McCarthy says hard-right Republicans ‘want to burn whole place down’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Conference fails to approve procedural motion to take up defense spending bill as government shutdown looms...
Improve the world we live in, the departing Rupert Murdoch urged staff today. So why didn’t he? ( www.theguardian.com )
It should come as no surprise that Rupert Murdoch has decided to step down from the top of his media empire. Yet the news that the 92-year-old, no longer in the best of health, will not die in the job, as he always suggested he would, came as a huge shock....
Biden names Harris to lead first federal gun violence prevention office ( www.theguardian.com )
Effort continues administration’s work to prevent mass shootings and homicides that primarily affect Black and Latino communities...
Tesla is the next biggest union target in the United States. Sorry, Elon Musk ( www.theguardian.com )
Strikes aren’t bad for the US economy. They’re the best thing that could happen ( www.theguardian.com )
Auto workers, writers, actors, Starbucks workers, Amazon workers, UPS drivers, flight attendants – labor isn’t a ‘special interest’. It’s all of us
Strikes aren’t bad for the US economy. They’re the best thing that could happen ( www.theguardian.com )
America is in the midst of the biggest surge in labor activity in a quarter-century....
People who work from home all the time ‘cut emissions by 54%’ against those in office ( www.theguardian.com )
Russell Brand: In Plain Sight review – so many red flags ignored for so long ( www.theguardian.com )
So with its allegations and the alleged perpetrator’s denial already known about, and even the culture-war battle lines around it already drawn, what currency does Russell Brand: In Plain Sight have? Plenty. As well as organising deeply harrowing testimony into a cogent narrative, the Dispatches film places the women’s...
With democracy on the ballot, the mainstream press must change its ways ( www.theguardian.com )
US economy going strong under Biden – Americans don’t believe it ( www.theguardian.com )
Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands ( www.theguardian.com )
Swedish Criminal Gangs Using Fake Spotify Streams To Launder Money ( www.theguardian.com )
Criminal gangs behind a rise in bombings and shootings in Sweden in recent years are using fake Spotify streams to launder money, a Swedish newspaper reported earlier this month....
Former Australian Deputy Premier wins $715,000 settlement against Google/YouTube for enabling comedian and journalist Jordan Shanks aka FriendlyJordies to mock him online (2022) ( www.theguardian.com )
The Guardian | Michael McGowan | @mmcgowan...
US scientists who used scissors to kill lab rats must be fired, activists say ( www.theguardian.com )
Holy shit lol.
Biden impeachment inquiry ‘eight months of abject failure’, watchdog report says ( www.theguardian.com )
The Congressional Integrity Project reports on several inconsistencies and untruths in James Comer’s House investigation
Poor people ‘surviving not living’ as UK social contract collapses, says report ( www.theguardian.com )
‘Astonishingly cruel’: Alabama seeks to test execution method on death row ‘guinea pig’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Nine months after Kenneth Smith’s botched lethal injection, state attorney general has asked for approval to kill him with nitrogen
Antarctica warming much faster than models predicted in ‘deeply concerning’ sign for sea levels ( www.theguardian.com )
Antarctica is likely warming at almost twice the rate of the rest of the world and faster than climate change models are predicting, with potentially far-reaching implications for global sea level rise, according to a scientific study....
Mexico set for first female president in 2024 election ( www.theguardian.com )
Mexico will almost certainly have its first female president in 2024, after the governing Morena party and the opposition coalition both chose women as their candidates....
Poor people ‘surviving not living’ as UK social contract collapses, says report ( www.theguardian.com )
Airbnb bookings dry up in New York as new short-stay rules are introduced ( www.theguardian.com )
Under the new restrictions, short-term renters will need to register with the city and must be present in the home for the duration of the rental...