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December 7, 2024 at 2:55 AM

Friday Nite Videos | December 6, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | December 6, 2024     December 6, 2024 xxxxxx Five Things Christian Nationalists Want from Trump. What Your Brain Is Really Doing When You're Doing 'Nothing.' The $1 Trillion Private Health Insurance Scam. Michael Kosta Meets the No. 1 Bo…
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December 7, 2024 at 2:25 AM

The Most Billionaires Ever

The Most Billionaires Ever     Robert Tait December 6, 2024 Guardian The president-elect is tapping mega-rich backers for positions that will give them power to cut spending on public services. The gulf between Trump’s taste for the wealthy and his populist …
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December 7, 2024 at 2:05 AM

Trump Fans Are Suffering From Tony Soprano Syndrome

Trump Fans Are Suffering From Tony Soprano Syndrome     Adam Serwer December 5, 2024 The Atlantic Judge Dredd, Tony Soprano, The Supes. They're all meant to be villains in cautionary tales against the danger of violent, fascistic, cultist leaders. But some T…
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December 7, 2024 at 1:30 AM

Google A.I. Agent Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts

Google A.I. Agent Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts     William J. Broad December 4, 2024 New York Times GenCast, from the company’s DeepMind division, outperformed the world’s best predictions of deadly storms as well as everyday weather. A satellite…
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December 7, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Postscript

Portside Culture Postscript     Marie Howe Marie Howe: New and Selected Poems Poet Marie Howe shows us the frightening consequences of "what we did to the earth." ,   What we did to the earth, we did to our daughters one after the ot…
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December 6, 2024 at 3:40 AM

Dr. Oz and the Stealth Destruction of Medicare

Dr. Oz and the Stealth Destruction of Medicare     Robert Kuttner November 26, 2024 The American Prospect The TV doctor’s scams and fake cures are the least of what makes him so dangerous as Trump’s appointee to head Medicare and Medicaid. During the campaig…
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December 6, 2024 at 3:15 AM

Palestinian-American Historian Rashid Khalidi: ‘Israel Has Created a Nightmare Scenario for Itself. The Clock Is Ticking’

Palestinian-American Historian Rashid Khalidi: ‘Israel Has Created a Nightmare Scenario for Itself. The Clock Is Ticking’     Interview with Rashid Khalidi by Itay Mashiach November 30, 2024 Haaretz The story isn't Hamas, religion or terrorism. Rashid Khalid…
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December 6, 2024 at 2:35 AM

Why Some Voters Across the Country Backed Progressive Ballot Initiatives—and Donald Trump

Why Some Voters Across the Country Backed Progressive Ballot Initiatives—and Donald Trump     Glenn Daigon November 25, 2024 The Progressive Magazine From abortion rights to minimum wage hikes to legal marijuana, voters’ support for ballot issues didn’t corr…
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December 6, 2024 at 1:00 AM

‘Progressive Except for Palestine’: How a Tech Charity Imploded Over a Statement on Gaza

‘Progressive Except for Palestine’: How a Tech Charity Imploded Over a Statement on Gaza     Timothy Pratt December 3, 2024 The Guardian The board of the non-profit Code for Science & Society blocked a statement against genocide. The fallout tore the hig…
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December 6, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Tidbits – Dec. 5 – Reader Comments: Trump Cabinet; Mexican President Letter; Dems Touted Ground Game; Harris Turned Away From Economic Populism; Experts Explain Why America Voted for Plague; Model for City Officials Protecting Targeted Communities;

Tidbits – Dec. 5 – Reader Comments: Trump Cabinet; Mexican President Letter; Dems Touted Ground Game; Harris Turned Away From Economic Populism; Experts Explain Why America Voted for Plague; Model for City Officials Protecting Targeted Communities;     December 5,…
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December 5, 2024 at 6:50 AM

What Trump’s Cabinet Picks and Advisers Say About Climate Change

What Trump’s Cabinet Picks and Advisers Say About Climate Change     Lisa Friedman December 4, 2024 New York Times President-elect Donald Trump’s chief advisers would include one person who calls global warming an “existential” threat and some who don’t acce…
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December 5, 2024 at 6:30 AM

Biden’s Hands ‘Will Be Bloody’ if He Lets Trump Inherit Death Row Cases, Critics Warn

Biden’s Hands ‘Will Be Bloody’ if He Lets Trump Inherit Death Row Cases, Critics Warn     Eloise Goldsmith December 4, 2024 Common Dreams "President Biden came into office committing to abolishing the federal death penalty because of its fundamental flaws. C…
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December 5, 2024 at 6:05 AM

“You Can’t Buy Paradise With Blood”

