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May 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM

Trump Casts Himself as a Protector of Persecuted White People

Trump Casts Himself as a Protector of Persecuted White People     Zolan Kanno-Youngs May 21, 2025 The New York Times President Trump publicly dressed down the president of South Africa based on a fringe conspiracy theory, providing a vivid distillation of …

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May 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM

The Radical Courage of Noor Abdalla

The Radical Courage of Noor Abdalla     Aida Alami May 21, 2025 The New Yorker How the wife of Mahmoud Khalil has navigated becoming a new mother while fighting for her husband’s freedom. Noor Abdalla, Photograph by Caitlin Ochs / Reuters …

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May 22, 2025 at 6:50 AM

Outrage After Israeli Occupation Forces Shoot Live Rounds at Foreign Diplomats in West Bank

Outrage After Israeli Occupation Forces Shoot Live Rounds at Foreign Diplomats in West Bank     Brett Wilkins May 21, 2025 Common Dreams Among those shot at were representatives of three nations that threatened "concrete actions" if Israel doesn't end its …

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May 22, 2025 at 6:10 AM

The Biggest Political Con of the Last Century Unmasked

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May 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM

Double Negative

Portside Culture Double Negative     George Blaustein May 1, 2025 The European Review of Books This book is a detailed history of an aspect of modern European history and the treaty that catalyzed that story. ,   Europe without Bo…

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May 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – May 21, 2025

Global Left Midweek – May 21, 2025     May 21, 2025 xxxxxx War, peace, fascism and imperialism A commemoration of the people who fought against fascism on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Italy. Credit, EPA   For a Diplomatic Huma…

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May 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM

The Path to Medicare for All

The Path to Medicare for All     Dean Baker May 20, 2025 CounterPunch Part of the story of reducing costs is easy. We pay $350 billion a year for the administrative costs of private health insurance. By contrast, the administrative costs of Medicare are ju…

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May 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM

How NOT To Run an Antisemitism Commission

How NOT To Run an Antisemitism Commission     Michael Felsen May 19, 2025 xxxxxx Hatred of Jews because they are Jews is anathema wherever it rears its ugly head, it should be called out. But anti-Israel statements should not presumptively be equated with …

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May 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Six Reasons Why the House Budget Bill Will Hurt Rural America

Six Reasons Why the House Budget Bill Will Hurt Rural America     Michael Chameides May 19, 2025 Barn Raiser Republicans in Congress are jamming through a sweeping bill to fund handouts to the rich. Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) is seen with other Dem…

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May 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM

No, There Isn’t an Epidemic of Workless Medicaid Recipients

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May 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – May 20, 2025

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – May 20, 2025     May 20, 2025 xxxxxx Who ya gonna call? , Tubi   From Conservatism to Resistance Library of Congress Staff 86 DOJ Post-Roe Witch Hunt Sports Break Buying American is a Sucker’s Game What i…

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May 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM

This Week in People’s History, May 21–27, 2025

This Week in People’s History, May 21–27, 2025     xxxxxx Act Up Against Bad Science (1990), Don’t Talk, Take Action! (1980), Racism Debunked, But for How Long? (1950), Speak Up, Memory! (2025), Protest and Serve (2020), National Institute of Health, R.I.P? (…

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May 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM

How Democrats Beat a Supposedly Unbeatable Republican

How Democrats Beat a Supposedly Unbeatable Republican     John Nichols May 16, 2025 The Nation The supposedly unbeatable Republican mayor of Nebraska’s largest city used the GOP’s anti-LGBTQ+ playbook in her reelection bid. And suffered a resounding loss! …

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May 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Heritage Foundation Plan To Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

Heritage Foundation Plan To Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement     Katie J.M. Baker May 18, 2025 The New York Times Even before President Trump was re-elected, the Heritage Foundation, best known for Project 2025, set out to destroy pro-Palestinian activis…

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May 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Americans Must Prepare To Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners

Americans Must Prepare To Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners     Sherrilyn Ifill April 12, 2025 Sherrilyn’s Newsletter Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners.…

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May 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Illinois Is the Last State Still Unlawfully Stripping Wealth From Homeowners in Tax Foreclosures

Illinois Is the Last State Still Unlawfully Stripping Wealth From Homeowners in Tax Foreclosures     Emeline Posner (Investigative Project on Race and Equity), Carlos Ballesteros (Injustice Watch) May 16, 2025 Chicago Sun-Times The Supreme Court ruled unco…

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May 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Tinned Fish Is As Hot as Ever in the U.S. so Why Aren’t We Making It Ourselves?

