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Union organizer, former journalist, @nyguild campaign lead, tweets my own, scabby 📷 by Sean Mackell/New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO

St Louis, MO
Joined March 2010
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Annie Shields
2 years
I am SO excited to share that after 10 years as a member, I’ve accepted a staff position with my union—the NewsGuild of New York!!! Today is my first day. I’m on cloud nine. I can’t wait to work with our members as they rack up more incredible wins! 🥰🙌✊🎉
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4 years
Having an existential crisis looking at rentals in St. Louis
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4 years
Why didn't Bloomberg just primary Trump
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4 years
What does this mean
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4 years
I gave more to Bernie Sanders than Trump paid in taxes
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4 years
This is the funniest cop outfit I’ve seen in a long time
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Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸
4 years
Due to BLM / Antifa TERRORIST violence, I thankfully had a police escort from the Trump Hotel to my Lyft. The streets of DC were a war-zone, but I was left defenseless bc of anti-gun Democrats who run this city. I will work every day to END every gun-free zone. #MolonLabe
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4 years
Cuomo was just asked what he'd say to people who are upset that because they can't work, they are out of money and the government isn't helping them fast enough. He said that they should go get a job as an essential worker.
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4 years
@neeratanden @chrisjollyhale @BernieSanders @RashidaTlaib @HillaryClinton Maybe Hillary should stop publicly criticizing one of the Dem front runners in the interest of party unity just an idea
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4 years
I can’t get over how these are just proliferating and getting bigger every day. Running out to meet this march now, one of several happening in uptown Manhattan today. Never seen anything like it!
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4 years
Is Buttigieg starting to do some kind of Obama-like accent??
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4 years
Incredible editing decisions on this video
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4 years
MSNBC hates Bernie Sanders so much more than CNN or Fox, it's really remarkable
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4 years
Everyone: This is literally the worst year of my entire life and I can barely cope Stocks:
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4 years
I can't believe they really kicked Bernie off the ballot
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4 years
Imagine having both a dishwasher and a savings account
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Annie Shields
4 years
Just calculated how much money I’ve spent on rent for a studio over 5 years and I’ve completely blacked out
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4 years
This is pretty extraordinary
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4 years
The Mets and Marlins took the field, had a 42-second moment of silence, and then walked off. The only thing left on the field: a Black Lives Matter shirt.
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4 years
I cannot overstate how bonkers it is to submit your presidential campaign's "brand identity" to try to win a shorty award. Presidential candidates should not be trying to win shorty awards.
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The Buttigieg campaign applied for a “Best Brand Identity” award lol
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Is Chrissy Teigen like some kind of cult leader or what is going on
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4 years
Joe Biden doubling down on his opposition to single payer during a pandemic is really disappointing!
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My best friend has been trying to get me to watch Schitt’s Creek for years and I’m finally trying to get into it. I’m on the 7th episode and I haven’t laughed once. Has anyone else had this experience?
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4 years
Unreal, tickets to this debate were $1,750 to $3,200 each
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People have to go to work because the government won't help them!!!!!!!!!!
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Gov. Cuomo on following COVID-19 rules: "If you’re socially distant, and you wore a mask, and you were smart, none of this would be a problem — it's all self imposed. If you didn't eat the cheesecake you wouldn't have a weight problem."
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4 years
This is a remarkably beautiful essay by Wallace Shawn that explains socialism in a way I've never seen before
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4 years
I can't believe Elizabeth Warren is losing to Pete Buttigieg
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4 years
I 100% do not believe Pete would have voted against the Iraq War if he was a senator at the time
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5 years
lolol
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3 years
If you routinely get so angry at AOC that it’s having an impact on your personal life and/or your relationships it may be time to log off
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3 years
This is disgusting behavior that has a serious material impact on women who work in media and I’m really sick of it.
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4 years
This is how much the house I grew up in cost
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4 years
Congratulations to the campaign of Senator Bernard Sanders here we gooooo
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5 years
The richest man in the world tried to kick a socialist off a City Council and he failed.
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4 years
@archibaldcrane The murder rate in St. Louis is one of the worst in the nation consistently. The city lacks resources and is plagued by blight. Racial segregation, poverty, local government that cares more about building stadiums than funding social programs, a lack of economic opportunity...
