Repairers of the Breach: “We who have heard the cries of poor people, low-wage workers, and other impacted neighbors have work to do.  Until the poor are lifted; workers are paid; the sick are healed and insured; voting is not suppressed; police killing is stopped; land, air, and water are not poisoned; war is not…

AR Times: “Big business has entered a federal lawsuit challenging the state law that prohibits gender-affirming care for minors in Arkansas. The ACLU filed the suit along with doctors who provide the care and families whose children are receiving it. They have asked for an injunction to prevent the law from taking effect on July 27….

Chicken Fried Politics: “Booker’s theory of the race is that he can reach, rally and motivate voters on the left, rather than trimming his sails to appear more moderate, which did not work for McGrath. To that end, he has hired two campaign operatives involved in Democratic U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock’s runoff win in January, which won…

NY Times: “Jimmy Carter, a midshipman in the U.S. Naval Academy, wanted to marry Rosalynn Smith, a girl he met on the day she was born and knew mostly as his sister Ruth’s best friend until they went on a double date, riding to the movies together squeezed in the rumble seat of an old…

WaPo: “Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill voted Wednesday to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, after weeks of controversy over why the universityinitially chose to hire the award-winning journalist as a professor without that level of job protection. The board’s 9-to-4 vote in favor of tenure came after a lengthy closed-session meeting on…

AR Times: “The Human Rights Campaign has filed a lawsuit challenging Florida’s ban on transgender women athletes and says it plans challenges in other states, including Arkansas. The 2021 Arkansas legislature passed two laws aimed at preventing transgender women from participating in athletics. One banned them from grade school through college. The other law allows lawsuits against…

The Progressive Pulse: “Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday vetoed a bill that would have ended the extra $300-a-week in federal money that unemployed people in the state receive. Republicans pushed the bill, saying the federal unemployment insurance supplement s contributing to a labor shortage because it keeps people from looking for work. Others argue that…

AR Times: “Labor news of note: Retirement of Arkansas AFL-CIO leader Alan Hughes and relevant of the group’s secretary-treasurer, Jessica Akers, to succeed him. She’s the organization’s first woman president. A Memphis native, she’s been with the Arkansas AFL-CIO since 2011.“

USA Today: “Donald Trump’s campaign-style rally in Florida Saturday comes at a fraught time for the former president: While the organization bearing his name in New York was indicted this week, he is also facing a potential rivalry with Florida governor and protege Ron DeSantis. Trump revisits Florida, a state he won twice, with some Republicans already talking about…

AP: “Touting the life-saving benefits of the coronavirus vaccine, Gov. John Bel Edwards on Friday vetoed three Republican-sponsored bills striking at vaccine mandates in Louisiana, among two dozen measures the Democratic governor announced he rejected as he completed his bill review. In his veto message, Edwards wrote that the anti-vaccine mandate bills “contribute to the…