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Hannah Pingree @hannahpingree.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Wished my longtime friend Troy Jackson a very happy birthday this morning in front of the entire Maine ALF CIO COPE convention. Proud of my 100% labor voting record and to stand with organized labor and Maine's working people. I'll fight for workers and their families from day one as governor.

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Wait... so staying quiet on climate and net zero WON'T lead to magical solutions?

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Sam Alvis @samalvis.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This is why it drives me insane when the climate sector say things like ‘we should stop using net zero’. If you don’t opponents to change will continue to dictate what net zero means. So important to talk about it ALONGSIDE climate impacts. It is our best and only solution

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Clinton Yates @clintonyates.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

For those of you who will see this man for the first time as DRC-Congo takes on Colombia in the World Cup, the history of the man he represents: Patrice Lumumba, is worth your time to learn. ➡️https://andscape.com/features/afcons-real-mvp-refuses-to-let-us-look-away-from-patrice-emery-lumumba/

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The People’s Music @thepeoplesmusic.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Today, #JimCroce’s music draws about 7 million monthly listeners on Spotify, more than many of the era’s biggest names. And yet Maury Muehleisen, the guitarist who helped shape his sound, remains largely unknown. This is his story. Read for free—link in bio. #musicsky #musiciansky

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Hey, everyone remember that the New York Knickerbockers are NBA CHAMPS? Just checking.

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I cried after game 7 in 1994 as a 12 year old… and I cried after game 5 at 5:30am in a German hotel (trying not to yelp and holler) as a (nearly) 44 year old. #KnicksForLife

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Everybody’s gonna see your Shawne Williams tat!

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

Statue of Liberty, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi & Gustave Eiffel, dedicated 1886, 📸’s by @natlyphoto, PannaPhoto

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

He had to wait to become a team exec to do it, but Patrick Ewing is finally an NBA champion.

Patrick Ewing and Jalen Brunson holding trophies together

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I fucking love birthright citizenship

Folarin Balogun
Main striker
20
Club
Monaco
Age 24
Rating Group
32 16 QF SF F
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Give the assist for this roster selection to the US commercial airline industry. Balogun was still in utero when his mother visited New York on vacation, but the return trip never happened as the airline refused to let her board the plane due to the size of her belly and how close she was to giving birth. As it happened, Balogun was born in Brooklyn and was off to London months later, where he fell in love with football and came up through the Arsenal academy. Now one of the most promising strikers in Europe, "Flo" is expected to lead the line for the USA, using his speed, tactical awareness, and deft finishing touch to give his birth country something to cheer about.

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

As always, the good folks at CAN International bring the heat with their ECO Newsletter. This time calling out the failure of the article 6.2 framework that straight up left out labor and working people.

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Good morning from Bonn, the climate negotiations yearly intercessional. This year we’ve got a serious focus in the trade-climate nexus… which is where I currently am… at the dialogue between the UNFCCC, WTO, UNCTAD and the member countries. Except for the US of course. 🙄

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The People’s Music @thepeoplesmusic.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This week in the People’s Music, I look back at the Voices of East Harlem, a teen choir that showed us the power of joy as a form of protest, New York style. Read the story for free. Link in bio. GO KNICKS #musicsky #voicesofeastharlem #knicks

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Playboy @playboy.com · 08/06/2026

"[Trump] represents everything that is wrong with a toxic male and I don’t know how people can be drawn to that," fourth-generation union member James A. Williams Jr. tells @kimkelly.bsky.social. "In general, you see a disenfranchisement." www.playboy.com/read/politic...

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We Need to Talk About the Blue-Collar American Man

Fourth-generation union member James A. Williams Jr. opens up about the worrying state of the working class.

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This reminds me of a tour of a cement plant and there was sincere excitement from the company that they had recently replaced burning coal dust to heat the kilns with... burning tires.

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The People’s Music @thepeoplesmusic.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I dove deep into the life and career of Paul Pena, a blind singer-songwriter and guitarist originally from Cape Cod whose two albums are extraordinary documents of timeless originality—full of emotional honesty and musical honesty—but who is still largely unknown. His story is tragic and uplifting.

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Echo in the Dark

A blind musician, a shelved masterpiece, and the sound that changed everything

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

For my fellow music obsessives, one of the best writers I know (Paul Barbagallo, who tends to avoid social media like the plague) just launched a killer newsletter: The People’s Music. I implore you to give it a read and subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/thepeopl...

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Echo in the Dark

A blind musician, a shelved masterpiece, and the sound that changed everything

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

An unabashed class focused campaign… that won against the odds. Huh.

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Welp! Gotta go get me some JNCOs… a few waist sizes larger than the last pair I owned.

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

What if… AI ate just the tech industry and the rest of us just kept on keeping on? Could we make that happen?

