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Mike Elk

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Emmy-nominated labor reporter @PaydayReport often in 🇧🇷. Alum: @Guardian! Yinzer @UEunion fam. Autistic⚾️ Jew. Falo Português in Pittsburgh. [email protected]

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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · Sep 5

Over 450 workers nabbed by ICE at the Hyundai plant in Georgia.

Since construction began, three workers have been killed on the job.

Activists say that the raid is only likely to prevent immigrant workers from speaking out.

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450 Nabbed by ICE at Hyundai Georgia Plant, Where 3 Workers Were Killed Previously

Since the Trump Administration took over and began cutting back on federal workplace safety enforcement, two workers have died at the plant in just two months.

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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 1d

Love the headline!!!! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The Tom Homan Affair Has More Red Flags Than a May Day Parade

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Carol Pogash @cpogash.bsky.social · 1d

Former Harris supporter, Salesforce's Marc Benioff, has gone total Trump. He wants troops patrolling San Francisco. Incredible account by the NYT's
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Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 1d

18 dead in Tennesse plant explosion www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Search After Tennessee Explosion Finds No Survivors, Officials Say

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2d

#OtD 11 Oct 1941 the Macedonian uprising against fascism during WWII began with an attack by communist partisans on a police station in Prilep, then Yugoslav territory, which had been occupied by German, Italian, Albanian and Bulgarian forces stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8349...

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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 2d

⭕️ BREAKING: CNN reports that Israel will not release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya as part of the ceasefire deal.

“The occupation refused to release Dr Hussam Abu Safiya,” a Hamas official told CNN on Friday.

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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 2d

I love October baseball so much!

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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 2d

A Reporter Was on a Flotilla Bound for Gaza. Israel Detained Him—and Some Twenty Other Members of the Press. Read Aida Alami. www.cjr.org/news/reporte...

A flotilla reporter detained by Israel.

“One of the port authority people or naval people put their foot on my head and told me to sit on my knees: Don’t move.”

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 3d

Air traffic controllers are enaging increasing sickouts around the United States to protest the government shutdown

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Air Traffic Controller "Sick Out" in Atlanta, Chicago and Nashville

Air Traffic Controller sick outs grow around the United States

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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 3d

Air traffic controllers are enaging increasing sickouts around the United States to protest the government shutdown

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Air Traffic Controller "Sick Out" in Atlanta, Chicago and Nashville

Air Traffic Controller sick outs grow around the United States

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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 3d

Venice opera house staff to strike over hiring of Meloni-linked conductor
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Venice opera house staff to strike over hiring of Meloni-linked conductor

La Fenice’s musicians and staff claim Beatrice Venezi lacks experience and was picked because of government ties

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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 3d

Fetterman Is Sole Democrat To Vote Against Blocking Caribbean Drug Boat Attacks

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Fetterman Is Sole Democrat to Vote Against Blocking Caribbean Drug Boat Attacks

Republicans in the Senate voted down an war powers bill to block Trump's deadly attacks on alleged Venezuelan drug boats in the Caribbean.

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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 3d

NBCUniversal ending MSNBC union agreement in place since 2007

Union busting in the Trump Era

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NABET-CWA on X: "NABET-CWA Bulletin: NBCUniversal/Versant (MSNBC) https://t.co/GW3ugRe43w" / X

NABET-CWA Bulletin: NBCUniversal/Versant (MSNBC) https://t.co/GW3ugRe43w

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 3d

Read of the day: “Turning Point USA is targeting a Rutgers faculty member for doing his job — in this case, researching the history of postwar anti-fascist movements and writing about them,” [Rutgers AAUP-AFT President] Givan said. https://loom.ly/1rQW_J8

N.J. professor says he’s moving to Europe after death threats over antifa research

Mark Bray said right-wing influencers have been targeting him on social media. Turning Point USA wants him fired.

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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 8d

OMG, go see “One Battle After Another”, it starts with leftists raiding an ICE camp in a fictional US & the movie just gets deeper and deeper from there.

Its like “Battle of Algiers” meets “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”

I’m shocked that a studio was able to make this youtu.be/kQUPdVxZNPk?...

One Battle After Another | Official Trailer 2

YouTube video by Warner Bros.

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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 8d

OMG, go see “One Battle After Another”, it starts with leftists raiding an ICE camp in a fictional US & the movie just gets deeper and deeper from there.

Its gonna inspire leftists in the way that “Battle of Algiers”

I’m truly shocked that a studio was able to make this youtu.be/kQUPdVxZNPk?...

One Battle After Another | Official Trailer 2

YouTube video by Warner Bros.

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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 8d

The deportation of Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara isn’t only a story of attacks on immigrants in Georgia; it highlights another trend: By August, assaults on journalists in the U.S. had already reached a four-year high. beta.elfaro.net/en/a-region-...

Podcast: The Deportation of Mario Guevara: Where Attacks on Immigrants and Journalists Collide

Salvadoran-born journalist Mario Guevara was deported today, Friday, after his arrest in June, while covering protests in Georgia against the immigration raids of Trump’s first months. He was the…

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 11d

"Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 9d

The anti-ICE protester, 19, was hurling insults but standing still when she was sprayed.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The anti-ICE protester, 19, was hurling insults but standing still when she was sprayed.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 9d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 9d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8d

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned

This feels like more and more of our media now.
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Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

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Doug McVay @dougmcvay.bsky.social · 9d

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’
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Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’

The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 10d

75 years ago today, the first "Peanuts" strip was published in a mere seven newspapers. It's been the chief artistic influence of my career, and I wrote yet another piece about the strip and how it relates to today's power relations in my new newsletter. lepplin.substack.com/p/charlie-br...

Charlie Brown and the Futility of Positive Thinking

A celebration of "Peanuts" at 75

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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 10d

I just saw the Battleship Potemkin w/ experimental jazz trio accompanying it at this 1892 historic labor site in Homestead.
It was so powerful and roaring in a rustic site like that where 7 striking steelworkers were killed.