“You Can’t Buy Paradise With Blood”     Interview with Sofia Orr by Patrick Lempges December 3, 2024 Jacobin Nineteen-year-old Sofia Orr was jailed for refusing to enlist in the Israeli military. In an interview with Jacobin, she explains the disturbing auth…
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December 5, 2024 at 5:45 AM

Some Guardrails Hold

Some Guardrails Hold     Robert Kuttner December 4, 2024 The American Prospect More Trump screwball nominations are going down, and he belatedly agrees to let the FBI vet nominees—meaning that still more will fall. Pete Hegseth, President-elect Don…
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December 5, 2024 at 4:15 AM

Man Overboard

Portside Culture Man Overboard     Rebecca Onion May 18, 2023 Slate "Josh Hawley’s long-threatened tome about American masculinity is here," writes this reviewer. "Savor it with me." ,   Manhood The Masculine Virtues America Needs J…
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December 5, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – December 4, 2024

Global Left Midweek – December 4, 2024     December 4, 2024 xxxxxx The future of resistance to Israel Amazon workers from Germany joined colleagues from the USA, Sweden, Great Britain and Italy at the international protest on Black Friday on Nov. 2…
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December 4, 2024 at 1:05 AM

The Court Where the Rule of Law Still Lives—for Now

The Court Where the Rule of Law Still Lives—for Now     Jonathan van Harmelen December 3, 2024 The New Republic During Trump’s first term, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals was a rare oasis of judicial sobriety. It will face an even sterner test the next ti…
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December 4, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Even in Exile, the Left Must Fight To Popularize Its Vision

Even in Exile, the Left Must Fight To Popularize Its Vision     Simon Black November 30, 2024 Jacobin After Trump’s victory, the Left must confront right-wing faux populism while facing a Democratic establishment hostile to the class politics that could actu…
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December 4, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Biden Urged To Act Now As Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Looms

Biden Urged To Act Now As Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Looms     Jessica Corbett December 2, 2024 Common Dreams "President Biden must use the power of the pen to protect those seeking sanctuary from the coming deportation machine that will crush the human r…
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December 4, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Joe Biden Finally Breaks a Norm To Keep His Son out of Prison

Joe Biden Finally Breaks a Norm To Keep His Son out of Prison     Ryan Cooper December 3, 2024 The American Prospect Hunter Biden deserved a pardon. But America deserved a lot more than that. President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden walk in dow…
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December 4, 2024 at 1:00 AM

‘All We Imagine As Light’ Review: Tender Comrades

Portside Culture ‘All We Imagine As Light’ Review: Tender Comrades     Manohla Dargis November 14, 2024 The New York Times In Payal Kapadia’s extraordinary film, three women in Mumbai search for connections amid the city’s vibrant and darkly alienati…
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December 4, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – December 3, 2024

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – December 3, 2024     December 3, 2024 xxxxxx The Great Purge and Resistance 2.0 Demonstrators protest outside of the Supreme Court on May 4, 2022, in Washington. Credit, Alex Brandon/AP Photo   GOP: MAGA …
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December 3, 2024 at 7:45 AM

Election Aftermath

Election Aftermath     Rebecca Gordon December 1, 2024 Tom Dispatch Staring Down Misogyny Customers at McSorley’s Old Ale House jeer at Lucy Komisar, who was among the first women to drink at the pub after the city passed a new anti-discrimination …
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December 3, 2024 at 1:35 AM

#GivingTuesday and the Challenge of a Wannabe Fascism

#GivingTuesday and the Challenge of a Wannabe Fascism     December 2, 2024 xxxxxx How can we prevent a wannabe dictator from consolidating absolute power? Please help us to inform, analyze and mobilize in the year ahead. Here's how you can help xxxxxx on Giv…
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December 3, 2024 at 1:05 AM

This Week in People’s History, Dec 4–10

This Week in People’s History, Dec 4–10     xxxxxx Black Panthers Under the Gun - I (1969), Teddy Roosevelt Gives U.S. Imperialism the Nod (1904), Racist Terror in Vicksburg (1874), Black Panthers Under the Gun - II (1969), Coltrane Lays Down a Masterpiece (…
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December 3, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Sarah McBride Wasn’t Looking for a Fight on Trans Rights

Sarah McBride Wasn’t Looking for a Fight on Trans Rights     David Remnick December 1, 2024 The New Yorker The first trans person elected to Congress discusses how to respond to a bathroom bill and transphobic attacks from her new colleagues in the House. …
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December 3, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Anti-Zionist Israeli MP: ’I Will Never Surrender

