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Mike Elk

@mikeelk.bsky.social
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Emmy-nominated labor reporter @PaydayReport often in 🇧🇷. Alum: @Guardian! Yinzer @UEunion fam. Autistic ⚾️ 🇮🇹Jew. Falo Português e Pittsburghese. Melk@PaydayReport.com

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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 3h
Crowd gathering for Lula March
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 3h
Getting warmed up for the March
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 4h
This is how we fund real journalism these days. Throw Mike some money if you can.
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 3h
What on earth is going on with American foreign policy. Like even without considering Brazilians, there’s a ton of Americans in Brazil who need consular support
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 3h
Lula march getting go in Rio!
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 4h
Depois o Trump fechou o embaixada, eu tava sentido inseguro depois, eu entrei um táxi com Nossa Senhora Aparecida. O Nossa Senhor Aparecida vai proteger esse Judeu Americano kkkk
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 4h
$100 donation from reader from Detroit to cover Trump’s attempt to steal the Brazilian election!
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 4h
Trump has closed the US Embassy in Brasil & all its consulate while issuing a security warning for US citizens in Brasil. This is a political stunt. We are seeing no uptick in violence, but Trump claiming Brasil is unsafe will generate negative press for Lula ahead of Sunday’s election!
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EUA fecham todos seus consulados no Brasil por ‘questão de segurança’ - ICL Notícias
No comunicado, o governo norte-americano afirma que “os serviços consulares na Embaixada e nos Consulados dos EUA no Brasil serão suspensos a partir de
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/09/2026
It should be illegal to buy a company with debt and then sell it off to a foreign owner, but that fight was lost long ago. Anyway, now the Saudis own a truly distressing portion of American entertainment, from Hollywood to Video Games to Sports. This is not neutral behavior. Anyway.
arstechnica.com
FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar
FCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h
New: Jasmine Crockett was offering government relations & lobbying services on a campaign-funded website. It was taken down after Zeteo reached out. Experts say they’d never seen something like this before. Rules bar members from lobbying and from using campaign funds for non-campaign purposes.
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Jasmine Crockett Offered Lobbying Services on Her Campaign-Funded Website – While in Office
The offering was removed after Zeteo contacted the Texas Democratic congresswoman’s office.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 01/10/2026
‘Just hours after Paramount Skydance issued $52B of debt to fund the biggest Hollywood buyout ever, investors were nursing hundreds of millions in losses, triggering a flurry of angry calls from money managers to Wall Street banks that underwrote the debt.’ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Angry Bondholders Flood Wall Street With Complaints on Paramount Losses
Just hours after Paramount Skydance Corp. issued $52 billion of debt to fund the biggest Hollywood buyout ever, investors were nursing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, triggering a flurry of...
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 13h
$100 donation from a reader from Indiana
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 19h
Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.
bloodinthemachine.com
California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US
Finally, some good news
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Carapanã @carapanarana.bsky.social · 14h
A Globo resolve montar um picadeiro pra bater no Lula. O Lula decide não ir. Aí começam a destruir as próprias regras e convidar somente os candidatos que FLAVIO BOLSONARO aceita. Torcem as próprias regras, trocam os pés pelas mãos e agora tão chorando dizendo que a culpa é do judiciário.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 17h
Imagine finding out that The Doobie Brothers are your uncles
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 16h
Fascists of the Missão Party protest down the street from Payday’s temporary HQ, outside of the headquarters of TV Globo! They denounced both Bolsonaro & Lula for not being fascist enough!
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 16h
Brazilian fascists march denouncing both Bolsonaro & Lula
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 16h
Brazilian right wingers of the Missão party protest outside of TV Globo (down the street from Payday’s HQ)
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 17h
Lula has banned online gambling in Brasil as he seeks re-election this month. Now, he is battling Brasil's soccer clubs, who claim that the ban, could destroy Brasil's pastime. paydayreport.com/lula-bans-on...
paydayreport.com
Lula Bans Online Gambling & Battles Brasil’s Soccer Clubs
Lula is battling Brasil's famous soceer clubs in his call to outlaw gambling.
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 18h
Big thanks to a reader from NYC who donated $100.
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 18h
$50 donation from a reader in Pittsburgh. This is how we fund the story of Trump trying to steal the Brazilian election.
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 20h
$192 donation from a reader from New Jersey - big thanks!
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 20h
Covering elections is exhausting: 1.) there is always something happening 2.) people are anxious about election 3.) the demand & incentives to work 24/7 on election coverage are real! Election coverage is exhausting so help us focus on it and not fundraising! Help cover Brazilian election
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 22h
I remember watching Schindler’s List when it aired on NBC in 1997. It was a communal cultural event that we discussed in school and elsewhere. - i miss those days when we had communal cultural discussions like that around Schindler’s List NBC Broadcast
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 22h
Pittsburgh to host the first ever Palestinian Oktoberfest this weekend!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/10/2026
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) said he was halting all scheduled executions for the rest of 2026 and ordering a “comprehensive, third-party review to determine exactly what occurred.” Read more about Christa Pike’s failed execution here: wapo.st/4rCorF8
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Greece has proposed a system to suspend the right of asylum in cases of a mass influx of irregular migrants. Poland, Germany, Austria and Denmark are supportive. But the measure could result in collective pushbacks.
euronews.com
Greece pitches suspending EU right to asylum during migration crises
A special regime would be activated in case of a rapid increase in arrivals and migrants flows used as a hybrid threat by third countries. Several EU governments seem open to the proposal, which could...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25/09/2026
Trump used taxpayer funds for this ad campaign about himself, calling it a “public service announcement.” trib.al/lc37y62
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You Just Paid for This Deranged “Love Me” Ad by Trump
Trump used taxpayer funds for this ad campaign about himself, calling it a “public service announcement.”
