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Sarah Westover

@sarahwestover.bsky.social
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Community/Union Organizer. Cat-lady. Labor, Housing, Climate and Social Justice activist and Prison Abolitionist. Sometimes Anti-social. Always Anti-fascist. Views expressed are my own.

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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A few things are blooming but still can't wait for full blown Spring!
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Cool cat shelves!
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil, a person with permanent legal status in the US, should be a red line that everyone should recognize. They knocked on his door and vanished him into an authoritarian system without a trace. Your door could be next. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/so-it-begi...
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So It Begins: The Disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil and Authoritarian Capture
The Trump Administration kidnapped a legal permanent resident and shuffled him through an authoritarian maze. We're witnessing the beginnings of something terrifying
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/03/2025
When Trump effectively shuts down the NLRB, corporate bosses can illegally fire workers who are trying to form a union and flagrantly violate labor laws. Today, I am reintroducing the PRO Act to strengthen unions, and restore power and legal rights to workers.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/02/2025
This is the first time in US history that a state has repealed statutory protections for a specific group.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/02/2025
RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
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RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
WASHINGTON—Addressing the ongoing outbreak in Texas that has infected at least 124 state residents and killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed Thursday to mak...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Just another day in AmeriKKKa. Time to start collecting some Nazi scalps.
independent.co.uk
Even neo-Nazis say it’s getting a ‘little excessive’ following Bannon’s CPAC salute
‘The Manson Family had a more coherent ideology than MAGA. And the liberal criticism that American ‘fascism’ is merely a personality cult around Trump seems justified,’ notorious white supremacist Ric...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/02/2025
This is how to be an ally to the trans community. Also, this isn't just an ex NFL player, he's the first punter ever inducted into the hall of fame.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 13/02/2025
glad someone is finally saying it lol
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Bill Burr Says Billionaires Should Be Put Down Like Rabid Dogs
Bill Burr doesn't want to eat the rich ... but he does want to kill them.
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Cobra Kai Never Dies!
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
With both RFK Jr and Gabbard confirmed, two people who rose to prominence spreading conspiracy theories about public health and national intelligence will now run the U.S. government agencies in charge of those areas. For someone studying these conspiracy theories for a decade... this is nauseating.
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/02/2025
ICE Protests Brutal Conditions Of Being Forced To Stand Outside Homes Of Immigrants For Hours theonion.com/ice-pro...
ICE Protests Brutal Conditions Of Being Forced To Stand Outside Homes Of Immigrants For Hours
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Whole Foods, which is owned by notorious union-buster Amazon, is arguing that Trump's dismantling of the NLRB means the company doesn't have to recognize a newly unionized store in Philadelphia. Looks like Jeff Bezos' investment in Trump is paying off.
cnbc.com
Amazon's Whole Foods cites Trump's NLRB purge as grounds for rejecting union win
Last month, workers at a Whole Foods store in Philadelphia voted in favor of joining the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 06/02/2025
Hospitalists and palliative care physicians at the Portland hospital have been on strike since Jan. 10.
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Providence, hospital physicians at St. Vincent reach tentative agreement to end strike
Hospitalists and palliative care physicians at the Portland hospital have been on strike since Jan. 10.
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Wow, this is just. Wow. First of all, Jewish activists have been literally leading the movement to end the Genocide in Gaza. Saying that supporting Palestinians amounts to antisemitism is totally asinine. Secondly, anyone who thinks Trump gives a shit about anti-semitism is lying to themselves.
wweek.com
Feds Open Antisemitism Investigation of Portland State University
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Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
About an hour later, an all-agency email was sent out reminding EEOC employees that all-department emails must be "reviewed and approved by the sender's office director before it can be distributed by the sender."
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Finally some good news. It's probably a good time to go ahead and force all those federal NASA Employees to resign what with their "science" and "competence". Then get a bunch of totally random and unqualified lackies to replace them.
abcnews.go.com
There's a small chance an asteroid could hit Earth within the next decade, says NASA
A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.
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Shane Dixon Kavanaugh @shanedkavanaugh.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Portland politician skewers Oregon Democrat Janelle Bynum over Laken Riley Act vote www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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Portland politician skewers Oregon Democrat Janelle Bynum over Laken Riley Act vote
“Anyone who is not holding the line for undocumented communities is a traitor to democratic values as far as I’m concerned,” said Portland City Councilor Angelita Morillo.
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The only good thing about Trump's 2nd presidential term is that we can recycle memes from the last shitshow.
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
When you feel accomplished because you finally finished listening to all 150 something hours of the Dark Tower...just to find out there is actually one more book and it sends you back to the middle of the story. God damn it, Stephen King... Ka is a wheel.
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NPR @npr.org · 29/01/2025
JUST IN: Meta agreed to pay President Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 federal lawsuit alleging First Amendment violations after his suspension from Facebook and Instagram in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack.
