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Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less." She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards. They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it. This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil. The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option. "We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents. "We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

Kamala Harris campaigned on making home care part of Medicare, which would’ve greatly eased the issue of caring for our parents.

But Trump won so we not only didn’t get that, we’re getting devastation of nursing homes as well.

This is going to ruin a lot of families.

ridiculous NYT guest essay: Is It Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family?

here’s a short story about that: no.

Andor season 2 was amazing. Right up to the final minute, which was the most trite and cliched bullshit I have seen in a long time

Did not expect my headache to be made worse by a fucking owl hooting

🚨BREAKING: 9th Circuit DENIES government's motion to pause federal court order requiring the rehiring of probationary civil servants who were terminated. A big win for democracy and a another defeat for Trump.

Visit www.democracydocket.com for full coverage of this and all breaking democracy news.

A rapist celebrating a rapist in the People's House on a national holiday.

This is the darkest timeline.

NEW: Workers from shuttered Veterans Affairs office that worked to rectify issues facing underserved vets sue the Trump administration over mass firings. Full complaint here: www.courtlistener.com/docket/69740...

Once you establish that people can be punished because the administration doesn't like their speech, expanding the bounds of who can be treated that way becomes inevitable.

On Mexico’s Once-Packed Border, Few Migrants Remain There has been a dramatic drop in the number of people gathering at the U.S. border and trying to cross. Can it help Mexico stave off President Trump’s threatened tariffs?

President Trump has credited himself with the dramatic drop in the number of people trying to cross into the U.S. from Mexico. But analysts say Mexico’s moves to restrict migration in the last year have yielded undeniable results, putting it in a stronger negotiating position against his tariffs.

This is an older story, but worth keeping in mind through every step of the AI hype cycle. The whole business model relies on violating copyright law. If your business model relies on stealing your inputs, that's normally called not having a viable business model.

This gets my vote for tweet/post of the year. This is a RED ALERT post. This is exactly why he’s doing it.

AOC: “Elon Musk is not going after efficiency — he is trying to gut everything good in 🇺🇸 for his own private profit… America is not for sale.”

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGXObpu...

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

Holy shit! You’ve got to see this town hall. Republicans are starting to get torn apart by their own constituents.

Rep. Rich McCormick: “You don’t think I’m going to stand up for you?”

Woman in the crowd: “You need to stand up.”

Another woman: “Don’t bend over.” 🔥

Lobbying led UK universities to adopt US-style security during Gaza protests, emails reveal UK students faced excessive disciplinary measures as a result of heavy-handed strategy, reports claim University leaders reassured campus security officials amid pro-Palestine protests in the UK that they would back them if “things got tough” after their…

Lobbying led UK universities to adopt US-style security during Gaza protests, emails reveal

European Leaders Try to Recalibrate After Trump Sides With Russia on Ukraine The American president’s latest remarks embracing Vladimir Putin’s narrative that Ukraine is to blame for the war have compounded the sense of alarm among traditional allies.

President Emmanuel Macron of France called a second emergency meeting of European allies on Wednesday to devise a united response to President Trump's remarks embracing Vladimir Putin’s narrative that Ukraine is to blame for the war.

Hard to imagine Putin could’ve dreamed up a headline better than this. www.lbc.co.uk/usa/politics...

Stop and think about what he’s saying here.

When he tells you who he is, believe him.

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.

Trump officials have terminated more than 300 staffers at the National Nuclear Security Administration without realizing that they oversee America’s nuclear weapons.

They are now trying to rescind the terminations.

With both RFK Jr and Gabbard confirmed, two people who rose to prominence spreading conspiracy theories about public health and national intelligence will now run the U.S. government agencies in charge of those areas. For someone studying these conspiracy theories for a decade... this is nauseating.

Democratic Lawmakers Denied Entry to the Department of Education It was the fourth agency this week that federal employees blocked congressional Democrats from entering amid a push to shutter government agencies and dramatically cut the federal work force.

Several Democratic lawmakers were denied entry to the U.S. Department of Education on Friday. It was the fourth agency this week that federal employees blocked congressional Democrats from entering.

Reading a fantasy book set in Eastern Europe during the 14th century, so reading ‘kilometres’ was a bit odd. Immediately had to google when the metric system was first used and it’s several centuries later 😂🤦‍♀️

Save The Prince Charles Cinema The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...

#SaveThePCC

Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.

For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;

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A view inside an AIDS clinic, with large cardboard boxes of medications being tended to by a worker in a red shirt and white hat. Text reads: "Trump Administration Halts HIV Drug Distribution in Poor Countries." Photo credit: Foto24/Gallo Images, via Getty Images

The Trump administration instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing HIV medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics.

Read more: nyti.ms/4hvI8s0