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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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The intensifying US-Canada trade war: A product and accelerant of inter-imperialist conflict
American imperialism’s aggression cannot be opposed by lining up with any one or a coalition of its imperialist rivals. The trade war between the US and Canada is a reactionary conflict between two im...
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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The brainchild of Barack Obama: <em>Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America</em>
Comedian-writer Larry David has even less insight into the past than the present.
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Britain’s healthcare workers must demand Israel release Gaza’s Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya - World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Britain’s healthcare workers must demand Israel release Gaza’s Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
The mobilisation by medical professionals takes place in defiance of the Labour government’s efforts to silence opponents of genocide.
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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Maine father murdered by immigration Gestapo, prompting protests By ICE's own revised account, Guerrero was shot for attempting to drive away. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Maine father murdered by immigration Gestapo, prompting protests
Less than a week after Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered in Houston, Texas, another husband and father, this time a 26-year-old man, was shot and killed by immigration agents early Monday morning.
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Historical falsification as war propaganda: The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung declares Russia chiefly responsible for World War I - World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Historical falsification as war propaganda: The <em>Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung</em> declares Russia chiefly responsible for World War I</h3>
The history of the First World War is being rewritten by Viennese legal scholar Joachim Dolezik in order to prepare today's German imperialism for a new war against Russia.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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250 years since the Declaration of Independence
The 250th anniversary of the founding document of the American Revolution is being marked by the staggering crisis and decay of those original democratic principles.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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The scum rises to the top: Reflecting Pool fiasco epitomizes Trump’s Washington
The debacle is both an apt metaphor for Trump’s role in American politics and an encapsulation of the most degraded aspects of this administration.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Democrats counter Trump’s White House UFC spectacle with nationalist “No Kings” concert
The June 14 No Kings event aims to dissipate mass opposition to Trump by subordinating workers and youth to the Democratic Party and American nationalism.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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Virginia Governor Spanberger vetoes collective bargaining and immigrant protection bills
The veto of these two bills confirms—for the thousandth and first time—this fundamental reality of American politics: the Democratic party is a capitalist party charged with diffusing and disorienting...
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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Charles III in Washington: Monarchy, oligarchy and the repudiation of 1776
Charles III’s address to Congress, under the patronage of Trump and before an audience of billionaires and Democrats, exposed the convergence of monarchy and oligarchy in the repudiation of the democr...
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Harvard Academic Workers-UAW leaders sabotage strike of non-tenure-track faculty
In a flagrant violation of democratic principles, the HAW-UAW bargaining committee has unilaterally called off plans for a spring strike, overriding a clear mandate from the membership
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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Oil companies demand surrender, but USW keeps 30,000 refinery workers on the job after contract expires
A struggle must be waged against the union bureaucrats, who are working with management and the government to impose another concessions contract.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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Bruce Springsteen denounces ICE “Gestapo tactics” in Minneapolis occupation
The celebrated singer-songwriter dedicated a surprise performance to ICE murder victim Renee Nicole Good.
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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
On the same day that Rodríguez hosted the head of the CIA, a man who played a central role in organizing the bloody invasion of Venezuela and the abduction of Maduro and his wife, she delivered an annual address to the country’s National Assembly. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Trump takes Machado’s Nobel medal as CIA chief meets with Venezuela’s “interim president”
The debacle in Venezuela is the product not only of criminal US aggression but also of a turn to the right by the <em>chavista</em> government and the bourgeois layers it represents under the unrelent...
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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For a general strike to stop Trump’s occupation of Minneapolis!
The call for a one‑day general strike and economic shutdown on Friday, January 23 to oppose the rampage by Trump’s ICE must become the beginning of a broader working‑class mobilization across the city...
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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The killing of Renee Nicole Good, the invasion of Venezuela, Trump’s conspiracy for dictatorship and the lessons of the American Revolution
The brutal killing of Renee Nicole Good and the Trump administration’s invasion of Venezuela mark a qualitative escalation in the drive toward dictatorship at home and imperialist conquest abroad.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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Oppose Trump’s criminal invasion of Venezuela! Release Maduro!
