06 October 18
Tessa Stuart | Anti-Susan Collins Campaign Raises $2 Million, Crashes During Kavanaugh Speech
Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone
Stuart writes: "Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) extinguished any lingering hopes that she might cast the deciding vote against Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon. As she delivered her lengthy speech on the Senate floor, a crowd-funding site created to fund a Democratic challenge to Collins in 2020 crashed."
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Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone
Stuart writes: "Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) extinguished any lingering hopes that she might cast the deciding vote against Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon. As she delivered her lengthy speech on the Senate floor, a crowd-funding site created to fund a Democratic challenge to Collins in 2020 crashed."
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'Survivors Will Not Be Quiet': Kavanaugh Backlash Boils Over
Sam Levin, Guardian UK
Levin writes: "Protesters flocked to the nation's capitol this week for another series of dramatic and emotional demonstrations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who is on track for a lifetime appointment to the US supreme court."
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Sam Levin, Guardian UK
Levin writes: "Protesters flocked to the nation's capitol this week for another series of dramatic and emotional demonstrations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who is on track for a lifetime appointment to the US supreme court."
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Workers pack and ship customer orders at the Amazon fulfillment center Romeoville, Illinois, 1 August 2017. (photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Amazon's Hourly Workers Lose Monthly Bonuses and Stock Awards After Minimum Wage Increases
Eugene Kim, CNBC
Kim writes: "Amazon's minimum-wage increase for its hourly workers comes with a trade-off: no more monthly bonuses and stock awards."
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Eugene Kim, CNBC
Kim writes: "Amazon's minimum-wage increase for its hourly workers comes with a trade-off: no more monthly bonuses and stock awards."
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Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. (photo: Marty Lederhandler/AP)
I Got a New Technology for You, It's Called Taxes
Hamilton Nolan, Splinter News
Nolan writes: "The internet has revolutionized the global economy, and leading figures in tech are now holding panels and forming commissions and issuing reports about how to ensure all this prosperity is shared. Hmm..."
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Hamilton Nolan, Splinter News
Nolan writes: "The internet has revolutionized the global economy, and leading figures in tech are now holding panels and forming commissions and issuing reports about how to ensure all this prosperity is shared. Hmm..."
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A classroom. (photo: Nicholas Fevelo/NY Daily News)
'My Classroom Has Asbestos and Bats': A Message for Betsy DeVos
David Smith, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "On the eve of World Teachers' Day, the Guardian's Washington bureau chief David Smith visited the Department of Education to deliver messages from hundreds of teachers who wrote to the Guardian during the teacher takeover."
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David Smith, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "On the eve of World Teachers' Day, the Guardian's Washington bureau chief David Smith visited the Department of Education to deliver messages from hundreds of teachers who wrote to the Guardian during the teacher takeover."
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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro. (photo: Marco Bello/Reuters)
Trump's Sanctions Have Cost Venezuela $6 Billion Since August 2017
Joe Emersberger, teleSUR
Emersberger writes: "Rodriguez is well-known as an outspoken critic of the Maduro government, but in his recent article he recognizes that Washington's 'misguided' sanctions are exacerbating falling oil production in Venezuela and as such, pejoratively affecting general living standards."
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Joe Emersberger, teleSUR
Emersberger writes: "Rodriguez is well-known as an outspoken critic of the Maduro government, but in his recent article he recognizes that Washington's 'misguided' sanctions are exacerbating falling oil production in Venezuela and as such, pejoratively affecting general living standards."
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Scientists have developed a small robot that can move effortlessly along a coral reef without risking any damage. (photo: Bioinspiration & Biomimetics)
This Robotic Jellyfish Could Help Save Our Reefs From Climate Change
Shoshana Wodinsky, NBC News
Wodinsky writes: "A squishy robotic jellyfish that can ride ocean currents and squeeze harmlessly into tight spaces could soon give scientists a better tool for studying coral reefs and tracking their response to waters that are warming as a result of climate change."
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Shoshana Wodinsky, NBC News
Wodinsky writes: "A squishy robotic jellyfish that can ride ocean currents and squeeze harmlessly into tight spaces could soon give scientists a better tool for studying coral reefs and tracking their response to waters that are warming as a result of climate change."
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