I’m a High-Risk Disabled Professor. Am I Teaching In Person?
In a few hours, I will be starting my first class for the spring semester. I still do not know if I’m teaching in person or moving the class online. Governor DeSantis says I’m teaching in person. The university, where I work, says I’m teaching in person. “I have tenure. Why the hell am I […]
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Alaska Tribes Are Fighting Back Against Plans to Open Colossal Gold Mine
Two Alaska Native corporations are working to develop what would be one of the world’s largest gold mines while some of their shareholders oppose it and more than a dozen area tribes have joined in a lawsuit against it. The Donlin GoldMine would be located on Kuskokwim River tributary 275 miles west Anchorage. The river […]
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Is Ron DeSantis Shaping Up to Be Trump 2.0 in 2024?
A common refrain in the Trump era was that despite all of Donald Trump’s racist, xenophobic ambitions, he was too incompetent to carry out a wholescale remaking of U.S. society. There’s no question his four years in office had a profound, disastrous effect on the people and communities his administration targeted — immigrants, Muslims and […]
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Subpoenas Could Show Trump Admin’s Link to Openly White Supremacist “Groypers”
The House select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol takeover subpoenaed a variety of people, including Trump officials and grassroots activists. And on January 19, 2022, two more were called: Nick Fuentes and Patrick Casey, the leaders of the “Groyper” movement, a white supremacist outgrowth of the “alt-right.” Fuentes believes that “genocide” is being […]
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REI Retail Workers in Manhattan File to Form Company’s First Union
Workers at an REI store in New York City filed to form a union among the location’s 116 employees on Friday. If the union is successful, the store will be the first to open. the outdoor recreation equipment company’s 168 locationsUnionization of 15,000 employees. The workers have filedRepresentative by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store […]
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Biden Is Considering Deploying Thousands of Troops to Eastern Europe
U.S. President Joe BidenAccording to reports, the Pentagon is considering a proposal to send thousands of American troops to Eastern Europe and the Baltics as progressive anti-war activists and analysts warn such a move would further inflame tensions in the region — and risk a full-blown war with Russia. The New York Times reported Sunday […]
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Trump Calls Jan. 6 Committee’s Request to Speak With Ivanka “Very Unfair”
Donald Trump, former President, slammed the House Select Committee on January 6 Attack for its request to speak to his daughter and former White House adviser Ivanka Trump. The January 6 Commission’s request for information is voluntary. Ivanka Donald has not yet been served a subpoena or requiring her speak. Nevertheless, Trump described the situation […]
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Abortion Rights Defenders Are Calling on Legislators to Codify Roe
As reproductive freedom is imperiled by the U.S. Supreme Court’s right-wing supermajority and Republican-led state legislatures, advocates rallied in Washington, D.C. on Saturday — the 49th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling — while abortion rights supporters called on lawmakers to pass legislation to codify Roe as the “law of the land.” Rights […]
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It’s Time for Biden to Fulfill His Pledge to End the Federal Death Penalty
Gary Gilmore, a firing squad member, was executed at Utah State Prison on January 17, 1977. He was the first to be executed in the United States after the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. This year, the anniversary of his execution was marked 45th anniversary of this executionThe event coincided with Martin Luther King […]
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Pandemic Accommodations Proved We Can Vastly Expand Disability Access If We Try
The COVID pandemic was a historic, traumatic, and revelatory experience for all people, but particularly for those with disabilities. On one hand, the virus appears to have had a disproportionately deadly impact on disabled people, and the government’s relentless push to restore “normal” business activities — already oppressive for disabled people — is cruelly discriminatory […]
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