January 6, 2023 by V Leigh

Southwest Airlines is a company which spent $5.6 billion on stock buybacks for wealthy shareholders while the workers who keep the airline running work 16-18 hour days and passengers are stranded during the holiday season. Unacceptable.

Amount of fines and refunds to airline passengers announced by @USDOT in November as a result of “historic enforcement actions”:

Southwest: $0
Delta Airlines: $0
United Airlines: $0
American Airlines: $0

R-e-a-l aggressive. https://t.co/AdHRl4HuFO
— Warren Gunnels (@GunnelsWarren) December 29, 2022

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Southwest Airlines is a company which spent $5.6 billion on stock buybacks for wealthy shareholders while the workers who keep the airline running work 16-18 hour days and passengers are stranded during the holiday season. Unacceptable. pic.twitter.com/bBpg1gdnaB
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) January 4, 2023

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🚨NEW: @SecretaryPete has delayed a consumer protection rule for 4+ months – now airline lobbyists are trying to water it down.

We’re submitting an official comment letter to his agency demanding he enact the rule.

Sign & retweet: https://t.co/hFHqdnyqE5 pic.twitter.com/1tnjaezoP9
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) January 4, 2023

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Cool, but we shouldn’t normalize this. @SouthwestAir should be hiring paid workers to do this. https://t.co/ilNbCOiJ8d
— 🤷🏼‍♀️ Relevant Rachel 🤷🏼‍♀️ (@RelevantRachel) January 1, 2023

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January 6, 2023 by V Leigh

BREAKING: The Biden admin will now reject all Haitian, Cuban and Nicaraguan asylum seekers who cross illegally, and cap entry from those places and Venezuela at a total 30,000/month. Biden has deported ~40,000 people to Haiti, amid humanitarian crisis, cholera and gang violence

Worthless @GovAbbott dropping off people with no money and no means on Christmas Eve in 15 degree weather near the VP’s residence. How Christian of you, Greg Abbott. Being a heartless POS isn’t going to make you the next Republican President. https://t.co/AM0xrUGLvo
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) December 25, 2022

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Border Patrol Agent Found Guilty of Killing Four Women https://t.co/7hQk2Fx8Yp
— Melissa del Bosque (@MelissaLaLinea) December 10, 2022

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10 days ago, A Border Patrol agent & serial killer was convicted by a San Antonio jury of hunting & killing 4 sex workers in Laredo. He’ll serve life in prison.

May the memories of Claudine Anne Luera, Guiselda Alicia Cantu, Janelle Ortiz, & Melissa Ramirez be a blessing. 🌹 pic.twitter.com/5iIxRxClwU
— curbside abortion provider (@artyleooo) December 17, 2022

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JUST IN: Supreme Court delays end of Title 42, keeps in place a Trump-era immigration policy allowing asylum-seekers to be quickly turned away at the border. https://t.co/gnHeFwZ4na
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 19, 2022

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden administration will immediately turn away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who illegally cross US-Mexico border.
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) January 5, 2023

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December 24, 2022 by V Leigh

Iran: At Least 400 Sentenced Up to 10 Years for Anti-Gov’t Protest; Soccer Player Reportedly Faces Execution

Iran: At Least 400 Sentenced Up to 10 Years for Anti-Gov’t Protest; Soccer Player Reportedly Faces Execution https://t.co/YrKuAX8yKq
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) December 14, 2022

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Our @BBCNews @BBCWorld report on the arrest of one of Iran’s best known actresses #TaranehAlidoosti, a public figure who stayed in Iran, risking her own safety as she continued to support protests against the Islamic Republic. #MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/4w58pqeRXW
— Azadeh Moshiri (@Azadeh_Moshiri) December 18, 2022

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Today at the final of the World Cup, I only hope the players on the field and the whole world remembers that there’s a man and fellow footballer called Amir Nasr, on death row, only for speaking in favor of Women’s rights. pic.twitter.com/VdMicGVaml
— Shakira (@shakira) December 18, 2022

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Tweeted this @bbcpersian news item 2 days ago now picked up by @BBCNews
“His face was smashed. His nose, jaw & chin broken. His torso from neck to navel, over his kidneys, was stitched up.”
Family finds signs of torture & organ removal on exhumed body.https://t.co/RGG12oVxTU
— Omid Djalili (@omid9) December 21, 2022

