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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Trump’s Mug Shot Is His True Presidential Portrait</strong> - He might be angry in the mug shot; he might even be scared. But he damn sure doesn’t look surprised. Nobody is. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-appearances/trumps-mug-shot-is-his-true-presidential-portrait">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What a Heat Wave Does to Your Body</strong> - The human body is a remarkably effective cooling machine—but it has a limit. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/what-a-heat-wave-does-to-your-body">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Vivek Ramaswamy Is Not the Next Trump</strong> - Many in the press have declared the entrepreneur and political novice “Trump’s heir.” The comparison sells the former President short. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/vivek-ramaswamy-is-not-the-next-trump">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>“Braiding Sweetgrass,” and a Lesson in Extreme Heat</strong> - Parul Sehgal visits Robin Wall Kimmerer, who set out to bridge the gap between Western science and Indigenous teaching. Plus, Dhruv Khullar looks at extreme heat and the body. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/braiding-sweetgrass-and-a-lesson-in-extreme-heat">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Harsh Glare of Justice for Donald Trump</strong> - On the ex-President’s snarly mug shot from the Fulton County Jail and a 2024 reality of Trump, Trump, and more Trump. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/the-harsh-glare-of-justice-for-donald-trump">link</a></p></li>
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Actually useful ways to help children with homework, bullying, and mental health.
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In early 2020, around the onset of Covid-19 lockdowns, Jessica Mungekar noticed her seventh grade honor student, Layla, retreat. “I knew that she felt really uncomfortable and she wanted to fall into the background,” Mungekar says. “She didn’t want to be noticed and I didn’t quite understand it.”
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Meanwhile, Layla was keeping the source of her pain secret from her mother: She was being bullied and was struggling with her identity as a biracial teen in a predominantly white town. Layla feared if she told her mom about the extent of the bullying, Jessica would have called the school, making the problem even worse.
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Things came to a head the summer before Layla’s first year of high school when she shared with her mom details of a traumatic event. Layla urged her mother not to make decisions on her behalf in the aftermath. Instead, Jessica went into what she calls “mama bear mode” and made demands of her daughter: Cut off contact with these friends, join these extracurricular activities, you are only allowed out of the house during these hours. Layla felt like her autonomy was being taken away.
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Over the course of a few months, mother and daughter worked to repair their relationship and communication. Now, Jessica says she is sure to listen to Layla instead of immediately offering advice, validates her daughter’s feelings, and gives her freedom to express herself. For her part, Layla confides in her mother all the time, even about her dating life. Her friends often seek out Jessica for counsel, too. “She’s become a safe place where people go to get advice,” Layla, now 16, says. “She’s joyous and doesn’t pass judgment.”
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Students are faced with a daily barrage of potential stressors: a demanding course load, tricky social dynamics, managing both their time and emotions. In a <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/childrensmentalhealth/features/school-aged-mental-health-in-communities.html">four-year study designed to estimate the prevalence of mental disorders</a> in kindergarteners through 12th graders, findings showed one in six students exhibited enough symptoms to meet the criteria for one or more childhood mental disorders, such as anxiety disorders and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. According to a <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/02/20/most-u-s-teens-see-anxiety-and-depression-as-a-major-problem-among-their-peers/">2019 Pew Research Center report,</a> 61 percent of teens said they felt a lot of pressure to get good grades. About 22 percent of 12- to 18-year-old students reported being bullied during the school year in 2019, per a <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=719">National Center for Education Statistics survey</a>. None of these statistics takes into account the toll of the pandemic, which set students back academically and had <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23584869/covid-coronavirus-school-closures-remote-education-learning-loss-psychological-depression-teens">negative effects on their mental health</a>.
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Once kids leave the house, parents and other adults in their lives have little influence on their students’ school days. Unable to witness or guide children through the difficulties in and out of the classroom, parents often get piecemeal or incomplete views of how their kids spent the last hours, especially if the child is young and can’t adequately verbalize their struggles or frustrations. Signs that a student may be experiencing hardship at school include increased irritability, difficulty sleeping or lack of sleep, and changes in appetite, says <a href="https://www.pcom.edu/academics/faculty/jessicagl.html">Jessica Kendorski</a>, the chair of the school psychology department and professor at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. They may also say they feel sick in order to stay home, when in reality they may be stressed or anxious about school, Kendorski says.
