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August 30, 2024

Work To Rule and Open Bargaining Back Down Kroger Warehouse Bosses

Alexandra Bradbury Labor Notes

Workers at a table in a parking lot reading and signing

The Teamsters won a ban on any further outsourcing, wrested back some previously outsourced jobs, and for the first time won the right to honor strikes by other Kroger Teamsters.

August 30, 2024

Ballot Initiatives Activate Voters, Change the Landscape

Chris Melody Fields Figueredo Convergence

Ballot initiatives offer a tool “to not only block authoritarian rule and ideology, but to build a world where all of us thrive and live with dignity — the world we deserve.”

August 30, 2024

COVID-19, Flu and RSV Shots − an Epidemiologist Explains Why All Three Matter This Fall

Annette Regan The Conversation

COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths have been rising since May 2024, with the highest rates seen in adults 65 and older and infants under 6 months old. Therefore, health experts recommend getting the updated COVID-19 shot as soon as possible.

Ex-Trump Voters on January 6th

August 30, 2024

Former Trump voters give their thoughts about Trump's actions on January 6th, 2021

Homegrown I Documentary

August 30, 2024

A bold new film follows three Americans preparing to go to war on behalf of a stolen election delusion

Russian POWs Speak About Their Capture in Kursk Oblast

August 30, 2024

The Kyiv Independent got exclusive access to the POWs captured during the Kursk operation and interviewed them about their motivations and experience

Escaping the Gaza War for my Paralympic Dream

August 30, 2024

The Gaza Sunbirds are a team of paracyclists from Gaza, set up in 2020 by cyclist Alaa al-Dali after he was shot in the leg by an Israeli sniper during the Great March of Return in 2018

I Asked Bernie Sanders About a Gaza Ceasefire

August 30, 2024

Hasan has some follow up questions for the Senator

August 30, 2024

Palestine Won at the Democratic Convention

James J. Zogby Arab American Institute

The DNC was a messy affair, with highs and lows, some small victories and some setbacks. It’s imperative to recognize the victories won and continue to engage with allies in the political process because change will come—only if this work continues.

August 30, 2024

How Jack Smith’s Re-Indictment of Trump Addresses SCOTUS Immunity Ruling

Kim Wehle The Bulwark

Smith is outmaneuvering the Supreme Court majority by presenting a threshold question for Judge Chutkan to decide: Is a candidate campaigning for president who happens to be the incumbent operating in an official presidential capacity?