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In addition to other successes observed in media outlets, I wonder if this helps to further demonstrate the power of unions (despite there not having been such a thing in this case) in a subtle manner:

When people act together, they are likely to get positive results.

A different observation:

Not only are they helping themselves and improving Dell’s culture, but they are also helping the environment and inspiring others. (And preserving needless burning of person hours.)

Way to go!

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This is beautiful news for a Friday morning - or any morning, for that matter.

The youth activists should be so proud of themselves. Way to go!

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A whistle-blower central to Trump’s first impeachment wins a House primary in Virginia. Image

Yevgeny Vindman, wearing a dark suit and dark-red tie, sits during a House hearing, looking straight ahead. Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times Yevgeny Vindman, who along with his twin brother helped expose then-President Donald J. Trump’s attempts to strong-arm Ukraine into digging up dirt on Joseph R. Biden Jr., won his Democratic primary on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. He will run in the fall to represent the Virginia district of Representative Abigail Spanberger, who is retiring.

Mr. Vindman, who goes by Eugene, had no governing experience, a point his Democratic competitors made in the primary for Virginia’s Seventh Congressional District. But his name recognition, along with that of his identical twin, Alexander Vindman, helped him raise over $5 million, more than the rest of the field combined.

Nice!

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Stone: The lights are on, but no one’s home.

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It will be interesting to see how they deal with their fascist terrorists.

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far-right elements in German society and increasing espionage activities on the part of Russia and China.

We’ve seen this recipe before, haven’t we?

It’s noteworthy that local right-wing extremism garners Russian and Chinese support.

Trump Targets J.B. Pritzker: ‘Presided Over The Destruction And Disintegration Of Illinois’ (www.offthepress.com)

On Sunday, former President Trump targeted Illinois Democratic governor J.B. Pritzker, who has been considered a rising star in the Democratic Party but who has presided over the state while natives flee. Pritzker was inaugurated as governor of the state in January 2019; between July 2021 and July 2022, over 142,000 people left...

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This rebuke from Trump is the best possible endorsement.

President Drink Bleach: the gift that keeps on giving.

North Carolina Supreme Court Secretly Squashed Discipline of Two GOP Judges Who Admitted to Violating Judicial Code (www.propublica.org)

Last fall, out of public view, the North Carolina Supreme Court squashed disciplinary action against two Republican judges who had admitted that they had violated the state’s judicial code of conduct, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the decisions....

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Thank you Propublica!

I’m so impressed by their work!

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The officials said the additional IRS funding provided through the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act had enabled increased oversight and greater awareness of the practice.

Thank goodness for that!

And, yes, do it!

This is the way.

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Does Minnesota have to be so awesome, I ask rhetorically?

Thank you, and thank you Minnesota - leading by example.

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Noteworthy:

12-year-old Finnish victim with a foreign background sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries

and:

stabbed the 12-year-old victim from behind several times. After that he tried to go after a minor who was in the company of the other victim of stabbing

Far-right ties, violence, cowardice and racism go together really well.

I’m truly sorry for the child and their friend - and their respective families. I hope they recover from this - and that the fascist terrorist gets what he deserves.

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It provides for 20 years of incarceration for people that make abortions after 22 weeks of pregnancy, a situation mainly seen among girls who were sexually abused.

If we could pull back the curtain to see what entities are responsible for such vile bills of law, we might not be surprised. But developments like this remain shocking nonetheless.

I applaud the protesters for standing up for women’s rights. And I support the continued dismantling of the patriarchy. We need to keep at it.

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Word.

Thank you for sharing this, because this is spot-on.

Mr. Pratchett was an amazingly insightful human being.

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This part is notable:

Briefed on the Pentagon’s secret anti-vax campaign by Reuters, some American public health experts also condemned the program, saying it put civilians in jeopardy for potential geopolitical gain. An operation meant to win hearts and minds endangered lives, they said.

“I don’t think it’s defensible,” said Daniel Lucey, an infectious disease specialist at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. “I’m extremely dismayed, disappointed and disillusioned to hear that the U.S. government would do that,” said Lucey, a former military physician who assisted in the response to the 2001 anthrax attacks.

The effort to stoke fear about Chinese inoculations risked undermining overall public trust in government health initiatives, including U.S.-made vaccines that became available later, Lucey and others said. Although the Chinese vaccines were found to be less effective than the American-led shots by Pfizer and Moderna, all were approved by the World Health Organization. Sinovac did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.

It’s truly indefensible to see this kind of behavior that can kill people for geopolitical gain. And now, when we complain about foreign meddling, we can rightfully be reminded of what our side did to others…

The cruelty aside, I am also amazed by the shortsightedness of such tactics. This was an obviously failed strategy from the start. (And imaging the ignorance of assuming it would not be leaked…)

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If only the feds had some inkling, based on decades of history, that Microsoft might not manage security well…

/s

All sarcasm aside, I wonder if there will be consequences for the dismissed warnings. I’m hoping so, because this is thoroughly inexcusable.