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Another indicator of a struggling child includes extreme people-pleasing, says <a href="https://www.schoolcounselor.org/Recognition/School-Counselor-of-the-Year/Meredith-Draughn">Meredith Draughn</a>, the school counselor at B. Everett Jordan Elementary School in Graham, NC, and the 2023 American School Counselor Association Counselor of the Year. High school students may also exhibit a “freeze” response, Draughn says. “It’s like well, that kid just doesn’t care, right? That kid’s super apathetic,” she says. “What we find when we dig into it more is they’re so overwhelmed by everything that’s happening that they just choose to do nothing because they don’t know how to address it.”
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What, then, is the right way to support the students in your life? The tactics will vary based on the age of your child and the issues they’re facing. Regardless of your approach, experts say to always keep your kids in the loop of any decisions you’re making about their emotional and academic success.
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Encourage growth mindset tactics for academic achievement
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From homework to challenging classes, students experience a number of academic hurdles. Sometimes, they may fail a test or drop the ball on a project. While some students <a href="https://childmind.org/article/how-to-help-kids-who-are-too-hard-on-themselves/">may criticize themselves</a> (“I’m not smart enough”) or claim the material was too difficult, parents should promote a <a href="https://hbr.org/2016/01/what-having-a-growth-mindset-actually-means">growth mindset</a>: the ability to learn from setbacks, implement new processes, and improve. “You want to praise the effort and the strategies that they used,” Kendorski says. “If they fail something, you want to talk through ‘Why did you fail this? Let’s talk about what you can do to be successful next time.’”
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A fixed mindset is one where people believe their skills are set in stone and they have no possibility of improving. When students in his classroom share fixed mindset sentiments like “I can’t do this,” elementary school teacher <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@mrmonroeandnala?lang=en">Josh Monroe</a> is quick to amend the statement: “You can’t do this <em>yet</em>.” The power of <em>yet</em> helps students “understand that you don’t have to know it all right now — and it’s important that you don’t, that’s how you grow,” he says.
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While it’s crucial to encourage a growth mindset with students who use negative self-talk, like “I’ll never learn this” or “I’m not good enough,” a fixed mindset can also backfire if you constantly tell a student “You’re so smart,” Kendorski says. “When things start to get really difficult, you might find kids that don’t want to take chances,” she says, “because they think that if I fail, I’m going to lose that ‘I’m so smart’ title.” Instead, she says, focus on accomplishments based on effort and strategies: “I’m really proud of you for organizing a study group with your friends.”
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To help ensure your kids get their homework done and prepare for tests, Kendorski encourages a routine: dedicating a time and a place for schoolwork. If your student retains information more effectively if they study for a little bit each day instead of cramming, offer that as an option.
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When the kid in your life asks for help with homework and you’re a little rusty on, say, algebra, don’t feel ashamed to admit you don’t know how to solve the problem, Draughn says. Monroe recommends the online educational tool <a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/">Khan Academy</a>, which features videos that guide both parents and students through all levels of educational concepts and lessons. For additional academic resources, reach out to your student’s teacher who will know about after-school tutoring sessions or extra guidance, Draughn says. “Going to teachers early and often, when help is needed, is the most crucial part of it,” she says, “because there are those programs, but they do fill up pretty quickly.”
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Empower students to navigate difficult social situations with confidence
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School can be a social minefield, with kids learning how to independently interact with peers and regulate their emotions. If your child shares that they’re being picked on or ostracized in school, Draughn suggests that you first validate their experience and never downplay their emotions. Ask them what level of support they want: Do they think it would be helpful to talk to a school counselor or a teacher? Or do they prefer you to reach out to the teacher directly? In Layla Mungekar’s experience, she would have opted for her mother to not interfere with her social life. “Letting them lead the way on that is important,” Draughn says. “They may say, I feel like I have the tools to handle this — and that’s great. Then you check in. But doing nothing and just not mentioning it again is not going to help anything.”
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You might also start counseling your kid on self-advocacy and assertiveness at home, too, Draughn says, helping them identify moments where they should speak out against bad behavior and pointing out trustworthy adults to whom they can report issues, regardless of whether they are on the receiving end or have witnessed another student being bullied. “If someone is making you feel socially or physically unsafe, that’s the time to speak up,” says <a href="https://doctor-p.com/">Tracee Perryman</a>, the author of <em>Elevating Futures: A Model For Empowering Black Elementary Student Success</em>. Again, only reach out to the school yourself after talking it over with your kid.
