Monday, April 6, 2026

Border patrol fires tear gas at asylum seekers, hitting women, children, and journalists

U.S. authorities fired tear gas at migrants at the Mexican border during the first hours of the new year.

Do good fences make good neighbors?

Why do we feverishly build more walls when they offer us less and less protection?

Pet stores in California to sell rescued animals only under new law

The aim is to save the state's taxpayers from the millions of dollars spent on sheltering animals and protect animals from inhumane treatment from "kitten factories" and puppy mills" that could cause long-term emotional and physical health problems.
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Noam Chomsky: Members of migrant caravan are fleeing from misery & horrors created by...

"Now people are fleeing from the misery and horrors for which we are responsible."

Marriott hotel strikers set a new industry standard

Their common demands focused on three areas – job security, workload, and wages and benefits – and the slogan, “One Job Should Be Enough.”
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A path to freedom? Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal wins chance to reargue appeal in 1981...

On Thursday, a Philadelphia judge ruled Abu-Jamal can reargue his appeal in the case before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

If you’re over 50, chances are the decision to leave a job won’t be...

A new data analysis by ProPublica and the Urban Institute shows more than half of older U.S. workers are pushed out of longtime jobs before they choose to retire, suffering financial damage that is often irreversible.

The new Agitprop? The Integrity Initiative exposed

Expect these evidence free smears to continue and for more well funded groups like the Integrity Initiative to appear in the future, claiming to be fighting disinformation while engaging in it themselves, often against their own citizens or those of allied countries.
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‘RBG:’ As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recovers from surgery, a remarkable film charts her...

Despite her illnesses, in her 25 years on the court Ginsburg has never missed a day of oral argument.

Investigation finds at least $800M in taxpayer money went to funding for-profit immigrant prisons...

"To the extent that the industry is in the business of expanding the system so they can make more money off holding more immigrants that can be confined, and doing everything possible to profit off of it by labor processes like getting detainees to work and paying them a dollar a day, there is very little distinction you can draw between slave labor and what they're doing."