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Yesterday, the Biden Administration changed the lives of millions of Middle Class Americans with a change to the OVERTIME RULE. For years, companies have made employees work overtime for free by making them “management.” But starting July 1, most...
by TheMFer
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on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 11:44 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Yes, indeed, it is getting warmer (and warmer and warmer) on this planet of ours. It’s not just that records are being set for an...
by TomDispatch
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on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 06:12 AM PDT
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I grew up in a trailer. It wasn’t in a trailer park, but on a large lot in a small town. I was talking to my dad about this the other day, and he said he and my mother bought it used in 1965 for a couple thousand bucks, lived in it for 14 years and...
by Michelle Teheux
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on Sun Mar 31, 2024 at 06:42 PM PDT
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This piece develops from a talk I gave at a meeting discussing the economic situation in Britain and how this issue will play out locally in London. It also provides some suggestions where we can develop grassroots local campaigns in local communities...
by NY brit expat
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on Sun Dec 17, 2023 at 03:00 PM PST
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Why Student Loan “Forgiveness” is misleading, and not progressive. (Specifically about Biden’s Student debt relief plan) The federal government has student loan programs, many of which pass no interest to the borrower. They’ve made arrangements with...
by Rachel Brown
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on Wed Sep 27, 2023 at 02:58 PM PDT
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Best seat in the house —�a Boeing 717 cockpit seen while boarding.
Here’s an observation about the way the airlines load people onto planes that came up�while ...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Jul 28, 2023 at 10:18 AM PDT
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In the article linked below, Black journalist Chauncey DeVega zeroes in on some "inconvenient facts that upset the dominant narrative about the color line and poverty in America." With incisive critical analysis, he "outs" Republican hypocrisy, using...
by Walk In the Woods
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on Fri Apr 21, 2023 at 11:59 AM PDT
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Why has fascism spewed forth in America like the stench of hell? One source of this once unimaginable horror can be found in a crucial piece that's missing from our national conversation. It might surprise you, but a re-examination of the slogan, "We...
by Walk In the Woods
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on Sat Feb 11, 2023 at 11:12 AM PST
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I haven’t been poor, or even lived paycheck-to-paycheck, for a long time. Even the hardest days of struggle that I’ve faced as an adult don’t hold a candle to the nearly constant trials of my childhood—hunger that went far beyond anything a sandwich...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Fri Feb 03, 2023 at 10:25 AM PST
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Donald Trump Jr. is still a thing. He uncomfortably sells Trump steaks and stuff. He also has a podcast or something resembling a digital interview show called Triggered. The title is a reference to how he triggers people. It is also the name of his...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Jan 30, 2023 at 01:53 PM PST
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Food is an important part of culture and identity. Your food preferences a marker of who you are and where you come from, of ethnicity and region and generation and class. What are your thoughts about fried food, organic food, carbonated soft drinks...
by Laura Clawson
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on Mon Jan 16, 2023 at 03:00 PM PST
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Just after my oldest graduated from fourth grade, we took them to the dentist for their bi-annual checkup. After a series of x-rays, cleaning, and small talk with the hygienist, the dentist breezed ...
by SquireForYou
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on Tue Nov 22, 2022 at 06:41 AM PST
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Yesterday, I attended two protests in London. The first was the annual commemoration of the Nakba: End Apartheid – Free Palestine. I marched proudly with the Jewish Bloc which was made up of several Jewish groups opposing Apartheid in Israel. We have...
by NY brit expat
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on Sun May 15, 2022 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Isitso is really sick and unable to get their article done. Unfortunately, I missed their kosmail to me until a short while ago. Wishing them a swift and complete recovery. They will put up Part ...
by NY brit expat
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on Sun May 08, 2022 at 03:00 PM PDT
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I missed the Oscars. I usually miss the Oscars, unless I’m with a friend who wants to watch them. I don’t really care who did and didn’t get an Academy Award. Anyway, everyone will be talking about the show for days afterward. So, I don’t really have...
by LadyJeand
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on Mon Mar 28, 2022 at 07:20 PM PDT
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Normally, we commemorate events that have had a serious impact on our lives by decades, 25 years, 50 years, etc … yet we are forced by a concerted effort of opposition by both religious bigots and misogynists to commemorate the 49th anniversary of Roe...
by NY brit expat
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on Sun Jan 23, 2022 at 03:28 PM PST
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Forrest County Agricultural High School in tiny Brooklyn, Mississippi, is the only independently functioning agricultural high school in the state. And on September 24th, the community experienced both great love and great loss. A.J. Nichols-Walters...
by Tevye
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on Sat Oct 09, 2021 at 03:08 PM PDT
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Should we shout it loud and clear? Or whisper it among ourselves? “Not all the rich are the enemy,” some will surely say. “No shit, Sherlock,” is the well-worn reply. During World War II, not every person in Germany was our enemy, and yet Germany was...
by rougy77
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on Wed Sep 22, 2021 at 05:47 AM PDT
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Education “Getting a job” vs “Finding a career” Most of us who do not have a college degree know the job market as ‘where can I get a job?’ It is not a choice the worker makes, it is a ...
by NeverEverAgain
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on Sun Aug 08, 2021 at 03:00 PM PDT
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The COVID-19 pandemic exposed long-known inequalities in the United States�health care system, leading to low-income communities being disproportionately impacted . Even before the pandemic, these ...
by Doctor RJ
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on Wed Jul 07, 2021 at 06:29 AM PDT
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