# corporate consolidation (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover corporate consolidation. Page: Feed: --- ## [Supreme Court lets Trump’s mail ballot order advance, calls states’ challenge premature](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/26/supreme-court-lets-trumps-mail-ballot-order-advance-calls-states-challenge-premature/) _2026-08-26 · Harris Butler · NationofChange_ Your gift is being matched, dollar for dollar. A member of our board is matching contributions to our summer drive up to $2,000, until the drive ends on August 31. Give now . Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a solo dissent that the ruling needlessly injects chaos into an election two months away. ## [Starbucks Workers United calls nationwide boycott as contract fight drags on](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/26/starbucks-workers-united-calls-nationwide-boycott-as-contract-fight-drags-on/) _2026-08-26 · Sky Sandoval · NationofChange_ The AFL-CIO's 65 unions endorsed the campaign as more than 550 unfair labor practice charges sit unresolved against the company. ## [Paris Jackson underwent ECT for severe depression. Here’s why the treatment remains debated](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/26/paris-jackson-underwent-ect-for-severe-depression-heres-why-the-treatment-remains-debated/) _2026-08-26 · John Read · NationofChange_ Electroconvulsive therapy is supposed to be used only in extreme circumstances, such as when a patient is suicidal or when other treatments have failed. ## [The teenage girls behind a $25 minimum wage fight in rural Alaska](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/26/the-teenage-girls-behind-a-25-minimum-wage-fight-in-rural-alaska/) _2026-08-26 · Chabeli Carrazana · NationofChange_ In one of the most remote towns in America, a group of teenagers is fighting to put an initiative on the November ballot that would raise the minimum wage for the largely Native population of Nome, Alaska. ## [The Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million Fiasco](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/26/the-costly-blunders-in-the-armys-533-million-fiasco/) _2026-08-26 · Jesse Coburn · NationofChange_ ProPublica revealed how a rushed effort to arm Ukraine with artillery shells wasted half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding. Here are the biggest takeaways from that reporting. ## [“Most Americans Are Getting Poorer”: Robert Reich on Inequality & the Failures of Corporate Democrats](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/26/most-americans-are-getting-poorer-robert-reich-on-inequality-the-failures-of-corporate-democrats/) _2026-08-26 · Amy Goodman · NationofChange_ Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called on UC Berkeley to fire Reich after he disputed White House claims that the wealth gap has closed. ## [A Divided Vote for the UN’s Human Rights Chief](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/26/a-divided-vote-for-the-uns-human-rights-chief/) _2026-08-26 · Samuel King · NationofChange_ Ten states, including the US, Russia and Israel, opposed reappointing Volker Turk, whose office faces its own budget crisis as he begins a second term. ## [Joint Economic Committee Democrats put Trump’s 2026 oil and gas stock gains at up to $15.5 million](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/25/joint-economic-committee-democrats-put-trumps-2026-oil-and-gas-stock-gains-at-up-to-15-5-million/) _2026-08-25 · Jordan Atwood · NationofChange_ The same report totals $71.5 billion in extra gasoline spending since February 28, an average of $604 a family, and the White House says independent managers control the portfolio. ## [A week after Eastport banned data centers for 180 days, federal regulators accepted the underwater AI project’s application](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/25/a-week-after-eastport-banned-data-centers-for-180-days-federal-regulators-accepted-the-underwater-ai-projects-application/) _2026-08-25 · Ruth Milka · NationofChange_ The developer cut the plan from 400 acres to 27 and from 51 megawatts to 15 after FERC found four deficiencies, and comments close October 19. ## [How much sleep do I need? Why you can forget the eight-hour rule](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/25/how-much-sleep-do-i-need-why-you-can-forget-the-eight-hour-rule/) _2026-08-25 · Derk-Jan Dijk · NationofChange_ Eight hours isn’t necessarily the magic number for sleep. Your age, body clock and individual needs all matter. ## [Earn crypto for idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Ebk4bRXwakii) _2026-08-25 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI, host Qwen/Llama/Mistral, and earn BTC, ETH, SOL, or USDC ## [Three-quarters of Americans would oppose a data center near their home, new polling finds](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/21/three-quarters-of-americans-would-oppose-a-data-center-near-their-home-new-polling-finds/) _2026-08-21 · Ruth Milka · NationofChange_ Your gift is being matched, dollar for dollar. A member of our board is matching contributions to our summer drive up to $2,000, until the drive ends on 24 August. Give now . Opposition has swung 33 points in a year as utility bills climb, and more than 530 counties and towns have restricted or banned the facilities. ## [On September 2, federal layoff appeals move from the Merit Systems Protection Board to OPM](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/21/on-september-2-federal-layoff-appeals-move-from-the-merit-systems-protection-board-to-opm/) _2026-08-21 · Harris Butler · NationofChange_ Ninety-nine percent of the 1,252 public comments opposed the change, and employees will no longer be able to take a final decision to federal court. ## [World Hunger and Starvation Have Reached a Crisis Level](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/21/world-hunger-and-starvation-have-reached-a-crisis-level/) _2026-08-21 · Lawrence S. Wittner · NationofChange_ The Trump administration has tried to eliminate all U.S. food assistance. ## [Using thunderquakes to X-ray Earth – a new study