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Aditi Ramaswami

@aditiramaswami.bsky.social
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directing labor movement comms @moworkers.org / @moworkerspower.org. organize, fight, win. opinions expressed are my own (they/them)

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Missouri Workers Power @moworkerspower.org · 06/09/2026
1/5 "My parents taught me to believe in the American Dream...but I can't help but think what Speaker of the House Jon Patterson has been doing to take that dream away." 📝 Bill Thompson's powerful OpEd in the Kansas City Star. 🧵👇 🔗 buff.ly/LXS96t2
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“We know the truth, and we will not be intimidated." Unions and community orgs have released a statement responding to reports about federal surveillance of Minnesota's movements against ICE.
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Sign-on Statement: Community, Labor, Faith Groups Call for Solidarity as Federal Government Targets Minnesotans Who Organized Against ICE Violence
Please Note: Additional context may be added to the introductory paragraphs if new information is released, but only if necessary. Community, Labor, Faith Groups Call for Solidarity as Federal Gove...
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Missouri Workers Power @moworkerspower.org · 12/08/2026
When folks can't vote on what their tax dollars are being spent on, democracy is not working for the everyday person Terrence Wise, low-wage worker, MWP leader, & petitioner for Royals stadium ballot measure Follow the link and send your personal letter to your local reps today - shorturl.at/9mQuC
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The Kansas City Star @kansascity.com · 08/08/2026
The measures would have rewritten how Missourians amend the state constitution and eliminated the state income tax.
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Every single Missouri county rejected Amendments 4 and 5. ‘Incredibly unpopular’
The measures would have rewritten how Missourians amend the state constitution and eliminated the state income tax.
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Aditi Ramaswami @aditiramaswami.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Big week for @moworkers.org: 💐🕯️Fuerza OC members held a vigil for Glendy that drew 1000 community members & made the Overland mayor publicly commit to our demand of no 287g agreement 🗳️MO voters killed A4 (to gut majority rule) & A5 (to give the megarich a tax cut on the backs of working families)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
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Missouri Workers Center @moworkers.org · 14/07/2026
It's True. This country belongs to the people who build it, who clean it, who teach it, who heal it, who show up for it every single day — not to the greedy few who'd rather hoard it. Every worker who stands up proud in these moments is how we will build a better future together. #MissouriWorkers
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Missouri Workers Center @moworkers.org · 03/08/2026
"My job above all other items is to protect all 16,000 people who live here. And the thousands that work here. And the thousands who visit us... I don't believe signing a 287g agreement provides them with any comfort or safety. We will not sign that agreement."
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Missouri Workers Center @moworkers.org · 03/08/2026
Yesterday’s vigil was a reminder that while we will forever mourn the loss of Glendy and Nixon, we must honor their memories by continuing to take bold action right now so this kind of tragedy never happens again.
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Missouri Workers Power @moworkerspower.org · 29/07/2026
"It sure seems, this being a democracy and all that the people should have a say in the allocation of such a colossal chunk of their tax dollars." Check out some highlights here, or read the whole thing. www.royalsreview.com/kansas-city-... Either way you can't miss, like Massey.
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Missouri Workers Power @moworkerspower.org · 05/08/2026
💥BREAKING💥 We defeated Amendments 4 and 5!!! We said NO to an attack on majority rule. We said NO to the Everything Tax. We said NO to deceitful politicians like Governor Kehoe and House Speaker Patterson rigging the game.
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Missouri Workers Power @moworkerspower.org · 05/08/2026
Last we checked this is still a democracy, and the voters deserve the final say to keep it that way — on the Royals stadium ballot initiative already certified by the City Clerk. Join us and make your voice heard by sending an email to your CM here: bit.ly/4pMJ28L
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Missouri Workers Power @moworkerspower.org · 05/08/2026
Hear from low-wage workers and MWP leaders Fran Marion, Bill Thompson, and Terrence Wise what’s possible when working people take bold action together across races, places, and genders. WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN!!!
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Hokius (Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter) @hokius.fromthehawkseye.com · 27/07/2026
Thank you to @moworkerspower.org for talking to me about this, if you're a citizen of Kansas City this is super important. Even if you want the new stadium and are willing to pay for it, you should want to have a say.
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I endorse all calls to not use AI. But I don’t think that’s the most effective pressure point. AI isn’t becoming ubiquitous because people suddenly prefer machine-generated text or images to human writing or art. It’s becoming ubiquitous because…
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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Children’s picture book character Pandorobou (the Bread Thief) is a a mouse who disguises himself as a loaf of bread to sneak into bakeries and steal fresh bread.
A slice of white bread with a grey mouse’s limbs, nose, and eyes poking out of it is posing for the camera.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 21/06/2026
🇱🇧 NEW: South Lebanon has gone 19 hours without any reported Israeli airstrikes, artillery shelling, or other major violations after Israel once again agreed to a ceasefire at 4 pm Sat., marking the longest period of relative calm in 110 days, according to L’Orient Today. The calm extends to the...
🇱🇧 NEW: South Lebanon has gone 19 hours without any reported Israeli airstrikes, artillery shelling, or other major violations after Israel once again agreed to a ceasefire at 4 p.m. Saturday, marking the longest period of relative calm in 110 days, according to L’Orient Today.

