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In November 2024, I found myself on the receiving end of a companywide downsizing, or layoffs. The news hit hard at first. Those 15 minutes between getting the message (you know, the ominous one, “Can you hop on? Find somewhere… comfortable”) and the actual conversation felt like hours. My mind…
The Trump administration will seek to enlist private sector law firms to defend police officers “unjustly” accused of wrongdoing.In an executive order signed April 28, President Donald Trump instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi to help defend police officers named in civil rights lawsuits. Whatever system the Justice Department creates, according…
My grandfather was born and spent his young adult life under Portugal’s Estado Novo dictatorship, which ended in 1974.He saw firsthand how financial insecurity could be used as a weapon — loans denied, costs inflated, and livelihoods threatened based on arbitrary labels of unreliability, like involvement in union organizing.For him,…
