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[ad_1] Alexandra Martinez Prism A former overnight janitor says fear of losing her job and fear tied to her immigration status kept her from speaking out for years about the conditions she said she endured while cleaning WinCo Foods grocery stores. María Isabel Ramírez is one of the workers whose experiences are at the center of a class-action lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court against WinCo Foods and its janitorial contractor, Tec Services. The lawsuit alleges that the companies systematically misclassified janitors as independent contractors, resulting in California labor law violations, including unpaid overtime, denied meal and rest…

[ad_1] View into the Tosi Creek watershed and Gros  Ventre Wilderness, part of the Elk Ridge Complex.  Photo: John Carter. In a couple of sentences buried deep in so-called “annual operating instructions”, the Bridger Teton National Forest decided to allow cattle from the Upper Green River allotment, an area of 170,000 acres in the Forest, to enter the vacant Elk Ridge  Complex.    The Elk Ridge Complex of 30,000 acres is partly within the Gros Ventre Wilderness. The Elk Ridge allotments were bought out a decade ago to remove domestic sheep from conflicts with bears.  Even after a decade of rest…

[ad_1] Freedom Haulers recruits military veterans into trucking using GI Bill, SkillBridge and military skills waivers to fast-track licensing goals. [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] 8/11/1942: General John DeWitt, Commander of Western Defense Command, issues exclusion order. The Supreme Court held this order was constitutional in Korematsu v. United States. The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 11, 1942 appeared first on Reason.com. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Whitney Webb discusses how the Epstein Network is privatizing the government, building out the Surveillance State and pursuing a new model of feudalism enforced by technology. By Chris HedgesScheerPost Under the radar, the billionaire class is building the infrastructure and models necessary to create a dystopian future in which cities become billionaire fiefdoms – completely privatized, governed by dictatorial CEOs and financed by subservient taxpayers. The buildout of data centers is one essential part of the effort to construct a totalitarian capitalist society, which is already advancing. In this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Hedges interviews investigative journalist…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Jakub Hałun – CC BY 4.0 It has been eighty-one years since the atomic bombings delivered an unmistakable message. From the ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, humanity was faced with a choice that Martin Luther King Jr. would later describe as one between “nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation.” The intervening decades have made our answer painfully clear. As a result, today we live as prisoners consigned to a permanent death row, having organized our world not around a commitment to collective sanity, safety, and security but around the perpetual preparation for collective destruction. The nuclear threat has…

[ad_1] The total includes four dead and 207 wounded Since July 7, four US troops have been killed, and more than 200 have been wounded in the Iran war, according to the Pentagon’s official casualty database, known as the Defense Casualty Analysis System. The four dead US soldiers include three who were killed in a July 17 Iranian missile attack on a US base in Jordan, and they have been identified as Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas, 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, and Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of Ozone Park. The fourth soldier died…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: WAFA (Q2915969) – CC BY-SA 3.0 The protracted slaughter in Gaza stands as one of the defining moral catastrophes of the modern era.  With tens of thousands of Palestinians killed, disproportionately women, children and infants, the descent of an entire enclave into manufactured famine, medical collapse and total annihilation has unfolded in real time. This is not happening in the dark.  It is happening in broad daylight; funded, diplomatically shielded and witnessed by the world.  To examine the shameful silence of the American public and motivations of the Zionist state after nearly three years of this horror,…

[ad_1] August 11, 2026 Eric Draitser Nat Wilson Turner joins Eric Draitser to discuss the recent collapse of Oracle’s stock price and the broader implications for Larry and David Ellison, two key figures in the sociopolitical and economic power structure of the US. What does this mean for AI investors? What does it mean for the Paramount-Warner Brothers-Discovery deal? How does this impact CBS News, Paramount, and many other media properties? Nat Wilson Turner helps us sort it out. Eric Draitser is an independent political analyst and longtime CounterPuncher. You can find his exclusive content including video interviews and analyses, articles,…