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April 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM

What Happens When Private Equity Owns Your Kid’s Day Care

What Happens When Private Equity Owns Your Kid’s Day Care     Hailey Huget April 22, 2025 Jacobin When my toddler’s day care started turning parents away at the door due to staffing shortages, I learned it was owned by private equity — which maximizes enro…
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April 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM

By Taking Up the Migrant Cause, Francis Took On Trump and Vance

By Taking Up the Migrant Cause, Francis Took On Trump and Vance     Joan Vennochi April 21, 2025 The Boston Globe The pope wanted to be judged as a voice of moral clarity, speaking out for the marginalized. He made that clear in his fight with Trump and Va…
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April 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM

A World Beyond Tariffs

A World Beyond Tariffs     Luis Feliz Leon April 17, 2025 The American Prospect The United Auto Workers weren’t always in favor of tariffs; they earlier supported cross-border coordination to support better jobs and a peaceful future. ,  …
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April 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM

Wave of Earth Day Protests As Americans Mobilize Against Trump

Wave of Earth Day Protests As Americans Mobilize Against Trump     Nina Lakhani April 21, 2025 The Guardian Organizers team up with pro-democracy groups for flurry of actions to demand right to free, healthy lives Anti Trump protesters in New Yor…
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April 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – August 22, 2025

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – August 22, 2025     April 22, 2025 xxxxxx “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!” A hurricane off the Florida coast. Credit, harvepino/Big Stock Photo   A Movement Moment? Racism U.: From Bob Jones to MAGA …
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April 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM

‘Sinners’ Review: Ryan Coogler’s Brilliantly Staged, Subtext-Rich Vampire Movie

Portside Culture ‘Sinners’ Review: Ryan Coogler’s Brilliantly Staged, Subtext-Rich Vampire Movie     Jake Cole April 15, 2025 Slant Sinners is one of the most distinctive, confident mainstream films of the modern era. , Photo: Warner Bros…
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April 22, 2025 at 5:45 AM

Global Climate Movement Mourns Passing of Pope Francis

Global Climate Movement Mourns Passing of Pope Francis     Eloise Goldsmith April 21, 2025 Common Dreams "Pope Francis spoke plainly and with clarity about the climate crisis," said one environmental advocate. A priest holds a sacrament bowl show…
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April 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM

This Week in People’s History, Apr 23–29, 2025

This Week in People’s History, Apr 23–29, 2025     xxxxxx Got Covid? Have You Tried Injecting Bleach? (2020), No Due Process for Armenians (1915), A Milestone for the Other-Abled (1920), A Dust Bowl Refugee Sings (1940), Harriet Tubman to the Rescue (1860), D…
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April 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM

It’s About One Thing: Trump’s Thirst for One-Man Rule

It’s About One Thing: Trump’s Thirst for One-Man Rule     E.J. Dionne Jr. April 17, 2025 The New Republic The tariffs, the treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the DOGE moves—they’re all fundamentally about the same thing. It's time to shed flawed assumption…
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April 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM

From $85 Tomato Leaf Soap to $2,300 Hellmann’s Mayo Handbags, Everyday Food Is Now a Status Symbol

Portside Culture From $85 Tomato Leaf Soap to $2,300 Hellmann’s Mayo Handbags, Everyday Food Is Now a Status Symbol     Leah Asmelash April 13, 2025 CNN Food, especially seemingly modest ingredients, is a way to signify wealth and luxury tastes. Fa…
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April 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Carceral Imperialism, Project 2025, and the Enemy of Progress

Carceral Imperialism, Project 2025, and the Enemy of Progress     Lyle C. May April 15, 2025 Prism Whether in the past or present, imperialism that is reframed in patriotic language does not make it less brutal to those who lose their land, liberty, and li…
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April 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Wasn’t Always Celebrated

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Wasn’t Always Celebrated     Joseph Mogul April 19, 2025 Jacobin The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which began 82 years ago today, is now hailed as a bold act of Jewish resistance against the Nazis. But at the time, many Poles watched …
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April 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM

