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Feb 13

When workers get fired for organizing, they often face financial ruin and losing their homes. @katieemccoy struggled to survive. Now she’s determined to be a labor lawyer to protect other workers from corporate bullies.

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More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

Feb 13

NEW: She was 17, working as a barista, and living in her car. Days before HS graduation, Starbucks fired Katie for union organizing. Her plans for a new apartment & college were put on hold. Now, Starbucks may have to pay her tens of thousands of dollars.

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Agreed, the media has been ignoring Donald Trump for far too long. It’s about time that people got to hear what Trump has to say.

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Acyn

@Acyn

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Cooper: You have every right to be outraged today and angry and never watch this network again. But do you think staying in your silo and only listening to people you agree with is going to make that person go away?

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A crowdfunding campaign to cover the legal fees of Daniel Penny, the guy who murdered Jordan Neely on the subway, has already raised $36k. Not going to link to it, but if you find it, don’t read the comments.

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Making a quick return to entertainment reporting to cover the #WGAStrike.

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More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

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David Simon, the creator of The Wire, says he’s on strike to protect new generations of writers and make sure they aren’t exploited by studios. He also explains how studios are cutting jobs to please shareholders and making TV shows almost impossible to run. cc @AoDespair

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They shut down all of East 96th street and severely inconvenienced me just so that Biden could go talk like a Republican to a bunch of donors?!

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Jeff Stein

@JStein_WaPo

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Biden yesterday in New York

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CNN justifies pouring gasoline on an open flame by calling the inferno newsworthy.

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CNN justifies pouring gasoline on an open flame by calling the inferno newsworthy.

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Really glad that Donald Trump finally has a platform to get his message out there.

Broward County, FL public schools have ordered students to only wear clear backpacks so people can tell if they’re carrying a gun. Never let Republicans get away with pretending like they’re concerned with protecting children.

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philip lewis

@Phil_Lewis_

Grand Rapids Public Schools has issued a backpack ban after a loaded handgun (the fourth of the academic year) was found in a third-grade student's backpack wwmt.com/news/local/gra

Let and/or force Dianne Feinstein to retire! Democrats’ cowardice and disinterest in using their power shouldn’t turn what remains of this woman’s distinguished life into a torturous grind and public humiliation. Christ.

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Gary Grumbach

@GaryGrumbach

The first images of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, returning to the US Senate for the first time in nearly three months.

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Remember: If they can do it to George Santos, they can do it to any one of your various personalities and false identities.

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Remember: If they can do it to George Santos, they can do it to any one of your various personalities and false identities.

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What the DOJ doesn’t understand that what George Santos is accused of doing is simply local custom for men in Long Island. Very insensitive to indict Santos for his culture.

That's voter fraud, Tommy!

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Rolling Stone

@RollingStone

GOP Senator Tommy Tuberville says the verdict against Trump "makes me want to vote for him twice." trib.al/EvfDVhh

George Santos is a weasel scammer who deserves nothing good. But it's an indictment on our system that he's being indicted while GOP leaders like Ron DeSantis, who weaponized Covid and promote guns that blast kids' faces off, are free to raise millions and run for president.

If Biden preemptively gives in to fringe Republicans and agrees to utterly mendacious cuts to wildly popular and essential public programs, he should not run for re-election. This generation of cowardly Democrats, from Feinstein to Durbin and beyond, is hurting America.

The scariest part of this horrid bill in Texas that will allow *public* schools to replace school counselors with random religious people who call themselves chaplains? It's backed by a coordinated movement coming to other states. progressreport.substack.com/p/far-right-ch

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Laney Hawes

@LaneyHawes

The Texas legislature just voted to allow school boards to replace public school counselors with “no certification needed chaplains.” These are the same people who say they want schools to stick to “reading, science & math” instead of “indoctrination.”

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If Democrats, who have the White House and Senate, flinch at a four-seat GOP majority and agree to catastrophic and politically toxic cuts to programs Americans rely on, the party should be shut down for good. Just end it. Start from scratch. Pitiful.

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Steven Dennis

@StevenTDennis

Democrats agree to start negotiating a bipartisan deal. Schumer tells us at the Capitol the only way to pass a debt limit hike is in a bipartisan way and that's what they will endeavor to do. Staff talks to start soon... bloomberg.com/news/articles/

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What's so exciting about George Santos is that his indictment could be about literally anything. Perhaps they got Santos on run of the mill fraud or money laundering, or maybe he's been impersonating Abraham Lincoln and selling benzos at kids' birthday parties. Dunno!

