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Snaxxmaxxer

@workersdance.bsky.social
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Union Researcher/Campaigner/Aging Advocate/Zumba instructor. Recovering lawyer in Baltimore. Ask me about the Long-Term Care Industry. Grandchild of Holocaust survivors who will boost Gaza accounts.

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Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social · 1h
Iranian monarchists in Tehranangeles are super confused by this
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 22h
My mom was born in Bergen-Belsen. All 4 of my grandparents somehow survived. But as I get older I feel a real weight to my personal understanding of the impacts of their experiences.
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The reddit FAFSA threads are raising my bloodpressure.
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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The admin: HOW DARE YOU CALL US NAZIS?! Also the Admin:
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Whether it’s Obama saying “yes we can” or Donald Trump say “we’re gonna shove it up their ass” both presidents adopted divisive slogans.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“It’s this kind of scenario… that several physicians told me ranks among their most troubling cases. Each told me a version of the same haunting story: A patient with a treatable cancer delays standard care for an unproven alternative, only to return once the disease has metastasized.”
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Dying Patients Are Inundated by Misinformation. My Dad Was One of Them.
Cancer patients are being persuaded to spend tens of thousands on unproven treatments by alternative-medicine clinics.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Everyone should be fighting for Universal Healthcare and disability rights. Health is fragile. You can become disabled or chronically ill in an instant. It’s not a moral failing. It can wipe out your savings and leave you destitute. Healthcare is a basic human right.
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Best of the Best was delightful
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I was a young researcher and believed I could be part of something bigger than myself, transformative for workers. In addition to personal stress that became impossible to live with, I also learned after 5 years there that I wasn’t gonna transform shit.
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
📣📣📣 The largest labor unions in the country are led by Black and Latine Women. They stand for immigrants and fight racism. Stop making that fucking Teamster bully a proxy for the working class.
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
All I’ll say is that i took a 25% pay cut when I landed the opportunity to leave the Teamsters and every day I experience a new level of ptsd from my time there. And yes, I knew SOB.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
The government's retreat on Olmstead is significant. This story tells the complete story of how it came to be. Yes, it requires a subscription. Please give it a read if you're able www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We live in a system designed to kill us.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 01/10/2026
AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.
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The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru
We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026
I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.
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Virg @vflowers84.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
2025. Bad Company by Megan Greenwell.
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm on a state work group discussing this very subject and get em. (though caveat: you gotta be careful when discussing PE. Lots of companies that aren't PE do the stuff PE does. Much better to curb businesses who engage in those PE behaviors from owning practices).
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's almost refreshing, the way they just say, straight up, they want to kill you.
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Perfect. “If her animals had carried E. coli, she said, she and her husband would have been infected at some point. “Quite frankly, we don’t care if we’ve cleaned the pen and then go grab a sandwich,” she told me. “We’ll eat with our hands filthy.” www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Richard 🐗 🪵 @rogley8.ribbit.org · 29/09/2026
Men, if you don't know why this cartoon is not about sports, I am sure someone will explain it to you bsky.app/profile/mega...
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I generally hate phone banking, especially for mid candidates. I would much rather knock doora. But calling FL union members for her has been way more enjoyable.
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every few months I’m reminded that this guy exists. another sickeningly, deeply disturbed -but sane enough to grift- former Bernie bro.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Historian Jen @historianjenfl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Andy Beshear has an entire chapter in his new book about backing the LGBTQ community and it's worth a read. He talks about how the anti-trans ads were tested in KY during his election and how vetoing anti-trans legislation didn't hurt his reelection campaign.
