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Always a bad sign when people vote against unionization of their workforce. With the benefits of having a union(better pay, pension plan) you will be better off than what you will be getting at the rate you are working. Hope unions will continue campaigning in the deep red South, because to revitalize labor in the US we need to target the right to work states run by enemies of the worker. You can't have worker solidarity in one region without having the backing of the rest of the nation.

I think there's a cultural aspect to it too (We're not Yankee Socialists etc..) and how unions have been associated as such in that region since at least the 1950's, but the sooner labor can convince them that they support them the better.

The south has long time been antiunion, even when they kind of supported fiscal progresivism in the 1930s.

Why?

Jury will probably be deliberating this day so he needs to be in NY in case they come back.

It's possible the verdict could drop DURING this rally.

Always a bad sign when people vote against unionization of their workforce. With the benefits of having a union(better pay, pension plan) you will be better off than what you will be getting at the rate you are working. Hope unions will continue campaigning in the deep red South, because to revitalize labor in the US we need to target the right to work states run by enemies of the worker. You can't have worker solidarity in one region without having the backing of the rest of the nation.

I think there's a cultural aspect to it too (We're not Yankee Socialists etc..) and how unions have been associated as such in that region since at least the 1950's, but the sooner labor can convince them that they support them the better.

Always a bad sign when people vote against unionization of their workforce. With the benefits of having a union(better pay, pension plan) you will be better off than what you will be getting at the rate you are working. Hope unions will continue campaigning in the deep red South, because to revitalize labor in the US we need to target the right to work states run by enemies of the worker. You can't have worker solidarity in one region without having the backing of the rest of the nation.

Bill Clinton was the establishment pick long before the 1992 campaign began.  TIME Magazine ran a cover on Bill Clinton in 1991; they didn't do that for anyone else.

Clinton was a moderately liberal Southerner who was able to carry some Southern states and be competitive in others.  Brown (who I voted for) still had the Governor Moonbeam image, and he also had a Loser Image.  His stronger-than-expected showing in 1992 allowed him to completely reinvent himself and regain the Governorship of California.  Most people thought Jerry Brown was through in 1982, but his reinvention of himself was truly masterful. 

Garland should receive the same treatment as Peter Navarro if he fails to comply with the subpoena.

The tape of Biden's interview with Robert Hur is not a matter of Executive Privilege.  The people have a right to see their President respond to the questions asked, and they should be able to make up their own mind as to his level of cognitive functioning, given Hur's comments as to not charging Biden due to his forgetfulness.

Biden possessed classified documents he had no right to, and, unlike Trump, he had no power to declassify them.  He did this for decades.  The elements of the crime were met, and the idea that Biden "cooperated with the National Archives and investigators is beside the point; the cooperation was, in Biden's case, decades too late.

The American people are entitled to see this, regardless of the effect it may have on the Presidential election.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/17/more-than-70-percent-of-brits-call-for-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza-report

London, United Kingdom – More than 70 percent of British people support an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, a new survey indicates as pressure rises on the government to adopt a firmer stance against Israel.

Among those who voted for the governing Conservative Party in 2019, 67 percent backed an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, according to the poll released on Friday and commissioned by Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and the Council for Arab-British Understanding (CAABU).

ers backed the call, while only 8 percent of respondents said there should not be a ceasefire.

The United Kingdom has refused to call for an immediate ceasefire.

In December, UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron and his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock wrote in The Times, “We do not believe that calling right now for a general and immediate ceasefire, hoping it somehow becomes permanent, is the way forward.”

Such a call “ignores why Israel is forced to defend itself”, they wrote. “Hamas barbarically attacked Israel and still fires rockets to kill Israeli citizens every day. Hamas must lay down its arms.”

But as the war rages on and bodies pile up across Gaza, a large section of society finds the government’s stance untenable.

The survey has come more than seven months into Israel’s latest and deadliest war on Gaza, which has killed, to date, more than 35,000 people, mostly women and children.

Israeli forces launched a ground invasion of the Strip after Hamas, which governs the enclave, attacked southern Israel on October 7. During that assault, which sharply escalated the longstanding Israel-Palestine conflict, 1,139 people were killed and hundreds were taken captive.

