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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – JULY 1, 2025  
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July 1, 2025
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Supporters of Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani cheer
before he takes the stage at his primary election party, Wednesday,
June 25, 2025, in New York. Credit, AP Photo/Heather Khalifa

 

* A Summer Against ICE in Memory of Joshua Clover
* The End of Unconditional Support for Israel
* Three Years Since Dobbs
* The Right and ’50s Nostalgia
* Zohran’s Joyous Ground Game
* MAGA’s War on Public Science
* Climate Movement Revving Up
* A Coal Miner’s Daughter Takes on DOGE
* Ma Rainey’s Queer Blues
* Learning from Anti-Nazi Resistance

A SUMMER AGAINST ICE IN MEMORY OF JOSHUA CLOVER
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By Jasper Bernes
Verso

Joshua Clover lived for moments like these, “when the partisans of
riot exceed the police capacity for management, when the cops make
their first retreat...when the riot becomes fully itself, slides loose
from the grim continuity of daily life.”  Published nine years
before his death this April, his singular _Riot. Strike. Riot _is as
much written _about _such moments as it is written_ from_ and to
them. 

THE END OF UNCONDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL
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By Peter Beinart
Jewish Currents

Trump’s redefinition of America’s imperial role is emboldening US
officials to distinguish American interests from Israeli
ones—hearkening back to an older era of US–Israel relations—and
freeing European governments to challenge the Jewish state without
fearing American retribution. The age of virtually unconditional
Western government support for Israel is coming to an end.

THREE YEARS SINCE DOBBS
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By Stella Adams
Feminist Majority Foundation

The political impact of _Dobbs_ remains visible. Public support for
legal abortion remains high, and abortion policy was a central issue
in the 2024 election. Lawmakers in protective states have passed
legislation to safeguard access, while those in states with bans are
pushing for more restrictions. 

THE RIGHT AND ’50S NOSTALGIA
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By Meagan Day
Jacobin

Conservatives think we need to resurrect traditional hierarchies to
reverse social decline. But what Americans miss about mid-century
America isn’t the chauvinistic cultural values — it’s the
economic equality created by strong unions and worker power.

ZOHRAN’S JOYOUS GROUND GAME
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By Jake Offenhartz
Associated Press

“People would come to us who never even thought of canvassing and
say they wanted to get involved, they wanted to get to know their
neighbors, they wanted to be part of this. We went from basically 300
volunteers in December to being able to launch canvases throughout the
city with over 10,000 people.”

MAGA’S WAR ON PUBLIC SCIENCE
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By Nima Bassiri
The Baffler

Eroding the country’s weather preparedness is neither ignorance nor
madness; it is, instead, the most rarefied expression of economic
reasoning, the immaculately morbid logic of capitalism at work. As
such, what we must begin to see is that it is ultimately economic
rationality, and not the will to ignorance, that underwrites so much
of today’s so-called war on science.

CLIMATE MOVEMENT REVVING UP

 • 160+ GLOBAL GROUPS DEMAND ‘REAL’ CLIMATE ACTION
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  By Rosa Galvez, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer et al., WECAN

 • VILLAINIZE BIG OIL!
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  By Dharna Noor, The Guardian

 • ECOFEMINISTS MEET
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  By Katie Surma, Inside Climate News
 

A COAL MINER’S DAUGHTER TAKES ON DOGE
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By Meg Duff
Capital and Main

About a fifth of the coal miners in Central Appalachia have black
lung, Anita Wolfe said. And from 1970 to 2016, more than
75,000 died. Nationally, a 2023 NIOSH study found that coal miners
are twice as likely to die of lung diseases than nonminers. Wolfe
called black lung and silicosis “entirely preventable.” 

MA RAINEY’S QUEER BLUES
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By Deborah Nicholls-Lee
BBC

Cited as one of the first representations of black queer popular
culture, Ma Rainey’s sensational _Prove It on Me Blues_ is a
landmark song that had a profound and lasting effect. With its
out-and-proud assertion in the second verse, “I want the whole world
to know,” this unapologetic proclamation of being what was then
labelled as “a lady lover” is one of the world's earliest gay
anthems.

LEARNING FROM ANTI-NAZI RESISTANCE
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By Luke Berryman
The Guardian

Whether they were satirists drawing anti-Nazi cartoons in 1920s
Germany or former neo-Nazis becoming peace advocates in the
21st-century US, resisters sought to improve life for themselves and
others in the here and now, in any way that they could, no matter how
small.

* Jeremy Clover
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* Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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* Israel
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* Palestine
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* abortion rights
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* Dobbs v. Jackson
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* THE RIGHT
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* 1950s
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* Culture
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* Zohran Mamdani
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* Science
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* MAGA
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* Climate
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* WECAN
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* Sunrise Movement
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* big oil
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* Ecofeminism
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* Coal Miners
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* Anita Wolfe
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* Ma Rainey
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* LGBTQ
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* German anti-fascists
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