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Emmy-nominated labor reporter @PaydayReport often in 🇧🇷. Alum: @Guardian! Yinzer @UEunion fam. Autistic⚾️ Jew. Falo Português [email protected]
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Well said

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Sen. Alex Padilla handcuffed after forced removal from DHS press conference via @cnbc.com

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Tomorrow, I’m throwing a Belated Birthday Party bash with jazz jam session at trace uptown. Come through!

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We're working to document reports of nearly 30 assaults and 4 detainments/arrests of journalists covering protests in and around LA since Friday. Multiple news vehicles have been vandalized and countless journalists caught in tear gas while reporting. As we verify these reports, find them here:

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Thanks to Trump's tariffs, the World Bank now projects China will grow three times as fast as the U.S. this year substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Is the movie “Friendship” worth seeing?

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California union leader David Huerta has been released from federal custody on a $50,000 bond. Huerta was arrested Friday while protesting immigration raids in Los Angeles.

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Movement is spreading to Texas and elsewhere

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"If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived."

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Big thanks to a reader who donated $500. Help keep labor reporting alive paydayreport.com/help-save-la...

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Heartbreaking to lose Sly Stone today. Here's an anthem for all the brave people resisting ICE in LA and everywhere else www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q49v...

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Black and Latino representatives barred from accessing federal facilities in their districts; meanwhile white ones are whisked to El Salvador so they can literally do photo ops.

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New by me —> @theguardian.com's ingenious new whistleblower-protection tool buries leaks to journalists within its own readers' everyday traffic www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/the-...

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Wow, Grammarly has identified over 400,000 errors in my writing

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Trump's payback time for Peter Thiel

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🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

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At least 2 journalists have been injured while covering protests in LA. ARTICLE 19 joins partner press freedom and human rights groups in calling for journalists to protected. They must be able to carry out their vital work in safety. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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I am so grateful to all those reporting and filming what’s actually happening on the ground. Exposing the exact ways cops enact their brutal violence saves lives now and as we continue

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The city of Glendale, in Los Angeles County, announced today that they're quitting an agreement with ICE thad allowed ICE to house its detainees at the Glendale police department. mynewsla.com/crime/2025/0...

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Movie recommendations?

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This is how we win

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The best scientific evidence is that the 2020 BLM protests helped defeat Trump in the election. These protests are likely doing the same. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

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ICE arrested 36 Chinese & Taiwanese immigrants after raiding an LA nightclub. That's them, ziptied on the sidewalk. Yo Asians—if you weren't already outraged and mobilizing on behalf of others, guess what? That "First they came for the..." poem has gotten up to us. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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How on earth can this country still hold the World Cup and Olympics next year??

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Surreal

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Direct action in LA stopping ICE operations

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ICE protests just stepped up a level

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SEIU Ca President pepper sprayed outside of ICE detention centers www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/s...

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“The Problem of the Hero” is a great movie about the battles between Richard Wright & Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Paul Green. Experimental & very good moving dialogue youtu.be/xPFbKbCWcWg?...

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$200 donation from a reader from DC. Big thanks for all the birthday wishes paydayreport.com/its-my-39th-...

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Its my 39th birthday and all I want is to keep my labor publication alive paydayreport.com/its-my-39th-...

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Big thanks to a reader from Hagerstown who donated $100 paydayreport.com/its-my-39th-...

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Pittsburgh is such a small town that a local judge sent me a happy birthday note

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For my 39th birthday, in lieu of gifts, donate to keep my labor reporting alive! paydayreport.com/its-my-39th-...

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🚨 ICE is doubling its budget for confidential informants, I have learned. This is the first increase to its informant budget in over a decade. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-s...

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Climate change refugees in Alaska

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What a yarn by @Mikeelk.bsky.social about the mostly forgotten but incredible 1945 GI World Series at Nuremberg Stadium in Berlin, won by an integrated military team of American heroes, paving the way for Jackie Robinson and other Black post-war baseball heroes. paydayreport.com/the-1945-gi-...

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ICE raids Poconos pizza shop. "It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy." www.wnep.com/article/news...

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Hahahahahaha www.semafor.com/article/06/0...

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Saw the Third Man on the big screen at The Harris Theater for first time in 10 years & oh wow. The lighting, slanted angles, and music induce a surrealism into this gritty tale told amidst the ruins of post-war Vienna.

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When what you’re doing is definitely legal, justified, and on the up and up….

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not very happy with my alma mater today...

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Federal officers entered Rep. Jerry Nadler’s office in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday and handcuffed and briefly detained one of his aides. The confrontation happened shortly after the aide observed federal agents detaining migrants in a public hallway outside an immigration courtroom.

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Josh Harrison was one of my favorites. One of my first ESPN pieces was about his incredible pickle skills. The videos are all gone 😪 but I see a lot of themes here that I've continued to go back to in the many years since: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

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.@maxwelltani scoop: CA State Senators @SenJoshBecker & @SenatorUmberg are opening an inquiry into Paramount's talks with Trump, and inviting Bill Owens and Wendy McMahon to testify www.semafor.com/article/05/3...

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