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Keith Bolek

@keithbolek.bsky.social
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Husband to a beautiful Angel; father to 2 amazing kids; chef at heart; punk/reggae/ska/blues/jazz enthusiast; and union-side attorney fighting for equality and justice everywhere. All posts & reposts are my views alone.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen in a week.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 09/10/2026
The hidden cost of farmed fish: Pollution, forced labor and the depletion of wild fish
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The hidden cost of farmed fish: Pollution, forced labor and the depletion of wild fish
Fish farming has been marketed as a sustainable answer to overfishing. But an investigation found that the feed behind much of modern aquaculture is driving ocean depletion, labor abuse and unrest far from the dinner plate.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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Katelyn Oldham *Abolish ICE. Defund DHS.* @katelynstarrpdx.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
These are crimes against humanity.
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Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 08/10/2026
‘Genocide’ or not, US must seek an end to the suffering in Gaza | Douglas Rooks
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‘Genocide’ or not, US must seek an end to the suffering in Gaza | Douglas Rooks
We need to stop enabling the excesses of an important ally in the Middle East.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21/09/2026
The best way to fight back against the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger is to support independent artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and everyone else who has been walking a very hard path to putting things out into the world.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 19/09/2026
'Hands Around the Kennedy Center' rally drew thousands after Trump-backed board votes to close the iconic arts venue.
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Demonstrators in US form human chain to protest Kennedy Center closure vote
'Hands Around the Kennedy Center' rally drew thousands after Trump-backed board votes to close the iconic arts venue.
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LaborLab @laborlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We have launched two new tools to help workers fight back against union-busting: 🔍 Search consultants, law firms & attorneys hired to crush organizing campaigns (search.laborlab.us) 📊 Calculate the cost of your employer's anti-union campaign (calculator.laborlab.us) laborlab.us/new-union-bu...
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New Union-Buster Search Tool and Cost Calculator Offer Organizing Firepower to Workers - LaborLab
LaborLab, a workers’ rights watchdog, is launching new tools to give workers a clearer picture of what they’re up against when they organize and shine a brighter light on the $1.7 billion union-avoida...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Bel was a varsity soccer player for Springfield City School District…He was on the National Honor Society and a member of the Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps”. He was a legal immigrant, and MAGA couldn’t tolerate his excellence, so now he’s dead.
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Springfield Haitian student takes his own life after being fitted with ICE ankle monitor, advocates say
A 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 30/08/2026
#RIP press freedom "Trump ‌on Sunday said ​in a ​post on Truth ⁠Social ​that NBC's ​Kristen Welker will be reported ​to ​the FCC for "rebuke or ‌punishment", ⁠after he said she ​reported ​the ⁠Republican President had ​mixed ​results ⁠in his endorsement of ⁠candidates." www.reuters.com/business/med...
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Trump says NBC's Welker will be reported to FCC
U.S. President ​Donald Trump ‌on Sunday said ​in a ​post on Truth ⁠Social ​that NBC's ​Kristen Welker will be reported ​to ​the FCC for "rebuke or ‌punishment", ⁠after he said she ​reported ​the ⁠Repu...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The grand jury report on the Florida embezzlement scheme is blood-boiling. It's clear beyond serious dispute that the current AG of Florida was part of a shameless, calculated plan to steal public funds from sick children to gift the Republican Party & his own PAC. drive.google.com/file/d/15YSC...
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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In Maine? He supports tariffs while representing Maine? 95% of the heating oil used by Maine residents comes from Canadian refineries Canada purchases ~40% of all Maine exports 50% of lobsters caught in Maine go to Canadian processing plants to be turned into meat and tails What. A. Moron.
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Lynn @lynnf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
More Miller. apnews.com/article/immi...
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Wife of active-duty Army sergeant is deported to Honduras under Trump's immigration crackdown
The wife of an active-duty U.S. soldier has been deported to her native Honduras in the latest deportation of a spouse or parent of an active-duty U.S. military service member under the Trump administ...