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However, your child may simply be shy and reserved, not the victim of bullying. Perryman says to help build confidence with the kids in your life by reminding them that what they have to say is important and they have valuable interests and insights worth sharing with others.
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When it comes to social media, Jessica Mungekar discovered teens will “do what they’re going to do, whether you want them to or not,” she says. It’s better to listen if your child is involved with social media-related conflict, remind them they are not in trouble, and support them as you work to create a plan together. “I think it’s important in this day and age for kids to have social media because otherwise they get [alienated] by their peers,” Layla Mungekar says. “But it’s a lot safer when parents have those conversations, like yeah, this is going to happen and when it does happen, you should feel safe to come to me and not be blamed for that.”
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Experts emphasize the transitory nature of school. While it’s crucial for students to apply themselves academically and make strides socially, remind them that one speed bump, fight with a friend, blunder, or bad grade will not drastically alter the trajectory of their lives. “It’s better that I make those mistakes now,” Layla says, “while I have someone there to help me.”
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Promote balance to minimize stress
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Just like adults, <a href="https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002059.htm">kids can get stressed</a> due to the demands of school and extracurriculars, as well as conflicts with friends and family. If kids are sleeping very late on weekends or too tired to do activities they typically enjoy, like spending time with friends, they might need more balance in their schedules, Perryman says.
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Ask your kid directly: “Are you playing T-ball three nights a week because you like it or you feel like you have to?” or “You had three extracurriculars last semester and it was really overwhelming for you. Do you want to pick two for this coming semester?” Draughn suggests. Remind your kid that just because they step away from a hobby now doesn’t mean they can’t come back to it in the future. Make sure students have one weeknight and one weekend day solely devoted to downtime, too, Draughn says. However, don’t discount the fact that sports and other activities can be rejuvenating for kids, even if they’re not resting.
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Parents and supportive adults are quick to problem-solve for the kids in their lives, but Kendorski stresses the importance of asking, “Do you want me to listen? Or do you want me to help?” Your child might just want to vent about a tough baseball practice. When Layla wants validation and a hug from her mom, she asks her “to be a waterfall.” When she’s feeling less emotionally charged, then Layla and her mom can problem-solve.
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For high-achieving students who may be stressed about grades and college applications, Kendorski suggests asking your kids what story they’re telling themselves about success. For example, they might worry that a bad test grade means they’ll never get into their dream college. Help them map more realistic outcomes by thinking about the absolute worst-case scenario and alternative paths. For example, the worst that could happen if they fail a single test is maybe they get a C for the quarter. But reinforce how if they study and complete all their homework, the likelihood of failing is minimized.
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Remember not to make your stress their stress. Children are intuitive and can pick up on how the adults in their lives are feeling, Kendorski says. Instead of turning away from uncomfortable emotions, encourage open communication. If you’re disappointed in a mediocre grade, try saying, “I’m feeling a little bummed about the C on that test, but that’s my issue. I know you work hard and with some more practice, I know you’ll do better next time.”
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Parents should always validate their child’s struggles and encourage caring for their mental health. Whether they’re seeking support from a trusted teacher or you think they’d benefit from speaking with a therapist — ask them how they’d feel about chatting with a professional before scheduling an appointment — remind them that “mental health is health,” Draughn says. That matters more than any test score.
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Auto workers at the “Detroit Three” auto companies could stop work on September 14.
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Members of the United Auto Workers on Friday voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike at the so-called Detroit Three automobile manufacturers — Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis — should those companies fail to offer a competitive contract by the time the current one expires September 14.
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The strike authorization is the latest in a series of high-profile labor actions in the US over the past year, including the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and Writer’s Guild of America strikes, a UPS strike authorization that resulted in a fair contract, and a threatened US railway strike <a href="http://=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-signs-bill-block-us-railroad-strike-2022-12-02/">thwarted by the government in December</a>. While all of these actions point to a more visible labor presence in the <a href="https://www.vox.com/economy">economy</a>, the UAW strike authorization — much like the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strike — is about more than<strong> </strong>just the conditions under which workers will perform their duties. What the UAW wants, too, is a say in what the industry looks like as it changes with technological developments like the switch to electric vehicles.
