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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by Chitown Kev
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on Tue Jan 16, 2024 at 08:59 PM PST
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No holiday season would be complete without the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) putting out at least one piece about the racket that is Wreaths Across America, the so-called “non-profit” that each year carpet bombs all of our national and...
by ChrisRodda
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on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
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Kyle Downour, unit chair for United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1-346, threw himself into consoling fellow union members after a fire and explosion killed two co-workers at the BP-Husky refinery in Oregon, Ohio, last year. But Downour, overwhelmed and...
by David McCall
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on Tue Dec 12, 2023 at 10:45 AM PST
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On June 20, 2023, Eugene “Gino” Gates collapsed on the lawn of a house in an affluent Dallas, Texas, neighborhood and died. The 66-year-old military veteran was a mail carrier who died of ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 02:14 PM PST
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Elon Musk has launched an ambitious mission to get a manned flight to Mars as fast as possible. The billionaire says he wants to colonize the Red Planet so humanity is “not a single-planet species.” But on Earth, employees of Musk’s SpaceX company say...
by Charles Jay
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on Fri Nov 10, 2023 at 02:30 PM PST
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The heat index recently soared to 111 degrees in Houston, Texas, but the real-feel temperature climbed even higher than that inside the heavy personal protective equipment (PPE) that John Hayes and his colleagues at Ecoservices wear on the job. Sweat...
by Tom Conway
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on Tue Jul 11, 2023 at 06:31 AM PDT
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He was known to be aggressive and argumentative, the kind of patron who made others at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh branch uneasy. But one day last year, the man walked into the building in a much darker mood, harassed a librarian and threatened...
by Tom Conway
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on Fri Apr 28, 2023 at 10:57 AM PDT
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“17-year-old worker was pulled into woodchipper before he died, feds say.” www.yahoo.com/… “A tree service company allowed three minors to use a woodchipper — forbidden under federal child labor laws — before one of them was killed using the machine,...
by yogibear1963
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on Wed Feb 15, 2023 at 08:48 AM PST
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The Biden administration announced this week that the Labor Department will now have authority to issue certifications in support of special visas that are granted to undocumented immigrants who are victims of certain crimes, including workplace...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Tue Feb 14, 2023 at 09:16 AM PST
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Looking at the new Richest Man on Earth is an invitation to consider billionaires,� and why they shouldn’t exist. During the COVID pandemic, the richer got richer than at any point in recorded ...
by stargaze
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on Sun Jan 22, 2023 at 03:00 PM PST
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This article was originally published at Prism
When Jon Reynolds started working on the production line at No Evil Foods in 2019, he was excited to work for a business he thought shared his ...
by Alexandra Martinez
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on Sat Oct 01, 2022 at 08:15 AM PDT
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Heat deaths in the U.S. peak in July and August, and as that period kicks off, a new report from Public Citizen highlights heat as a major workplace safety issue. With basically every year breaking heat records thanks to climate change, this is only...
by Laura Clawson
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on Mon Jul 04, 2022 at 03:00 PM PDT
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An undocumented construction worker who was turned over to deportation agents by his employer after reporting a workplace injury has been awarded $650,000 in compensatory and punitive damages by a federal jury. The Boston Globe reports that jurors...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Fri Jun 24, 2022 at 11:20 AM PDT
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April 28 is Workers Memorial Day, a day to honor workers killed or injured on the job. There are a lot of them. In 2020, according to the AFL-CIO’s 2022 Death on the Job report, 4,764 workers were killed at work in the United States, and an estimated...
by Laura Clawson
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on Thu Apr 28, 2022 at 11:21 AM PDT
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Way back when I was splitting my working time freelance writing and working live events, I signed on with an audio-visual company that provides services to hotels. It was considered the retirement gig for production folks, as there was no touring...
by April Siese
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on Wed Apr 20, 2022 at 02:17 PM PDT
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This article was originally published at Prism .
Janet Barcenas has been working at Amy’s Kitchen in Santa Rosa, California, since 1993. She’s worked in the food production line, packaging, ...
by Alexandra Martinez
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on Sat Apr 09, 2022 at 08:15 AM PDT
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Guest: Legal reporter Mark Joseph Stern on KBJ, the EPA, dark money in the federal judiciary and much more Also: Latest good-ish news and bleak news out of Ukraine... We continue the impossible balancing act on today's BradCast between coverage of the...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Mar 03, 2022 at 06:52 PM PST
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Also: New IPCC Report warns we're out of time to adapt to climate change SCOTUS aims to kill the EPA Callers ring in on Russia/Ukraine horror... It was a very lively BradCast today, even amidst horrible times. So there's that. [Audio link to full show...
by TheBradBlog
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on Mon Feb 28, 2022 at 06:59 PM PST
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Also: Oath Keepers founder charged with 'seditious conspiracy' for Capitol attack Bernstein says Jan 6. 'cover-up in excess of Watergate'... Our guest on yesterday's BradCast nailed it. The stolen and packed U.S. Supreme Court did, in fact, strike down...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Jan 13, 2022 at 07:28 PM PST
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On Thursday afternoon, the Supreme Court ruled against COVID-19 mandates in a 6-3 vote, with all three Trump-appointed judges—who landed their roles thanks to a filibuster carve-out—voting that OSHA doesn’t have the authority to regulate vaccinations...
by Mark Sumner
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on Thu Jan 13, 2022 at 12:42 PM PST
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- Welcome 🌻 to Friday’s Roundup of Good News! There’s lots of good news out there! Polling looks better for President Biden! tRump is sleeping in the courtroom! And he is IN a courtroom. And there are bad things that did not happen! Gee, last...112 comments 146 Recs
- The cruelty is the point. Ron DeSantis recently secretly signed a Republican bill that voids outdoor worker protections from local governments. Interestingly, the cruel and vicious bill did not originally come from Desantis; instead, it was from the...49 comments 90 Recs
- The BIGGEST NEWS of the DAY: Ukraine aid will finally get a vote and it took Democrats to get it done….. Mind you not enough Democrats but it is done. The country should have showed unity and voted as one. Bipartisan House coalition advances Ukraine aid A rare coalition of Democrats and Republicans — 316 — voted overwhelmingly to pass the procedural...18 comments 25 Recs
- Trump and Jesse Watters, as well as conservative influencer media, just bullied a juror into leaving Trump’s Manhattan Criminal trial. I have read Democrats raging against the poor woman, calling her a coward, but really, can anyone blame her? Juror...84 comments 143 Recs
- Biden is empathic —�a wonderful trait in a leader. The seeds were in him from a young age. But something made those seeds grow. Biden has had a great amount of suffering in his life � — losing ...23 comments 84 Recs
- CIA Director Bill Burns warned that unless US sends more military support, Ukraine could “lose” the war against Russia by the end of the year. There is a very real risk that the Ukrainians could lose on the battlefield by the end of 2024, or at least...25 comments 115 Recs
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