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Bruce Goldstein

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Retired labor/civil rights attorney enjoying food, jazz, cycling, the outdoors, travel and family. Former executive director of Farmworker Justice.

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · Feb 19

Refresher on the Constitution. Article 1, Section 7: Congress, via Senate and House, pass "bills" that become a "Law". Art. II, Sec. 3, on executive power and responsibility of the President: "he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed..." constitution.congress.gov/constitution/

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is lowering wages that agricultural employers have to pay when they claim they can’t find US workers and want to hire foreign workers on H-2A temporary work visas. Guaranteed wage cuts and displacement of citizens and green card holders. www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/b...

New regulations will lower wages for H-2A farmworkers

Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor announced new regulations surrounding the Adverse Effect Wage Rate — a move that could lower farmworker wages in Washington and other states across

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · 3d

Trump officials bashing Bad Bunny Super Bowl selection need to be consistent: ban foreign language operas from the nation’s capital and prohibit Broadway’s Buena Vista Social Club from DC. www.seacoastonline.com/story/opinio...

Anger over Bad Bunny playing Super Bowl halftime wildly misplaced: Commentary

Anger over Bad Bunny playing Super Bowl in 2026 is tied to his opposition to President Trump. Why are we making everything so political?

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · 3d

Trump is slashing the wage rates that agricultural employers offer to US farmworkers when applying to hire H-2A guestworkers. The below-market rates will deter and punish US farmworkers and exploit guest workers. civileats.com/2025/10/06/l...

Trump Administration Eases Application Process and Lowers Wages for Guest Farmworkers

United Farm Workers said the shifts will hurt both migrant and domestic farmworkers. Farm groups praised the changes.

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · 5d

“Once the backbone of U.S. workplace safety research, NIOSH’s programs are being dismantled, leaving gaps in mining rescue readiness, firefighter safety, and protections against chronic occupational disease.“ www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

How Trump's Cuts Hit Worker Safety

The Trump administration’s funding cuts gutted NIOSH, the federal agency that has protected miners, firefighters, and millions of workers for over 50 years. Once the backbone of U.S. workplace safety ...

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · 5d

An important survey on farmworkers’ economic, social and health conditions will be eliminated because Trump’s Administration doesn’t want to have fact-based information to guide policy and programs, especially about low wage workers and immigrants americancommunitymedia.org/oped/flying-...

Flying Blind – Loss of Federal Survey Data Will Make Life Harder for Ag Producers, Farmworker Families

The Trump Administration plans to end the National Agricultural Worker Survey, which for 37 years has provided updated information on U.S. crop workers.

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · 21d

Calls to Boycott Disney Explode After ABC Submits to FCC Threats by Ousting Jimmy Kimmel www.commondreams.org/news/boycott...

Calls to Boycott Disney Explode After ABC Submits to FCC Threats by Ousting Jimmy Kimmel | Common Dreams

Disney faces boycott calls over Jimmy Kimmel suspension amid FCC pressure. Progressive groups urge cancellation of Disney-owned services.

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · 24d

Barack Obama referring to Dylan Roof's 2015 racist murder of 9 Black people at a Charleston SC church: “.. my response was NOT: now let me go after my political opponents and use that.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

After Kirk’s Killing, Obama Says the Nation Is in a ‘Political Crisis’

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24d

Per the NYT. A massive level of corruption, beyond anything we’ve ever seen. Trumps get rich, their cronies get special deals, jeopardizing our security.

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · 24d

"When Jonathan Karl of ABC News asked Mr. Trump about Ms. Bondi’s hate speech comments, he went after Mr. Karl.

“We’ll probably go after people like you,” Mr. Trump said, “because you treat me so unfairly — it’s hate.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...

Bondi Prompts Broad Backlash After Saying She’ll Target ‘Hate Speech’

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · Sep 9

It’s so obviously in the interests of farmers, farmworkers, local communities and the nation to grant undocumented farmworkers the opportunity for legal immigration status. A vicious anti-immigrant obsession should be overcome. www.iolaregister.com/opinion/colu...

