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Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife. Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped. We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil

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Read this. The whole thing. 👇 www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

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Enormous response to Mike’s post. If you haven’t read it…

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Aurelia is a strawberry root worker in Merced CA: I don't work under a union contract. Companies are very demanding. This is a job that requires a lot of agility w/our hands to pick exactly what is the bad root, what we should cut out and what are the good roots. #SoyEsencial

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#BrushesRedux drawing fellow at cafe table

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Will be fairly easy for me not buy anything tomorrow. You?

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A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

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I ain't buying sh*t tomorrow. 🏆

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“I’ll see you and raise you one.”

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Juan is harvesting lemons near Sanger CA. He earns $47 per 1000 lb box. Working at a fast rate, he can fill 2 of these boxes in 6 to 7 hours. He worries about days when it rains as they don't work, and this means they don't earn the money they need for basic expenses. #WeFeedYou

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Me too. So important and so disheartening.

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You want to read this piece. Thank you @brianbroome.bsky.social . I’m subscribing. open.substack.com/pub/bbromba/...

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It appears irony is not dead after all.

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Not a moment too soon.

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Jose is hard at work pruning grapevines for this year's wine crop. He has been laboring at Scheid Vineyard in San Lucas CA for over 25 years. Some of the benefits under his UFW contract include paid holidays, a medical plan and a yearly bonus. #WeFeedYou

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Roman shared this video with us from the watermelon harvest in Arizona. An average watermelon weighs 20 lb. These farm workers form a human chain of picking and passing the heavy fruit into the trailer. #WeFeedYou

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Margarito sent us this vid from where they're pruning grape vines at Chateau Ste Michelle winery in WA. He is very pleased they are provided with pneumatic shears. This air compressed powered tools assists with worker precision and efficiency with less effort and strain on the body. #WeFeedYou

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Details about the tragic crash into the #Potomac will emerge; I hope we act on what learn and honor those lost. Until then, we swim in the thick irony that the crash happened at #DCA, named for the president that broke the air traffic controllers union. jacobin.com/2021/08/reag...

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For the first time in 60+ years, the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) was halted this week. UC Berkeley Professor of Epidemiology Art Reingold emphasized MMWR's critical role in informing health professionals and policymakers about urgent health issues. ow.ly/W6Pn50URwVs

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The FTC under Lina Khan: -Stopped anticompetitive mergers -Cracked down on junk fees -Challenged Big Pharma price-gouging -Stood up to monopolies like Amazon -Protected farmers' right to repair She's been an avid antitrust enforcer and defender of working people.

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Len Syme, I will miss you.

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Call it a purge, not a buyout. Call it a coup against Congress, not a spending pause. Call it censorship, not a review. Words matter, and we in the media have a chance to do better this time.

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Back to #figuredrawing. First of the new year. Thanks to Colorarts Studio and model Prudence.

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Maria is hard at work planting strawberries in Watsonville CA for the next harvest. She shares, "This work is very tiring because I am bent over all day. I have to work very fast in this position without stopping and taking breaks." #WeFeedYou

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Alejandra shared this photo from where she is harvesting oranges in Kern County. She shares, "We earn piece rate. The box we fill weighs around 1,000 lbs and we earn $26 per box." #WeFeedYoul

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BREAKING: Philadelphia workers have won the first Whole Foods union under Amazon with UFCW. Since Amazon bought the chain, workers have lost benefits and felt the squeeze. Now they're fighting back against the multi-trillion dollar giant and hoping this win will be the first of many.

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"We were interested in understanding how journalists were suddenly talking about these policies, especially when we found that there was hardly any coverage of racism as a public health crisis in the year before June of 2020."

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Martin shared this photo of harvesting lettuce in the Santa Maria CA area. He shares it was so cold when they get to the field in the early morning that there is frost on the crop. #WeFeedYou

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Tessie McMillan Cottom on dry January shifting “our focus from collective responsibility to individual choice” letting our institutions off the hook: “Our anxiety about how institutions are failing us makes going dry feel empowering, but it does not build power.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/o...

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Thank you Donald Cohen @itpi.bsky.social for reminding us: "There are things that government must do and which only government can do. It is the public acting in the public interest." Indeed. inthepublicinterest.org/the-politics...

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When they say “Black women knew” this is what they really were talking about

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Palemon works in the blueberry harvest in Oxnard CA. "It's a tough job. I have to stand all day. I must be very careful just to harvest the ripe berries and not mix in overipe berries that can rot and ruin the box. Working like this for 8 hours a day is very tiring." #WeFeedYou

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I wish every other Democrat knew how to communicate like this and push back against the cruel and heartless ghouls. This is not hard Democrats. Call them out like a normal person with heart. See this video.

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Marcos is harvesting brussels sprouts in Salinas CA. It's been raining a lot and Marcos shares that this makes the job much more difficult to do as there is a lot of mud which makes it hard to walk. #WeFeedYou

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María is removing extra growth that shoot up on the vines. This skilled work produces better vines & sweeter tasting grapes for our wines. María appreciates her UFW contract at Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery that provides paid time off & other benefits. "The company values me." #WeFeedYou

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www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

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Meet Kat. She is a grape picker from Plainview CA. Kat works 5-6 days a week picking different grape varieties from early summer to late fall. Kat earns minimum wage for her work plus a tiny bonus for each box she picks. #WeFeedYou

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Feeling #KaraWalker Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine) today. #art #justice #SFMOMA

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