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Carin van der Donk

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Adams Boosts Budget, Leaving a $4.7 Billion Hole for Mamdani www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/17/b...
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Adams Boosts Budget, Leaving a $4.7 Billion Hole for Mamdani
Looming budget deficits, no provisions for federal aid cuts and new commitments mark the departing mayor’s last word on the city’s financial plan.
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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
These countries have had universal health care for their citizens, as shown below. There are more after 1995
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Dutch elections: first exit poll shows heavy losses for Wilders' right-far-right coalition. From 88 out of 150 seats two years ago to just 52 now. End of an experiment, fortunately.
D66 27 seats
Pvv 25
Vvd 23
Groenlinks pvda 20
Cda 19
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Saw a video a few days ago where a woman compared AI to a thneed and I can’t quit thinking about it…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/10/2025
MacCALLUM: Andrew Cuomo tomorrow night in that debate, he's gonna say 'I'm gonna bring 5,000 more police officers to the street.' Will you match that? MAMDANI: I don't look to Andrew Cuomo for leadership
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
It’s pronounced cyclist.
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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This is how you do it! Appeal and risk a LONGER sentence for refusing to take responsibility and subjecting your victims to more humiliation. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term
A French court increases by a year the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot.
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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
New Yorkers pay the nation’s bills. The GOP repays us with punishment We fund roads in Texas, dams in Alabama, and watch our own projects get cut Block our tunnels. Starve our cities. Ignore our votes. It’s taxation without representation. #FairShare #TaxJustice #NoTaxationWithoutRepresentation
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Tonight on a NY1 interview, Andrew Cuomo described Zohran Mamdani as "an existential threat" to New Yorkers and the Democratic Party. I can't say strongly enough that this is despicable, dangerous, irresponsible language. I've never held Cuomo in high esteem; let this election be his banishment.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
“We usually talk about the individual perpetrator -- the Weinsteins, Simpsons, or O'Reillys -- but this framing is woefully myopic. It leads to a false narrative that abuse constitutes isolated anomalies in a largely safe world and ignores the entourage that supports the abuser's behavior.”
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 19/09/2025
Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.
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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRX...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s show has been cancelled | The New Disney | LUBACH
YouTube video by LUBACH
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Sara Spector @miriam2626.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? Robert Redford
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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Oldie but Goodie: "These politicians care about shock factors and making the other person sound morally wrong as opposed to fully explaining their own opinion and relying on actual facts."
dailycampus.com
The Right can’t debate
There has been a rise in the popularity of conservative pundits such as Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, Tomi Lahren and Kaitlin Bennett in the past few years, especially be…
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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Good stuff to know! Gift article.
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Can You Tell the Difference Between a Human Voice and AI? Take Our Quiz
A security firm made deepfake versions of us reporting bogus news. Take this quiz to hear the results.
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slaz44.bsky.social @slaz44.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Saying you don’t trust black airline pilots is “Practicing politics the right way”???
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Only 40 days have passed since Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were tragically killed by an unhinged Trump supporter, yet this story has largely faded from national awareness. We must not allow that to happen.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10/09/2025
The conditions that make a society vulnerable to political violence are complex but well established—and all of them are present today, @adriennelaf.bsky.social wrote in March 2023. Once a cycle of violence has begun, can anything stop it?
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The New Anarchy
America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop.
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Just James @bojabi.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
This administration is as faithful to the rule of law as Trump has been to his wives.
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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
They will never understand that restraint is an exercise of power.
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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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A Mother and Her Trans Teen Decide to Leave the U.S.
After President Trump issued an executive order aimed at restricting access to gender-affirming care for minors, one family made the difficult choice to relocate to Mexico City.
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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Suicides in NY Prisons More Than Doubled Last Year, New Data Shows www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/05/p...
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Suicides in NY Prisons More Than Doubled Last Year, New Data Shows
The Correctional Association of New York on Tuesday unveiled a new dashboard detailing that the suicide rate at state lock ups spiked 108% last year.