Congress needs to protect the workers who feed America - The Iola Register

We need a permanent solution that will ensure a stable labor source to secure our food supply and economic stability. The Farm Workforce Modernization Act does that There is no shortage of reasons to ...

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · Aug 25

Our food and agriculture system is being attacked: "What our immigration enforcement agencies are doing now, in many instances — treating hard-working, law-abiding immigrant workers as if they are violent criminals — is a mistake." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/o...

Opinion | Wilted Lettuce. Rotten Strawberries. Here’s What Happens When You Round Up Farmworkers.

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · Aug 22

There are high rates of worker deaths on dairy farms and they are preventable through worker organizing (which is not federally protected in agriculture), government policy and enforcement, and education. jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

Six Killed in Confined Space Catastrophe - Confined Space

6 dairy workers were killed in a confined space tragedy in Keenesburg, CO. OSHA has no confined space standard that protects farmworkers.

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · Aug 16

A portrait of two thugs smiling www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

Trump Welcomes Putin With a Jet Fighter Escort and Red Carpet

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · Aug 12

White House sends divisive, raciallly charged, ideologically right wing, offensive letter to the Smithsonian Institution saying it must replace “divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate and constructive descriptions.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...

White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · Aug 11

Crimes committed in Washington DC 2011-2025 excluding crimes committed by Trump and his Administration

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · Aug 7

Another Trump attack on the ability of workers to improve working conditions. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/u...

Trump Administration Begins to Strip Federal Workers of Union Protections

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · Aug 4

Trump is creating a $200 million ballroom inside the White House. How many moderate price homes could be built instead? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...

Opinion | The Meaning of Trump’s Gilded Age Rumpus Room

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · Aug 2

Some Republicans claimed they want “data driven” policy but Trump doesn’t like the data so he’s firing researchers and data collectors at Bureau of Labor Statisrics, EPA, CDC, NIH, National Science Foundation … ignorance is bliss but also deadly and costly. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Trump smartly responds to brutal jobs report by firing the job numbers person | Opinion

In the wake of a brutal report showing U.S. job growth slowing, Trump did what any good leader would do: He fired the person doing the reporting.

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · Jul 29

Trump signs up the US for the Flat Earth Society and commits Americans to suffering more serious health problems from pollution and climate change. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

In Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · Jul 27

Trump’s Department of Labor Continues Its Onslaught against Workers. The Trump administration just revealed efforts to cut workers’ wages, make workers less safe, and legalize exploitation. juliesulabor.substack.com?utm_source=n...

@JulieSuLabor | Julie A. Su | Substack

Extended thoughts, commentary and published articles about things that matter to me (and hopefully to you, too.). Click to read @JulieSuLabor, by Julie A. Su, a Substack publication.

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · Jul 22

Trump’s Administration is eliminating many worker protections on wages, job safety, freedom from retaliation and specific protections for healthcare workers and farmworkers. The worst employers will be the market standard unless you have a union. abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...

Trump's Labor Department in push to deregulate workplaces

The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations adopted under previous presidential administrations

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · Jul 18

At Calif farm a U.S. citizen was arrested and detained for 3 days by immigration police, denied access to family and attorney, clothes and never let him shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray. apnews.com/article/us-a...

Army veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns it could happen to anyone

A U.S. Army veteran arrested during an immigration raid at a California marijuana farm says he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray before being dragged from his vehicle on his way to work.

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · Jul 16

"If the administration were serious about countering antisemitism, first and foremost they wouldn't be appointing people with antisemitic and other extremist ties to senior roles within the administration," Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs www.npr.org/2025/05/14/n...

Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists

NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.

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Bruce Goldstein @brucewvmdny.bsky.social · Jul 9

If robots and AI will drastically reduce the need for workers, why is Elon Musk telling us that Americans need to have more babies? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Futurist Adam Dorr on how robots will take our jobs: ‘We don’t have long to get ready – it’s going to be tumultuous’

Researcher says tech could replace nearly all human labour within 20 years and societies urgently need to prepare