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Andrea Vaghy

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I’m a social worker focused on workforce development, employment, labor markets and job quality and equity. Mom of teenage twins. Old movies, film podcasts, tv and pop culture are my thing. Detroit will always be home.

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This is horrifying.

09.03.2026 19:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes. Thanks for the correction.

09.03.2026 18:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The breaking point is mass civil unrest. Tech billionaires don’t care about losing $$ or civil unrest but the bankers & global markets do. Jamie Dimon has made comments about making sure people are taken care of as it relates to AI and job losses and he says that because he doesn’t want mass unrest.

08.03.2026 23:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have always said if Nixon went to prison and the rest of his crew did real time we wouldn’t be here today.

08.03.2026 23:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As he should be. People are mad.

08.03.2026 23:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

All of those countries have significant growing diversity. That is why you had Brexit and far right movements in France and Germany. The world is a diverse place and it is scary for white dudes.

08.03.2026 23:50 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

100% agree. I think a draft now would be worse than Vietnam.

08.03.2026 23:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

26.01.2026 05:04 👍 17717 🔁 6830 💬 317 📌 1131

Can’t quit my nonprofit job but I would donate every hour I have to help the lawyers put them away.

25.01.2026 02:32 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Post from 2017, massive crowd protesting in Seoul, South Korea. Post says “This is how South Koreans took to the streets to demand that their corrupt president be impeached. Just saying.”

Post from 2017, massive crowd protesting in Seoul, South Korea. Post says “This is how South Koreans took to the streets to demand that their corrupt president be impeached. Just saying.”

From 2017. Imagine this in every major US city at once…

25.01.2026 02:22 👍 271 🔁 56 💬 10 📌 3
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ICE pulls over Texas Monthly’s senior taco editor while reporting in West Texas 'They wanted us to get anxious. It worked,' the award-winning food journalist said of his encounter with ICE agents.

ICE pulls over Texas Monthly’s senior taco editor while reporting in West Texas www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-n...

24.01.2026 15:13 👍 342 🔁 161 💬 10 📌 11

He was a friend of my ex-husband’s who I got to know and hang out with quite a bit when he and his wife lived in Brooklyn. He is an incredibly good and cool guy.

25.01.2026 02:27 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Ellison: "In other words, we didn't vote for him, so we can't have justice? Also, no president I've ever heard of received a $400m plane from a country trying to curry favor, crypto deals...he's truly distinguished himself in the area of corruption, so for him to call MN corrupt is quite remarkable"

10.01.2026 01:19 👍 4459 🔁 1123 💬 58 📌 26
One panel comic with one person saying to another: Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors

One panel comic with one person saying to another: Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

23.12.2025 05:31 👍 5746 🔁 1498 💬 34 📌 47
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Gov. JB Pritzker signs Illinois immigration law that curbs courthouse arrests and expands right to sue agents A new Illinois law enables individuals to be better able to sue federal officers for knowingly violating their rights and codifies a zone around courthouses where people are exempt from civil arres…

Gov. JB Pritzker signs Illinois immigration law that curbs courthouse arrests and expands right to sue agents

09.12.2025 18:23 👍 96 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 4

The affordable housing targets should be step one. If rich developers don’t want to build affordable housing fund nonprofit developers to do. This is no different than the City giving tax breaks to companies b/c they promise new jobs and then they never do it. There has to be consequences.

10.12.2025 19:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

To fix the housing problem you need to remove any tax deductions and add a vacancy tax to landlords who keep more than 1 apartment vacant. I would also add a massive massive tax to foreign builders that goes specifically to paying for new housing.

10.12.2025 19:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We Did It, Texas Dems, We Did It Candidates in every legislative, statewide, and federal race. Now it’s time to build power where it counts.

Texas Democrats just did something historic under the leadership of new state party chair @kendallscudder.bsky.social. We have filed a candidate in EVERY 2026 race.

U.S. Senate: 1 of 1
U.S. House: 38 of 38
State Senate: 15 of 15
State House: 150 of 150
State Board of Education: 8 of 8

09.12.2025 04:35 👍 2377 🔁 558 💬 53 📌 92

The thing is if you can’t figure out how to have a platform and messaging of improving both the material and economic conditions of Americans AND the rights and safety of all Americans you aren’t qualified to be an elected official.

07.12.2025 19:02 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The ultimate participation trophy.

05.12.2025 19:28 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just to be clear: Minnesota will continue to be guided by science and medical expertise.

While Trump and RFK wage war on vaccines and decades of science, I took executive action to safeguard vaccine access in Minnesota and prioritize the health and safety of our children.

05.12.2025 19:26 👍 1343 🔁 195 💬 56 📌 8

It is the 1800s all over again. Colonialism, robber barons and rampant disease. Good times.

05.12.2025 19:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes. We also need to not treat tech and AI like it just happens and focus on the individuals behind the tech and what their motivations are. The current tech leaders and companies have never demonstrated concern for the environment or workers so we should learn from that and push back more.

05.12.2025 15:35 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That's the part that sticks with me.

This isn't some Tom Clancy novel where they do war crimes because it's the only way they can get at the evil terrorist criminal mastermind or something.

Even if we believe them -- and, ha ha, no! -- they murdered low level drug runners. That's it!

05.12.2025 01:02 👍 2283 🔁 353 💬 88 📌 16

Everyone is embracing AI b/c they fear missing out on the next tech revolution. While the fear of being left behind or not getting rich is real, what we miss is that in previous tech revolutions we didn’t fight hard enough to center humans & we’re doing it again.

05.12.2025 01:24 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

I don't think the Justices understand the extent to which they are playing with fire. The more they do this, the more District Courts will engage in open disrespect of the Supreme Court, because what other response is there to open disrespect directed at them? That's bad for the Judiciary, period.

04.12.2025 23:11 👍 1865 🔁 320 💬 34 📌 19

People will say the Nazi comparisons go to far but you study enough on the Nazis in the 1930s and the comparisons really are spot on.

05.12.2025 00:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i just think we should live in a society

03.12.2025 00:37 👍 520 🔁 43 💬 13 📌 1

You even had the Earned Income Tax Credit, a very progressive anti-poverty measure, passed by a Republican president. But that was a long time ago.

03.12.2025 04:20 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0