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October 20, 2025 at 4:30 AM

Sunday Science: Save the Whales. But Save the Microbes, Too.

Sunday Science: Save the Whales. But Save the Microbes, Too.     Carl Zimmer October 17, 2025 The New York Times Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes. Colorful microbial mats…
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October 20, 2025 at 4:10 AM

The Radical Legacy of the “Poorest President in the World”

The Radical Legacy of the “Poorest President in the World”     Guillermo Bervejillo October 17, 2025 Jacobin What we can learn from the life of Uruguay’s former guerrilla and leftist president Pepe Mujica. Throughout his time in power, Pepe Mujic…
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October 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Trumpism, It Was Ever Thus

Trumpism, It Was Ever Thus     Van Gosse October 18, 2025 Substack Trump's brand of thoroughly vulgar and outlandish demagogy, his politics of racism, cruelty, vindictiveness, and gleeful resentment is not new, it has deep roots and is deeply, fundamentall…
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October 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Pervasive Impunity

Pervasive Impunity     Cora Currier October 16, 2025 The New York Review of Books Richard Beck’s Homeland charts how four presidential administrations managed to evade moral responsibility for the “war on terror” by hiding behind legality and process. …
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October 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM

The Supreme Court Left No Doubt: It Will Gut the Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court Left No Doubt: It Will Gut the Voting Rights Act     Elie Mystal October 16, 2025 The Nation The ruling, when it comes, will be disastrous for Black voters and for Democrats. A woman held a US flag outside the Supreme Court as t…
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October 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM

YouTube Just Ate TV. It’s Only Getting Started

Portside Culture YouTube Just Ate TV. It’s Only Getting Started     Alex Weprin October 15, 2025 The Hollywood Reporter In two decades, the app has grown from a user-generated circus into the most powerful platform on earth. CEO Neal Mohan on his $…
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October 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM

The Zionist Consensus Among US Jews Has Collapsed.

The Zionist Consensus Among US Jews Has Collapsed.     Shaul Magid October 7, 2025 The Guardian Two years after the 7 October massacre and the onset of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, American Jewry has been profoundly transformed People pray on the …
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October 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Millions March Against Trump – No Kings

Millions March Against Trump – No Kings     Marina Dunbar, Sarah Haque, Rachel Leingang October 18, 2025 The Guardian More than 2,500 US rallies are planned in all 50 states as protesters call for limits on presidential power A protestor dressed …
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October 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM

From Gaza to the Black Wave, Corbyn and Manifestival Guests Offer a Path

From Gaza to the Black Wave, Corbyn and Manifestival Guests Offer a Path     Giuliano Santoro October 14, 2025 Il Manifesto Global We do not want to conform to a world of cruelty and hatred. This generation must be aware of its own strength and assert its …
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October 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM

The Madness of Trump’s Vision for America

The Madness of Trump’s Vision for America     Linda Pentz Gunter Morning Star From terrifying the children of immigrants to pepper-spraying frogs, the US under Trump is rapidly descending into mayhem. , A protester dressed in a costume watches as …
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October 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Trump’s D.C. Takeover Foretells How Federal Occupations Will Threaten Education

Trump’s D.C. Takeover Foretells How Federal Occupations Will Threaten Education     Brianna Nargiso Newton October 6, 2025 The Progressive Military and police crackdowns on communities are costly and have long-term, harmful impacts on millions of students …
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October 18, 2025 at 2:40 AM

Friday Nite Videos | October 17, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | October 17, 2025     xxxxxx October 17, 2025 xxxxxx The Policy That Zohran and Trump Voters Agree On. South Park Dismantles MAGA Christians. Orwell 2+2=5 | Documentary Movie. The Ballad of the Portland Frog Brigade. Trump Cashes in Bigly…
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October 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents     Nicole Foy October 16, 2025 ProPublica “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen,” Justice Kavanaugh wrote, “they promptly let the individual go.” But in f…
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October 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM

