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Lainna Fader

@lainna.bsky.social
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Politics, labor, art, graffiti, and dogs Work: newsletter strategy at Forbes

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Lainna Fader @lainna.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Musk and Trump “seem to be building a defining feature of many authoritarian regimes: comprehensive files on everyone so they can punish those who protest.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...
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Opinion | ‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State
DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
So just to recap, the Transportation Secretary is scared shitless of public transport. The Education Secretary is being sued for enabling child sex abuse. The Health Secretary is bringing back measles. And the Defense Secretary is texting classified war plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Something I learned from interviewing survivors of abuse and institutional betrayal is that by being willing to identify a problem, you are often treated as the problem. The institution will try to get rid of you instead of the problem. To me, this also speaks to the way the left is treated broadly
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Meanwhile, in the richest nation on Earth, with homelessness at a record high, the Trump administration is looking for ways not to expand but to *eliminate* housing assistance for those who need it most.
Headline from New York Times: "White House Eyes Overhaul of Federal Housing Aid to the Poor. The Trump administration has considered sharply curtailing vouchers as part of its budget for the 2026 fiscal year."
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The reason billionaires like McMahon are obsessed with student debt is that creating financial precarity makes people more stressed about losing their job. If you’re worried about your job you’re less likely to quit and find work elsewhere. You’re less likely to ask for a raise. It’s pure class war.
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Lainna Fader @lainna.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
MS-13 members are entitled to due process. School teachers are entitled to due process. Citizens are entitled to due process. Migrants are entitled to due process. Rodeo clowns, serial killers, senators, rapists, vet techs, students, and Scientologists are entitled to due process. This isn’t hard.
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Lainna Fader @lainna.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Highlights from an excellent column by @ericblanc.bsky.social: —Trump is pro-factory, not *pro-worker* —Factory jobs aren’t inherently good jobs and w/o a union can be very dangerous w/ low $ —Any job can be a good job with a union —Everyone needs a union!!!! www.laborpolitics.com/p/unions-not...
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Unions, Not Just Factories, Will Make America Great
Factory jobs only become good when workers unionize. And factories for all is a mirage.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 05/04/2025
Every newspaper should have the protests as their main image tomorrow. These protests are the manifestation of the First Amendment, of where the press resides. The press has to show its citizens what is happening. This is it. You either advocate for democracy thru your stories or you don’t.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 05/04/2025
The reason the IRS has no data-leaking API is not because they don't know how to schedule a "hackathon." Instead it's because the API: 1. Likely violates the Privacy Act of 1974 2. Is not within the IRS's mandate 3. Would be a huge target for attacks against the privacy of all Americans
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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Man it is really hard to be living in the USA right now and getting news about how South Korea deposed their president for staging a coup and then their Supreme Court just said yup, definitely the right thing to do there.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
A reminder of what Trump inherited from Biden.
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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 04/04/2025
There is a certain uniqueness to the millennial experience of this though, we grew up in times of relative peace where things were pretty stable and we were sold stories of how everything would continue to only get better and that hard work was plenty to give you a job that provided for you.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The IRS unit that audits ultrawealthy earners has lost 38% of its employees this year. This will starve the government of revenue by making it easier for the rich to evade taxes — which the top 1% already do to the tune of $163B a year. See what DOGE is really about?
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 03/04/2025
Jesus Christ can’t you people just let millennials express some entirely deserved outrage and anger over getting hit with yet another major financial crisis without parachuting in to finger wag at us about it
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Trump’s tariffs aren’t an economic policy—they’re a protection racket. He’s turning the US into a mafia state that shakes people down, plunders our tax dollars to enrich his billionaire oligarch friends, and punishes his political opponents.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
11/ The tariffs aren’t economic policy. They are political weapons. But as long as we see this clearly, we can stop him. Public mobilization is working. Today, a few Republicans joined Democrats to vote against one set of tariffs. The people still have the power.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
4/ British kings used taxation to reward loyalty and punish dissent. Our own revolution was spurred by the King’s use of heavy taxation of the colonies to punish our push for self governance. The King’s message was simple: stop protesting and I’ll stop taxing.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
3/ You see, our founders created a President with limited and checked powers. They specifically put the power of spending and taxation in the hands of the legislature. Why? Because they watched how kings and despots used spending and taxes to control their subjects.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 01/04/2025
So this logic means that I, a Jew who believes Palestinians should be free to live their lives like anyone else, am antisemitic. Nobody should be voting for this clown to be mayor NYC.
