Tesla is the next biggest union target in the United States. Sorry, Elon Musk | Hamilton Nolan ( www.theguardian.com )
The carmaker is now US labor’s most important target. If Musk doesn’t like that, he’s welcome to settle it with an auto worker by cage match
People who work from home all the time ‘cut emissions by 54%’ against those in office ( www.theguardian.com )
High court rules Qantas illegally outsourced 1,700 jobs during pandemic ( www.theguardian.com )
Decision exposes embattled airline to mammoth compensation bill in major win for the Transport Workers Union
Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis turns on ‘malignant narcissist’ ex-president ( www.theguardian.com )
Ellis, one of 18 Trump associates charged in Georgia election subversion case, says she ‘simply can’t support him’ again
With democracy on the ballot, the mainstream press must change its ways | Margaret Sullivan ( www.theguardian.com )
The American press is failing to adequately emphasize the stakes of the coming election
Flight attendants threaten strikes over low pay and unpaid work ( www.theguardian.com )
Alaska Airlines, American and United could all be disrupted as air crew demand fairer share of vast profits
Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis turns on ‘malignant narcissist’ ex-president ( www.theguardian.com )
Ellis, one of 18 Trump associates charged in Georgia election subversion case, says she ‘simply can’t support him’ aga
[News] US Senate subpoenas Saudi’s $700bn sovereign wealth fund over US dealings ( www.theguardian.com )
Saudi Arabia’s $700bn sovereign wealth fund – which has been used as a lever of global influence by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – has been subpoenaed by a powerful Senate committee after it refused to voluntarily comply with information requests about its US dealings....
Cowboys and vegetarians: why rightwingers see beef as a birthright ( www.theguardian.com )
‘Uncharted territory’: elections officials weigh Trump’s presidency eligibility ( www.theguardian.com )
After defending the integrity of US elections from an onslaught of threats over the last several years, secretaries of state across the US are now turning to a new high-stakes question: is Donald Trump eligible to run for president?...
AOC urges US to apologize for meddling in Latin America: ‘We’re here to reset relationships’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a prominent member of Congress and leading voice of the American left, has called on the US government to issue an apology to Latin American countries for decades of meddling in their affairs and causing instability in the region....
Take another look at Joe Biden. His is the presidency progressives have been waiting for. ( www.theguardian.com )
The tragedy of Joe Biden is that people see his age, his frailty and his ailing poll numbers and they miss the bigger story. Which is that his has been a truly consequential presidency, even a transformational one. In less than three years, he has built a record that should unify US progressives, including those on the radical...
New Mexico governor suspends right to carry firearms in public in Albuquerque ( www.theguardian.com )
“The Iliad may be ancient – but it’s not far away” Emily Wilson on Homer’s blood-soaked epic ( www.theguardian.com )
Two Proud Boys members get lengthy prison terms for Capitol attack ( www.theguardian.com )
Two members of the far-right Proud Boys militia group who took part in the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol with the intention of keeping Donald Trump in the White House were sentenced to lengthy prison terms on Friday....
[News] Mississippi elects openly gay lawmaker for first time in state’s history ( www.theguardian.com )
The US state of Mississippi has elected an openly gay person to its legislature for the first time ever....
CEOs of top 100 ‘low-wage’ US firms earn $601 for every $1 by worker, report finds ( www.theguardian.com )
These companies paid their employees a median wage of $31,672 in 2022, while their CEOs took home an average $15.3m
Top 10 books about solitary living ( www.theguardian.com )
[News] State attorney says DeSantis fired her because she was ‘prosecuting their cops’ ( www.theguardian.com )
An elected Democratic prosecutor whose removal Ron DeSantis boasted about during the first Republican presidential debate said the hard-right Florida governor and his allies ousted her because she was “prosecuting their cops”....
Trump has ‘moral compass of an axe murderer,’ says Georgia Republican ( www.theguardian.com )
Donald Trump has “the moral compass of an axe murderer”, a Republican opponent in Georgia said, discussing the former president’s legal predicament in the southern US state and elsewhere but also his continuing dominance of the presidential primary....
Ohio Republicans accused of trying to mislead voters with abortion ballot wording ( www.theguardian.com )
Abortion rights advocates in Ohio filed a lawsuit on Monday, claiming that state Republican leaders are trying to confuse voters on a ballot measure about access to reproductive healthcare....
US anti-abortion activist who kept fetal remains convicted of blockading clinic ( www.theguardian.com )
Lauren Handy, the anti-abortion activist who kept five fetuses in her Washington DC home, was on Tuesday found guilty of breaking federal law by blockading an abortion clinic....
Ugandan man charged with ‘aggravated homosexuality’ under new law ( www.theguardian.com )
Ugandan prosecutors have charged a man with “aggravated homosexuality” under anti-LGBTQ+ legislation introduced this year that makes the offence punishable by death....
US state department declassifies more documents about Pinochet’s 1973 coup ( www.theguardian.com )
(This was actually published three days ago - sorry.)...