New: The deceased Boone teen found emaciated was being homeschooled, according to docs obtained through a FOIA.
The tragedy has reignited calls for the state to alter its homeschool laws in cases where there’s potential abuse. westvirginiawatch.com/2024/04/26/rec…

Pro-Israel crowd tells NYPD to arrest pro-Palestine protester, NYPD obliges.

Just before this I heard a pro-Israel dude tell the pro-Palestine protester, who is brown, “I look forward to you delivering me my food on DoorDash”

In a better and more just world Brandy Jensen would be making a bunch of money to write these smart and funny essays at least once a
month in a glossy magazine that smells like department store cologne. But I guess I’ll settle for reading them this way. yalereview.org/article/brandy…

LAPD just aimed a weapon at protesters

“Because housing is one of the most limited and coveted resources in New York City, it’s an incredibly powerful motivator to bend students to your will,” said a law student on campus Tuesday. My report on evicted students. curbed.com/article/housin…

Atlantic staff writer begging the cops to arrest nonviolent NYU faculty members for some reason

Southern labor comrades, don’t work with Mike Elk. He hired my friends to “film the Volkswagen election” and subjected them to verbal abuse, inappropriate sexual comments, drunkenness on the job, and finally, stiffing them on agreed payment. He’s a liability to the movement.

Volkswagen auto workers in Chattanooga became the first in the South not in the Big Three to successfully unionize. They weren't swayed by mgmt's preemptive 11% raises and learned from UAW workers' wins as well as their own prior losses, Luis Feliz Leon wrote: labornotes.org/2024/04/histor…

'Organized labor was and remains a threat to the political and economic elites of a region whose foremost commitment is to the maintenance of an employer-dominated economy of low-wage labor and its attendant social order.' nytimes.com/2024/04/19/opi…

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Columbia and Barnard faculty have been working overtime since December to accompany students to increasingly draconian disciplinary hearings related to protests against Israel's war on Gaza. A colleague just sent this anecdote (shared with permission). This is where we are at

'In 42 legal complaints reviewed by The Nation, former Tesla Fremont workers repeatedly describe hearing non-Black coworkers, including leads and supervisors, using racist language, sometimes directed at them.' thenation.com/article/societ…

as I will not be raptured, I hope I get to meet the Antichrist

not now, Donald

Eric Adams about to send 500,000 cops to the earth’s core.

eclipse, earthquake, we have angered the Lord of Hosts

turns out cats don't like earthquakes