Chris Townsend has been organizing workers, conducting political work for labor unions, and teaching young workers to organize for almost all his adult life. He is, as we say, “the real deal.” While most of us opine and pontificate about labor, Chris does the dirty work.
Hard Truths About the US Labor Movement: An Interview with Chris Townsend
8:00 – Polls have just opened for election day for Tasmania’s 2025 state election.
I won’t be blogging during the day today, but I will be covering the results tonight in a separate live blog. I’m also going to try posting some updates on Instagram during the night, so please give me a follow over then.
Donald Trump's July 14 statement, accompanied by a staged scene with the NATO secretary general, and his offhand remark about the first lady (which was quickly promoted in Kiev), has turned out to be one of his most complex statements of his presidency.
When the latest Q4 2024 net overseas migration figures were released by the ABS in June, they revealed that annual rolling net migration had fallen to 340,800. While this represented a significant reduction from the peak of 555,800 recorded in Q3 2023, it remained significantly higher than the 250,000 initially forecast by the federal Treasury.
The cabinet of former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz allocated nearly €590,000 ($640,000) in public funds for makeup artists and stylists for government officials between 2022 and March 2025, Bild has reported, citing government data.
Germany’s Baerbock spent €250 a day on makeup – Bild
The UK government is secretly paying foreign YouTube stars to publish “propaganda” videos, Declassified can reveal.
A three-year investigation has found that online influencers are made to sign legal contracts banning them from disclosing the government’s involvement.
Whitehall officials give “feedback” on each video before the influencers are allowed to publish them.
International Reading: Student-loan borrowers are at high risk if Trump dismantles the Department of Education, 11 organizations told Elizabeth Warren – Business Insider Texas ranks as No. 1 state with the most people in financial distress – Dallas Culture Map The number of first-time homebuyers is plummeting. Why that’s bad news for the US economy.
Most share markets in Asia are lifting going into the final trading session of the week although Japanese bourses are cautious given the domestic election this weekend and the concern over inflation after today’s June print. Meanwhile speculation is rising that the Fed will cut rates at the next FOMC meeting with currency markets selling
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The economy must suffer, and workers in particular, because the Reserve Bank of Australia will not, under any circumstances, mention immigration. And so, it carries on like a pork chop about the risk of rising wages; when it is not fighting 620k unemployed, it is fighting 50 million unemployed in India, or 350% unemployment. There
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Harrisburg: US President Donald Trump says he will sue the Murdoch-owned The Wall Street Journal for a story claiming he wrote a cryptic letter – with a drawing – to now-convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for the disgraced financier’s 50th birthday.