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Calishat

#Google #AWU #unions #transparency #antitrust #GiftArticle

"The agreement is another blow to Google’s corporate policies designed to maintain secrecy, which have been scrutinized amid the search case brought by the Justice Department. It also undercut Google’s strategy to keep its business humming during the lawsuit — to have employees ignore the antitrust battle and remain focused on their work."

nytimes.com/2025/04/07/technol

Google’s change of tune was part of a settlement overseen by the National Labor Relations Board.
The New York Times · Google Says Employees Can Discuss Antitrust CaseBy Nico Grant
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Nonilex

He escaped once. In 2005, when he was 12 or 13, he broke off a piece of the door’s center paneling; but rather than fleeing the house, he simply slipped down to the kitchen to scrounge for food. When his breakout was discovered, he told the police, his bedroom door was reinforced with plywood. Threats of withholding food, or violence, kept him from trying again.

#criminal #law #abuse

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nytimes.com/2025/04/08/nyregio

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Robert J. Berger

"But Wall Street professionals, like so many other ostensibly smart people, refused to see Trump clearly, mistaking his skill as a demagogue for wisdom as a policymaker. “I don’t think this was foreseeable,” a mournful Ackman posted on X on Monday. “I assumed economic rationality would be paramount.” What an odd assumption to make about a man who bankrupted casinos.

Berezin thinks Wall Street still hasn’t come to terms with the cost of the nascent Trump presidency. “I do think that at this point we might have passed the event horizon, meaning that even if Trump backs off from the tariffs, there’s been enough damage done to the U.S. economy, to the global economy, to investor confidence, consumer confidence, that we’re probably going to see a recession regardless of what happens,” he said.""

#GiftArticle #USPolitics

nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion

The New York Times · Opinion | Why Did Wall Street Get Trump So Wrong?By Michelle Goldberg
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John Refior

"As the first Jewish president of a formerly Methodist university, I find no comfort in the Trump administration’s embrace of my people, on college campuses or elsewhere. Jew hatred is real, but today’s anti-antisemitism isn’t a legitimate effort to fight it. It’s a cover for a wide range of agendas that have nothing to do with the welfare of Jewish people."

Op-Ed by the president of Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion

The New York Times · Opinion | Trump’s Crusade Against Antisemitism Is Extremely Bad for the JewsBy Michael S. Roth
#GiftArticle#wesu#highered
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Nonilex

#GiftArticle
by Mike Schmidt

When #Trump returned to office, his rivals & #law enforcement ofcls feared he would follow through on his pledges to use the #DOJ & #FBI to investigate & even imprison perceived enemies.
But since winning re-election, Trump’s retribution campaign has turned out to be far more expansive, efficient & creative than anticipated. It has also been less reliant on the justice system.
#RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #tyranny #WeaponizationOfGovernment
nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/poli

The New York Times · In Trump’s Second Term, Retribution Comes in Many FormsBy Michael S. Schmidt
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Yappari

A Playbook for Standing Up to Trump:

“The three law firms that have filed suits to block Mr. Trump’s executive orders — Jenner & Block, Perkins Coie and WilmerHale — provide a model. So far, they are winning in court. Importantly, they have won the backing of many conservatives. As our counterparts on The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board wrote, Mr. Trump’s campaign against law firms “breaks a cornerstone principle of American justice.””

nytimes.com/2025/04/06/opinion

The New York Times · Opinion | A Playbook for Law Firms and Colleges to Stand Up to President TrumpBy The Editorial Board
#GiftArticle#GiftLink#law
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Reed Mideke

They also got satellite images a few hours after the attack which show "five ambulances and the fire truck had been moved off the road and clustered together" and "Two days later, a new satellite image of the area showed the vehicles were apparently buried. Next to disturbed earth are three Israeli military bulldozers and an excavator"

Yet with all that, the NYT lede only grants that the video "appears" to contradict they Israeli version

nytimes.com/2025/04/04/world/m

The New York Times · Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights OnBy Farnaz Fassihi
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Reed Mideke

"An Israeli military spokesman … [said] … Israeli forces did not “randomly attack” an ambulance, but that several vehicles “were identified advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals" yet a video "discovered on the cellphone of one of the paramedics who was found along with 14 other aid workers in a mass grave … shows that the ambulances and fire truck were clearly marked and had their emergency signal lights on"

nytimes.com/2025/04/04/world/m

The New York Times · Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights OnBy Farnaz Fassihi
#GiftArticle#GiftLink
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