Federal Order Bars Starbucks From Firing Workers for Union Activity
The NLRB has issued 75 complaints in opposition to Starbucks for unfair labor practices, together with firing pro-union staff. A federal decide issued a nationwide order late Friday barring Starbucks from firing union organizers — a ruling that affirmed a long-established legislation which staff say the espresso chain has violated a whole lot of instances […]
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Syria and Turkey’s Earthquake Reminds Us That Disasters Are Inherently Political
On Monday, February 6, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Türkiye and northwest Syria within the early hours of the morning. It was adopted by one other 7.5 magnitude earthquake hours later, in addition to over 100 aftershocks within the days that adopted. It’s the deadliest and strongest earthquake to hit Türkiye since 1939, and […]
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Federal Grant Is Pushing Social Work Students Into Systems That Police Families
Social employees have lengthy navigated a fancy relation to techniques of policing, together with collusion with techniques that surveil patients’ behavior and medication usage, agencies that report immigrants’ and refugee’s sensitive data to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, police “co-responder” crisis response teams and work within the “family policing” or child welfare system. Lately, as growing […]
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How Marjorie Taylor Greene Went From a Congressional Joke to a GOP Power Broker
Not terribly way back, Congressmember Marjorie Taylor Greene was lampooned for confusing the Gestapo with gazpacho soup; for positing the speculation that space lasers, controlled by rich Jews, were somehow responsible for California’s apocalyptic wildfires; for posting on social media that Democrats she didn’t like should be executed; and the checklist goes on. How very, […]
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Rail Company Claims East Palestine Water Is Safe After Funding “Sloppy” Testing
Hundreds of individuals in East Palestine, Ohio, have been assured by the state Environmental Safety Company and Republican Gov. Mike DeWine that the city’s municipal water has not been contaminated by the train derailment that befell within the city earlier this month, however the one publicly accessible knowledge comes from testing that was funded by […]
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When ‘Pants on Fire’ Fact Checks Are About Biden’s Pants
The so-called fact-checkers are energetic defenders of President Joe Biden—nearly like they’re his siblings or his nephews. No cockeyed critique of Biden is foolish sufficient for them to forgo the pressing have to “test.” They’re perpetually poised to pounce! PolitiFact gave us two examples on Feb. 10. Each have been “Pants On Fireplace” warnings, however […]
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2022 Turnout Vindicates Georgia Voting Law, Raffensperger Says
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger argues that the sturdy midterm election turnout in 2022 vindicates his state’s 2021 election legislation from the smears that it represented “Jim Crow 2.0.” “We proved that Georgia doesn’t have voter suppression. It’s simple to vote. It’s safe to vote,” Raffensperger, the state’s prime election official, instructed The Each […]
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Sanders and Warren Grill US’s Largest Grocer on Reports of Rampant Wage Theft
Staff have filed 4 lawsuits in opposition to Kroger for alleged wage theft in current months. Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) are demanding that Kroger, the U.S.’s largest grocery store model, deal with stories of and lawsuits over “systemic and widespread errors” within the firm’s payroll system that labor advocates say have […]
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Republicans Plan to Back Off on Calls to Repeal Affordable Care Act in 2024
A latest ballot discovered that 52 p.c of People approve of the ACA, whereas simply 36 p.c disapprove. Republican Get together insiders have indicated that, in the intervening time, the occasion won’t search to repeal the Inexpensive Care Act (ACA), an Obama-era piece of laws that expanded entry to well being take care of hundreds […]
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Rush Limbaugh Remembered on Anniversary of Talk Radio Titan’s Passing
Right now, Feb. 17, marks the second anniversary of the dying of discuss radio legend Rush Limbaugh, who saved the AM dial from demise together with his pioneering nationwide conservative discuss radio program. For greater than 30 years, Limbaugh knowledgeable and entertained hundreds of thousands of followers together with his eager political insights and irreverent […]
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