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Humbly here, learning and laughing and delighting and caring and fumbling my way through this life. And at every moment, wishing us all well. 🫶👊🙌

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Consumers know virtually nothing about the farms where their blueberries come from. Until something changes, they won’t be able to make choices that could make a difference in the lives of the people who pick them. by @maxblau.bsky.social

Do My Grocery Store Blueberries Come From Farms Where Workers Were Harmed?Max Blau spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers. It left him wondering: Is the produce he buys at the grocery store part of the problem?projects.propublica.org
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When China stepped up its crackdown on human rights activists in 2019, lawyer Wu Shaoping thought he found a safe haven for his family The United States Instead, it's America's ICE that's imprisoned this asylum seeker after a traffic stop My column on this outrage www.inquirer.com/opinion/wu-s...

Wu Shaoping escaped China’s repression, only to get busted by ICE in Pa. | Will BunchThe U.S.’s reputation as a safe haven for the world’s dissidents takes another hit with Pennsylvania’s arrest of a Chinese human rights lawyer.www.inquirer.com
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How do you know if the fruits and vegetables you buy at the grocery store come from farms where workers were harmed? Read this thread by our reporter @maxblau.bsky.social 🧵

Max Blau

I’ve reported at length about abuses of foreign farmworkers who come to the U.S. on H-2A visas: stolen wages, guns pointed in their faces. One woman I met was kidnapped, raped and nearly killed. I wanted to know: How do I tell if the produce I buy is part of the problem? 👇

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Despite their oversight role, FCC members have accepted pricey gala tickets from CBS or its parent company, now Paramount. Seven of the 10 commissioners who served since 2016 accepted tickets worth more than $260,000, ProPublica found.

FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar DealsAccepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...www.propublica.org

This is so on brand. We have armed dysregulated predators and released them to hunt our neighbors. I have a family member dealing with this type on many-boy and it is all so on brand. So many men need help. They are lost and lashing out.

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Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.

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