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Very powerful display of those who have been killed during the #IranProtests projected on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s embassy in London. 🎥 #MahsaAmini #اعتصابات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/K0tAdXEq3o
— Jonathan Harounoff (@JonathanHaroun1) December 20, 2022

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December 23, 2022 by V Leigh

Protect and Serve Failed – Uvalde massacre survivors fight to hold system accountable – United States Hypocrisy

Uvalde massacre survivors fight to hold system accountable – United States Hypocrisy https://t.co/AU0I8LqRu1
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) December 15, 2022

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In Texas an Indian-American man got a gun to protect his home. He suspected a burglar & stood on his front porch.

Cops arrived unannounced & shot him dead in less than 1 sec, claiming to “save lives.” TX IS AN OPEN CARRY STATE. How do you reform this?https://t.co/ivh7YKaSzj
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) December 5, 2022

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Police killed at least 1,054 people through November 27, 2022. Police are killing people at higher rates in 2022 than *any year on record* in the United States. https://t.co/0VQVssyYOK
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) November 30, 2022

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Uvalde family members like @faithmataa continue to show the leadership missing from much of Congress & the Texas legislature. At yesterday’s hearing she showed the true cost of our failure to take common sense steps like raising the age of purchase for an AR-15 to 21. https://t.co/JR9NxUrPMN
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) December 16, 2022

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NEW: Chaos killed Uvalde victims who emerged from the school with a pulse. Ambulances were trapped by parked cars and helicopters with blood supplies tried to land at the school, but a fire department official told wait at an airport three miles away. https://t.co/aCNn70dV2R
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) December 20, 2022

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December 22, 2022 by V Leigh

Poison an entire city & the charges get dismissed but someone stealing food to survive or sheltering on a train in freezing weather gets criminalized. This is how crime is socially constructed: criminalize mostly poor people for petty offenses while legitimizing mass harm.

Poison an entire city & the charges get dismissed but someone stealing food to survive or sheltering on a train in freezing weather gets criminalized. This is how crime is socially constructed: criminalize mostly poor people for petty offenses while legitimizing mass harm. https://t.co/MwZJ1JKfQc
— Dyjuan Tatro (@DyjuanTatro) December 9, 2022

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Last night, the Senate passed a $858,000,000,000 “defense” budget.

No one asked “how will we pay for it?”
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) December 16, 2022

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You read that right: Republicans just blocked the #CROWNAct, our bill that protects against race-based hair discrimination.

Black people are penalized for their natural hair every day in this country, from school to work. This isn’t over – we’re going to keep fighting. https://t.co/Og1y6c9quW
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) December 14, 2022

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There is literally no reason to block this other than racism. https://t.co/AdYQKaZ7Wk
— Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis (@RevJacquiLewis) December 15, 2022

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$11 billion for NYPD. Per year. Nearly $1 billion in overtime alone. Over $300 million for school police. Over $70 million so far this year to settle police lawsuits.

But not enough for public libraries. A budget is a statement of values. https://t.co/jAmLSeOS5p
— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) December 11, 2022

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I’m sorry but it’s not accountability. It just isn’t and it’s harmful to act like it is. We’re in the midst of a collective meltdown over retail theft thats increasing prison sentences and Wells Fargo steals billions and gets a meaningless fine. How is this accountability at all? https://t.co/6pZMOX0xzA
— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) December 20, 2022

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December 21, 2022 by V Leigh

“We are very well-prepared for the long haul of this battle,” @AmazonLabor President @Shut_DownAmazon says about the $AMZN union fight, adding: “Corporations have no choice but to realize this movement is not going to stop… until we rightfully get what we rightfully deserve.”

We are proud to announce that Fellows at the National Institutes of Health are uniting to fight for better working conditions, better science, and more equitable medical research for all. We are NIH Fellows United. #NIHFellowsUnited 🧵 pic.twitter.com/AQLxFdJNSt
— NIH Fellows United-UAW (@nihfellowsunite) December 16, 2022

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🤦‍♂️ https://t.co/SvRkJrDh0Q
— Railroad Workers United ✊ (@railroadworkers) December 18, 2022

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BREAKING: College athletes are employees who have the right to organize, NLRB officials determined in a case brought by USC football players.

