A Spark of Hope From Scrappy Federal Workers

Hadas Thier Hammer & Hope
The federal work force, like much of the country, is in a do-or-die moment. As federal unions engage in lengthy legal battles, the growing Federal Unionists Network has provided a fulcrum for rank-and-file members who don’t want to wait to resist.

Tidbits- Aug. 7 -Readers Comments: Not Just Texas-Voting Rights, Democracy Under Assault; ICE; GOP Cover-Up-Ultra Rich Power Grab and Child Sex Trafficking; Gaza Is Time To Remember Hiroshima – War Is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things;

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Readers Comments: Not Just Texas, It's Voting Rights and Democracy Under Assault; ICE Block; GOP Cover-Up: Ultra Rich Power Grab and Child Sex Trafficking; Gaza is Time to Remember Hiroshima - War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things;

Eighty Years of Nuclear Terror

Lawrence S. Wittner Z Network
Ever since the atomic bombings of Japanese cities in August 1945, the world has been living on borrowed time. To facilitate these nuclear war preparations, the major nuclear powers have withdrawn from key nuclear arms control and disarmament treaties

The Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Is a Stain on Both Parties

Ben Burgis Jacobin
Forget partisan finger-pointing. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal cuts across party lines, indicting economic and political elites alike. Epstein just enjoyed the perks of life in one of the very top tiers of a society where laws are for little people.

The Liberal Who Hates Leftists

Pratinav Anil The Guardian
In his caustic critique of identity politics, Williams ends up condemning every kind of collective action.

The Recession Door Opens

Jack Rasmus LA Progressive
Multiple statistics show the band-aid has been ripped off the obfuscation of the real condition of the labor market that has prevailed for at least this past year, exposing the long festering wound beneath.