By rejecting permanent ceasefire deals & insisting on attacking Gaza until Hamas is “eliminated”, Bibi is dooming not just ~2,000,000 Palestinians who live under apocalyptic conditions, but the remaining hostages that the Israeli gov claims to care about. nytimes.com/live/2024/09/0…

A Pittsburgh-area battery plant may be eligible for up to $1.98 billion in federal tax credits aimed at “good clean jobs.” But workers say they’re getting fired for unionizing. capitalandmain.com/workers-say-pl…

If you read anything on #LaborDay, give this a try.

‘Transformational’: how a California city launched America’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train theguardian.com/environment/ar…

In book to be released today, Trump's amb to Israel David M Friedman advocates diverting $1bn in US aid for Palestinians to fund West Bank annexation, per Jacob N. Kornbluh forward.com/fast-forward/6…

Under Trump, 39 states saw increases in their uninsured rates, and the number of uninsured people swelled by more than 440,000 across the key battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. capitalandmain.com/number-of-u-s-…

Got published in USA Today! Millions fewer people had insurance under Trump than under Biden as a result of their policy decisions. usatoday.com/story/money/20…

No, Armed Venezuelan Migrants Did Not Take Over A Chicago Apartment Building blockclubchicago.org/2024/09/03/no-…

The new zero-emission train, known as Zemu, will run through an area that has long suffered from poor air quality. Will it be the start of a clean energy rail movement in the US?

Great piece from kalena thomhave & our friends at Capital & Main about a battery plant in Pittsburgh that has received Inflation Reduction Act loan guarantees & subsidies, yet fired union organizers a few weeks ago. A cautionary tale on the green jobs front. prospect.org/labor/2024-09-…

I’m here at the California Court of Appeal where the fate of the injunction blocking LA’s Inspector General’s investigation into deputy gangs will be decided. ACLU SoCal has filed an amicus brief opposing the lawsuit filed by the deputy’s union to stop OIG’s investigation.

An absolutely devastating loss for all of us. Shutting and barring the doors to open and easy access to knowledge, to appease a bunch of wealthy suits who care nothing about its preservation and dissemination Incalculable loss for all of us

.@CapitalAndMain and ProPublica prepared a quick guide you can use to check whether your potential short-term LA rental is legal: propublica.org/article/is-my-…

A new DoJ indictment alleges that RT employees "covertly fund[ed] and direct[ed]" a US company with $10m in order to push pro-Russia content. The company is based in Tennessee. There is one media company based in Tennessee with the same phrase listed in the indictment...

For vacationers and locals who want to check the legality of a short-term rental, we prepared a two-step guide to researching potential listings before you book: capitalandmain.com/how-l-a-s-ille…

Thanks Rick Smith for having me on you show to talk about Jeremy Lindenfeld's (Jeremy Lindenfeld) reporting on the growth in numbers of folks w/o health insurance under Trump / the decline in uninsured under Biden--and the impact of COVID-era protections on uninsurance rates.

While health care cost and access issues are by no means unique to one part of the state, residents in the heart of the Central Valley — majority Latino, nearly half at low income — are experiencing this problem in outsized ways. capitalandmain.com/californias-ce…

California’s legislative Black Caucus passed 9 of 14 reparations bills this month. But they also chose to pull measures that would fund cash payments and establish an agency to oversee that effort. My story for Capital & Main

Our interview with Bernie Sanders — The Vermont senator tells us that backing Medicare expansion, higher taxes on the wealthy and a hike in the minimum wage is a winning strategy for Kamala Harris in the #2024election. She can beat Trump, he tells us. capitalandmain.com/bernie-sanders…

Reporting on maternity health care was one of the most challenging and moving experiences I have had as a reporter. Thank you to those who shared with me these intimate stories, and for letting me write about them. inewsource.org/2024/09/05/imp…