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The UAW represents about 150,000 workers at the three companies — 97 percent of whom voted to authorize the strike. Shawn Fain, the president of the UAW, indicated that the <a href="https://www.vox.com/unions">union</a> would not extend the September 14<strong> </strong>deadline to ratify a new four-year contract. Union talks with the automakers started in July, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/uaw-members-authorize-strike-detroit-three-automakers-2023-08-25/https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/uaw-members-authorize-strike-detroit-three-automakers-2023-08-25/">according to Reuters</a>, but have progressed slowly since then, Fain said. “We have a lot of options that we are looking at but extension on the contract is not one of them.”
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Fain and the UAW are asking for a series of wage increases and improved or reinstated benefits that offset labor concessions over the past few decades, and which would eliminate the two-tiered employment system that the Detroit Three factories have had in place since 2007.
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US labor unions enjoyed power and popular support until the 1970s and 1980s, when a combination of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/08/magazine/jimmy-hoffa-s-revenge.html">a series of corruption scandals</a> and the Reagan administration’s breaking of the <a href="https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-867">Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization</a> (PATCO) strike in 1981 greatly weakened collective bargaining. Globalization, especially after the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into effect in the 1990s also weakened worker power, since companies could — and did — move their operations to countries where labor was cheaper, decimating entire industries and swaths of the country.
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That’s led to depressed wages despite high inflation, as well as a decrease in benefits like pensions, even as the cost of living increases. And in 2023, companies can now use the specter of artificial intelligence and automation as a bargaining chip against workers’ futures.
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Like all union contracts, the UAW’s is extremely ambitious; unions go into negotiations knowing they’ll have to compromise on some elements of what they’re asking for, so they aim high. In the case of the UAW, as well as in other striking industries, the contracts are trying to both regain lost ground and protect workers for the future.
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“We’re fed up,” Fain told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/uaw-members-authorize-strike-detroit-three-automakers-2023-08-25/https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/uaw-members-authorize-strike-detroit-three-automakers-2023-08-25/">Reuters. </a>“We’ve sat back for decades while these companies continue to just take and take and take from us.”
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Real wage growth, representing actual purchasing power, <a href="https://www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker">has stagnated since the 1980s</a>, only reaching 1983 levels during the Covid-19 pandemic. Overall, wages haven’t grown at the same rate as the cost of living, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/24/how-401k-brought-about-the-death-of-pensions.html">401(k) plans replaced pension benefits</a>, putting more pressure on the worker to save for retirement — despite a boom in worker productivity over the past 50 years.
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The UAW is striking to reverse some of these changes, by<strong> </strong>including in its contract a demand for a <a href="https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2023/ask-the-expert-potential-uaw-strike#:~:text=The%20Anderson%20Economic%20Group%20estimates,million%20per%20week%20of%20production.">defined-benefit pension and to re-establish the retiree medical benefit program</a>. The union is also demanding a 46 percent wage increase over the life of the contract to keep up with the increased cost of living, as well as reinstituting a cost-of-living allowance which was <a href="https://labornotes.org/2009/02/uaw-agrees-givebacks-ford">eliminated in 2009</a> following the auto industry bailout. With major auto producers on the brink of bankruptcy, the UAW renegotiated its contract at the behest of the federal government.
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But a major driver of the strike is actually a two-tiered wage system first instituted in the <a href="https://clutejournals.com/index.php/JBER/article/view/2247">UAW’s 2007 contract</a>; workers hired before that are in the first tier and started at about $28 per hour, while second-tier workers start at between $16 and $19 per hour — <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/business/in-detroit-two-wage-levels-are-the-new-way-of-work.html">a rate that has barely increased over the past decade</a>. The second-tier class of workers grows as first-tier workers retire and are replaced by new second-tier workers, ultimately bringing down wages for an increasing number of workers — who also<strong> </strong>increasingly make up UAW membership.
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There are several reasons that labor has become more visible over the past few years, and workers seem increasingly willing to demand more from their employers. That doesn’t necessarily mean the US is in a new era of labor power, and even that phrase doesn’t mean what it did in the first half of the 20th century.
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/23145265/amazon-fired-chris-smalls-union-leader-alu-jeff-bezos-bernie-sanders-aoc-labor-movement-biden">Amazon’s Chris Smalls</a> has been a visible figure demanding the right to unionize and better conditions for his fellow workers, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/money/2023/8/22/23840473/writers-strike-actors-wga-sag-workers-economy-impact">the combined SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes</a> have been highly visible because they target the entertainment industry, putting people’s favorite TV shows and movies on hold until studios and the unions can agree to fair contracts — including the use of generative AI in writing and shooting films and TV shows.
