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New Report Argues Private Rail Is a Train Wreck, Public Ownership Needed
www.commondreams.org New Report Argues Private Rail Is a Train Wreck, Public Ownership Needed | Common Dreams"Our nation's rail system is in disarray," an expert said. "Dominated by a small group of giant for-profit companies, it is imperiling the health and safety of workers and communities."
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Black Alabama Mayor Allowed to Lead Town After White Officials Blocked Him From Office
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- www.pbs.org Supreme Court allows cities to ban homeless people sleeping outside, even when shelter space is lacking
The Oregon case decided Friday is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as a rising number of people in the U.S. are without a permanent place to live.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17016636
> The Oregon case decided Friday is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as a rising number of people in the U.S. are without a permanent place to live.
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Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Doctrine, Imperiling an Array of Federal Rules
www.nytimes.com The 6 to 3 vote broke along ideological lines.The foundational 1984 decision required courts to defer to agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes, underpinning regulations on health care, safety and the environment.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10956024
> This is what the decision by the Republican justices to allow "gratuities" for public officials creates an incentive for.
- theintercept.com Progressives on AIPAC’s Defeat of Bowman: “Now We Know How Much It Costs to Buy an Election”
AIPAC poured almost $15 million into elevating challenger George Latimer over Rep. Jamaal Bowman in a New York primary election.
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BREAKING: Military Coup in Bolivia
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U.S. Military Planes Are in Haiti. Haitians Don’t Know Why.
foreignpolicy.com /2024/06/13/haiti-gangs-violence-us-military-planes-international-security-mission-kenya/cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/27061000
> cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10758148 > > > In the past several weeks, I have watched dozens of sleek U.S. military planes descend over Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where I live. They were the first flights to land since gangs blockaded and halted commercial air traffic in March. U.S. news reports suggest that the aircraft contained civilian contractors and supplies to pave the way for the deployment of a Kenyan-led security mission to Haiti, which is expected to begin any day now. > > > > But no one has informed Haitians who or what was on board. Even the members of Haiti’s new transitional government told me that they did not know precisely what the United States was flying into the country. Although the Haitian members of the presidential council have met with Kenyan and Haitian officials to discuss the force, they said they have not provided input to U.S. officials. Aides to newly installed Prime Minister Garry Conille confirmed that he has had no say on decisions related to the mission. It remains unclear what the force’s specific goals are or how it can contribute to rebuilding the Haitian state.
- www.techdirt.com 500,000 Books Have Been Deleted From The Internet Archive’s Lending Library
If you found out that 500,000 books had been removed from your local public library, at the demands of big publishers who refused to let them buy and lend new copies, and were further suing the lib…
- variety.com Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined
Five men were convicted for their part in operating Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal streaming services in the U.S., officials said.
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Bayer lobbies Congress to help fight lawsuits tying Roundup to cancer | Republicans have repeatedly pushed provision — drafted with Bayer’s help — that would undo some nationwide pesticide protections
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10718064
> Gift link, but registration required. > > archived copy of the article
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Denver basic income reduces homelessness, food insecurity
www.businessinsider.com Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing.Participants in Denver's basic income program received up to $1,000 a month. They became more housing secure and landed full-time jobs.
