11/10/2024
P1. Never leave a charger in an outlet without your phone: I’ll expose the three major reasons
Some people do not remove chargers from sockets after charging their electronic devices. However, few people are aware of th...
11/10/2024
Workers are organizing with the Teamsters in record numbers because everyone knows life’s better in North America’s strongest union. This week alone, hundreds of workers across diverse industries successfully unionized with the Teamsters.
If you’re looking for higher wages, improved health care, and a real voice on the job, come be a Teamster!
07/18/2024
J.D. Vance, “Hillbilly Elegy” & Appalachia’s Shift to the Right: Arlie Russell Hochschild
As Donald Trump selected Ohio Senator J.D. Vance to be his vice-presidential candidate Monday, we look at the record of the 39-year-old political rookie, who rose to fame after writing the memoir Hillbilly Elegy and who once compared Trump to Hi**er and called him unfit for the presidency. He was el...
07/18/2024
Samuel Sharpe Shooting: Ohio Cops in Wisconsin for RNC Kill Unhoused Black Veteran
Activists and community members in Milwaukee gathered in the streets Tuesday to condemn the police killing of 43-year-old Milwaukee resident Samuel Sharpe. The officers who killed Sharpe, an unhoused Black veteran, are from Ohio, part of a group of 4,500 law enforcement officials in Milwaukee for th...
07/18/2024
Trump Trying to “Gaslight” Black Community About His Racism: Clarence Lusane
As the Republican National Convention enters its third day, we speak with political science professor Clarence Lusane on how Donald Trump is trying to increase his appeal with Black voters. A number of Black lawmakers have spoken at the RNC, including South Carolina Senator Tim Scott and North Carol...
07/18/2024
“Politics of Hate”: Jean Guerrero on Anti-Immigrant Lies & Fearmongering at RNC
On Tuesday night, several of Donald Trump’s former rivals endorsed the Trump ticket, including former Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Vivek Ramaswamy. Much of the evening focused on the Republican Party’s hard-line border and immigration policies...
07/18/2024
Black History of New Jersey
Lawnside, New Jersey - Wikipedia
Lawnside is a borough in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Lawnside was developed in 1840 and incorporated in 1926 as the first independent, self-governing Black municipality north of the Mason–Dixon line. The United Parcel Service has a large depot in the borough. As of the 2020 Uni...
07/17/2024
Trump’s VP Pick, J.D. Vance, Pushed for Police to Track & Criminalize Abortions
As Donald Trump and his new running mate J.D. Vance try to soften their anti-abortion position ahead of the 2024 election, new documents uncovered by The Lever show Vance lobbied just last year to let police track people who cross state lines for abortions. Vance, a first-term senator from Ohio, pre...
07/17/2024
“He’s a Fake”: Robert Kuttner on How J.D. Vance Disguises His Anti-Worker Views as Economic Populism
We speak with journalist Robert Kuttner about Donald Trump’s selection of Ohio Senator J.D. Vance to be his running mate in the 2024 election. Vance rose to fame in 2016 after writing the memoir Hillbilly Elegy about his upbringing in Appalachia. He was elected to the Senate in 2022 with the backi...
07/17/2024
“Genocidal Man” vs. “Fascist Man”: RNC Protesters Decry 2024 Choices, Call for Justice
“We were given a genocidal man and a fascist man, and that is a terrible decision to pick from,” says one of the protesters who joined a broad coalition of progressive groups and unions to march in Milwaukee against the Republican Party Monday on the first day of the Republican National Conventi...