The calm extends to the strategic Ali Taher heights south of Nabatieh, where Israel had been attempting to seize the high ground.

Saturday’s fighting killed an estimated 45 people before hostilities ceased, the outlet reports, though official figures have not yet been published. Residents remain wary of renewed Israeli attacks.
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Aditi Ramaswami @aditiramaswami.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"But the goal was never just to win an election. It was to build a united bloc and a new political identity—to get tenants to understand themselves not as struggling individuals but as a powerful class with the ability to change the conditions of their lives." convergencemag.com/articles/sur...
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Surround Sound Communications: How to Build a Narrative Machine
A single canvass conversation doesn’t shift how people understand their world. What does is encountering the same frame across contexts—at their door, in a group chat, in a news story…
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 24/04/2026
Baristas at the very first Starbucks in Seattle are organizing their union. Here's how one worker answers the age-old question "if your job is that bad, why don't you just work somewhere else?"
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds 77% of Americans blame Trump for rising gas prices — including 55% of Republicans and 82% of independents.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The @vetsaboutface.bsky.social protest on the Hill today:
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Truthout @truthout.org · 17/04/2026
A new analysis finds that tech giant Palantir Technologies paid $0 in federal income taxes last year, despite raking in hundreds of millions in taxpayer money to build out a mass network to surveil Americans in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security.
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Palantir Paid $0 in Federal Income Tax in 2025 While Raking in Taxpayer Funds to Surveil Americans
Its $0 tax bill comes despite the company raking in $1.6 billion and landing a $10 billion military contract last year.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 07/04/2026
Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.
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LaRoeBoat @johnlaroe.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The Missouri Workers Center conducted its second ICE Off Workshop in #KansasCity for service industry employees on 23 March 2026 at the Westport Presbyterian Church.
Photo: Nick, formerly of Minneapolis, MN, describes the impact on Minnesotans of the ICE's recent Operation Metro Surge, and Minnesota's largely successful resistance to that action.

