- Voters support the #ForThePeopleAct by a 32-point margin
- Voters support the #PROAct by a 16-point margin
- Support for these bills *increase* as voters learn more about the policy specifics perfectunion.us/new-poll-major…
The PRO Act would overhaul existing labor law and expand workers’ rights to form a union, so that more workers could collectively bargain for better wages and working conditions.
After hearing a brief summary of the bill, likely voters supported it 53% to 37%.
We then asked likely voters about 13 labor reforms included in the PRO Act. Pluralities supported 12 of the 13.
By a ~40-point margin, voters backed provisions to reinstate illegally fired workers, block immigration status discrimination, & prevent worker misclassification.
Support for the #PROAct jumped after voters learned about its specific provisions.
The margin-of-support from likely voters increased from 16% to 29%.
We also asked voters about the For the People Act, a landmark voting rights bill that was also passed by the House of Representatives.
When first asked about the bill, 59% of likely voters supported #HR1 and just 27% opposed it.
We asked about 13 provisions of the #ForThePeopleAct. All 13 won plurality support & 11 had majority support.
The most popular elements:
- voting machine paper trails (60-pt margin of support)
- dark money groups must reveal donors (55-pt)
- Election Day federal holiday (45-pt)
Support for the For the People Act climbed considerably once voters learned about its specific provisions.
The margin of support from independent and third party voters jumped nearly 10 points—from 30 to 38.
Overall opposition from Republicans halved, from 13 points to
just 5.
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BREAKING: 3,800 workers at Colorado’s JBS USA, the world’s largest meatpacker, are on strike.
This is the largest meatpacking strike in 40 years.
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99% of workers in the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 agreed to strike over unfair working practices and poor conditions.
“This strike authorization is the direct result of JBS’s unlawful and bad-faith conduct,” said Kim Cordova, President of UFCW Local 7. Over the course of bargaining for a new contract, the union has filed multiple Unfair Labor Practice charges against JBS.”
In addition to dragging out pay negotiations, JBS has yet to address allegations of wage theft. Cordova said the plant charged workers for any replacements of personal protective equipment, gear required for employees to own, and costs upward of $1,100.
Private equity and the military-industrial complex are chomping at the bit to make money from Trump’s war in Iran.
This is how the super-rich expect to profit. Thread:
In an analysis obtained by @LeverNews, Pitchbook said the most important part of this conflict isn’t politics, it’s all about finding opportunities in weapons consumption, inventory depth, and industrial capacity.
A prolonged conflict means the U.S. will either supplement or extend existing military contracts. That means more money for contractors, their supplies, and their investors. documentcloud.org/documents/2780…
@LeverNews The document provides a table detailing which military-grade weapons used in Iran have certain “investable attributes.”
The systems that provide the weapons, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and RTX—defense companies whose stocks saw incredible growth since Trump attacked Iran.
People across the country have put public pressure on warehouse owners to halt the sale of their facilities to ICE – and, in multiple states, it's working.
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OBBB gave the ICE Detention Reengineering Initiative $38 billion to meet private prison investor demands to increase capacity. The Department of Homeland Security identified 24 warehouses for potential sale and detention conversions.
Majestic Realty Co. was contacted about “potential sale” of its Hutchins, Texas, warehouse that could hold up to 10,000 detainees. Hutchins has a population of 6,000.
Majestic Realty Co. says it “has not and will not enter into any agreement for the purchase or lease of any building to the Department of Homeland Security for use as a detention facility."
THREAD: Alabama has generated over $250 million since 2000 by exploiting prison labor.
For years, inmates protested the barbaric prison system that uses and abuses them.
The Free Alabama Movement is calling for a protest on Feb. 8 to halt the flow of money that enables abuse.
Since 2022, the Free Alabama Movement has demanded:
-The abolition of forced prison labor
-Rescinding the Habitual Felony Offender Act that doles out life sentences “far beyond any rehabilitative purpose.”
-Protecting family programs and increasing access to familial communications, visitations, and overnight stays.
-Resentence all eligible prior convictions under harsher sentencing statutes and apply modern laws so inmates can receive “fair and consistent treatment as those sentenced today.”
Alabama became one of the first states to enact a total ban on slavery without exceptions in 2022, but the abuse continued.
During a work stop strike in 2022, Alabama prisons reduced meals and axed family visitation rights for inmates. The same starve-out tactics was used in the 2024 work strikes. In 2025, Alabama dismissed a 2023 class action lawsuit filed by inmates against ADOC for using prisoners for its modern-day slavery machine.
The number of people currently in ICE custody is now over 73,000, the most in history.
DHS is planning 23 new detention centers that would more than double the number of people in ICE custody, detaining an additional 76,500 people, according to Bloomberg. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
ICE is buying massive warehouses with the intention of converting them into immigration jails in nearly two dozen communities.
ICE is the most well-funded law enforcement agency in the country, and its budget is set to triple this year.
ICE is using that cash to arm itself with a high-tech arsenal to track immigrants and citizens alike.
THREAD.
So far, seven people have reported ICE recording them and uploading their data into a facial recognition app without their permission. ICE uses Mobile Fortify and a ClearviewAI facial recognition app to track undocumented immigrants and citizens opposing ICE’s presence.
These apps are used alongside Palantir’s database of government and commercial data to find a person’s location in real time. ICE uses those databases to build a dossier on anyone with a social media profile, filling it out with public info from places like Venmo and Instagram and data brokers.