“These polls clearly show that both the government and Labour leadership are out of touch with British public opinion. What’s particularly disappointing is the Labour Party’s failure to challenge the government,” Heather, a pro-Palestine activist, told Al Jazeera.

“We’ve started to see Labour frontbenchers back-pedalling on their position on Gaza, and while the term ‘lasting ceasefire’ is now being used by the party, they still refuse to call for an ‘immediate’ ceasefire.”
tween May 1 and 2.

“The government and the Labour leadership continue to lag sluggishly behind British public opinion by failing to take the decisive actions needed to help bring the horrors we see in Gaza to a swift end – a trend also highlighted in polls across Europe,” said Caabu director Chris Doyle.

“There is little confidence in the leadership of both the main parties in the handling of this major international crisis.”

With Israel expanding its military incursion into Rafah, a densely populated area in southern Gaza, calls for the UK to halt its military ties to Israel have grown louder.

[February 17, 2041:Oval Office & White House Tour]

February 17, 2041:Oval Office & White House Tour
On February 17, two college friends of mine and their families visited Rachel and I for the first time. Paul O'Rourke and I met in an economics class we were in together during our freshman year, and had interesting debates about the topic. Like me, Paul commuted to college. In his case, he is originally from York, Pennsylvania. Upon graduation, he went back to York and joined his father's law firm. He's now a prominent real estate attorney in the community and is married with three children. Paul and his wife, Tricia, have been married about as long as Rachel and I. Rebecca Hoffman and I were both active in the Franklin & Marshall Democratic Club, and we struck up a friendship due to our similar politics. Originally from Highland Park, New Jersey, she relocated to Lancaster for college and still lives there to this day, where she owns a financial advisory practice along with her wife, Marla. Marla was Rachel's college roommate, and they met through Rachel and I. Paul and Rebecca have both been involved in my campaigns; Paul hosted phone banks for my state legislative campaigns and Rebecca helped raise money for all of my campaigns for State Senate, U.S. Senate, and President. Additionally, both hosted phone banks at their businesses during my U.S. Senate races and served on the Pennsylvania Finance Committee for the presidential campaign.

Rachel and I had the chance to show them our respective office's. I use the Resolute Desk, and the photos on the thin table behind me consist of a photo of my parents and I from my Bar Mitzvah, Rachel's and my wedding photo, Vice President Susan Rice swearing me in to the United States Senate in January 2031 with Rachel and my parents looking on, a photo of my dog and two cats, a photo of me with four of my Grandparents at my college graduation, and a photo with Paul, Rebecca, and I from our 10th college reunion. My oval office also consists of several portraits; on the walls aside from my desk include a portrait of George Washington at Valley Forge on the left, and a portrait of Rosa Parks with Martin Luther King Jr. on the right. Above the fireplace are five portraits; directly ahead of where I sit when at the Resolute desk is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, on the top left is Thomas Jefferson, on the top right is Susan B. Anthony, on the bottom left is Jeannette Rankin, and on the bottom right is John Dickinson. I also have four busts in the oval office; Frederick Douglas, Theodore Roosevelt, Margaret Chase Smith, and Alice Paul.

[US-built floating pier that will allow delivery of humanitarian aid has been anchored in Gaza]

US-built floating pier that will allow delivery of humanitarian aid has been anchored in Gaza

The floating pier that will allow for humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza from the sea has been anchored to a beach in Gaza, according to US Central Command (CENTCOM).

Personnel anchored the pier at about 7:40 a.m. local time, “supporting the humanitarian mission to deliver additional humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians,” CENTCOM said in a statement. The pier had traveled on Wednesday from the port of Ashdod, about 30 miles away, to the Gaza beach.

Trucks are expected to begin moving the humanitarian aid ashore in the coming days, while the United Nations will coordinate distribution within the besieged strip, CENTCOM said, adding that no US troops had entered Gaza.

The Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS) system consists of two parts: the floating pier where shipments will be offloaded and the causeway to transfer the shipments to the distribution point in Gaza.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/15/politics/us-gaza-pier-moving-construction/index.html

This is purely performative and won't actually help the people of Gaza.

As someone sympathetic to the campus protests, it's more than what those students have done.

Maki is the only chance to reignited any left-wing change in the state of Israel.