Agency staff found that the NCAA, PAC-10, and USC are violating players’ rights by misclassifying them as “student-athletes.”
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) December 15, 2022

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“If the rail workers strike, it would hurt the economy”

“If nurses strike, it’ll hurt the patients”

“If teachers strike, it’ll hurt the children”

This is anti-labor, strike-busting language. Yes, workers are vital—meet their demands.
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) December 20, 2022

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“We are very well-prepared for the long haul of this battle,” @AmazonLabor President @Shut_DownAmazon says about the $AMZN union fight, adding: “Corporations have no choice but to realize this movement is not going to stop… until we rightfully get what we rightfully deserve.” pic.twitter.com/GwAwGClm5Q
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) December 20, 2022

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December 20, 2022 by V Leigh

Hospitals in the US are the fullest they’ve been throughout the pandemic

“Masks work against Covid, masks work against RSV, masks work against influenza and masks work against other respiratory viruses. They really do work to help prevent people from getting infected and the consequences of that infection.” https://t.co/7y1zez2py5
— 𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 (@jvipondmd) December 11, 2022

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The pandemic’s biggest impact on the labor market may be a mass disability event—caused by long COVID.

And given what the U.S. lacks—universal paid sick days, short-term disability, job protection, etc.—it’s a shock the economy may not be prepared for. https://t.co/Co2lNhCkdt
— RAND Corporation (@RANDCorporation) December 9, 2022

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Looking forward to the discourse about how lazy everyone is and how it’s hurting the economy during the coming winter surge pic.twitter.com/xFhhLe8vT7
— Dr Ellie Murray, ScD (@EpiEllie) December 10, 2022

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My neurological issues began at around week six. My fear is that many people are experiencing decline without being aware of the damage.
Too many people I know are suddenly more forgetful, less able to find words, sensitive to sound & light but not making the connection. https://t.co/5nWyBsCx7m
— Hazie Long Covid/ME (@haziethompson) December 10, 2022

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Remember March 2020 when disabled people told y’all this exact thing would happen?

…and you ignored us and left us for dead?

You pushed us off a cliff forgetting our ankles are tied together. https://t.co/6UdlYxTOOK
— Imani Barbarin, MAGC | Crutches&Spice ♿️ (@Imani_Barbarin) December 9, 2022

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It ain’t brain fog. It is SARS-Cov-2 Associated Neurocognitive Decline (SAND) and we are not moving fast enough. https://t.co/3EUbCkSue6
— Daniel Brittain Dugger (@dbdugger) December 1, 2022

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Year 3 of the pandemic and we still don’t have one integrated app/website/number where we can:

– View COVID rates in our area
– Find a vaccine site
– Order free rapid tests and N95 masks
– Report rapid test results
– Order treatments
– Check air quality

What are we doing?
— Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran) December 15, 2022

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When asked “Are we ready for another pandemic?”, I replied, “You know Chairman Clyburn, frankly, we aren’t even ready for the flu epidemics that come seasonally.” https://t.co/ySOkTY7kwe
— KizzyPhD (@KizzyPhD) December 15, 2022

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“Hospitals in the US are the fullest they’ve been throughout the pandemic,” but most people have NO idea, by design. Obfuscation & distraction is the objective. Just think of the holiday profits! Anyway, it’s just business. (This article is 10 days old) https://t.co/xZLbEUfvcU
— Laura Miers (@LauraMiers) December 18, 2022

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December 16, 2022 by V Leigh

DEVELOPING: Twitter suspends several high-profile journalists who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.

DEVELOPING: Twitter suspends several high-profile journalists who have been covering the company and Elon Musk. https://t.co/LPC3iAdqTa
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 16, 2022

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Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O’Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post’s @drewharwell.

