Florida schools will now teach that slavery benefited black and indigenous communities (www.thedailybeast.com)
New York City to Pay $13 Million to George Floyd Protesters (www.telesurenglish.net)
Most Americans support a $20 minimum wage. It has been $7.25 since 2009. (lemmy.world)
Nurses, hotel workers, & locomotive manufacturing workers on strike (www.workers.org)
One other point worth mentioning: Some “travel” nurses, contracted to replace striking nurses, were reportedly refusing to cross the picket line in solidarity with the hospital staff nurses. Kansas and Texas nurses will resume negotiations this month....
Marjorie Taylor Greene Accidentally made a Biden campaign video (imgur.com)
Joe Biden approves of this message....
Hunter Biden's lawyer claims he has proof J6 masterminds also 'fabricated' laptop lies (www.rawstory.com)
“There are some things I can’t talk about, unlike the grifters. I have to have transparency and verification to stand up in a court of law, but I can tell you this,” [Former Republican Rep. Denver] Riggleman continued. "What we want to look at first is the data out there purported to be Hunter Biden’s laptop, and we...
A viral left-wing Twitter account may have been fake all along (archive.is)
Original article | Without paywall
FTC sues Amazon for dark patterns (www.cnbc.com)
🎉Dead US Nazi (indepthnh.org)
35yo, died around Juneteenth..unlikely an accident....
Legendary whistleblower and anti-imperialist activist Daniel Ellsberg died with cancer this morning at 91 years old. I'm gonna spend the evening brushing up on the Pentagon Papers again in his honor (lemmygrad.ml)
Hate group threatens Philadelphia workers (www.workers.org)
While UNITE HERE has attempted to organize a union for Marriott workers, pushback from management derailed the efforts. Speakers at protests outside the Marriott have raised that many of the workers are Black, Brown and LGBTQ. Without union protection, their jobs are on the line if they speak out against M4L [Moms for Liberty,...
IRS Audits of the Rich Deliver Huge Bang for the Buck: New Study (finance.yahoo.com)
Republicans have been clamoring to rescind billions of dollars in additional funding provided for the Internal Revenue Service as part of last year’s Inflation Reduction Act. They succeeded to an extent as part of the recent deal between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden to raise the debt limit, which also...
NYC protest says: ‘Water and energy are human rights!’ (www.workers.org)
Who profits from forced labor? (www.workers.org)
A Feb. 15 report by CareerAddict.com estimated that 4,200 large corporations use over 600,000 incarcerated workers to produce goods and services. There are several well-known companies on this list. McDonalds and Wendy’s use prison labor to produce frozen beef patties and other products. Calls to Verizon, Sprint or Avis for...
Who Runs U.S. Foreign Policy: Biden or Netanyahu? w/Professor Jeffrey Sachs (youtu.be)
CNBC says that people have the most pessimistic view of the economy that they've seen in 17 years of running the poll.
https://media.mas.to/masto-public/media_attachments/files/111/615/404/933/561/802/original/93afe1a39b6af911.mp4
Judge blocks new Texas law that would erode cities’ power to enact local rules (www.texastribune.org)
A sweeping new Texas law aimed at undermining the ability of the state’s bluer urban areas to enact progressive policies is unconstitutional, a Travis County judge ruled Wednesday....
Crowded GOP field vies for the Christian Zionist vote as Israel’s rightward shift spurs protests (www.columbian.com)
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — When John McCain was the Republican presidential nominee in 2008, he was forced to reject megachurch pastor John Hagee’s endorsement after a sermon surfaced that was derided as antisemitic....
