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This seventh day of April, 2024 marks 6 months since the Hamas attacks on Israelis and subsequent horrific cleansing of Gaza launched by Israel. The Biden administration keeps isssuing confusing, contradictory, hypocritical and ineffective statements...
by greenandblue
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on Sun Apr 07, 2024 at 03:00 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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Detroit’s three big automakers failed to negotiate a new contract with the United Auto Workers Thursday night, triggering a targeted strike that could spread if a deal isn’t reached. General ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Sep 15, 2023 at 03:50 PM PDT
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This time last ‘year, I was driving the neighbor's boys to the bus stop, so they could catch the bus to football practice. There were many reasons why I didn’t like doing it. For starters, I hate driving during what should never be called rush hour. I...
by MeJean
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on Sat Sep 09, 2023 at 03:26 PM PDT
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A Message from President Biden What have labor unions ever done to benefit any of us? Below are just a few of their major accomplishments, many of which we take for granted without acknowledging the debt we owe to those who came before us. Previous...
by JekyllnHyde
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on Mon Sep 04, 2023 at 05:07 PM PDT
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A bit dramatic of a title, but bear with me. My second diary, because I have a lot of thoughts and opinions. It starts with a story, and I forewarn will be a bit of a rant at times. In my thirties and painfully underemployed (There’s a good record for...
by Angry Pidgeon
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on Sun Jul 30, 2023 at 03:43 AM PDT
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This Kurzgesagt video just dropped today on YouTube. It’s about the Polyergus ant. Poly = many, abundance; erg = work. Meet Polyergus, the most intense of the slaver ant tribes…. Polyergus has specialized in slavery so much that they have lost their...
by novapsyche
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on Tue Dec 06, 2022 at 04:10 PM PST
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As I reflect today on one more year gone by, I realized that with a little age I have come to enjoy working through different perspectives. I did not remotely enjoy that effort in my young adulthood, but it’s starting to become interesting and even a...
by Sport Mode
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on Sun Jul 10, 2022 at 03:59 PM PDT
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Add Verizon to the list of US corporations gouging customers over unspecified rising costs. From an email received 6/30/2022: “Due to rising operational costs, you’ll see an increase of $6 per month on your current plan, which will appear as a separate...
by cakeeater
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on Tue Jul 05, 2022 at 09:04 AM PDT
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Happy International Workers’ Day , May Day, and Labour Day. x ...
by greenandblue
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on Sun May 01, 2022 at 03:00 PM PDT
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An offensive opinion column in The Hill ran across my news feed yesterday, “Plain truths don’t matter to the woke folks who now rule America”. Please don’t look for it, I’ll give you the gist and would rather they get less traffic. The claim is that we...
by elenacarlena
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on Sat Nov 27, 2021 at 05:00 PM PST
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In all the obnoxious, fetid waft of discussion on the current restaurant worker shortage our pathetic, lazy journalism corps has faithfully parroted the owner line that unemployment insurance is the cause, if workers are getting paid for nothing why...
by paradox
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on Tue May 25, 2021 at 06:02 AM PDT
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There’s been a lot of talk recently about raising the minimum wage in this country. It’s criminal how little money most people are paid for their labor in this, the wealthiest country in human ...
by Plunky Bluester
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on Fri May 14, 2021 at 11:44 AM PDT
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One of the most obvious things that has become clear during the pandemic is the importance of care in our societies. What became very clear in this economic crisis and the pandemic is that the care system as it is currently organised, is woefully...
by NY brit expat
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on Sun Apr 18, 2021 at 03:00 PM PDT
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I so despise hot takes that come from absolute spitefulness, like this tweet. It sounded so much like this. It sounded like this. Here's why I am really hot about this. My deceased mother was a subject of a smear campaign. I was a subject of...
by abluerippleinohio
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on Sun Mar 07, 2021 at 06:59 PM PST
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It is (to be extremely diplomatic about it) the height of intellectual dishonesty to argue that when we attempt to look back objectively over the last five centuries of America's entire development, the core foundations of American society are...
by mohistory2
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on Fri Nov 20, 2020 at 05:08 AM PST
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In Monday's press briefing on coronavirus, New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that to help address its rapid spread, statewide shortages in hand sanitizer, and price gouging from major online retailers, the state will begin selling its own hand...
by Tamar Sarai Davis
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on Tue Mar 10, 2020 at 11:32 AM PDT
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A Michigan court tasked with protecting its most vulnerable citizens has become home to a roiling controversy charging abuse, exploitation, robbery and neglect. By Gretchen Rachel Hammond Editor: Christie Chisholm Research: Gretchen Rachel Hammond,...
by GretchRHammond
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on Fri Aug 23, 2019 at 12:07 PM PDT
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A Michigan court tasked with protecting its most vulnerable citizens has become home to a roiling controversy charging abuse, exploitation, robbery and neglect. By Gretchen Rachel Hammond Editor: Christie Chisholm Research: Gretchen Rachel Hammond,...
by GretchRHammond
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on Fri Aug 23, 2019 at 11:30 AM PDT
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The yammering cheerleaders of CNBC were in full glory mode Friday morning, talking up the initial public offering of “ride-share” behemoth Uber which made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange. Uber’s IPO, priced at 45$ per share, was the largest in...
by Dartagnan
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on Sat May 11, 2019 at 02:01 PM PDT
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