Rupar tells me he has “no idea” why it happened.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 16, 2022

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Apparently it’s “Free speech for me. Not for thee.”
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) December 16, 2022

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Elon is a whiny little asshole who bought this platform so he could treat his critics like he’s been treating his employees – doesn’t seem much more complicated than that.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) December 16, 2022

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Holy Shit. Elon Musk just popped into a Twitter Spaces chat with a bunch of journalists. He was called out by journalist Drew Harrell, who he banned, for lying about posting links to his private information, then leaves almost immediately after being pressed. Here is the exchange pic.twitter.com/wVA9Gb5MVJ
— Bradley Eversley (@ForeverEversley) December 16, 2022

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looks like both @mattbinder and @donnie were suspended for sharing this on-the-record statement from LAPD about Elon Musk. This is the most basic type of reporting – apparently no longer safe on Twitter pic.twitter.com/0nRbNvSBnq
— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) December 16, 2022

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Wait, is this a joke. I tweeted my Post & Mastodon social media links to @HC_Richardson to also connect with her there, and Twitter labeled them “sensitive content.”

No idea if this is Twitter breaking down or new ownership discouraging people from leaving Twitter. Smh pic.twitter.com/ma6KV0RNaF
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) December 12, 2022

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Any post with a link to a Mastodon profile is being deemed “unsafe” by Twitter, and prominent technology journalists who write about Twitter have just been banned.

That’s one way to deal with critics (& competing platforms) I guess.

But it sure as hell isn’t freedom of speech
— Belinda Barnet (@manjusrii) December 16, 2022

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December 12, 2022 by V Leigh

The soul of our nation is sick. Slaughter, devastation, bloodied “safe places.” This is what happens when the right to own guns supersedes shared responsibility for community. Mourning with Chesapeake, Charlottesville, and Colorado Springs.

Breaking News: Multiple people were shot and killed inside a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, according to a police spokesman. The shooter was found dead at the store. https://t.co/RVy7GPsqiU
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 23, 2022

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Today, I went to the House floor to honor the victims of the Chesapeake mass shooting.

Fernando Chavez-Barron, Kellie Pyle, Randy Blevins, Brian Pendleton, Tyneka Johnson, Lorenzo Gamble.

#ChesapeakeStrong pic.twitter.com/UVNDjkDRKU
— Rep. Bobby Scott (@BobbyScott) November 30, 2022

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The soul of our nation is sick.

Slaughter, devastation, bloodied “safe places.”

This is what happens when the right to own guns supersedes shared responsibility for community.

Mourning with Chesapeake, Charlottesville, and Colorado Springs.
— Be A King (@BerniceKing) November 23, 2022

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This spike of hate crimes is very clearly on Libs of TikTok, Matt Walsh and the anti-trans mainstream media that has smeared LGBT people as sexual deviants.https://t.co/MajBnxIeSV
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) November 20, 2022

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The Colorado shooter’s dad: “I praised him for violent behavior really early. I told him it works… You’ll get immediate results.”

He then went on to praise the Colorado shooter’s grandpa, a MAGA Republican politician named Randy Voepel who supported the January 6 insurrection. pic.twitter.com/LAxevQwKDF
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) November 23, 2022

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Unfortunately, I have covered mass shootings multiple times in my career. This is the first time I can recall getting message after message from viewers like this. pic.twitter.com/w3uPqLERyn
— Ashley Michels (@ReporterAshley) November 23, 2022

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The politician identifies who to target for violence & where, passes laws to normalize the bigotry AND passes laws to enable access to guns.

The “mentally troubled” person they influenced & enabled goes to prison but the politician just gets to carry on in gov’t.
— 😷💉🧼 COVID, FLU, RSV WAVES UNDERWAY (@BreeNewsome) November 24, 2022

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We need stricter gun laws.

GOP: “No, it’s a mental health issue.”

Okay, let’s make mental health treatment free and accessible to everyone.

GOP: “No.”
— Robert Greenwald (@robertgreenwald) November 23, 2022

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December 11, 2022 by V Leigh

Strikes in Academia: Solidarity with the UC workers who are in their fourth week of the biggest strike in US higher education history. Let me remind you: absent the workers in a university, there’s nothing. Workers not only deserve better wages & benefits, the quality of a UC education depends on it.

