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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 4h
Shoutout to UW workers who are taking action for a fair contract! These workers just voted NO on UW’s last, best, and final offer for a new contract. 💪🏿💪🏽💪🏻
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ACLU @aclu.org · 22h
As ICE arrests increase and the number of people in detention has hit a record high again of over 70,000, immigrant communities can’t wait another second. Constituents can’t wait until Congress is back in session. Urge your representatives to stop this escalation at aclu.org/stop-ice_killings
"Since the second Trump presidency began, ICE has detained 610,000+ people. That’s more than the population of the cities of Atlanta, Baltimore, or Milwaukee. Source: The Marshall Project." ACLU logo. Photo of masked federal agents, some of them armed, standing outdoors.
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Michigan Advance @michiganadvance.com · 5h
Michigan Data Centers: The Weekly Download michiganadvance.com/2026/10/05/m... From @kdavidsonjrn.bsky.social
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Michigan Data Centers: The Weekly Download • Michigan Advance
News and updates on data centers in the Great Lakes State for the week of Sept. 28
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 5h
If you’ve been waiting to get involved in the midterms, now is the time! We’ve got lots of ways that you can make a difference from anywhere over these final four weeks: indivisible2026.org?utm_source=b...
(over an image of a map of the US that shows Indivisible’s nine Senate target states and 31 House target districts for the midterm elections) It’s time to win the midterms.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 7h
A new trade union has just been officially registered, the UK Hospitality Union It's a v under-represented part of the workplace re. unions: "Members include...baristas, hotel staff, restaurant staff, chefs, event caterers, bar staff, housekeeping." Be interesting to see how they fare
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UK Hospitality Union | trade union
At the UK Hospitality Trade Union, we are the united voice for workers across the UK's hospitality sector. Our mission is simple: to advocate for fair treatment, safe working conditions, and equitable...
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#tdih 1961 McComb, Miss., at great risk, 100+ HS students walked out to protest the expulsion of classmates for sit-in & murder of voting rights activist & farmer, Herbert Lee. Marched to City Hall. While the teens prayed, police beat & jailed them. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bu...
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Oct. 4, 1961: Burglund High School Walkout
Burglund students walked out in response to the expulsions of their classmates and the murder of Herbert Lee.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6h
Christa Pike’s lawyers had warned execution would be ‘difficult and perhaps cruel’ due to her veins
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Christa Pike’s lawyers had warned execution would be ‘difficult and perhaps cruel’ due to her veins
Ex-lawyer for woman Tennessee attempted to execute says defense filings said she was at risk for ‘exactly what happened’ A former lawyer for Christa Pike says he was not surprised that Tennessee botched its attempt to execute her because attorneys had warned that problems accessing her veins could make the procedure dangerous and potentially cruel. James Crowson, who represented Pike during part of her post-conviction appeals, said he had followed the case from afar before the failed execution at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville on 30 September. Continue reading...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 7h
Replenishing crude, fuel supplies could take two years, Saudi Aramco CEO says reut.rs/4jEYTFm
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Replenishing crude, fuel supplies could take two years, Saudi Aramco CEO says
The squeeze on supplies of crude ​oil and refined fuels is set ‌to worsen, and refilling global stockpiles tapped as an emergency measure might take two ​years, Saudi Aramco Chief Executive ​Amin Nasser told the Energy Intelligence ⁠conference in London on Monday.
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KQED News @kqednews.kqed.org · 7h
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Proposition 40: Imposes a One-Time Tax on Billionaires to Fund Healthcare and Education
Prop 40 would impose a one-time tax on the state's billionaires to backfill federal cuts to healthcare.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 8h
LIVE: Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology is announced www.youtube.com/live/_YCP5XR...
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LIVE: Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology is announced
YouTube video by Reuters
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Reuters @reuters.com · 7h
US appeals court weighs Trump's block on Harvard research funding reut.rs/4zfO0ys
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US appeals court weighs Trump's block on Harvard research funding
US President Donald Trump's administration will ask an appeals court ​on Monday to revive his effort to terminate more than $2 billion in grants awarded ‌to Harvard University, a centerpiece of his broad campaign against the nation's richest and oldest university.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 7h
US Supreme Court weighs bid by oil companies to avoid climate lawsuit reut.rs/4hLDrw0
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US Supreme Court weighs bid by oil companies to avoid climate lawsuit
The US Supreme Court is ​set on Monday to hear a bid by oil companies ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to thwart a ‌lawsuit by officials in Boulder, Colorado, seeking monetary damages for harms caused by climate change, as the justices open a new nine-month term.
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Michigan Advance @michiganadvance.com · 6h
Youth vote skews heavily to Democrats in Michigan, swing states, economic issues stay top concerns michiganadvance.com/2026/10/05/y... From @kdailey.bsky.social
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Youth vote skews heavily to Democrats in Michigan, swing states, economic issues stay top concerns • Michigan Advance
Democrats have a large advantage among young voters in Michigan across the different races coming to the ballot in November, according to a new poll from the Alliance for Youth Power PAC and YouGov re...
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NPR @npr.org · 6h
While scientists have a decent understanding of how sauna and other forms of heat exposure exercises our cardiovascular system, they know relatively little about its impact on mental health. n.pr/4rMTKwV
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From floating saunas to clinical trials: How heat might help mental health
While scientists have a decent understanding of how sauna and other forms of heat exposure exercises our cardiovascular system, they know relatively little about its impact on mental health.
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Kettering Foundation @kettering.org · 6h
We’re excited to announce the launch of "Speaking of Democracy," the @kettering.org's new home on Substack! Check it out and subscribe today. ketteringfoundation.substack.com
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Speaking of Democracy | Kettering Foundation | Substack
The Kettering Foundation's home for ideas, dialogue, and perspectives on democracy. Click to read Speaking of Democracy, by Kettering Foundation, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 04/10/2026
“We’re going to work together, we’re going to fight together and we’re to win together in November!” IUPAT President @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social joined the @dropkickmurphys.com on stage at the Power to the People Festival to talk about the power of our solidarity. America’s unions are in this fight ✊
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Politico @politico.com · 8h
It took four years, but a Capitol Hill office finally has a union contract politi.co/4ypIPMi
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It took four years, but a Capitol Hill office finally has a union contract politi.co/4ypIPMi
It took four years, but a Capitol Hill office finally has a union contract politi.co/4ypIPMi
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