[image: image.png] opening thoughts*: * *Good Morning Arnie, I didn’t know who to ask. Am I in danger of being arrested because of my Facebook posts?* Everyone is a target if they have found u thousands have already been rounded up *For posting on Facebook* they don’t need an excuse…it is the thought police but don’t lose sleep there are too many posts on Facebook and blue sky and folks at rallies that they don’t have the prison cells to hold us…intimidation and fear is their tool don’t fall for it. *I had a dream over the weekend that I was arrested for my Facebook posts. I think I need to scrub my site It is hard to hear folks glorify this man. Feel like we are in the dark ages Now I understand the fear that other countries lived in* Don’t succumb to your fear…you have millions who feel like you, they undermine us by getting folks like you to disappear, to stop showing your disgust and frustration and anger…Don’t let your nightmares dictate your life then they will have succeeded they have occupied your mind *I am just a little person that believes in the truthI told my daughter if I get arrested get the media involved. There is power in the media.* I am not much bigger than you and I believe in the truth too. part one: Pursuit of critical minerals unearths new idea: Use what’s already dug up <www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2025/0505/rare-earth-critical-minerals-u.s.-china> CynthI am not much bigger than you and I believe in the truth toopart one: Pursuit of critical minerals unearths new idea: Use what’s already dug up <www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2025/0505/rare-earth-critical-minerals-u.s.-china>
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Stephanie Hanes is the Monitor’s environment and climate change writer. After covering justice for both The Concord Monitor and The Baltimore Sun newspapers, she began writing for the Monitor as a correspondent from southern Africa in the mid 2000s. There, she took particular interest in the many intersections of development, conflict, conservation and culture. Her environmental reporting in Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe and elsewhere led to her book, “White Man’s Game: Saving Animals, Rebuilding Eden and other Myths of Conservation in Africa” (Henry Holt/Macmillan, 2017).
Part two: Worker Rights Threatened at the Department of Labor Elon Musk and Donald Trump want to make federal employees miserable on the job. Their latest trick: threaten criminal penalties for exercising free speech. prospect.org/labor/2025-04-25-worker-rights-threatened-department-of-labor/ Global Working Conditions Matter for American WorkersThe Trump administration has cut programs that help prevent forced labor and child labor. This will suppress wages everywhere, including the U.S. prospect.org/labor/2025-03-30-global-working-conditions-matter-american-workers-su-tai-ilab/
Julie Su is a nationally recognized workers’ rights and civil rights expert who served in President Biden’s cabinet as the Acting Secretary of Labor where she successfully led efforts to build worker power and union strength, negotiate historic contracts, and expand good jobs for all.
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