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Lainna Fader @lainna.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“This administration actively, proudly rejects expertise. It casts those who have it as corrupt, the real enemy, the ‘deep state,’ and it touts its own refusal to heed them as proof of its legitimacy and righteousness…Blunders like this are an inevitable consequence” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/o...
NY Times: “The people at the center of Signalgate — the national security adviser, Michael Waltz; the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth; the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard; to name a few — all know this. They all served in the military. They no doubt heard innumerable lectures from counterintelligence experts about all the different ways an adversary can make off with sensitive data. But this is an administration that actively, proudly rejects expertise. It casts those who have it as the corrupt old guard, the real enemy, the “deep state,” and it touts its own refusal to heed them as proof of its legitimacy and righteousness. By that view, the security establishment must be bent to the White House’s will, and if the people at the top don’t have the traditional qualifications for their positions, all the better. This is an administration that makes a weekend Fox News host the leader of the world’s largest military, puts a conspiracy-minded podcaster in charge of the F.B.I., and has at its pinnacle a reality star turned president. Blunders like this are an inevitable consequence.”
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Lainna Fader @lainna.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“If you’re running the security directorate of a hostile nation, savor this moment. It’s never been easier to steal secrets from the US. Can you even call it stealing when it’s this simple? Trump has unlocked the vault, fired half the security guards. Walk right in.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/o...
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Opinion | Foreign Spies to Team Trump: 👊🇺🇸🔥
It’s never been easier to steal secrets from the United States government.
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Liz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Today we honor César Chávez, the legendary union organizer, who taught us that the power of working people comes from standing together. His legacy lives on in every worker organizing for dignity, justice, and a better future.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 31/03/2025
There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am. We are. We will.
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 31/03/2025
Every year on Trans Day of Visibility I post something like "visibility without protection is a trap" and that's been made so clear recently. Legacy Dems who celebrated pride month and TDOV, have been so quick to turn to "well actually maybe we should sacrifice trans folks to the political altar."
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Lainna Fader @lainna.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This is so smart. Well done, @propublica.org www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/prop...
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ProPublica wanted to find more sources in the federal government. So it brought a truck.
“It's funny how you can know nothing about something like LED billboard trucks and then suddenly become an expert in them."
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
If Musk doesn't end his evening in a squad car, Wisconsin is just announcing that sufficiently wealthy & connected people get to publicly announce they're committing crimes, and the state will be too afraid to do anything about it. Criminal law is for the poor.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Just a reminder that Elon Musk is overseeing broad implementation of AI across government systems and that you’re reading this right now on one of the few social networks left not run by a US defense contractor or a company voluntarily providing data to an intelligence service.
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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I am so fucking sick of powerful people using every tool to “fight antisemitism” except the ones that actually work.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Now I may just be a poor country lawyer, but where I come from, "collateral arrest" means "false imprisonment."
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 24/03/2025
the law clinic repping this student, CLEAR, is based out of CUNY.....once again the public city university absolutely flounces the ivy league when it comes to having a backbone and standing on actual principles
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Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation
Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Remember when Kennedy promised to study long COVID during his Senate confirmation hearing? I do. This is despicable and a betrayal of millions of Americans suffering long COVID—especially as we do nothing to prevent infection.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
leading authority weighs in on area of expertise
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid
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Zack Tanner @zacktanner.com · 24/03/2025
Members of the @pghguild.com have stood and fought against the Post-Gazette's illegal union busting since October 2022, and today we have been given the victory that we've held the picket line waiting for.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Ordered to Restore Healthcare to Newsroom Workers in 2-Year Strike
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals enjoined the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Monday, requiring the company to—among other orders—restore the health care it illegally took away from editorial workers.
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Lainna Fader @lainna.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
“Lawsuits and investigations have lent credence to the idea that one of the most prolific and notorious rapists in American history operated unchecked because of police corruption.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away
When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Why were the police refusing to investigate Sean Williams?
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
if judges no longer have confidence that their orders will be enforced, there is no rule of law anymore
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Here's an expert saying that "constitutional crisis" isn't the right term **because it doesn't go far enough.** "The president is asserting dictatorial power and ‘constitutional crisis’ doesn’t capture the gravity of the situation.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
"the president is asserting dictatorial power and ‘constitutional crisis’ doesn’t capture the gravity of the situation.”
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
“Linked to pro-Palestinian views” is apparently now grounds for arrest and due-process-free deportation.
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