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New satellites that orbit the Earth at very low altitudes may result in a world where nothing is really off limits.

I want to rip out their eyes.

PBS Documentary Titled - Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture & The Haitian Revolution

For too long, the United Food and Commercial Workers union has been missing in action for its essential workers.

Unions are good medicine, spurring vaccinations in their wider communities while overcoming pandemic politics

Trump’s NLRB removed board authority over religiously affiliated colleges, allowing unions to be weakened.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has used a system called Giant Oak Search Technology (GOST) to help the agency scrutinize social media posts, determine if they are “derogatory” to the U.S., and then use that information as part of immigration enforcement, according to a new cache of documents reviewed by 404 Media.

The documents peel back the curtain on a powerful system, both in a technological and a policy sense—how information is processed and used to decide who is allowed to remain in the country and who is not.

AFT members and leaders lined the streets of Houston Oct. 20 protesting the state takeover of the Houston Independent School District. Since the Texas Education Agency snatched control from the elected school board, parents and educators have been shut out of decisions that are harming schools: libraries have been shut down and turned into discipline centers; teachers have been required to teach from a script, and some have been fired or required to reapply for their jobs. “I’ve never heard of a district, much less a takeover target, that is doing everything possible to destroy schools, break teachers’ spirit and actually hurt students,” said Houston Federation of Teachers President Jackie Anderson. “It’s incredible, and we can’t let it continue.”