Miles Kampf-Lassin

It's been largely memory-holed but Dems had the chance to lift millions out of poverty by increasing min wage to $15/hr under Biden but abandoned the idea as soon as Senate parliamentarian balked. Republicans meanwhile have already sidestepped her & may again to pass their budget

David Weigel @daveweigel

Biden era mysteries: D gave up on getting min wage increase thru senate when parliamentarian blocked $15 wage from reconciliation (ie doing it w 50 votes and not needing 10 Rs). Just didn’t propose a smaller wage increase. Stopped talking about it. Let JH steal a march on them.

The Trump admin blatantly targeting organized labor by brutalizing and detaining the leader of SEIU in California as part of its ICE raids and kidnapping operations has provoked unions across the country to unite and defend against these attacks. Befuddling strategy from the WH.

BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom

Union leader David Huerta has been released from federal custody following nationwide protests. Huerta was charged with conspiracy to impede an officer for monitoring an ICE raid, a felony carrying a maximum sentence of six years in federal prison. https://t.co/h4h3tvc5o3

The powerful lobby representing landlords & Wall Street development companies that want to raise your rent is throwing massive funding to Andrew Cuomo in order to defeat Zohran Mamdani who plans to freeze the rent & build affordable housing. Encapsulates the NYC mayoral race.

Jeff Coltin @JCColtin

NEW: The biggest single donor in the mayoral race is now the New York Apartment Association, which wants to make sure Cuomo defeats Mamdani.

Wild that Trump officials are using the same acronym for their budget as Build Back Better, Democrats’ key domestic package under Biden that would’ve actually been generationally transformative by expanding the social welfare state but was sunk by centrists & corporate lobbyists.

Stephen Miller @StephenM

The BBB will increase by orders of magnitude the scope, scale and speed of removing illegal and criminal aliens from the United States. For that reason alone, it’s the most essential piece of legislation currently under consideration in the entire Western World, in generations.

There's a sickening campaign underway by political opportunists using the tragic killings at the DC Israeli Embassy to try to defame & discredit Chicago's left movement that's always preached peace & unity—and it's all based on misinfo & lies. Unhinged behavior that needs to end.

Jake Sheridan @JakeSheridan_

This is "misinformation," Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez tells me. She said this man is her former political director, Chris Poulos, not the shooter. “This is exhausting & harmful. They can really put people in danger,” she said. “Our message has always been about peace.” (1/2)

Life shouldn't be an endless slog in service of filthy rich CEOs who profit off of trade wars that drive up prices while wages flatline. We can resist the grind culture paradigm by organizing for a future where we all work less. Talked about that here: https://t.co/UHXhoHvadk

Sesame Street workers have just voted overwhelmingly to unionize https://t.co/Bu0WNNfGpy

Good rundown of the continued importance of Marx in navigating our current political moment of "hyper-exploitation & overweening tycoons; trade protectionism & blatant imperial land grabs; constitutional instability & simmering class conflict." —@BenBurgis https://t.co/J74pFZSJWh

Revolting behavior by NYU, I'm deeply ashamed of my alma matter for punishing a student for bravely speaking out against the atrocities our govt is funding & supporting in Gaza. Disciplining over speech flies in the face of academic freedom, this should be immediately reversed.

Eoin Higgins @EoinHiggins_

NYU student speaker at graduation addresses Palestine; school is withholding his diploma for his speech https://t.co/uqYSQHY0zZ https://t.co/uHw0SrZHvM

RT @MilesKLassin: It's not just a "nonprofit killer" that Republicans are slipping into their massive budget bill—it would also allow the T…

I’m glad to see my alma matter acknowledge the moral crime our country is helping to perpetrate which has slaughtered tens of thousands of Palestinians, and led to a crackdown on campus speech and academic freedom. Ignoring it or posting snark is no way to prepare for the future.

Ryan James Girdusky @RyanGirdusky

.@NYUGallatin graduation speech opens up with statement that there's a genocide in Gaza... words that will really help prepare students for the future

Rest in power Michael Miner, a legend in media criticism & dogged reporter whose impressive body of work will live on. Mike wrote about my fight w/ a newspaper giant in 2012 when a group of us were sued for publishing the Occupied Chicago Tribune (we won): https://t.co/NAv8haCPZH

Rick Kogan @rickkogan

Chicago Reader "Hot Type" columnist and so much more, Michael Miner was not only the 'conscience of our profession,' but a terrific husband, fun-loving father and friend but a lousy tennis player. Dead at 81 https://t.co/G5WWqR6Oj2

It's not just a "nonprofit killer" that Republicans are slipping into their massive budget bill—it would also allow the Trump admin to target any labor unions they decide they want to go after. Standard authoritarian regime behavior. https://t.co/35UHXLf2Of

RT @MilesKLassin: The “rise and grind” credo is a ruse to suck more value out of our labor. It’s time to rouse a different reality—one in w…