Sunday Science: STARTALK When Black Holes Collide, With Nergis Mavalvala

Sunday Science: STARTALK When Black Holes Collide, With Nergis Mavalvala     Neil deGrasse Tyson, Harrison Greebaum, Nergis Mavalvala April 8, 2025 StarTalk Ripples in spacetime? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Harrison Greenbaum explore black hole collis…
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April 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Ecuador Enters “Trump Mode” With Noboa Victory

Ecuador Enters “Trump Mode” With Noboa Victory     Ociel Alí López April 17, 2025 NACLA Authoritarian drift and political blackmail shape the runoff election in Ecuador, where incumbent President Daniel Noboa won Sunday’s vote. Incumbent Presiden…
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April 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM

CTU Members Ratify New Contract With 97% Approval

CTU Members Ratify New Contract With 97% Approval     Nader Issa, Sarah Karp | WBEZ and Michael Puente | WBEZ April 14, 2025 Chicago Sun-Times The contract is the CTU’s first without a strike or a strike vote in 15 years. The agreement sets lower class siz…
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April 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Barbara Lee Wins Oakland Mayor’s Race in Her Return Home

Barbara Lee Wins Oakland Mayor’s Race in Her Return Home     Soumya Karlamangla April 19, 2025 The New York Times The former congresswoman, a progressive Democrat, campaigned on a promise to unite residents in the beleaguered California city. Her challenge…
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April 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Haaretz Editorial | Netanyahu Is Considering a Limited Strike on Iran – That Is Complete Insanity

Haaretz Editorial | Netanyahu Is Considering a Limited Strike on Iran – That Is Complete Insanity     Haaretz April 20, 2025 Haaretz The above article is Haaretz's lead editorial, as published in the Hebrew and English newspapers in Israel. Presi…
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April 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Van Hollen Says Wrongly Deported Man Doing ‘OK,’ Transferred to New Prison

Van Hollen Says Wrongly Deported Man Doing ‘OK,’ Transferred to New Prison     Shauneen Miranda April 19, 2025 Maryland Matters While Abrego Garcia’s individual case was tragic, Van Hollen said it had even larger implications for the strength of constituti…
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April 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM

What Is Trump Really Planning With His Import Tariffs?

What Is Trump Really Planning With His Import Tariffs?     Marc Vandepitte April 17, 2025 Morning Star In a revealing speech, Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy behind the tariff policy: forcing other countries to provide financial su…
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April 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Biden and Trump’s Leniency on Corporate Crime

Biden and Trump’s Leniency on Corporate Crime     Freddy Brewster April 19, 2025 Jacobin The federal government under Joe Biden prosecuted fewer corporate crime cases than at any point in the last 30 years. Now the Trump administration is set to drop or pa…
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April 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Tackling Climate Change Must Be Job One

Tackling Climate Change Must Be Job One     Susan Bass April 19, 2025 The Progressive This Earth Day, on April 22, you can exercise your power. The wellbeing of our planet and its people is at stake. The “Glass Fire” burns homes and wildland in t…
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April 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Solidarity Is the Core of Our Movements — It’s Also Messier Than We Often Admit

Solidarity Is the Core of Our Movements — It’s Also Messier Than We Often Admit     Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore April 15, 2025 Truthout When “resistance grows, but the killing does not stop,” it’s time to become more strategic, methodical, innovative, coll…
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April 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM

Common Sense in the Face of Danger

Portside Culture Common Sense in the Face of Danger     Esther Kamkar Poet Esther Kamkar unspools the story about the snake and the garden. , Nina Kopeks   We were frightened. The gardener, Eesa, (Jesus in Persian) told me to run to …
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April 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM

Trump Policy Poses Threat to Ukraine and Europe

Trump Policy Poses Threat to Ukraine and Europe     Phillips P. OBrien April 18, 2025 Phillips’s Newsletter Trump's plan for Ukraine seems to be reaching a tipping point. European states may soon be confronted with an entirely different war. They will eith…
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April 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM

