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Ron DeSantis Should Be Prosecuted

Jeff Weaver Jacobin
Stop calling it a “political stunt.” Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s use of vulnerable immigrants as props is disgusting and criminal.

Wisconsin Nurses Get Possible Path to Union Recognition

Michael Childers and David Nack Labor Notes
A three-day strike by Wisconsin nurses is off this week, after SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin and UW Health (the University of Wisconsin's medical system) reached an agreement on a path toward the potential recognition of the union.

Sweden: Right-Wing Coalition Wins Election by the Narrowest of Margins

Petter Nilsson and Rikard Warlenius Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Sweden’s right-wing parties are set to take power with a razor-thin majority, ending eight years of social democratic government. Sweden can look forward to four years of reactionary politics where the democratic institutions are genuinely at risk.

Incarceration on TV Is Nothing Like the Prison Where I Live

Christopher Blackwell The Progressive
As sensational shows like ‘60 Days In‘ return this fall, so does one of television’s favorite tropes: the scary, evil-doing prisoner. howcasing the most unstable of the incarcerated population spreads the false narrative that everyone in prison is a lost cause.

Indiana University Graduate Workers Submit Cards, Seek Union Election

Patrick McGerr The Herald-Times
The Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America submitted 1,584 union cards to the Indiana University last week, representing almost two-thirds of the roughly 2,500 graduate students working at IU.

How the Hart–Celler Act Changed America

Ruth Milkman Dissent Magazine
The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America by Sarah R. Coleman Princeton University Press, 2021 The 1960s effort to end discriminatory quotas sowed the seeds of the political conflicts over immigration still with us today