Labor
UNITE-HERE Strikes San Diego’s Hilton Bayfront on Eve of Comic-Con Fox
HarperCollins Union Workers Hit the Picket Line Publishers Weekly [at News Corp., part of the Rupert Murdoch media empire]
America’s Bus Driver Shortage Has Left Transit Systems in Crisis Bloomberg
Second Activision Blizzard Worker Group Launches Union Drive With CWA Hollywood Reporter
Amazon workers launch campaign to unionize in Albany Washington Post
Chipotle closes Maine store that sought to unionize Washington Post
Police Are Being Removed From Schools for Sexual Assault Dame
Bad faith actors claim that school resource officers keep schools safe, but their survivors would likely claim otherwise.
Police Departments Spend Vast Sums of Money Creating “Copaganda” Alec Karakatsanis
The second function of copaganda is to manufacture crises or “crime surges.” For example, if you watch the news, you’ve probably been bombarded with stories about the rise of retail theft. Yet the actual data shows there has been no significant increase. Instead, corporate retailers, police, and PR firms fabricated talking points and fed them to the media. The same is true of what the FBI categorizes as “violent crime.” All told, major “index crimes” tracked by the FBI are at nearly forty-year lows.
Biden seeking $37B for fighting crime, hiring more police AP
As Questions of Evidence Destruction Hit the Secret Service, a Book Reveals that Secret Service Agents Spread the Big Lie of a Stolen Election on Social Media Wall Street On Parade
Judge finds sufficient evidence to continue Elijah McClain case ABC News
CIA director admits there’s no ‘Havana syndrome’ Kawsachun News
China
Is China headed for a crash? Michael Roberts
U.S./NATO war
How Corrupt is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky? CovertAction
Kononovich brothers thank supporters as trial resumes in Ukraine Morning Star
Why Nord Stream II Must Be Opened Immediately Moon of Alabama
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