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4 years
I read online that you can fix scratches in hardwood floors with a walnut so I tried it
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3 years
How it started How it’s going
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4 years
Uhhhhh look at this picture of Mitch McConnell's hands that @lizzyratner found on AP
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3 months
I went to a local quilt show today and found this beautiful piece. It made my heart ache 🇵🇸
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@neeratanden @chrisjollyhale @BernieSanders @RashidaTlaib @HillaryClinton I think she's tough enough to handle the public response to her actions. Why doesn't she deserve to be booed at a political rally by supporters of someone she continues to smear?
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4 years
Makes you think
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3 years
I accidentally took a spongebob meme photo of some flowers in an alley
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4 years
I would argue that Sanders is the only candidate who is honest and forthcoming about what it will require to achieve his agenda. He says it in every speech. A mass movement is necessary, whether you like it or not, to achieve the demands he's laid out.
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Ezra Klein
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Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg — none of them have a plausible path to passing the agenda they’ve promised. Enter epiphany politics, and its toxic cycle of high hopes and deep disappointments:
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5 years
Just want to make sure everyone sees that Bernie Sanders has gotten more donations from women than any other candidate this year
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4 years
Send Vic to the Cuomo press conferences
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Audrey
4 years
Here is the rest of the video, and I like Vic even more! 👇
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3 years
🙃
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I don’t like to admit this but I really want to know what Trump is doing tonight and I think that’s really dysfunctional! I’m alarmed by my conditioning!
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4 years
It’s crazy how much longer you can get away with having an ongoing public breakdown on here if you’re a man
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MSNBC has Mike Bloomberg on tonight "as a philanthropist and former mayor" to comment on the news.
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@neeratanden @chrisjollyhale @BernieSanders @RashidaTlaib @HillaryClinton Don't run for president if you can't handle the American public expressing their feelings about you through the timeless art of of booing, it kind of comes with the territory
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4 years
The reporter said that people aren't hiring and he said "sure they are."
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4 years
After another year of massive layoffs in media, the remaining workers get to be responsible for like 4 different full time jobs at once while getting paid for one. This is a listing for a position at a local affiliate of a major national media corporation.
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My uncle passed away early this morning at 60. He was hospitalized with Covid in March and had several severe strokes following his infection which he couldn’t recover from. He went into hospice 6 months after his Covid diagnosis, and died a week later.
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Annie Shields
4 years
OH MY GOD THEY DID IT
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The New Yorker Union
4 years
The era of at-will employment at @NewYorker is over. We have reached an agreement with the company on #JustCauseNoExceptions , and we’re calling off our @NewYorkerFest picket. Thank you all for the support!
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Annie Shields
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Bernie tweeting in support of our union makes me feel like I'm floating
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Bernie Sanders
3 years
I stand with @newyorkerunion workers walking out today and fighting for a first union contract. The New Yorker should sit down with its workers and negotiate a fair contract in good faith.
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The finishing touch for my home office
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4 years
Wow another big scoop by @kenklippenstein how does he do it??
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3 years
Iconic
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@neeratanden @chrisjollyhale @BernieSanders @RashidaTlaib @HillaryClinton Is this supposed to be some kind of permanent insurance against being booed? Is HRC really that transactional?
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3 years
Noted free speech advocate helps get woman fired over a tweet
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Glenn Greenwald
3 years
If you're in the national press and will be on TV at any point today and being to feel the need to weep joyously, just hold it in until you find a private place. Nobody is expecting any adversarial coverage over the next 4 years, but it's just a matter of personal dignity.
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Mike Bloomberg is worth 60 billion dollars.
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Probably my favorite part of my job is when @kenklippenstein gets into a beef with someone on here and @thenation 's mentions are all just people trying to get him in trouble for like 36 hours
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Annie Shields
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What are you doing 😬
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Elizabeth Warren
4 years
No one should attack @Culinary226 and its members for fighting hard for themselves and their families. Like them, I want to see every American get high-quality and affordable health care—and I’m committed to working with them to achieve that goal.
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As early as the late 1970s, Exxon scientists were briefing top executives that climate change was real, dangerous, and caused by their product.
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I have discovered a website called nuts dot com that delivers things like honey mustard pretzels and rye bagel chips in 1lb bags and I thought everyone should know about that right now.
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I just got off a call with a new DSA member who found out about DSA on TikTok and is a sophomore in high school 😭💞✊
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This is the grossest thing I will ever tweet but there has been an eyelash stuck in the inside corner of my right eye literally since November 2014 (I remember cause it happened the day before my best friend’s sister’s wedding) and I just got it out right now. 7 years!!!!
