Ava Sazanami
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Ava Sazanami
@avacoe.bsky.social
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"A 60-year-old couple earning $85,000 may have to pay $31,000 for a health insurance plan in Kentucky...

$28,000 for a plan in Oregon...

$44,000 for a plan in Vermont..."

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Health insurance sticker shock begins as shutdown battle over subsidies rages
Many states have shown rising premiums ahead of open enrollment for Affordable Care Act plans. The government shutdown is driven by Democrats and Republicans being far apart on the issue of extended s...
www.washingtonpost.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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NEW: In a new letter, Starbucks investors are expressing concern over the company's sustainability, "as evidenced by more than one hundred Unfair Labor Practice complaints filed this year, worker protests, and threats to strike."

Read their letter to the board:

sbworkersunited.org/starbucks-in...
Starbucks Investors Call on Company to Restart Negotiations with Union Baristas - Starbucks Workers United
“We write as long-term shareholders of Starbucks Corporation to express our concern regarding the current state of Starbucks’ labor relations and urge the company to restart negotiations and promptly ...
sbworkersunited.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
October 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Michigan Avenue right now.
October 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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October 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension makes plain that, as long as Donald Trump continues to abuse his executive power, the titans of American capitalism can’t be relied on to push back.
Why Won’t America’s Business Leaders Stand Up to Donald Trump?
From Disney’s capitulation on Jimmy Kimmel to tech moguls’ White House dinner, corporate élites are choosing self-preservation over principle.
www.newyorker.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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HAPPENING NOW: Alphabet Workers Union members are outside of the Google offices in NYC speaking out against the Trump administration’s H-1B visa proclamation!

Tune in: www.facebook.com/AlphabetWork...
September 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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TikTok is attempting to build a $10 billion data center in Brazil, but the Indigenous Anacé community is taking the company to court to stop the project.

restofworld.org/2025/brazil-...
Indigenous group in Brazil takes TikTok to court over planned data center
The Anacé Indigenous community is going to court to stop a planned TikTok data center they say is being built on their land.
restofworld.org
September 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
September 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Donald Trump just passed the largest transfer of wealth from the working class to the rich in history and the tech oligarchs are now lining up to praise him.
 
The greed of the billionaire class knows no bounds.

🎥: Washington Post
September 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Unionize them all.
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Like autocracies everywhere, the Trump Administration demands a mystical view of an imagined past, David Remnick writes.
At the Smithsonian, Donald Trump Takes Aim at History
The urge to police the past is hardly an invention of the Trump Administration. It is the reflexive obsession of autocrats everywhere.
www.newyorker.com
April 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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More than 500 law firms on Friday threw their support behind some of their embattled peers, declaring that President Trump’s recent crackdown on the law firm industry poses “a grave threat to our system of constitutional governance and to the rule of law itself.”
More Than 500 Law Firms Back Perkins Coie in Fight With Trump
The firms signed a legal brief supporting Perkins Coie, calling the president’s actions a threat “to the rule of law.” The largest firms declined to sign.
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Definitely have met this guy 😆
April 4, 2025 at 5:18 AM