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October 8, 2019

With Go Ahead from the Office of Personnel Management, Agencies Press Forward With Efforts to Cripple Federal Unions

Eric Katz Government Executive

While employee unions are vowing to continue their fight against the orders, agencies are taking steps to strip the groups of their previously enjoyed rights and perks. Unions likely to face evictions, severe restrictions on official time.

October 8, 2019

How the LGBTQ Rights Cases Before the Supreme Court Affect All Americans

Anna North Vox

If the Trump administration gets its way, the court could destroy sex discrimination law as we know it.

October 8, 2019

America’s Last Slave Ship Could Offer a Case for Reparations

Jay Reeves AP

The discovery of the last ship that brought Africans to the United States as slaves may offer a test case for reparations. Relatives of steamship owner Timothy Meaher, still live in Mobile. So do descendants of the people he enslaved.

October 8, 2019

Winners and Losers From Trump Throwing Syrian Kurds Under the Bus

Juan Cole Informed Comment

Washington’s crusade against Iran and Russia (in the latter case with the exception of Trump) is irrelevant to this move, which is mainly about the Kurds and America’s further betrayal of them after they defeated ISIL for us.

October 8, 2019

The 'Public Option' on Health Care is a Poison Pill

David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler The Nation

Some Democratic candidates are pushing it as a free-choice version of Medicare for All. That’s good rhetoric but bad policy.

October 8, 2019

‘Joker’ Exposes the Broken Class System That Creates Its Own Monsters

Chauncey K. Robinson People's World

'Joker' is ultimately an-in-your face examination of a broken system that creates its own monsters. It’s a gritty and morbidly beautiful journey with little comfort to spare, but many messages to mull over.

October 8, 2019

Media Bits and Bytes - October 8, 2019

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FCC Beats Back Net Neutrality; Making Journalists Beg; The State of Cable News in Trump's Crisis; iPhone Exploits; Egypt's Rising Movement Finds a Cartoon Rallying Point

January 27, 2017

Friday Nite Videos -- January 27, 2017

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President Donald Trump's First Negotiation Was A Humiliation. Musical Internationalism | Groove in G. Radical Brownies. Russia Treason Arrest Seen as Tacit Corroboration of US Intel. Kellyanne Conway - SNL.

President Donald Trump's First Negotiation Was A Humiliation

January 27, 2017

Lawrence O'Donnell explains why Mexican President Peña Nieto's decision to not attend a scheduled meeting with Pres. Trump over the border wall is Trump's first humiliation on the global stage and sends a message to other world leaders about future negotiations.

Musical Internationalism | Groove in G

January 27, 2017

Starting with musical group Tinariwen in West Africa, Playing for Change traveled the world asking musicians to add to the song. A groove in the key of G transformed into a global jam with its roots in the blues.