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The United States Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling this morning that upholds voting restrictions in Arizona. It overrules a lower court’s finding that two Arizona laws discriminated against minority voters. The high court’s decision pretty much guts Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that forbids discrimination based on race.

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Supplies of critical medical products in the Strategic National Stockpile are still well below federal targets more than 18 months after the coronavirus first emerged in the United States, according to internal data obtained by POLITICO.
The federal government has built up the stockpile significantly over the last year. There are more than 35…

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According to a report from the Orlando Weekly, a federal judge in Florida put lawyers representing Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on the spot during a Monday hearing that indicated they had an uphill battle in front of them.

At issue is a law the Florida governor fiercely backed that would punish social media companies like Facebook or Twitter that ban…

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Floyd’s death – along with his final words, “I can’t breathe” – sparked global protests that condemned not only the fatal acts of police brutality in the United States that disproportionately affect Black people, but also the institution of law enforcement as a whole. There were numerous pleas from various organisations, ranging from Black Lives…[Read more]

Between the mid-1930s and mid-1970s worker organizing and unrest created a degree of economic democracy not achieved since. It was quite an accomplishment. After several decades of increased standards of living for most US workers, corporate actors organized a counter-attack that aimed to reverse those gains.

The mid-20 century was no golden age.…

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WORCESTER, Mass. – On Saturday Congressman James McGovern and Congresswoman Lori Trahan will be making another visit to the St. Vincent Hospital nurses strike line, this time to host a “Rally Against Replacement,” to register strong community opposition to the recent announcement by Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare that they were refusing to conti…

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As the nation once again encourages nurses to soldier on at their posts, the gap between the saccharine rhetoric of Nurses’ Week and the grim reality of nurses’ work during the pandemic is even more glaring – and galling – than ever.  For the past nineteen months, nurses have experienced the consequences of hospitals’ short- term pursuit of…

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There is, of course, at least one other major reason why workers — particularly in the restaurant industry — might prefer staying home to pouring drinks at their neighborhood watering hole or staffing the deep fryer at their local steakhouse. Restaurants have been an especially dangerous place to work during COVID-19, the morbidity rates of line co…

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https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/553042-rising-may-12-2021?jwsource=cl

What could possibly go wrong?

Telemetry collection is an area that causes much gnashing of teeth and twisting of knickers in the open source community. While some see it as a pointless invasion of privacy, others find it invaluable for solving issues or identifying how people use a product.

However, stir third-party services like Google Analytics and Yandex into the mix and…

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The hope peddlers, stenographers of current events, professional centrists and too many other members of the mainstream American news media have a new obsession. They keep telling the American people that the Republican Party is in the midst of a “civil war,” is in “disarray,” is “tearing itself apart” or experiencing a “crisis of meaning” and…

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Stocks of major pharmaceutical corporations plummeted Wednesday after the Biden administration announced its support for a coronavirus vaccine patent waiver, a measure that would free vaccine recipes from Big Pharma’s stranglehold and help enable generic manufacturers to ramp up global production.

As CNBC reported, shares in Pfizer, BioNTech,…

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The majority of Android and iOS apps created for US public and private schools send student data to assorted third parties, researchers have found, calling into question privacy commitments from Apple and Google as app store stewards.

The Me2B Alliance, a non-profit technology policy group, examined a random sample of 73 mobile applications used…

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The lawsuit fills out the details of the raid. And the narrative throws a considerable amount of shade at the participating officer with one impeccably worded paragraph.

Despite both screen door and storm door at the front entrance of Ms. Reynolds’ home remaining unlocked, SWAT officers used an entry tool attached to the front of an armored…

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