While the World Eyes Gaza, West Bank Settlers Act With Impunity

While the World Eyes Gaza, West Bank Settlers Act With Impunity     Ofer Cassif October 16, 2025 The Guardian As the harvest season begins, attacks on Palestinian farmers and their land are spiralling. The words of peace following the Gaza ceasefire ring h…
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October 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM

Why mRNA Vaccines Are the Future

Why mRNA Vaccines Are the Future     Michael Le Page October 15, 2025 New Scientist mRNA vaccines are quick and easy to make, while virus-like nanoparticles produce a stronger immune response. Now, the two approaches are being combined to give us the best …
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October 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM

Senators Launch Bipartisan Bid To Block Trump War on Venezuela

Senators Launch Bipartisan Bid To Block Trump War on Venezuela     Julia Conley October 17, 2025 Common Dreams “Congress has not authorized military force against Venezuela,” said Sen. Adam Schiff. “And we must assert our authority to stop the United State…
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October 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Cantus Cunctantus (song of being slow to act)

Portside Culture Cantus Cunctantus (song of being slow to act)     Diane Schenker Poet Diane Schenker offers us a hymn to the subversive potential of poetry. ,       "I speak not this to make thee secure and negligent, but to cheer t…
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October 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM

Zohran Mamdani: “Our Time Is Now”

Zohran Mamdani: “Our Time Is Now”     Zohran Mamdani October 14, 2025 Jacobin Monday night at a campaign rally, Zohran Mamdani addressed his supporters: “For too long, we have tried not to lose. Now, it is time that we win...We are an existential threat to…
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October 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM

‘I Love Hitler’: Leaked Messages Expose Young Republicans’ Racist Chat

‘I Love Hitler’: Leaked Messages Expose Young Republicans’ Racist Chat     By Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo October 14, 2025 Politico Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery, lynching, and rape. This is wha…
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October 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Private Equity Takeover of Hospitals Led To Rise in Medicare Emergency Patient Deaths, Says Study

Private Equity Takeover of Hospitals Led To Rise in Medicare Emergency Patient Deaths, Says Study     Hannah Harris Green October 14, 2025 The Guardian Private equity acquisition of hospitals have led to an increase in deaths among emergency department pat…
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October 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Will Israelis One Day Say of Their Country’s Atrocities in Gaza, ‘I Was Always Against It’?

Will Israelis One Day Say of Their Country’s Atrocities in Gaza, ‘I Was Always Against It’?     Amira Hass October 15, 2025 Haaretz People aren't born cruel; they become so. Palestinian cruelty toward Israelis is widely covered, while our cruelty, that of …
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October 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits-Oct 16 -Readers Comments: Chicago Invaded-By ICE, Texas National Guard; Trump’s Labor Dept Says ICE Raids Causing Food Crisis; Boat Strikes Just the Beginning, Now CIA Missions Planned Against Venezuela; US Socialism Today; All-Out for Oct 18

Tidbits-Oct 16 -Readers Comments: Chicago Invaded-By ICE, Texas National Guard; Trump’s Labor Dept Says ICE Raids Causing Food Crisis; Boat Strikes Just the Beginning, Now CIA Missions Planned Against Venezuela; US Socialism Today; All-Out for Oct 18     October 1…
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October 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Bravery on the Front Lines in the Face of Fascism

Portside Culture Bravery on the Front Lines in the Face of Fascism     Paul Von Blum October 15, 2025 The Progressive A new comics collection from Raymond Tyler and Paul Buhle tells the stories of unsung partisan heroes who fought fascism across Eu…
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October 16, 2025 at 5:55 AM

Case Before Supreme Court Could Destroy Voting Rights Act and Cement GOP Control of House ‘For at Least a Generation’

Case Before Supreme Court Could Destroy Voting Rights Act and Cement GOP Control of House ‘For at Least a Generation’     Stephen Prager October 15, 2025 Common Dreams If the court dismantles Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and allows overtly racist ger…
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October 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People     Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hamed Aleaziz October 15, 2025 The New York Times The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one …
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October 16, 2025 at 4:30 AM

Trump Says He Authorized Covert CIA Operations in Venezuela As Maduro Decries the Move As ‘Coups D’etat’

