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The Guardian Tries To Intimidate Me Into Retracting My Article About Transphobia in Their Newsroom
The paper demands retractions but has no leg to stand on
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Eoin Higgins
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Covid Destroyed the Illusion of the Restaurant Industry
Service workers told The Flashpoint what the lockdowns and government aid showed them about the business
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Eoin Higgins
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Company Man: The Data Behind Glenn Greenwald's Twitter Loyalty to Fox News
He's hardly tweeted a critical word about the network since April 2020
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Eoin Higgins
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Bait and Switch: Companies Promise Workers Pay Rates In Ads They Don't Deliver On
"They said if they gave me that they would have to give everyone that"
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Eoin Higgins
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Russell Stover Kansas Facilities Cut Sanitation to Save Money, Leading to Unclean Production Lines
Allergens like tree nuts were not properly cleaned from the lines, former and current Kansas plant workers told me
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Eoin Higgins
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Guardian Pulls Judith Butler's Comments On "Gender-Critical" Anti-Trans Movement
“It's legitimately baffling"
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Eoin Higgins
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Photos and Video From Inside Topeka Frito-Lay Plant Show Hazardous Conditions
And pictures of time sheets I obtained make clear that the company is pushing workers to the brink
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Eoin Higgins
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Worker Resistance Continues as Maine Dollar General Employees Walk Off the Job
Low pay and the company’s disrespect for its workers led to employees quitting en masse last Monday and Tuesday in Eliot, Maine
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Eoin Higgins
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Comedian JP Sears Calls For Civil War, Killing of Trans People During Spokane Appearance
"Openly threatening to shoot people, it’s not comedy"
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Eoin Higgins
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The Guardian's Censoring of Judith Butler Part of a Pattern, Current and Former Staffers Say
“The British editorial staff seem to be allowing transphobia to crop up even where it's not even relevant”
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Eoin Higgins
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Fresh Off Twitter Ban, Naomi Wolf To Headline Anti-Vax "Juneteenth" Event
Organizers told me they found that date appropriate because the ending of slavery and resistance to vaccines are both about "liberation"
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Eoin Higgins
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Faced With Worker Shortage at Kansas Facility, Russell Stover Turns to Prison Labor
The chocolatier's Iola manufactory employs 150 prisoners from nearby Topeka Correctional Facility for cut-rate wages
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Eoin Higgins
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