Today in Labor History November 13, 1974: Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers union activist Karen Silkwood was assassinated during her investigation of a Kerr-McGee nuclear plant in Oklahoma. Her car was run off the road while she attempted to deliver documents to a New York Times reporter. Silkwood first started working at Kerr-McGee in 1972. She joined the Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers union and participated in a strike. After the strike, her comrades elected her to the union’s bargaining committee. She was the first woman to attain that status at Kerr-McGee. In this role, one of her duties was to investigate health and safety issues. Not surprisingly, she discovered numerous violations, including exposure of workers to contamination. The union accused Kerr-McGee of falsifying inspection records, manufacturing faulty fuel rods and other safety violations. After testifying to the Atomic Energy Commission, Silkwood discovered that her own body and home were contaminated with radiation. Her body contained 400 times the legal limit for plutonium contamination and she was expelling contaminated air from her lungs. Her house was so contaminated they had to destroy much of her personal property.

Later, she decided to go public with documentation proving the company’s negligence. She left a meeting with union officials in order to meet a New York Times journalist. She brought a binder and packet of documents supporting her allegations with her. However, she never made it, dying in a suspicious car crash. The documents were never found. Some journalists believe she was rammed from behind by another vehicle. Investigators noted damage to the read of her car that would be consistent with this hypothesis. She had also received death threats shortly before her death. However, no one has yet substantiated the claims of foul play.

In 1979, an Oklahoma jury ruled in favor of the estate of atomic worker Karen Silkwood. Kerr-McGee Nuclear Company was ordered to pay $505,000 in actual damages and $10 million in punitive damages for negligence leading to Silkwood’s plutonium contamination. On appeal, the court reduced the settlement to a pitiful $5,000, the estimated value of her property losses. In 1984, the Supreme Court restored the original verdict, but Kerr-McGee again threatened to appeal. Ultimately, Silkwood’s family settled out of court for $1.38 million and the company never had to admit any wrongdoing.

Sure looks like #NYTimes is complicit. https://sfba.social/@skykiss/115541629538004286

Ah so the #NYTimes is complicit in the coverup? Cool, cool. https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/115540720922213395

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#GiftedArticle #NYTimes #AmericaFirst #ArmisticeDay #VeteransDay #Politics #WWII #Europe #Isolationism

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/opinion/veterans-day-world-war-ii.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0U8.u4na.SRe7U87Z6kSY&smid=url-share

Months into the military loyalist purge, the #NYTimes finally gives it headline attention.

I mean, it's only command of the biggest military in world history. What's the rush?

#MediaMustDoBetter
#ThisIsAmericaNow

Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/hegseth-firing-military-leaders.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

#nytimes: after the runaway success of “Did women ruin the workplace” we have decided to continue supporting our masters’ desires with the following eye gouging agenda disguised as questions:

“What’s wrong with dedicating your life to your husband?”
“But really, isn’t homosexuality a crime against nature?”
“Surely pedophilia is just loving a child?”
“Do we really need poor people anymore?”
“Was the South right all along?”
and
“Was Hiltler really that bad, but was he?”

This is the heather knightest thing that has ever heather knighted.

My days of not taking the #nytimes seriously on #SanFrancisco issues have definitely come to a middle

Below are actual headlines from The New York Times. Presumably, they changed it due to complaints, though the revised headline is not any better.

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The World??!!! Really #nytimes you are so parochial. Most of the world thinks he will not be much different to most politicians in the #USA and OMG he is a mayor. Your version of democracy is very sick.
You are talking about what do USA citizens think of him. They are not ‘the world’.

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How the World Sees Mamdani: Icon, Threat, Proof of the American Dream

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/nyregion/global-reaction-mamdani.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The people of Central Park will be silenced no longer.