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Matthew Cunningham-Cook

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reporting ‪at the Center for Media and Democracy, organizing in the labor movement. (802) 490-5859

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Sean O’Brien sold workers and unions out to Trump—these Teamsters are running to oust him. “As a labor leader, [O’Brien] should be disqualified…. Donald Trump has done nothing to help the working class, only the people in the Epstein class.”

🚨 New from me @therealnews.com

Sean O'Brien sold workers & unions out to Trump—these Teamsters are running to oust him

I speak w/ Richard Hooker Jr. & John Palmer, who are running against the O'Brien administration in this year’s Teamsters elections
therealnews.com/sean-obrien-...

04.03.2026 19:07 👍 326 🔁 83 💬 5 📌 8
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Why Target is at the Center of an ICE-Out Campaign in Minnesota - Workday Magazine ICE Out of MN, a coalition of unions, worker centers, and community organizations, is putting pressure on Minnesota’s corporations that stayed silent as thousands of federal immigration agents wreaked...

Great interview on why boycott Target. workdaymagazine.org/why-target-i...

07.03.2026 03:46 👍 129 🔁 39 💬 8 📌 3
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Bodycam video contradicts ICE claims in fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas Video of last year's fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over"...

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."

But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."

07.03.2026 00:59 👍 5162 🔁 2373 💬 93 📌 153
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Video shows Mayor Lurie’s security shoved man to ground before fight Video shows moments before SFPD officer slammed to ground by man in Tenderloin brawl, calling into question the officer's narrative.

Video contradicts claims by Lurie and police

07.03.2026 03:20 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

happy friday

07.03.2026 03:32 👍 102 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 1
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Trump’s White House Posts Fascist Memes As It Wrecks the Economy The president’s extremely online staff is posting ‘Grand Theft Auto’ memes and cracking jokes about his Iran war as energy prices explode.

Wrote with @swin24.bsky.social about how the White House is posting fascist memes about GTA and Call of Duty to make themselves laugh about their war as it threatens to blow up the global economy zeteo.com/p/trump-iran...

07.03.2026 03:31 👍 101 🔁 36 💬 1 📌 4

Now the number is at least 11. According to a press release today, 59-year-old Pejman Karshenas Najafabadi died in custody on March 1 after suffering a heart attack. He was from Iran and came to the US as a lawful permanent resident decades ago.

07.03.2026 03:20 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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CPJ calls on immigration authorities to release Tennessee-based journalist Estefany Rodriguez - Committee to Protect Journalists Washington, D.C., March 6, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on immigration authorities to unconditionally release journalist Estefany Rodríguez, who was detained without warrant on Marc...

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on immigration authorities to unconditionally release journalist Estefany Rodríguez, who was detained without warrant on March 4 despite being in the United States legally, according to news reports.

#ICE #freepress #pressfreedom

cpj.org/2026/03/cpj-...

07.03.2026 03:26 👍 20 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”

06.03.2026 01:10 👍 3376 🔁 778 💬 37 📌 17
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The Axis of Chaos The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is sowing the seeds for state collapse and unending violence across the region.

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is not “stability.” It’s a recipe for state collapse, regional conflagration, and unending violence.

@alfatau.bsky.social reports on the chaos this war is unleashing.

07.03.2026 00:09 👍 22 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 1
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Boy, 4, breaks away from mom, fatally struck by SUV driver, who leaves Brooklyn scene The child was hit by the driver of Ford SUV on Rockaway Parkway near Linden Blvd. in East Flatbush about 11:10 a.m., cops said.

We need to open completely car-free safe streets around a lot more than just schools

An adequately trained, attentive driver should easily be able to avoid killing a 4-year-old pedestrian

Our city’s parents should not have to fear a child’s “breaking away” being a death sentence

06.03.2026 05:02 👍 668 🔁 192 💬 64 📌 9

dead link

06.03.2026 22:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Republicans Toil to Avoid Saying ‘War’ as Iran Conflict Widens

Yes, it is a war.

An illegal war.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

05.03.2026 17:08 👍 116 🔁 32 💬 11 📌 9

you actually can't keep that water way open without nukes

06.03.2026 22:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The Minneapolis council member on the front lines of the resistance to ICE • Minnesota Reformer When heavily-armed federal agents and Minneapolis police officers surrounded a Lake Street taco shop in June, Minneapolis City Council Member Jason Chavez was incensed.  “This is completely wrong,” Ch...

I profiled Jason Chavez, the Minneapolis city council member who has been embedded in community efforts to combat ICE.

“To leave your constituents to face off with a racist fascist regime on their own, without having someone that has some power…I could not let my constituents be out there alone.”

