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@lemmy.worldhttps://jacobin.com/2023/12/psychiatry-history-trauma-politics-medicine-mental-health
Politicians want to improve our worsening mental health with big psychiatric initiatives. The problem with this model, says historian of neuroscience Danielle Carr, is that it ignores the social and structural forces causing widespread mental suffering.
https://jacobin.com/2023/12/federalist-society-gmu-billionaire-funding-vacations-federal-court-judge-corruption
Right-wing legal interests funded by the megawealthy are routinely feting lower-court judges and treating them to all-expenses-paid trips, which effectively function as a reward system for judges who espouse and maintain hard-line conservative legal views.
https://jacobin.com/2023/12/hunter-biden-corruption-justice-system-wealth-inequality
https://jacobin.com/2023/12/uaw-nonunion-factory-organizing-toyota-mercedes-hyundai-rivian
In the wake of its historic strike victory, the United Auto Workers says thousands of nonunion autoworkers have reached out asking for support in organizing their plants. The UAW already has plans in motion to unionize the whole US auto sector.