Author: nick

[ad_1] “He absolutely needs to be impeached, removed, and locked up,” said one progressive critic, calling the president “a completely unhinged lunatic.” Jessica Corbett Common Dreams In yet another remark that triggered alarm around the world, President Donald Trump said Friday that he planned to declare the Strait of Hormuz—which Iran has blockaded for much of the past five months over his and Israel’s illegal war—a US territory. Just two days after the latest inflation figures demonstrated, in the words of one expert, “Trump’s catastrophic mismanagement of our economy,” the president ignored the economic fallout from his war, which led Iran to restrict ship…

[ad_1] President Donald Trump claimed in 2019 that he was “the most transparent president in history.” Throughout his second term, Trump’s spokespeople have used that phrase over and over again. The administration has made a big show of opening the archives on old mysteries: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the existence of UFOs, and the case of well-connected sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. While the JFK files included some genuinely shocking revelations, the UFO files were thin on substance. And the Epstein files turned into an infamous boondoggle. The administration handed a group of influencers binders labeled “Phase 1,”…

[ad_1] Movements can still find people on social media. But the real organizing has to happen somewhere else — and getting people there is the part we keep skipping. Mehran Khalili  Waging Nonviolence Last September I made a short video that was by far the most viral piece of content I’ve ever put out. I can’t trace all the views, but at least a million people watched it across Instagram and TikTok, and possibly elsewhere. Neighbors in Athens, Greece told me they’d come across my face in their feed; Chinese accounts captioned the video and reposted it. I felt like I’d…

[ad_1] For close to a decade, the political left has sought to reclassify independent contractors and gig workers as full-scale employees. Most notably, there was the notorious showdown over the issue in California, after which the push generally seemed to peter out in favor of other regulatory tactics. But New Jersey is now resuscitating that reclassification campaign by enacting a new rule to crack down on gig work. The broader fight can in some sense be traced to a 2018 decision from the California Supreme Court, which controversially ruled that delivery drivers in the Golden State had been misclassified as…

[ad_1] If Uber and Lyft resort to the stalling tactics corporations commonly use to block higher pay and better working conditions, gig workers will still have a fight on their hands. Mark Kreidler Captial and Main After a yearslong battle for worker rights that pulled the governor’s office and state legislators into the fray, Uber and Lyft drivers in California are on the doorstep of having their own union to negotiate with the rideshare giants. Can they win contracts? That answer isn’t nearly as clear. At a celebratory news conference Tuesday, organizers of the California Gig Workers Union announced they’ve crossed…

[ad_1] 8/15/1938: Justice Stephen Breyer’s Birthday. Justice Stephen Breyer The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 15, 1938 appeared first on Reason.com. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Coordinated action sent the yen sharply higher, but bitcoin’s recent correlation suggests U.S. dollar strength, rather than the carry trade, may be the bigger risk. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed Sunday that the U.S. joined Japan in coordinated foreign exchange intervention last Friday, calling it a move to counter “disorderly yen movements.” The USD/JPY pair almost hit 164 its weakest level since 1986 before snapping back to 156.5 on Monday. “We will not hesitate to participate in further joint intervention,” Bessent wrote on X, adding that the U.S. “strongly supports Japan’s decisive market and monetary steps to correct the substantial undervaluation…

[ad_1] Although President Donald Trump is unable to publicly admit that “mistakes were made” in his war with Iran—as American leaders sometimes describe their own blunders—he seems to be implicitly acknowledging that the military strategy he pursued has failed. He’s moving to a new strategy of extracting concessions from Iran via economic coercion, rather than bombing. Trump has described this as a “low-key” and longer-term approach to the conflict. He is concentrating on opening the Strait of Hormuz, downgrading the focus on negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program, which he has insisted is now buried deeply underground and thus…

[ad_1] When Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate nominee for Maine in this year’s midterm election, announced on July 8 that he was suspending his campaign and then formally withdrew two days later, many Republicans celebrated. A cascade of controversies, from his Nazi-linked tattoo to a sexual assault allegation he still denies, had shattered the campaign of the tough-talking, lumberjack-looking oyster farmer who’d pitched himself as a political outsider with deep Maine roots. Even Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), his earliest champions, turned on him. Though Republicans hadn’t landed the fateful blow, they still basked in the…

[ad_1] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has popularized a new way for lefty Democrats to excuse their ideological excesses of the recent past. “Woke 1 was crazy,” she told ABC News on Sunday. The possible 2028 contender made the comment to excuse previous extreme positions taken by the Wisconsin socialist politician Francesca Hong, dismissing them as all part of some youthful indiscretion. Hong and the rest of the left have now grown up and aren’t so crazy, we are told. The main problem with AOC’s statement is its past tense. Woke 1 is still around and just as crazy as ever.…