Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
He has seen his birth and death many times, he says, and pays random visits to all the events in between.
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Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
He has seen his birth and death many times, he says, and pays random visits to all the events in between.
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Red fox - New General Megathread for the 5th-6th of April 2024 (hexbear.net)
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere including most of North America, Europe and Asia, plus parts of North Africa. It is listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List. Its range has...
The drone the IDF used to kill three British aid workers was made in the UK (www.thecanary.co)
The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers – including three Britons – using a UK-made drone. The news only serves to increase pressure on the Tories to ban arms exports to Israel....
Zionists have tried to silence me through doxing and intimidation. They won’t succeed. (mondoweiss.net)
A Palestinian teacher describes being targeted by Zionist groups with doxing and public harassment. He urges the New York City Chancellor of Education to take action before it turns violent....
Hockey Arena DJ Waiting for Perfect Moment to Play “Welcome to the Jungle” (thehardtimes.net)
read more: thehardtimes.net/…/hockey-arena-dj-waiting-for-pe…
UN finally passes a resolution recognising one of society's most marginalised groups (www.thecanary.co)
The UN Human Rights Council passed its first ever resolution on Thursday 4 April over tackling discrimination against intersex people, despite opposition from several countries to the terminology used. The resolution passed in the 47-member council with 24 votes in favour, none against and 23 abstentions....
Environmental Fail/Nostalgia FTW: This 3-Mile Wide Garbage Patch In The Pacific Ocean Is 100% Composed Of Troll Dolls (clickhole.com)
read more: clickhole.com/environmental-fail-nostalgia-ftw-th…
3 Classic Norwegian Fairy Tales Parents Used To Scare Their Children Out Of Going On ‘Shark Tank’ Without A Clear Pitch (clickhole.com)
read more: clickhole.com/3-classic-norwegian-fairy-tales-par…
France’s Left Must Take a Stand for Palestine (jacobin.com)
Ahead of June’s European elections, the French left is divided over Gaza. Rima Hassan, a Franco-Palestinian jurist and activist standing for France Insoumise, tells Jacobin why it’s shameful for left-wingers to fail to defend Palestinians’ rights....
Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Literary giant, revolutionary hero, domestic abuser (www.aljazeera.com)
The allegation that the revered Kenyan author used to beat his wife should start a new conversation on tradition, patriarchy and women’s rights on the continent....
On Palestinian Children's Day... The Israeli occupation detains more than 200 Palestinian children in its prisons (addameer.org)
Every year on April 5th, Palestinian Children’s Day is observed, where Palestinian children have historically lived under extremely difficult conditions due to the occupation. Since the early years of the occupation of Palestinian territories until today, the occupation has targeted children through various means and methods...
The Grind Never Stops in Radu Jude’s Latest Film (jacobin.com)
Filmmaker Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World follows a production assistant on a long day’s drive to screen injured Romanian workers for a workplace safety video — painting a bleak, darkly funny portrait of a hollowed-out world....
OPB reporters unionize (nwlaborpress.org)
Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) and KMHD Jazz Radio on March 22 voluntarily recognized SAG-AFTRA as the bargaining representative of about 65 on-air staff, hosts, reporters, and producers....
Vancouver firm fined in grisly accident is repeat child labor offender (nwlaborpress.org)
After a 16-year-old boy lost both legs last June in a preventable workplace accident in La Center, a follow-up investigation by Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) found that his employer Rotschy LLC has committed dozens of child labor law violations....
Op-Ed Abuse: US Newspapers Diluting Democratic Discourse with Political Bias (www.projectcensored.org)
On September 21, 1970, the New York Times ran its first “op-ed” page. Short for “opposite the editorial,” this new feature provided space for writers with no relationship to the newspaper’s editorial board to express their views. Before long, other newspapers followed suit. More than fifty years later, in order to...
Speaking as one African to another (africasacountry.com)
One afternoon in 1957 in Johannesburg, Benjamin Pogrund walked into a classroom at the University of the Witwatersrand to meet his fiancée Astrid. He found her in conversation with her teacher, Robert Sobukwe, a lecturer in isiZulu (his official title at the university was “language assistant”). Astrid had spoken warmly of...
No, the New Minimum Wage Won’t Wreck the Fast Food Industry or the Economy (capitalandmain.com)
The past decade has seen some of the most astounding price hikes and profit taking in the rich history of the major U.S. fast food companies. The numbers don’t lie....
Residents Finally Get to Participate in Negotiations Over Jackson’s Water Crisis (truthout.org)
Jackson, Mississippi, residents will now have a formal seat in negotiations that could determine the future of clean water access....
Palestinians in Northern Gaza Only Have Access to 245 Calories a Day (truthout.org)
For months, Israel has been forcing Palestinians in northern Gaza to starve on a tiny fraction of their regular daily calorie needs, a report finds as experts warn of an unprecedented widespread famine across the region....
Law enforcement keeps making women remove hijabs for mugshots (19thnews.org)
When Tamera Hutcherson was arrested on January 8 in Dallas, she says, she was ordered by a woman officer to remove her hijab and lift up her shirt with the instruction: “Lift up your top like it’s Girls Gone Wild.” When she did, her waist beads — worn as part of a deeply-held spiritual belief — were revealed, and the...
New Bill Could Pave the Way Toward Banning Student Debt Cancellation (truthout.org)
*Campaigners have issued a “red alert” over language included in the 2024 Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act that could pave the way toward banning student loan cancellation....
University of Texas at Austin Fires 60 Staff Focused on Diversity and Inclusion (truthout.org)
The layoffs were prompted by a diversity, equity, and inclusion ban that went into effect in January....
Ford doubles down on refusal to build fourplexes until someone explains to him what they are (www.thebeaverton.com)
read more: thebeaverton.com/…/ford-doubles-down-on-refusal-t…
Anti-UAW Union Buster Secretly Behind Hit Labor News Site (paydayreport.com)
LaborUnionNews.com has quickly become the “Drudge Report of Labor News”; the largest aggregator of news about unions on the web, boasting that it links to over 50 news articles a day and has posted links to more than 34,000 labor news articles since it started in 2023....
Another SD reservation has banished Gov. Kristi Noem. She is now banned in over 1/10 the land area of her state. (ictnews.org)
extremely stable country stuff