He became the first Black mayor of a rural Alabama town. Then a white minority locked him out ( www.theguardian.com )
For years the mayor in Newburn was appointed, not elected. When Patrick Braxton won the election, the outgoing mayor and his cronies refused to accept it...
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
‘He’s an insider’: Ramaswamy’s deep ties to rightwing kingpins revealed ( www.theguardian.com )
(The subtitle and first three paragraphs follow, but it’s worthwhile reading the entire article.)...
US thinktank linked to billionaires behind supreme court wealth tax case lobbying ( www.theguardian.com )
(The subtitle and first few paragraphs follow.)...
Fury at Michigan officials charged in 2020 false electors scheme: ‘This isn’t who we are’ ( www.theguardian.com )
“His willingness to sign a fake elector paper and try to send that in and negate Michigan’s actual vote speaks to his integrity,” Herweyer said of Vanderwood, who was then a member of the Wyoming, Michigan, city council. “How can I trust anything he does?”...
‘We are burned out’: UAW ready to take on automakers in contract negotiations ( www.theguardian.com )
"The forced overtime – we are working to death. We are working 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, every day, week after week, month after month, year after year. We are burned out,” added Ferdinandsen. “These companies are profiting the way that they are and trying to convince the American people that they’re hurting,...
‘We are burned out’: UAW ready to take on automakers in contract negotiations ( www.theguardian.com )
"The forced overtime – we are working to death. We are working 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, every day, week after week, month after month, year after year. We are burned out,” added Ferdinandsen. “These companies are profiting the way that they are and trying to convince the American people that they’re hurting,...
US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network ( www.theguardian.com )
Revealed: Charles Haywood, creator of the Society for American Civic Renewal, has said he might serve as ‘warlord’ at the head of an ‘armed patronage network’
Donald Trump to surrender at Fulton county jail on Thursday night ( www.theguardian.com )
Trump yearns to govern a mafia state. Fitting that he faces racketeering charges ( www.theguardian.com )
It should have long been obvious that Trump operates with methods familiar from the mob: He tried to make James Comey kiss the ring. He demanded that Volodymyr Zelenskiy do him a favor. He threatens those who try to hold him to account for illegal behavior (“If you go after me, I will come after you”). This pattern is not...
No OB-GYNs left in town: what came after Idaho’s assault on abortion ( www.theguardian.com )
Some select paragraphs:...
Trump 2026 trial date in election case should be rejected, prosecutors argue ( www.theguardian.com )
Special counsel prosecutors sharply objected on Monday to Donald Trump’s request for an April 2026 trial date in the case involving his efforts to subvert the 2020 election results, arguing his lawyers’ reasons were disingenuous and denied the American public’s right to a speedy trial....
Vivek Ramaswamy condemned for 9/11 and Jan 6 conspiracy theory remarks ( www.theguardian.com )
Vivek Ramaswamy condemned for 9/11 and Jan 6 conspiracy theory remarks ( www.theguardian.com )
Cowboys and vegetarians: why rightwingers see beef as a birthright ( www.theguardian.com )
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter in ‘final chapter’, ex-president’s grandson says ( www.theguardian.com )
The first three paragraphs:...
AOC leads call for federal ethics investigation into Clarence Thomas ( www.theguardian.com )
Five House Democrats led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York wrote to the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, to demand a federal investigation of the conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, over his acceptance of undeclared gifts from billionaire rightwing donors....
Spider-Man posters, wood fires, food rations and car-shaped beds – what children’s bedrooms look like around the world ( www.theguardian.com )
James Mollison’s second volume of Where Children Sleep has been published. This article features edited extracts from it.
New app helps US teens read banned books ( www.theguardian.com )
“The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is trying to fight back. It recently launched the Banned Book Program, granting free nationwide access to books restricted in schools or libraries....
Trump’s indictment can’t solve the real threat: our undemocratic electoral system ( www.theguardian.com )
Biden defeated Trump by nearly 8m votes in 2020, a substantial if not overwhelming margin of victory. Matters were very different in the electoral college. A combined total of 44,000 votes handed Biden victory in the swing states of Arizona, Wisconsin and Georgia....
Framing men as the ‘villains’ in relationships also frames them as unable to change ( www.theguardian.com )
Though I don’t think this terminology is used, this article is primarily about heteropessimism and it’s effects on relationships from both sides.
Trump prosecutor Fani Willis faces racist abuse after indicting ex-US president ( www.theguardian.com )
Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney in Georgia who is prosecuting Donald Trump and 18 other allies over efforts to overturn the 2020 election, is facing a flurry of racist online abuse after the former president attacked his opponents using the word “riggers”, a thinly veiled play on the N-word....