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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Students for a Democratic Cornell: Billionaire trustees with stakes in weapons manufacturers, Big Oil, and pharmaceutical companies are doing everything they can to crush student movements.
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social on justice at Cornell: we have an institution that issues a suspension on track for deportation for someone engaging in free speech and protest on campus, but made rapists write an essay in private.
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social on organizing in rural communities to block data centers: "Once somebody starts to see you show up for them, then they will open up their ear to you on any number of other issues."
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: We must abolish ICE. "These black box detention centers are for-profit institutions... that's why they're going after every man, woman and child that is engaging in productive activity... because the CEOs of GEO Group & CoreCivic have profits to post."
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: “The culture of rape, sexual assault, and pedophilia is protected in elite institutions across the United States and including Cornell University”
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social calls out Cornell University and shares her message to sexual assault survivors: “The fact that Jane Doe, that survivor, lost her education… and those men were protected by an institution and granted an Ivy League Education — never again.”
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: “To me the idea that Flock cameras even exist is unconscionable. And I want to congratulate Ithaca on kicking Flock cameras out of your city.”
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social explains why it’s important to organize in person, not just online. “We are on the billionaires’ algorithms… but there are more of us than there are of them.”
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dodgytrish.bsky.social @dodgytrish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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More Perfect University on Instagram: "AOC spoke to Cornell students and the Ithaca community at an event with More Perfect University. She called out Cornell University, and shared her message to sex...
4,196 likes, 94 comments - moreperfectuniversity on September 27, 2026: "AOC spoke to Cornell students and the Ithaca community at an event with More Perfect University. She called out Cornell Univers...
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Students, get involved with More Perfect University on Discord: discord.com/invite/QUpAy....
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Join the More Perfect University Discord Server!
Check out the More Perfect University community on Discord - hang out with 3036 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
NOW: @aoc.bsky.social is speaking with Cornell and Ithaca College students at our fourth Students vs Billionaires town hall, answering questions about the issues impacting them: from skyrocketing rent and tuition to the erosion of free speech.
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LIVE Students vs Billionaires Town Hall ft. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Cornell & Ithaca College
YouTube video by More Perfect University
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Right now More Perfect University (@mpuniversity.bsky.social) is LIVE with AOC. www.youtube.com/live/vHZo1Sf...
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LIVE Students vs Billionaires Town Hall ft. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Cornell & Ithaca College
YouTube video by More Perfect University
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
HUGE: Autozone workers just won the first ever union at the company. Despite Autozone spending an estimated $210,696 and using every tactic in the book to stop just 11 workers from forming a union, the small shop in New York chose to unionize today. These workers will now join the @uaw.org.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: The state of New York is suing Polymarket, claiming the company operates an illegal gambling platform in violation of state gambling laws.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: Despite a federal judge ordering the Trump administration to immediately restore CNN, MS NOW, and Politico’s access to the White House, a Politico reporter was barred from entering the White House this morning and had his credentials seized. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access
The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“I think one of the most important things you can do is prove that it is doable.” @abdulelsayed.bsky.social on garnering voters’ trust that change is possible without taking corporate donor money.
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"I feel like we need a shit lettuce accountability act" @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Answering a student's question on the failures of our FDA
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
HAPPENING NOW: University of Michigan students speak with @abdulelsayed.bsky.social at our third Students vs Billionaires town hall. Students across Michigan are demanding solutions to the cost of living crisis impacting every one of us.
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LIVE University of Michigan Students vs Billionaires Town Hall ft. Abdul El-Sayed
YouTube video by More Perfect University
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
BREAKING: The White House is preparing a plan for a 90-day diesel exports ban, per Politico. Experts, and Trump Energy Secretary Chris Wright, warn this move wouldn't bring down prices, and could make things worse.
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our Students vs. Billionaires Town Hall featuring @aoc.bsky.social is THIS Sunday 9/27 at 5PM! Cornell and Ithaca College students will have the opportunity to ask Rep. Ocasio-Cortez questions about the issues that matter most to them. See you soon, Ithaca! actionnetwork.org/forms/mpuniv...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nearly 190,000 home health workers in New York could unionize in one of the biggest U.S. labor drives in decades. SEIU Local 1199 says they've gotten almost 70,000 signatures, enough to trigger a union vote, and now the union has petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to hold an election.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New Jersey has fined a huge data center in New Jersey over $1 million for installing and operating 62 large gas powered generators without state permits. This comes as other data centers, like Elon Musk's facilities in Memphis, pollute communities with unpermitted turbines and face no consequences.
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NJ fines data center $1 million for illegally powering facility with gas generators
Gov. Mikie Sherill said it was the largest fine handed out to a data center in state history.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Seattle just became the first city to pass a ban on surveillance pricing by grocery stores. The City Council passed a proposal stopping large grocery stores and online grocery retailers from using race, gender, browsing history, employment, or AI software to change prices from consumer to consumer.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
BREAKING: JD Vance and Trump administration officials will announce today that they are removing hundreds of thousands of people from Affordable Care Act coverage, claiming these people were fraudulently enrolled as they kick them off of their healthcare. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump officials plan to cut hundreds of thousands from ACA, claiming fraud
Vance targeted ACA enrollment as part of a broader administration crackdown on suspected fraud.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Xbox plans to lay off hundreds of employees this week. It will be there second major job reduction of the year, after Xbox eliminated 1,600 roles in July. Microsoft, which owns Xbox, Bethesda, Activision, and Blizzard, made over $100 billion in profit last year.
