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A Fighting Union’s Path to Renewal: The UE Story

Chris Townsend UE News
The ongoing organizational renewal and substantial growth of UE is one of the most remarkable stories in the U.S. labor movement in decades. Of the 42 unions who comprised the founding roster of the CIO in 1938 only eight survive intact today.

Inside the Bloodbath at the NIH

Gregg Gonsalves The Nation
Sources say that a climate of fear has spread throughout the agency as the Trump administration takes a hatchet to its core functions.

Trump To Welcome White South Africans

Katya Schwenk The Lever
Amid a near-total asylum ban, government sources say Trump officials are planning to use funds for at-risk refugees to facilitate imminent Afrikaner resettlement.

The Crypto Racket

Candice Bernd The American Prospect
Public officials at all levels are propping up a Texas Bitcoin mining boom that’s threatening water and energy systems while afflicting locals with noise pollution.

Friday Nite Videos | May 9, 2025

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