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I’ve wanted a Dyson for my entire adult life, finally got one and vacuumed one (1) area rug
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Today I have been alcohol free for 2 years and I’m feeling pretty content about it 😌
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@archibaldcrane St. Louis has no shortage of serious and entrenched problems, which many large cities in the US face. I won’t be glib about violent crime, which disproportionately impacts black people, as do the other things I mentioned.
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If Jamaal Bowman wins tonight I hope he gets credit for being a great candidate running a great campaign because he deserves it!
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3 years
Please stop
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THE UNION MEMBERS AREN'T GOING TO LOSE ANYTHING, THE HEALTHCARE WILL BE FREE! I'M A UNION MEMBER TAKE MY PLAN AND GIVE ME M4A!!
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This is probably an unpopular opinion but I think that someone’s wildly inflammatory, chronically combative behavior on this website should be taken into consideration when deciding whether they are fit to work in a presidential administration, among many other things.
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4 years
One thing I wish people on the left were better at is recognizing grifters, scammers, phonies and posers. Or at least stop encouraging them to run for office.
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Preemptively setting an 8pm curfew in NYC through the weekend is such overreach. It’s antagonistic to all New Yorkers, it’s a racist policy, it’s a de facto ban on first amendment rights and it should be rescinded.
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@neeratanden @chrisjollyhale @BernieSanders @RashidaTlaib @HillaryClinton She ran twice, she has signed up for a lifetime of possibly getting booed, which becomes more likely when she continues to rehash 2016 and trash Sanders in the media days before the Iowa caucus. You're smarter than this. You know exactly what's happening here and why.
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Learned yesterday that my uncle has been hospitalized and tested positive for COVID-19. He has a young son, please keep him in your thoughts and prayers 💕
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The context was about the protesters, and the reporter did a great job of framing the question in a way that it applied to everyone suffering economically whose needs were not being met by the state.
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Amy Rowe
4 years
@anastasiakeeley I think he was specifically talking about those who are protesting in Albany
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Reading the replies in the shade of a patio umbrella where it only feels like 100
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I don’t think Fetterman makes it through his term
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5 years
A quick fact check shows that there is no record of an "Archie Carter" ever attending a NYC-DSA meeting or event, but this probably wasn't fact checked!
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"I don't get it. These folks are just completely out of touch with the real world!" - Mom reacts to Chris Matthews
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Another @kenklippenstein scoop: the Pentagon warned Trump about the severe ventilator and PPE shortage in 2017, he ignored them.
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He says he understands the economic hardship "but the question is what do you do about it." He means that you shouldn't go outside to protest, which, fine, but how about canceling rent/loan payments/bills/etc?
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@neeratanden @chrisjollyhale @BernieSanders @RashidaTlaib @HillaryClinton People are allowed to boo Neera it's politics not a cotillion
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Annie Shields
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People who voted for Jill Stein did so because they decided that they didn't want to vote for HRC/Trump/anyone else. Hillary's campaign had ONE JOB! To convince people to vote for Hillary. Every vote for Jill Stein was a vote Hillary Clinton failed to earn. Sorry but it's true!
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MSNBC is losing my mom, and she has the radio set to the MSNBC Sirius station in the car!
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“Joe Biden won’t end fracking he has been very clear about that” 🥴
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This will be the “whip count” that makes me quit media, I’m losing it
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“We narrowly avoided a terrible loss of life. A dozen AP journalists and freelancers were inside the building and thankfully we were able to evacuate them in time. The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today.”
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Annie Shields
4 years
Maybe Obama should say something about this
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Zerlina Maxwell
4 years
Heard a Bloomberg radio ad in the car today and it makes it sound like Obama is ENDORSING him which Obama DID NOT DO. It’s super gross imo. Sorry.
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Mayor is trending and it's not even one mayor in particular, it's people from all over just hating their mayor
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You've got to be kidding me
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3 years
Ken did nothing wrong
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4 years
It's actually so insulting and possibly sexist that they gave the endorsement to "the women who haven't dropped out yet." Elizabeth Warren has to share her NY Times endorsement with Klobuchar??
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Annie Shields
4 years
Here's a question: why can't we send coronavirus alerts explaining what to do to everyone's phone the way we do amber alerts and severe weather alerts?
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4 years
Cuomo is indistinguishable from Trump today in the way he is responding to the NYT reporter. "I know you're from the New York Times but facts still matter."
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