🚨UAW declares victory in statement: 'While votes continue to be tallied, the outcome is clear: Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga are the first Southern autoworkers outside of the Big Three to win their union.'

When WAMU laid off 16 people and closed DCist, the reasoning given was “content strategy word salad,' per one staffer.

Andrew Beaujon cuts through the jargon and nonsense with a deeply reported, excellent look at what actually happened: washingtonian.com/2024/04/19/why…

Huge congratulations to HuffPost's Rowaida Abdelaziz on winning the Wilbur Award of Excellence!
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It's for her excellent piece 'Most Funeral Homes Don't Know How To Bury Muslims. These Women Want To Change That.' Read it here:
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New, on the Pennsylvania Senate race:

This G.O.P. Senate Candidate Says He Grew Up on a Family Farm. Not Exactly. nytimes.com/2024/04/19/us/…

We're going to get an NFT-style 'oops, sorry, that was stupid' institutional course correction about AI chatbots eventually... all I ask is that we speed it up.

The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 is a 920-page manifesto that outlines how a second Trump presidency would try to torch LGBTQ+ rights, access to abortion, and broader rights to privacy by completely abolishing the administrative state
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Wow: 'Amazon has fallen so far behind schedule in creating jobs at its Northern Virginia HQ that its workforce at those offices shrank last year, the company confirmed, showing how the project pitched as an economic jolt is instead hitting a slowdown.'
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NEW: Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga start casting ballots in their union election tomorrow. The vote has huge ramifications for the UAW and the auto industry at large. And there's lots of optimism among workers that this is finally the time it happens.
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The payment dates are March 26, Christie turned them down on March 27: huffpost.com/entry/chris-ch…

Congrats to my friend Dave Jamieson, nice to see his excellent and timely investigation into the union-busting industry recognized!

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Big get for Joe Biden as his only primary opponent to win a contest coalesces behind the him, bringing up to dozens of voters with him.

Homicides are plummeting.

In all 10 cities with the most 2023 homicides—for which we have data—homicides are falling. The pandemic crime wave is crashing hard.

If these percentage decline numbers were percentage growth numbers, it would be the lede of every cable news show—>

Anyone interested in politics - or our democracy - should read the speech Al Cross delivered this week

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POLITICO: “.. no other person in America — if charged with the diverse panoply of malfeasance that Trump has been accused of — would enjoy the same procedural and structural advantages that Trump has harnessed, to great effect ..”

POLITICO Magazine

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Apologies for another ghastly ggplot, but you can see that within race-education groups, the highest-income voters are the Trumpiest, and that having a union member in the household increases Dem vote share by ~10 % pts. Similar effect to adding one tier of education 12/n

Scoop: White House hesitating to finalize a major fair housing regulation Biden trumpeted at the start of his term

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Two reporters from HuffPost's national desk are Deadline Club award finalists - Molly Redden and Christopher Mathias!

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Their outstanding nominated work: 🧵

I asked Tennessee Republican Rep. Chuck Fleischmann his position on the UAW union election at Volkswagen in Chattanooga next week. His answer surprised me.

“I’ve stayed out of it this time… this is something that I’m going to let the workers decide.”
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'It’s a fucking bridge. Like it’s a bridge, and how interesting is the bridge? It’s a little interesting but it’s not a lot interesting.” politi.co/4aLJHOZ via POLITICO

“It makes no sense to me. I think Justice Sotomayor is doing a terrific job, and I think she’ll be doing a terrific job for years to come,” Warren says huffpost.com/entry/sonia-so…