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Charles Idelson

@cidelson.bsky.social
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Former Communications Director, National Nurses United, retired. My views

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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
ICE and other paramilitary federal cruel behavior is intentional. It is evident in the streets where agents have shot two dozen people, killing six of them. It is apparent in 239 ICE detention centers where the death toll has reached 59 during Trump’s second term. My blog via @commondreams.org
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Justice for Johan! Justice for Lorenzo! #AbolishICE protests across the country today. Oakland
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Coalition for Police Accountability @oakcopoversight.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Will Oakland City Council members commit to a police union contract that curtails abuses & protects the city budget? They passed a budget that defunds independent oversight while putting enough fat in the OPD budget to pay for a raise not yet negotiated. oaklandside.org/2026/07/02/o...
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Residents hope OPD’s rampant use of overtime will be addressed in new police union contract
As OPOA and the city negotiate a new agreement, we spoke with residents about changes they’d like to see.
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
My tribute to the late Wilson Riles Jr., a towering voice in progressive activism and politics in Oakland for more than five decades, via The Oaklandside oaklandside.org/2026/06/01/o...
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Remembering Wilson Riles Jr., who connected local and global struggles for peace and justice
The former city councilmember and activist for racial justice, nuclear disarmament, and economic rights most recently gave back to Oakland as a police commissioner.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"“It’s possible that we’re starting to see the consequences of severe and sudden cuts to global health programs that have eroded surveillance and allowed deadly viruses to spread undetected...” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/w...
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Large Ebola Outbreak Is Declared in Congo
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Vital read from @jamellebouie.net - the Voting Rights Act the white supremacists so hate is the symbol of what should be the essence of a real democracy, not the flawed one devised by the founders, or the warped dismantling by Trump, the Court and red states followers www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/o...
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Opinion | The Law They Hate Was a High Point of Our History
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
California voters: Ballots are coming in the mail this week. Here's why the state's largest organization of nurses supports, and hopes you'll vote for @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social for Governor www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/califo...
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California Nurses Association endorses Tom Steyer for governor of California
CNA today endorsed Tom Steyer for governor of California. Nurses say their endorsement is fueled by Steyer’s unequivocal support for a national and state single-payer health care system; for ending co...
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
May Day in Oakland’s Fruitvale Plaza
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Though the Affordable Care Act did little to contain corporate price gouging, it's biggest selling point was sharply reducing the crisis of the millions of uninsured Americans. That crisis is escalating, fast. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/b...
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Since Congress Let Obamacare Subsidies Expire, Millions Are Dropping Coverage
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This should be a test for all the countries/teams that have qualified for the World Cup. They should all announce a global boycott of the Cup games in the U.S. This bully action by Trump should not be allowed to stand.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
If you don’t know about this, you need to read up. It’s the single bloodiest massacre in the history of Reconstruction, and it was perpetrated to overthrow the results of an election. It was emblematic of the sabotage of Reconstruction. And SCOTUS nullified the prosecution of those responsible.
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
We cannot be silent or stop protests in the face of a global cataclysm.
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
We cannot be silent or stop protests in the face of a global cataclysm. The people have bravely stopped or slowed the U.S. war machine before — from Vietnam to Reagan’s mercenary interventions in Central America, to Bush’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. My blog cidelson.medium.com/we-can-count...
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We can count on no one else to stop this war
There are almost no words to adequately convey the horror being unleashed by a mad king who wants to be the one king to rule them all. The…
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The real "state of the union" artfully described by @jamellebouie.net - and it won't waste 2 hours of your life to get through it www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...
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Opinion | What Hath Trump Wrought
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson. Civil rights champion, also a great friend of labor. Here, during the historic 1992 Oakland 7-week strike by 5 unions for sympathy strike rights, with RoseAnn DeMoro (r) then collective bargaining director of the California Nurses Association @CalNurses
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
News flash, the @nytimes ten years later has made a major discovery about the Dear Leader, Il Duce, Der Fuhrer. Did you miss the size of his name on his buildings even before he was first elected? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/u...
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Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Love this. Fans of Irish history will recognize the song about the hated British paramilitary Black and Tans she's adapting for Minnesota www.facebook.com/reel/8258167...
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584K views · 34K reactions | A fight song for the Minnesota Revolutionary Army! Fun fact the Black & Tans were also a federal militia being deployed as a police force (this is a rewrite of "Come Out y...
A fight song for the Minnesota Revolutionary Army! Fun fact the Black & Tans were also a federal militia being deployed as a police force (this is a rewrite of "Come Out ye Black and Tans" an Irish...
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Message from @nationalnurses.bsky.social #AbolishICE
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Nurses march to Alameda County Board of Supervisors in Oakland #AbolishICE - that money needs to go back to our communities
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The violence has escalated as Trump, Miller, Vance, and Noem seek to secure and expand their power through what they believe will intimidate and force consent for their authoritarian rule. But they are also afraid of the growing popular resistance. My views via @commondreams
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
If Trump is indeed pulling the odious Greg Bovino out of Minnesota, that should only be beginning. We all need to continue to step up the campaign to #AbolishICE and end its terror campaign and the escalating dictatorship. My views: cidelson.medium.com/weve-crossed...
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We’ve crossed the border to authoritarian rule, but the fight is not over
“The border between democracy and authoritarianism is the least protected border in the world.”
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good and Trump's colonial invasion of Venezuela. The terrifying week, and the response. My thoughts cidelson.medium.com/in-a-truly-t...
