GA: Cops attack Emory protesters with chemical weapons

Source: Fox News

“Emory University condemned anti-Israel ‘activists’ who are ‘not members of our community’ for disrupting campus on Thursday, as police responded to a massive crowd swarming the quad. … While authorities have not released numbers on how many people were detained or arrested during Thursday’s protests on campus, video shows the tense moments where officials can be seen using zip ties to detain people, tear gas, tasers, and the sound of rubber bullets being used to disperse the crowd. It appeared to be a mix of both anti-Israel demonstrators and ‘Stop Cop City’ supporters – a slogan used in an ongoing effort to stop Atlanta Police from building the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, a training facility for police and first responders scheduled to open later this year.” (04/25/24)

https://www.foxnews.com/us/emory-university-rips-anti-israel-activists-disrupting-campus-police-use-tear-gas-zip-ties-during-arrests

In Defense of Seeking the Truth

Source: EconLog
by Kevin Corcoran

“A long time veteran of [National Public Radio], Uri Berliner, wrote an essay lamenting that the organization has gone from and admittingly left-leaning but still rigorous and fair journalistic enterprise to a politically driven monoculture that lets ideology drive its reporting. … Berliner resigned shortly thereafter. Naturally this got a lot of attention, and people have recently started highlighting a TED talk given by Katherine Maher, NPR’s new CEO and former CEO of the WikiMedia Foundation – the parent organization for Wikipedia. In her TED talk Maher made the following comment: ‘For our most tricky disagreements, seeking the truth and seeking to convince others of the truth might not be the right place to start. In fact, our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that’s getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done.'” (04/25/24)

https://www.econlib.org/in-defense-of-seeking-the-truth/

Quashing University Protests & Banning TikTok To Make The Kids Love Israel

Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“It’s just a tough situation, with victims on both sides. On one side you’ve got people being slaughtered in droves by genocidal massacres and siege warfare, while on the other you’ve got people whose feelings get hurt when these atrocities are opposed. Hard to say which is worse. … I have dedicated every day of my life to the project of spreading awareness of the depravity and deceitfulness of the western empire, but I will never write anything more effective toward this end than what the empire is doing itself on university campuses right now. I mean, you kind of have to wonder what they’re thinking. ‘Yeah, that’s it. Violently quash pro-Palestine protests at universities, ban TikTok to ensure the suppression of pro-Palestine content, and saturate the boomer media with obvious propaganda. That’ll make the kids love Israel.'” (04/25/24)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/04/25/quashing-university-protests-and-banning-tiktok-to-make-the-kids-love-israel/

FCC reinstates Obama era corporate welfare / Internet censorship rules

Source: Politico

“The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday revived Obama-era net neutrality rules, setting up another clash with the telecom industry and Republicans. The 3-2 vote along partisan lines is a victory for Democrats, who have pushed for this type of regulation for the last two decades and say it’s necessary for consumer protection, fair competition and national security. The rules, which prevent [sic] broadband providers from blocking and throttling consumers’ internet traffic, were repealed in 2017 during the Trump era. The order also reclassifies broadband as a telecom service, as the 2015 rules did, expanding the agency’s authority to regulate internet networks. An earlier version of the rules was struck down by a court in 2014.” (04/25/24)

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/25/fcc-reinstates-net-neutrality-rules-00154296

It’s not just Biden versus Trump, but registered versus likely voters

Source: The Hill
by JT Young

“Fortunately for both Biden and Trump, November won’t be a popularity contest. Biden is the more fortunate of the two, but only slightly so. According to Real Clear Politics average of national polling, Biden trails Trump 44.2 percent to 44.5 percent in a two-way rematch, while his unfavorable rating is 55.1 percent to Trump’s 53.7 percent. In such adverse circumstances, November will be about getting supporters to the polls: Here Biden’s disadvantage looms larger still. … One telling element that is only starting to emerge is the divergence between polls of registered and likely voters. This difference is only starting to emerge because pollsters are only now beginning to differentiate between the two potential voting groups: those eligible to vote and those indicating a greater inclination to vote.” (04/25/24)

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4618327-its-not-just-biden-versus-trump-but-registered-versus-likely-voters/

What Democrats want out of the Trump trial

Source: Washington Examiner
by Byron York

“Former President Donald Trump is back in a Manhattan courtroom after a Wednesday break. On the way to court Thursday morning, Trump stopped at a construction site where he received an enthusiastic welcome from workers chanting, ‘USA! USA! USA!’ That just happened to occur the morning after President Joe Biden received the endorsement of the North America’s Building Trades Unions leadership in Washington. While Biden met with the bigwigs, Trump felt the love of the hard hats. As with Trump’s visit to a Harlem bodega last week, the stop-by was a planned event — these things don’t happen by accident. But it showed that even as he stands trial, Trump can work in a campaign event before court convenes.” (04/25/24)

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2979440/what-democrats-want-out-of-the-trump-trial/

Acting labor sec: UAW win at Tennessee Volkswagen plant shows southern workers back unions

Source: SFGate

“Workers at auto plants in the South should be free to unionize without pressure from employers or anti-union governors, acting U.S. Labor Secretary Julie Su said Thursday, even as some southern states pass laws to inhibit organized labor. ‘That choice belongs to the worker, free from intervention, either by the employer or by politicians, free from retaliation and threats,’ Su told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday in Atlanta. ‘And what we are seeing is that workers who were thought to be too vulnerable to assert that right are doing it, and they’re doing it here in the South.’ The United Auto Workers union vowed a broad campaign to organize southern auto assembly plants after winning lucrative new contracts in a confrontation with Detroit’s automakers. Last week, 73% of those voting at a Volkswagen AG plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee chose to join the UAW.” (04/25/24)

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/u-s-labor-secretary-says-uaw-win-at-tennessee-19422293.php