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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito

@paugonzalez510.bsky.social
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CEO of @rise-economy.bsky.social, Peralta Community College Trustee, Purépecha, Xicane. Fighting for liberation, taking on Wall Street. Sued Trump twice on banking deregulation and won.

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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The courage of Dolores Huerta, Ana, and Debra to come forward and tell their story about the sexual violence they experienced at the hands of Cesar Chavez, has me reflecting on my own experience in the UFW and the sexual abuse I experienced there. I tell my story to help our movements be better.
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Nikhil Shah @grandmastershah.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
All you have to do is listen to 90s rap and rock out of LA to know this 😆 "Angelenos have been organizing against government attempts to criminalize undocumented workers since the 1990s, and against US government racism towards Mexican Americans for at least a century."
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Los Angeles, city of protest: why it’s no surprise LA rose up against Trump
For decades, LA has been at the center of the civil rights and immigrants’ rights movements – and Trump’s raids appear to be mobilizing a new generation
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Rise Economy @rise-economy.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
We call for the immediate release of labor leader David Huerta and an end to ICE Raids and the militarization of our communities. Join in solidarity on Monday @ 11:00 AM @ Grand Park in Downtown LA (200 N Grand Ave) #FreeDavidHuerta #FreeThemAll
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I love you LA. You will always be my home and I stand with you as you stand for the dignity of all human beings on god’s green earth. We wont go quietly.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
It means he’s a Republican.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/05/2025
Nine months after Luke Seaborn starred in a video testimonial for Georgia Pathways to Coverage, the state’s Medicaid experiment, his opinion of the program has plummeted: “I used to think of Pathways as a blessing,” he says. Now he’s not so sure.
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He Became the Face of Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement. Now He’s Fed Up With It.
A 54-year-old mechanic called Pathways to Coverage a “great program” at the governor’s press conference. But after getting kicked off the health insurance program for low-income Georgians twice,…
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
All of the above? www.thedailybeast.com/is-trump-out...
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Is Trump Out-of-Touch, Senile, Nuts or Something Worse?
It takes a degree of insanity to think sharing a picture of yourself as Pope or as Luke Skywalker is somehow helping raise your plummeting poll numbers.
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Rise Economy @rise-economy.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
“We’ve worked a long time to get immigrants to participate in the economy, to pay their taxes so they can someday naturalize. And now that’s being used as a weapon to disenfranchise them completely.” - @paugonzalez510.bsky.social 📰 Read more via @kqednews.kqed.org www.kqed.org/news/1203578...
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Bay Area Advocates Slam Social Security Number Cancellations for Thousands of Immigrants | KQED
Bay Area economic justice advocates worry that the Trump administration's decision to cancel the social security numbers of 6,300 immigrants, and possibly more, will drive more people into the financi...
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Trump’s Operation is Over is equivalent to Bush’s Mission Accomplished.
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Enough said.
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Musk couldn’t buy Wisconsin!
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A Maryland man with protected legal status was sent to the notorious prison in El Salvador following an "administrative error," a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official admitted in a sworn declaration on Monday. abcnews.go.com/Politics/ice...
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ICE admits to an 'administrative error' after Maryland man sent to El Salvador prison
A Maryland man with protected legal status was sent to the notorious prison in El Salvador following an "administrative error," according to an ICE declaration Monday.
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Rise Economy @rise-economy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
“We have looked into the future and the future is ours. History and inevitability are on our side.” - Cesar Chavez, Commonwealth Club Address, 1984 We honor Cesar Chavez’s legacy of unrelenting organizing and advocacy for farm workers in California and workers all over the world. #CesarChavezDay
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
We need sanctuary churches and temples to protect students from being disappeared.
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
With dem party approval ratings hitting an all time low and Trump’s popularity in the toilet, it’s time for a new populist working people’s party to emerge. The people are asking for it.
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Nikhil Shah @grandmastershah.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
"The dozens of public employees whose information was collected in “dossiers” on the DEI watchlist site are overwhelmingly people of color. Of 44 profiles listed under agencies at the time of reporting, 29 were people of color, and 20 were women of color alone. Just five were white men."
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Revealed: how a shadowy group of far-right donors is funding federal employee watchlists
Project 2025 architects are among those behind the American Accountability Foundation and their blacklists targeting people of color
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
There is no way for Mexico or Canada to avoid tariffs. The only policy reason for the tariffs is to pay for trump’s tax cuts to the rich. He doesn’t care if Americans ultimately have to pay for them.
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Rise Economy @rise-economy.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
📣 “This action represents a direct assault on the fundamental American principles of equity and opportunity.” - Rise Economy CEO @paugonzalez510.bsky.social 🔗 rise-economy.org/rise-economy...
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Rise Economy Issues Statement on the Trump Administration’s Federal Funding Freeze | Rise Economy
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
… they are actually the most lawless, brazen, unconstitutional actions that this administration has yet taken, and if sanctioned by a conservative Supreme Court, they would amount to a full disbanding of our system of government. prospect.org/politics/202...
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Trump’s Most Lawless Action Yet
Pausing funds appropriated by Congress is a deliberate taunt to draw a legal challenge that the White House’s most radical architects think will give them unilateral spending power.
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The dismantling of government and civil society. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
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Trump administration orders federal funding freeze on all public loans, grants and more aid
The freeze could have wide-ranging implications, with the White House noting that $3 trillion was spent in 2024 on federal assistance programs.