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In a ‘truly terrifying’ week, the nation responds
“Truly terrifying.” That was how National Nurses United Executive Director Puneet Maharaj described this week in a group text exchange in…
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Minnesota officials should issue an arrest warrant, seek an indictment and prosecution, despite federal obstruction and the coverup scheme to exonerate the ICE killer. This compelling video alone, added to multiple eyewitness testimony ought to be enough to present a case to a judge and the public
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 08/01/2026
NEW: Senate advances a bipartisan resolution to block President Trump from using military force “within or against Venezuela” unless he gets prior approval from Congress. The procedural motion sets up a full Senate vote on the measure next week and is expected to pass.
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Senate advances measure to restrict Trump's power to use military force in Venezuela
Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, who led the bipartisan resolution, said that Trump's actions in Venezuela are "clearly illegal" because he did not seek congressional approval.
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"NNU continues its demand to remove immigration enforcement agents from communities and demands justice for her death." www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/union-...
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Union nurses horrified by Minneapolis shooting, demand ICE out of communities and justice for woman’s death
National Nurses United, the country’s largest nurses union, today expresses horror, sorrow, and condemnation following the fatal shooting by ICE in Minneapolis, Minnesota, issuing the following statem...
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
It's going to last for years... "We’re going to be using oil, and we’re going to be taking oil." - A classic description straight out of the 19th century of imperialism and colonial rule. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
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Trump Says U.S. Oversight of Venezuela Could Last for Years
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Trump's escalating racist policies are tied to the vision of a Make America Great Again movement that fantasizes a return to eras of Jim Crow segregation, even antebellum, policies in a nation more dominated by white, Christian populations - my blog cidelson.medium.com/trumps-crusa...
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Trump’s crusade to re-whiten America intensifies
As the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence nears, President Trump’s escalating attacks on immigrants of color has made his…
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The SS in Nazi Germany had no boundaries in their repression and attacks on civilians. Their spiritual copycats in Trump's secret police share the same devotion to brutality, inhumanity and indifference to law and the Constitution.
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The U.S. cultural revolution under RFK Jr. and Trump - "Let a Thousand Childhood Diseases Bloom"... “Any changes they do make could be devastating to children’s health and public health as a whole,” Sean O’Leary, American Academy of Pediatrics. Indeed, Make America Sick Again
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Arguably the most racist immigration policy proposal in U.S. history, even beyond the rabid 1882 Chinese Immigration Act and 1924 Immigration Act. And just a Trump fiat, no Congressional vote? Absolutely insane
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Everyone ready for our regime change war on Venezuela? via @washingtonpost - "President Donald Trump said Friday night that he has 'sort of made up my mind' about how he will proceed with the possibility of military action in Venezuela". Chilling. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump weighs Venezuela strikes as U.S. forces prepare for attack order
High-level discussions, underway for days, have explored a variety of military options for Venezuela, people familiar with the matter said.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 11/11/2025
Hi, Jean. My friend is a Nigerian prince who needs to urgently retrieve $1,000,000 from an abandoned trust from his father. If you can wire $5,000 today, you will be entitled to 35% of the trust. Please reply at your earliest convenience.
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Military aggression, covert action, and dreams of regime change in the hemisphere are the “oldest moves in the American foreign policy playbook” - my views
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Trump says he’s more popular than ever. Apparently not, even compared with right after Jan. 6. Via @maddow.msnbc.com
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
As if I needed another reason to root for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Bring it home New York!
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Good analysis on Trump's foreign policy linking a lot of things foreign and domestic atrocities together www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
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Opinion | The Thread Tying Together Everything Trump Does
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Big San Francisco march to protest the Trump ICE/Gestapo invasion threat is gathering
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California Nurses Association @calnurses.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Only 3 days until #NoKingsSF! We’re honored to have CNA leaders Puneet Maharaj, Cathy Kennedy, RN and Sandy Reding, RN on stage — representing California union nurses fighting for our patients, our democracy, and our future. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. ❌ 👑
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
What does the future hold? A forewarning could be found in perhaps the world’s most chronicled famine in Ireland... Famines, especially those driven by political or military policy, have often produced persistent calamitous consequences for the survivors. My blog via @commondreads.bsky.social
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Ireland's history with famine, and what followed, shows some common experiences with Gaza, and what might lie ahead. My thoughts cidelson.medium.com/gaza-and-ire...
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Gaza and Ireland — shared experiences and a warning going forward
Regardless of how the long delayed, welcome cease fire in Gaza plays out, there are historic parallels that shed a warning on the future…
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Democracy is not for sale @calnurses.bsky.social
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Corporate greed has got to go @calnurses.bsky.social
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Nurses march in San Francisco @calnurses.bsky.social
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
My thoughts. Trump's new comments this morning that he "couldn't care less" about ignoring political violence by the right because "the radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime" - only makes this Reichstag moment threat greater
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Trump's Reichstag moment appears to have arrived. My blog cidelson.medium.com/with-charlie...
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With Charlie Kirk murder, Trump’s Reichstag moment may have arrived
Is this America’s Reichstag moment? The murder of conservative organizer Charlie Kirk, founder of the right-wing Turning Point USA…
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The persecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, first sent to a Salvadoran terror prison by a mistake admitted by a DOJ attorney, symbolizes the vile cruelty and inhumanity of the Trump/Miller deportation crusade. Their desperate obsession to punish him with false charges and endless threats is pure Nazism
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
More from the #WorkersOverBillionaires march in Oakland 2/2
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
What’s the proper way to celebrate Labor Day? Collective action on a march. Joined one in downtown Oakland today 1/2
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The most racist U.S. President since Woodrow Wilson ordered segregation of the federal workforce in 1913 deepening racial income inequality must be proud of this- Black women lost 319,000 jobs in the public and private sectors between February and July of this year- www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
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In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
It’s time for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be fired or resign- @nationalnurses.bsky.social www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...
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