shows urban seismology in action](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/21/using-thunderquakes-to-x-ray-earth-a-new-study-shows-urban-seismology-in-action/) _2026-08-21 · Nolan Roth and Tieyuan Zhu · NationofChange_ With the help of thunderstorms and everyday fiber-optic cables, these scientists are revealing a hidden world underground. ## [Missouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans Sentiment](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/21/missouri-republicans-are-trying-to-repeal-abortion-rights-by-leaning-into-anti-trans-sentiment/) _2026-08-21 · Jeremy Kohler · NationofChange_ Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion. ## [They grew up breathing Detroit air. Generations of women are pushing for new approaches to pollution.](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/21/they-grew-up-breathing-detroit-air-generations-of-women-are-pushing-for-new-approaches-to-pollution/) _2026-08-21 · Ebony JJ Curry · NationofChange_ DETROIT — Joyce Collins has buried nearly her entire immediate family. Her father died in 1992 after cancer spread to his bones. Her oldest sister was diagnosed with lung cancer, later developed breast and brain cancer, and died in 2013. Another sister died from pancreatic cancer in 2007. ## [Meet Loui Ridi: Palestinian American Returns to West Bank Home Besieged by Israeli Settlers](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/21/meet-loui-ridi-palestinian-american-returns-to-west-bank-home-besieged-by-israeli-settlers/) _2026-08-21 · Amy Goodman · NationofChange_ Loui Ridi, a Palestinian American man who lives in Ohio, traveled to the occupied West Bank on Monday to help relatives defend their family home in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus. ## [Republican chair of the Senate health panel says he has strong concerns about Trump’s FDA pick](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/20/republican-chair-of-the-senate-health-panel-says-he-has-strong-concerns-about-trumps-fda-pick/) _2026-08-20 · Ruth Milka · NationofChange_ Your gift is being matched, dollar for dollar. A member of our board is matching contributions to our summer drive up to $2,000, until the drive ends on 24 August. Give now . Heidi Overton stood beside Trump at the signing of an order cutting the shots recommended for all children to 11, and she would need to clear a committee where Republicans hold a single seat ## [Teamsters accuse Amazon and 13 subcontractors of skipping New York’s layoff notice law](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/20/teamsters-accuse-amazon-and-13-subcontractors-of-skipping-new-yorks-layoff-notice-law/) _2026-08-20 · Jordan Atwood · NationofChange_ The union puts the unpaid back wages at up to $11 million as a City Council bill to make Amazon hire its drivers directly reaches 34 sponsors ## [The baddest, bloodlust bullies having a very bad year](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/20/the-baddest-bloodlust-bullies-having-a-very-bad-year/) _2026-08-20 · Robert S. Becker · NationofChange_ How goonish egotism backfires, Befouled by self-inflicted quagmires! ## [Know before it drops (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/tO5bL8BFTihW) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a show, artist, genre or rocket and get notified before release ## [Is Donald Trump Good for the Korean Peninsula?](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/20/is-donald-trump-good-for-the-korean-peninsula/) _2026-08-20 · John Feffer · NationofChange_ North Korea ultimately prefers the predictability of Russia and China to the unreliability of the United States. ## [Puerto Rico is rationing water, but many residents stopped trusting the tap long before the drought](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/20/puerto-rico-is-rationing-water-but-many-residents-stopped-trusting-the-tap-long-before-the-drought/) _2026-08-20 · Ivis García · NationofChange_ Drought and a ruptured pipeline have forced Puerto Rico into revolving water shut-offs. For many people, the disruption started years earlier, as did loss of faith in the utility. ## [This Coach Is Banned From Working With Kids. Why Is He Still Coaching?](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/20/this-coach-is-banned-from-working-with-kids-why-is-he-still-coaching/) _2026-08-20 · Molly Hensley-Clancy · NationofChange_ Even though an oversight group found that Texas girls’ volleyball coach Ryan Richardson engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor, sports organizations have failed to stop him from coaching. ## [Why abortion opponents are turning their attention to banning surrogacy](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/20/why-abortion-opponents-are-turning-their-attention-to-banning-surrogacy/) _2026-08-20 · Shefali Luthra · NationofChange_ Anti-abortion activists and lawmakers in Texas are pressing to limit or even outlaw surrogacy, a new step toward restricting major forms of infertility treatment. ## [The Mecca Security Pact is not about Iran](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/20/the-mecca-security-pact-is-not-about-iran/) _2026-08-20 · Shahram Akbarzadeh · NationofChange_ The pact says more about the growing concern with the US ability or commitment to securing the region than any threats posed by Iran. ## [Forest Service files proposal to rescind the roadless rule on more than 44 million acres](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/19/forest-service-files-proposal-to-rescind-the-roadless-rule-on-more-than-44-million-acres/) _2026-08-19 · Ruth Milka · NationofChange_ The rule's own text puts the 2001 protections at 58.5 million acres, and comments close at midnight on September 21. ## [Farm Action report details the reach of Taylor Farms after a cyclospora outbreak hit 9,481 cases](https://www.nationofchange.org/2026/08/19/farm-action-report-details-the-reach-of-taylor-farms-after-a-cyclospora-outbreak-hit-9481-cases/) _2026-08-19 · Sky Sandoval · NationofChange_ The company says the FDA has no positive product test, and that about 2,000 of its own samples from central Mexico came back clean.