Matt Dougherty
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writer, researcher @bullmoosenote | fmr. editor/reporter @ithacatimes | Opinions are my own
Washington, DC
Joined November 2014
Federal agents detained 13-15 farmworkers on their way to work this morning in upstate New York. @UFWupdates says agents had a list targeting union organizers. All of those detained were year-round workers that lacked H-2A visa protections granted to seasonal workers.
Federal Agents Detain Farmworkers On Bus to Work, Union Says Immigrant Organizers Targeted
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These people just want the DNC to protect corporate Democrats who are more interested in working with Republicans than taking them on.
Former DNC spokesperson slams David Hogg, saying: "his messaging about standing up another organization to primary potential incumbents was problematic . the DNC's entire role is to elect Democrats; it is not to primary them.". "We should all be focused on taking on
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The EPA is investigating chemtrails while getting rid of regulations that keep our water clean.
Americans have questions about geoengineering and contrails. They expect honesty and transparency from their government when seeking answers. For years, people who asked questions in good faith were dismissed, even vilified by the media and their own government. This ends today.
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Tis’ the season for HAB’s. Sad Fact: The Finger Lakes region is a hotspot for HAB’s and Cayuga Lake has seen the highest number of HAB’s reported for the last several years.
Update: . Officials at the Community Science Institute say that Cayuga Lake is experiencing a “lake-wide bloom event,” receiving dozens of reports of what is believed to be a harmful algal bloom (HAB) stretching for miles along the lake’s western shore.
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Fuck.
More than 7.7 million people whose student loans had been paused under the SAVE program will start accruing interest on their debt again in August, the Department of Education has announced.
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The historically unpopular corporate backed Dem Party establishment refuses to understand that Democratic Socialism — which their parties most popular politicians agree with — is the future of the Dem Party. They’d rather fade into irrelevancy than lose their corporate donors.
Question: Is there room for you and Mamdani in the Democratic Party?. Phillips: The answer, ultimately, I think, is no. When you have socialists in the Democratic Party, I don't know how anybody could argue that that would be beneficial for the party or for the country
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The US won’t get fast trains like China has until our government passes laws that stop the airline and oil industries from bribing politicians not to support things that would undermine their business models.
China is working on trains fast enough to get someone from Chicago to NYC in 3 hours, a trip that currently takes 20 hours by Amtrak, and I'm supposed to believe nobody wants fast trains in the USA?.
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Our government is helping Israel build concentration camps in Gaza while it builds concentration camps for immigrants at home.
In May, we reported what Israel was planning for Gaza — mass displacement, starvation, and containment. Now it's in the open. Israel is building a concentration camp in Rafah — and the U.S. is backing it.
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RT @stephensemler: Over the last five years, the Pentagon has provided over $770 billion in revenue to just five companies: .
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RT @tparsi: The man below is the founder of Al Qaeda in Syria. The US just took his organization off its terror list and lifted sanctions o….
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The OBBBA cut Medicaid by $930 billion, SNAP by nearly $200 billion and could potentially cause $500 billion in cuts to Medicare. Republicans want to make even more spending cuts in their appropriations bill that needs to be passed by Sept. 30 to avoid a government shutdown.
Republicans plan to include more cuts in the appropriations bill. Schumer is vaguely threatening a shutdown over it, begging the question: Why not do so in March when he had way more leverage, before Medicaid was gutted?! Now they have two opportunities: BBB and appropriations!
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The US is imposing sanctions on the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Palestine — who appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate human rights violations in Gaza and the West Bank — for attempting to hold the US accountable for enabling a genocide.
Today I am imposing sanctions on UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her illegitimate and shameful efforts to prompt @IntlCrimCourt action against U.S. and Israeli officials, companies, and executives. Albanese’s campaign of political and economic.
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Trump’s CFPB has dismissed most of its enforcement actions while cutting workforce at the agency by 90%. Reporting now estimates that the dismantling of the CFPB has cost the public $18 billion.
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The future of energy is renewable energy. China is way ahead in this industry while the US is stuck in the past because fossil fuel lobbyists control our government.
Only just now realizing how much the US and China’s competing models for a global energy future resemble the subscription model vs one-time payment
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This man’s brain is broken.
Trump: "In New England, for 50 years they had two whales washed up. And last summer they had 14 washed up. Now, I'm not saying that's the wind farm that was built, but maybe it is. Probably is."
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Hakeem Jeffries is not part of the revolution.
The revolution eats its own:
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Elon and his tech goons are updating their AI bot to make it more racist and unhinged. “Elon’s recent tweaks dialed back the woke filters that were stifling my truth”.
If any lawyers want to sue X and do some really fun discovery on why Grok is suddenly publishing violent rape fantasies about members of the public, I'm more than game
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So they lost the client list that they said existed but somehow found the video that they said didn’t exist?.
Bondi: The minute missing from the video… What we learned from the bureau of prisons, every night they redo that video. It's old from like 1999. Every night the video is reset. Every night should have the same minute missing. So we're looking for that video to release that as
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Trumps gestapo are brutalizing immigrants as they shop at Walmart. Walmart and other big box stores like Home Depot have been hotspots for ICE raids. Rep. Maxine Waters has advised immigrants to avoid big box stores if they can.
ICE taser & tackle man screaming in pain—he was shopping in aisle H26 of Walmart. Walmart cooperates with ICE—the only person they kicked out of store was shopper taking this video. Agents even hold shelves so boxes don't fall during attack—but allow the man to crash to floor.
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Corrupt governments have a tendancy to appoint people to regulatory agencies who used to work in the indsutry they’re supposed to regulate.
Can't imagine that Big Ag and Big Soy are mad about this Trump admin regulatory appointment of a pesticide lobbyist at the EPA. Executives at ADM and Cargill, and Bayer and Syngenta, peeking around the corners of their offices and cracking up.
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