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Similarly, the UAW strike is not only about raising individual standards of living but also looking forward to the effect that technology could have on <a href="https://www.vox.com/labor-jobs">jobs</a> in that sector. As the industry shifts from combustion engines to battery-powered electric cars, manufacturing will need fewer workers with different skills, as Michigan State University professor of employment relations Peter Berg <a href="https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2023/ask-the-expert-potential-uaw-strike#:~:text=The%20Anderson%20Economic%20Group%20estimates,million%20per%20week%20of%20production.">told Michigan State University Today</a>.
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If the strike action does move forward — and Berg told Vox in an interview that he believes it will in some form — it could cost each company as much as $500 billion per week of stopped work, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/biden-urges-all-sides-make-deal-automakers-union-seek-contract-2023-08-14/">according to Deutsche Bank analyst Emmanuel Rosner</a>.
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The moment is right for labor to try and claw back losses of the past few decades and try to gain protection and benefits for the future; there is a tight labor market, an aging workforce, high consumer demand, and political and popular support for trade unions. “These strike actions on the part of labor unions [are saying], ‘Alright, we have to renegotiate the fundamentals of how work is done,’” Berg said, and “using their power to redefine the working conditions going forward.”
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If you could breathe life into 4chan, the dark corner of the Internet where shitposters, edgelords, Groypers, and trolls of all kinds thrive, and then appoint this new lifeform to the federal bench, you would have created Judge James Ho.
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Ho, appointed by former president Donald Trump in 2018 to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, recently argued that anti-abortion doctors may seek a court order banning a commonly prescribed abortion medication, because “doctors delight in working with their unborn patients — and <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.213145/gov.uscourts.ca5.213145.506860229.1.pdf">experience an aesthetic injury when they are aborted</a>.”
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He’s written that a federal law prohibiting gun possession by people that a court has determined to be a “<a href="https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-rahimi-13">credible threat to the physical safety of [their] intimate partner</a>” is unconstitutional. Among other things, Ho claimed that this law “should give us pause” because women getting a divorce sometimes seek such court orders as “a tactical leverage device” in their divorce proceedings.
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Ho’s very first opinion as a judge, a <a href="http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/16/16-51366-CV1.pdf">dissenting opinion in a case he did not even hear</a>, claimed that <a href="https://archive.thinkprogress.org/james-ho-campaign-finance-hack-70a2ce3477bc/">all laws limiting the amount that wealthy donors may give to political campaigns are unconstitutional</a>. Under Ho’s understanding of the Constitution, nothing prevents Harlan Crow, the billionaire Republican donor <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus">famous for lavishing gifts on Justice Clarence Thomas</a>, from funding an entire presidential campaign.
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Also, speaking of Harlan Crow, Ho held his official ceremony swearing him in as a federal judge <a href="https://jezebel.com/judge-set-to-hear-abortion-pill-case-was-sworn-in-at-bi-1850416283">in Crow’s personal library</a>.
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Honored to attend Jim Ho’s swearing in to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals today, alongside Justice Clarence Thomas & Judge Jerry Smith. I am confident my good friend Jim will be an extraordinary appellate judge and a principled jurist faithful to the law. <a href="https://t.co/s1tWYu2j2c">pic.twitter.com/s1tWYu2j2c</a>
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— Senator Ted Cruz (<span class="citation" data-cites="SenTedCruz">@SenTedCruz</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/949083663915995136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2018</a>
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Ho’s work, in other words, is often indistinguishable from that of a professional <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=troll">troll</a>. He revels in taking deliberately provocative positions. He often joins a fairly extreme opinion written by a colleague, and then writes separately to take an even more extreme position. His judicial opinions mingle Fox News talking points, men’s rights activism, Federalist Society fantasies, and discredited legal doctrines that are now taught to law students to warn them of the Supreme Court’s worst mistakes.
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Ho seems to never miss an opportunity to weigh in on a political controversy. When he’s not writing concurring opinions arguing that the Supreme Court should <a href="https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/znvnbdrbwvl/11082022golden_covid.pdf">bring back the <em>Lochner </em>era</a>, an age when conservative justices <a href="https://www.vox.com/21497317/originalism-amy-coney-barrett-constitution-supreme-court">imposed their own laissez-faire<em> </em>ideology on the rest of the nation</a>, he can often be found <a href="https://taxprof.typepad.com/files/judge-ho-article.pdf">lecturing law schools on the evils of “cancel culture.”</a>
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When I speak to other judges, I often hear them use a derisive word to describe this kind of behavior: “<a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/9/20962980/trump-supreme-court-federal-judges">auditioning</a>.” It’s an increasingly common practice among Republican judges itching for a promotion.
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In his final years as a lower court judge, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote several opinions laying out his plans to shift power from federal agencies to the judiciary — a <a href="https://www.vox.com/22276279/supreme-court-war-joe-biden-agency-regulation-administrative-neil-gorsuch-epa-nondelegation">high-priority issue for the Federalist Society</a>, which played a key role in picking Trump’s judges and justices. These opinions reportedly “<a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/9/20962980/trump-supreme-court-federal-judges">proved decisive</a>” in the Trump White House’s decision to give Gorsuch a big promotion.
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Similarly, in his final year as a lower court judge, Justice Brett Kavanaugh — who previously had a thin record on abortion — went out of his way to convey both in a published opinion and in a speech to a conservative think tank that <a href="https://archive.thinkprogress.org/brett-kavanaugh-said-he-would-kill-roe-v-wade-last-week-and-almost-no-one-noticed-c0e98494b06d/">he opposed <em>Roe v. Wade</em></a>. Trump picked Kavanaugh for the next seat to open up on the Supreme Court.
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The most alarming thing about Judge Ho, in other words, isn’t his penchant for trolling. It is the very real possibility that he will be rewarded for it. No judge in America has auditioned harder for a Supreme Court appointment in a Republican administration. And, if the next president is Donald Trump, Trump has already shown that he prefers judges who go out of their way to show their loyalty to Republican causes.
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<a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/198/45/"><em>Lochner v. New York</em></a><em> </em>(1905) is one of a handful of decisions that legal scholars refer to as the “<a href="https://www.vox.com/23180634/supreme-court-rule-of-law-abortion-voting-rights-guns-epa">anti-canon</a>” — a list of cases taught to law students as examples of how judges must never, ever behave. The list also includes the pro-slavery decision in <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/60/393"><em>Dred Scott v. Sandford</em></a> (1857) and the segregationist decision in <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/163/537/#tab-opinion-1917401"><em>Plessy v. Ferguson</em></a> (1896).
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<em>Lochner </em>stuck down a New York state law that limited, to <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23219138/supreme-court-roe-wade-substantive-due-process-samuel-alito">60 hours a week</a>, the amount of time worked by bakery workers. At the time, these workers were typically paid by the day or by the week, so the law had prevented these workers from being forced to work extraordinarily long shifts for no extra pay.
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Other cases applying <em>Lochner</em>’s reasoning struck down <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/261/525/">minimum wage laws</a> and <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3072585965506695672&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr">stripped workers of their right to unionize</a>.
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<em>Lochner</em> was grounded in what it described as the “right of the individual to … <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/198/45">enter into those contracts in relation to labor</a> which may seem to him appropriate or necessary for the support of himself and his family.” The idea was that, if a worker entered into a contract to work long hours for little pay, then the law could not alter this contract — even if the contract was itself the product of exploitation or desperation.
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<em>Lochner</em>, in other words, not only stripped the government of much of its power to protect workers, it did so on the dubious ground that, by insisting that workers adhere to whatever exploitative employment contracts their bosses imposed upon them, the Court was actually defending the rights of those workers. The Court ultimately abandoned <em>Lochner</em> in <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/300/379/"><em>West Coast Hotel v. Parrish</em></a> (1937).
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Ho picked an inauspicious case, <a href="https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/znvnbdrbwvl/11082022golden_covid.pdf"><em>Golden Glow Tanning Salon v. City of Columbus</em></a>, to offer his love letter to <em>Lochner</em>. In it, a Mississippi tanning salon claimed that Covid era lockdowns violated the salon owner’s “right to work,” a common argument made by modern day libertarians who <a href="https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/gmlr23&div=25&id=&page=">seek to revive <em>Lochner</em></a>. (A “right to work” is synonymous with <em>Lochner</em>’s so-called right to “enter into those contracts in relation to labor which may seem to him appropriate.”)