Friday Nite Videos | April 18, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | April 18, 2025     April 18, 2025 xxxxxx Friday Nite Videos | April 18, 2025: 20 Lessons on Tyranny | John Lithgow. RFK Jr. Sparks Outrage With Autism Remarks. Palantir: The New Deep State. Chornobyl Scientist Warns of a Toxic Future. Ap…
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April 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM

The Rise of End Times Fascism

The Rise of End Times Fascism     Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor April 13, 2025 The Guardian The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them , …
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April 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM

Bernie and AOC Electrify Democrats Who Want To Fight Trump

Bernie and AOC Electrify Democrats Who Want To Fight Trump     Kellen Browning April 16, 2025 The New York Times Bernie Sanders and his apparent heir, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have drawn enormous crowds on their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour. Sanders expresse…
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April 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM

How Your Brain Creates New Memories

How Your Brain Creates New Memories     William Wright and Takaki Komiyama April 17, 2025 The Conversation New research reveals how, by following different rules in the process of learning, neurons can perform multiple functions in parallel. This may have …
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April 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM

‘Infinite License’

Portside Culture ‘Infinite License’     Omer Bartov April 24, 2025 An Israeli-American historian of Holocaust and Genocide Studies covers the dynamic of a Jewish state that has thrived on Holocaust roots, how that legacy has been exploited becoming …
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April 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM

We’re Now on the Fast Track to a Historic Constitutional Clash

We’re Now on the Fast Track to a Historic Constitutional Clash     David Kurtz April 17, 2025 It looks like potential contempt proceedings in the Alien Enemies Act case and the Abrego Garcia case will be running in parallel, leapfrogging each other for the …
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April 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM

‘The Town Loved Him’: Palestinian Student Detained in Vermont Forged Deep Connections in Ihe Upper Valley

‘The Town Loved Him’: Palestinian Student Detained in Vermont Forged Deep Connections in Ihe Upper Valley     Paul Heintz April 16, 2025 He is widely known in the upper Connecticut River Valley of Vermont, where he has been based since moving to the United …
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April 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM

I’m a Jewish Israeli in the US Standing Up for Palestine. By Trump’s Logic, I’m a Terror Supporter

I’m a Jewish Israeli in the US Standing Up for Palestine. By Trump’s Logic, I’m a Terror Supporter     Eran Zelnik April 10, 2025 I have committed the same acts they have committed, including publishing an article that calls the war in Gaza a genocide, part…
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April 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM

The New McCarthyism Was Started by Liberals

The New McCarthyism Was Started by Liberals     Jeet Heer April 9, 2025 Trumpism is only Bidenism carried to its logical conclusion. Joe Biden was in many ways heir to the militaristic liberalism of Wilson and Truman—especially visible in his efforts to rev…
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April 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM

Tidbits – Apr.17 – Reader Comments: First They Came for Kilmar; We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid; New Resource: Immigrants and the Economy; Lots of Cartoons As We Struggle To Make the World Better; and More;

Tidbits – Apr.17 – Reader Comments: First They Came for Kilmar; We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid; New Resource: Immigrants and the Economy; Lots of Cartoons As We Struggle To Make the World Better; and More;     April 17, 2025 Reader Comments: First they …
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April 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM

Day of Action on 150+ Campuses Across US Will Target Trump Attack on Higher Education

Day of Action on 150+ Campuses Across US Will Target Trump Attack on Higher Education     Julia Conley April 16, 2025 "What is at stake is the defense of our fundamental democratic rights and constitutional freedoms," said one organizer. Demonstra…
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April 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM

You Only Get What You’re Organized To Take

You Only Get What You’re Organized To Take     Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back April 15, 2025 The Power of the Poor in Trump’s America ,   The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the 10 richest people in the world — includi…
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April 17, 2025 at 4:20 AM

Shawn Fain: We Need a Political Movement for Workers

Shawn Fain: We Need a Political Movement for Workers     Shawn Fain April 15, 2025 United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain explains his union’s position on tariffs and argues that we need a political movement that puts working-class people first to address…
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April 17, 2025 at 3:55 AM

When Charlie Met Joan: The Tragedy of the Chaplin Trials and the Failings of American Law

