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From Starbucks Workers United Huge shout out to Atlanta City Council this week for standing with workers! Baristas walked into City Hall, told council exactly what’s been happening in their stores, & council voted 11-3 to pass a resolution to boycott Starbucks until the company settles a contract.⏬️

Cities are catching on to how Starbucks treats its workers, and Atlanta won’t be the last. 🚫☕ Boston is done with Starbucks The Boston Globe reports Starbucks just closed two more downtown Boston stores, on top of nearly 20 it shut down across Greater Boston last year. The last one⏬️

In 2024, Amazon signed a historic settlement with OSHA, agreeing to improve safety at its warehouses nationwide. Now, two years later under Trump’s OSHA, Amazon workers are still fighting for safer working conditions, & the agency that’s supposed to protect them has gone silent. Take action here⏬️

REPOSTING: Starbucks closed about 250 US stores with barely 48 hours' notice, timed just 6 days before the end of its fiscal year. Totally a coincidence, we're sure. 🙄 These stores didn't need to close. Execs could have listened to the baristas who know exactly how to make a store thrive, but⏬️

Since the start of 2026, there have been more than 1,600 Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians and Palestinian property in the West Bank, averaging about 7 attacks per day. So I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell the Senate to Pass Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s⏬️

the country’s billionaires pay into Social Security as if they make just $184,500. That doesn’t make sense. According to one estimate, if we eliminated this cap on Social Security taxes, we could inject around $3 TRILLION into the program over the next 10 years. So that’s why Elizabeth Warren⏬️

AI Is an Elite Crime Spree by Matt Stoller. Sept.18,2026 open.substack.com/pub/mattstol... !Please read this excellent analysis at his Sustack account! "Documents show a Microsoft exec called AI the "largest theft of labor in human history.” New AI regulations are besides the point,⏬️

A Future Free of Shipping Pollution If the shipping industry were a country, it would be the SIXTH-LARGEST emitter of greenhouse gases, responsible for an estimated 1 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year. Passing the Next Generation Shipping Act gets us one step closer to⏬️

If you’re doing your back-to-school shopping on Amazon, you’re not alone. But the workers packing those orders can’t always afford back to school supplies for their own kids. If you’re shopping on Amazon right now, please consider making a solidarity donation to help Amazon workers unionize for⏬️

inhumane productivity quotas. That’s why they need a union. Unions don’t just fight for better wages and benefits. They fight for adequate ventilation in warehouses so the workers don’t keel over, push back against impossible productivity standards, and will even start a solidarity GoFundMe so⏬️

If you’re doing your back-to-school shopping on Amazon, you’re not alone. But the workers packing those orders can’t always afford back to school supplies for their own kids. If you’re shopping on Amazon right now, please consider making a solidarity donation to help Amazon workers unionize for⏬️

The NSF has just proposed major changes in its procedures for awarding research grants. Essentially, the proposed rules — which are now open for public comment — would codify within NSF the damaging changes OMB proposes to make government-wide. It would destroy credibility by dismantling NSF's⏬️

merit review process for everything: research grants, fellowships, training grants, center grants, undergraduate research opportunities and more by making it subject to review and approval by a political appointee. When the best available science is replaced by political preferences, everyone pays ⏬️

Become a Grassroots Co-sponsor of the Social Security 2100 Act! Rep. John Larson (D-CT) just released an updated version of his landmark bill to expand Social Security: The Social Security 2100 Act. If enacted, this bill would fulfill the promise of our Social Security system, extend the lifespan⏬️

Security tax cap and by adding a tax on investment income for taxpayers making over $400,000. Additionally, the bill would utilize an improved cost-of-living adjustment to more accurately take into account true costs incurred by seniors and implement a stronger minimum benefit, so an individual⏬️

Become a Grassroots Co-sponsor of the Social Security 2100 Act! Rep. John Larson (D-CT) just released an updated version of his landmark bill to expand Social Security: The Social Security 2100 Act. If enacted, this bill would fulfill the promise of our Social Security system, extend the lifespan⏬️