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Though all three judges who heard <em>Golden Glow</em> agreed that the Supreme Court’s decisions repudiating <em>Lochner</em>ism prevented them from ruling in the tanning salon’s favor, Ho wrote a <a href="https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/znvnbdrbwvl/11082022golden_covid.pdf">brief concurring opinion</a> that relied heavily on scholarship by right-wing lawyers arguing that <em>Lochner</em> should be revived. He suggested that the anti-worker right recognized in <em>Lochner</em> has a “better historical grounding than more recent claims of right that have found judicial favor.” And he urged the Supreme Court to <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/tiwari-v-friedlander/">take up a pending case</a> seeking to revive <em>Lochner</em> (the justices declined to do so).
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Ho’s passion for the sorts of economic “rights” favored by Gilded Age robber barons is matched by his disdain for abortion. He wrote about the “<a href="http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/18/18-50484-CV0.pdf">moral tragedy of abortion</a>” in one of his judicial opinions. And he’s urged his Fifth Circuit — which is already the <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.213145/gov.uscourts.ca5.213145.506860229.1.pdf">most right-wing federal appeals court in the country</a>, and is typically hostile towards reproductive freedom — to be even more aggressive in quashing abortion rights.
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Just last week, for example, a three-judge panel that includes Ho <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/8/16/23834926/supreme-court-abortion-mifepristone-fifth-circuit-alliance-hippocratic-medicine-fda">attempted to ban the drug mifepristone</a>, which is used in more than half of all US abortions. That decision will have no effect, because the <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/4/21/23686788/supreme-court-abortion-pill-ruling-mifepristone-fda-alliance-hippocratic-medicine">Supreme Court preemptively blocked it last April</a> — a pretty clear sign that even this very conservative Supreme Court thinks that the legal arguments against mifepristone are weak.
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But Ho didn’t just join this attempt to ban the drug, in a case called <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.213145/gov.uscourts.ca5.213145.506860229.1.pdf"><em>Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA</em></a>, he wrote a separate opinion arguing that his colleagues were insufficiently hostile to abortion rights.
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Technically, the Fifth Circuit’s majority opinion in <em>Alliance</em> did not purport to ban mifepristone outright, it merely ordered the FDA to reinstate restrictions on the drug that the agency abandoned in 2016. As a practical matter, this order would <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/8/16/23834926/supreme-court-abortion-mifepristone-fifth-circuit-alliance-hippocratic-medicine-fda">prevent the drug from being marketed in the United States for at least a few months</a>, because it would take a long time for government regulators and the drug maker to comply with the pre-2016 rules. But Ho would have gone even further, ordering the FDA to rescind its decision to approve the medication way back in 2000.
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There are <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/3/16/23642927/supreme-court-abortion-matthew-kacsmaryk-mifepristone-texas-trump">so many errors in Ho’s legal reasoning</a> that it would be tedious to list them all here. One of them is that the statute of limitations to challenge an FDA approval of a drug is six years. While there are legitimate reasons that time period can sometimes be extended, Ho can’t rescue a lawsuit that was filed more than two decades after mifepristone’s approval.
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On guns, Ho joined the Fifth Circuit’s decision in <a href="https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-rahimi-13"><em>United States v. Rahimi</em></a> (2023), a decision the Supreme Court is <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/23742547/supreme-court-united-states-gun-policy-rahimi-domestic-abusers-spouses-second-amendment">likely to reverse in its upcoming term</a>, holding that people who violently abuse their romantic partners or their partner’s child have a Second Amendment right to own a gun — even after a court proceeding determines that the abuser is “<a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2023/2/2/23583377/supreme-court-guns-domestic-abuse-fifth-circuit-second-amendment-rahimi-united-states">a credible threat to the physical safety of such intimate partner or child</a>.”
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Ho argues that one reason his court should be skeptical of a law seeking to disarm people subject to domestic violence restraining orders is that women who are not victims of abuse allegedly obtain these orders to “secure [favorable] rulings on critical issues such as [marital and child] support, exclusion from marital residence and property disposition.”
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As evidence that this is a real problem that actually exists, Ho cites a handful of court decisions — including a <a href="https://casetext.com/case/murray-v-murray-107#p986">1993 decision by a court in New Jersey</a> that invalidated a restraining order because of a lack of evidence that the man subjected to it was violent, and a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/letterman-restraining-order-tossed/">2005 incident</a> where comedian David Letterman was briefly subject to a restraining order before a court tossed that order out.
