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Journalist. Staff writer at Labor Notes. Solidarity! Contact: lfelizleon@gmail.com. Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/lowerfrequencies
How the labor movement is responding to reports of a sweeping investigation by the Department of Homeland Security into organizations and members resisting ICE: labornotes.org/2026/08/fede...
Federal Spies Hunt Minnesota Unions in Search of Conspiracy, But Find Solidarity
Yesterday news broke of a sweeping undercover investigation by the Department of Homeland Security in Minnesota early this year to infiltrate and surveil meetings and obtain the financial records of n...
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In Minnesota feds sent undercover agents to public meetings, tried to entrap organizers, scoured union financial records, and used facial recognition AI to link union leaders and activists to a so-called ”conspiracy.” Nothing but solidarity
Sara Nelson@flyingwithsara.bsky.social · 2d agoHere is another article from @labornotes.bsky.social that’s more comprehensive on the issue. 2/2 labornotes.org/2026/08/fede...
Here is another article from @labornotes.bsky.social that’s more comprehensive on the issue. 2/2 labornotes.org/2026/08/fede...
Federal Spies Hunt Minnesota Unions in Search of Conspiracy, But Find Solidarity
Yesterday news broke of a sweeping undercover investigation by the Department of Homeland Security in Minnesota early this year to infiltrate and surveil meetings and obtain the financial records of n...
labornotes.org
Loving all the cheesy puns in response to this. But to be serious for a second, "Europe's cheese market makes more profits than the entire high volume steel industry of China and India...80% of the steel market makes very low margins (only special steels make decent margins)." x.com/ZeitgeistExp...
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 6d agoYou can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...
Reflecting on decades of organizing — from Occupy to Mamdani’s campaign — Yotam Marom’s book “For Louder Days” offers a powerful guide to making hard choices. Review by @hannahsassaman.bsky.social wagingnonviolence.org/2026/08/yota...
Why bravery and heartbreak are essential to organizing
Reflecting on decades of organizing — from Occupy to Mamdani’s campaign — Yotam Marom’s book “For Louder Days” offers a powerful guide to making hard choices.
wagingnonviolence.org
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
thenation.com
"North America's largest employer grants a first for its workers: an adversarially-bargained union contract." phenomenalworld.org/analysis/wal...
Benjamin Y. Fong | Walmart Concedes to the Union
North America's largest employer grants a first for its workers: an adversarially-bargained union contract
phenomenalworld.org
Puerto Rico will implement water rationing measures in San Juan and other major cities as a drought grips the U.S. territory with no relief in sight.
Puerto Rico rations water for 48 hours at a time amid intense drought
July was the driest month on record for San Juan in more than 120 years and the second hottest for the capital of the U.S. territory.
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🚨New York City🚨 Join us for a citywide call on August 19th 6-7pm ET where we'll discuss the increase in ICE activity across NYC, threats to the upcoming midterms, other attacks by the Trump regime, and, most importantly, what we can do about fighting back against it all. RSVP at tr.ee/masscall.
A new humiliation. ICE is calling in Haitian immigrants in Ohio only to shackle them with ankle monitors that require constant, degrading charging routines. As leader Vilès Dorsainvil warns, treating legal, hard-working residents like criminals isn't policy—it's pure human degradation! 🎥HaitianTimes
You were born on the wrong continent. Yes, the United States has a greater GDP per capita than Western Europe. But that GDP has not translated into broader prosperity in time and well-being for ordinary workers.
No, Americans Aren’t Better Off Than Western Europeans
You were born on the wrong continent. Yes, the United States has a greater GDP per capita than Western Europe. But that GDP has not translated into broader prosperity in time and well-being for ordinary workers.
jacobin.com
“The company that makes Pringles spent at least $4 million on an AI-powered “digital twin” that tracks its dough in real time, all in pursuit of the perfect chip.” —Tech Brew
Breaking: The Department of Justice has dismissed charges against David Huerta, the president of Service Employees International Union United Service Workers West. www.seiu-usww.org/press_releas...
This is a great piece of reporting. Because it’s the NYT, you have to read it against the grain, but there’s a lot here that’s plainly stated without ideological spin. I’m old enough to remember left-liberals scolding me for using terms like colonialism. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...
