Andrea Penman-Lomeli

New for @nysfocus: Two companies managing NY's home health program could pocket millions 💰💰💰 meant for low-wage care aides every year. That's because they're offering "benefits" that many workers can't actually use, but are forced to pay for. nysfocus.com/2025/07/21/new…

‘About 85% of people in immigration custody are held in places run for profit. Trump’s record-breaking deportation drive has seen the market value surge of the two biggest immigration detention companies: Tennessee-based CoreCivic, and Geo Group, based in Florida’

check out my review of 'death takes me' by Cristina Rivera Garza, one of the most important living writers today imo thenation.com/article/cultur…

NEWS: ⁦@nynurses⁩ is endorsing ⁦@ZohranKMamdani⁩ for NYC mayor.

my story collection is out this week many thanks to cody + anxiety press @slicesofanxiety amazon.com/dp/B0F2N1TM6F?…

Homecare nurses are the backbone of Centerlight Healthcare. However, management has turned their backs on nurses and unlawfully cut off their healthcare benefits on Dec. 30. It's time Centerlight reinstates nurses' healthcare and delivers a fair contract now!

featuring stories first pubbed in @trampset @PitheadChapel @MaudlinHouse @worldhungerlit

NEW: NYSNA releases report on the state of safe staffing in NY. Report finds widespread understaffing in hospitals and lack of compliance with safe staffing laws. nysna.org/resources/2024…

take a break from scrolling today and read @z_hu__ on mediations of war in Vietnam, Iraq and Gaza: "No matter how helpless acts of witness are in ending suffering, it remains true that to see clearly is a choice that begets further choices." thebaffler.com/latest/you-had…

Words like "private equity" typically make glaze my eyes over. I mean, I know corporate interests are trashing US healthcare -- but the details usually feel fuzzy. After writing this for @voxdotcom, I understand much more. I think you will, too. vox.com/health-care/37…

NYSNA nurses at Albany Med are out tonight fighting for safe staffing and a fair contract! Follow along with our info picket below ⬇️⬇️

“As frontline nurses, we all know that more nurses does in fact mean better care. So let’s keep up the fight—to protect safe patient care in the Capital Region and to secure the fair contract that both nurses and patients deserve!” -Kathy Whalen, RN

Seven major labor unions, the UAW, AFA, SEIU, NEA, APWU, UE, and IUPAT have called on the Biden Administration to halt all military aid to Israel

NEW: NYC just launched a google maps layer showing all public bathrooms across the five boroughs—in parks, libraries, transit hubs etc. Check in out: on.nyc.gov/restroom

BREAKING: @UnionSeminary, an affiliate school of Columbia University is the *first* US institute of Higher Learning to fully divest. Union’s Board of Trustees voted TODAY to divest from all companies profiting off the genocide in Palestine. 🧵 #cu4palestine

Independent student workers at Columbia are sick of this university’s reprehensible actions towards student protestors. We are calling for a sickout & we will withhold our labor, including final grades, until our demands are met! Sign the pledge here: tiny.cc/sickofcolumbia