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Decca Muldowney

  • Reporter and Fact-checker, Freelance
  • Managing Editor, Bay Area Current
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Covers:  crime, labor, reproductive rights, scams
editing at @newint & @bayareacurrent | was @thedailybeast @trdny @propublica | Decca.Muldowney@newint.org, DMs open

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Decca Muldowney is a reporter-researcher for The Daily Beast. She was previously an investigative researcher at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, a Senior Research Fellow at ProPublica; and an NYC real estate reporter. Send her tips: decca.muldowney@thedailybeast.com or tips@thedailybeast.com.

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What stands between us and a general strike?

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By Decca Muldowney
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After the 1926 general strike was called off, the British government vowed ‘never again’. The following year, it passed the Trades Dispute Act, banning mass picketing and sympathy strikes. While this legislation was later repealed, a succession of laws since the 1980s have severely limited British workers’ right to strike, making the collective action of 1926 legally almost impossible today.
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From 1926 to 2026

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By Bethany Rielly, Decca Muldowney
| New Internationalist Verified
On the morning of 3 May 1926, London’s East End woke to an unfamiliar sound: silence. The bustling industrial heart of the capital with its clanking docks, braying street markets and smoke-belching factories was still. For many East Enders, it was the first time they’d heard it so quiet. At 11.59pm the night before, Britain’s Trades Union Congress (TUC) called a general strike in support of locked-out miners, and across the country two million workers dutifully complied.
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Let’s Be Evil: Anthropic, OpenAI and the Department of War

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By Alex Hanna, Decca Muldowney, Emily Bender
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By: Alex Hanna, Decca Muldowney and Emily M. Bender Last week, Donald Trump directed federal agencies to immediately cease using tech from Anthropic after the company refused to give the US military unrestricted access to its “AI” tools. The company cited concerns about mass surveillance of Americans and autonomous weapon development. In response, Department of War head Pete Hegseth dubbed Anthropic a “supply chain risk”.
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