NYT asks the important questions, does America need a president? 😂 ( www.nytimes.com )
June jobs report: US labor market adds 206,000 jobs, unemployment rate rises to 4.1% ( finance.yahoo.com )
The Decline of Trust Among Americans Has Been National
Source -> https://pluralofyou.org/trust-among-americans-not-over-yet/...
Biden’s aging is seen as accelerating; lapses described as more common ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Listen: Biden says he is ‘first black woman to serve with a black president’ ( www.telegraph.co.uk )
Homes are unaffordable in 80% of larger U.S. counties, analysis finds ( www.cbsnews.com )
The SCOTUS is complicit in destroying the environment, waging class war against us ( www.workers.org )
Also on June 28, the same far-right SCOTUS justices responsible for the EPA decision overturned a landmark 40-year-old ruling that became known as the “Chevron” doctrine. The Chevron doctrine came out of a 1984 SCOTUS decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council....
‘Nurses Against Genocide’ protest the American Nurses Association’s silence ( www.workers.org )
One of the organizers who participated in the action said: “We coordinated online from different states. All of us are full-time, working nurses who participate in activism regularly, including staging actions like this one. Not everyone could make it in person, but there were nurses from across the country who helped outline...
The UAW Strike May Have Finally Set Us Up for a General Strike ( www.teenvogue.com )
Biden tells Democratic governors he needs more sleep and plans to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m. ( www.cnn.com )
More troops are quitting the military over Gaza ( youchu.be )
Over one hundred activists gathered at Harvard Square to shut down Elbit Systems ( www.workers.org )
At the rally an organizer called for further direct action in the U.S. imperial core: “We are here, because we absolutely have to be, because this genocide is being carried out with our dollars, in our name, by entities, by companies that we do not have to let keep operating, that we can close down.”...
Confrontation at Asia Society: Fiery Activist Jose Vega Challenges Pottinger on US-China Policy ( m.youtube.com )
US Ports Warn White House of ‘Grave’ Economic Risks With China Crane Tariff ( www.bloomberg.com )
US ports are urging the Biden administration to reconsider a proposed 25% tariff on Chinese-made cranes, arguing it will increase costs by over $130 million and hurt their competitiveness. They argue there are no alternatives to Chinese cranes and the tariff will negatively impact efficiency, capacity, and the overall economy....
IMF warns US on ballooning fiscal burden ( www.ft.com )
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Oh No, Now The US Has To Stop Imprisoning Ex-Presidents For Their Crimes! ( caitlinjohnstone.com.au )
Project 2025 leader promises 'second American Revolution' ( www.newsweek.com )
Seems like the next U.S. president could very well be their equivalent of Gorbachev.
Debate merely (re)exposes two enemies of the people ( www.workers.org )
It was telling, however, that for one issue Biden forcefully defended his foreign policy against Trump’s. That exception concerned NATO and the proxy war in Ukraine against Russia, which Biden backed 100%....
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Who’s Really in Charge ( www.kenklippenstein.com )
New York City: Solidarity with the Kenyan, Haitian masses ( www.workers.org )
Jason Cohen of Friends of Swazi Freedom noted that the Kenyan police killed at least 20 people on the day they stormed parliament protesting the finance bill and that on June 27 they reportedly killed 250 people as they left a protest....
13-year-old killed by police after officers say teen fled and pointed replica handgun at them | CNN ( www.cnn.com )
Laid-off tech workers advised to sell plasma, personal belongings to survive ( www.sfgate.com )
Nina McCollum has been laid off so many times that the 55-year-old is basically an unofficial expert. That’s how she describes herself, at least....
The first 6 months of 2024 were the hottest ever measured across the USA
American democracy: Voters to pick between two poisons, strychnine or cyanide ( www.presstv.ir )
In the past, Americans could argue that they possessed a vibrant democracy. But no longer. A “simple lie” was stripped bare on the world stage on June 27, exposing a “complex truth”: American “democracy” is represented by two repugnant geriatrics yelling at each other....
