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"Highlights of the LIBER Annual Conference 2025" #LIBER25

Christian Catalini, co-creator of Meta's Libra stablecoin project, reflects on Libra's failure, what Stripe's Tempo blockchain can learn from it, and more (Christian Catalini/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/christiancata

Stripe's Tempo And The Ghost Of Facebook’s Libra’s Past
Libra is crypto's favorite ghost story. Stripe is betting the sequel, called Tempo, has a happier ending.

"Sir Keir’s reshuffle looks less like renewal than a coup by Labour’s “modernising” clique. Ian Murray’s sacking severs a bridge to Anas Sarwar’s Scottish Labour, which had been tacking leftwards, just as the Holyrood election looms, while Lucy Powell’s removal sidelines one of the few cabinet allies of Ed Miliband, the soft left’s champion" -- in other words, Labour is tacking even more violently towards the dark side.

Labor Notes recently released a guide to help organize for the much-anticipated May Day general strike in…2028.
It’s useful information, but as the countdown clock on the site shows, still 937 days away.
At the rate the Trump administration is moving, there might not be much left of unions by the scheduled date.
The criminally underreported National Security Presidential Memorandum recently issued by Trump looks to crackdown on a whole range of activities. -- including act…

Sex trafficking, too, in Florida:
Faith, fear, and forced labor: The Kingdom of God Global Church scandal
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/faith-fear-and-forced-labor-the-kingdom

Labor Market Stalled This Summer, With August Data Adding to Slowdown (Lydia DePillis/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/business/jobs-labor-slowdown.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250906/p2#a250906p2

Why we still don’t understand what happens to women’s bodies during labour
<https://theconversation.com/why-we-still-dont-understand-what-happens-to-womens-bodies-during-labo…

Why we still don’t understand what happens to women’s bodies during labour
We know more about the mechanics of space than of childbirth. With no studies or evidence, care is based on assumptions, and women are paying the price.

Labor Notes recently released a guide to help organize for the much-anticipated May Day general strike in…2028.
It’s useful information, but as the countdown clock on the site shows, still 937 days away.
At the rate the Trump administration is moving, there might not be much left of unions by the scheduled date.
The criminally underreported National Security Presidential Memorandum recently issued by Trump looks to crackdown on a whole range of activities. -- including act…

FEMA Employees Reassigned to ICE
Probationary employees who had been on paid leave were told to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs.
It could signal problems with ICE recruitment
https://prospect.org/labor/2025-08-06-fema-employees-reassigned…

FEMA Employees Reassigned to ICE
Probationary employees who had been on paid leave were told to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs. It could signal problems with ICE recruitment.

Forty-five billion will build a lot of stuff.
As a point of comparison: In 2023, the United States budgeted $12.8 billion to build new affordable housing.
We’re about to spend nearly four times on detention centers as we spend on housing.
https://newrepublic.com/article/197619…

Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?
If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.