The World Socialist Web Site, the Socialist Equality Party in the US and the International Committee of the Fourth International unequivocally denounce the invasion of Venezuela and the criminal abduc...
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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Trump delivers fascist diatribe in year-end speech
The 18-minute nationally televised address was a declaration of war on the working class, delivered by a president who appeared both demented and fearful.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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At least 7 dead, 11 injured after UPS cargo plane crashes in Louisville
The jet crashed and exploded shortly after takeoff at Louisville’s Worldport air hub, leveling industrial buildings, injuring dozens, and prompting a citywide emergency response.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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After the “No Kings” protests: What Next?
The mass protests mark the beginning of a powerful movement against the Trump regime, but without a clear political perspective and understanding of the broader situation, this immense popular opposit...
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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Hampton Roads, Virginia teachers face school closures, health care premium hike, measles crisis
These crises are symptoms of a nationwide assault on public education and the social rights of the working class.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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Victimization of teachers across the US for criticizing Charlie Kirk
The <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> denounces this witch-hunt, which is aimed not only at silencing teachers but the working class. We call for a nationwide defense campaign, centered in the working...
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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Charlie Kirk and the concealed legacy of American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell
If there is any individual whom Kirk most closely resembled, in terms of persona and political tactics, it is George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party in the 1960s.
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Angered by police violence, young people clashed with police and targeted symbols of the political establishment, including the parliament building, the Supreme Court and other government buildings. Nepal’s prime minister resigns amid spiraling protests www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Nepal’s prime minister resigns amid spiraling protests
While the immediate trigger was a government ban on 26 social media platforms last week, the protests reflect widespread frustration over the lack of opportunities, corruption and the social gulf betw...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
If Tusk and his NATO colleagues are convinced that an open conflict with Russia, the world’s second-largest nuclear-armed power, is imminent, why are they not pulling out all the political and diplomatic stops to prevent such a catastrophe? www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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European powers escalate war threats against Russia after drones shot down over Poland
No sooner had it been reported that NATO had shot down Russian drones in Polish airspace, the European powers began a furious agitation for escalation of war.
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Gunman kills fascist Trump activist Charlie Kirk - World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Gunman kills fascist Trump activist Charlie Kirk
While at least one “person of interest” is in custody, no information has yet been released about the motive for the shooting of the founder and leader of Turning Point USA, or how it was carried out.
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The protests were an eruption of anger at Macron’s call for social cuts to fund rearmament and France’s massive sovereign debt and his naming of Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister after Prime Minister François Bayrou fell Monday. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Social anger erupts at “Block Everything” protests across France
Hundred of thousands of people joined yesterday’s nationwide “Block Everything” protests against the budget crisis and the naming of Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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Trump’s Caribbean massacre: A naked crime of US imperialism
The <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> strongly condemns the US missile strike on a small boat in the waters off Venezuela. Despite the limited verifiable information currently available, it can be sta...
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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Battle lines harden in US defense industry strikes at Boeing and GE Aerospace
Far from mobilizing the strength of the working class, the UAW is parading Democrats at GE Aerospace and the IAM is begging Trump to end the Boeing strike.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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Boeing strike erupts at the heart of the US war machine
More than 3,200 Boeing workers have launched a strike at key military production facilities, challenging decades of concessions and directly confronting the profit interests of the US war machine.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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3 killed in Nebraska biofuel plant explosion: America’s industrial carnage continues
Each year, more than 5,200 workers die from injuries and 135,000 from work-related illnesses. Another 3.2 million suffer non-fatal injuries, likely a severe undercount.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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How the Democratic Socialists of America helped sell out the Philadelphia municipal workers’ strike
Throughout the strike and after, the DSA’s role was to provide left cover for the union leaders and the Democratic Party.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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<em>Superman</em>: Trump forces outraged by defense of immigrants and … “human kindness”
The hostility to the film in certain quarters emerges out of the high level of social and political tensions in the US.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
as tacitus said of the Romans, they make a desert and call it peace. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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World peace through mass murder: Netanyahu nominates Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court, has nominated US President Donald Trump, the author of a plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza, for ...
