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Senate passes short-term FISA extension, following House in maintaining surveillance law through April 30
The spy authority, known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, was set to expire on Monday. The extension approved Friday pushes back the deadline by 10 days, until April 30, as lawmakers try to reach a longer-term solution.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-passes-short-term-fisa-extension-after-house-does/

Family of US man who died after officer shoved knee into back sues police
Adair was arrested in July on misdemeanor warrants for failure to appear on multiple traffic violations. At the time, Adair’s leg needed to be amputated and was so badly infected that he was taken straight to the hospital, a Kansas bureau of investigation agent wrote in the affidavit. Before Adair was cleared to return to the jail, he was diagnosed with a type of bone infection that sometimes develops in people with diabetes. A medical screening also found he was schizophrenic, the affidavit said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/17/kansas-man-death-charles-adair

Democrats eye new strategy after Iran war powers fail
It's the kind of showy flood-the-zone tactic that the Democratic grassroots is constantly trying to get the party's lawmakers to pursue in resisting the Trump administration. It's not clear if House Democratic leadership will get behind the tactic, but even some centrists aren't immediately dismissing the proposal. "I'd welcome it," Rep. Susie Lee (D-Nev.), who represents battleground-district members in leadership, told Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/16/iran-war-powers-trump-democrats-congress-house
https://archive.ph/viZ9e

Employees at first ever Starbucks store seek to unionize amid fight for contract
The average time it takes for a union to reach a first contract is about 465 days, but Starbucks workers are still fighting for a union contract more than four years after the first store unionized. While the fight for a first contract continues, the union is asking the public to refrain from buying Starbucks in solidarity and to delete the Starbucks app. Skyler Blair, a barista at Starbucks for about five years, said the Pike Place store has a lot more workers than most store locations.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/17/first-ever-starbucks-store-seeks-to-unionize

Man mistaken for drug dealer at Brooklyn liquor store told police ‘I’m not resisting’: CBS
The pair of Brooklyn North narcotics detectives involved in the clash thought the man matched the description of someone who had just made a drug sale, a police source said. He was wearing similar clothes as the suspect, but had no drugs on him when he was arrested in the store on Hoyt St. near Baltic St., the source said.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/15/man-mistaken-for-drug-dealer-at-brooklyn-liquor-store-told-police-im-not-resisting-cbs/
https://archive.ph/ByPwh

Oregon attorney general sues ‘sham’ disaster-relief nonprofit that spent thousands on casinos, strip clubs
The head of an Oregon-based disaster relief nonprofit that was founded after the destructive Labor Day wildfires in 2020 allegedly misspent donations on strip clubs, casino visits and other illicit expenses. Marcus Brooks, the founder and director of Cascade Relief Team, based in the coastal town of Otis, allegedly siphoned $837,000 of donations to the nonprofit that were earmarked for victims of wildfires, floods and tornadoes in Oregon and Kentucky.
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/04/16/oregon-attorney-general-sues-cascade-relief-team/

“Meet our demands!” – Workers’ uprising in India
Since the 13th of April, a mass workers’ uprising has been raging in the southern industrial areas of Delhi. On the one hand, this was a direct response to the rising costs caused by the war in Iran; on the other, workers’ protests had been taking place repeatedly in industrial centres since the start of the year. They demanded shorter working hours, higher minimum wages, higher overtime pay, payment of outstanding wages and equal working conditions for temp workers and permanent staff.
https://www.angryworkers.org/2026/04/15/meet-our-demands-workers-uprising-in-india/

Will More Warehouses Burn?
“If you’re not going to pay us enough to fucking live, you can at least pay us enough to not do this shit,” the man says as he reaches out with a lighter and ignites a pallet of toilet paper. Minutes later, multiple pallets can be seen burning in a video taken inside the 1.2-million-square-foot Kimberly-Clark warehouse located in California’s Inland Empire. “There goes your inventory,” the man says. The warehouse quickly became a raging inferno, requiring 175 firefighters and fifteen truck companies to subdue the six-alarm fire over the next fifteen hours. Warehouse workers were safely evacuated, and no one was injured by the blaze. Police quickly arrested twenty-nine year old Chamel Abdulkarim, who they say posted several self-incriminating videos of himself lighting the fire on social media. If convicted, Abdulkarim could face up to twenty years in federal prison. He has pleaded not guilty. I’ve spent my life trying to organize workers in smart and strategic ways to build power. Burning down a warehouse is not on my list of effective working-class tactics — quite the contrary. But I doubt that this is the last time we will hear a story of one low-wage worker’s incendiary revenge, and this story in particular goes much deeper. To understand it, we need to start with Kimberly-Clark’s financial disclosures to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/california-kimberly-clark-warehouse-arson

Oscar Wilde 1891: The Soul of Man under Socialism
Now and then, in the course of the century, a great man of science, like Darwin; a great poet, like Keats; a fine critical spirit, like M. Renan; a supreme artist, like Flaubert, has been able to isolate himself, to keep himself out of reach of the clamorous claims of others, to stand ‘under the shelter of the wall,’ as Plato puts it, and so to realise the perfection of what was in him, to his own incomparable gain, and to the incomparable and lasting gain of the whole world. These, however, are exceptions. The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism – are forced, indeed, so to spoil them. They find themselves surrounded by hideous poverty, by hideous ugliness, by hideous starvation. It is inevitable that they should be strongly moved by all this. The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence; and, as I pointed out some time ago in an article on the function of criticism, it is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. Accordingly, with admirable, though misdirected intentions, they very seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see. But their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it. Indeed, their remedies are part of the disease. They try to solve the problem of poverty, for instance, by keeping the poor alive; or, in the case of a very advanced school, by amusing the poor. But this is not a solution: it is an aggravation of the difficulty. The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. And the altruistic virtues have really prevented the carrying out of this aim. Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good; and at last we have had the spectacle of men who have really studied the problem and know the life – educated men who live in the East End – coming forward and imploring the community to restrain its altruistic impulses of charity, benevolence, and the like. They do so on the ground that such charity degrades and demoralises. They are perfectly right. Charity creates a multitude of sins.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/wilde-oscar/soul-man/index.htm

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>Argentina's government counts 9,421 people living on streets across 19 provinces
is this an increase or why is this news worthy

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