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Chris Zepeda-Millan @profczm.bsky.social · 5h

Can’t even begin to express what this legend meant to the LA Labor & Immigrant Rights Movements, UCLA, and me… All I know is that there’s a Nonviolent Direct Action being organized in Heaven right now! Rest in power brother Kent! 🙏🏽💔✊🏽 #KentWong #Presente

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 6h

UFW mourns the passing of our brother Kent Wong. Please watch Kent speak in beautiful short video connecting his time with UFW to his view of the importance of solidary across labor and race and cultural backgrounds.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODkU...

Kent Wong on Solidarity: action

YouTube video by W.K. Kellogg Foundation

www.youtube.com

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Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 15h

my welcoming committee at work this morning

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Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 16h

Which laws were utilized?

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Remarkably, such arguments also ignore that America has had plenty of experience with broad popular support for state authoritarianism in its own history. There is nothing old, stable, or consolidated about *multiracial, pluralistic* democracy. It started less than 60 years ago.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 3d

Immergut deposed Monica Lewinsky for Ken Starr, was a US attorney under Bush, and was appointed to the bench by Trump during his first term. This is not some left-wing judge.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d

Immergut: I'm handling this on expedited basis, but defendants haven't provided new info.

SHE RULES FROM THE BENCH: I grant the plaintiffs motion for a second TRO based on reasons stated in previous order...

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Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 3d

well done live-posting of tonight's emergency hearing on the OR National Guard games played by the would-be authoritarian administration.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Karin Immergut hears emergency arguments as California and Oregon seek to block President Trump's deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland. 🧵

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

NEW: Judge Immergut schedules a hearing TONIGHT, in 45 min, to hear arguments on SECOND TRO to block federalized California National Guard from deploying in Portland, Oregon. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481...

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

Judge: Not my plan to issue opinion, only order, since based on same reasoning. Anything I need to clarify, Mr. Kennedy?

Kennedy: Nothing else occurs to me at the moment
Turco: No
Riley: Clarify duration? Also 14 days?

Judge: Yes, 14 days. Thank you.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

Oregon (Kennedy): I think it would be appropriate for the court to issue separate 2nd TRO and incorporate by reference reasoning of initial TRO. Now we'd need to broaden: apply to deploying federalized members of NG of *any* state into Oregon.

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 3d

This is jawdropping. The idea that a state about to be invaded by out-of-state soldiers that Trump is moving around the nation like chess pieces has no standing to object to the invasion!

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

DOJ: Well, CA NG already federalized, and ...

Judge: Anything else you want to argue?

DOJ: Yes, your honor. OR and Portland lack standing to challenge relocation of out-of-state National Guard. Only CA could possibly sue under 12406, but CA can't establish standing or irreparable harm.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

JUDGE: I'd prefer not to modify my original order, but i'm troubled about CA and TX NG being sent to Oregon, it think it violates 12406 and the 10th amendment but I'm concerned about modifying the scope of my order yesterday.

KENNEDY: I think an order with a broader scope would be appropriate. 18/

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

JUDGE: Again, this is an emergency hearing with limited briefing. No new information has been provided about issues in Portland, so for all of the reasons stated in my prior opinion, I GRANT plaintiffs second motion for a TRO. 16/

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

JUDGE: So not a modification, it's a new TRO that prohibits the deployment of ANY national guard to OR. Is that sufficient?

KENNEDY: Yes

RILEY: Yes, your honor. We agree it's the appropriate scope for a 2nd TRO.

TURKO: The City agrees. 19/

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

JUDGE: It seems to me because of the conduct of the government, I see the actions are in contradiction to my order, so I'm going to grant a new scope of the order...17/

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

NOW: Starting a new thread on the Portland National Guard hearing happening now. We're in the hearing. 1/

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

NEW: Judge Immergut - a trump appointee - has called an emergency hearing tonight because the administration appears to have tried to circumvent her order by calling in the California guard after she blocked the Oregon guard deployment with a temporary restraining order yesterday. 1/

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 3d

this nearby structure fire in San Pablo / El Sobrante turned into engulfing flames in a matter of a few minutes.
Don't know the cause, but I am super nervous about old structures with electrical modified by handymen (including my own house)

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 5d

A L.A. construction minimum wage would elevate workers' earnings.
It could help attract/retain productive workers, too!
Empirical research has shown conclusively that Econ 101 textbook models ca. 1995 do NOT make accurate outcome predictions of minimum wage outcomes.
www.latimes.com/business/sto...

