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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS — SEPTEMBER 9, 2025  
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September 9, 2025
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_ Culture wars turning from cold to hot _

, Patrick Chappatte

 

* Multilevel Marketing Shapes Our Reality
* The Rich Democratic Party Gerontocracy
* Mobile Home Mobilization
* Tanned, Sugared ‘n Organized
* Small Group Resistance in Cali
* Katrina and the Kids
* Smithsonian Under the Gun: Lie After Lie From POTUS
* Anti-Palestine Spies on Campus
* “Active Clubs” Spread White Supremacism
* Ben Shahn: A Painter Who Connected

MULTILEVEL MARKETING SHAPES OUR REALITY
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By Meagan Day and Bridget Read
Jacobin

Multilevel marketing companies promise that everyone can become a boss
and get rich if they hustle hard enough. But they’re actually
fraudulent pyramid schemes that, like capitalism writ large, require
mass exploitation to enrich the few at the top.

THE RICH DEMOCRATIC PARTY GERONTOCRACY
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By Jeet Heer
The Nation

The typical donor is nearly 20 years older than the typical
voter. Older, wealthier, whiter, and more conservative than the
public at large, donors tend to prefer candidates who think like them
and are also closer to being their age.

MOBILE HOME MOBILIZATION
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By Elini Schermer
In These Times

A growing movement of mobile home park residents have formed
cooperatives to collectively purchase their parks. In effect, it’s
a national effort by working-class families to wrest their fate away
from the hyper-commodification of real estate markets, but its tenor
runs pragmatic, stoic and understated.

TANNED, SUGARED ‘N ORGANIZED
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By Natascha Elena Uhlmann
Labor Notes

Spray tanning workers used the digital messaging platform Discord to
connect employees across stores who were interested in unionization.
They created a channel where workers could list things they’d like
to see in a contract, and another for venting about the job.

SMALL GROUP RESISTANCE IN CALI
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By Michelle Zacarias
Truthout

In a time when large-scale protests often dominate headlines, a
different kind of resistance is taking root across Southern
California. Small, decentralized networks of community members are
using stealthy tactics and real-time coordination to monitor, disrupt,
and expose the movements of federal immigration officers.

KATRINA AND THE KIDS
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By Siri Chilukuri
Teen Vogue

Youth climate activists in Louisiana and beyond, experienced Hurricane
Katrina mostly through its long-lasting legacy. Some were too young to
remember it happening, but they do remember the aftermath. For all of
them, combatting climate change, environmental racism, and structural
inequality has become a calling.

SMITHSONIAN UNDER THE GUN: LIE AFTER LIE FROM POTUS
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By Grace Abels and Louis Jacobson
Politifact

Trump’s depiction misrepresents the Smithsonian museums’
expansiveness and their portrayal of U.S. history. It was also a
departure from 2017 comments he made about the Smithsonian’s
National Museum of African American History and Culture in which he
called it “a beautiful tribute to so many American heroes.”

ANTI-PALESTINE SPIES ON CAMPUS
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By Hannah Gais
The Baffler

There is a pattern of government and mainstream right-wing sources
laundering the work of Canary Mission, and even Betar—an
organization whose militant Zionism is so radical that the Israel
apologists at the Anti-Defamation League designated it extremist.

“ACTIVE CLUBS” SPREAD WHITE SUPREMACISM
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By Art Jipson
The Conversation

Small local organizations called Active Clubs have spread widely
across the U.S. and internationally, using fitness as a cover for a
much more alarming mission. These groups are a new and
harder-to-detect form of white supremacist organizing that merges
extremist ideology with fitness and combat sports culture.

BEN SHAHN: A PAINTER WHO CONNECTED
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By Christian Viveros-Fauné
The Village Voice

Ben Shahn was the grandaddy of American socially conscious art, a
dynamic painter, utilitarian photographer, inspired printer, OG
muralist (he assisted Diego Rivera on his ill-fated “Man At the
Crossroads” fresco, at Rockefeller Center).

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* Democratic Party
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* donors
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* gerontocracy
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* trailer parks
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* mobile homes
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* Sugared and Bronzed
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* Communications Workers of America Local 9505
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* Southern California
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* resistance
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* Hurricane Katrina
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* radicals
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* Smithsonian
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* Donald Trump
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* Betar
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* Canary Mission
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* zionism
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* Active Clubs
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* neofascism
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* Ben Shahn
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