Trump Says He Authorized Covert CIA Operations in Venezuela As Maduro Decries the Move As ‘Coups D’etat’     Sam Levin October 15, 2025 The Guardian Move marks escalation in Maduro pressure campaign as president says US mulling strikes on Venezuelan territ…
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October 16, 2025 at 4:15 AM

Israel’s Hostage Protest Movement Finally Prevails — Against Its Government

Israel’s Hostage Protest Movement Finally Prevails — Against Its Government     Oren Ziv October 14, 2025 +972 Magazine As those who fought for their release celebrate, the government seeks to recast itself as the hostages’ savior despite abandoning them f…
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October 16, 2025 at 1:15 AM

The Rediscovery of America: Why Native History Is American History

Portside Culture The Rediscovery of America: Why Native History Is American History     David Smith May 8, 2023 The Guardian Historian Ned Blackhawk stresses the importance of telling US history with a wider and more inclusive lens. , …
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October 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek — October 15, 2025

Global Left Midweek — October 15, 2025     October 15, 2025 xxxxxx New forms of solidarity The World Transformed conference in Manchester, October 10-12. Credit, The Canary   Palestine Civil Society: What Now Russian Voices Against Putin’s…
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October 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM

Universities Didn’t Fail, They Succeeded—That’s Why They’re Under Attack

Universities Didn’t Fail, They Succeeded—That’s Why They’re Under Attack     Emese Ilyés October 14, 2025 Common Dreams Universities need to recognize that they are being targeted because of what they represent, not because of what they’ve failed to do, an…
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October 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM

Life in Gaza May Go From Utter Hell to Mere Nightmare. What Happens Now?

Life in Gaza May Go From Utter Hell to Mere Nightmare. What Happens Now?     Hussein Agha, Robert Malley October 14, 2025 The Guardian It took an American president unbound by traditional domestic constraints to get this done and provide the parties with w…
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October 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM

Still No Kings: Millions To Protest Trump on Saturday

Still No Kings: Millions To Protest Trump on Saturday     Whitney Curry Wimbish October 13, 2025 The American Prospect A coalition of civil rights groups expects the turnout on Oct. 18 will be even bigger than the first nationwide protest held in June, whi…
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October 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM

All Guns and No Butter on a Burning Planet

All Guns and No Butter on a Burning Planet     Khem Rogaly, Patrick Bigger October 12, 2025 Jacobin The insatiable demands of the military industrial complex are a barrier to human flourishing on a livable planet. Increasing military budgets as p…
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October 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes — October 14, 2025

Media Bits and Bytes — October 14, 2025     October 14, 2025 xxxxxx Free press showdown , Hassan (Iran)   Why Has the Media Become So Vulnerable? Pope Leo to Journalists Google, Apple: No Eyes on ICE A Librarian’s Guide to Fighting Book Ba…
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October 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Is Being a Guardian Reporter As Exciting as the Movies Make Out?

Portside Culture Is Being a Guardian Reporter As Exciting as the Movies Make Out?     Zoe Williams October 10, 2025 The Guardian Keira Knightley cuts a more glamorous figure than most Guardian staff in her new Netflix film The Woman in Cabin 10, wh…
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October 14, 2025 at 6:10 AM

New Mexico Is Providing Free Childcare for All. It’s Time for Others To Do the Same

New Mexico Is Providing Free Childcare for All. It’s Time for Others To Do the Same     Katrina vanden Heuvel October 13, 2025 The Guardian The state is setting a powerful example with its first-in-the-nation plan. But the policy has support across the US …
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October 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM

MIT Says ‘No’ to Trump Extortion Pact

MIT Says ‘No’ to Trump Extortion Pact     Jessica Corbett October 10, 2025 Common Dreams "This offer looked like an invitation, but it wasn't," said Ariel White, vice president of MIT's American Association of University Professors chapter. "It was a ranso…
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October 14, 2025 at 2:15 AM

This Week in People’s History, Oct 15–21, 2025

This Week in People’s History, Oct 15–21, 2025     xxxxxx Chaplin’s Timeless Attack on Dictatorship (1940), U.S. Anti-War Rally Was Record-Big, but Not for Long (1965), Revolutionary Stirrings in Manhattan (1765), Permission to Come Aboard, Who Needs It? (196…
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October 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM

