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Jeff Rogers
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Journalists, I can connect you with nurses and healthcare workers. Communications Specialist with UNAC/UHCP, a union representing 40,000 RNs and healthcare workers in CA and HI. Posts and reposts: own opinions. Award-winning labor communicator.
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The U.S. immigration detention system is broken. Here’s what needs to change. www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...
July 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Cuts to Medicaid in the Senate’s budget bill could close 338 hospitals across the country, jeopardize millions of people’s health care, and threaten people’s lives.

Working people say, hell no!
June 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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President Trump committed the biggest act of union-busting in history, stripping nearly 1 million federal workers of their right to collectively bargain & have a voice on the job.

We’re thrilled to see the court block Trump’s retaliatory executive order. aflcio.org/statements/a...
AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement in response to a ruling in American Federation of Government Employees v. Donald Trump, which challenged the March 27 executive order stripping nearly 1 million federal workers of their right to collectively bargain under the guise of “national security”: “In March, President Trump committed the single biggest act of union-busting in history, stripping nearly 1 million federal workers of their right to collectively bargain and have a voice on the job. On Tuesday, a U.S. District Court restored those workers’ voices and their fundamental freedoms while the litigation continues. We are thrilled to see the court block Trump’s executive order—an action that was in explicit retaliation against federal workers’ unions exercising their First Amendment rights to challenge the administration’s attacks on their members. This fight is far from over, but federal workers, the labor movement and our allies have notched an essential victory.”
June 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Former NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo testified in front of the @democrats-edworkforce.house.gov.

"At the same time that corporations and billionaires are pushing for more tax cuts at the expense of working families, they're also trying to squelch worker action, worker power, worker voice."
June 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Loving Gavin Newsom.
June 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Priorities...
aflcio.org AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · Jun 10
About 1 in 5 veterans go to bed hungry each day. The money used for Trump’s birthday parade could provide SNAP food assistance for nearly 18,000 veterans for an entire year.
June 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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This is a generational moment. Every time labor has been knocked down, we get back up stronger than before.

Throughout the first 100 days of the Trump admin, America’s unions have been relentlessly fighting back against the billionaire takeover, and we’re winning.
April 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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No American can afford to ignore the systematic erosion of what it means to be American.

We are way past political and ideological disagreements.

What’s at stake is our adherence to the Constitution and rule of law. What safeguards all of our rights.

Without it, we cease to be America.
April 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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MUST WATCH via @tvlrfm.bsky.social: "Trump Blames Crash on DEI Instead of Bad Working Conditions"

Musk and Trump are dismantling any and all protections for workers.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyhl...
Trump Blames Crash on DEI Instead of Bad Working Conditions | BOSS WATCH
YouTube video by The Valley Labor Report
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February 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Icymi: this story from West Texas by @serranoalej.bsky.social is a good indicator of what life may be like under Trump 2 for anyone not holding a US passport or driver’s license in rural or Trump- aligned communities ( major metro areas, which tend to be D, simply don’t have the jail space)
February 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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A Spoon is Better Than a Fork

This was sent to all EEOC employees. Hit “Reply All,” y’all‼️
To: ANDREA LUCAS Mon 2/3/2025 756 AM Cc: ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGES; +29 others Good morning, Andrea. Apparently no one in leadership is willing to ring the alarm bells so it falls upon one of us to do it. The tactics you are employing and actions you have taken in lock step with this new administration are illegal and unconstitutional. You are not fit to be our chair much less hold a license to practice law. I will not participate in attempts to target private citizens and colleagues through the recent illegal executive orders. I swore an oath to the Constitution of the United States, and the Commission serves the people of the United States. If you want to continue following the illegal and unethical orders of our president and the unelected leader of "doge" that's on you. As I said in the email I sent to my colleagues yesterday (which was mysteriously deleted not only from their inboxes, but from my sent box), I know I take a great personal risk in sending out this message. But, at the end of the day, my actions align with what the EEOC was charged with doing under the law. I will not compromise my ethics and my duty to uphold the law. I will not cower to bullying and intimidation. If upon reflection, you feel like now would be a good time to take a vacation and resign from your position, please 'reply all' to this email and put "I'd Like to Occupy Mars!" in the subject line. We will take this as notification that you are resigning your position as acting chair. P.S. Happy Black History Month! Sincerely,
February 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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BREAKING: Philadelphia workers have won the first Whole Foods union under Amazon with UFCW.

Since Amazon bought the chain, workers have lost benefits and felt the squeeze.

Now they're fighting back against the multi-trillion dollar giant and hoping this win will be the first of many.
January 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Another Stop Work Order that further disables core health functions for the US.

US work with @who.int is constant and essential to America’s health. 🧵

apnews.com/article/cdc-...
CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal
U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. The surprise decision is focused on the U.S.
apnews.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Unions make our Social Security system strong.
A dark blue graphic with and a photo of workers wearing safety equipment. The white and yellow text reads, Life is better in a union. Unions helped build our Social Security system. Strong unions make a strong Social Security system."
January 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Trump has directed the Department of #Labor to stop investigating workplace #discrimination
#RESIST
January 27, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Under Trump, we could be flying blind when it comes to bird flu, other infectious diseases

www.latimes.com/environment/...
Under Trump, we could be flying blind when it comes to bird flu, other infectious diseases
President Trump announced he's pulling the U.S. from the WHO. Now researchers are scrambling to understand what that means for the H5N1 bird flu pandemic.
www.latimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Trump suspends funding to PEPFAR, launched by George W. Bush, which has saved millions of lives from HIV/AIDS

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying H.I.V. Treatment Worldwide
Pepfar, which is estimated to have delivered lifesaving treatment to as many as 25 million people in 54 countries, faces a funding delay of as long as 180 days.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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“This is a concerning precedent that public health messages won't be left to public health professionals and experts, and instead will be potentially controlled by politicians," an MD worked at the CDC for 20 years told MedPage Today.

www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
Trump's Gag Order Halts CDC Publication
MMWR did not publish as usual at 1 p.m. today
www.medpagetoday.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Great piece highlighting some (un?)intended consequences of mass deportations on the healthcare of Californians (and other states, too, for that matter).
January 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Please repost! We’re trying hard to sort out rumors from truth + would like to hear from anyone affected by the new federal orders + NIH pause. Patients, scientists, health equity researchers: please contact us below. We won’t share anything without your permission. www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...
Are you affected by the Trump administration’s pause on health communications, science meetings, and reviews?
Have you been affected by the Trump administration’s pause on communications, science meetings, and reviews? @statnews would like to hear from you.
www.statnews.com
January 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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NEW lawsuit from transgender woman in US custody challenges Trump's anti-LGBTQ+ executive order - storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM