“For the working class, these policies have made ownership of housing” next to impossible “as every cruel cycle of interest rate hikes brutally strips them of houses, cars and other assets they are forced to sell.” In the absence of an emergency public housing program, masses of the working class are crammed into slums, sheltering in shacks built of easily inflammable materials. Lacking electricity supply, candle lamps are often used for lighting in these settlements.

Iris Turmelle, one of the plaintiffs now in high school, told Them in a statement last August that her goal is simply to compete alongside her peers.

After what seems like eons, season three of Euphoria is finally in production, and has added some exciting new cast members to boot — including Spanish pop star Rosalía, who famously dated the show’s star Hunter Schafer in 2019.

(I'm sorry Beehaw but I am in LOVE with Rosalia and I am taking you down this sad bisexual girl's obsession trench with me.)

The Heart of Joy is an ECU that combines both driving dynamics and powertrain control into one computer. Approximately eight-inches by eight-inches, the box will serve as the control module for the upcoming Neue Klasse electrified vehicles that will start rolling out later this year.

In Brighton Park, a majority Latino neighborhood on the city’s southwest side, an elementary school principal has been sharing his experience as an immigrant, so that families feel more comfortable.

In Pilsen, a predominantly Latino neighborhood and historically a neighborhood where Mexican families have immigrated to, a high school launched an emergency immigration chat and told parents that it’s OK for students with immigration concerns to stay home.

Republican lawmakers in at least five states are seeking to block undocumented children from attending public school for free or to inquire about students’ immigration status in ways that courts have held violate children’s educational rights.

The latest version of Senate Bill 518, passed out of the Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee, would expand property tax revenue for charter schools statewide. It requires all school districts that have at least 100 students living within district boundaries and attending charter schools to share their operations tax revenue with charter schools.

As of today the bill passed the Indiana senate and is now (hopefully dying) in the house.

Colorado lawmakers are taking notice of private equity’s push into child care. In January, they introduced legislation that would put new limits on private-equity backed centers in an attempt to temper practices that critics say are harmful, including cutting staff and raising tuition. The bill would give the public more information about tuition and fees, provide advance notice of staff layoffs or enrollment changes, and curb a common private equity real-estate practice that can hurt child care centers financially.

When state and local governments act as “market participants,” paying for a particular project or service (instead of acting as a “regulator” setting the rules for everyone), they can require higher labor standards from the recipients of that public funding. In other words, the government has a greater say over working conditions on a project when the government is paying for that project – and employers are more likely to play by the rules if they know their public funding depends on how they treat their workers.

New Flyer, one of the nation’s largest electric bus manufacturers, won a $500 million procurement contract in 2013 with the Los Angeles Metro public transit authority. As part of the contract, New Flyer committed to creating 50 full-time positions that paid living wages. When a community and labor advocacy organization, Jobs to Move America, questioned whether the company was providing the jobs it had promised, it led to litigation and eventually a 2022 community benefits

We are rapidly approaching what might be called a democratic point of no return. If anti-democratic forces succeed in dismantling constitutional safeguards now, if they gain the power to deploy AI systems without meaningful oversight, they won't need to maintain power through traditional repression. The systems they're building could make effective opposition technically impossible, not through violence but through precise behavioral and social control that eliminates the possibility of organized resistance before it can form.

If we fail to stop this reactionary coup, if we allow them to dismantle democratic institutions while simultaneously deploying increasingly sophisticated AI systems, we may be surrendering not just our own freedom but the very possibility of freedom for all future generations.

The late monarch suspected her art curator Anthony Blunt of treachery a decade before he confessed to MI5, but did not sack him.

Long read: British rule in Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s enabled Zionist colonisation at the expense of Palestinians.

With the allied victory and collapse of the Ottoman empire in world war one, Britain occupied Palestine which it ruled until 1948. This was formalised by the newly created League of Nations, which divided up the former Ottoman territories into ‘mandates’. Britain was awarded Palestine as one such mandate in 1922. But British rule there was never neutral. The UK authorities blocked Palestinian rights, violently suppressed protests and prevented self-determination for the Palestinian Arab majority.

Palestinian efforts to organise for their rights faced immediate obstacles. Before the mandate was even established, Britain ran a military regime from 1917-20, where publication of news of the Balfour Declaration was banned and newspapers were not able to reappear in Palestine for almost two years. In a cruel irony, some of the last people to hear about the decla

The Royal Air Force (RAF) has operated surveillance flights near Gaza on all five days of the ceasefire that Hamas released hostages, Declassified has found. No spy planes were sent towards the strip on the other 20 days of the ceasefire. The latest flight, by a Shadow R1 spy plane, occurred on 8 February when three Israeli men – Eli Sharabi, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami – became free from captivity. Evidence found by Declassified suggests the spy plane was in the air at the same time.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/18824856

Climate warming is increasing ocean stratification, which in turn should decrease the nutrient flux to the upper ocean. This may slow marine primary productivity, causing cascading effects throughout food webs. However, observing changes in upper ocean nutrients is challenging because surface concentrations are often below detection limits. We show that the nutricline depth, where nutrient concentrations reach well-detected levels, is tied to productivity and upper ocean nutrient availability. Next, we quantify nutricline depths from a global database of observed vertical nitrate and phosphate profiles to assess contemporary trends in global nutrient availability (1972–2022). We find strong evidence that the P-nutricline (phosphacline) is mostly deepening, especially throughout the southern hemisphere, but the N-nutricline (nitracline) remains mostly stable. Earth System Model (ESM) simulations support the hypothesis that reduced

The large labor markets of big cities offer greater possibilities for workers to gain skills and experience through successively better employment opportunities. This “experience effect” contributes to the higher average wages that are found in big cities compared to the economy as a whole. Racial wage inequality is also higher in bigger cities than in the economy on average. We offer an explanation for this pattern, demonstrating that there is substantial racial inequality in the economic returns to work experience acquired in big cities. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 we find that each year of work experience in a big city increases Black and Latinx workers’ wages by about one quarter to half as much as White workers’ wages. A substantial amount of this inequality can be explained by further racial disparities in the benefits of high-skill work experience. This research identifies a heretofore unknown source of inequality that is distinctly urban in n

In early February 2025, bushfires ignited in northwestern Tasmania, where they have continued to burn on the island for more than a week amid windy, warm, and dry conditions.

In February 2025, multiple fires raged along the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains in Patagonia. The fires had burned about 30,000 hectares (115 square miles) of forest in south-central Argentina by February 11, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate their homes, according to news reports.

Frozen Lake Saint Clair in the North American Great Lakes system and the briny Salinas Las Barrancas in Argentina have little in common—save for their heart-like shapes. From the perspective of Earth’s orbit, the opposites combine to send a lacustrine Valentine’s Day message.