I appreciate the former employee for speaking out.

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Anyone know what the US position is regarding this? I did not read the article, sorry…

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You’re right - it’s noteworthy that she released the audio with Roberts.

Woman punched allegedly by investment banker at Pride march (brooklyneagle.com)

In videos of the confrontation posted on social media, a man tentatively identified as Jonathan Kaye, managing director of investment bank Moelis & Company violently strikes the woman before claiming that she threw liquid “all over [him]” and quickly walks away. Users attempting to find the attacker reached out to Moelis,...

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Not quite the same, but why am I reminded of QAnon, MAGA people trying to destroy public utilities - however feebly?

No right wing wave in Finland as Left Alliance take record result in EU elections (yle.fi)

Finland’s results in the European election bucked a continent-wide trend of rising support for parties on the outer fringe of right-wing politics, with the Left Alliance and the National Coalition winning big at the expense of the nationalist Finns Party....

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From the same country that gave us Linux, inspired Middle Earth’s Quenya (noble Elvish) language, and showed us how to properly manage prison reform.

My question: why are the Finnish always so awesome?

P.S. Contrary to what one failed former conspiracy-addled political “leader” suggested, the Finnish do not rake their forests.

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So glad to hear the racist was arrested. Beautiful news!

I feel sorry for his daughter, because she’ll be remembered in the community for having a racist father. I imagine there will be lasting harm from that.

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Indiana Rep. Victoria Spartz is facing a House ethics investigation after staffers allege “abuse” by the Republican lawmaker.

A particular word indicating political party affiliation from the above quote was missing from the title, and I wanted to add it here though I cannot expect it will surprise many.

Columbia Law Review board shutters website over article critical of Israel (www.theguardian.com)

Student editors at the Columbia Law Review say they were pressured by the journal’s board of directors to halt publication of an academic article written by a Palestinian human rights lawyer that accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and upholding an apartheid regime....

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Ah, that is an important line, thank you for sharing that. So effectively a 3-to-1 ratio of conservatives over others. Interesting how the attacks on democracy develop.

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I can imagine that measures like this go a long way toward rebuilding trust - and healing.

It’s nice to read this good news. Thank you for sharing.

Former Meta engineer sues company saying he was fired over handling of Gaza content (www.reuters.com)

A former Meta engineer on Tuesday accused the company of bias in its handling of content related to the war in Gaza, claiming in a lawsuit that Meta fired him for trying to help fix bugs causing the suppression of Palestinian Instagram posts....

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Thank you for sharing this. I’ll need to check it out.

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I’m grateful for this engineer.

Meta’s actions as described by the engineer are predictable, given what we know about them. I shall be following up on this story.

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I think this comment wins the Internet today.

Trump Campaign Sent Cease-and-Desist Letter to ProPublica Attempting to Stop Their Latest Exposé. It Didn’t Work. (www.mediaite.com)

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign and businesses have provided “Significant financial benefits” to nine of the witnesses in his criminal cases, ProPublica reported Monday morning - shrugging off a threatening cease-and-desist letter sent by Trump’s attorney....

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I came here looking for Barbara. Thank you.

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Must ProPublica be so awesome?

I’m not complaining. I’m grateful.

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“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.” Eugene Debs

“You know what uranium is, right? It’s this thing called nuclear weapons.” President Drink Bleach

Atlanta police surveil people opposing ‘Cop City’: ‘There’s this constant stalking feeling’ (www.theguardian.com)

Atlanta police have been carrying out around-the-clock surveillance in several neighborhoods for months, on people and houses linked to opposition against the police training center colloquially known as “Cop City”....

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On a US dairy farm, working in the milking parlor can mean seven-day weeks, 12-hour shifts and intimate contact with cows and everything they expel.

“When you disconnect the machine from the udder, it can shoot milk in your face,” said José Martínez, a former dairy worker and United Farm Workers advocate based in Washington state. “And there’s no time or place to eat. So we ate our tacos in spare moments with cow shit on our hands.”

Our inability to prepare for the next pandemic is itself horrible.

But infectious diseases aside, this misery resulting from capitalism is horrible too.

Would you ever want any of your children or loved ones to be compelled to work seven days a week, 12 hours a day, working hard physical labor, with no facilities to wash their hands before quickly eating a meal?

If not, would you wish that upon anyone else?

This is truly sad.

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The part about his mother deleting the incriminating evidence was nice too.

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Thank you for sharing this personal account, Flying Squid. I hear you and this gives me a lot of food for thought.

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The fine is pathetically low. And that needs to be fixed.

However, the name “Arthur Grand Technologies” will always be synonymous to racism. They dug their own grave.

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This is great news! Now let’s act to stop genocide. I’m hoping…

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Someone please tell me it wasn’t that Republican lady in that red state again. Please…

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If her dog could have a say or bark in this, I’m sure it would equate to approval of the banning.

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