Monday, December 23, 2024

As Biden backslides, a bigger, better-organized climate movement prepares to seize this ‘now or...

“We’re not just marching in the streets, although we’re doing that. We’re lobbying and advocating for meaningful climate actions on the Hill."

US strike activity surged in 2022 as SCOTUS workers’ rights ruling looms

"Workers will face potential liability for any damages the employer deems to be related to the work stoppage. This would greatly limit workers ability to strike and would be a gross misinterpretation of the NLRA."

US intelligence reveals alarming use of imprecise ‘dumb bombs’ by Israel in Gaza conflict

Unguided munitions in Gaza: A critical examination of civilian risk and international response.

Means testing is drowning the disabled in a sea of red tape

“Means testing is ruining my life.”
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“This is voter suppression”: 198,000 Georgia residents were illegally purged from voter rolls

“I think it’s quite interesting and coincidental … that many of them on that list are African American voters.”

An Afro-Indigenous perspective on policing

In his new book, Kyle T. Mays argues that the violence of policing has always been intimately tied to U.S. democracy.

Trump’s new spy chief used to work for a foreign politician the US accused...

Richard Grenell did not disclose payments for advocacy work on behalf of a Moldovan politician whom the U.S. later accused of corruption. His own office’s policy says that could leave him vulnerable to blackmail.

TC Energy terminates Keystone XL Pipeline project

"The Company will continue to coordinate with regulators, stakeholders and Indigenous groups to meet its environmental and regulatory commitments and ensure a safe termination of and exit from the Project."
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Millions facing eviction and joblessness get no immediate help from Trump’s new executive orders

Under Trump’s order, unemployed workers would continue receiving an additional $400 a week, but only once states put up a quarter of the money and set up a new system to distribute the payments.

When it comes to the truth of opinion columns, it’s reader beware

Normally, there is at least the assumption, among professional journalists and readers alike, that the opinion pieces are held to some basic standard of factual accuracy.