If you want to help make a socialist difference in the DC region, consider volunteering for the campaigns below:
Josie Caballero (josieformaryland.com)
Greg Acevero (www.gabeacevero.org) Zola Shaw (www.izola4progress.org)
There are canvasses every weekend!
Unions lobby against VA governor’s changes to labor bill. "...Spanberger wants to delay collective-bargaining rights for local govt. employees... until 2030. ....[and] give governor-appointed members of the Public Employee Relations Board a much larger role..." www.courthousenews.com/changes-to-v...
Riley O'Brien, absolute nails.
My colleague @marucajulia.bsky.social has an update on the pending PG sale, and there may be a gray cloud attached to the silver lining: PG's union says "representatives of the new ownership confirmed that steep staffing cuts to the Post-Gazette are incoming" ...
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“People see their neighbors getting kidnapped and they're pissed off about it. People are seeing their energy bills go up hundreds of dollars, and they have no idea how they're going to pay for it.”
We deserve a Councilmember who will bring down costs, protect our communities, and fight for us.
A bold graphic reading “For Immediate Release: Post-Gazette journalists call on new owner to follow federal law, restore trust with Pittsburgh community.” Below, smaller text explains that the Venetoulis Institute, owner of the Baltimore Banner, has acquired the Pulitzer Prize–winning Pittsburgh Post-Gazette staff but plans job cuts. The lower half shows a man speaking into a microphone in front of a seated audience at a town hall.
We are excited for this historic institution to survive!
A lot is still unsettled and we will continue to support our members who are fighting to be paid back from the Block’s illegal behavior.
That liability does not go away with the sale of the paper.
Hoping they respect the union. Banner guy praising the Blocks as caring about local news isn’t great.
#NewProfilePic! 🎉
My workplace is unionizing y'all!
Please follow @cleanwaterunion.bsky.social and sign our solidarity statement and show your support for nonprofit environmental workers building a stronger future for us and our work. ❤️💧 Thanks!
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NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
Hello, Bluesky! We, the staff of Scientific American, are pleased to announce we have formed a union with @wgaeast.bsky.social. Just as mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, we are the powerhouse of the publication, and we’re excited to have a new way to contribute to its success.
Call Your Senators: Upcoming Vote to Block Bombs and Bulldozers To Israel Text NOWEAPONS to 877-829-8228
The Senate will be voting on these JRDs next week. Call your Senators today and tell them to vote yes on blocking this $1 billion giveaway of bombs and bulldozers to Israel by texting NOWEAPONS to (877) 829-8228
Next week the Senate votes on resolutions to block over $450 million worth of bombs and armored bulldozers to Israel - weapons used in its genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestine and Lebanon.
Call your senators and tell them to vote YES by texting NOWEAPONS to 877-829-8228
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Graphic that says: $53,862 in direct contributions from DC donors, $263,680 in matching funds, 1,389 DC donors, 1,860 total donors
Major fundraising announcement- we have raised enough from DC donors to receive ALL available matching funds for a ward-level campaign! 💥🎉
We are incredibly grateful to everyone who has contributed and excited to power through the finish line in June!
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Virtual training: How to Fight ICE Detention Centers. Mon April 13 7:30pm EDT. Register: tinyurl.com/fightdetention Join Detention Watch Network and DSA's International Migrants' Rights Working Group. Learn how to assess your local movement ecosystem, map out current and future ICE detention center ‘prisonsheds’, and build effective strategies to fight back.
The Trump administration is using its newly approved DHS budget to increase immigrant detention across the country. But communities all over the country are fighting back to prevent warehouses from being purchased, including wins in Kansas City & Salt Lake City. 1/2
A composite image showing, at center, Corey Noel Scott, a white man with thinning dirty blonde hair and beard stubble wearing a black shot and smiling. The image of his face is up-close and in a circle with a light outline. Two other circles are floating in the image that read “PATRIOT FRONT MEMBER IDENTIFIED." That text is on a mock edit of a red, white and blue Patriot Front logo that crosses out their center fasces symbol with an X. Another floating image shows the red, white, and blue patch for Seal Team 7, which is a thin triangle facing downward with a large 7 in the center and the logo for the Navy on top of the 7, seven white stars are at the point of the triangle. All these images are sitting on top of a military group shot that’s faded in the background. The men in camo are holding up guns and a red, white and blue American flag and posing for the camera. Most soldiers are blocked by the various images except for one section where Corey Scott and Eddie Gallagher can be seen in sunglasses by the flag.
EXCLUSIVE at the newly relaunched @informant.news: We've obtained secret documents showing that a former Navy SEAL whose testimony helped overturn a war crimes case against his platoon leader has recently joined the white supremacist group Patriot Front.
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I have seen one good example of this plate
WE DID IT!
Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.
Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic
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Over the moon right now
“I sincerely hope you decide to stand with the journalists and other workers who make ProPublica the investigative powerhouse that it has become." Read more from our president, @gaufre who wrote to @propublica.org today on behalf our members. www.propublicaguild.org/updates/news...
War crime tribunals aren’t enough we gotta put him in a Harlan Ellison short story.
"This is a distraction" is just a lie. "They are taking your money and using it to commit criminal acts beyond our comprehension" is 100% true. I think we should tell the truth and not the lie. The latter also has the benefit of at least somewhat centering the issue of atrocities.
Here’s what your favorite outdoor Co-op doesn’t want you to know 👇
REI presents itself as value-driven and sustainable — but their supply chain tells a different story.
Textbook unethical journalism
the national legacy media is fully compromised and/or paralyzed
Idaho State Capitol building bathroom ban protest ongoing
Arrests imminent, have not started yet. 2 Idaho State Police stepped into the space briefly to assess situation. Have left for now.
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That Miles Mikolas Experience
