Apple Leads Smartphone Industry Into Anti-Consumer, Environmental Hell
Few products generate the excitement and anticipation that the iPhone does. Apple’s iPhone was just released. announced the 14th generation Many tech-focused media outlets, enthusiasts, and journalists were eager to hear about the release of this product. One particularly excited tech columnist described it as “the world’s most iconic product.” This excitement is why some […]
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Court Error Exposes Judge Aileen Cannon’s “Obvious” Trump Sympathy
A court docketing error on Tuesday briefly exposed documents in the Mar-a-Lago probe that were supposed to be sealed — and revealed a stark difference between U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s description of documents and the actual documents she described. A court error was briefly exposed sealed Justice Department filingThe following lists of potentially privileged […]
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Fears of a Housing Crash Threaten Life Savings of Tens of Millions in the US
The late summer of 2021 saw mortgage rates fall to near-all time lows while inflation grew. A borrower with excellent credit could borrow hundreds of thousand of dollars over 30 years for under 3%. 2.9 percentDespite the fact that inflation has already risen to above the average, this is still a good thing. 5 percent. […]
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Confronting the “Elite Capture” of Identity Politics in Our Movement Spaces
“We have now to be politically critical about how a lot settlement and the way a lot alignment we’re going to require in a world of a resurging far-right fascist motion throughout the globe,” says thinker and creator Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. On this episode of “Motion Memos,” Táíwò and host Kelly Hayes talk about the […]
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Extreme Gerrymandering Has Turned Ohio From a Swing State to a GOP Stronghold
Once a swing state Ohio has turned solidly red.Extreme gerrymandering could continue that way for a long while in legislative and congressional districts. However, Republicans control statewide officesThe state is evenly divided between Democrats, Republicans for the office of governor, secretary-general, and attorney general. Republicans enjoy supermajorities within the Ohio House, Senate and House due […]
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Exclusive – 65 MPs and organisations call for the ‘meat requirement’ to be removed in school meals
65 MPs, councillors, and other organizations signed a letter in support of PETA, addressed to Kit Malthouse. It asked for changes to the school meal requirements. The letter asks the Department for Education not to allow meat, fish, or dairy to be served in school meals. Current standards require that schools serve meals from the […]
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National Archives Scraps ‘Transparency’ Over Trump Documents
The Biden administration has turned what should be the most transparent of government agencies, the National Archives and Records Administration, into one of the least transparent agencies—rivaling even the FBI. Established in 1934The National Archives is a national archive with the mission of identifying, protecting, preserving, and making publicly available all historically important records. […]
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Starbucks Union Organizer Says He Was Fired for Wearing Suicide Awareness Pin
According to a Starbucks union organizer in Buffalo, he was fired for refusing to take off a mental health awareness pin he was wearing to remember a coworker who had died earlier this year. As reported by BloombergStarbucks fired Will Westlake, a prominent union organizer. Westlake worked in one of the stores where he was […]
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Sanders, Warren Slam Starbucks for “Unethical and Unlawful” Union Busting
Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) have condemned Starbucks for its ruthless campaign to stymie the growing union effort in its retail stores across the country and are asking the company to answer for its “unethical and unlawful” union-busting tactics. In a letterOn Tuesday, lawmakers wrote to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz as well […]
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Calls Grow for Clarence Thomas to Recuse Himself From Trump Mar-a-Lago Docs Case
Many social media users have called on Justice Clarence Thomas, who accepted a case on behalf of Donald Trump’s Supreme Court, to withdraw from a case relating to government documents that had been improperly removed by the White House. Those calling for Thomas’s recusal cite his consistent allegiance to TrumpThis is in addition to the […]
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