Portside Culture Tinned Fish Is As Hot as Ever in the U.S. so Why Aren’t We Making It Ourselves?     Hannah Walhout April 4, 2025 Ambrook.com A lot of American companies are asking the same question: We have fish here, we have canneries here, why c…

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May 19, 2025 at 6:45 AM

Sunday Science: On Being Wrong

Sunday Science: On Being Wrong     Neil deGrasse Tyson January 30, 2025 StarTalk Is Neil deGrasse Tyson ever wrong? Neil and Chuck Nice break down all the ways he can be wrong, big moments when scientists were wrong from history, and why science itself is …

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May 19, 2025 at 5:40 AM

America’s Great Brain Drain

America’s Great Brain Drain     Robert Hunziker May 10, 2025 Dissident Voice America’s shores are experiencing a huge sucking sound as one of the biggest brain drains of modern history hits the country’s best, smartest, heading for Europe on grants, as smi…

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May 19, 2025 at 5:12 AM

One Brief Shining Moment

One Brief Shining Moment     Adam Hochschild May 11, 2025 The New York Review of Books Manisha Sinha’s history of Reconstruction sheds fresh light on the period that fleetingly opened a door to a different America. A Freedmen’s Bureau office, Ric…

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May 19, 2025 at 4:25 AM

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti Is Part of a Broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti Is Part of a Broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration     Chelsea Stieber May 14, 2025 The Conversation It is this – and so much more – that makes theirs a truly American story. Pope Leo XIV appears b…

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May 19, 2025 at 3:55 AM

The Fog of War

The Fog of War     Dennis Normile April 24, 2025 Science Fifty years after the Vietnam War, researchers are still struggling to document the long-term health effects of the massive spraying of Agent Orange and other herbicides During the war in V…

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May 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM

At Long Last, Marvel and Disney VFX Workers Ratify First Union Contract

Portside Culture At Long Last, Marvel and Disney VFX Workers Ratify First Union Contract     Emma Keates May 16, 2025 AV Club VFX workers have been speaking out about the pressure and poor working conditions at Marvel for years now. , Scr…

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May 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Unpacking the House’s Highly Regressive Tax Plan

Unpacking the House’s Highly Regressive Tax Plan     Carl Davis May 15, 2025 Common Dreams Two-thirds of the tax cuts offered in 2027 would go to the top 20% of families, and 41% would flow to just the top 5% of families. People take part in a pr…

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May 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Genocide, Trauma, and Jewish Identity

Genocide, Trauma, and Jewish Identity     Paul Von Blum May 5, 2025 The Progressive Peter Beinart’s ‘Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza’ offers an incisive perspective on Zionism and Jewish identity. , Knopf Publishers   Peter Bei…

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May 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM

America’s Descent Into Authoritarianism May Have Started With Policing in Blue Cities.

America’s Descent Into Authoritarianism May Have Started With Policing in Blue Cities.     Stephen Janis and Taya Graham May 12, 2025 real News Network As the Trump administration continues to press the boundaries of the Constitution, Johns Hopkins Profess…

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May 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM

‘We Are in a Moment of Unparalleled Peril’: An Interview With Naomi Klein

‘We Are in a Moment of Unparalleled Peril’: An Interview With Naomi Klein     Cerise Castle May 9, 2025 Capital & Main This counterrevolution is strange because there never was a revolution. They’re upset about pronouns. They’re upset that their worker…

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May 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM

The PKK Is Gone, Having ‘Fulfilled Its Historic Mission’

The PKK Is Gone, Having ‘Fulfilled Its Historic Mission’     Tiziano Saccucci May 14, 2025 Il Manifesto Global The PKK has dissolved itself, but leaves behind a renewed political vision the final communiqué calls “socialism of a democratic society”: anti-h…

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May 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM

Friday Nite Videos | May 16, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | May 16, 2025     May 16, 2025 xxxxxx Maxwell Frost Wants Democrats to “Get Caught Fighting.” Andor | Season 2. Rep. Delia Ramirez Accuses Kristi Noem of Corrupt Acts and Demands Resignation. Fear of AIPAC and Elon Musk Intimidates Democr…

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May 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM

15,000 EPA Employees Refuse To Snitch on Colleagues

15,000 EPA Employees Refuse To Snitch on Colleagues     Mark Olalde May 16, 2025 ProPublica Trump asked Environmental Protection Agency employees to use a tip line to identify colleagues working on DEI programs to assist in slashing them. No employees, the…

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May 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM

Syria After Assad

Syria After Assad     Muhammad Idrees Ahmad April 21, 2025 Dissent Magazine Hope has been restored for many Syrians. But vigilance will be needed to ensure that democratic institutions emerge and withstand autocratic impulses. Dancing and singing…

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May 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM

What the Complete Ape Genome Is Revealing About the Earliest Humans

What the Complete Ape Genome Is Revealing About the Earliest Humans     Michael Marshall May 15, 2025 New Scientist We now have full genome sequences for six species of apes, helping us to pin down our last common ancestor – and potentially changing how we…

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May 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM

Trump’s Attempt To Destroy Due Process Meets 7–2 SCOTUS Defeat

Trump’s Attempt To Destroy Due Process Meets 7–2 SCOTUS Defeat     Mark Joseph Stern May 16, 2025 Slate It is unclear whether Thomas and Alito would offer any restraint whatsoever on Trump exercising absolute power. The rest of the court, by contrast, is s…

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May 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Poem

Portside Culture Poem     Muriel Rukeyser The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser Writing in 1968, poet and activist Muriel Rukeyser addresses the struggle to imagine and build a more humane world. ,   I lived in the first century of …

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May 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Trump Would Torch Magna Carta

