Mamdani creates office to help private-sector workers organize - POLITICO

The Mayor’s Office of Worker Power will provide resources and networking for employees to unionize and improve their workplace…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/07/mamdani-creates-office-to-help-private-sector-workers-organize-01066078

 

Donavan McKinney on democratic socialism

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2xd9odHP1eA

 

Michigan unveils statewide resource support hub to strengthen childcare businesses

Childcare business owners can struggle with licensing requirements, staffing shortages, and pricing, state officials say. 

In response, a couple of state agencies are launching a resource hub for childcare businesses to try to help them stay afloat and grow...

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/community/2026-06-15/michigan-unveils-statewide-resource-support-hub-to-strengthen-childcare-businesses

 

YOUR FAITH IS YOURS - NOBODY ELSES.

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pOcsbtJNhyM

If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat?

How will society be organized in a world in which machines generate most or all economic output and a few dozen techno-billionaires get to decide what share of the world's resources – money, energy, minerals – should be allocated to further expand superhuman intelligence? Who else gets a say on whether to direct more resources to, say, healthcare or agriculture, or education instead? "

We need guardrails that preserve human agency, human oversight and human accountability," noted United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi last week. The future of AI "cannot be decided by a handful of countries or left to the whims of a few billionaires"...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/23/ai-how-will-we-be-fed

GAO's new list of troubled federal programs is longer than ever - The Washington Post

... What GAO calls "strategic human capital management" regressed "due to the absence of Senate confirmed leadership at OPM (Office of Personnel Management) for 18 of the last 24 months, as of January 2021. As a result, the federal government has lacked the attention from the highest levels needed to address long-standing and emerging skills gaps. . . . Skills gaps caused by insufficient number of staff, inadequate workforce planning, and a lack of training in critical skills are contributing to our designating 22 of the 35 other areas as high risk."...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-gao-watchdog-omb/2021/03/02/4a67a9c0-7aea-11eb-b0fc-83144c02d676_story.html

Opinion | Schiff’s investigation into the Capitol riot is an important turn in the post-Trump fumigation - The Washington Post

...the manufactured narrative of an organized, violent left-wing terror threat became more than just Trump's reelection agitprop. It has also furnished ideological justification for the descent into violent authoritarian politics that we've seen from the movements that converged on the Capitol...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/02/schiff-trump-insurrection-intelligence/

Who Is Driving Inequality? You Are - NYTimes

Who is driving inequality in America? You are. I am. We are. Did you read to your kids before bed when they were young? If you did, you gave them an advantage over kids whose parents were working the evening shift at 7-Eleven. Did you spend extra on tutoring or music lessons? Since 1996, affluent families have spent almost 300 percent more educating their young while everybody else’s spending has been mostly flat. ....
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/opinion/income-inequality.html

Taking On Fake News About Climate Change | John Cook

Excellent presentation, not only on climate change, but resources for developing critical thinking and reasoning skills, and helping inoculate others from fake news on this subject....

https://youtu.be/X7Wv0AZC_D4

DOJ: Trump's immigration crackdown 'diverting' resources from drug cases - USA TODAY

Federal prosecutors in California have taken steps to make it harder to prosecute people smuggling drugs so it can bring more cases against immigrants ....
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/22/zero-tolerance-immigration-crackdown-diverting-resources-drug-cases/727532002/

State officials press Congress for more election cyber resources -- The Hill

Dem task force holds second election security briefing with state officials. ....
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/356914-state-officials-press-congress-for-more-election-cyber-resources