December 9, 2022 by V Leigh

For the first time in four decades, journalists and other employees at the New York Times are staging a large-scale walkout.

Barring a breakthrough, @nytimes staff will walk out from midnight to 11:59pm Thursday, Dec. 8.

We’re asking readers to stand with us on the digital picket line and not visit any NYT platforms tomorrow. Read local news. Make something from a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak. https://t.co/KiUlHAtkuh
— Maggie Astor (@MaggieAstor) December 7, 2022

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New York Times workers are demanding a $65K salary floor—covering editorial & tech staff, security guards, concierges, Times Center staff & more.

The NYT can afford it.

It spent $150 million on stock buybacks this year & the top 3 execs saw 32% raises in 2021.@DanaGoldstein: pic.twitter.com/l2QH0kYvPq
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) December 8, 2022

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Without a contract, today I join 1,100 of my⁩ colleagues in walking out. We’re asking readers to not engage in any @nytimes platforms today and stand with us on the digital picket line. Read local news. Listen to public radio. Break your Wordle streak. https://t.co/umJkQN1qVV
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) December 8, 2022

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Good morning to all but especially to everyone who broke their Wordle streak today because you don’t cross a picket linehttps://t.co/CxsTEgPLZ2
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) December 8, 2022

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We’ve been without a contract @nytimes for nearly 2 years. Management is offering pay raises that really amount to pay cuts. We’re fed up, and we’re walking out Thursday for 24 hours. pic.twitter.com/Vv1zeiPSeh
— Henry Fountain (@henryfountain) December 8, 2022

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New York Times walkout protesters chant “40% of the profits” and “prints not dead” outside of the @nytimes building in NYC pic.twitter.com/Wb99zeAJug
— Timcast News (@TimcastNews) December 8, 2022

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For the first time in four decades, journalists and other employees at the New York Times are staging a large-scale walkout. pic.twitter.com/3rq39BX6pv
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) December 8, 2022

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December 9, 2022 by V Leigh

BREAKING: Brittney Griner released by Russia in 1-for-1 prisoner swap for arms dealer Viktor Bout, U.S. official says

BREAKING: Brittney Griner released by Russia in 1-for-1 prisoner swap for arms dealer Viktor Bout, U.S. official says https://t.co/oa6fEPHtM9
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 8, 2022

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Moments ago I spoke to Brittney Griner.

She is safe.
She is on a plane.
She is on her way home. pic.twitter.com/FmHgfzrcDT
— President Biden (@POTUS) December 8, 2022

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Brittany Griner’s release comes just as her detainment in Russia took an alarming turn. https://t.co/JhxPi0v9vo
— The Advocate (@TheAdvocateMag) December 8, 2022

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We sent letters. We organized our movements. We kept the pressure on. As we always do. 🙏🏽 https://t.co/dfC7e3PYGd
— Crystal Hudson (@crystalrhudson) December 8, 2022

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happy pictures of brittney griner to cleanse the timeline pic.twitter.com/VGKF5CffKy
— whitney medworth (@its_whitney) December 8, 2022

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December 6, 2022 by V Leigh

Hate Speech, Hate Crime, and Ye

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, hate speech has skyrocketed:

Anti-Black Slurs 🔺202%
Anti-Semitism 🔺61%
Homophobic Slurs 🔺58%

This may be unprecedented but it’s neither shocking nor unpreventable.https://t.co/6ftFzHAvSH
— Adrienne Lawrence, Esq. (@AdrienneLaw) December 2, 2022

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People on one side being mad because you’re not supporting Nazis enough and other people being mad because you are giving any support at all to Nazis doesn’t mean you’re doing anything right.

It just means you’re supporting Nazis.
— Zack Hunt (@ZaackHunt) December 2, 2022

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It only took them [checks notes] 55 days, 17 hours, and roughly 25 minutes to delete this pic.twitter.com/x85Wm10Xd2
— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) December 1, 2022

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In national survey data, we find antipathy toward antiracist claims and activism is widespread among whites and powerfully predicts a range of conservative views. More than 80% of white Republicans express antipathy to antiracism. pic.twitter.com/3WaDyLXhZs
— Rachel Wetts (@RachelWetts) December 2, 2022

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I want to engage this question earnestly, b/c it’s a legit question. The answer is yes, I do look at left, too.

Left-wing activists are responsible for 2% of murders committed by political extremists in the US over the past decade; right-wing activists are responsible for 74%. https://t.co/eOzXog3vZT
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) November 22, 2022

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The House Judiciary Committee Republican account appear to have finally deleted the “Kanye. Elon. Trump.” tweet it sent in early October. pic.twitter.com/KmmPkMh4cz
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) December 1, 2022

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Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, just went on Alex Jones. On the topic of Nazis, he said “They did good things too, we’ve got to stop dissing the Nazis all the time.” Ye is a terrible person. He’s not misunderstood. This isn’t just mental illness. He’s 🗑️ pic.twitter.com/xnTA9xnzjs
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) December 1, 2022

