@liberationroad.bsky.social
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Farmers have long relied on third-party contractors to source and manage farmworkers.
But all that outsourcing makes it hard for growers to know how workers are being treated — and makes it easy to ignore when they’re treated badly.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
But all that outsourcing makes it hard for growers to know how workers are being treated — and makes it easy to ignore when they’re treated badly.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
Farmworkers Are Frequently Exploited. But Few Farms Participate in a Program That Experts Say Could Prevent Abuse.
Experts say the Fair Food Program has helped improve conditions for farmworkers. But farms and produce buyers across the country have resisted joining.
www.propublica.org
December 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Farmers have long relied on third-party contractors to source and manage farmworkers.
But all that outsourcing makes it hard for growers to know how workers are being treated — and makes it easy to ignore when they’re treated badly.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
But all that outsourcing makes it hard for growers to know how workers are being treated — and makes it easy to ignore when they’re treated badly.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
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* blinks rapidly *
Mitt Romney is in the New York Times saying we should tax the rich.
December 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
* blinks rapidly *
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⚡️NEW from @dropsitenews.com | Hamas: We Did Not Surrender & Will Not Abandon Our Struggle for Liberation
As Trump scrambles to push his nebulous Gaza plan forward, the Palestinian resistance says Israel is continuing its...
By @jeremyscahill.com & Jawa Ahmad
www.dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-trum...
As Trump scrambles to push his nebulous Gaza plan forward, the Palestinian resistance says Israel is continuing its...
By @jeremyscahill.com & Jawa Ahmad
www.dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-trum...
December 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
⚡️NEW from @dropsitenews.com | Hamas: We Did Not Surrender & Will Not Abandon Our Struggle for Liberation
As Trump scrambles to push his nebulous Gaza plan forward, the Palestinian resistance says Israel is continuing its...
By @jeremyscahill.com & Jawa Ahmad
www.dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-trum...
As Trump scrambles to push his nebulous Gaza plan forward, the Palestinian resistance says Israel is continuing its...
By @jeremyscahill.com & Jawa Ahmad
www.dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-trum...
As China’s most important medium- and long-term planning tool, five-year plans represent an arrangement for advancing the strategy of socialist modernization.
en.qstheory.cn/2025-11/20/c...
en.qstheory.cn/2025-11/20/c...
Five-Year Plans: A Key Approach of the CPC’s Governance of China
Formulating medium- and long-term plans to guide economic and social development is an important approach with which the Communist Party of China (CPC) governs the country.
en.qstheory.cn
December 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
As China’s most important medium- and long-term planning tool, five-year plans represent an arrangement for advancing the strategy of socialist modernization.
en.qstheory.cn/2025-11/20/c...
en.qstheory.cn/2025-11/20/c...
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ICE whistles work.
The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
www.motherjones.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
ICE whistles work.
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John Deere got this video taken off our YouTube for two weeks. It took our lawyers reaching out to YouTube to get it back up.
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
We Went to Arkansas. The Farm Crisis Will Shock You
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
John Deere got this video taken off our YouTube for two weeks. It took our lawyers reaching out to YouTube to get it back up.
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
When I started my PhD in 2008, Egypt felt paralyzed. Politics seemed frozen, and nothing gave the impression that change was on the horizon. Yet, beneath this stillness, something unexpected was happening.
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4697...
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4697...
Nadine Abdalla, Labor Against the Regime: Workers Mobilizations in Egypt (2004 – 2011) (New Texts Out Now)
When I started my PhD in 2008, Egypt felt paralyzed. Politics seemed frozen, and nothing gave the impression that change was on the horizon. Yet, beneath this stillness, something unexpected was happe...
https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46972/Nadine-Abdalla,-Labor-Against-the-Regime-Workers-Mobilizations-in-Egypt-2004-–-2011-New-Texts-Out-Now
December 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
When I started my PhD in 2008, Egypt felt paralyzed. Politics seemed frozen, and nothing gave the impression that change was on the horizon. Yet, beneath this stillness, something unexpected was happening.
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4697...
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4697...
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“Trump sees ICE as his brute force arm within the regime & that he would be happy to call up militia groups to support his actions whenever he decides that would benefit him.”
Journalist @thorbenson.bsky.social explains the growing threat of Trump’s paramilitary forces.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/trump-grow...
Journalist @thorbenson.bsky.social explains the growing threat of Trump’s paramilitary forces.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/trump-grow...
December 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
“Trump sees ICE as his brute force arm within the regime & that he would be happy to call up militia groups to support his actions whenever he decides that would benefit him.”
Journalist @thorbenson.bsky.social explains the growing threat of Trump’s paramilitary forces.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/trump-grow...