LA Times article text excerpt from https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-09-30/la-council-boost-minimum-wage-home-construction-workers
"A coalition of construction unions and housing groups including Abundant Housing LA and Housing Action Coalition has voiced its support for a wage increase.
Backers say that wage boosts are necessary to protect construction workers in the residential sector who are often non-union, foreign-born, and hired through multilayered contracting that makes them more vulnerable to wage theft and exploitation.

“These are workers who can’t afford a roof over their head, yet we rely on them to build the roofs over our own,” Pete Rodriguez, western district vice president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, said in a statement.

Some construction projects already require union-level pay, known as a “prevailing wage,” and benefits. Those projects would be exempt under the proposal.

screenshot of the following URL landing page "Support a residential construction minimum wage"/"Why Los Angeles Should Pay A Residential Construction Minimum Wage Now!"
"* BRING RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION WORKERS OUT OF POVERTY
* CREATE THE WORKFORCE TO BUILD LOS ANGELES
* SAVE TAXPAYER DOLLARS"

https://www.constructionworkerminimumwage.com/

Screen shot of a web page (https://irle.berkeley.edu/publications/working-papers/sectoral-wage-setting-in-california/) for a UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment working paper titled "A $20 minimum wage: Effects on Wages, Employment and Prices." by Michael Reich and Denis Sosinskly, dated 9/4/2025.
Abstract text:
"On April 1, 2024, California implemented a $20 hourly wage floor for workers in large chains in fast-food restaurants and snack and non-alcoholic beverage bars. The new standard, which corresponds to 69 percent of the state’s median full-time wage, surpasses all prior benchmarks in minimum wage policies and research. Using survey and administrative data on wages and employment, pay data from Glassdoor, prices we scraped from over 2,000 restaurants in California and control states, and DiD and DDD event study methods, we find that the policy increased average weekly wages for covered fast food workers by 10 to 11 percent and did not reduce employment. Compared to controls, prices increased by 2.1 percent two quarters after the policy, equivalent to 8 cents for a $4 item. Employers passed about 63 percent of the higher wage costs to consumers as higher prices, consistent with a monopsony model.

Note: This revised working paper replaces an earlier version published in September 2024, and now includes QCEW data through 2024q4."

Screenshot from full text of previously cited UC Berkeley working paper on California fast food minimum wage effects. (full paper found here https://irle.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/20_Minimum_Wage_in_CA_September-7-2025.pdf)
Excerpted text:
"Overall, we interpret our results as a null employment effect. This result is consistent with the recent literature on employment effects of minimum wages in the restaurant industry, such as Wiltshire et al. (2024) and Dube et al. (2024). The absence of a significant disemployment effect is
also consistent with the presence of monopsony power (see Manning (2021a). A minimum wage increase enables firms to hire and retain the same number of employees or more. This monopsony interpretation pertains only so long as the minimum wage remains below the marginal revenue product of labor. Whether that level is reached with a given minimum wage in a given industry is an empirical question. According to our employment results, a $20 minimum wage is still below the marginal revenue product of labor in California’s fast food industry.

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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 5d

Before I led BLS I was not as acutely aware of how many businesses, firms, and individual jobs depend on a stream of public use data. One estimate is that the $2 billion the US spends on economic data creates a $200+ billion industry of 'data-intensive' businesses. pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

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Terri Gerstein @terrigerstein.bsky.social · 5d

California's AG @robbonta.bsky.social just won $10M and a permanent injunction in a court judgment against a home care corporation that deprived workers of rights by fraudulently misclassifying them as independent contractors instead of employees w/ protections. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

Attorney General Bonta Continues to Protect Workers’ Rights: Secures $10 Million Judgment Against Employers that Misclassified In-Home Care Workers

LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced a $10 million judgment and permanent injunction granted by the Los Angeles County Superior Court against Care Specialist HCS Inc., f...

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Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 5d

A L.A. construction minimum wage would elevate workers' earnings.
It could help attract/retain productive workers, too!
Empirical research has shown conclusively that Econ 101 textbook models ca. 1995 do NOT make accurate outcome predictions of minimum wage outcomes.
www.latimes.com/business/sto...

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 5d

America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

Welcome to the Era of "Kavanaugh Raids"

ICE crosses another big, important line.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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