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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · Jul 3

In 1944 #FDR projected an #EconomicBillofRights and labor unions campaigned for it. Labor must renew the fight for working people today!

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Janet Lunde @janetlunde.bsky.social · 12h

Borage says VOTE YES RETAIN OUR JUDGES.

PA's rule of law is on the ballot this November. Turn your ballot over ↪️ and vote YES to retain every single statewide judge. They've all done good work protecting our right to vote, abortion, unions, and other important things!

Small, vivid blue flowers on a borage plant. Behind it, there's a sign that reads: VOTE YES. RETAIN OUR JUDGES.

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The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 16h

The Memorial Garden and Legacy Plaza are spaces for visitors to reflect on and process what they've experienced at the Legacy Sites. And now, they are in full bloom.

Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites today: legacysites.eji.org

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13h

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.

(Published April)

“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

www.propublica.org

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Maggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 13h

For more than 20 years I relied on the MMWR for news every week on what was going on, disease-wise, around the country. You often got excellent blow-by-blows about disease outbreaks.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 13h

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 13h

We love you, Chicago! 💔

Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 13h

An extremely rough day for Edgewater in Chicago. ICE activity near schools. People kidnapped while working in yards, standing on hiring corners. So many rapid responders biking, walking, driving, whistles around necks, trying to protect their neighbors, but up against such well-funded forces.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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still in Pittsburgh @pdpittsburgh.bsky.social · 13h

Detroit! one of the founding teams of the mlb, deep roots in the city for over 125 years (Seattle are newbies by comparison).

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 20h

Based on all the social media reports, today may have been the busiest Friday for ICE activity that we’ve seen since this surge started.

With hundreds of police now protecting ICE’s facility for them, presumably ICE is able to deploy more agents to snatch people.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 14h

I was born and raised in CAs Central Valley and I'm voting #YesOnProp50. Farm workers and people of color are suffering under this administration's racial profiling. Prop 50 gives us the opportunity to fight back on the power grab that TX Republicans and Trump are attempting.

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CNN @cnn.com · 14h

Authorities said 19 people are dead or missing after a massive blast obliterated a building at a Tennessee explosives facility on Friday. The early morning explosion was felt as far as 15 miles away.

Read more: https://cnn.it/43fSR50

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 8d

LittleSis have dropped a new report and data visualization about the billionaires and corporations profiting from the deportation industrial complex:

littlesis.org/news/the-bil...

The Billionaire Oligarchs and Corporations Profiting from ICE’s Deportation Machine - Little Sis

A primer on the billionaire barons and corporate profiteers enabling ICE's deportation apparatus

littlesis.org

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 17h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 20h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 15h

REBUILD is now also providing no-fee therapy to people who have been detained by ICE. Please support REBUILD by donating, and share it with those who may benefit from it.
findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h

Here: www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil... - thanks

Support REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on Mightycause

REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.

www.mightycause.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h

I continue to silently fume that REBUILD does not get money thrown at it based on all of the work that the team is and has been doing over the years. It's a struggle every single year to raise the necessary money to keep the program going. This year is even more difficult.

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CNN @cnn.com · 15h

President Donald Trump traveled for an unusual second trip to Walter Reed Medical Center. CNN's Alayna Treene reports from the White House.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

"Turn around or you're going to get the dog."

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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Tiffany Cabán @tiffanycaban.bsky.social · 18h

For more information on flood prevention, see: www.nyc.gov/site/dep/env...

www.nyc.gov

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1d

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español.

The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal...

By Erick Galindo

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 17h

If you are employed & doing pretty fine right now, set aside some money from each paycheck to dedicate to mutual aid asks. Even just $20.

Shit is really bad, the social safety net is being shredded, & truly TRULY all we have is each other right now.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · Aug 19

My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country.

I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.

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