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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 10h

Stand for democracy and dignity for all with your neighbors today -- and my neighbors include federal workers #NoKings

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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 8d

Wasn't but was in our league.

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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 25d

No one is doing it better right now. On an awkward ass career run.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 25d

Tim Pool nodding at "where's the empathy for Donald Trump?" before seeming to realize that Adam Friedland is mocking them is too good

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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · Sep 1

At Lowe’s, for instance, every one of their 273,000 employees could’ve gotten an annual $28,456 bonus over the past six years with the money the retailer blew on stock buybacks. Lowe’s median worker pay was just $30,606 last year. #LaborDay #EconomicJustice #ClassWar

Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · Sep 1

The Average CEO Now Makes 632 Times More Than a Typical Worker | CEO pay has risen nearly 35% since 2019 in absolute terms, while their median worker pay hasn’t even kept up with the U.S. inflation rate. At Starbucks, the gap between CEO compensation and median worker pay hit 6,666 to 1 last year.

The Average CEO Now Makes 632 Times More Than a Typical Worker - Bucks County Beacon

CEO pay has risen nearly 35 percent since 2019 in absolute terms, while their median worker pay hasn’t even kept up with the U.S. inflation rate.

buckscountybeacon.com

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · Aug 15

This is not how you host a discussion about the history of slavery in the United States. You take the opportunity to invite on experts in the field, who can communicate and educate the American people on the current state of our understanding of this subject. Let's not turn history into Crossfire.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Aug 14

The spending required to build the data centres needed to power the AI era will be one of the biggest movements of capital in modern history.

Who will pay for the $3tn AI building boom? We take a look here: on.ft.com/46StN6Z

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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · Aug 2

Well-known strategy

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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · Jul 25

Have never seen a pristine system designed by deloitte

Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · Jul 25

Here’s a fun fact: Elsa, the FDA’s new disaster AI tool, was developed by Deloitte, a multinational contractor that gave money to Trump’s inaugural fund in 2017 and again in 2025.

gizmodo.com/fdas-new-dru...

FDA's New Drug Approval AI Is Generating Fake Studies: Report

The AI, dubbed Elsa, is supposed to be making employees better at their jobs.

gizmodo.com

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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · Jul 25

like that his reaction is like mine would be, which is "holy shit that's deck, that's rza"

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jul 24

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · Jul 15

End = dnc. Damn autocorrect

Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · Jul 15

"why yes, I'm the average voter and I want the end to record me"

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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · Jul 9

*Superman flies in, lifts burning tree from toddler*

"Young man, where are your parents and what is their immigration status?"

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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · Jun 30

Me, the vice president: "gonna own the libs with this tweet. tagging this columnist to really turn the engagement temperature up"

*silence*

Me, the vice president: "ah yes, this is power. This is influence."

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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · Jun 10

We stood with David Huerta in Pennsylvania today and we'll continue to stand with him under he's fully exonerated.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Jun 9

In itself it's not the biggest thing but Congress specifically passed a law requiring ICE to allow access to members of Congress because of Trump's antics in the first term. This isn't even norms. It's violating black letter statute law.

Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · Jun 9

And here in NYC today another shocking escalation by Trump.

The law *explicitly allows* unannounced visits by congressmembers to federal facilities.

This is yet another breach of democratic norms by an increasingly rogue administration. Don't normalize this.

2 New York Representatives Are Denied Access to ICE Facility

www.nytimes.com

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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · Jun 9

Free David Huerta

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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · Jun 7

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California Federation of Labor Unions @californialabor.bsky.social · Jun 6

The California Labor Movement stands in strong solidarity with our brother David Huerta. We demand his immediate release! @seiuca.bsky.social

A statement from Lorena Gonzalez about the brutal assault and arrest of David Huerta by ICE.

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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · Jun 6

An American citizen and Los Angeles native, @seiucalifornia @seiuusww President David Huerta was injured and detained when ICE terrorized a working neighborhood. We demand his immediate release!

SEIU California @seiuca.org · Jun 6

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing.

ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him.

seiuca.org/press-releas...

SEIU California | SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles

We are proud of President Huerta’s righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement…

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Rocío Sáenz @seiusaenz.bsky.social · Jun 6

David Huerta must be released immediately to heal and begin a full recovery. David and all working people have put their bodies on the line for far too long to fight for justice and protect our communities. Violence has no place here.

SEIU California @seiuca.org · Jun 6

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing.

ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him.

seiuca.org/press-releas...

SEIU California | SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles

We are proud of President Huerta’s righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement…

seiuca.org

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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · Jun 6

He did hit his head unfortunately. Hoping he's okay.

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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · Jun 6

Absolutely

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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · Jun 6

Our @seiu.org brother David Huerta is thrown to the ground and apprehended by ICE in this video.

There are few more principled defenders of immigrants in the labor movement. He needs our solidarity now. An injury to one is an injury to all.

Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · Jun 6

This is police and ICE brutality and we cannot sit back and just let it happen.

Not in Los Angeles.

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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · Jun 5

Having morals beyond following polls isn't rocket science. Stand for something, stick with something. I'm begging people.

Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · Jun 4

Further, it turns out (shocker) that having Kilmar Abrego/abduction/CECOT in the news made Trump's approval rating on immigration go underwater and having him out of the news allowed them to rebound.

Bar graph of Trump approval on immigration from March 22, April 19, May 30 from 3 National Surveys of roughly 1600 US adults each by Economist/YouGov

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 4

i think this new york centric worldview helps explain why these people see national politics the way they do. parochialism of thinking that politics everywhere is the same as it is in manhattan.

Henry Burke @henryburke.bsky.social · Jun 4

Josh Barro: "When I look at policies in New York that stand in the way of Abundance, very often if you look under the hood, you eventually find a labor union at the end that's the driver"

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