1/5 "My parents taught me to believe in the American Dream...but I can't help but think what Speaker of the House Jon Patterson has been doing to take that dream away." 📝 Bill Thompson's powerful OpEd in the Kansas City Star. 🧵👇 🔗 buff.ly/LXS96t2
Aditi Ramaswami
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directing labor movement comms @moworkers.org / @moworkerspower.org. organize, fight, win. opinions expressed are my own (they/them)
“We know the truth, and we will not be intimidated." Unions and community orgs have released a statement responding to reports about federal surveillance of Minnesota's movements against ICE.
Sign-on Statement: Community, Labor, Faith Groups Call for Solidarity as Federal Government Targets Minnesotans Who Organized Against ICE Violence
Please Note: Additional context may be added to the introductory paragraphs if new information is released, but only if necessary. Community, Labor, Faith Groups Call for Solidarity as Federal Gove...
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When folks can't vote on what their tax dollars are being spent on, democracy is not working for the everyday person Terrence Wise, low-wage worker, MWP leader, & petitioner for Royals stadium ballot measure Follow the link and send your personal letter to your local reps today - shorturl.at/9mQuC
The measures would have rewritten how Missourians amend the state constitution and eliminated the state income tax.
Every single Missouri county rejected Amendments 4 and 5. ‘Incredibly unpopular’
The measures would have rewritten how Missourians amend the state constitution and eliminated the state income tax.
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Big week for @moworkers.org: 💐🕯️Fuerza OC members held a vigil for Glendy that drew 1000 community members & made the Overland mayor publicly commit to our demand of no 287g agreement 🗳️MO voters killed A4 (to gut majority rule) & A5 (to give the megarich a tax cut on the backs of working families)
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
It's True. This country belongs to the people who build it, who clean it, who teach it, who heal it, who show up for it every single day — not to the greedy few who'd rather hoard it. Every worker who stands up proud in these moments is how we will build a better future together. #MissouriWorkers
"My job above all other items is to protect all 16,000 people who live here. And the thousands that work here. And the thousands who visit us... I don't believe signing a 287g agreement provides them with any comfort or safety. We will not sign that agreement."
Yesterday’s vigil was a reminder that while we will forever mourn the loss of Glendy and Nixon, we must honor their memories by continuing to take bold action right now so this kind of tragedy never happens again.
"It sure seems, this being a democracy and all that the people should have a say in the allocation of such a colossal chunk of their tax dollars." Check out some highlights here, or read the whole thing. www.royalsreview.com/kansas-city-... Either way you can't miss, like Massey.
💥BREAKING💥 We defeated Amendments 4 and 5!!! We said NO to an attack on majority rule. We said NO to the Everything Tax. We said NO to deceitful politicians like Governor Kehoe and House Speaker Patterson rigging the game.
Last we checked this is still a democracy, and the voters deserve the final say to keep it that way — on the Royals stadium ballot initiative already certified by the City Clerk. Join us and make your voice heard by sending an email to your CM here: bit.ly/4pMJ28L
Hear from low-wage workers and MWP leaders Fran Marion, Bill Thompson, and Terrence Wise what’s possible when working people take bold action together across races, places, and genders. WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN!!!
Thank you to @moworkerspower.org for talking to me about this, if you're a citizen of Kansas City this is super important. Even if you want the new stadium and are willing to pay for it, you should want to have a say.
Royals Review@royalsreview.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe public should get a say in the new Royals stadium www.royalsreview.com/kansas-city-...
I endorse all calls to not use AI. But I don’t think that’s the most effective pressure point. AI isn’t becoming ubiquitous because people suddenly prefer machine-generated text or images to human writing or art. It’s becoming ubiquitous because…
Children’s picture book character Pandorobou (the Bread Thief) is a a mouse who disguises himself as a loaf of bread to sneak into bakeries and steal fresh bread.
🇱🇧 NEW: South Lebanon has gone 19 hours without any reported Israeli airstrikes, artillery shelling, or other major violations after Israel once again agreed to a ceasefire at 4 pm Sat., marking the longest period of relative calm in 110 days, according to L’Orient Today. The calm extends to the...
"But the goal was never just to win an election. It was to build a united bloc and a new political identity—to get tenants to understand themselves not as struggling individuals but as a powerful class with the ability to change the conditions of their lives." convergencemag.com/articles/sur...
Surround Sound Communications: How to Build a Narrative Machine
A single canvass conversation doesn’t shift how people understand their world. What does is encountering the same frame across contexts—at their door, in a group chat, in a news story…
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Baristas at the very first Starbucks in Seattle are organizing their union. Here's how one worker answers the age-old question "if your job is that bad, why don't you just work somewhere else?"
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds 77% of Americans blame Trump for rising gas prices — including 55% of Republicans and 82% of independents.
A new analysis finds that tech giant Palantir Technologies paid $0 in federal income taxes last year, despite raking in hundreds of millions in taxpayer money to build out a mass network to surveil Americans in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security.
Palantir Paid $0 in Federal Income Tax in 2025 While Raking in Taxpayer Funds to Surveil Americans
Its $0 tax bill comes despite the company raking in $1.6 billion and landing a $10 billion military contract last year.
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Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 6mo agoBeautiful day to fill the 100,000th pothole of the year.
The Missouri Workers Center conducted its second ICE Off Workshop in #KansasCity for service industry employees on 23 March 2026 at the Westport Presbyterian Church.
74-year-old woman at pure barre telling me i've gotten stronger
🗣️NO ICE IN OUR STREETS! #MOworkers in Kansas City are joining the nationwide Day of Truth and Freedom, right as our siblings in Minnesota launch their historic general strike 💪
“I reject the lie that deporting my neighbor is how I win better pay and working conditions. We’re fighting for a country where families stay together without living in terror, so we’re ALL better off!”
i have come to the view that there is an extent to which elites are projecting the salience of bigotry on the broad public. *they* are preoccupied with this stuff and so they imagine the public must be obsessed with it.