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Sunday Dose of Democracy:

Trump panics, calls out rally attendees leaving his rally
Can you believe that some people don't want to hear about the shark vs battery debate for the nineteenth time? Yeeeeep. Everything is going just great!

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Republicans have anti-worker policies — they are NOT the party of labor
Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue:"In my view, Vance’s support for workers hinges almost entirely on white Christian nationalism. He does not want to uplift the US working class in all its vibrant, multiracial, multigender beauty; he wants (white, male, Christian) workers to earn better wages so that their (white, female, Christian) spouses can stay home and raise more (white, Christian) children. Vance, like so many morally bankrupt Republican politicians before him, leans heavily on cultural signifiers — Diet Mountain Dew, anyone? — and racist dog whistles about immigration and birth rates to signal his support for certain (read: white) workers, but shies away from supporting worker-friendly policies. Earlier this year, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and Vance teamed up on a piece of legislation, the TEAM Act, that they said was meant to help workers gain a seat at the table. Instead, it was really just a veiled attempt to legalize company unions (also known as yellow unions, or non-union in-house employee organizations that are dominated by their employer). In short, to quote Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, 'He ain’t one of us.' The Republicans are trying to make fools of us by pandering to outdated and incorrect stereotypes about who union members are and what the working class is, hoping to turn us against one another by harping on perceived differences — the same way union-busters and grimy bosses have done since the beginning of wage labor in the US. But it won’t work. There are no neutral positions here — and we know which side they’re on."

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Trump tries to BLOCK campaign-crippling movie about him from being seen before the election
Apprentice Movie Promo: “The Apprentice” is the must-see Trump biopic so explosive that Trump has launched a desperate legal campaign to keep the American public from seeing it. It’s gotten so bad that corporate America is too scared to show it, so the creators are taking matters into their own hands with a grassroots Kickstarter campaign. Starring big names like Sebastian Stan (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), Jeremy Strong (Succession), and Maria Bakalova (Borat), the movie follows and critiques Donald Trump’s ascent to power under the instruction of right-wing lawyer and political fixer, Roy Cohn. It was so powerful that the Cannes Film Festival gave it an EIGHT-minute standing ovation! Will you make a donation to the Kickstarter to get access to the movie — and make sure that we can make sure as many people see the movie as we can before Election Day?

Facing a historic gender gap, Trump decides to browbeat women
Jeet Heer, The Nation: "Based on his recent speeches and social media posts, it’s clear that Donald Trump is very worried about his unpopularity with women—as well he should be. The gender gap is Trump’s weak point as a candidate, a problem he is singularly ill-equipped to solve. To confirm that he had nothing to offer women but scorn, Trump in a Truth Social post on Saturday complained that a TV program “had ‘dumb as a rock’ bimbo Stephanie Ruhle, from MSDNC.” Another post complained about Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Harris. Another attack on a prominent Harris supporter simply read, “I hate Taylor Swift.” It’s not surprising that Trump’s approach to the gender gap is so openly scornful and bitter. He is a lifelong misogynist whose sexism has served him well: His insults of Hillary Clinton helped rally the right in 2016. Trump’s goal is clearly not to decrease the gender gap he has with women but to increase the gap with men, which would in fact improve his standing in the polls. But 2024 is unlikely to work out as well for Trump as 2016. The improvement he has with men is only marginal compared to 2016, while his deficit with women is historically unprecedented. If that gender gap holds strong, Trump is heading for a trouncing.

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Why recycling is mostly garbage
Daniela Blei, The New Republic: "With industrialization came the rise of consumer culture, and with consumer culture came the rise of disposal culture. Add unfettered fossil fuel use and the invention of single-use plastics and we arrive at the ragpickers of today: people in Indonesia climbing mountains of trash, or children scavenging for survival in the slums of Delhi or Manila or northeastern Brazil. Consumer lifestyles in high-income nations have clogged the oceans with garbage and broken our recycling systems. Only 9 percent of the world’s plastic waste is recycled, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, but plastic consumption is on track to triple by 2050. Running out of places to put our daily detritus, the United States and the European Union export hundreds of millions of tons of garbage each year to poorer nations where it is landfilled, littered, or burned. Journalist Edward Humes picks up the story of recycling from the postwar era to the present. His dive into the teeming wastes and faltering waste management systems of the United States shows that most recycling is a charade, a form of carefully constructed greenwashing that belies the fact that most postconsumer waste, including packaging, clamshells, films, pouches, boxes with windows, bags, and food containers, was never designed to be recycled. Rather than being a virtuous act or an effective practice, recycling has been a feature of destructive systems that exploit labor and natural resources. We need a better way to think about our trash, and even more so, our consumption."

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For Ken Klippenstein, against censorship
Branko Marcetic, Jacobin: "Twitter — now known as X — suspended former Intercept reporter Ken Klippenstein’s account over a story he had published that was potentially damaging to the Trump campaign, even going so far as to prevent the link to the piece from being shared on the website. In fact, Klippenstein was “permanently suspended,” meaning he has been banned forever, barred from even making a new account. In reality, this and other material has been floating around for months, and was first shopped by the presumed hacker to the New York Times, Washington Post, and Politico, who proclaimed their refusal to publish it, pointing to its lack of newsworthiness. Several Democratic-friendly journalists were also handed the material and likewise announced they would not report on it. Was this material hacked by Iran, which has its own specific reasons for wanting to damage Trump and let his opponent win? Very possibly — it’s certainly what’s been alleged in a recent grand jury indictment. And is it the case that this material has, technically, been stolen or at least improperly accessed before it made it into the hands of reporters? Undoubtedly. But, and here is the crucial part, none of this matters to the act of reporting. If the standard being applied here by the US press was applied more broadly, a host of important recent and historic scoops would never have been published: the Panama and Pandora Papers (which had all the hallmarks of being a Western hack and dump operation), Trump’s tax returns (which someone was put in prison for leaking), the NSA mass surveillance documents, as well as the Pentagon Papers, the most famous and celebrated leak in US history — to name just a few. Publishing the Vance dossier and other Trump campaign material is, in other words, entirely consistent with past practice of the US media and basic journalistic values. "

PoliticsGirl knocks some sense into America
A Return To Common Sense: Leigh McGowan, who you might know better as the sensational viral creator PoliticsGirl, lays out the roadmap to restore normalcy and sanity to America in her new book, A Return To Common Sense: How To Fix America Before We Really Blow it. Michael Steele calls it “a beacon of clarity” while Jason Alexander — yes, THAT Jason Alexander — has called it “mandatory reading for every American.” Pre-order your copy today!