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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS — NOVEMBER 4, 2025
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November 4, 2025
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* Zohran’s Big Score
* New Strategies Needed
* No Visa for Wole Soyinko
* Young Republicans Let Their Hair Down
* Billie Ellish: Get Woke, Billionaires
* Concentration Camps USA
* “A House of Dynamite”: Comment from Hiroshima
* Community Food Sharing Networks
* Fashion and Repression
* The Statue at the Heart of Culture Wars
ZOHRAN’S BIG SCORE
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By William ShokiSan Francisco Bay View
This is how the Left wins: by organizing at scale, speaking with
clarity, building power that lasts and doing it in a way that feels
alive. That is what Mamdani has begun to show. And that is what the
system is trying, with increasing desperation, to stop.
NEW STRATEGIES NEEDED
• UNIONS
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By Kate Bronfenbrenner, Jacobin
• NO KINGS
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By Hardy Merriman and Scott Harris,_ _Between the Lines
• DEFEND PUBLIC HEALTH
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By Lucy Rabinowitz BaileY, SaportaReport
NO VISA FOR WOLE SOYINKO
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The Wire
Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s venerated Nobel Literature laureate, has
seen his US visa revoked. According to Soyinka and news reports on the
sudden development, it is part of the United States’s turn towards
what is broadly called political and cultural “intolerance”.
Though it is a charge the Donald Trump administration repels, Soyinka
made no bones about it.
YOUNG REPUBLICANS LET THEIR HAIR DOWN
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By Ben BurgisJacobin
Rising-star Republican operatives seem to be in the business of
reassuring themselves that they aren’t attached to silly ideas about
human rights and equality, and reassuring each other that they’re on
board with whatever comes next. That should set off some very loud
alarm bells.
BILLIE EILISH: GET WOKE, BILLIONAIRES
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By Stephanie SoteriouBuzzFeed
Billie Eilish has won widespread praise after she used her platform at
the WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards in New York City to call out
billionaires directly to their faces. A whole host of other rich and
famous names were in attendance — including Facebook billionaire
Mark Zuckerberg.
CONCENTRATION CAMPS USA
• FEDERAL BUILDING ICE LOCKUPS
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By José Olivares and Will Craft, The Guardian
• FORCED LABOR FOR HOMELESS
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By Stephen Prager, Common Dreams
“A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE”: IT CAN HAPPEN HERE
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By Hidehiko Yuzaki
Chicago Sun-Times
Some people continue to believe that the threat of total destruction
is enough to prevent any use of the world’s nuclear weapons.
Netflix’s “A House of Dynamite,” which received guidance from
many military advisers and experts, plays out a credible scenario of
what could happen when such naive beliefs come crashing down.
COMMUNITY FOOD SHARING NETWORKS
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By Sara GoldsteinMotherly
Moms have been doing mutual aid forever. We’re already experts at
the logistical gymnastics of keeping everyone fed, the emotional labor
of checking in on people, and the multitasking magic of coordinating
community care while managing our own chaos. The difference now is
that we’re formalizing it.
FASHION AND REPRESSION
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By Kelsey StiegmanTeen Vogue
MAGA, like authoritarian regimes around the world, uses fear as its
primary tool for compliance. Fun and free styles of dress will be
disincentivized when the ruling ideology is focused on lawlessness and
implementing strict gender norms.
[xxxxxx NOTE: Teen Vogue has produced some of the strongest and most
important political journalism of the past few years. On November 3,
the magazine was shut down by Vogue’s new management. And so it
ends.]
THE STATUE AT THE HEART OF CULTURE WARS
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By Kelly GrovierBBC
So fixed is our focus on the radiant points of her spiky crown and the
upward thrust of her flickering lamp, it is easy to miss altogether
the shackles of human enslavement that Lady Liberty – who is at the
centre of a fresh skirmish in the US’s accelerating culture wars –
is busy trampling underfoot. Her meaning contains multitudes. It pulls
her in many directions.
* Zohran Mamdani
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* Left Strategies
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* unions
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* No Kings
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* Healthcare
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* Billie Eilish
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* internment
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* A House of Dynamite
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* food sharing
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* Fashion
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* repression
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* Make America Great Again
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* Amy Sherald
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