Trump Would Torch Magna Carta     James Baratta May 14, 2025 The American Prospect For centuries, the writ of habeas corpus—a fundamental protection against unlawful imprisonment—has remained a core fixture of democratic governance. Suspending it would def…

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May 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Trump Is Escalating His Rendition of Democracy

Trump Is Escalating His Rendition of Democracy     Chuck Idelson May 14, 2025 Common Dreams Despite repeated legal setbacks demanding an end to these autocratic practices, the Trump administration continues its assault on the rule of law. For some of those…

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May 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Trump, Historians, and the Lessons of U.S. Tariff History

Trump, Historians, and the Lessons of U.S. Tariff History     Elizabeth McKillen May 9, 2025 Labor and Working-Class History Association Labor historians should be particularly concerned about Trump’s misuse of tariff history because his tariff policies re…

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May 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Why Israel’s Demand for Hamas To Disarm Is a Red Herring

Why Israel’s Demand for Hamas To Disarm Is a Red Herring     Muhammad Shehada May 13, 2025 +972 Magazine Every blocked aid convoy, every broken truce, and every rejected peace offer underscores Israel’s true objective: erasing Palestinians from Gaza - part…

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May 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – May 15- Readers Comments: What’s the Latest Grift, Foreign Gift, Emolument; Congress Silent on Gaza Nightmare; Year’s Cost of Public Television or 6 Hours of Pentagon Bombs; U.S. Bandmember Arrested Before European Tour; More…

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May 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM

Republican Tax Bill Could Slap ‘Terrorism’ Label on Non-Profits Opposed to Trump

Republican Tax Bill Could Slap ‘Terrorism’ Label on Non-Profits Opposed to Trump     Chris Stein May 14, 2025 The Guardian Fears sparked that Trump would wield law against groups that file lawsuits or organize voters against his policies The prov…

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May 15, 2025 at 7:35 AM

Trump Cabinet Members Regurgitate Lies About Work Requirements

Trump Cabinet Members Regurgitate Lies About Work Requirements     Jake Johnson May 14, 2025 Common Dreams "Washington politicians are ignoring clear data and forcing reporting requirements on working Americans as a cynical ploy to kick working people off …

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May 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM

Kashmir Must Be Free To Decide Its Own Future

Kashmir Must Be Free To Decide Its Own Future     Avishek Konar May 13, 2025 Jacobin A cease-fire deal pulled India and Pakistan back from the brink of conflict, but the danger hasn’t gone away. The ongoing denial of democratic rights in Kashmir ensures th…

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May 15, 2025 at 7:05 AM

A Clean Energy Boom Was Just Starting. Now, a Republican Bill Aims To End It.

A Clean Energy Boom Was Just Starting. Now, a Republican Bill Aims To End It.     Brad Plumer and Harry Stevens May 13, 2025 The New York Times The party’s signature tax plan would kill most Biden-era incentives, but there’s a sticking point: G.O.P. distri…

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May 15, 2025 at 5:25 AM

Mr. Lonely

Portside Culture Mr. Lonely     Zoë Hu February 1, 2025 Dissent Magazine Some have suggested that young men are drawn to Andrew Tate because they suffer from a dearth of social contact. Yet men go to Tate not to alleviate loneliness but to intensif…

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May 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – May 14, 2025

Global Left Midweek – May 14, 2025     May 14, 2025 xxxxxx Observations and reporting on South Asia tensions A peace rally in Lahore on May 6, 2025. Credit, ARIF ALI, AFP Via Getty Images   The Spirit of Bandung South Asia Left Party State…

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May 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM

Why Do Cuts to Medicaid Matter for Americans Over 65?

Why Do Cuts to Medicaid Matter for Americans Over 65?     Jane Tavares; Marc Cohen May 13, 2025 The Conversation We are gerontology researchers who study health and financial well-being in later life. We’ve been analyzing what the potential impacts of Medi…

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May 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM

America Has Never Seen a President This Corrupt

America Has Never Seen a President This Corrupt     Alex Shephard May 13, 2025 The New Republic Trump’s brazen use of the White House to advance his family businesses should be one of the biggest scandals in the country’s history. , Andrew Harnik…

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May 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM

Trump’s Flagrant Racism

Trump’s Flagrant Racism     Robert Kuttner May 13, 2025 The American Prospect It’s the flip side of Trump’s DEI for incompetent white people. A Maryland man speaks to a reporter while waiting in the arrivals area for white South African “refugees…

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May 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM

Episcopal Church Refuses To Resettle White Afrikaners, Citing Moral Opposition

Episcopal Church Refuses To Resettle White Afrikaners, Citing Moral Opposition     Jack Jenkins May 12, 2025 NPR The request, Rowe said, crossed a moral line for the Episcopal Church, which is part of the global Anglican Communion, which boasts among its l…

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May 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Patricia Clarkson: ‘When Women Make Equal Pay, Everybody Wins’

Portside Culture Patricia Clarkson: ‘When Women Make Equal Pay, Everybody Wins’     Patricia Clarkson May 10, 2025 The Guardian The Oscar-nominated actor talks about her new role playing equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter and why the Trump administ…

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