The former MLB catcher has some choice words of his own about Oakland A’s owner John Fisher’s decision to move the team to Las Vegas.
Posted inEconomy and Inequality
An ethics expert says Sinclair Broadcasting should disclose its business conflicts with Baltimore. I was part of the problem.
The broadcast media giant has been unrelenting with its reporting on Baltimore’s problems and miscues; at the same time, Sinclair has failed to disclose its own ties to the city government and the generous tax breaks it’s received.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
Occupation at Johns Hopkins University aims to protest on behalf of Palestinians
Organizers said university officials threatened to call the police on people who remained on campus overnight.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
‘The university fears us because of how little we fear them’: Michigan Gaza encampment organizers demand university divest from Israel
Joining students at over 100 campuses and encampments on every continent, students, grad students, and faculty at the University of Michigan join the call for divestment.
Posted inThe Marc Steiner Show
How surgeons remotely assisted their colleagues in Gaza
Surgeons Osaid Alser and Simon Fitzgerald speak about supporting surgeons at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis—where mass graves of Palestinians massacred by Israeli soldiers have since been discovered.
Posted inPolice Accountability Report
YouTubers have filmed police for years. Has it made a difference?
Cop watchers James Freeman, LackLuster, The Battousai, Tom Zebra, Laura Shark, and Otto The Watchdog join a special livestream panel to discuss the impact of the grassroots cop watcher movement and the possibility of police reform in America today.
Posted inWorking People
Before East Palestine, there was Portsmouth
Vina Colley was hired as an electrician at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in 1980, where her employers knowingly exposed her, her coworkers, and her community to radioactive material. She has been fighting for justice, accountability, and compensation ever since.
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Posted inUnder the Shadow
Nicaragua. Sandino | Under the Shadow, Episode 9
The US occupation of Nicaragua (1912-1933) birthed a brutal dictatorship, and the revolutionary hero who would drive out the US Marines: Augusto Sandino
Posted inWorkers of the World
Yemen defies ‘America’s failure’ to stop blockade of Red Sea
‘We, the people of Yemen, say to America, the Big Satan, that any actions and aggression will only increase our commitment and joy in achieving our goal of ending the aggression and siege on the people of Palestine.’
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Columbia faculty walk out over student suspensions, arrests for Gaza protests
While expressing gratitude for solidarity actions, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar—whose daughter was suspended—said that “this about the genocide in Gaza and the attention has to remain on that.”