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Baristas nationwide have reported experiencing headaches, coughing, sore throats, hives and other health problems in recent weeks after working with a new blending powder used in Starbucks Blended Refreshers. https://t.co/vSNhtXAjDw

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Personal News: I’m excited to announce that after 2 years as a California Local News Fellow, today is my first day as a staff reporter/photojournalist at Capital & Main.

Pumped to continue covering inequality & climate change in California. If you have a tip, email is in bio.

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ICE hasn’t paid for medical care for people in its custody since the beginning of October last year, which has caused cases of delayed and denied treatment across the country. https://t.co/H9BTnZoCV0

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Interpreters are often listed among the workers at the highest risk of replacement by AI. But interviews with a half dozen LanguageLine employees reveal a different phenomenon: AI is not so much eliminating as eroding the quality of their work. https://t.co/ajPUOC39aW

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But in 2026 the stakes of a difference that we once had the luxury of downplaying had grown enormous and nonnegotiable. I was going to Tennessee to answer a question that for over 50 years had never been in doubt: Was it possible for us to remain friends?

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In 1973, I was in sewing class in seventh grade and having a miserable time. I couldn’t sew and wasn’t interested in learning. https://t.co/TJsWO4ojkd

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Over the last decade or so her politics had shifted right, something that coincided with an embrace of religion and that she made public sometimes with Facebook posts. For the most part, we didn’t talk about the shift directly.

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A recently published scientific paper ties oil and gas operations in the Permian Basin to radioactive airborne plumes near the small New Mexico town of Loving. https://t.co/tWhBFsoRYn

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Were there unsafe levels of ammonia in the air after the Lineage warehouse fire in Los Angeles?

#losangeles #boyleheights #lineage #warehouse #fire #news

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Here are ten more impactful films about labor from the last 50 years and where you can watch them.
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In the climactic scene of Martin Ritt’s 1979 drama Norma Rae, Sally Field’s character climbs onto a cutting table in a textile mill, writes “UNION” in marker on a scrap of cardboard, and holds up the makeshift sign in silence. https://t.co/A2naI0XwvB

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The challenges workers are facing offscreen have intensified as the Trump administration has moved to strip collective bargaining rights from federal workers, among other attacks on organized labor.

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Assuming Gov. Gavin Newsom signs the bill, California will become the first state with a law expressly forbidding its housing agencies from imposing work requirements or time limits on low-income tenants. https://t.co/AstGCy0zSi