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September 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Andrew Cuomo Has a Jeffrey Epstein Problem

Andrew Cuomo Has a Jeffrey Epstein Problem     Branko Marcetic September 2, 2025 Jacobin A surprising number of Andrew Cuomo’s allies, donors, and friends have close ties to the late pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew Cuomo form…
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September 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Why Does The New York Times Keep Ignoring Polls Showing Mamdani Leading With Jewish Voters?

Why Does The New York Times Keep Ignoring Polls Showing Mamdani Leading With Jewish Voters?     Adam Johnson August 27, 2025 In These Times Polling shows mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a commanding lead with Jewish New Yorkers, but you won’t read abou…
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September 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Most Israelis, Including on the Right, Back Hostage Deal That Ends Gaza War, Poll Shows

Most Israelis, Including on the Right, Back Hostage Deal That Ends Gaza War, Poll Shows     Linda Dayan September 3, 2025 Haaretz A new Israel Democracy Institute survey reveals 64.5 percent of Israelis, including half of the surveyed Likud voters, favor a…
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September 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM

‘In Whose Interests Are We Fighting?’ What Historian Premilla Nadasen Learned About Economic Justice From the Domestic Workers’ Rights Movement

‘In Whose Interests Are We Fighting?’ What Historian Premilla Nadasen Learned About Economic Justice From the Domestic Workers’ Rights Movement     Carmen Rios interviews Premilla Nadasen August 10, 2025 Ms. Magazine “We, as feminists today, like domestic …
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September 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits- Sept 4 -Readers Comments: Death of Voting Rights Act, Gerrymandering, Confederacy Worship, Gestapo Seizures, Camps; RFK Insanity; Zohran Mamdani; Martin Niemöller Real Quote; Italian Dockworkers Threaten Europe Shut Down; No Kings 2 – Oct 18

Tidbits- Sept 4 -Readers Comments: Death of Voting Rights Act, Gerrymandering, Confederacy Worship, Gestapo Seizures, Camps; RFK Insanity; Zohran Mamdani; Martin Niemöller Real Quote; Italian Dockworkers Threaten Europe Shut Down; No Kings 2 – Oct 18     September…
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September 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM

Trump Team’s Contentious Climate Report ‘Makes a Mockery of Science’, Experts Say

Trump Team’s Contentious Climate Report ‘Makes a Mockery of Science’, Experts Say     Oliver Milman and Dharna Noor September 2, 2025 The Guardian Over 85 top climate specialists lambasted administration’s review, calling it a ‘shoddy mess’ that downplays …
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September 4, 2025 at 4:10 AM

Mamdani Rejects ‘Corrupt Politics and Backroom Deals’ After Latest Trump-Cuomo Revelations

Mamdani Rejects ‘Corrupt Politics and Backroom Deals’ After Latest Trump-Cuomo Revelations     Brad Reed September 3, 2025 Common Dreams "The NYC mayor's race is a clear example of a corrupt political system," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. Zohran Mam…
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September 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM

Yes, America Has a Housing Emergency

Yes, America Has a Housing Emergency     Paul Krugman September 3, 2025 Paul Krugman Substack But Trump will make it worse Housing advocates demand the city offer truly affordable housing and units for homeless New Yorkers., Photo: Paul Frangipan…
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September 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM

The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler

The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler     Yair Rosenberg September 3, 2025 The Atlantic A growing constituency on the right wants America to unlearn the lessons of World War II. ,   The story we got about World War II is all wrong,” …
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September 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM

One Nation, Not Under God

Portside Culture One Nation, Not Under God     Stephen Rohde December 19, 2019 Los Angeles Review of Books This book was first published in 2019 and is a classic whose relevance has only grown over time. Reviewer Rohde offers a detailed tour of thi…
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September 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek — September 3, 2025

Global Left Midweek — September 3, 2025     September 3, 2025 xxxxxx News From Asia: Workers Are Breaking Out May Day (1924) – a painting by Kanji Maeta. Credit, Tsukublog   Power, Control, Inequality, and Democracy in the Twenty-First Cen…
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September 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Hundreds of Staff at California National Parks To Unionize Amid Trump Turmoil