The Heart-Shaped Tin:An Intimate Exploration of Kitchen Objects and Memory

Portside Culture The Heart-Shaped Tin:An Intimate Exploration of Kitchen Objects and Memory     Bookclb May 20, 2025 Bookclb.com Wilson draws on the work of researchers like Russell Belk (on “the extended self”), Paul Rozin (on magical thinking), a…
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October 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Injury to Buildings and Vegetables

Injury to Buildings and Vegetables     Alyssa Battistoni September 4, 2025 n+1 Pigou noted the problem that Marx had only glancingly acknowledged: that the production of commodities was often accompanied by unintentional and sometimes severe physical side …
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October 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Their Families Fled Soviet Socialism. Now They’re Knocking Doors for Mamdani.

Their Families Fled Soviet Socialism. Now They’re Knocking Doors for Mamdani.     Mariia Fedorova October 2, 2025 The City A world away from their parents’ Iron Curtain upbringings, young New Yorkers with roots from Poland to Turkmenistan are helping power…
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October 13, 2025 at 7:25 AM

Sunday Science: Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites Are Falling to Earth at an Alarming Rate

Sunday Science: Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites Are Falling to Earth at an Alarming Rate     Anthony Cuthbertson October 9, 2025 The Independent An average of one to two Starlink satellites are deorbiting each day in 2025 Launch of a Starlink in …
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October 13, 2025 at 6:35 AM

It’s Not Government They Don’t Like

It’s Not Government They Don’t Like     Jamelle Bouie October 8, 2025 New York TImes Like the slave owners, the MAGA movement and its allies are opposed only to those aspects of government that they can’t wield against their enemies. They will happily enla…
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October 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM

DSA Graphic History: Learning From Our Past

DSA Graphic History: Learning From Our Past     Kurt Stand October 12, 2025 The Stansbury Forum Why, amongst all socialist organizations, DSA is the one which has grown so dramatically? , Noah Van Sciver   If past is prologue, then unders…
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October 13, 2025 at 6:00 AM

The Rift in American Socialism

The Rift in American Socialism     Harold Meyerson October 9, 2025 The American Prospect Realists (Mamdani, AOC) seek immersion in mass politics; fundamentalists oppose it. , Katie Godowski/MediaPunch/IPX/AP Photo   As Election Day draws …
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October 13, 2025 at 5:50 AM

Who Owns America? Bernie Sanders Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

Who Owns America? Bernie Sanders Says the Quiet Part Out Loud     Trevor Noah, Bernie Sanders October 9, 2025 YouTube Senator Bernie Sanders joins Trevor to discuss what the heck is going on in America right now (hint: it’s oligarchy). https://ww…
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October 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Seth Meyers on Trump: ‘Deeply Unhinged, Detached From Reality’

Portside Culture Seth Meyers on Trump: ‘Deeply Unhinged, Detached From Reality’     Guardian staff October 10, 2025 The Guardian Late-night hosts recounted the president’s latest alarming behaviour from threatening elected officials with jail to de…
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October 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Why the Deck Is Stacked Against Workers Under Capitalism

Why the Deck Is Stacked Against Workers Under Capitalism     Paul Heideman October 10, 2025 Jacobin Workers must organize for power, while capitalists wield it individually through property rights. This fundamental asymmetry, creates a chain of obstacles t…
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October 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Half of Senate Dems Help Pass $925 Billion Pentagon Bill

Half of Senate Dems Help Pass $925 Billion Pentagon Bill     Jessica Corbett October 10, 2025 Common Dreams “Congress continues to expand military spending while denying investments in the programs that will truly build a safer, healthier future for workin…
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October 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM

A Movement-Based Opposition to Trump and MAGA

A Movement-Based Opposition to Trump and MAGA     Jeremy Brecher October 9, 2025 Common Dreams Social self-defense against the MAGA juggernaut can be the starting point for creating the world we want beyond MAGA. ,   As President Donald T…