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What Dollar General Doesn’t Want You To Know

March 29, 2024

Dollar General is stealing from their customers. It’s a major scam that’s siphoning hundreds of millions of dollars from the poorest people in America.

Will the ICJ's New Orders Help the People of Gaza?

March 29, 2024

The International Court of Justice tells Israel to allow supplies into Gaza - saying famine is setting in there. But its previous orders in the war have so far been ignored.

AOC Delivers Major Speech on Looming Famine in Gaza

March 29, 2024

It is against United States law to transfer weapons to any force blocking US humanitarian assistance

Jordan Klepper on How We Should Deal With Jan 6 Rioters

March 29, 2024

Ronna McDaniel’s short-lived stint at NBC raises the question: How should America deal with the people who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021? #DailyShow #Jan6 #Insurrection #Trump

March 29, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | March 29, 2024

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Jordan Klepper on Dealing With Jan 6 Rioters. AOC on Looming Famine in Gaza, Will the ICJ's New Orders Help the People of Gaza? What Dollar General Doesn’t Want You To Know. What the Red Sea Ship Attacks Are Really About.

March 28, 2024

Wall Street’s War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What To Do About It

Steve Lawton Portside

Leopold’s new book offers a closer and more detailed look at how wealth extraction occurs, how workers bear the brunt of it, and how this dynamic challenges our political organizing efforts by labor unions and other progressive change organizations.

March 28, 2024

‘Solidarity Is a Verb’: Pittsburgh IBEW Local Rallies to Side of Striking Newspaper Workers

Janelle Hartman Pittsburgh Union Progress

“They have been through so much,” Layhew said of the NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America members who walked out in October 2022 over health care, wages and audacious attacks on their contract. “I really felt for them.”

March 28, 2024

Tidbits – Mar.28 2024 – Reader Comments: Ceasefire, Standing With Palestinians; RFK, Jr; Government Numbers About…; Single-Payer Saves-Report France; Greatest Baseball Films; Seafood’s Potential; Käthe Kollwitz – New Exhibition at MOMA in New York

Mar 28, 2024 - Reader Comments, Announcements, Cartoons Portside

Reader Comments: Demand for Gaza Ceasefire, Standing With Palestinians; RFK, Jr; Government Numbers About...; Single-Payer Saves-Report France; Greatest Baseball Films; Seafood's Potential; Käthe Kollwitz - New Exhibition at MOMA in New York; more

March 28, 2024

First City-Wide Rent Reduction in the History of New York State Upheld by Appellate Court

John Mage MRonLine

Five judge panel rules unanimously determination of Kingston Rent Guidelines Board mandating 15% rent reduction is valid “[n]othing in the applicable statutory language explicitly requires that the Board adjust the rent upward rather than downward.”

March 28, 2024

Governors Are Calling for Investments in Early Care and Education

Anna Lovejoy Center for American Progress

Child care is both hard to find and increasingly expensive for families. The average price of licensed child care for a U.S. family is nearly $11,000 per year, which is 33 percent of the median household income for single-parent families.