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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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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Dunleavy should call Milwaukee and offer something substantial for Brandon Burries who the Warriors also had high on their draft list. Second option, Philly for Labaron Philon who won't get much playing time on that roster. They need a shot creator/shooter guard
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Yes, we've the historical comparisons for Trump are something to behold: Caligula, Nero, Ivan the Terrible, Mussolini, Slobodan Milošević, Ferdinand Marcos, Pinochet, Franco, King Leopold of Belgium, the Argentine generals, “Baby Doc” Duvalier of Haiti, Mohamed Suharto of Indonesia (partial list)
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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 · 06/05/2026
No, it will be a Democrat in November. I’m rooting for Steyer who will push the hardest for single payer, the best solution for our broken health care system
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Steyer is the strongest on healthcare - single payer is the only fix for a broken health care system. On abolishing ICE which terrorizes our communities. On making corporations that hold a stranglehold on Sacramento pay their fair share. On reining in housing costs
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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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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Does he have a body double for stunts?
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
can't wait for them to also bring back hanging, drawing and quartering, the guillotine, stoning, and throwing people to the lions for the entertainment of Trump and his round of ghouls
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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 · 26/02/2026
Best speech ever by anyone. Lincon's Gettysburg Address and 2nd Inauguration? 3-year old rants compared to Trump. Dr. King's Dream speech in 1963? Nothing compared to the empathy and vision of Trump. FDR's "only thing we have to fear is fear itself"? Like a bad middle school essay next to God Trump
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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
Responsible law enforcement agencies have a mandatory protocol prohibiting car chases unless there is an actual threat of violence that endangers the public. As usual, ICE could care less about public safety, they believe they are above the law. #AbolishICE
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I doubt "the wealthiest people" are spending their billions shopping at Wal-Mart and other consumer product stores that had to jack up prices because of the tariffs. ordinary working class people are. that's what makes it a regressive tax - who its taxes target - as other commenters have noted
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
What Rev. Jackson said to the strikers: “Your protest for dignity has been heard in this hospital and around the country.” Summit’s opposition to sympathy strike rights, he added, was “another case of corporate greed, arrogance and abandonment.” So little has changed today
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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 · 15/01/2026
She has turned CBS into a state-run media propaganda organ. Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite would be thrilled (not)
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
When will Trump just threaten to invade Denmark too if it doesn't agree to his demand for lebensraum?
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
With the White House and federal departments openly copying Nazi slogans, I fully expect Trump any day to start saying he needs "lebensraum," Hitler's term for invading and occupying other countries for "living space."
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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 · 06/12/2025
During his crusade to obliterate federal spending disliked by Trump/Project 2025, why didn't Elon just defund all the District Courts and sell off their buildings. Any challenge of a Trump policy or directive should just go directly to #SCOTUS so they can save time and rule for him right away
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Ditto for my fellow American Jews, who have been repeatedly denounced and mocked by Trump for "disloyalty" to America for criticizing Israel's genocide in Gaza and for daring to not vote for Trump. And watch as his administration has weaponized antisemitism to foster repression and silence dissent
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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
I think America would benefit if he would sleep a lot more on the job
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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 · 23/11/2025
Yes, a profiteering scam they’ve done for years, and an abuse - “patent protection” - they demand in trade deals. It also makes critical meds hard to obtain for global south countries
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Charles Idelson @cidelson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
"Best" what? Best at corruption for personal gain? Best at extrajudicial murder of fishermen? Best at sending U.S. troops to invade American cities? Best at filling his administration jobs with groveling underlings? Best at terrorizing immigrant communities? Best at spouting lies about everything?
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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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