The Deepening Labor Crisis and Myanmar Election

Su Latt Phyu Transnational Institute
Livelihood conditions are worsening, with trade unionists arrested, internal displacement increasing and youth fleeing the country to escape conscription. An end to military rule is vital if the cycles of human rights repression is to be addressed.

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Policies of Denial

Sara Roy, interviewed by Max Nelson The New York Review of Books
“What I sense most powerfully from my friends in Gaza is a feeling of abandonment. Quiet is not the absence of conflict nor is it peace.” Plans for the “day after” in the Strip impose forms of governance that exclude Palestinians as political agents

Trump’s Childcare Funding Freezes Are Going To Hit All Kids Hard

Grace Segers The New Republic
The administration added new strings for states to receive funding. This could have ripple effects for all households, not just those with low-income children. HHS said it would specifically freeze $10 billion in childcare funds to five blue states.

How Did Astoria Become So Socialist?

Naaman Zhou The New Yorker
One neighborhood in New York has elected so many democratic socialists—including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani—that people have started calling it “the People’s Republic,” or a part of the Commie Corridor.

ICE Agents Can Be Charged With Murder

David Dayen The American Prospect
As a killing in Minneapolis is documented the law clearly stipulates federal agents do not have universal immunity. Federal officers are not, merely because they are such, granted immunity from prosecution in state courts for crimes against state law

Top Union Accuses Texas of Targeting Teachers Over Charlie Kirk Posts

Texas Top union accuses Texas of targeting teachers over Charlie Kirk posts American Federation of Teachers sues over what it says are unconstitutional investigations into social media comments Joseph Gedeon The Guardian
A major Texas teachers’ union filed a federal lawsuit against the state challenging what it describes as unconstitutional investigations into hundreds of educators who posted comments on social media following the killing of Charlie Kirk.