Revealed: Starbucks fired over 20 US union leaders in recent months
Workers at the coffee chain have filed petitions for union elections at more than 250 stores, but chief Howard Schultz publicly opposes the movement
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Russians fear Mariupol abuse will backfire, U.S. intel shows
The abuses include beating and electrocuting city officials and robbing homes, according to an intelligence finding.
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U.S. to offer Sweden security guarantees as war in Ukraine enters a new phase
As the war enters a ‘protracted phase,’ Ukrainian troops seized in Mariupol face interrogation while a Russian soldier pleads guilty to war crimes.
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Biden-Bezos feud escalates
A simmering feud between President Biden and Jeff Bezos has spilled into the open after the Amazon founder went on the offensive to criticize the White House’s approach to inflation and taxing wealthy corporations.
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Opinion | Samuel Alito: One Angry Man
The conservative Supreme Court justice is furious with the pace of social change — and poised to do something about it on Roe and much more.
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‘He’s Not OK’: The Entirely Predictable Unraveling of Madison Cawthorn
A string of embarrassing incidents has led many to question whether the young congressman from North Carolina was really ready for the job.
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Living With The Far-Right Insurgency In Idaho
A radical GOP faction, in open alliance with extremists, is seizing power and targeting its opponents with cruelty. Some wonder: Is it time to leave?
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Very well said TG. It is time for the Democrats and the non-right wing media to stop playing nice and acting like it would be the worst break in decorum to clearly say what is going on and who is doing it. While the Democrats are trying to pretend they are in a PG prime time sitcom with little kids watching, the Republicans are out for blood taking people’s rights away, rigging elections, stopping people from voting, and calling anyone that disagrees with them a pedophiles and child sexual groomers. It makes no sense and makes the Democrats look not only out of touch with reality, but that they don’t care if they win or not. Democrats like Pelosi saying on nation TV interviews that we need a strong Republican party, and she wants a strong republican party repeatedly while stumbling over her words due to the attempts to hide her true age, and Chuck Schumer who cannot seem to understand or use the power of Senate Majority Leader, is doubling as a sleeping aid or someone’s old grandfather forgotten at the family reunion talking to the air around him about the good old days. These way past the time they retire fossils are in danger of letting their egos and their desire for corporate campaign contributions of causing the country to fall to the rabid hateful authoritarian right that wants to regress the country back to either the 1850s or the 1600s depending on which SCOTUS judge they love the most. Hugs
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One of the hallmarks of our era is the way that being polite is more important than being accurate, and so is of interest to us that suddenly public figures are choosing accuracy. Gone are the days of My Friend From XYZ and now it’s Elise Stefanik The Fascist From NY. (And make no mistake, she really is espousing fascism.)
Following the horrifying mass shooting in Buffalo, the WaPo thought it was important to note that Stefanik, the third-ranking House Republican, had echoed the “great replacement” rhetoric:
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), the No. 3 House Republican, and other GOP lawmakers came under scrutiny Sunday for previously echoing the racist “great replacement” theory that apparently inspired an 18-year-old who allegedly killed 10 people while targeting Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo.
Darth Cheney’s evil spawn was more polite than the WaPo, but still plenty…
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Thank you Ten Bears. This is important information in a time when the right is trying to rewrite history and change reality to claim that Jan 6 was a peaceful protest while antifa and BLM are terrorist groups. May the truth win over the falsehoods. Hugs
From the New York Times morning mail
| Over the past decade, the Anti-Defamation Leaguehas countedabout 450 U.S. murders committed by political extremists. |
| Of these 450 killings, right-wing extremists committed about 75 percent. Islamic extremists were responsible for about 20 percent, and left-wing extremists were responsible for 4 percent. |
| Nearly half of the murders were specifically tied to white supremacists: |
 Source: Anti-Defamation League |
| As this data shows, the American political right has a violence problem that has no equivalent on the left. Andthe 10 victims in Buffalo this past weekendare now part of this toll. “Right-wing extremist violence is our biggest threat,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the ADL, has written. “The numbers don’t lie.” |
Gotta’ get down to it, their soldiers are cutting us down
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