Damon Silvers

🤝 Laying the foundations for fair multilateral collaboration.

IIPP Professor @damonsilvers.bsky.social contributed to an article in @lemonde.fr on how to create a framework capable of generating shared prosperity and nurturing stable democracies.

✍️ Read the article here: buff.ly/7urTKgm

AAUP’s Wolfson and AFT’s Weingarten on the Detainment of Columbia University International Student WASHINGTON—American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement in response to reports that Department of Homeland Sec...

What DHS did at Columbia is outrageous. Universities must not become extensions of immigration enforcement or sites of intimidation. The AAUP & AFT stand with students, faculty and campus communities demanding accountability and the protection of fundamental rights. www.aft.org/press-releas...

Form a Union | AFL-CIO Form a Union Organizing a union in your workplace is about getting more rights and more power. Thousands of working people--all across the country and in all kinds of jobs--organize unions every year because unions are the best way to secure the things ...

Ready to take back your power from billionaires and corporations? To get the pay, benefits, dignity and respect you deserve?

Join the hundreds of thousands of workers who organized last year and all 15+ million members of America’s unions and unionize your workplace.

Paramount Skydance Poised to Acquire Warner Bros. Discovery After Netflix Bows Out of Bidding War Paramount Skydance is poised to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery now that Netflix has declined to increase its existing offer valued at $83 billion.

The consolidation of media companies is bad for America, it’s bad for workers, it’s bad for the free press. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Today in Orlando, I spoke to educators & parents at @equalityfl.bsky.social conference. I used my own coming out journey to demonstrate what it means to folks when leaders live out and proud. Especially at a time when LGBTQ+ folks are under attack, speaking up gives young people courage & hope.

It’s terrible; great that our Mayor called Trump directly, but going into a college under false pretenses and kidnapping a student is repulsive. There is no basis for this.

Congrats to the workers at IRC Charlottesville and Richmond! Your strength and solidarity power our movement.

OPEIU’s future is brighter because of you.

Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon | CNN Business Anthropic, a company founded by OpenAI exiles worried about the dangers of AI, is loosening its core safety principle in response to competition.

This is why we need AI guardrails in place to protect working people. Corporations have shown us time and time again they will go back on their AI safety commitments.

That’s why America’s unions are fighting for federal and state pro-worker AI policies.

Trump defends immigration crackdown at State of Union as approval ratings plummet To defend an increasingly unpopular immigration crackdown during his State of the Union speech, President Trump highlighted the victims of crimes perpetuated by undocumented immigrants.

Trump chose to ignore the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti,American citizens whose lives were taken by DHS agents, during his State of the Union last night. Instead, he defended the deeply unpopular extreme enforcement tactics of ICE. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Another example of why our highest court shouldn't have the lowest ethics standards. As our @hannahstoryb.bsky.social has covered in @prospect.org, Justice Alito's extensive oil holdings should have propelled him to sit out from considering this case. And he's not the only justice with such ties.

Ended a busy week in Florida at a meeting with AFT leaders in Orlando. We talked about our new affordability campaign, why it’s so important to share member stories, mobilizing around elections, and much more. We’re fighting for working families to have the promise of America

Practicing Law in a Lawless Time There have been many periods in our nation’s history where serious and legitimate questions were raised about the effectiveness and integrity not only ...

Wise advice for lawyers from the former Chief Justice of Dekware Leo Strine corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2026/02/19/p...

Anybody pretending the affordability crisis isn't real — from the president on down — does not know how to walk in the shoes of regular Americans. aft.org/affordability #TrumpAffordabilityChaos

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Workers are seeing prices skyrocket on rent, groceries, utilities and more. We’re fighting to pay the bills while corporations make even more money.

Enough is enough. A union contract is how we start to level the playing field and get our fair share.

Hundreds of U.S. Jews rally against Trump administration's immigration crackdown Rabbis, Cantors and Lay Leaders From Across the Country, Representing Dozens of Liberal and Progressive Jewish Organizations, Gathered to Emphasize the Jewish Nature of Their Protest Against Deportati...

“Rabbis, cantors and lay leaders from across the country, representing ….progressive Jewish organizations, gathered to emphasize the Jewish nature of their protest against deportation, while highlighting Jews' own role in the greater story of American immigration” www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...

Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

Kids like 7-year-old Mia write about missing their friends and family, wanting to go back to school, and not sleeping or eating well at the Dilley detention center in Texas. These stories expose the inhumanity of this administration's immigration policies.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

"A threat to anyone’s constitutional rights is a threat to us all. Today, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Government’s [view], American citizens could be subject to the same treatment. This Court will not allow such an unraveling of the Constitution."

Congrats to the Volkswagen workers and our @uaw.org family in Chattanooga! This tentative agreement is a historic milestone that will inspire other workers across the South.

Workers in the South, and across the country, are hungry for strong union contracts and respect on the job.

Remember who did this. He has a name. He is one of the richest people in Earth and he thought firing his war correspondent in Kyiv was ok. That name is Jeff Bezos.

🤝 Laying the foundations for fair multilateral collaboration.

IIPP Professor @damonsilvers.bsky.social contributed to an article in @lemonde.fr on how to create a framework capable of generating shared prosperity and nurturing stable democracies.

✍️ Read the article here: buff.ly/B3sYarF

It’s murder

HUGE TEXAS UNION WIN: @iamunion.bsky.social leader Taylor Rehmet was just elected to the Texas Senate! This win kicks off a wave of union candidates across the state.

While parties are trying to reconnect with the working class, we’re running union members up and down the ballot — and winning. ✊

Scorching opinion. The Judge wonders if the Trump administration even knows about the Declaratiion of Independence. bsky.app/profile/rwei...

Celebrating Black History Month | AFL-CIO

Our labor movement could not exist without the work of Black union members and leaders.

During #BlackHistoryMonth and every month, America’s unions celebrate the elders and ancestors who came before us and those fighting now for racial justice in the workplace and beyond.

Photos: Baltimoreans Join National Shutdown to Protest ICE Crowds gather at Hopkins Plaza as part of a nationwide strike—which called for no work, school, or shopping on Jan. 30—in objection to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts.

My Baltimore neighbors in the frozen streets on Friday. So proud of the Charm City www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/comm...

Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.

Doesn't appear to say unpaid leave, and they remain unnamed.
So two murderers are on a vacation, is what we can gather at this point.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst

Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny