"McNulty also claimed the policy discriminates against employees based on their ethnicity, gender and national origin — specifically, white American men, according to the court filing."
Federal government investigating Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual over DEI policies
The federal government is investigating Northwestern Mutual, a Milwaukee-based financial services firm, over its diversity, equity and inclusion policies in response to allegations the company discrim...
www.wpr.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"McNulty also claimed the policy discriminates against employees based on their ethnicity, gender and national origin — specifically, white American men, according to the court filing."
"The ban on Palestine Action marked the first time in British history that a direct action group has been branded as a terrorist organisation. It is also the first time that a proscribed group has been granted a judicial review."
Palestine Action cofounder to challenge group’s proscription in UK court
Huda Ammori calls into question the pro-Palestine group’s ban under ‘antiterrorism’ laws.
www.aljazeera.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"The ban on Palestine Action marked the first time in British history that a direct action group has been branded as a terrorist organisation. It is also the first time that a proscribed group has been granted a judicial review."
"Fletcher, who in 2021 testified before Congress about what she went through, joined her younger brother, Hughes Van Ellis, and another massacre survivor, Lessie Benningfield Randle, in a lawsuit seeking reparations."...
Viola Ford Fletcher, one of last survivors of Tulsa race massacre, dies aged 111
Fletcher spent years pushing for justice after deadly racial attack on thriving Black Oklahoma community in 1921
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"Fletcher, who in 2021 testified before Congress about what she went through, joined her younger brother, Hughes Van Ellis, and another massacre survivor, Lessie Benningfield Randle, in a lawsuit seeking reparations."...
"The session was the board’s first public meeting since the announcement last week that cuts to staff and operations... ...were necessary to deal with a “substantial” budget deficit due, in part, to federal cuts from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting."
WORT radio volunteers sound off on layoffs, finances
A heated feedback session followed the layoffs last week of two staffers and other changes.
isthmus.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"The session was the board’s first public meeting since the announcement last week that cuts to staff and operations... ...were necessary to deal with a “substantial” budget deficit due, in part, to federal cuts from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting."
"As of September, THC beverages were legal in 28 states and legal with restrictions in another nine, according to Whitney Economics, an industry consulting firm. Six states have banned them, the group says, while seven others require the drinks to be sold in marijuana stores."
THC drinks are flying high. A new hemp law could kill the buzz
Drinks infused with cannabis' buzzy compound THC are wildly popular and available in many states. But a year from now, the hemp-based products could be banned under a newly approved federal law.
www.npr.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"As of September, THC beverages were legal in 28 states and legal with restrictions in another nine, according to Whitney Economics, an industry consulting firm. Six states have banned them, the group says, while seven others require the drinks to be sold in marijuana stores."
"Republican legislators in Wisconsin have long criticized DEI efforts at the state’s 13 public universities, including UW-Madison. The Legislature blocked millions in funding in 2023 until UW system leaders agreed to restructure dozens of DEI-related positions as part of a wide-ranging deal."
‘Separating us makes us weaker’: Students decry UW-Madison’s DEI cuts
Under legislative pressure, Wisconsin’s flagship university has dismantled a division, ended a tutoring program and canceled its annual Diversity Forum.
captimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"Republican legislators in Wisconsin have long criticized DEI efforts at the state’s 13 public universities, including UW-Madison. The Legislature blocked millions in funding in 2023 until UW system leaders agreed to restructure dozens of DEI-related positions as part of a wide-ranging deal."
"Across the country, there are 705 Somali migrants with temporary protected status, per a congressional report issued earlier this year. Hundreds of them are in Minnesota. But far more — tens of thousands of Somali Minnesotans — are legal residents."
Minnesota's Somali community rejects Trump's call to end 'temporary protected status'
Hundreds packed a hall of Karmel Mall Sunday afternoon to gather in solidarity with the Somali community after the president called for elimination of a program that offers temporary protective status...
www.mprnews.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"Across the country, there are 705 Somali migrants with temporary protected status, per a congressional report issued earlier this year. Hundreds of them are in Minnesota. But far more — tens of thousands of Somali Minnesotans — are legal residents."
"The party describes the proposal as a socially just way to finance climate protection and estimates it would generate around CHF 6 billion a year. A nationwide vote is scheduled for 30 November 2025."
Swiss Young Socialists launch campaign to tax the rich
Switzerland’s Young Socialists (JS) have launched their campaign for the “Pour l’avenir” (“For the Future”) initiative, arguing that the super-rich should shoulder the costs of combating climate chang
lenews.ch
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"The party describes the proposal as a socially just way to finance climate protection and estimates it would generate around CHF 6 billion a year. A nationwide vote is scheduled for 30 November 2025."
