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For the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined.
~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending.
We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending.
We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
December 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
For the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined.
~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending.
We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending.
We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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Looking for an expert to speak to ASAP early this week about people working multiple jobs. Especially interested in how widespread this is across fields & what might make this moment different than others in our lifetimes. DMs open, email [email protected]. Thank you in advance!
December 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Looking for an expert to speak to ASAP early this week about people working multiple jobs. Especially interested in how widespread this is across fields & what might make this moment different than others in our lifetimes. DMs open, email [email protected]. Thank you in advance!
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
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BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc
December 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc
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The city of Boston wants to renew a federal grant that, this year, has new requirements. One stipulation added by the Trump administration demands that localities spend 10 percent of funds on “border crisis response and enforcement.”
Bid to Renew Federal Grant Sparks Concern Boston May Help Trump’s DHS on Immigration
The grant helps fund a law enforcement center that’s drawn criticism over privacy and over data-sharing with ICE. It would also come with new strings to spend money on border control.
boltsmag.org
December 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The city of Boston wants to renew a federal grant that, this year, has new requirements. One stipulation added by the Trump administration demands that localities spend 10 percent of funds on “border crisis response and enforcement.”
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It's a policy choice that we're still experiencing mass shootings on a regular basis. It won't change until the legislators responsible for making those choices are held accountable for the deaths, injuries, and PTSD that occurs with each additional act of gun violence.
It has been 13 years since the lives of 20 children and six educators were taken in minutes by a gunman armed with a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle and high-capacity magazines at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut. Two other people were wounded. 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
It's a policy choice that we're still experiencing mass shootings on a regular basis. It won't change until the legislators responsible for making those choices are held accountable for the deaths, injuries, and PTSD that occurs with each additional act of gun violence.
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They want banks to be able to go back to openly discriminating against women and POC. They want women to need to have a man to cosign a credit card or a bank loan like before this rule was passed.
US consumer watchdog to narrow civil rights era lending law, sources say
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to propose in the coming days narrowing a key part of civil-rights era fair-lending regulations as Republican President Donald Trump's administratio...
www.reuters.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They want banks to be able to go back to openly discriminating against women and POC. They want women to need to have a man to cosign a credit card or a bank loan like before this rule was passed.
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Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...
Gov. JB Pritzker signs 'right-to-die' legislation for terminally ill people to end their lives in Illinois
The new law, which takes effect next September, opens the door for people 18 or older with a terminal diagnosis to be prescribed a fatal drug.
www.nprillinois.org
December 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...
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imagine trying to convince me that I should "get used" to AI bc it's "here to stay." honey mitch mcconnell has been my senator since before i was born, do you think i don't know how to lock in and hate for the long haul
December 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
imagine trying to convince me that I should "get used" to AI bc it's "here to stay." honey mitch mcconnell has been my senator since before i was born, do you think i don't know how to lock in and hate for the long haul
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In the same incident, an ICE agent pepper sprayed a baby.
(Link to post by a state representative)
(Link to post by a state representative)
One of our Shakopee observers witnessed ICE pepper spray a baby today in Chanhassen.
(Yes. You read that right.)
The agent knew the baby was there. ICE does not make our communities safer. End Operation Metro Surge NOW!
(Yes. You read that right.)
The agent knew the baby was there. ICE does not make our communities safer. End Operation Metro Surge NOW!
December 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
In the same incident, an ICE agent pepper sprayed a baby.
(Link to post by a state representative)
(Link to post by a state representative)
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In Cedar-Riverside this week, so much pepper spray was deployed on a crowd of observers that it left the snow bright orange.
ICE was in Cedar Riverside today. Amazing community turnout, be mindful of the layer of pepper spray in the snow all over the neighborhood
December 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
In Cedar-Riverside this week, so much pepper spray was deployed on a crowd of observers that it left the snow bright orange.
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Today in -10 weather, ICE agents trapped construction workers on a roof for hours. At least one of the workers is hospitalized.
ICE agents corner Chanhassen construction workers amid frigid temperatures
Eyewitnesses said federal agents surrounded a construction site in Chanhassen on Saturday morning, trapping two workers on the roof. A video on social media shows one worker being brought down and tak...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Today in -10 weather, ICE agents trapped construction workers on a roof for hours. At least one of the workers is hospitalized.
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
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Spitting in the face of gay and black consumers/employees and then wondering why no one thinks you're "cool" anymore is the highest of comedy.
The chain unveiled its first-ever concept store in SoHo this week, adorned with stylish apparel, designer collaborations, and beauty products — all key areas that its incoming CEO hopes will revive its former "Tar-zhay" glory.
https://cnn.it/48W8CAk
https://cnn.it/48W8CAk
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Spitting in the face of gay and black consumers/employees and then wondering why no one thinks you're "cool" anymore is the highest of comedy.
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December 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Emergency scanner says 2 dead inside a Brown University building, and shooter has now been taken into custody, scene now secure.
December 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Emergency scanner says 2 dead inside a Brown University building, and shooter has now been taken into custody, scene now secure.
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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@hebagowayed.bsky.social on Trump’s rhetoric and policy of ethnic cleansing.
The ethnic cleansing of the US will destroy it | Heba Gowayed
Trump’s racist remarks on Ilhan Omar and Somali immigrants reveals his vision for the US as a white Christian nation
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
@hebagowayed.bsky.social on Trump’s rhetoric and policy of ethnic cleansing.
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like arundahti roy on COVID as a portal: "We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world"
December 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
like arundahti roy on COVID as a portal: "We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world"
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Starbucks baristas across the state are on strike!
After years of bargaining delays, @sbworkersunited.org members are calling out CEO Brian Niccol, who makes 6,666X what an average barista makes.
Don’t cross the picket line. Remember: NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE!
After years of bargaining delays, @sbworkersunited.org members are calling out CEO Brian Niccol, who makes 6,666X what an average barista makes.
Don’t cross the picket line. Remember: NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE!
December 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Starbucks baristas across the state are on strike!
After years of bargaining delays, @sbworkersunited.org members are calling out CEO Brian Niccol, who makes 6,666X what an average barista makes.
Don’t cross the picket line. Remember: NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE!
After years of bargaining delays, @sbworkersunited.org members are calling out CEO Brian Niccol, who makes 6,666X what an average barista makes.
Don’t cross the picket line. Remember: NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE!
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"Trump will just defy court orders, what's even the point of litigating"
This, this a point
This, this a point
PHILIPSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Kilmar Abrego Garcia leaves immigration detention after federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.
December 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
"Trump will just defy court orders, what's even the point of litigating"
This, this a point
This, this a point
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WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly:
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
December 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly:
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
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The only way we could do that is by treating education like a public good, not a fucking business aimed at producing a product, and that would require the wholesale liquidation (perhaps at swordpoint) of the current crop of folks responsible for the organization of American education.
December 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The only way we could do that is by treating education like a public good, not a fucking business aimed at producing a product, and that would require the wholesale liquidation (perhaps at swordpoint) of the current crop of folks responsible for the organization of American education.