However the anti-trans ads had less to do with Kentucky and more to do with the fact that we were in an election. Terry Schilling, the head of the APP, decided to test the ads in our election to determine whether or not the issue could win votes for the Republican Party. Earlier in the summer of 2019, Scholling had partnered with a behavioral science firm to try to find a wedge issue that resonated with suburban voters. That's right. The anti-trans ads did not come out of some firmly held conviction but was a purely political stance. Their research landed on trans athletes, specifically trans women, competing in women's sports. They tested their theory in the 2019 Kentucky gubernatorial general election. Although I won, APP considered their test successful, because their research showed the ads delivered thirteen thousand votes for Trump Lite, which made the race tighter than anticipated.You might hask how, in this political climate, I was reelected after vetoing the anti-trans bill. Because people respect authentic faith. The day I vetoed it, I explained my why. I said I believe all children are children of God and that I don't want people picking on these kids. I then countered their anti-trans ads with commercials talking about good jobs, healthcare, roads and bridges, public education, and public safety. The result? The biggest win of my career. So don't tell me the Democratic Party should stop fighting for the rights of all people. Just explain your authentic why, and then get back to focusing on issues that touch all our lives on a daily basis.
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I was in undergrad I was saved by a guardian angel. Decades later I understand they were two unicorns, two male friends from my dorm who were in attendance with me at a house party, saw I was dangerously inebriated, and with one of my girlfriends hauled me home to the safety of my bed.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The real solution is collective, not individual: "Based on her study of more than 150 tribal societies, she identified what makes a society or culture “rape prone,” “rape free,” or something between the two.... in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety, and freedom."
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Read this by @sorayachemaly.bsky.social: "Rates of violence against women are significantly higher on Division I campuses than at Division II, III, or universities with no athletic programs. Game days at top college football schools are associated with a 28 percent increase in area reports of rape."
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Unmanned
Talking about male supremacy, conservative backlash, managing tetchy feelings, and embracing joyful feminist refusal. Click to read Unmanned, by Soraya Chemaly, a Substack publication with thousands o...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Very sad news. The great Ian Berry has left us. He was the sole photographer at one of the crucial events in South Africa's struggle against apartheid. 👇🏽
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NYC spends approximately $200,000 a year for every inmate in the corrections system. It spends about $27,000 a year for every student enrolled in CUNY.
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Bryn Boice @brynboice.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I want to beg teachers and professors to bring back reading plays and stories aloud in class. It’s real, real-time, and different people *hear* different things in the text and are eager to discuss their takes. Empathy is imbedded in this work.
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One of my close friends lives with with ME after years of trying treatments for Lyme's Disease. In the nearly 15 years I’ve known her, she’s never had one straight month of waking up and feeling good. Sometimes she gets a good day or two, but she had to give up her career and struggles as a mom.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 26/09/2026
It's really comin down out there (civilization)
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I just phone banked union members for Angie Nixon in FL, that took the edge off from whatever this is.
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Took a 5 minute break from union gotv phone banking to read what’s going on and what the fuck lol lmao
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here is a picture of a baby otter and you should probably look at it.
A close-up photo of Steve, a newborn otter, curled up and sleeping in a pair of cupped human hands.  
There is no text baked into the image.
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teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social @teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Meischa was Roger Marshall's patient. This is her story.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me smacking myself in the face every time I see people like those Mike Gravel campaign guys and say “the kids are alright” No! they‘re not.
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Katelyn Oldham *Abolish ICE. Defund DHS.* @katelynstarrpdx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What a POS.
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fuck this guy.
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
every day brings some new misery inflicted on the psyche. So I'm going to hold on for as long as I can to the joy that comes with supporting 190,000 home care workers in NY and their quest for a union.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/09/2026
Congratulations to @1199seiu.org and the nearly 70,000 CDPAP care workers who filed for the largest union election in American history. These workers make it possible for New Yorkers to live safely and independently at home. I’m proud to stand with them in the fight for a union.
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There hasn’t been a union election at this scale since GM, and this is larger. incredibly proud to support this effort. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/n...
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Powerful New York Labor Group Seeks to Unionize 190,000 Health Workers
The Service Employees International Union said it had enough signatures to trigger a vote by personal assistants who care for relatives and friends at home.
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Powerful New York Labor Group Seeks to Unionize 190,000 Health Workers
The Service Employees International Union said it had enough signatures to trigger a vote by personal assistants who care for relatives and friends at home.
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today is going to be a big day for labor history.
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