Journalist @thorbenson.bsky.social explains the growing threat of Trump’s paramilitary forces.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/trump-grow...
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not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.
Israel’s Zombie Economy (Part 1): The War Currency jadaliyya.com/Details/47063 via
@jadaliyya
@jadaliyya
December 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Israel’s Zombie Economy (Part 1): The War Currency jadaliyya.com/Details/47063 via
@jadaliyya
@jadaliyya
'Donald Trump’s anti-Somali rants are not directed solely at members of that group. All Black/African people are seen as suspects, as ungrateful criminals who are deserving of punishment and scorn. Trump is not alone in this thinking.'
blackagendareport.com/we-are-all-s...
blackagendareport.com/we-are-all-s...
We Are All Somalia | Black Agenda Report
Donald Trump’s anti-Somali rants are not directed solely at members of that group. All Black/African people are seen as suspects, as ungrateful criminals who are deserving of punishment and scorn. Tru...
blackagendareport.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
'Donald Trump’s anti-Somali rants are not directed solely at members of that group. All Black/African people are seen as suspects, as ungrateful criminals who are deserving of punishment and scorn. Trump is not alone in this thinking.'
blackagendareport.com/we-are-all-s...
blackagendareport.com/we-are-all-s...
'The growing collective outcry against corporate control suggests there’s something far larger going on: Americans... have found a common and culpable enemy in the powerful companies that control so much of our lives and politics.' www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Anger at Corporate Power Is Everywhere
It should guide the Democrats.
www.thenation.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:36 PM
'The growing collective outcry against corporate control suggests there’s something far larger going on: Americans... have found a common and culpable enemy in the powerful companies that control so much of our lives and politics.' www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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Trump’s deportation plan would wipe out 394,000 direct care jobs, hurting immigrant AND U.S.-born workers.
Families would lose vital home care. States like NY could lose nearly half their care workforce. Mass deportations = a care crisis. New from @benzipperer.org @domesticworkers.bsky.social
Families would lose vital home care. States like NY could lose nearly half their care workforce. Mass deportations = a care crisis. New from @benzipperer.org @domesticworkers.bsky.social
Trump’s deportation plans threaten 400,000 direct care jobs: Older adults and people with disabilities could lose vital in-home support
If the Trump administration follows through on its goal of deporting 4 million people over four years, the direct care industry would lose close to 400,000 jobs—affecting 274,000 immigrant and 120,000...
www.epi.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Trump’s deportation plan would wipe out 394,000 direct care jobs, hurting immigrant AND U.S.-born workers.
Families would lose vital home care. States like NY could lose nearly half their care workforce. Mass deportations = a care crisis. New from @benzipperer.org @domesticworkers.bsky.social
Families would lose vital home care. States like NY could lose nearly half their care workforce. Mass deportations = a care crisis. New from @benzipperer.org @domesticworkers.bsky.social
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Call, write, or visit your U.S. Senators and Representative to demand Congress stop funding ICE's campaign of terror against working class communities. Click here to send them a letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
December 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Call, write, or visit your U.S. Senators and Representative to demand Congress stop funding ICE's campaign of terror against working class communities. Click here to send them a letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
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A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
December 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
'[W]hen I was in college, the Associated Press revealed reports that the New York Police Department (NYPD) was running an extensive surveillance program that infiltrated mosques and clubs on college campuses, like Muslim student associations.'
jacobin.com/2025/12/aber...
jacobin.com/2025/12/aber...
Aber Kawas’s Pro-Worker, Pro-Palestine Campaign
Aber Kawas is a Palestinian American community organizer and socialist running for New York assembly. We talked to her about her family history with ICE, the Palestine movement’s turn to electoral pol...
jacobin.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
'[W]hen I was in college, the Associated Press revealed reports that the New York Police Department (NYPD) was running an extensive surveillance program that infiltrated mosques and clubs on college campuses, like Muslim student associations.'
jacobin.com/2025/12/aber...
jacobin.com/2025/12/aber...
“For as long as we can remember, the working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands... these are not the hands that have been allowed to hold power.” - Mamdani
December 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
“For as long as we can remember, the working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands... these are not the hands that have been allowed to hold power.” - Mamdani
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New Dig ep and we are libbing out hard with @ericblanc.bsky.social, @leahgreenberg.bsky.social, and @waleedshahid.bsky.social. The lib resistance made a sharp left turn since Trump returned: voting Zohran, fighting ICE, and looking favorably upon socialism. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/welc...