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Chiquita banana ows big for damage caused
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Sorry for the poor headline. Lemm.ee cross post and title generator is broken (for me at least) and no idea when it will be fixed. Brainworms has not shut down, just gone into hibernation. We do this in recognition of the comrade in RFK jr.s head
- www.theguardian.com The affluent can have their souls enriched at university, so why not the poor as well? | Kenan Malik
The latest Tory crusade over ‘rip-off’ degrees continues to stereotype students based on class
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FBI RAIDS Corporate Landlords For Rent Price Fixing
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- www.theguardian.com Kansas supreme court rules state constitution does not provide the right to vote
Narrow decision says lower court failed to identify ‘fundamental right to vote’, drawing fiery dissent from three of seven justices
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16128511
> In a bizarre mixed ruling combining several challenges to a 2021 election law, Kansas’s supreme court has ruled that its residents have no right to vote enshrined in the state’s constitution. > > The opinion centering on a ballot signature-verification measure elicited fiery dissent from three of the court’s seven justices. But the majority held that the court failed to identify a “fundamental right to vote” within the state. > > The measure in question requires election officials to match the signatures on advance mail ballots to a person’s voter registration record. The state supreme court reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit that challenged that. The majority of justices on the state supreme court then rejected arguments from voting rights groups that the measure violates state constitutional voting rights. > > … > > Justice Eric Rosen, one of the three who dissented, wrote: “It staggers my imagination to conclude Kansas citizens have no fundamental right to vote under their state constitution. > > “I cannot and will not condone this betrayal of our constitutional duty to safeguard the foundational rights of Kansans.”
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Union-busting firms like Littler Mendelson and Morgan Lewis advise corporate management to break labor laws because of low violation costs
inthesetimes.com Corporations Have Very Good Reasons to Break Labor Laws and Bust UnionsWorkers at companies like Apple and Starbucks face armies of union-busting lawyers advising employers to repeatedly violate labor laws.
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First ever Samsung strike, employees asking for raise and bonus pegged to company earnings
au.finance.yahoo.com Samsung Electronics union calls first-ever strikeA full-scale strike at the firm could have an impact on the global supply chains of electronics.
- www.texastribune.org Proposed Texas GOP platform calls for the Bible in schools, electoral changes that would lock Democrats out of statewide office
The platform was voted on Saturday, with tallies expected next week. Other planks call abortion homicide and gender-transition care “child abuse.”
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15917987
> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15907509 > > > Proposed Texas GOP platform calls for the Bible in schools, electoral changes that would lock Democrats out of statewide office
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Federal Health Agency Acknowledges Psilocybin's Therapeutic Potential And Touts Forthcoming Psychedelic Research
www.marijuanamoment.net Federal Health Agency Acknowledges Psilocybin's Therapeutic Potential And Touts Forthcoming Psychedelic Research - Marijuana MomentA newly posted page about psilocybin on a federal health agency’s website acknowledges the potential benefits the psychedelic substance might provide—including for treatment of alcohol use disorder, anxiety and depression. The page also highlights psilocybin research being funded by the federal gove...
- www.theguardian.com Texas doctor who said nine-year-olds can safely give birth appointed to maternal mortality committee
Dr Ingrid Skop called the supreme court’s overturning of Roe v Wade ‘a victory’ and has argued in favor of abortion bans
- www.wired.com The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI’s Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them From ‘Modern Day Slavery’
African workers who label AI data or screen social posts for US tech giants are calling on President Biden to raise their plight with Kenya's president, William Ruto, who visits the US this week.
- apnews.com After the only hospital in town closed, a North Carolina city directs its ire at politicians
After one North Carolina city's only hospital closed, residents there say they're not only worried about their health but they've lost trust in politicians.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15610251
> Weeds have punctured through the vacant parking lot of Martin General Hospital’s emergency room. A makeshift blue tarp covering the hospital’s sign is worn down from flapping in the wind. The hospital doors are locked, many in this county of 22,000 fear permanently. > > Some residents worry the hospital’s sudden closure last August could cost them their life. > > “I know we all have to die, but it seems like since the hospital closed, there’s a lot more people dying,” Linda Gibson, a lifelong resident of Williamston, North Carolina, said on a recent afternoon while preparing snacks for children in a nearby elementary school kitchen. > > More than 100 hospitals have downsized services or closed altogether over the past decade in rural communities like Williamston, where people openly wonder if they’d survive the 25-minute ambulance ride to the nearest hospital if they were in a serious car crash.
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In 'Abandonment of Public Education,' Louisiana to Allow Tax Dollars to Pay for Private Schools
www.commondreams.org In 'Abandonment of Public Education,' Louisiana to Allow Tax Dollars to Pay for Private Schools | Common Dreams"We must build and maintain a public education system that serves all children," said one Democratic lawmaker.
