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Big Tech censors are back, ensuring that workers want unions, and other commentary

Labor watch: Ensuring That Workers Want Unions

Florida is proactively working to “hold government employee unions accountable,” notes Aaron Withe at The Hill, by forcing them to demonstrate “support from an absolute majority of the people it claims to speak for.” A 2023 law demands “recertification elections” when unions “fail to maintain the support of 60 percent of their dues-paying membership.” Saying “they didn’t bother to vote against us” cannot be a “sufficient basis” to hold exclusive bargaining power.” Yet Oregon is “doing the exact opposite,” permitting government unions to sue groups “that contact public employees about their rights to opt out of unions.” Advocates claim this is meant to curb groups from fraudulently “impersonating a union representative,” yet they’ve never cited “a single documented case of a worker being genuinely defrauded.”

From the left: Big Tech Censors Are Back

Big Tech is “suppressing ads for a documentary about IRS whistleblower clients,” fumes Racket’s Matt Taibbi. “Google, X, and Meta all appear to be declining to run ads,” even though Mark Zuckerberg “appeared at Trump’s inauguration” after “publishing a controversial letter” that “criticized the Biden administration’s pressure to ‘censor’ certain political material.” Meanwhile, FCC chair Brendan Carr issued “ham-handed threats” to networks that must “operate in the public interest” or risk “losing their licenses” over Iran coverage, even though Trump “seemed to run against censorship in the 2024 campaign.” It seems likely that “as politicians of any party fall into public disfavor, they will feel greater temptation to use the awesome information-squashing gadgets available on these platforms.”

Conservative: Israel Aims To End Hostage Incentive

Israel’s Knesset “widened the application of the death penalty,” but this “landmark law” will never “see the light of day,” predicts Commentary’s Seth Mandel. The bill, which “would make it easier to avoid a death penalty for Jewish defendants than Arab defendants,” seems “designed to be scrapped by the high court.” The real purpose of the bill is “to derail hostage deals.” Historically, “controversial swaps” of hundreds or thousands of Palestinian inmates for a few Israeli hostages “have long been understood to incentivize future hostage taking.” Because of these deals, “bloodstained terrorists” know “they will never serve out their sentences,” and so “murder convictions only temporarily remove someone from the battlefield.”

Rahm Emanuel is latest Dem to bash his party's lunatic obsessions

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Schools should educate children, not train activists

Religion desk: A Faith Revival Among the Young

“Pastor Jason Howard of the Sanctuary Church in Pittsburgh saw a surge of young people flocking to his Christian congregation” the week after Charlie Kirk was murdered, reports the Washington Examiner’s Salena Zito. Although “their congregation had always been predominantly youth-driven” — “this was different,” as “lines began to form.” It isn’t an isolated phenomenon: “For the first time in decades, faith in this country is growing, not retreating — particularly among our young people.” Plus, “new data show that the share of Americans who are nonreligious has dropped for the third year in a row.” There’s a “surge in Roman Catholic Church converts” across the US as well. Young people are seeking “something absolute to anchor their lives in,” contends Howard, and “God is the absolute that can anchor our lives.”

Defense beat: To Achieve Peace, Prepare for War

“Washington has for years given priority to spending on butter over guns,” grumbles The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board. “The result is a shrunken military industrial base that has been exposed by the wars in Iran and Ukraine.” Fortunately, President Trump aims “to boost defense spending to $1.5 trillion.” Doing so would increase it “to 4.5%” of GDP, “which is close to the 5% goal that the President has set for NATO members.” The proposal “aims to expand the military industrial base” to ensure we’re not short of ships, “munitions or manpower.” For all the naysaying about increasing the deficit, “investing in military deterrence is also far cheaper than having to fight a war against China.” “The President’s budget shows a welcome new realism about the multiplying threats America faces.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board

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Supreme Court's trans therapy case gutted the 'expert' class

Big Tech censors are back, ensuring that workers want unions, and other commentary

Big Tech censors are back, ensuring that workers want unions, and other commentary

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How much longer will Mamdani let the NYPD keep a lid on crime?

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Trump hate is now the ONLY thing the Democratic Party stands for

Rahm Emanuel is latest Dem to bash his party's lunatic obsessions

Rahm Emanuel is latest Dem to bash his party's lunatic obsessions

How US used SEAL Team 6, a CIA ruse and death from above to rescue missing F-15 airman in Iran: 'They’ve been schwackin’ dudes chasing him'

How US used SEAL Team 6, a CIA ruse and death from above to rescue missing F-15 airman in Iran: 'They’ve been schwackin’ dudes chasing him'

Trump tells Iran 'open the F---in’ Strait, you crazy b------ds,' — he warns of new strikes and says 'praise be to Allah'

Trump tells Iran 'open the F---in’ Strait, you crazy b------ds,' — he warns of new strikes and says 'praise be to Allah'

How seriously wounded US airman climbed mountain, hid in crevice and dodged Iranian bounty-hunters for 36 hours

How seriously wounded US airman climbed mountain, hid in crevice and dodged Iranian bounty-hunters for 36 hours

Netanyahu praises Trump for daring US airman rescue inside Iran

Netanyahu praises Trump for daring US airman rescue inside Iran

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