Missouri Workers Center "ICE OUT" Service Industry Worker Workshop
23 March 2026
Westport Presbyterian Church
Kansas City, Missouri
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
"No to war... and free Palestine" Javier Bardem
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Aditi Ramaswami @aditiramaswami.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
74-year-old woman at pure barre telling me i've gotten stronger
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Missouri Workers Center @moworkers.org · 23/01/2026
🗣️NO ICE IN OUR STREETS! #MOworkers in Kansas City are joining the nationwide Day of Truth and Freedom, right as our siblings in Minnesota launch their historic general strike 💪
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Missouri Workers Center @moworkers.org · 18/02/2026
“I reject the lie that deporting my neighbor is how I win better pay and working conditions. We’re fighting for a country where families stay together without living in terror, so we’re ALL better off!”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/02/2026
i have come to the view that there is an extent to which elites are projecting the salience of bigotry on the broad public. *they* are preoccupied with this stuff and so they imagine the public must be obsessed with it.
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Aditi Ramaswami @aditiramaswami.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
neither here nor there but a secret third place
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Allenk_81 @allenk81.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
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Aditi Ramaswami @aditiramaswami.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Happy benito day to those who celebrate today.ucsd.edu/story/how-ba...
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How Bad Bunny Became a Global Cultural Force
Fresh off a history-making Grammys win, Bad Bunny is set to take the Super Bowl halftime stage. What makes his music and performance resonate worldwide? An expert in the Department of Theatre and Danc...
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Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This is exactly the type of organizing we love to see! From warehouse safety to data center regulations @moworkers.org is pushing back against big tech in the name of shared prosperity for everyone in MO.
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Aditi Ramaswami @aditiramaswami.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
get his ass @clippy
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Larry Summers complaining to Epstein that his kids admire Bernie Sanders too much
From: Larry Summers <
To: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Subject: Re:
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 14:54:40 +0000
Jamaica very good
Kids great though tired of some of their admiration for Bernie sanders.
How ru?
Sent from my iPad
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Aditi Ramaswami @aditiramaswami.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Another great piece from @alexnpress.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/01/minn...
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ISAIAH @isaiahmn.org · 31/01/2026
🚨🎯 BREAKING: Target calls cops on singing Minnesotans, but allows ICE agents who bully, assault, and abduct customers & employees to roam their parking lots & aisles. 📣 Minnesotans are standing up at Target stores across the state today. #ICEOutNow 🔗 Learn more at www.iceoutnowmn.com/
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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Folks, I don't know whether the dems will make good use of this in 2 weeks. But this is an amazing move in terms of the possibilities it opens up. They can now block DHS funding forever with no collateral damage
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 29/01/2026
With temperatures hovering near zero and windchills approaching minus 20 degrees, Spain Bady was ordered to leave his cell at Algoa Correctional Center on Saturday morning and clear snow from prison walkways. (@missouriindependent.com)
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Missouri prisoners report being forced to shovel snow in subzero temperatures
Advocates and incarcerated people say prisoners were ordered outside during the recent winter storm, and punished with segregation or discipline if they refused.
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown
Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"French writes 'In the normative state, your life almost never depends on immediate and unconditional compliance with police commands.' The imagined audience here is telling." @victorerikray.bsky.social's important reminder that while things are escalated to a frightening level, none of this is new
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America's "dual state" is a racial state
ICE's terrors draw on an American traditions of racial violence
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Kacen J. Bayless @kacen.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
New: The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously struck down a state law deployed by Republicans to fight abortion access, a sweeping ruling that wrestles power away from top statewide officials. #moleg #mogov www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
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‘Let Politicians Lie Act’ struck down by Missouri Supreme Court. What that means
The law, signed by Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe last year, marked a key tool in Republican officials’ yearslong effort to halt abortions.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
A write-up of yesterday's protest + general strike that'll make you feel something www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/hate-has-t...
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Hate Has to Scatter When Minneapolis Arises
At the general strike.
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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
No words “As the Michigan-based attorney walked toward his car…he heard what sounded like “100s of children” shouting, with voices he described as "high-pitched" and "urgent.”…he could see children streaming from dormitory areas behind a chain-link fence and chanting “Libertad." shorturl.at/yOXfh
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Protest breaks out at Dilley immigration detention facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos
A protest broke out Saturday at the ICE-run South Texas family detention complex in Dilley, where five-year-old Liam Ramos is being detained.
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