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What really gets me is the silence across the hip-hop community. Few people have come out to object to him. And yes, I know that he made beats for a lot of ppl and they feel indebted to him. But that does not excuse his current rhetoric, and more of them should be condemning him https://t.co/nTqOsMDp7J
— FJ (@FeministaJones) December 1, 2022

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It’s not a matter of being “more antisemitic”: it’s a matter of understanding the line of what’s less unacceptable to say in public. You think most of these Republicans are “less antisemitic” than Kanye or they just understand what they “can and can’t say” without censure? https://t.co/KKKxzzrbM8
— Zoé (@ztsamudzi) December 1, 2022

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Kanye West’s Twitter account has been suspended after posting photo of a swastika merged with a Star of David. pic.twitter.com/m1dQWPtVyj
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) December 2, 2022

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If we pay attention to history, she reminds us that populations don’t become monstrous overnight, that nations don’t abandon humanity in a single moment.

There is always a pattern.

We’re seeing it now.https://t.co/Fi5EuKxtNr
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) November 26, 2022

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December 4, 2022 by V Leigh

The Supreme Court will hear argument on President Biden’s student loan-relief program.

BREAKING: A federal judge in Texas has temporarily struck down Biden’s student debt forgiveness program after a plaintiff filed a suit claiming it was “unfair for people who didn’t qualify.” The kicker: this same plaintiff received almost $50,000 in PPP loan forgiveness.
— Andrew Wortman (@AmoneyResists) November 11, 2022

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92% of student loan debt is owned by the federal government but apparently the federal government doesn’t have the right to reduce it? Oh please. Conservative judges are judicial activists who make shit up to fuck over poor people. Thankfully this will be appealed https://t.co/5Dpy2z4tAR
— Secular Talk🎙 (@KyleKulinski) November 11, 2022

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The plaintiff in that suit pic.twitter.com/MuGuYQw9rV
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) November 11, 2022

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Myra Brown got $48000 in PPP relief & sued because she did not qualify for student debt relief. The CEO of Home Depot funded this effort. The result is to bar all debt relief in the USA. https://t.co/YJgHfqxE1W
— name cannot be blank (@Snakeheadedone) November 14, 2022

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court will hear argument on President Biden’s student loan-relief program. pic.twitter.com/IaXhtWlrhN
— Bloomberg Law (@BLaw) December 1, 2022

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December 2, 2022 by V Leigh

If railroad work is so important that the United States Congress can vote to prevent a strike, then railroad WORKERS should be important enough to have 7 days of paid sick leave.

This railroad worker clearly & powerfully explains why workers need to have each other’s backs, ahead of a potential strike:

“We’re all part of the working people that make society run…. Without us, nothing could happen. When one of us in under attack, we’re all under attack.” pic.twitter.com/U8sz3QAyu2
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) November 30, 2022

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A rail traffic stoppage could freeze almost 30% of US cargo shipments by weight, stoke inflation & cost the US economy as much as $2B/day by unleashing a cascade of transport woes affecting energy, agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare, & retail sectors https://t.co/EhtcJvqDNz
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) November 28, 2022

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boasting about a black-tie dinner with a French aristocrat while crushing the rail workers who brought the food is like something out of Les Mis https://t.co/XskS5gUnVh
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) December 2, 2022

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~33 million of our nation’s workers have no paid sick days.

Only in America do we call working people ‘essential’ but deny them paid sick leave.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) December 1, 2022

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This whole railroad workers episode further clarifies that the “essential worker” discourse we’ve been bombarded with for almost 3 yrs is about disciplining workers to labor in perilous conditions, and not about respecting and protecting the people who do vital work.
— Sarah Lazare (@sarahlazare) December 1, 2022

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Rail workers: A single day of sick leave please

CNN’s coverage today: pic.twitter.com/LHcZ60hQZj
— Steve Morris (@stevemorris__) November 29, 2022

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Full sellout from the White House for the majority of rail workers who rejected the deal the President brokered, preemptively denying them the right to strike.

This was the “which side are you on?” moment, and the White House chose the railroad bosses.https://t.co/yasjb9tFdf
— Jonah Furman (@JonahFurman) November 28, 2022

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No Joe, you’re supposed to help the railroad workers… you got it backwards. A handful of sick days c’mon! Workers of the world unite! https://t.co/6X1BNIvK9Z
— Danny DeVito (@DannyDeVito) November 29, 2022

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BREAKING: The Senate voted to 80-15 to force a contract on rail workers.

Here are the Senators who voted no:
Cotton
Cruz
Hawley
Rubio
Rick Scott
Toomey
Collins
Tim Scott
Hagerty
Gillibrand
Merkley
Sanders
Hickenlooper
Warren
Sullivan
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) December 1, 2022

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Democratic Caucus Senators voting to not break the railroad strike:

Warren (MA)
Sanders (VT)
Hickenlooper (CO)
Gillibrand (NY)
Merkley (OR)

Everyone else voted against the workers.
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) December 2, 2022

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If railroad work is so important that the United States Congress can vote to prevent a strike, then railroad WORKERS should be important enough to have 7 days of paid sick leave.
— Maxwell Alejandro Frost (@MaxwellFrostFL) November 30, 2022

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