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We start today Isaac Arnsdorf The Washington Post reported that a shoe salesman visited my hometown to attract black voters.
presumptive Republican candidate donald trump His campaign, hoping that incremental gains among black voters could be decisive in swing states, courted voters in a city he described as “hell” and “totally corrupt” on Saturday while portraying black communities as dangerous and depressing.
“Crime is most rampant here and in the African-American community,” Trump said at 180 Church in Detroit. “More and more people are looking at me and saying, ‘Sir, we want protection.’ We want the police to protect us. We don’t want to be mugged, mugged, beaten or murdered just because we want to cross the street to buy a loaf of bread.’”
The predominantly non-black audience cheered the statement. He returned to the topic of crime when asked how he would address black entrepreneurship. “The biggest thing we can do is stop crime,” he said.
Trump has been giving Detroit the Milwaukee/Chicago/Baltimore treatment for years, and he did it again on this visit. Any black person who votes for Trump is an idiot. No asterisks. period.
jazz brisack wrote in the New York Times last week about an underreported decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that made it more difficult for the National Relations Labor Board to sanction companies for union-busting activities.
U.S. labor laws do not provide penalties for firing workers in retaliation for organizing, but only provide remedies. If a court determines that a worker was illegally fired, the worker is entitled to reinstatement and back pay, minus median earnings. In practice, court proceedings can take years and workers receive often Unpaid wages have been significantly reduced.
By making it difficult for the NLRB to obtain 10(j) injunctions, an emergency legal measure to stop the harm extreme union-busting practices cause to campaign organizations, the Supreme Court is underestimating the harm caused by retaliatory firings. Even before the decision, 10(j) injunctions were rare, with fewer than 20 in total in 2023. The Supreme Court’s ruling shows how little benefit aid workers have moving forward.
Yasmine Abutaleb The Washington Post reported that the Biden campaign took in $28 million last night from a fundraiser featuring Barack Obama and George Clooney.
That’s a huge amount, exceeding the more than $25 million the company said it raised during the campaign. March Fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York This film, starring Biden, Obama, and former President Bill Clinton, donald trumpThe presumptive Republican nominee is in a race that is virtually deadlocked.
Biden and his allies have sought to leverage his large cash advantage over Trump to show enthusiasm for his campaign ahead of the November election, although Trump’s fundraising has shown signs of recovering in recent weeks. […]
The Biden campaign said money raised from Saturday’s event would be used to open offices across the country, hire organizers and launch an advertising campaign targeting key voters.
Raja Abdulrahim The New York Times notes that more Gazans are willing to speak out against Hamas.
Some Gaza residents interviewed by the New York Times said Hamas knew that a large-scale war with Israel would lead to increased civilian casualties, but did not provide food, water or shelter to help people survive. Hamas leaders say they want to create a permanent state of war with Israel on all fronts as a way to revive the Palestinian cause and that they know Israel’s response will be large.
As the war progressed, signs of opposition emerged. At times, this was true even as Gazans mourned loved ones lost in Israeli attacks. Others waited until they left the territory to condemn Hamas. And even then there was sometimes reluctance if the group survived the war and continued to rule Gaza.
Carlos Torralba and Teresa Constenra The English-language representative for El País points out that the European far-right failed to win across Europe in last week’s parliamentary elections.
The advance of ultranationalism and far-right parties has shaken the European Union, but the far-right has suffered greatly in Northern Europe. election on sunday. Finland and Sweden voted against the current one. Extremist parties lost ground, while environmentalists and left-wing groups made important gains. Each group in the European Parliament. This European Union (EU) election also brought bad results to the Portuguese far right. Founded in 2019, Chega entered the European Parliament for the first time with two MEPs, but these results were far from the ambitious goals it had set for itself and the historic support it achieved in the March elections. […]
The defeats of the Sweden Democrats, Finland Party and Tsega have something in common, not only that voters are less interested in EU issues, but also because there are factors specific to each party. Although the three organizations account for about 20% of the members of each National Assembly, each group’s situation is different. In Finland, it controls seven ministries, and in Sweden, it is a leading right-wing force, supporting and proposing conditions for a conservative-led coalition government.
In Sweden and Finland, the far right’s disappointing results could be seen as a verdict on government management, but not in Portugal, where Chega failed in its efforts to engage the administration.
Finally today, Rebecca Ratcliffe The Guardian reports that tensions in the South China Sea between China and the Philippines are rising.
China claims sovereignty over nearly 90% of the South China Sea. The International Court in The Hague rejected it.. In addition to the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, and Taiwan are also making overlapping claims.
There are growing concerns that as maritime confrontations at sea increase, so does the risk of miscalculations that could unintentionally lead to conflict.
The Philippines Repeatedly condemns China’s dangerous actions, which includes disrupting the mission of the Philippine Coast Guard by firing water cannons and ramming boats. These incidents prompted the United States to say it would defend its treaty ally, the Philippines, in the event of an armed attack on public vessels, aircraft, troops or coast guards in the South China Sea.
representative fishing group They told Philippine media this week that they fear being detained at sea but have no choice but to continue because their livelihoods depend on it.
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