchises. No more passing the buck.
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Jordan Zakarin
1 year
The NFL has gone so woke that it's running $100 million ads for Jesus paid for by the Hobby Lobby homophobes
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Jordan Zakarin
2 years
On Tuesday, a gunman used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 19 children in Texas. Also on Tuesday, Democratic House leaders went all-in to help a conservative Congressman with an “A” rating from the NRA survive a primary challenge.
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