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 21/05/2026

America’s unions welcome today’s historic ruling from the International Court of Justice affirming that the right to strike is a fundamental human right protected under international law. We commend the @ituc.bsky.social for their efforts in achieving this result. bit.ly/4x0uwh9

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

How it started: Ronald Reagan rips the solar panels off the White House roof How it's going: The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is closed today as a fast-moving wildfire bears down on Simi Valley

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Folks... the Donald J. Trump EV Mandate ⬇️

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Lucero Marquez @lucerowx.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

People need immediate relief from rising electricity prices. @americanprogress.bsky.social has 3 policy proposals: 1. A rate relief fund, 2. A national AI data center fair share policy, and 3. A program to build a better, bigger power system Check it out: www.americanprogress.org/article/a-pl...

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A Plan for American Electricity Affordability

CAP’s plan is a combination of immediate relief and investment to lower electricity system costs and deliver more than $125 billion in residential consumer savings, or around $900 per household, over ...

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This is an excellent tweet.

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 30/04/2026

The "abundance agenda" aims to solve our supply crises, but often ignores a critical factor: worker power. In our new report, Kate Andrias & @awhf.bsky.social argue for "Democratic Abundance"—a vision where workers shape the future they’re building.🏗️💪

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Democratic Abundance: An Abundance That Works for Workers

Kate Andrias and Alexander Hertel-Fernandez explore how centering organized labor can transform the "abundance agenda" into a truly democratic movement that delivers housing, energy, and infrastructur...

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Start handing out the cards!

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Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Belated in celebrating the 95th birthday of the Davis-Bacon Act. It established wage standards that specific to crafts and to geographic areas for public works construction. Prevailing wages predate federal unemployment insurance, which were included within the Social Security Act of 1935.

UCR California Digital Newspaper Collection:
Organized Labor, Volume 32, Number 13, 28 March 1931
PREVAILING RATE OF WAGE LAW

...‘‘An Act relating to the rate of wages for laborers and mechanics employed on public buildings of the United States and the District of Columbia by contractors and subcontractors, and for other purposes. “Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That very contract in excess of $5,000 in amount, to which the United States or the District of Columbia is a party, which requires or involves the employment of laborers or mechanics in the construction, alteration, and, or repair of any public buildings of the United States or the District of Columbia within the geographical limits of the States of the Union or the District of Columbia, shall contain a provision to the effect that the rate of wage for all laborers and mechanics employed by the contractor or any subcontractor on the public buildings covered by the contract shall be not less than the prevailing rate of wages for work of a similar nature In the city, town, village, or other civil division of the State in which the public buildings are located, or in the District of Columbia if the public buildings are located there, and a further provision that in case any dispute arises as to what are the prevailing rates of wages for work of a similar nature applicable to the contract which can not be adjusted by the contracting officer, the matter shall be referred to the Secretary of Labor for determination and his decision thereon shall be conclusive on all parties to the contract: Provided, That in case of national emergency the President is authorized to suspend the provisions of this Act.
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“Approved March 3, 1931.” This Act becomes effective April 2, 1931.

URL: https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=OLSF19310328.2.14&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This… and maybe we go nuts and try to eventually just ban surveillance capitalism and all its tentacles?

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Explosive & really outrageous revelations in here about a billionaire's private surveillance network completely run amok. If we can't stop Dolan from spying on us at MSG, let's at least cancel his sweetheart tax break. (1/2)

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The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine

Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

To hesitate on this IS WHY SHE'S trailing by +20 in the primary. It's what many of us Mainers have been trying to explain...

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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 16/04/2026

NEW from @rooseveltinstitute.org: 🔥Major report from @betonyjones.bsky.social @joepeck.co.uk on how Biden pursued pro-labor clean energy policy. 🔥Me 👇on why this matters, and what a new World Bank about-face on industrial policy tells us about this era rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/what-th...

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What the Biden Admin’s Labor-Forward Clean Energy Strategy Tells Us About Inclusive Industrial Policies

As a surprising new World Bank report further mainstreams industrial policy, the debate over incorporating labor standards persists.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Apple is closing its first unionized store in the country. Reminder that Apple spent $700B+ on stock buybacks over the past decade. CEO Tim Cook raked in over $74M in compensation in 2025 — 650 times the median Apple employee's pay. The greed of union-busters knows no end.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/04/2026

"All this is sparking a stampede toward renewable energy and EVs around the world." prospect.org/2026/04/15/a...

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Out of the Chaos, a Green Future? - The American Prospect

How the war in Iran may lead to a boost in renewable energy.

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Happy Jackie Robinson Day! There's nothing more American than baseball -- but that's not stopping the Trump administration from trying to delete and censor stories about this American hero www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I once had AI write a Valentine’s Day sonnet for my wife, which I sent to her by saying, “I had AI write you a shitty Valentine’s Day poem cuz you think Valentine’s Day is stupid.” She thought jt was hilarious. That’s the extent of writing I’ll use it for.

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Postcard my wife’s grandma (who was an early childhood educator) sent in 1983!

Postcard that reads “Once upon a time, our daycare center had enough money for toys and teachers, and the Pentagon had to hold a bake sale.”

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

While Washington wages war on science, NASA just sent humans to the Moon's vicinity for the first time since 1972. Bravo #TeamNASA — proof that public science, when it's funded and trusted, still does extraordinary things.

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