Weekly Roundup (Aug. 29, 2022) (Patreon)

Back to school, back to the office. I'll get y'all a piece on Goblin-town this week. 

At the moment, I'm reading Michael Chabon's brilliant historical revisionist detective novel The Yiddish Policeman's Union. If you haven't read it, you should.

And now, the headlines:

Back in Ithaca, Eruditorum Press's unofficial headquarters, Starbucks workers are striking to protest their employers' union busting. Full disclosure: Some of these protestors are my friends, which means I have good taste in comrades.

A Tokyo court has decided that a trans woman can't claim her daughter as her child. 

In The Nation, Nanjala Nyabola breaks down the Kenyan election.

Earlier this month, Cherokee attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle wrote about how the Supreme Court recently decided it was legal to rape Oklahoma Cherokees.

In These Timescalls out alleged union ally Biden's silence on the now 500-day old Warrior Met Coal strike.

The Arizona GOP is straight-up advocating for the queer concentration camps.

After a two-year break, Prague's Pride parade attracted up to 60,000 people.

The New York Times breaks down COVID vaccine access.