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Steve Banfield @stevebanfield.blog · 01/08/2025
Will anyone trust the numbers coming from this administration after this? Tell the truth, lose your job. The Mad King will tell you what the numbers will be and you'll like it! #econsky
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Trump seeks to fire official overseeing jobs data after weak employment report
President Donald Trump said Friday that he has directed his team to fire the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures, after a weak report showed hiring slowed and was much weaker in ...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Me, 2019: "Epstein gambled on the differential between his power and voice in the world and theirs and for the most part he won, because the game was rigged by dozens of people around him... Monsters rule over us, on behalf of monsters." lithub.com/in-patriarch...
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In Patriarchy No One Can Hear You Scream: Rebecca Solnit on Jeffrey Epstein and the Silencing Machine
One of my favorite books when I was young was T. H. White’s The Once and Future King, and one of its central themes is the attempt of King Arthur to replace an ethos of “might is right” with someth…
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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
July 23rd, 2025 @indivisible.org @colbertlateshow.bsky.social
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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
“That is them keeping the money that they were supposed to pay to the employees,” said LaDonna Lusher, partner at employment law firm Virginia & Ambinder, after New York Focus described the business model to her. “I do think that the New York attorney general could investigate that.”
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New York’s Health Companies Could Pocket Millions Meant for Low-Wage Care Aides
Offering hard-to-use benefits instead of cash could help two state-funded companies dodge a 2011 law meant to boost care workers’ pay.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
DAILY MEMO: Part 2 of 2, Camarillo Sees a Military Raid and ICE faces closed doors and protesters at an Oxnard Hospital~ @eltragon.bsky.social
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12/07/2025
“It is up to all of us to fix this.”
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Ellen Bender @ellenbnyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
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Opinion: Weaponizing antisemitism is dirty politics
Zohran Mamdani has been unfairly branded as both antisemitic and a Communist. Neither are true.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 28/06/2025
BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
'The New American Gothic', Oil on Canvas by Criselda Vásquez
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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Proud of NYC! We chose care and courage in a world that dares us to go numb. Now: shoulder to shoulder, let’s build. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @bradlander.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2025
I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history
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Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems @upine.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Hmm. Someone took the initiative here. And it sure was not the official Dem party. bsky.app/profile/juli...
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
What does it look like to be called a “radical,” a “mob,” or worse—for simply showing up, speaking out, or banging a pot? This is No Kings: a protest, a chant, a bucket brigade. Voices rose. Strangers joined. Not chaos—connection. 🎥 Watch the video here www.instagram.com/p/DLDqJ4bvEJQ/
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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This should be headline news, and smart people should organize, and think hard about where these lay offs will happen, and prepare those communities with services, and quick and easy re-training (1 in 4 job postings in tech are looking for people "fluent in AI").
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Amazon CEO Says AI Will Lead to Smaller Workforce
Referring to the impact of artificial intelligence, Andy Jassy tells employees, “We expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce.”
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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This is powerful! TY @aoc.bsky.social and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to be leading the way, inspiring people with power to be bold as well. And TY @bradlander.bsky.social !
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Office of NYC Comptroller Mark Levine @nyccomptroller.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
LIVE: @nyccomptroller.bsky.social spokesperson + wife address media after Comptroller Lander’s arrest in federal immigration court. www.youtube.com/live/C98Lqsf...
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Live: Comptroller's Office Addresses Media After Arrest In Federal Plaza
YouTube video by Comptroller Brad Lander
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
No solutions here, just human beings listening to each other. It's important.
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The Enemies Project: A Palestinian and a Jew
YouTube video by The Enemies Project
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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Go figure, focusing on community, compassion, grassroots organizations, the people who are effected leading and given resources, sustained over time, WORKS!
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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Here we go again. The arc of justice bends slow, and it won’t bend by itself.
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Carin van der Donk @carinvanderdonk.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I will never understand why people vote for such limited people as our statesmen (besides to corruption and immorality). "Making a Deal" rhetoric is great for a tv show, but it's NOT appropriate on the world stage. Trump makes everything worse (again).
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Israel Attacks Iran’s Nuclear Facilities, Supreme Leader Khamenei Vows to Retaliate - Live Updates
Israel has carried out a strike against Iran. The strike came hours after U.S. and Israeli officials had warned one was imminent. Follow along for live updates, news and analysis.
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