Hundreds of Staff at California National Parks To Unionize Amid Trump Turmoil     Dani Anguiano September 2, 2025 The Guardian More than 97% at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon parks voted to unionize as president enacts major cuts Visitor…
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September 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM

Free DC Models Effective Resistance to Trump’s Takeover

Free DC Models Effective Resistance to Trump’s Takeover     Daniel Hunter August 13, 2025 Waging Nonviolence Washington, D.C. residents’ rapid response to Trump's National Guard deployment is a masterclass in how to prepare for crises and fight authoritari…
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September 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM

The CDC Crisis and Republican Complicity

The CDC Crisis and Republican Complicity     Robert Kuttner August 29, 2025 The American Prospect Today on TAP: Will the destruction of the Centers for Disease Control finally push the Republican Congress to constrain Trump’s science deniers? Dr.…
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September 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM

Trump’s Populist Base Versus Corporate Power

Trump’s Populist Base Versus Corporate Power     Sam Gindin September 2, 2025 The Bullet Trump is looking to consolidate his populist base without challenging corporate power or addressing inequalities. ,   ILNA: During his second preside…
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September 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes — September 2, 2025

Media Bits and Bytes — September 2, 2025     August 2, 2025 xxxxxx Big Tech and civilization , Shutterstock   Saving Digital Democracy  When Neutrality is a Constraint Saving Rural Newspapers Reality Bites in DC Sam Altman Gets CGT-5 Backl…
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September 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Highest 2 Lowest Is a Cringeworthy Remake of a Classic

Portside Culture Highest 2 Lowest Is a Cringeworthy Remake of a Classic     Eileen Jones August 29, 2025 Jacobin Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest attempts to remake a beloved Akira Kurosawa film about the injustices of a class-stratified society all wh…
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September 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM

This Week in Peoples’ History, Sep. 3–9, 2025

This Week in Peoples’ History, Sep. 3–9, 2025     xxxxxx No Job Is Worth Dying For (1991), Racist Terror in Mississippi (1875), Max Roach Lays Down the Freedom Suite (1960), ‘Never Again’ (2000), ‘They Shall Beat Their Swords Into Plowshares’ (1980) …
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September 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM

MAHA Madness: Bob Kennedy’s Cruel New Gospel of ‘Fitness’

MAHA Madness: Bob Kennedy’s Cruel New Gospel of ‘Fitness’     Thom Hartmann September 1, 2025 Hartmann Report If we let Bob Kennedy, MAHA madness, and his billionaire patrons redefine America as a place where only the strong survive, we will lose not just …
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September 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM

The Strange Origins of Common Food Superstitions

Portside Culture The Strange Origins of Common Food Superstitions     Tony Dunnell August 27, 2025 historyfacts.com Food superstitions are believed to bring luck, prosperity, health, wealth, and a range of other supposed benefits. The wis…
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September 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Labor Day and May Day, Both Made in America

Labor Day and May Day, Both Made in America     Jeffrey Sklansky August 13, 2025 The Conversation The battles that birthed these labor holidays united native-born and immigrant workers in an extraordinary alliance to demand an eight-hour workday at a time …
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September 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Crackdown on Immigrant Workers at a Wisconsin Cheese Factory Triggers Backlash, Solidarity

Crackdown on Immigrant Workers at a Wisconsin Cheese Factory Triggers Backlash, Solidarity     Ruth Conniff August 29, 2025 Wisconsin Examiner People confuse essential workers with workers who can be exploited,” Bibiana Gonzalez, a child care provider note…
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September 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM

African Union Joins Calls To End Use of Mercator Map That Shrinks Continent’s Size

African Union Joins Calls To End Use of Mercator Map That Shrinks Continent’s Size     Reuters August 15, 2025 The Guardian Member states back Correct the Map campaign that urges governments and organisations to use more accurate map ‘Mercator pr…
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September 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM

‘Alien: Earth’ Is One of the Best Shows So Far This Year

Portside Culture ‘Alien: Earth’ Is One of the Best Shows So Far This Year     Eric Deggans August 12, 2025 NPR 'Alien: Earth' is one of the best shows so far this year. Many classic themes recur: A modern world corrupted by corporate exploitation o…
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September 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Sunday Science: Uncovering the Genes That Let Our Ancestors Walk Upright