05.03.2026 13:20 👍 722 🔁 243 💬 9 📌 38
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St. John’s University in New York No Longer Recognizes Faculty Labor Unions St. John’s University’s recent decision to cease recognizing faculty labor unions after 56 years stirred a conversation on Catholic social teaching.

“Father Brian Shanley is violating New York state law & ignoring decades of St. John’s institutional practice & centuries of Catholic social teaching around respect for labor & workers."

— Sophie Bell, St. John's University AAUP President

06.03.2026 19:20 👍 30 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
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Report: Pentagon Eyes Defending “Armageddon” Briefings Religious-freedom group claims a Pentagon source reports some are defending the briefings as personal speech

SCOOP: Advocacy group claims a source in the Pentagon says the “Armageddon” briefings were real…

…and that the Pentagon is closing in on a public defense for them.

06.03.2026 18:42 👍 32 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1
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More than two thirds of state Sen. Dems oppose CLCPA changes “I believe very strongly that she has been peddled an enormous amount of misinformation,” state Sen. Liz Krueger said of the governor.

Rolling back NY's Climate Law will do nothing to reduce costs, because it isn't the cause of rising costs. The oil and gas status quo created the affordability crisis, and cheap, quickly-deployable renewables, storage, and efficiency will get us out of it. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

06.03.2026 15:37 👍 14 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2
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At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war

The US and Israel have bombed at least 13 hospitals and health facilities in Iran and one in Lebanon.

06.03.2026 15:32 👍 326 🔁 278 💬 19 📌 34
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Hegseth's comments are a reminder that government isn't always eager to show the human cost to war Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has drawn negative attention for his comment that the press has emphasized casualties in the Iran war because it wants to make President Donald Trump look bad.

I would love it if we as an industry could be blunt and precise about what is happening. Trump is hiding the human cost of war and the media is helping. There's no good reason to soften it.

06.03.2026 12:54 👍 106 🔁 38 💬 2 📌 1
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The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

06.03.2026 12:29 👍 9735 🔁 4653 💬 555 📌 629
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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

04.03.2026 21:58 👍 4243 🔁 1473 💬 36 📌 48

It was funny to see, I don't even remember which US newspaper it was anymore, but an obit of Ali Khamenei said something to the effect of "he lived a paranoid life in which he believed the US and Israel were out to kill him, which eventually happened"

06.03.2026 00:22 👍 2085 🔁 360 💬 14 📌 3
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When Fear Crosses the Border: Deportation Protests and the Illusion of Safety in Canada Podcast Episode · Reflections · March 5 · 28m

I was interviewed about how disabled people are impacted by ICE and other immigration policies by a Canadian news podcast. You can listen here. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

05.03.2026 19:33 👍 59 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 0
Iran: The War Western Media Always Wanted
Iran: The War Western Media Always Wanted YouTube video by The Real News Network

IRAN: THE WAR THE MEDIA ALWAYS WANTED

I speak with @abbymartin.bsky.social of @empirefiles.bsky.social and @ahjohnson.bsky.social of @citationspod.bsky.social on @therealnews.com

youtu.be/HzE7vbFztbA?...

06.03.2026 02:07 👍 34 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
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Why Target is the Center of an ICE-Out Campaign in Minnesota - Workday Magazine ICE Out of MN, a coalition of unions, worker centers, and community organizations, is putting pressure on Minnesota’s corporations that stayed silent as thousands of federal immigration agents wreaked...

Target has allowed ICE to abduct its workers and use its property for staging. Now Minnesota organizers are building a pressure campaign against the company. "There is no neutral here," says labor organizer Veronica Mendez Moore. Vital reporting by Isabela Escalona.

05.03.2026 16:11 👍 617 🔁 268 💬 10 📌 23

Post after post after post on Twitter right now saying Tehran is under the worst bombardment yet in a war that’s already killed more than 1,200 people in just a few days.

06.03.2026 03:29 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Spain’s MEP Irene Montero speaking to reporters

Spain’s MEP Irene Montero speaking to reporters

Irene Montero: No woman has ever been freed by American bombs or illegal aggression — Not in Syria. Not in Iraq. Not in Afghanistan. It will not happen in Iran either

When they want to sell their oil wars, their wars for profit, their imperial wars — they hide behind women’s rights to justify them

05.03.2026 18:00 👍 4915 🔁 1477 💬 129 📌 82
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Thomas Massie tells @premthakker.bsky.social Trump’s war on Iran is “at least costing $1 billion a day,” and warns that Congress may send even more straight to the “military industry complex.”

Subscribe to zeteo.com to follow more of Prem's coverage

06.03.2026 02:55 👍 365 🔁 127 💬 14 📌 12
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We bombed a girls elementary school.

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