The health insurance lobby fights it and also employers don’t want it because then people can quit without worrying about losing their health care.

It’ll be picked up by Netflix eventually.

So we need free education to fix the doctor and nurse shortages before universal healthcare?

Dimona, where the second missile hit, is perilously close to Israel’s main nuclear reactor and research site. Iranian state media said the strike targeted the nuclear facility in retaliation for an attack on an Iranian nuclear enrichment site at Natanz, though the IDF has said it was unaware of that operation.

The source is from the unions

More than 30 crore workers, farmers, agricultural workers, and other groups of employees participated in the general strike on Thursday (February 12, 2026) to protest against the four Labour Codes and the free trade deals being struck with the United States, European Union, and the United Kingdom, the central trade unions said.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/30-crore-workers-farmers-participated-in-general-strike-trade-unions-say/article70625346.ece

Venezuela war just dropped.

That’s Parliament

Paywall removed https://archive.is/LHaBl

I would sell everything and move to Japan in a heartbeat. Loved it there when I visited.

The origins of International Labor Day are found in Chicago, where on May 1, 1886, workers called for a strike for an eight-hour workday.

On May 4, violence broke out in Haymarket Square when a bomb was thrown at police officers. The resulting gunfire resulted in several deaths, including six officers and a number of civilians.

This turning point stimulated trade unions and socialist federations across Europe to declare May 1 an international day of workers" solidarity, formally approved in 1889 at the Paris meeting of the Second International.