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To Attack or to Mourn? The Response to the Murder of Corey Ruiz in Madison, Wisconsin (crimethinc.com)
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Texas Families Urge U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Challenge to Law Requiring Ten Commandments in Public School Classrooms (www.commondreams.org)
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Smoke, Heat, Storms: How Climate Change is Making Bad Working Conditions Even Worse (inthesetimes.com)
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Teachers and students nationwide are still paying the price of decades of neglect (www.epi.org)
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The Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Infrastructure Investments on U.S. Employment and Economic Activity: Executive Summary (www.epi.org)
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Older Adults Are Fighting for Housing Justice—and They Refuse to Be Pushed Aside (inthesetimes.com)
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Exploited Data Workers Are “the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself” (truthout.org)
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Working Families Feel the Heat of Trump’s Recklessness with Consumer Prices on the Rise in July (www.commondreams.org)
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Canadian unions applauded walking away from trade negotiations, call for more worker protections (rabble.ca)
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Former Strikers Start Cooperative News Organization (inthesetimes.com)
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Unions Should Hop on the DSA Train (inthesetimes.com)
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Top Restaurant Industry CEOs Made 721 Times More than Minimum-Wage Workers in 2013 (www.epi.org)
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‘Direct Violation of the Constitution’: Democratic States Sue to Stop Trump Assault on Mail-In Voting (www.commondreams.org)
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After Abdul El-Sayed’s Win in Michigan, Progressives Are Preparing for the Next Round Against AIPAC (inthesetimes.com)
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Looking Back on the Fight for Equal Access to Public Accommodations (www.epi.org)
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The teenage girls behind a $25 minimum wage fight in rural Alaska (19thnews.org)
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It’s Time to Topple the AI Oligarchy (inthesetimes.com)
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12,000 Starbucks Workers Call for Boycott of Law-Breaking Coffee Chain (www.commondreams.org)
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Man Charged With 3 Felonies For Breaking 3D-Printed ‘Decoy’ Flock Camera (www.404media.co)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/58973283

A police department in Florida used “decoy” Flock cameras that an officer 3D-printed at home to “bait” would-be vandals. Police officers monitored the fake cameras for days, then charged a man with three felonies after he cut down and destroyed one of the plastic devices. The police department in question refuses to release any information about how the decoy operation was devised or carried out and claims there is zero paper trail whatsoever about the operation.

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The Man Behind the Anti-Flock Darth Vader Mask Wants to Know: 'When Will This End?' (www.404media.co)
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IL Promised to Protect Immigrants. Local Officials Helped Deport Them Anyway. (truthout.org)
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Mexico's Gig Workers Fight Efforts to Hollow Out Their Employee Status Win (labornotes.org)
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Housing Policy Should Protect Disability Communities, Not Displace Them (inequality.org)
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They Rebuilt After Texas’ Devastating Floods. Then Their Home Flooded Again. (www.propublica.org)
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As Contract Deadline Looms, Auto Parts Workers Say ‘No Axles, No Trucks!’ (labornotes.org)
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