Tatyana Tandanpolie

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After some seven years as a member of the Union of Southern Service Workers, Jamila Allen is aseasoned labor organizer, having led three successful strikes during her time working at a Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers in Durham, North Carolina. Through one single-day strike and a subsequent weeklong strike, she and her co-workers won a COVID-19 safety policy for their store and 33 other locations during the height of the pandemic.

2 weeks ago | salon.com | Tatyana Tandanpolie

Speaking from an office in a bright fuchsia blouse, North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs thanked her supporters for caring about democracy in her state, the United States and worldwide over the last several months. "I am so touched and heartened by your support from Murphy to Manteo — and England, apparently," she told some 1,200 attendees of a virtual volunteer mobilizing event last Friday.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Tatyana Tandanpolie

Speaking from an office in a bright fuchsia blouse, North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs thanked her supporters for caring about democracy in her state, the United States and worldwide over the last several months. "I am so touched and heartened by your support from Murphy to Manteo — and England, apparently," she told some 1,200 attendees of a virtual volunteer mobilizing event last Friday.

2 weeks ago | salon.com | Tatyana Tandanpolie

At the outset of the United States' freeze on billions of dollars in foreign aid, Brooke Nichols thought President Donald Trump would never cut funding to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a $6.5 billion program that supplies most of the HIV treatment drugs in low-income countries across the world. PEPFAR saves too many lives, the global health expert recalled thinking, he couldn't possibly touch it. But the Trump administration soon did. Dread then set in.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Tatyana Tandanpolie

The FBI has arrested a state circuit court judge in Wisconsin over her alleged obstruction of immigration agents' attempt to arrest someone scheduled to appear in her courtroom, Bureau Director Kash Patel announced Friday. In a now-deleted post to X, Patel said that Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan had been charged and taken into custody Friday because of "evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week,” per The Independent.