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Post by mhbruin on Feb 16, 2023 10:26:16 GMT -8
Tesla Doesn't Want No Stinkin' Union
Several employees at a Tesla factory in Buffalo, New York, have been fired after launching union organizing efforts two days ago, according to Tesla Workers United.
The group said in a statement on Thursday that workers received an email around 7 p.m. EST on Wednesday updating them on a new policy that prohibits them from recording workplace meetings without all participants’ permission. TWU said that the policy violates federal labor law and flouts New York’s one-party consent law to record conversations.
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 16, 2023 10:28:20 GMT -8
Previous Guy's Attorneys Screw Up Again.
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump's offer to provide a DNA sample as part of a defamation lawsuit filed against him by E. Jean Carroll, a writer who said the former U.S. president raped her in the mid-1990s.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan said Trump's sudden willingness after years of resistance to provide a sample, but only in exchange for pages missing from a DNA lab report he obtained from Carroll in January 2020, came too late.
Kaplan said Trump's offer would "almost certainly" delay a scheduled April 25 trial and unduly harm Carroll, who has long accused Trump of stalling. Carroll, a former Elle magazine columnist, is 79, which Kaplan noted in his decision.
"Granting Mr. Trump's request would be only the first step in introducing a complicated new subject into this case that both sides elected not to pursue," the judge wrote. "And Mr. Trump has given the court no reason to believe that pursuing that course would be likely to yield any admissible evidence, let alone a guarantee that anything important would come of it."
Joseph Tacopina, who joined Trump's legal team two weeks ago, and Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan declined to comment.
Carroll originally sought Trump's DNA to compare against a dress she said she wore when the alleged rape occurred. She decided late last year to go to trial without the DNA.
Judge Kaplan's decision came in the second of Carroll's two defamation lawsuits against Trump.
Both concern their alleged encounter in a dressing room at a Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan, which Carroll described in a June 2019 New York magazine excerpt from her memoir.
Carroll sued Trump five months later, after Trump told a reporter at the White House that he did not know Carroll, that "she's not my type," and that she concocted the rape claim to sell her book.
The second lawsuit came in November after Trump repeated his denial, using similar language, in a social media post the prior month.
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 16, 2023 10:29:38 GMT -8
Do You Want to Be Paid in Silver or in Lead?
Russian soldiers are being taught by Ukrainian fighters how to sabotage their own equipment, to profit from the war without endangering their lives.
Around 4,000 Russian recruits have enrolled on an "educational platform," set up in September 2022, according to a post on the organization's Telegram page.
Known as the "Atesh School," promotional material for the organization said its students "have mastered the art of breaking equipment and sabotaging orders."
Adverts for the "school" on Telegram specifically call for Russian military personnel and Wagner Group mercenaries fighting on Moscow's behalf to sign up.
"Students of the Atesh School know that there is no need to go to war if you can get good money in the rear, repairing your equipment and not risking your life," one Telegram post read.
The "school" describes itself on its website as a "military partisan movement" operating in the areas of Ukraine controlled by Russian forces. It also claims to exist within Russia, with Russian citizens and Crimean Tatars, an indigenous group from the annexed peninsula, involved in its creation.
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 16, 2023 10:31:35 GMT -8
Izzo Speaks
Michigan State men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo didn’t deliver his usual pregame speech on Wednesday night.
Izzo didn’t rile up a crowd of excited Spartan fans. He didn’t run out of the tunnel with his players at the Jack Breslin Student Events Center.
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He wasn’t in a celebratory mood.
Izzo stepped to the podium at Michigan State’s candlelight vigil not as a coach. Instead, he was a father whose heart was yearning for those lost after a mass shooting on campus.
On Monday night, a gunman opened fire at two campus locations. Three students died and five others were injured in the tragedy. Izzo, whose daughter is a Michigan State alum and son, a current student, was shaken by the news. He offered a powerful speech that touched those in mourning.
"Our hearts are heavy," Izzo said. "Our loss has been great. Our lives have been permanently changed. With a shared commitment to help each other and a promise to remember those we have lost, we will find joy again."
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