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Some 250,000 people ride the trains to work each weekday from Long Island into New York City.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/16/new-york-long-island-rail-road-strike -
via CharityNavigator: The largest funding reduction in the history of the #SNAP program, nearly $186 billion in cuts over the next decade, is still impacting families across the country.
Whether you choose to #donate funds or #food, you can make an immediate difference. Learn more about the steps: bit.ly/4t8YKLB
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via CharityNavigator: The largest funding reduction in the history of the #SNAP program, nearly $186 billion in cuts over the next decade, is still impacting families across the country.
Whether you choose to #donate funds or #food, you can make an immediate difference. Learn more about the steps: bit.ly/4t8YKLB
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via CharityNavigator: The largest funding reduction in the history of the #SNAP program, nearly $186 billion in cuts over the next decade, is still impacting families across the country.
Whether you choose to #donate funds or #food, you can make an immediate difference. Learn more about the steps: bit.ly/4t8YKLB
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via CharityNavigator: The largest funding reduction in the history of the #SNAP program, nearly $186 billion in cuts over the next decade, is still impacting families across the country.
Whether you choose to #donate funds or #food, you can make an immediate difference. Learn more about the steps: bit.ly/4t8YKLB
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via CharityNavigator: The largest funding reduction in the history of the #SNAP program, nearly $186 billion in cuts over the next decade, is still impacting families across the country.
Whether you choose to #donate funds or #food, you can make an immediate difference. Learn more about the steps: bit.ly/4t8YKLB
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Added urgency when it comes to grocery stores, given that #DynamicPricing affects Americans’ ability to access affordable food.
#GrocerProfiteering charges different shoppers different prices for the same groceries#ConsumerProtection #BewareLoyaltyPrograms
#DigitalPrivacyEssentials #PromotionsPhishingYourDatahttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/maryland-grocery-stores-ban-surveillance-pricing
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Because when your country lacks universal healthcare, you have to go on strike to get health benefits included in the deal, sector-by-sector, city-by-city.
San Francisco teachers will now fully-fund healthcare starting in 2027. Just don't get sick before then.
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Because when your country lacks universal healthcare, you have to go on strike to get health benefits included in the deal, sector-by-sector, city-by-city.
San Francisco teachers will now fully-fund healthcare starting in 2027. Just don't get sick before then.
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"The majority seems to like the idea of eliminating private health insurance and associated costs — and, for the most part, are not deterred by the prospect of higher taxes to achieve it. This shouldn’t be too surprising, as the concept of spending money to save money is hardly foreign to working-class Americans."
#StickerShock #HealthInsurancePremiums #HospitalBills
#AffordabilityCrisis #election2026https://jacobin.com/2025/11/medicare-for-all-popularity-polling/
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"The majority seems to like the idea of eliminating private health insurance and associated costs — and, for the most part, are not deterred by the prospect of higher taxes to achieve it. This shouldn’t be too surprising, as the concept of spending money to save money is hardly foreign to working-class Americans."
#StickerShock #HealthInsurancePremiums #HospitalBills
#AffordabilityCrisis #election2026https://jacobin.com/2025/11/medicare-for-all-popularity-polling/
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"The ranks of the homeless in our city have swelled to the greatest numbers since the Great Depression."
~Mayor-elect Mamdanihttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JjZ1m92bzmI
#HousingAffordabilityGap
#TrumpTentCities
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"The ranks of the homeless in our city have swelled to the greatest numbers since the Great Depression."
~Mayor-elect Mamdanihttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JjZ1m92bzmI
#HousingAffordabilityGap
#TrumpTentCities
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“He’s used the word ‘hoax’ more times than we can count. It’s incredibly disrespectful. At every turn, no matter how many of us have come forward,” said Bensky.
She was among the group of Epstein survivors who held up photos of their younger selves at the US Capitol on Tuesday as they campaigned for the release of the Epstein files. The group was elated when the bill moved through the House and then the Senate on Wednesday,
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/epstein-survivor-condemns-trump
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“He’s used the word ‘hoax’ more times than we can count. It’s incredibly disrespectful. At every turn, no matter how many of us have come forward,” said Bensky.
