Weekly Roundup (Aug. 29, 2022)

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.