Archive for October 2025

MF says policies based on “this idea that those in poverty have to be punished” keep people like her poor.

The SWRB said in a letter to Tse, which was seen by HKFP, that the board had decided to maintain its September 4 order that suspended his social worker licence for three years, starting from this Friday.

Work, education and health are just some of the areas where technology is being used to supercharge monitoring – and potentially control.

It’s no wonder that the right’s strategy to destroy the foundations of our democracy as we know it is routed through our public school system. Seventy percent of teachers are in a union, making teaching one of the most unionized professions in America. Public schools are a rare American institution where people of all races, faiths, and backgrounds are meant to gather and be treated equally.

Of the many good reasons why you shouldn’t give up hope, the first is that popular resistance is growing, as seen in the recent No Kings protests, the largest in US history. Above: People form a human banner at Ocean Beach during the “No Kings” protests in San Francisco on Saturday, June 14

A writer sits at her kitchen table, pen in hand, staring at her first book contract. The coffee’s gone cold. The pen is poised. The word that catches her eye isn’t advance or royalties. It’s morality. It reads like a warning: The publisher reserves the right to terminate this agreement if the author engages in conduct that may subject the publisher to public disrepute or contempt. In other words—one wrong tweet, and the dream evaporates.

Almost all the billionaire cash is backing independent candidate Andrew Cuomo (98%), with 58 of the 62 billionaire spenders giving a total of $18.4 million to Cuomo-aligned super political action committees (super PACs). Democratic hopeful Zohran Mamdani has received the support of just two billionaire spenders, who together have contributed $270,000 to outside PACs pushing his candidacy…. As of October 1st, New York City is the primary residence to 111 billionaires, according to Forbes, with lots more owning second homes or business property in the Big Apple. Collectively these 111 billionaires are worth $717 billion, over six times the city’s annual budget.

Attorney General William Tong said he joined of 21 other attorneys general and three governors in a suit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its Secretary Brooke Rollins…. Earlier this week, state officials warned that EBT card holders may not see their cards reloaded on Nov. 1. Here in Connecticut, 360,000 thousand would be impacted. This affects 120,000 children in our state.

Affordable homes built the post-war social contract—their absence today fuels political extremism.