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 26/06/2025
A Canadian citizen has died while in custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Florida, the agency says. The cause of death remains under investigation
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Canadian citizen dies while in ICE detention in Florida, agency says
A Canadian has died while in custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Florida, the agency says.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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Democrats help kill resolution to impeach Trump over Iran war
The House of Representatives voted to table the impeachment resolution, with a majority of Democrats, including the entire leadership, joining a unanimous Republican caucus.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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How the New York Times launders Zionist slanders against children’s content creator Ms. Rachel
To her credit, Rachel Accurso has used her Instagram presence to oppose the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, and its impact on children in particular.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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Philadelphia educators vote overwhelmingly to authorize first strike in 25 years
Members of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers voted 95 percent in favor of a strike in the same week as 9,000 public sanitation workers voted to do the same, raising the potential for a city-wide...
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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David North on X: "Trump has just delivered a homicidal rant, in which he has justified the illegal attack on Iran, threatened further bombings and congratulated Netanyahu for waging a genocidal war against Gaza. Whatever the immediate military consequences of the bombing, billions of people across" / X
Trump has just delivered a homicidal rant, in which he has justified the illegal attack on Iran, threatened further bombings and congratulated Netanyahu for waging a genocidal war against Gaza. Whatever the immediate military consequences of the bombing, billions of people across
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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David North on X: "Trump, an admirer of Hitler, launched his criminal war against Iran on June 22, 2025 (Tehran time), which is the 84th anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. One can be certain that the choice of this date was not an accidental coincidence." / X
Trump, an admirer of Hitler, launched his criminal war against Iran on June 22, 2025 (Tehran time), which is the 84th anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. One can be certain that the choice of this date was not an accidental coincidence.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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Early voting begins in NYC mayoral primary as Cuomo and DSA member Mamdani emerge as frontrunners
The surge in support for Mamdami, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, reflects popular opposition to inequality and war, which the DSA seeks to channel back into the Democratic Party.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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Trump’s coup and how to stop It: The case for a general strike
Join this emergency online meeting to discuss the urgent steps required to stop Trump’s coup and defend democratic rights.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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David North on X: "An assault on a US Senator is a federal crime. This attack, in the presence of and clearly authorized by Kristi Noem (Homeland Security secretary), is further evidence on an ongoing and increasingly violent presidential coup d'etat. 1/" / X
An assault on a US Senator is a federal crime. This attack, in the presence of and clearly authorized by Kristi Noem (Homeland Security secretary), is further evidence on an ongoing and increasingly violent presidential coup d'etat. 1/
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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David North on X: "In the midst of Trump's unfolding coup d'etat, Elizabeth Warren trumpets her support for his proposal to abolish debt limits: "Now, with Mr. Trump’s support, our country could finally get rid of this form of brinkmanship that has, for decades, threatened the stability of our https://t.co/IBLTZBqOlk" / X
In the midst of Trump's unfolding coup d'etat, Elizabeth Warren trumpets her support for his proposal to abolish debt limits
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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Trump administration amplifies white supremacist propaganda, as anti-ICE protests spread
The official Department of Homeland Security account shared a fascist image created by a white supremacist on social media, which was quickly reposted and endorsed by neo-Nazis, white nationalists and...
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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UAW pressing Stellantis to “finish their retooling” of Dundee plant as cover-up of Ronald Adams’ death continues
In a June 5 letter, UAW Stellantis Department head Kevin Gotinsky says nothing about the death of the 63-year-old skilled trades worker.
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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Seven Days in June: Trump’s unfolding coup d’état
The deployment of the military onto the streets of Los Angeles—the second-largest city in the United States—marks a qualitative escalation of the Trump administration’s ongoing, well-prepared coup d’é...
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ed-hightower.bsky.social @ed-hightower.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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<em>The White Lotus</em> Season 3: A good deal goes on, but what does it add up to?
Here again, a small group of guests arrives at a lavish location for a week of relaxation, daily “wellness treatments,” gourmet meals and live entertainment.
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