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Meta agrees to pay Trump $25 million to settle lawsuit over Facebook and Instagram suspensions
Meta agreed to pay President Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 federal lawsuit alleging First Amendment violations after his suspension from Facebook and Instagram in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Trump's spending freeze was unconstitutional and a violation of the Impoundment Control Act. But the public uproar yesterday should serve as a reminder that Trump's plans to gut federal programs are deeply unpopular. Keep fighting. Keep up the pressure. Don't tune out. www.cnn.com/2025/01/29/p...
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White House rescinds federal aid freeze | CNN Politics
The White House Office of Management and Budget has rescinded the federal aid freeze, according to a memo obtained by CNN from a Trump administration official
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NPR @npr.org · 29/01/2025
BREAKING NEWS: The development follows a federal judge's order Tuesday that temporarily blocked the effort to pause federal payments for grants and other programs.
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Trump rescinds freeze on federal funding
The development follows a federal judge's order Tuesday that temporarily blocked the effort to pause federal payments for grants and other programs.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
For the last four years, Jennifer Abruzzo vigorously defended workers' rights and cracked down on union-busters as General Counsel at the National Labor Relations Board. She was one of the strongest pro-worker voices in the federal government. Trump just fired her.
robertreich.substack.com
The most important protector of workers' rights you've never heard of
Listen now | Why Jennifer Abruzzo is critical
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Trump fired the NLRB's pro-worker general counsel and its acting chair. He's effectively gutted the agency tasked with defending the rights of workers to organize. Guess who has recently filed lawsuits aimed at invalidating the agency altogether? Amazon and SpaceX.
reuters.com
Trump fires US labor board member, hobbling agency amid legal battles
President Donald Trump has removed a Democratic member of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board from office, an unprecedented move that will escalate an ongoing legal battle over the scope of the president's powers to control federal agencies.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 28/01/2025
Trans women who are forced to live in men’s prison facilities face disproportionate risk of sexual assault and violence.
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Trans Women in Federal Custody Face the Terror of Being Transferred to Men’s Prisons
Following Trump’s executive order, a trans woman held at a federal prison was told she would be moved to a men’s prison.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 28/01/2025
NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.
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NPR @npr.org · 27/01/2025
The long trek home by Palestinians comes as mediators helped end twin crises over ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon.
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Thousands of Palestinians begin returning home to a devastated Gaza
The long trek home by Palestinians comes as mediators helped end twin crises over ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon.
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
www.aclu-or.org/en/know-your...
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Know Your Rights: Immigrants' Rights
The following information is produced by the ACLU of Oregon for educational purposes only. This is not intended to be and is not a substitute for legal advice.IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE IS BEING
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 25/01/2025
As President Donald Trump tightens the nation’s immigration policies, lawmakers in Democratic-led states are proposing new measures that could erect legal obstacles for federal immigration officials and help immigrants lacking legal status avoid deportation.
oregonlive.com
Oregon among Democratic states weighing new protections for immigrants amid Trump policies
Lawmakers in Democratic-led states are proposing new measures that could erect legal obstacles for federal immigration officials.
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
If it looks like a Nazi, and talks like a Nazi, and other Nazis think it's a Nazi... Then it's probably a Nazi.
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christina @formeresq.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
it’s so insane to me that people work for ICE like did you watch star wars and think man i want to be like the guys in the plastic white suits who can’t aim for shit
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Sometimes it's not so bad to live on planet Earth.
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Don't be fooled by his cuteness. This cat is an asshole.
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Costco's unionized workers vote to authorize nationwide strike The company was rightly praised for standing firm on the importance of DEI, but how it bargains with/treats its unionized workers is important too
abcnews.go.com
Costco's unionized workers vote to authorize nationwide strike
The Teamsters union released the results of the strike vote on Sunday evening.
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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How Labor Can Fight Back Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda
This is a frightening time for immigrant workers. President-elect Donald Trump ran on the slogan “mass deportations now,” and has appointed a team of anti-immigrant hardliners. The leadership of the D...
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
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Mantis Shrimp Toboggan @natebrobisky.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Elon Musk just did a full-blown Nazi salute at the inauguration
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism. The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power”. —King to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) board on March 30, 1967
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/01/2025
Vaseline-Covered Trump Reverses TikTok Stance After Getting Into Skincare
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Vaseline-Covered Trump Reverses TikTok Stance After Getting Into Skincare
PALM BEACH, FL—Telling reporters about his revamped beauty routine as he lavished praise upon the social media platform he once tried to ban as president, a Vaseline-covered Donald Trump publicly reve...
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Sarah Westover @sarahwestover.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
The Tik Tok ban may feel relatively miminal in the scope of everything else going on. But banning a social media platform that HALF of Americans use is an unapologetic step towards full fledged facism. The ban is a clear attempt to limit leftist organizing and visibility of the genocide in Gaza.
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