She was among the group of Epstein survivors who held up photos of their younger selves at the US Capitol on Tuesday as they campaigned for the release of the Epstein files. The group was elated when the bill moved through the House and then the Senate on Wednesday,
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/epstein-survivor-condemns-trump
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“I’m being arrested for peacefully protesting the horrible treatment of human beings by ICE agents.”
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“I’m being arrested for peacefully protesting the horrible treatment of human beings by ICE agents.”
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"The story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. Although this is not a story about a moment of victory, it is a story of being reminded of our power."
#RacialProfiling #TwoTierJusticeSystem #RacialDiscrimination #ICEstatesponsoredterror
https://organizingmythoughts.org/they-came-for-our-neighbors-we-showed-up/
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Uncollected trash is piling up on the streets of Philadelphia as municipal workers' strike entered its 7th day.
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Just 4 years ago: the campaign to win the Excluded Worker Fund, path-breaking relief that provided $15,000 on average, to undocumented immigrant workers who were excluded from federal assistance
Parallels with the creation of UI in The Depression
#SocialSafetyNet #taxonbillionaires #classdivide #guaranteedincome
Base-Building in Community Organizing
with Make the Road NY’s José Lopez and Ángeles Solis
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0r2xqo1N6KpP9Njoyt32Rx -
Under the "Covid welfare state" : "For a brief period, and for the first time in history, Americans had a robust safety net: strong protections for workers and tenants, extremely generous unemployment benefits, rent control and direct cash transfers from the American government." Then it was rolled back overnight, by Republicans in control of the House.
Unfairly, Democrats were blamed for benefits lost.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/09/trump-victory-explanation-scrutiny
#socialdemocracy #solidarity #unionstrong #guaranteedbasicincome -
Liz Shuler endorses Kamala Harris, as president of and first woman to lead the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor federation, representing 60 national and international unions and nearly 13 million workers. Her home union is IBEW, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
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"untapped and unorganized": In 2020, in North Carolina, "there were over 1 million poor and low-wage voters that did not vote." In Michigan, in 2016, "over a million poor and low-wage voters didn’t vote". In Pennsylvania, "over 1.3 million poor and low-wage voters didn’t work."
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The singer songwriter Marc Anthony appears in a new ad 'Recuerdo' (I remember) in which he slams Donald Trump for comments he made about Puerto Rico during his presidency:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KbzYETgHk0w&t=60s&pp=2AE8kAIB
#election2024 #LatinoVote -
Unhoused people age 60 and over found dead in alleys, tents, encampments, bus stops, parks, yards, parking lots, cars, RVs and on sidewalks.
#heartlesscities #tentcities #Hoovervilles
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/08/homeless-senior-citizen-deaths-los-angeles
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In May, there’s a UAW vote at a Mercedes plant in Alabama, and organizing efforts are also beginning at BMW, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, and Nissan plants, among others, across several Southern states.
The current neoliberal #bizmodel is designed to deny workers fair pay in the South, says Andrew Wolf, a professor of global labor and work at Cornell University
https://www.vox.com/money/2024/4/24/24138640/uaw-union-vote-volkswagen-tennessee
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Hurricane Otis destroyed many health centres in rural communities around Acapulco. Others are closed due to a lack of staff and supplies. NGOs like Medical Impact have stepped in.
"Often ranked among the world’s most violent, the municipality has more people in extreme poverty than any other in Mexico."
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Listen to the EPIC truth bomb this NBC Interviewer just dropped, for all of the radical Left democrat voters to hear.
“…Let’s talk about, the economy… things you’ve talked a lot about … federal reserve is obviously, independent[of the US economy?]”
Incredible.
Absolutely brilliant move.
#5Dwarfare #specialoperations #counterintelligence #psyop👉 RealSGAnon - again😉✌️
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Listen to the EPIC truth bomb this NBC Interviewer just dropped, for all of the radical Left democrat voters to hear.
“…Let’s talk about, the economy… things you’ve talked a lot about … federal reserve is obviously, independent[of the US economy?]”
Incredible.
Absolutely brilliant move.
#5Dwarfare #specialoperations #counterintelligence #psyop👉 RealSGAnon 😁😉✌️
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https://youtu.be/xDGxGXpsXUY?si=GQYx9V8lrr8L6qXm
It's important discussions like these are that I wish more people (especially those that identify as left or democrat) would listen to and share. It's something we need to understand about ourselves. #Important #disscussion #politics #left #democrat #capitalism