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WE’VE VOTED, PROTESTED, AND THIS COUNTRY STILL DOES NOT WORK ON BEHALF OF ITS CITIZENS. OUR LABOR IS OUR GREATEST STRENGTH AND IF WE STRIKE TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE REAL CHANGE.

A look back at the organizing power of the holiday-season Amazon strikes.

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During a congressional oversight hearing, GOP lawmakers rush to thwart Democrats from subpoenaing Musk.

As Donald Trump signed yet another anti-trans executive order, he let slip a plan to pay himself millions with taxpayer money.

Ahead of a planned Department of Labor visit today by Elon Musk’s government-slashing group, unions launched protests and a lawsuit.

"Movement 50501" protests are expected to take place at dozens of locations on Wednesday.

One Google worker says there’s widespread employee sentiment that the company shouldn’t be in the “business of war.”

ChatGPT maker worries about AI becoming “a powerful weapon for controlling nation states.”

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Australian radio station SEN announced on Tuesday that it had parted ways with Peter Lalor, The Australian newspaper's former chief cricket writer, in the middle of a test series between Australia and Sri Lanka after his commentary on his social media regarding Israel’s war on Gaza.

Lalor’s feed on X includes reshares of news stories about Israel’s attacks on Gaza and accusations of genocide against the Israeli government.

The radio station’s management told Lalor that accusations of antisemitism had been levelled against him, which he objected to. He had been working as a freelance commentator for the station.

On Monday night, Lalor released a statement saying that he had received calls from senior management at SEN and was informed the next morning that he would no longer work for them.

An executive order — which President Donald Trump is expected to sign sometime this month — was expected to lay out a two-part strategy for shuttering the agency.

American conservatives are increasingly sceptical of the transatlantic alliance

Not sure if appropriate for this community but I found this video, made before Trump took office, to be very much in-line with the reality we are seeing unfold around us today and I just wanted to share it.

Three students from Columbia University filed a lawsuit on Monday morning against the school administration for their suspensions related to their pro-Palestine activism on campus. Among the claims in the complaint, the students state that the university violated its own policies during the disciplinary process, that the university targeted the students for their views, and that it violated New York’s landlord tenant laws when it evicted the students from university housing.

“The university just pulled out all the roadblocks and threw out its rule book in an attempt to punish and silence the plaintiffs however they could,” James Carlson, an attorney representing the students, told Drop Site News. “Whether it was repeatedly siccing the police on the plaintiffs to violently arrest them for peaceful protest or whether it was diverting them into an illegitimate disciplinary program that threw out their due process rights or whether it was turning a blind eye to their assaults and abuse from faculty and students. This is a case where Columbia University basically went far out of its way to unjustly punish and silence these students.”

“They singled out a few of us to try to make an example out of us,” Curran-Groome told Drop Site. “None of us, absolutely none of us, deserved what we've experienced this year at Columbia in terms of the targeting and the discrimination and the violence and the repression.”

“During the presidential election, Donald Trump’s campaign blanketed millions of households with flyers promising to protect Social Security and Medicare. I showed every member of the DOGE Caucus those flyers, and asked them a simple question: Do you intend to keep that promise?

Elon Musk's attempt to destroy the United States government isn't random chaos. It's the methodical execution of the "network state" blueprint.

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DemocracyNow- At least one Democratic senator, Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman, said Tuesday he would support a potential U.S. occupation of the Gaza Strip.