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 25/08/2026
U.S. immigration officials worked with Iran to deport Iranians in 2025, newly released emails show, revealing a working relationship between the U.S. and Iranian governments despite tensions mounting between the countries. www.mississippifreepress.org/a-quiet-chan...
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A Quiet Channel Between ICE and Iran Shaped Deportation Flights, Released Emails Show
U.S. immigration officials worked with Iran to deport Iranians in 2025, newly released emails show, revealing a working relationship even with growing tensions.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/08/2026
Fun fact: So convinced were white officials in 1963 that the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on the national mall would bring lawless and violent hordes of Black people that they imposed an emergency ban on alcohol sales in all of DC and neighboring Montgomery and PG counties.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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David Michaels @drdavidmichaels.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Why do we permit manufacture of a product we don't need that kills the workers who make it? Nationally, 1000s of workers who fabricate kitchen countertops from engineered stone have silicosis. There is a safe substitute available. Like Australia, we should ban this product. @karenmg.bsky.social
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Hundreds of California stonecutters fall ill with deadly disease ‘for a product we do not need’
Latino men who cut artificial stone countertops in California are falling ill from an incurable and deadly lung disease at an alarming rate, a new study finds.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Adul El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan and holds a PhD from Oxford (that's in England, not in Mississippi), where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He's a leading US public health expert. You, Tuberville, are motivated by just one thing: racism. It permeates your innermost self and defines you.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Senator @whitehouse.senate.gov discusses the study we published @justsecurity.org ⤵️ The study tracks scores of (Republican and Democratic-appointed) federal judges who have harshly criticized the Department of Justice for dishonesty and worse. The fall of a 'presumption of regularity.' 1/🧵
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/08/2026
Breaking News: U.S. employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs in July, and hiring in previous months was revised down sharply.
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Jobs Report Live Updates: Employment Data to Give Latest Look at Slow but Steady Market
Businesses shed 23,000 jobs in July in the face of renewed tariffs and higher costs driven by war in the Middle East.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Well this is true I suppose. trump can’t be bought; he is subscription based. You have to keep bribing him forever www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Infantino’s FIFA has firmly crossed the threshold from a sports story involving money and power to a money and power story involving sports www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Kushner-backed FIFA takeover tearing the soccer world apart
It’s the story of everything, all over again.
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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 30/07/2026
Ethan Jacobs E @ethanjacobslaw
The challenge was that most of the conservative ideals don't have mass appeal.
So their fans rode a tiger. Eventually it became clear the tiger—not them—decided on the direction it was heading, and the riders became tiger fans or were replaced.
10:52 PM • 8/20/20 From Earth
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 27/07/2026
Risa Lombardo and Duwayne Collier are racking up apparent Clean Elections violations as critics say they hope to spoil Democratic chances story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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‘Sham’ Green Party candidates tied to GOP machine as they funnel cash to a mystery company
Sham Green Party candidates in Arizona funneled $1.2M in public funds to a Nevada shell tied to the GOP machine
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
If you’re considering whether terms like ethnic cleansing or pogrom might be applicable to impending government action, there could be a problem.
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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Every time someone says, "Nobody wants to work anymore..." Remember this: HALF of working people in America earn less than $25 an hour. People are working. The economy just isn't working for them.
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We’re in a Wage Crisis Too
Affordability isn’t the only problem. People aren’t making enough money. Here’s what some progressives want to do about it.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Rubio’s State Department just published a 100-page report identifying Cuba as the locus of Communist infiltration in the US since the 1960s. Absolutely bonkers shit. www.state.gov/wp-content/u...
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This is a very rich and thought-provoking piece and is relevant far beyond France. Can be great start for a discussion about the future of democracy and, particularly, what we can and should do ourselves.
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France’s Democratic Malaise: Stop Blaming Citizens, Start Reforming Institutions
When eight in ten French citizens feel unrepresented, the problem lies not with democratic fatigue but with a political system that has forgotten how to listen.