If George Santos is forced to resign, I just know that Jay Jacobs is going to find a way to get Hector LaSalle elected to Congress

I have to give Elon credit for continuing to find new ways to make Twitter even worse. It's like buying diabetes and infusing it with cirrhosis, heart disease, and lung cancer.

Harlan Crow rebuffs Senate demand to list all gifts to Justice Clarence Thomas

The Democratic Party: Terrified of asking a missing 89-year-old senator to resign so that they can force a billionaire Nazi toy collector to list all the illegal gifts he gave to the Supreme Court justice whose wife tried to overthrow the government.

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Harlan Crow, the Dallas real estate mogul in the middle of a Supreme Court ethics controversy, has declined a Senate request for a full accounting of gifts,...

Tucker Carlson’s going to love going from a fully unionized broadcast TV control room to a single web engineer who is contractually obligated to hit a horn every time an episode passes 4:20 in runtime

Democrats are being so feckless that they're now being told what they can and can't do by a billionaire who collects Nazi toys, just a historically pitiful low

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis

Harlan Crow's lawyers fired off a pound-sand letter to the Judiciary Committee explaining why investigating Crow's patronge of Clarence Thomas "raises substantial separation of powers concerns," and all due respect to "Michael D. Bopp" but I don't think this is your call dude

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Abortion pill case to be heard by conservative, anti-abortion panel

Would be cool if there were some way for Democrats to get more of their judicial nominees confirmed and involved in critical cases that shape the lives of tens of millions of people who have their entire lives ahead of them.

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The case is brought by anti-abortion groups seeking to ban the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide.

Treating mass shootings like a natural disaster — inevitable forces that we can't prevent, only mitigate — is the sign of a nation permanently on the decline.

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Kat Abu

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broken country

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Thomas Kennedy

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By the way we were charged with a first degree misdemeanor that is punishable with up to one year in jail. All for exercising our First Amendment rights in a publicly funded building that’s filled with pay to play politicians who are stripping our rights away.

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Thomas Kennedy

@tomaskenn

May 4

Over 40 police officers were mobilized to arrest 14 protestors peacefully staging a sit-in at Ron DeSantis’ office while singing civil rights songs. We were held at the county jail until 3:30am, charged with trespassing and we are now banned from the Florida Capitol for a year.

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'Simply Unacceptable': Joe Manchin Blasts Lengthy Approval Timeline...

Joe Manchin loves a filibuster until it stops a natural gas line or coal mine.

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At a Senate Energy Committee hearing last week, Sen. Joe Manchin (R-WV) spoke about oversight of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).Fuel your su...

There are actual Nazis carrying out mass shootings with weapons of war, and the same Republicans that block any attempt to do anything about children having their faces shot off continue to be afforded deference and respect by a political media that should be hounding them.

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Evergreen: Republicans are the party of child murder.

Republicans are the Party of Child Murder

The evidence is clear and undeniable

It’s a sign of an irrevocably broken society that children are getting their faces *literally* blown off by assault rifles every single week and we’re supposed to just accept that Republicans won’t do anything about it and move on.

Spoke with David on the picket line today. He mentioned that he suspected that HBO might cancel his deal soon, but that he'd be okay because that this strike is to ensure that young and future writers are able to earn a fair living. Video to come at

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#WGAStrong. On the day that HBO called to suspend my deal after 25 years of writing television for them, I was doing the write thing.

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Sean Morrow

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Nora Essman Morrow Compositions

My Mom, Nora Essman Morrow, died Friday. I have an ask: She was a talented classical composer. I made a Spotify playlist of her recorded work. I want to see if we can get enough people listening to get her on Spotify classical charts: bit.ly/NoraMorrowMusic More in thread:

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Nora Essman Morrow Compositions · Playlist · 9 songs · 9 likes

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At the #WGAStrike picket line at Silvercup studios in Queens, where

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sent wraps to feed striking workers and allies.

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Anti-vaccine Florida surgeon general confirmed for second term. Concerns about what’s next

Ron DeSantis wanted to run for President so he got some scammy doctor to cook the books and send tens of thousands of people to their deaths. This should be a national scandal that ends careers and results in criminal charges. The nihilists are winning.

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“Vaccines are one of the greatest achievements in history, so what happens when their value is undermined by an expert?” said Richard Carpiano, a public health scientist at the University of Califo...

There’s too much peanut butter between us

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Dick Durbin is quickly transitioning from hapless loser to accomplice and enabler of a far-right autocracy and all the ways that it’s hurting people.

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

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Dang. Jake Tapper to Durbin: "All due respect, sir, you and your fellow Democrats were very ginger and very polite when it came to RBG and not pushing her to retire when you had a Democrat majority in the Senate. How'd that work out for you? How'd that work out for Roe v Wade?"

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