Sunday Science: Uncovering the Genes That Let Our Ancestors Walk Upright     Carl Zimmer August 27, 2025 The New York Times A new study reveals some of the crucial molecular steps on the path to bipedalism. A comparison of skeletons from “Evidenc…
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September 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Donald Trump Won’t Be Saved by Maps

Donald Trump Won’t Be Saved by Maps     David Dayen August 29, 2025 The Atlantic Gerrymandering in red states is predicated on Republicans holding Trump’s support in 2024, particularly from Latinos. That could be a bad bet. ,   As America…
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September 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Opinion | October 7 Wasn’t the First Time Israel’s Government Abandoned Jews for Political Gain

Opinion | October 7 Wasn’t the First Time Israel’s Government Abandoned Jews for Political Gain     Sebastian Ben-Daniel (John Brown) August 31, 2025 Haaretz Argentine junta benefited from cooperation with right-wing Israeli governments. Unlike Hamas, it c…
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September 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign

Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign     Bernie Sanders August 30, 2025 The New York Times Secretary Kennedy is putting Americans’ lives in danger, and he must resign. , Mark Peterson for The New York Times   Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the sec…
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September 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Trump Proposes 200 Percent Tariff on Imports From China, Xi Pushes for 300 Percent

Trump Proposes 200 Percent Tariff on Imports From China, Xi Pushes for 300 Percent     Dean Baker August 26, 2025 Center for Economic and Policy Research Trump's threat of 200 percent tariff on Chinese imports shows a fundamental misunderstanding of trade.…
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August 31, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High

Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High     Jon Queally August 29, 2025 Common Dreams "Working people want unions and the numbers prove it," says one labor leader. "While billionaires and their yes-men in Congress try to slash wages, gut health care, a…
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August 31, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Could Oregon Chart the Course for Universal Health Care in the US?

Could Oregon Chart the Course for Universal Health Care in the US?     Kevin Foster August 27, 2025 Waging Nonviolence Oregon is on the verge of enacting a single-payer health care plan, but continued organizing is needed to secure this historic victory. …
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August 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM

What Does the Land Know? Ricardo Levins Morales on Art and Organizing

What Does the Land Know? Ricardo Levins Morales on Art and Organizing     Amie Stager | August 21, 2025 Workday Magazine People are hungry for truth telling, but truth telling has a smaller audience because it’s not within people’s realm of comfort or fami…
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August 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Judge the Actually Existing Trump Economy, Not the Theory

Judge the Actually Existing Trump Economy, Not the Theory     David Dayen August 28, 2025 The American Prospect Equity stakes, loophole closures, and protecting domestic industries might make sense in someone else’s hands. Not from a president with no stra…
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August 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM

How Rep. Nicole Collier’s Capitol Protest Sparked Solidarity Among These Texas Women

How Rep. Nicole Collier’s Capitol Protest Sparked Solidarity Among These Texas Women     Leslie Rangel and Olivia Messer August 20, 2025 The 19th The Fort Worth Democrat spent the night held hostage in the Texas House in protest. Then four enraged women — …
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August 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM

Friday Nite Videos | August 29, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | August 29, 2025     xxxxxx August 29, 2025 xxxxxx Big Crime | Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts. U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Participating in Combat. 20 Years After Hurricane Katrina. ICE Regrets Stopping This Informed Cit…
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August 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM

How Zohran Mamdani Can Win the War

How Zohran Mamdani Can Win the War     Eric Blanc, Emily Lemmerman, and Wen Zhuang August 28, 2025 The Nation Winning in November isn’t enough. A Mayor Mamdani will need a mass movement behind him to overcome an establishment that wants to crush him. …
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August 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM

When Hospitals Act Like ICE

When Hospitals Act Like ICE     Liset Cruz August 14, 2025 Type Investigations These patients needed long-term care. Instead, the hospitals pushed for them to be deported. ,   This article was produced in partnership with The Nation, with…
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August 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM