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
GERMANY: Angry VW union to ratchet up dispute after labour deals cut short malaysia.news.yahoo.com/angry-vw-uni...
malaysia.news.yahoo.com
Angry VW union to ratchet up dispute after labour deals cut short
HANOVER, Germany, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Volkswagen terminated several wage deals with IG Metall on Wednesday, raising the possibility of strikes at the start of next year as Germany's top industrial ‌un...
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Shout out to the heroes in Maine who do NOT sit quietly when the man who is taking away their rights walks into a brewery. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
nytimes.com
John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him.
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 01/10/2026
#OtD 1 Oct 1946 police in Daegu attacked Koreans demonstrating against US and Japanese domination following World War II, killing 3 and injuring many. Protesters responded with a mass counter-attack, killing 38 officers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8151...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Farmworkers are 35 times more likely to die from heat‑related illnesses than workers in other industries ... [Farm labor contractors] such as Florida Orange Gold operate with impunity because they are allowed to—by lawmakers, landowners, state and federal agencies, and local officials."
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Prism @prismreports.org · 29/09/2026
A farmworker died. Another became disabled by a heat stroke. Their employer, Florida Orange Gold, keeps sending hundreds of migrant farmworkers out to the blistering North Carolina fields, @tinavasquez.bsky.social reports in an investigation with @us.theguardian.com & @enlacelatinonc.bsky.social.
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Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields
Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 01/10/2026
#OtD 1 Oct 1937 print worker and anarcho-syndicalist Anna Götze was arrested for the second time by Nazi authorities for her anti-fascist activities. She was sent to a concentration camp with her daughter but they escaped stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8150...
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Even posting this now, I hesitated as I feared affect it would have on me getting a small grant that I’m pursuing now
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’d been really fucked up by the reporting process the Washington Post put us through before they cut my allegation out of their piece, so I was extremely apprehensive about speaking for this. Ultimately, I’m very glad I did. But it was awful. www.cjr.org/feature/wesl...
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Journalists attest to experiences of sexual misconduct with Wesley Lowery.
Lowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker. Women in the industry say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault.
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As we discuss the Cornell Seven, it’s important that we discuss the costs some pay for exposing sexual assault. Covering sexual assault in the labor movement SEVERELY hurt my career especially when I exposed a coverup in my own union the NewsGuild paydayreport.com/cesar-chavez...
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Cesar Chavez & How Reporting on Sexual Misconduct in Unions Hurt My Career
I faced smear campaigns for exposing abusive labor leaders & it hurt my career.
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Thais Pereira @thaispereira.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Emendas do senador Flávio Bolsonaro foram usadas para pagar empresas investigadas pela PF por suspeita de cartel, uma ONG considerada "inexistente" pela Receita Federal e investigada pelo TCE-RJ, além de um instituto indicado por um miliciano noticias.uol.com.br/politica/ult...
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Matthew D. Taylor @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In his "State of the Force" speech today, Pete Hegseth managed to wedge in 2 notable Christian nationalist phrases: "appeal to heaven" & "putting on the full armor of God." Both of these represent a very dangerous & anti-democratic conflation of military service & religion. 1/
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
1,000 Pittsburgh electrical workers walk off the job!
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Nearly 1,000 Duquesne Light Company union workers walk off the job
Nearly 1,000 union employees at Duquesne Light Company walked off the job Wednesday night.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
👀 ”The lone woman on Tennessee’s death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.”
nbcnews.com
Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer says
Christa Pike, 50, was 18 when she murdered a classmate. She would be the first woman the state has executed in more than 200 years.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour.
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Deporter-in-Chief is working so hard that needs a stress ball
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Reuters @reuters.com · 30/09/2026
US prison agency must reinstate union bargaining contract, US judge rules reut.rs/47tLfO2
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US prison agency must reinstate union bargaining contract, US judge rules
A federal judge in Connecticut has ordered the US Federal Bureau of Prisons to reinstate a union contract ​covering 30,000 correctional officers and other federal prison employees, the ‌latest blow to efforts by President Donald Trump's administration to strip government workers of collective bargaining rights.
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fetterman blocks release on report on illegal settlements in the West Bank
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can we please have a conversation about people talking loudly on their celllphone speaker phones?!?! There needs to be jail penalties for this shit!
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
By no means am I defending anti-semitic losers who talk about "ZOG," but the overall ADL project - getting special no-boycott rules for Israel that no other country has an America - has clearly backfired. It's an incredibly useful story for bigots!
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“When Meta files its taxes, it… claims that its AI data centers are a giant experiment that could fail… It does this so it can tap into a tax credit intended for research and experimentation… [to enable Meta] to claim billions of dollars in tax credits for data center expansion.”
nytimes.com
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 30/09/2026
Spain’s coalition government agree to proposals including banning evictions until 2030 to address the country’s housing crisis, as the 87-year-old woman whose forced removal last week triggered protests accepts an offer to return home.
nbcnews.to
Spain proposes ban on evictions as ousted 87-year-old accepts offer to return home
Hundreds of people remained camped in one of Madrid’s main squares Tuesday to protest Maricarmen Abascal’s removal from her home on a stretcher last Wednesday.
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