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Exclusive: Xbox to Cut Hundreds of Jobs, Consolidate Game Studios
Xbox is planning to lay off hundreds of employees this week in its second major staff reduction this year, according to someone briefed on the plans. The Microsoft-owned firm also plans to consolidate...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
BREAKING: Kalshi is asking the CFTC to allow margin trading on its platform, which would let users gamble with borrowed funds. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/22/k...
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Kalshi asks CFTC to allow margin trading on its platform, letting users buy with borrowed funds
It's the latest move by the company as it and other event contract exchanges seek to gain greater participation by institutional traders.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Paramount has reached a settlement with California and other states suing to block its acquisition of Warner Bros, per Bloomberg. The settlement comes after California AG Rob Bonta caved and stopped trying to block the merger. The final four holdout states have now conceded as well.
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Paramount to Settle Lawsuits, Paving Way for Warner Bros. Merger
Paramount Skydance Corp. has reached a settlement with California and other states suing to block its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., according to a person familiar with the matte...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Spending on data centers and other AI hardware now exceeds housing investment in the United States. According to the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis, private housing investment was $748 billion in the second quarter, while spending onAI equipment and data centers rose to $752 billion.
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U.S. economy hits pivotal milestone: Spending on data centers and other information-processing hardware now exceeds housing investment | Fortune
"We’re seeing a pivotal shift in the US economy: investment is shifting away from residential investment and towards computers."
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Larry and David Ellison are trying to take over CNN, which Trump has just banned from the White House. While the major TV networks have banded together in solidarity with the banned outlets, the billionaire family that owns CBS and is seeking to buy CNN hasn't issued a statement.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Nobody wants this. Polling shows that Americans want to protect public lands, and certainly don't want data centers built on them.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We're looking to talk to: 1) Home buyers who feel that they overpaid for their mortgage or other closing costs because they were steered to a particular company and not shown other options. ...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Home heating oil customers can expect to pay as much as 31% more this winter if prices stay at their current levels, and people could wind up paying more if prices keep rising.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Universal Pictures, owned by Comcast, appears to be moving toward canceling the upcoming international release of the Musk documentary, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The documentary’s director, Alex Gibney, recently told the AP that the Musk doc left those who know Elon terrified. /1
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Unionized CVS pharmacists in California, Arizona, and Rhode Island have authorized a strike. Members of the Pharmacy Guild/IAM voted yes by huge margins: 100% in Arizona, 96.7% in favor in California, and 90.3% in favor in Rhode Island. capitalandmain.com/understaffed...
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Understaffed and Underpaid: Why CVS Pharmacists in Three States Authorized a Strike
The pressure on pharmacy staff to work quickly leads to high turnover and threatens patient safety, workers say.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Chipotle is now working with Palantir. The chain is working with the company founded by Peter Theil and Alex Karp to track employee illnesses, Health Department scores, food safety issues and more. It’s not clear how long the partnership has been going on or how widespread it is.
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Texts Reveal Kash Patel Ordering Staff to Fight “Ifindretards” Account
The FBI director is hounding his staff to hunt down mean social media posts.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: The House of Representatives has voted to hold billionaire and former Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black in contempt of Congress for refusing  to comply with subpoenas issued by a committee investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
HUGE: Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to push private equity out of healthcare. The Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act would make it illegal for private equity, insurance companies, and for-profit corporations to own or control medical practices.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
After today the U.S. House of Representatives is off until after the midterm elections. That's a month and a half paid vacation.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Iran War has now cost the average U.S. household around $1,760, according to an analysis from Moody’s.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A 'tidal wave' of forever chemicals are being pumped out to satisfy the AI industry, according to The Guardian. Nearly all of the 10 biggest manufacturers of Pfas are planning to increase production for use in semi-conductors and data center cooling systems.
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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"we won't back down" - @abdulelsayed on corporations trying to strip gen-z of our rights
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We're launching Rate Your Landlord (Rate Your Professor but for Landlords). Not seen: everyone in the room raising their hand to wanting to submit reviews for their landlords.
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"I think we need tenant unions." - @abdulelsayed.bsky.social
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Hi, I'm Lucas. I come from the U P, so my main concern is that, kinda got washed away in the early stages of the trump administration; a lot of rural hospitals got closed down, and I want to know kind of how you plan to address that, and what that problem means to you?"
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Do you have anything you can do on a state level to protect kids and people like myself with chronic illnesses?" - senior at MSU with cystic fibrosis
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
HAPPENING NOW: @mpuniversity.bsky.social US hosts its first Students vs Billionaires town hall at Michigan State University with @abdulelsayed.bsky.social d. Students are demanding solutions to America’s cost-of-living crisis. 🔗 youtube.com/live/pIvrr4M...
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LIVE Students vs Billionaires Town Hall at Michigan State University Ft. Abdul El-Sayed
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump is getting richer as oil and gas prices go up — his total oil and gas investments are up $15.5 million this year for a total value of $61.1 million. Trump owned as much as $45.6 million in oil and gas company stocks in 2025, and now that's surged even higher as a result of his war on Iran.
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Opinion | As gas prices spike from the Iran war, Trump is making a killing from Big Oil
House Democrats are spotlighting financial disclosures that show Trump’s brokers made large investments in the oil and gas industry.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Health insurance giant Humana is ending Medicare Advantage plans for approximately 600,000 people, forcing hundreds of thousands of seniors into a difficult and uncertain position. The insurer says the move is part of a broader effort to improve profitability. www.newsweek.com/hundreds-of-...
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Hundreds of Thousands of Medicare Members Face Major Insurance Change
The insurer said the move is part of a broader effort to improve profitability by exiting lower-performing plans.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Breaking: businesses don’t want you to have a shorter work week.
Fox: bernie sanders' 32-hour workweek plan could make like 'more unaffordable' club for growth president warns
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