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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Spain’s Nico Williams gave his mother, Maria, his World Cup winner’s medal after Sunday’s final ❤️💛 Nico's parents trekked some 2,000 miles across the Sahara from Ghana to Spain as refugees. Now, their son is a world champion 🥹
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.
A photo of the wildfires in canada. Fire rages through forest area with vright orange flame and dark gray smoke.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026
These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
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Keith Bolek @keithbolek.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
All in the family, at least in South Carolina.
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Archie Bunker Scoffs at Newspaper
ALT: Archie Bunker Scoffs at Newspaper
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Grace Panetta @gracepanetta.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
How Graham Platner's implosion demonstrates that leaning into masculinity doesn't equal electability — and highlights the double standards for which candidates are allowed to be flawed & get second chances: 19thnews.org/2026/07/grah...
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Democrats say they want a fighter. Does it have to be a White man?
Democrats went all in on masculinity as a winning strategy. It fell apart in Maine.
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Trump officials came to Ohio in June to highlight investigations of people suspected of cheating Medicaid out of tens of millions, but they didn't mention corporations accused of up-charging the state’s system by a quarter-billion dollars in a single year. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/10/f...
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Feds, Ohio Republicans focus on individual cases of Medicaid fraud, but what about corporations? • Ohio Capital Journal
The Trump administration and Ohio Republicans say they're fighting Medicaid fraud. But they never mentioned corporate contractors.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Put 3 kids thru college w/ a blue collar job. Worked dawn to dusk, building homes. Loved his wife of 30yrs & John Deere. Lived here longer than I've been alive It doesn't make a life more valuable. But so many immigrants detained, deported, dying bear the trappings of "real America" we mythologize
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NEW: CAP’s Accessible Democracy Tracker identifies barriers to accessible voting across U.S. states as well as opportunities to strengthen election accessibility for disabled Americans. Explore the tracker ⬇️ www.americanprogress.org/article/ac…
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Mapping Disabled Americans’ Access to Democracy
CAP’s Accessible Democracy Tracker identifies barriers to accessible voting across U.S. states as well as opportunities to strengthen election accessibility for disabled Americans.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/07/2026
Pretty fitting, though, to center on a Chinese food item that is an American invention based on a misunderstanding of China.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The Trump admin has been deporting huge numbers of kids who came into the country alone. Trump has been doing it at 3x the rate of his first admin. www.propublica.org/article/unac...
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This is the exploitative H2A guest worker program that Donald Trump and Members of Congress are seeking to expand further — undercutting every farm worker’s wages and displacing local jobs. 1/2
Screenshot of the Tri-City Herald article with the headline abuse of 1,200 farm workers nets Eastern Washington contractor six-figure fine
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 06/07/2026
A broadside assault on truth that must be taken seriously. This administration wants to replace independent scholarship and curation with propaganda and Prager U. drivel. The Kennedy Center was bad enough. This is worse.
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White House Criticizes Smithsonian Museum for ‘Extreme Political Activism’
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This passage from @davidlat.bsky.social perfectly captures the false dichotomy you see so often from the Supreme Court's defenders: The Court is held out as "independent" because it doesn't *always* rule for Trump. That whitewashes (1) how often it *does*; & (2) its bad behavior in non-Trump cases.
Screenshot from David Lat's "Original Jurisdiction" newsletter that reads:

Runner-up for Judge of the Week: Chief Justice Roberts. The end of a Term brings with it evaluations of the Supreme Court—and, of course, the Chief Justice as its leader. For critiques of the current conservative Court—and, implicitly, Chief Justice Roberts—see the views of Professors Kate Shaw and Steve Vladeck in this spirited debate in The Times (gift link).

I call it a “spirited debate” because of the vigorous pushback that Shaw and Vladeck received from Professor Will Baude (who clerked for the Chief). See also this post at Executive Functions by Professor Jack Goldsmith—no fan of the Trump administration—titled “The Powerful, Resilient, Independent Supreme Court.” Or if Goldsmith is too conservative a commentator for your tastes, check out this staff editorial by The Washington Post (gift link), “The Supreme Court’s not-so-MAGA majority.”
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