How Marco Rubio Is Running Venezuela From Afar
The secretary of state effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government. His grip on the country is a vivid manifestation of American power in th...
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Have you ever been so stumped by an organizing challenge that you've wished you could just beam out a help signal to others who’ve dealt with the same thing? (episode link in thread)
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani announces click-to-cancel rule for NYC. This rule is aimed at guaranteeing New Yorkers can cancel subscriptions as easily as they sign up — and stopping corporations from trapping customers. This will save New Yorkers up to $162.5 million per year.
ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.
Independent footage shows again that the 🧊 story in this case does not hold up. newrepublic.com/post/212915/...
New Footage of Fatal ICE Shooting in Texas Sparks Fresh Outrage
ICE agents are claiming Lorenzo Salgado Araujo attacked them. That’s not what the latest video footage shows.
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They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. newrepublic.com/article/2129...
Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport
There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.
newrepublic.com
“Both abusive treatment of detainees and the public sharing of humiliating or degrading images of them can constitute war crimes,” said Oneg Ben Dror from the prisoner and detainees department at Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI). www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Photo of bound Palestinian detainee corroborates Israeli torture reports, say rights groups
Image of man in underwear, blindfold and bound to iron rod has been widely shared on social media
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Asian Chipmaking countries are Winners of US AI boom: "The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced global #semiconductor sales were $120.6 billion during the month of May 2026...more than double the May 2025 total of $59.1 billion" www.semiconductors.org/global-semic...
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last mo."Under the agreement, 78,000 semiconductor workers will be given 10.5 per cent of the company’s operating profits. This would amount to a bonus pool of more than Won34tn ($22.6bn) based on a forecast by brokerage KB Securities of operating profits this year..." www.reuters.com/business/wor...
New transit payment systems in NYC & around the country, run by a company with ex-military contractor executives & a partnership with Palantir, collect data on movements of riders and haven't explained what they do with it, including whether they give it to ICE. prospect.org/2026/07/06/t...
Tech Industry Transit Systems Endanger Immigrants, Advocates Fear - The American Prospect
Transit systems across the country are collecting information about the movement of riders via a company doing business with ICE contractor Palantir.
prospect.org
In a time when there’s real cause for fear and despair—and when the Trump administration is pushing hard to divide us—the Labor Notes Conference June 12-14 in Chicago was an oasis of inspiration and solidarity (story linked in thread) 1/10
That’s why it’s difficult to celebrate important victories to inspire and boost the morale of fighters in our movement for justice and freedom when the larger reality is one of tremendous loss and defeat.
The crisis of democracy is one of profound social inequality. What’s happening today with the capitalist capture of the political and economic realms of society surpasses the wettest dreams of Gilded Age-era tycoons.
This week, New Yorkers won a rent freeze. @psc-cuny.org members testified after seeing students face eviction and housing insecurity. “This is a city’s crisis, and it’s not just the CUNY students who are suffering.”
Why Some Unions Are Joining the Call to “Freeze the Rent”
“Affordable rent should be an essential demand of the labor movement as a whole,” says New York Taxi Workers Alliance President Bhairavi Desai.
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We're up to 20 immigrant detainees (by the official count) dead this year in ICE custody, and 58 since the beginning of 2025. A new report from Human Rights Watch finds a 138% increase in the annualized mortality rate under Trump, suggesting human rights violations. Here's our story.
20th Immigrant Dies in Trump’s Detention Camps - The American Prospect
The increase in deaths can’t be attributed to population increase, according to a new Human Rights Watch analysis.
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JFC. Chad Jones, economist who'll be joining Anthropic: "In other words, with log utility it is optimal to take a 1 in 3 chance of ending human existence in exchange for a 2/3 chance of dramatically raising living standards by a factor of 55." www.ft.com/content/bb04...
Darializa only came out of nowhere if you didnt know her as one of Zohran's primary Washington Heights field leads. AOC only came out of nowhere if you didnt know her as one of Bernie's primary Bronx field leads. Will journalists start respecting field leads? Probably not!