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NEW: The raid that detained 680 immigrants in Miss. comes after Koch Food Inc. paid $3.5 million to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit at the plant.

Workers at the plant are members of @UFCW & plan to fight back

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@UFCW Conditions were so bad at the plant that the EEOC forced the company to install a 24 hour hotline to report sexual and other forms of harassment

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If you value our reporting on the ICE raid in Miss, please consider donating so we can keep doing it

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UPDATE: @UFCW denounces the raid.

“Our top priority right now is to provide whatever assistance and counsel we can to any of our impacted members and their families" said the @UFCW

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@UFCW “Workers across this country are too scared to stand up for their rights and to report wage theft, dangerous work conditions, and other workplace issues. We must act now to end this dangerous climate of fear” said @UFCW whose union represents Koch workers

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I’ve worked in newsrooms alongside both @IsaacDovere and @davidsirota

I literally sat directly infront of @IsaacDovere when I worked @politico and the off the record conversations that I heard Dovere have with his sources showed he was total access journalist.
@IsaacDovere sat next to his drinking buddy Glenn Thrush - he heard all the same terrible stuff about women from Thrush that I heard.

Throughout Glenn being accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women, Dovere kept his mouth shut.

He was complicit google.com/amp/s/jezebel.…
One time I was at a going away party at PJ Clarke’s in DC for former AFSCME Comm Dir Chris Policano in Nov of 2015 with @IsaacDovere and Glenn Thrush.

Thrush started making crude jokes about who a woman at the party used to sleep in NYC political circles.

Dovere laughed hard
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Mike Elk
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Yesterday I saw a black man being searched by undercover cops in the Amtrak station in my hometown of Pittsburgh.

I stopped to record it, identified myself as a journalist, & was threatened w/ arrest for illegal wiretapping unless I erased the recording paydayreport.com/pa-police-thre…
Last night, when I got into Pittsburgh’s Amtrak station, I spotted a black man being cornered by several undercover Pa state police. They immediately began patting him down and searching his stuff paydayreport.com/pa-police-thre…
The man was indignant that he was being searched. As a journalist, my immediate instinct was to begin recording the interaction as a legal evidence in case something happened.

Eventually, they finished searching the man’s bags and released him. paydayreport.com/pa-police-thre…
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Mike Elk
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Due to underfunding, thousands of mold-infested plywood trailers are used as classrooms in Virginia

Meanwhile, @GovernorVA is proposing to give $750 million to Amazon.

Today's teachers in Richmond are taking off work & taking to the streets to protest

theguardian.com/us-news/2019/j…
@GovernorVA Virginia “is prepared to prioritize corporate tax breaks for Amazon over the needs of public schools," said @AFTunion Prez @Rweingarten "That’s not right.”

theguardian.com/us-news/2019/j…
Schools in Richmond and other counties are closed today because teachers are taking the day off to demand more education funding.

While the day-off in many ways resembles a strike, teachers are calling it a first step towards striking in future

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What if I told you that Congressmen settled over 250 sexual harassment lawsuits using taxpayer money, and there was no way to find out who these Congressmen were? Would you believe me?
The truth is that the situation is as described in the question. For decades members of Congress would use your taxpayer dollars to buy their way out of bad publicity.
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A man appearing in his late thirties was obviously delighted to be seated next to a teenager separated from the rest of her family. He started off by asking about her career plans and laughed when she said she wanted to be CEO and kept giving her ridiculous advice.
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To all who have been circulating the letter written to the media that exposes the experienced systemic culture of #sexual harassment in @BFMradio, you need to stop and check the impact of your actions

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@BFMradio :: The letter is addressed to members of the media. Not to members of the public. Regardless of good intention, fwding the letter to those other than intended reader is to violate the writer’s agency. If you want to help, don't start by disregarding what the writer intends.
@BFMradio The writer is already aware of the high cost s/he may face for disclosing this. Exposing wrongful power practices - and sexual harassment is a form of wrongful practice of power - is always risky.
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New #Qanon #Jul3

Think logically.
Thing IG report.
Think what’s missing.
Do you think this was going to be litigated in this setting?
Case that implicates some of the most senior elected officials (treason) is being handled by the appropriate office.
Think NATIONAL SECURITY.
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Logical thinking.
Why was the case against AWAN filed under BANK FRAUD?
The result today is re: BANK FRAUD.
See last.
Connect.
The SWAMP is being DRAINED.
Q
Thing IG report.
#Qanon

Here is a link to the full IG report:
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Misspellings matter.
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