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State of Resistance – California Fights Back

Fred Glass The Stansbury Forum
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At the same moment that Trump was riding his horse Xenophobe through a narrow passageway in the Electoral College to the presidency, California elected only Democrats..., extended progressive tax revenues and ...locked out anti-immigrant policy...

They Loan You Money. Then They Get a Warrant for Your Arrest.

Anjali Tsui ProPublica
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High-interest loan companies are using Utah’s small claims courts to arrest borrowers and take their bail money. Technically, the warrants are issued for missing court hearings. For many, that’s a distinction without a difference.

West Virginia’s Strike is No “Wildcat”

Lois Weiner New Politics
We must get the language right. In reality, this was a strike and movement organized outside the union apparatus. This strike took shape as it did because the existing unions had neither the credibility nor legal authority to represent the workers.  West Virginia teachers and school workers have no collective bargaining, nor the right to strike.

PURE study makes headlines, but the conclusions are misleading

The Nutrition Source Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
The recently published Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (“PURE”) study made headlines about the conventional wisdom on fats and carbs, but several methodological problems cast doubt on its conclusions.