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The fact that Ho had to rely on decades-old cases in faraway jurisdictions to show that judges sometimes issue domestic violence restraining orders for invalid reasons is a sign that, maybe, this isn’t as big of a problem as Ho makes it out to be. Nevertheless, Ho would potentially arm hundreds of men who have murderous intentions in order to save someone like Letterman from having to go without a firearm for a couple of weeks.
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Ho’s penchant for tacking to the right of his already quite reactionary colleagues marks him as an outlier, even within a conservative federal judiciary. But he’s hardly an extreme outlier, <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/27/23496264/supreme-court-fifth-circuit-trump-court-immigration-housing-sexual-harrassment">especially on the far-right Fifth Circuit</a>.
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In <a href="https://casetext.com/case/collins-v-mnuchin-4"><em>Collins v. Mnuchin</em></a> (2019), for example, Ho signed onto an opinion by Judge Don Willett that threatened to invalidate every single action taken by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which was created in 2008 to stabilize the US housing market during a historic recession. Had Willett’s approach prevailed in the Supreme Court, it could have potentially collapsed the US housing market and <a href="https://www.vox.com/22106497/supreme-court-collins-mnuchin-124-billion-fannie-mae-freddie-mac-unitary-executive-housing">triggered a global economic depression</a> (the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/6/24/22547545/supreme-court-collins-yellen-124-billion-housing-unitary-executive-samuel-alito-neil-gorsuch">voted 8-1 against Willett’s approach</a>).
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Notably, however, Ho was one of a total of seven judges who signed onto Willett’s attempt to burn down more than a dozen years of work by a federal agency. There is no shortage of judicial arsonists on the Fifth Circuit.
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Similarly, the Supreme Court will hear several cases in its upcoming term in which it is likely to <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/8/20/23835730/supreme-court-optimism-democracy-moore-milligan-talevski">reverse similarly aggressive decisions by the Fifth Circuit</a>. Those most likely include the <em>Alliance</em> case about mifepristone, as well as the <em>Rahimi</em> guns case, and two decisions declaring the entire <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/10/20/23414311/cfpb-unconstitutional-fifth-circuit-supreme-court-trump-community-financial">the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unconstitutional</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/5/19/23130569/jarkesy-fifth-circuit-sec">gutting the federal government’s power to enforce securities law</a>.
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The leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination are already signaling that they want to pick justices who are well to the right of the three already very conservative justices Trump placed on the Supreme Court. In his infamous speech before the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, Trump said that he is “<a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial">not happy with the Supreme Court</a>” because they supposedly “love to rule against me.” (When Trump was president, the Court often <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/29/23530842/supreme-court-arizona-mayorkas-title-42-mexican-border-immigration">manipulated its own procedures to rule in Trump’s favor</a>, but the Court rejected his bid to overturn the 2020 election.)
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis attacked Trump’s justices in June, claiming that “<a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/supreme-court-worse-than-kavanaugh-barrett-gorsuch-trump.html">none of those three are at the same level of Justices Thomas and Justice Alito</a>,” two justices who fairly consistently vote like Fifth Circuit judges.
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Ho, meanwhile, is auditioning harder than anyone in the judiciary to catch Trump or DeSantis’s eye. And, even if the next Republican president decides to pick someone less flamboyant for the high court, they will have no shortage of candidates who are eager to light decades’ worth of settled law — along with entire federal agencies — on fire.
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Velavan clinches Canberra Open squash title</strong> -</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Renegade certificate removed from Windows. Then it returns. Microsoft stays silent.</strong> - The certificate, originally spawned by Symantec, was scheduled to be banished years ago. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1963549">link</a></p></li>
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They got up there and went into a trader’s store and told him, “Give us enough supplies to last two men for one year.” The trader got the gear together and on top of each one’s supplies he laid a board with a hole in it with fur around the hole. The guys said “What’s that board for?” The trader said, “Well, where you’re going there are no women and you might need this.” They said “No way! We’ve sworn off women for life!” The trader said, “Well. take the boards with you, and if you don’t use them. I’ll refund your money next year.” “Okay,” they said and left.
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Next year this guy came into the trader’s store and said “Give me enough supplies to last one man for one year.” The trader said, “Weren’t you in here last year with a partner?” “Yeah” said the guy. “Where is he?” asked the trader. “I shot him” said the guy. “Why?” “I caught him in bed with my board.”
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