Solidarity with the UC workers who are in their fourth week of the biggest strike in US higher education history. Let me remind you: absent the workers in a university, there’s nothing. Workers not only deserve better wages & benefits, the quality of a UC education depends on it. pic.twitter.com/aKDyeH49lq
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) December 9, 2022

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NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN continue to ignore the largest academic strike in US history, with only 100 secs of coverage in 3 weeks. In this same time frame, these networks managed to air 96 mins of coverage—34 individual segments—on Prince Harry and Prince William https://t.co/d7vQv1FNSy
— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) December 6, 2022

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“This is one of the most striking examples of a resurgence of the labor movement that we’ve seen,” said Harley Shaiken, an emeritus professor at the University of California-Berkeley who specializes in labor and the global economy. (1/2)
— Student Researchers United-UAW (@sruuaw) December 9, 2022

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“We firmly believe that there is no higher education at the UC without these workers and their compensation and benefits need to reflect that. These budding scholars, scientists, and leaders should not have to struggle in order to meet their basic living expenses.” https://t.co/bJZC5dIjIX
— Christine M. Moeller (@christinemmoe) November 17, 2022

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Breaking – UC Berkeley Academic Workers have occupied California Hall and we’re not leaving until Chancellor Christ commits to fair contracts for all #UAWonStrike #FairUCnow pic.twitter.com/gvrNVG1riQ
— UC Student-Workers Union UAW 2865 (@uaw2865) December 1, 2022

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My piece on recent strike developments. The California academic strike is the most important in US higher education history | Nelson Lichtenstein https://t.co/KGtpDUn1xp
— Nelson Lichtenstein (@NelsonLichtens1) December 5, 2022

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New School Students Occupy University in Solidarity with Striking Faculty https://t.co/z6x4DUksL1
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) December 9, 2022

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For any of you that thought the academy was some sacrosanct space to idle about & contemplate the meaning of life, pls wake the fuck up. It is a workplace with bosses and workers. This flex is about power and their efforts to break the will of the workers on campus. https://t.co/Oa8TjAdZb3
— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@KeeangaYamahtta) December 8, 2022

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I hope the New School strike wakes people up about how exploitive academia is. Charging $52,000 tuition for classes that they pay a contractor $5,000 to teach…
— Daniel Feldman dfeldman@hachyderm.io (@d_feldman) December 7, 2022

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I fully support the New School strike. I was paid 4,000 to adjunct at @EugeneLang where the dean screamed at me for not teaching my class the way he ordered me to like I was his servant. No one should be treated the way New School treats its employees.
— cph (@cathyparkhong) December 7, 2022

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As we enter the 4th week of the New School strike, @mrheeloy reflects on her immigrant working-class roots and being a person of color in academia. Grateful to be in solidarity with so many passionate colleagues and students. Read the essay @theoffingmag: https://t.co/kEsgsJvY8O
— Mimi Wong (@whoismims) December 9, 2022

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Southwest Airlines is a company which spent $5.6 billion on stock buybacks for wealthy shareholders while the workers who keep the airline running work 16-18 hour days and passengers are stranded during the holiday season. Unacceptable.

BREAKING: The Biden admin will now reject all Haitian, Cuban and Nicaraguan asylum seekers who cross illegally, and cap entry from those places and Venezuela at a total 30,000/month. Biden has deported ~40,000 people to Haiti, amid humanitarian crisis, cholera and gang violence

Iran: At Least 400 Sentenced Up to 10 Years for Anti-Gov’t Protest; Soccer Player Reportedly Faces Execution

Protect and Serve Failed – Uvalde massacre survivors fight to hold system accountable – United States Hypocrisy

Poison an entire city & the charges get dismissed but someone stealing food to survive or sheltering on a train in freezing weather gets criminalized. This is how crime is socially constructed: criminalize mostly poor people for petty offenses while legitimizing mass harm.

“We are very well-prepared for the long haul of this battle,” @AmazonLabor President @Shut_DownAmazon says about the $AMZN union fight, adding: “Corporations have no choice but to realize this movement is not going to stop… until we rightfully get what we rightfully deserve.”

Hospitals in the US are the fullest they’ve been throughout the pandemic

DEVELOPING: Twitter suspends several high-profile journalists who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.

The soul of our nation is sick. Slaughter, devastation, bloodied “safe places.” This is what happens when the right to own guns supersedes shared responsibility for community. Mourning with Chesapeake, Charlottesville, and Colorado Springs.