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For over 300 years now, it is a bedrock principle in Anglo-American constitutionalism that obedience is owed according only to law. Refusal to follow an illegal command is not only a moral choice but an absolute duty.
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
For over 300 years now, it is a bedrock principle in Anglo-American constitutionalism that obedience is owed according only to law. Refusal to follow an illegal command is not only a moral choice but an absolute duty.
"Part of the reason you see this attraction to Trump is that rural areas in the Midwest are becoming less white for the first time in a long time, with the influx of Hispanic Americans and East African immigrants. So people are thinking, “Well, wait a minute, we thought that this was ours.”"
‘Disciples of White Jesus,’ Disciples of Trump
For her new book Disciples of White Jesus: The Radicalization of American Boyhood (Broadleaf Books, 2025), Denker again traversed the country. This time she was investigating the radicalization of whi...
barnraisingmedia.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"Part of the reason you see this attraction to Trump is that rural areas in the Midwest are becoming less white for the first time in a long time, with the influx of Hispanic Americans and East African immigrants. So people are thinking, “Well, wait a minute, we thought that this was ours.”"
"“Jails and private prisons that operate immigration detention facilities aren’t super focused or motivated in helping defendants make their scheduled court appearances,” [Kate Drury, a Waupaca-based criminal defense and immigration attorney] said."
Courts left with loose ends when ICE detains criminal defendants
When defendants sit in ICE custody, their criminal cases generally continue without them — sometimes with no explanation of their absence to the court.
wisconsinwatch.org
November 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"“Jails and private prisons that operate immigration detention facilities aren’t super focused or motivated in helping defendants make their scheduled court appearances,” [Kate Drury, a Waupaca-based criminal defense and immigration attorney] said."
"Radiocarbon dating shows the oldest of the 16 canoes dates back to 5,200 years ago, making it the third oldest canoe discovered in eastern North America, [Tamara Thomsen, the state’s maritime archaeologist] said."...
Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in a prehistoric lake 'parking lot'
Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin lakeshore.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"Radiocarbon dating shows the oldest of the 16 canoes dates back to 5,200 years ago, making it the third oldest canoe discovered in eastern North America, [Tamara Thomsen, the state’s maritime archaeologist] said."...
"[Colombia, Panama and Uruguay] had joined the European Union in demanding that the deal include language on a transition away from fossil fuels, while a coalition of countries, including top oil exporter Saudi Arabia, said any fossil fuel mention was off-limits."
COP30 sidesteps fossil fuels, boosts climate aid for poor nations
Denial and division have been highlighted in the COP30 deal that makes no mention of cutting fossil fuels but boosts climate aid for developing nations.
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"[Colombia, Panama and Uruguay] had joined the European Union in demanding that the deal include language on a transition away from fossil fuels, while a coalition of countries, including top oil exporter Saudi Arabia, said any fossil fuel mention was off-limits."
"Set out in the agreement between Israel and Hamas, the yellow line refers to an unmarked boundary where the Israeli military repositioned itself when the deal came into effect last month."
"It has allowed Israel, which routinely fires at and kills Palestinians who approach the line,..."
"It has allowed Israel, which routinely fires at and kills Palestinians who approach the line,..."
Israel has violated Gaza truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killed hundreds
Gaza Government Media Office says Israel fully responsible for humanitarian, security repercussions from its violations.
www.aljazeera.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
"Set out in the agreement between Israel and Hamas, the yellow line refers to an unmarked boundary where the Israeli military repositioned itself when the deal came into effect last month."
"It has allowed Israel, which routinely fires at and kills Palestinians who approach the line,..."
"It has allowed Israel, which routinely fires at and kills Palestinians who approach the line,..."
"Wisconsin’s hemp industry is estimated to be valued at $700 million and accounts for at least 3,500 jobs, according to the Wisconsin State Journal."
Wisconsin’s hemp industry grapples with federal ban • Wisconsin Examiner
What can be done to save Wisconsin's $700 million hemp industry, and where does ending prohibition fit in?
wisconsinexaminer.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
"Wisconsin’s hemp industry is estimated to be valued at $700 million and accounts for at least 3,500 jobs, according to the Wisconsin State Journal."
"With [land grand trust] funding, advocates are “looking at universal health insurance coverage for every resident in the state” next and planning to use the same playbook to secure that policy, [Allen Sánchez, president of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) St Joseph’s Children)] said."
New Mexico now offers free childcare for all. Here’s how parents and teachers made it happen
From marches and petitions to a constitutional amendment, a years-long campaign led to New Mexico becoming the first state in the US to offer universal childcare
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
"With [land grand trust] funding, advocates are “looking at universal health insurance coverage for every resident in the state” next and planning to use the same playbook to secure that policy, [Allen Sánchez, president of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) St Joseph’s Children)] said."
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No, he isn’t. There is literally no legal means by which he can do this. It’s not presidential power. TPS by law cannot be terminated early, and Somali TPS is not set to expire until March 17, 2026.
Trump says he’s ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somali refugees in Minnesota “immediately.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
No, he isn’t. There is literally no legal means by which he can do this. It’s not presidential power. TPS by law cannot be terminated early, and Somali TPS is not set to expire until March 17, 2026.
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"...(A)s Spain remembers the era's victims and analyses exhumation efforts, it is grappling with the steady recent rise of a far-right party, Vox, and nostalgia for the ideals of the dictatorship among young people who did not endure it."
Amnesia, nostalgia, healing: Spain grapples with Franco legacy 50 years on
Half a century has passed since Franco's dictatorship ended with his death, but some in Spain still valorise his rule.
www.aljazeera.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"...(A)s Spain remembers the era's victims and analyses exhumation efforts, it is grappling with the steady recent rise of a far-right party, Vox, and nostalgia for the ideals of the dictatorship among young people who did not endure it."
"Broad legal precedence holds that just following orders, colloquially known as the “Nuremberg defense” as it was used unsuccessfully by senior Nazi officials to justify their actions under Adolf Hitler, doesn’t absolve troops."
Trump says Democrats' message to military is 'seditious behavior' punishable by death
President Donald Trump is accusing half a dozen Democratic lawmakers of sedition “punishable by DEATH” after the lawmakers called on U.S. military members to uphold the Constitution and defy “illegal ...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"Broad legal precedence holds that just following orders, colloquially known as the “Nuremberg defense” as it was used unsuccessfully by senior Nazi officials to justify their actions under Adolf Hitler, doesn’t absolve troops."
Reposted by Adam Dierksmeier
They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
Reposted by Adam Dierksmeier
With the recognition that there's lots of worthy causes needing funding these days, let me tell you about WisconsinEye. It's CSPAN for Wisconsin. It makes our statehouse affairs accessible to people across the state and nation. Without it, news and democracy will suffer. wiseye.org/news-release...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
With the recognition that there's lots of worthy causes needing funding these days, let me tell you about WisconsinEye. It's CSPAN for Wisconsin. It makes our statehouse affairs accessible to people across the state and nation. Without it, news and democracy will suffer. wiseye.org/news-release...
"Two dozen of the world's richest nations, including the United States and Japan, are pulling back from their global development push, a study published on Thursday, opens new tab shows, with many slashing aid budgets and cash funneled through multilateral lenders."
www.reuters.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"Two dozen of the world's richest nations, including the United States and Japan, are pulling back from their global development push, a study published on Thursday, opens new tab shows, with many slashing aid budgets and cash funneled through multilateral lenders."
"In its 2026 Global Outlook, WFP indicated that by 2026, a staggering 318 million people would face crisis levels of hunger or worse, more than double the figure recorded in 2019."
WFP: Ending global hunger by 2030 achievable at less than 1% of military budgets | Africanews
Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
www.africanews.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"In its 2026 Global Outlook, WFP indicated that by 2026, a staggering 318 million people would face crisis levels of hunger or worse, more than double the figure recorded in 2019."
"[The report] said only 0.2 percent of global aid was allocated to programmes focused on preventing violence against women in 2022."
"That funding fell even further this year, the report said, as United States President Donald Trump slashed his country’s foreign aid and development contributions."
"That funding fell even further this year, the report said, as United States President Donald Trump slashed his country’s foreign aid and development contributions."
Nearly one-third of women worldwide faced partner or sexual violence: WHO
Despite stark findings, World Health Organization says violence against women and girls is 'a deeply neglected crisis'.
www.aljazeera.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"[The report] said only 0.2 percent of global aid was allocated to programmes focused on preventing violence against women in 2022."
"That funding fell even further this year, the report said, as United States President Donald Trump slashed his country’s foreign aid and development contributions."
"That funding fell even further this year, the report said, as United States President Donald Trump slashed his country’s foreign aid and development contributions."