Portside Culture When Charlie Met Joan: The Tragedy of the Chaplin Trials and the Failings of American Law     Ken Ackerman February 28, 2025 The Little Tramp’s legal woes were more over-the-top than a Bruckheimer film ,   When Cha…
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April 17, 2025 at 3:45 AM

We’re About To Find Out What Mass Deportation Really Looks Like

We’re About To Find Out What Mass Deportation Really Looks Like     Nick Miroff April 16, 2025 The Trump administration’s campaign to remove millions of people from the United States could soon be supercharged by Congress. Salvadoran police office…
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April 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – April 16, 2025

Global Left Midweek – April 16, 2025     April 16, 2025 xxxxxx A week for general strikes 24-hour strike in Athens, April 9, 2025. Credit, Al Jazeera   Greenlanders Respond to Trump Scientists Oppose EU Rearmament Nigeria Heats Up Citizens…
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April 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM

A New Plan To Fix Mexico’s Housing Crisis

A New Plan To Fix Mexico’s Housing Crisis     Ximena González April 11, 2025 Jacobin Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum wants to bring social housing back to Mexico City’s core. It may be the capital’s best shot at making affordability more than just a slog…
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April 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM

The Next Person in a Cell With No Charges Could Be You

The Next Person in a Cell With No Charges Could Be You     Thom Hartmann April 15, 2025 Common Dreams We are now in the midst of a outright coup against the Constitution, against the United States, and against our founding ideals. If we don't fight for and w…
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April 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Tax Day 2025: Your Tax Receipt

Tax Day 2025: Your Tax Receipt     April 15, 2025 National Priorities Project We compared taxes paid by the average taxpayer on a host of programs to the benchmark of our times — the price of a dozen eggs. In February 2025, the average price for a dozen egg…
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April 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Trump’s Trade War Is a Political Trap for Democrats

Trump’s Trade War Is a Political Trap for Democrats     David Sirota April 15, 2025 The Lever The president’s reckless tariffs are designed to goad his opponents into touting free trade and scoffing at the working class. , AP Photo/Aaron Favila, Po…
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April 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – April 15, 2025

Media Bits and Bytes – April 15, 2025     April 15, 2025 xxxxxx Media caught in Trump’s net , Columbia Journalism Review / Adobe Stock / Illustration by Katie Kosma   Trump Defies Court Order on AP Access Democracy Dies in Daylight The End…
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April 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Frantz Fanon’s Algerian Years on Film

Portside Culture Frantz Fanon’s Algerian Years on Film     An interview with Jean-Claude Barny April 7, 2025 Jacobin In French-ruled Algeria, Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist and an active member of the National Liberation Front. A new movie portrays …
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April 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM

Today’s ‘Death Squad’ Dems Enable the Trump-Backed Slaughter in Yemen, Gaza, and Beyond

Today’s ‘Death Squad’ Dems Enable the Trump-Backed Slaughter in Yemen, Gaza, and Beyond     Stephen Zunes April 14, 2025 Common Dreams The truth is that a number of Democratic members of Congress, whom millions of people see as leading the resistance, actual…
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April 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM

This Week in People’s History, Apr 16–22, 2025

This Week in People’s History, Apr 16–22, 2025     xxxxxx What First Amendment? (2000), “Freedom Now in Vietnam” (1965), Saying ‘No’ to Colonialism (1955), If They Want War, Let Them Have It (1775), Impunity for Racist Threats (1965), McCarthyism Flops on Br…
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April 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Escape Trump's Trap: Act Like a University, Not Like a Business

Escape Trump's Trap: Act Like a University, Not Like a Business     Masha Gessen April 14, 2025 New York Times Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach by bringing education to communities. Create a…
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April 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Union & Immigrant Rights Group Join Forces To Fight Outrageous Deportation

Union & Immigrant Rights Group Join Forces To Fight Outrageous Deportation     Steve Morse April 4, 2025 Labor Rise “In his pursuit of the life promised by the American dream, Brother Kilmar was literally helping to build this great country. What did he …