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
“Whether this novel H5N9 virus will cause human infections from its avian host and become a pandemic subtype is not known yet,” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
First outbreak of rare bird flu strain reported at California poultry farm
Discovery of H5N9 came alongside detection of the more common H5N1 on the farm, leading to 119,000 birds’ deaths
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Renato Souza @reporterenato.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
URGENTE: Presidente da Colômbia, Gustavo Petro, anuncia taxação de 25% sobre todos os produtos importados dos Estados Unidos. Petro também determinou a expansão das exportações para o resto do mundo, "exceto para os EUA".
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Stand strong Gustavo Petro. Colombia!
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Ethnic cleansing. So on brand.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/01/2025
It is *very* important to understand that Jews were never the only target of the 1930s Nazis and they are not the only targets of today’s Nazis. A Nazi salute is not only antisemitic. It is also racist, ableist, and queerphobic.
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Disgusting www.cnn.com/2025/01/19/b...
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Get ready for the world’s first trillionaires | CNN Business
Move over billionaires. The first trillionaires are on their way.
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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BREAKING: Leonard Peltier to Leave Prison After 50 Years as Biden Grants Commutation
President Biden commutes Leonard Peltier's life sentence to home confinement after 50 years in prison, responding to longtime advocacy from tribal nations and supporters.
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The fact that on an emergency landlords are allowed to raise rents by 10% is crazy. This means people will not only be displaced by fires in LA but by rent increases too.
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Sacrifice the poor, seniors and disabled at the altar of thr rich www.commondreams.org/news/house-r...
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'Republicans Are Gearing Up for Class War,' Democrat Warns as GOP Pursues Huge Medicaid Cuts | Common Dreams
"It won't be any consolation to struggling Americans that their hardship allows some rich buddy of Donald Trump's to buy a bigger yacht," said Sen. Ron Wyden.
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Immediate rent increase moratorium and ban on evictions is essential in this time of the LA fires.
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
“Some politicians say that we are thieves, we are criminals, that we poison the blood of this country,” said Manuel Vicente, the director of Radio Jornalera, the audiovisual arm of NDLON. “We respond to those attacks with love.” www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
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As fires rage, day laborers volunteer to clean up Pasadena streets
The Pasadena Community Job Center is a gathering spot for day laborers. As fires burned across the region, workers and staff launched a fire relief brigade.
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Rise Economy @rise-economy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
"So long as the #fossilfuelindustry remains largely unregulated, and so long as big banks and insurance companies continue to finance and underwrite oil and gas companies, we will be vulnerable to these #climatechange -related disasters."- @paugonzalez510.bsky.social rise-economy.org/rise-economy...
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Rise Economy Issues Statement on Los Angeles County Wildfires | Rise Economy
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Nikhil Shah @grandmastershah.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Americans will engage with every conspiracy theory and go after a Black mayor rather than face the actual truth. Conditions for a January LA firestorm have not existed before now, writes a meteorologist and climate journalist
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The Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded
Conditions for a January firestorm in Los Angeles like this have not existed before now, writes a meteorologist and climate journalist
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Mark Zuckerberg, announced the platform is getting rid of its 40,000-strong content moderation team. In their place? Mob rule. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A new era of lies: Mark Zuckerberg has just ushered in an extinction-level event for truth on social media | Chris Stokel-Walker
The Meta boss’s decision to get rid of the platform’s 40,000 moderators has set the stage for a fact-free four years online, says author Chris Stokel-Walker
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Boo F’n hoo. www.torquenews.com/11826/its-im...
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It’s Impossible to Get Rid of a Tesla Cybertruck. I Want to Cut My Losses and Move On, but I Can't Give This Thing Away. I’ve Lost So Much Money Already; Help.
A Cybertruck owner shares his frustration following multiple failed attempts to sell his truck. After losing more than $20,000 in 2,800 miles, the owner says, “I want to cut my losses and move on, but...
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Americans are spending way too much on health care - an average of $12,555 per person in 2022. The average in other high-income nations? $6,651. We're spending almost DOUBLE what other nations spend, & yet we still get far worse outcomes for patients.
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Thank you, Jimmy. A life excellently lived. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Jimmy Carter, longest-lived US president, dies aged 100
Former president faced series of economic and foreign policy crises, including Iran hostage affair and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
And trump and Musk are aiming to eliminate the CFPB.
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Even Elon knows X is bad
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Derek Cressman @derekcressman.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
MAGA billionaire bros: American workers are too uneducated to be high tech engineers. Also MAGA billionaire bros: Let’s abolish the Department of Education!
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Why don’t we hear anything about the CDC getting ready to protect humans from the bird flu? Are we screwed?
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Merry Xmas to all Dodgers fans! Teo is back!
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God @thegodshow.com · 25/12/2024
You shouldn’t be allowed to celebrate Christmas if you hate people who seek refuge in a strange land so they can have a baby.
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Thank you, Gisele.
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Morons that will have deadly consequences. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots
An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Musk is now stating no bills should pass congress before January 20th when Trump takes office. So we shut down the government for a month? This is not just irresponsible it is economic terrorism.
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
“I want you to know that we share the same fight." Gisèle Pelicot told survivors of sexual violence after a French court found her ex-husband and 50 men he invited to rape her guilty. The men wree sentenced to between 3-20yrs. apnews.com/article/fran...
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Gisèle Pelicot speaks after ex-husband found guilty of rapes, sentenced to 20 years in France
Dominique Pelicot and 49 other men were tried in the southern French city of Avignon for aggravated rape and attempted rape and face up to 20 years imprisonment if convicted.
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
So did Musk and his puppet Trump kill the funding bill?
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I took a peak into twitter.
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a woman is wearing a black and white suit with the hashtag schitts creek on the bottom
ALT: a woman is wearing a black and white suit with the hashtag schitts creek on the bottom
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Paulina Gonzalez-Brito @paugonzalez510.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
We are all one accident or serious illness away from experiencing the utter failure of our healthcare system.
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