Welcome to the Resistance w/ Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, Waleed Shahid
Featuring Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, and Waleed Shahid on the liberal resistance’s sharp left turn since Trump returned to the White House. Libs are voting Zohran at the ballot box, fighting ICE in t...
www.thedigradio.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
New Dig ep and we are libbing out hard with @ericblanc.bsky.social, @leahgreenberg.bsky.social, and @waleedshahid.bsky.social. The lib resistance made a sharp left turn since Trump returned: voting Zohran, fighting ICE, and looking favorably upon socialism. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/welc...
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The radicalization of liberals is one of the past year's most overlooked stories
Talked about this—& what it means for defeating Trump—w/ @leahgreenberg.bsky.social, @waleedshahid.bsky.social, & @danieldenvir.bsky.social on the new @thedigradio.bsky.social episode
thedigradio.com/podcast/welc...
Talked about this—& what it means for defeating Trump—w/ @leahgreenberg.bsky.social, @waleedshahid.bsky.social, & @danieldenvir.bsky.social on the new @thedigradio.bsky.social episode
thedigradio.com/podcast/welc...
Welcome to the Resistance w/ Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, Waleed Shahid
Featuring Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, and Waleed Shahid on the liberal resistance’s sharp left turn since Trump returned to the White House. Libs are voting Zohran at the ballot box, fighting ICE in t...
thedigradio.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The radicalization of liberals is one of the past year's most overlooked stories
Talked about this—& what it means for defeating Trump—w/ @leahgreenberg.bsky.social, @waleedshahid.bsky.social, & @danieldenvir.bsky.social on the new @thedigradio.bsky.social episode
thedigradio.com/podcast/welc...
Talked about this—& what it means for defeating Trump—w/ @leahgreenberg.bsky.social, @waleedshahid.bsky.social, & @danieldenvir.bsky.social on the new @thedigradio.bsky.social episode
thedigradio.com/podcast/welc...
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NPR: “Head Start early childhood programs are being told to remove a list of ~200 words and phrases from their funding applications or they could be denied— "accessible," "belong," "Black," "disability," "female," "minority," "trauma," "tribal" "women…” www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
December 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
NPR: “Head Start early childhood programs are being told to remove a list of ~200 words and phrases from their funding applications or they could be denied— "accessible," "belong," "Black," "disability," "female," "minority," "trauma," "tribal" "women…” www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
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Rep. Jacobs questioned Human Rights Watch’s Nicole Widdersheim on how US sanctions on ICC prosecutor Karim Khan are affecting war crimes cases in Darfur.
Widdersheim said the ICC is the only viable accountability mechanism for Sudan, with 11 active cases, no functioning domestic courts, & no...
Widdersheim said the ICC is the only viable accountability mechanism for Sudan, with 11 active cases, no functioning domestic courts, & no...
December 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Rep. Jacobs questioned Human Rights Watch’s Nicole Widdersheim on how US sanctions on ICC prosecutor Karim Khan are affecting war crimes cases in Darfur.
Widdersheim said the ICC is the only viable accountability mechanism for Sudan, with 11 active cases, no functioning domestic courts, & no...
Widdersheim said the ICC is the only viable accountability mechanism for Sudan, with 11 active cases, no functioning domestic courts, & no...
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🚨 Must watch: Nicole Widdersheim of Human Rights Watch, her voice audibly breaking, describes atrocities against civilians in Sudan that are now “on par, if possibly not worse,” than those during the Darfur genocide 2 decades ago.
She said both the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) & the Sudanese Armed...
She said both the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) & the Sudanese Armed...
December 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🚨 Must watch: Nicole Widdersheim of Human Rights Watch, her voice audibly breaking, describes atrocities against civilians in Sudan that are now “on par, if possibly not worse,” than those during the Darfur genocide 2 decades ago.
She said both the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) & the Sudanese Armed...
She said both the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) & the Sudanese Armed...
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The Trump administration's bellicose conduct toward Venezuela and other leaders in Latin America has little to do with drug trafficking, says historian Alejandro Velasco. It's an effort "to get rid of leftist governments in the region," he says.
Is War Next? U.S. Seizes Venezuelan Oil Tanker as Anti-Maduro Campaign Escalates
U.S. troops seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday, a major escalation that the Venezuelan government called “international piracy.” We speak with New York University professor A...
www.democracynow.org
December 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The Trump administration's bellicose conduct toward Venezuela and other leaders in Latin America has little to do with drug trafficking, says historian Alejandro Velasco. It's an effort "to get rid of leftist governments in the region," he says.
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I think that we are all underestimating how terrible the economy is going to be next year. A lot of the impact(s) of the horror bill will come on line in the next couple of years.
December 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I think that we are all underestimating how terrible the economy is going to be next year. A lot of the impact(s) of the horror bill will come on line in the next couple of years.