How Bad Slavery Was

How Bad Slavery Was     Robert Kuttner August 26, 2025 The American Prospect Donald Trump joins a long line of apologists for America’s peculiar institution, falsifying history in the interest of whitewashing slavery. ,   Last week, in a …
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August 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM

Humans Aren’t As Special As We Once Thought

Humans Aren’t As Special As We Once Thought     Kate Wong August 19, 2025 Scientific American Darwin opined that differences between humans and other animals were a matter of degree. New findings show that a wide variety of other species exhibit capabiliti…
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August 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM

In a Berlin Bar

Portside Culture In a Berlin Bar     Rafaella Del Burgo Poet Raffaela Del Bourgo offers a quick intro to sexual politics, reminding us that sex is "a tune both familiar and strange." ,   Stella says it first, I am not a lesbian. I sa…
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August 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Head of National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Resigns in Fiery Social Media Post

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Head of National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Resigns in Fiery Social Media Post     Dr. Demetre Daskalakis August 28, 2025 DrDemetre "I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate p…
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August 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM

Maryam Was My Friend. Israel Killed Her and Four Other Gaza Journalists

Maryam Was My Friend. Israel Killed Her and Four Other Gaza Journalists     Ruwaida Amer August 27, 2025 +972 Magazine After the airstrike on Nasser Hospital, our plea is ever more urgent: Palestinian reporters need international protection now, or Gaza's …
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August 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM

The Imminent Death of the Voting Rights Act

The Imminent Death of the Voting Rights Act     Linda Greenhouse August 25, 2025 The New York Times White people are depicted as victims of discrimination;.white South Africans are invited as refugees; the president demands a museum designed to tell the Af…
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August 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM

Sounds Like the Plan: The Historical Roots of the Takeover of D.C.

Sounds Like the Plan: The Historical Roots of the Takeover of D.C.     Rick Massimo August 24, 2025 Forget I Said Anything The capital has for most of its history been a largely-to-mostly-Black city run by open racists. This takeover by white federal offic…
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August 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits- Aug.28 -Readers Comments: National Guard to Washington, DC, Where Next?; Standing Up to Fascism – Learning From Martin Niemöller; Killing Medics and Journalists; RFK Gutting Our Defense Against Future Pandemics; New Book About Alger Hiss;

Tidbits- Aug.28 -Readers Comments: National Guard to Washington, DC, Where Next?; Standing Up to Fascism – Learning From Martin Niemöller; Killing Medics and Journalists; RFK Gutting Our Defense Against Future Pandemics; New Book About Alger Hiss;     August 28, 2…
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August 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM

Dems Break GOP Supermajority in Iowa Statehouse With 20-Point Swing in Trump District

Dems Break GOP Supermajority in Iowa Statehouse With 20-Point Swing in Trump District     Stephen Prager August 27, 2025 Common Dreams In a race that bodes well for Democrats' hopes in 2026, Catelin Drey won by championing "affordable housing, childcare, a…
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August 28, 2025 at 5:05 AM

Prosecutors Fail To Obtain Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent

Prosecutors Fail To Obtain Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent     Alan FeuerDevlin Barrett and William K. Rashbaum August 27, 2025 The New York Times It was a sharp rebuke to the prosecutors who were assigned to bring charges agains…
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August 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM

Donald Trump’s Madcap Crusade Against Wind

Donald Trump’s Madcap Crusade Against Wind     Ryan Cooper August 26, 2025 The American Prospect A wind project off Rhode Island is more than 80 percent completed. Trump just stopped it in its tracks. Turbines operate at the Block Island Wind Far…
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August 28, 2025 at 4:45 AM

Why Trump’s ‘Anti-Woke’ Attack on the Smithsonian Matters

Why Trump’s ‘Anti-Woke’ Attack on the Smithsonian Matters     Kimberlé Crenshaw and Jason Stanley August 27, 2025 The Guardian The president’s assault on US museums, education and memory is a critical dimension of his fascist aims Smithsonian Ins…
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August 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM

The New Samizdat

Portside Culture The New Samizdat     Lee Rossi August 27, 2025 Portside These two anthologies showcase poets that are responding to the anxieties of our time. ,   At the Corner of Hope and Despair: An Anthology for the Trump Era Ch…