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The Central Bank of China will use $42 billion to buy back unsold new buildings, which will then be converted into affordable housing.
www.caixinglobal.com PBOC to Provide $42 Billion Cheap Loans for Program to Buy up Unsold Homes - Caixin GlobalPBOC to Provide $42 Billion Cheap Loans for Program to Buy up Unsold Homes - Banks to pass on lending to local state-owned enterprises to buy unsold properties and resell or lease them as affordable housing
- abcnews.go.com North Carolina lawmakers push bill to ban most public mask wearing, citing crime
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are pushing forward with their plan to repeal a pandemic-era law that allowed the wearing of masks in public for health reasons, a move spurred in part by demonstrations against the war in Gaza that have included ...
- jacobin.com Video Game Execs Are Ruining Video Games
The cycle of mass layoffs in game development isn’t a problem of the industry’s inherent “instability.” It’s a problem of exploitation.
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Abbott grants Daniel Perry pardon in murder of Black Lives Matter protester | Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is pardoning Daniel Perry, the former Army sergeant convicted in the fatal shooting
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/9595878
> The idea is to make it effectively legal to kill anybody deemed left-of-center
- www.theverge.com Arizona accuses Amazon of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers with “dark patterns”
Amazon already faces a major antitrust challenge from the FTC.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/15519721
> > Amazon already faces a major antitrust challenge from the FTC.
- www.propublica.org Former Far-Right Hard-Liner Says Billionaires Are Using School Board Races to Sow Distrust in Public Education
The largesse from billionaires Tim Dunn and brothers Farris and Dan Wilks has made its way into local politics across Texas. Courtney Gore, a Republican school board member in Granbury, says it’s part of their strategy to build support for vouchers.
- caitlinjohnstone.com.au When Your Rulers Ignore Voters But Are Terrified Of Protesters, That Tells You Something
When nobody in power will lift a finger to earn your vote but they’re falling all over themselves trying to stomp out a robust protest movement, that tells you what the powerful are actually afraid…
- www.yahoo.com Belgian sex workers to get health insurance, pensions and maternity leave in world first
Belgium has become the first country in the world to approve a labour law on employment contracts for sex workers.
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Argentina: government targeting rights, such as collective bargaining, that support greater fairness and equality, while threatening those who protest with repression and criminalisation
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/18986886
> https://www.ituc-csi.org/Argentina-why-we-stand-in-solidarity
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Trinity to work towards total divestment from Israel in unprecedented win for BDS
trinitynews.ie Breaking: Trinity to work towards total divestment from Israel in unprecedented win for BDS – Trinity NewsTrinity has agreed to work towards total divestment from Israeli institutions in an unprecedented victory for Trinity Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). Trinity encampment protestors, who have camped in Fellows’ Square for five nights, have unanimously agreed to accept College’s terms on cutti...
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/1014563
> Trinity has agreed to work towards total divestment from Israeli institutions in an unprecedented victory for Trinity Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). > > Trinity encampment protestors, who have camped in Fellows’ Square for five nights, have unanimously agreed to accept College’s terms on cutting ties. > > Following a meeting at 1pm today, Trinity College Dublin Students Union (TCDSU) President László Molnárfi, president-elect Jenny Maguire, BDS Chair Isobel Duffy and Postgraduate Workers’ Organisation (PWO) Chair Conor Reddy announced to the camp that College has agreed to work towards their demands.
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How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest?
themarkup.org How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? (Updated 2024) – The MarkupSimple steps to take before hitting the streets
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/14890991
> > Simple steps to take before hitting the streets
- theintercept.com AIPAC Is Secretly Intervening in Portland’s Congressional Race to Take Down Susheela Jayapal, Sources Say
The pro-Israel group is funneling money to Susheela Jayapal’s opponent Maxine Dexter through a “pro-science” PAC, according to two members of Congress.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15021607
> The pro-Israel group is funneling money through a “pro-science” PAC, according to two members of Congress.