When Crawley demolished Leeds United in the third round of the FA Cup, many watching reckoned that insult had been added to injury by the nature of the substitution made by the winning side in the final seconds of the game. On came Mark Wright, stalwart of I’m A Celebrity […]
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Critics fault California’s blueprint for early education
After months of delays and pandemic upheaval, California officials on Tuesday released the long-awaited Master Plan for Early Learning and Care, a 113-page blueprint to remodel the state’s Byzantine child-care system and dramatically expand public preschool. “The Master Plan shows how one state can achieve goals that are soon to […]
New Documents Reveal How the Animal Agriculture Industry Surveils and Punishes Critics
This week’s SYSTEM UPDATE on this topic — with Dr. Crystal Heath, one of the veterinarians targeted by these industry campaigns for retaliation — can be viewed on The Intercept’s YouTube channel, or on the player below. Animal agriculture industry groups defending factory farms engage in campaigns of surveillance, reputation-destruction and other […]
‘Epidemiologists Just Want To Vomit’: Twitter Critics Sick About Trump Removing His Mask
Twitter critics were appalled Monday when the first thing President Donald Trump did when he returned to the White House from Walter Reed hospital was to take off his face mask and jam it, frowning, into his pocket. Trump, who is still considered contagious, had gloated the previous day in a […]
Critics say federal agency is where workplace COVID-19 complaints go to die
The complaints have poured in from Florida work sites since the start of the pandemic. From a Miami prison where staff allegedly weren’t provided proper protective equipment. From a whistleblower at a Panhandle plasma donation center where employees who were visibly sick and awaiting COVID-19 test results allegedly still came […]