Anti-Zionist Israeli MP: ’I Will Never Surrender     Marcus Barnett interviews Ofer Cassif November 28, 2024 Tribune Ofer Cassif — currently suspended from the Knesset for opposing genocide in Gaza — discusses Israel’s descent into fascism, building the move…
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December 3, 2024 at 1:00 AM

How Trump Plans To Seize the Power of the Purse From Congress

How Trump Plans To Seize the Power of the Purse From Congress     Molly Redden November 26, 2024 Propublica The second-term president likely will seek to cut off spending that lawmakers have already appropriated, setting off a constitutional struggle within …
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December 2, 2024 at 2:20 AM

Ted Danson’s ‘A Man on the Inside’ Is Based on a True Story That Will Tug at Your Heartstrings

Portside Culture Ted Danson’s ‘A Man on the Inside’ Is Based on a True Story That Will Tug at Your Heartstrings     Conor McShane November 30, 2024 MovieWeb A Man on the Inside is clearly meant to be a comedy, but it explores some harsh truths around…
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December 2, 2024 at 1:05 AM

A xxxxxx Message: The Challenge of a Wannabe Fascism

A xxxxxx Message: The Challenge of a Wannabe Fascism     December 1, 2024 xxxxxx How can we prevent a wannabe dictator from consolidating absolute power? Please help us to inform, analyze and mobilize in the year ahead. Here's how You can help xxxxxx... …
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December 2, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Sunday Science: New Theory – Dark Energy Might Be Black Holes

Sunday Science: New Theory – Dark Energy Might Be Black Holes     Sabine Hossenfelder November 12, 2024 Sabine Hossenfelder - Science News Dark Enegy and Black Holes, What's the story here? , Sabine Hossenfelder   ‘DNA Typewriters’ Can R…
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December 2, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Bernie Sanders: We Need More Working-Class Candidates To Challenge Both Parties

Bernie Sanders: We Need More Working-Class Candidates To Challenge Both Parties     Bernie Sanders, John Nichols November 26, 2024 The Nation The senator says in this exclusive interview that challengers to status quo politics can run in Democratic primaries…
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December 2, 2024 at 1:00 AM

The Fifty-Year Revolt

The Fifty-Year Revolt     Dan Berger August 22, 2024 Nplus1 On prison organizing: Two reviews Remember Attica. Circa 1971. , Photograph via Library of Congress.   Orisanmi Burton. Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and t…
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December 2, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Taxpayers Spend 22% More per Patient To Support Medicare Advantage – the Private Alternative to Medicare That Promised To Cost Less

Taxpayers Spend 22% More per Patient To Support Medicare Advantage – the Private Alternative to Medicare That Promised To Cost Less     Grace McCormack, Erin Duffy November 26, 2024 The Conversation Medicare Advantage – the commercial alternative to traditio…
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December 2, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Netflix Removes Palestinian Stories From Its Library

Netflix Removes Palestinian Stories From Its Library     Samer Badawi November 13, 2024 The Progressive The streaming giant’s move has sparked criticism from entertainment workers and activists. , The Progressive   In October, streaming gi…
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December 1, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Boris Kagarlitsky’s ‘The Long Retreat’

Boris Kagarlitsky’s ‘The Long Retreat’     Dmitry Pozhidaev November 23, 2024 Links Capitalism, crisis and the left’s challenge , Pluto Press   The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left By Boris Kagarlitsky Published b…
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December 1, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Biden’s Last-Minute Gift to Corporate Lawbreakers

Biden’s Last-Minute Gift to Corporate Lawbreakers     Helen Santoro, Freddy Brewster Freddy Brewster November 26, 2024 The Lever A new Justice Department policy update says that even repeat corporate offenders can avoid prosecution if they “make good faith e…
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December 1, 2024 at 1:00 AM

How US Sanctions Torpedoed Kamala Harris

How US Sanctions Torpedoed Kamala Harris     Arun Gupta November 19, 2024 Jacobin The Biden administration’s sanctions on Russia didn’t just tank global markets; they also helped Kamala Harris lose the election. The Democrats’ fate was sealed by a Wall Stree…
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December 1, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Lifting From the Bottom: How To Survive Donald Trump’s America

Lifting From the Bottom: How To Survive Donald Trump’s America     Liz Theoharis and Shailly Gupta Barnes November 24, 2024 TomDispatch In this sick reality of ours, poverty is clearly anything but a marginal experience — and yet, as in the last election, it…
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December 1, 2024 at 1:00 AM

How To Build a Culture of Organizing: A Conversation With Marshall Ganz

How To Build a Culture of Organizing: A Conversation With Marshall Ganz     Steve Dubb and Marshall Ganz November 19, 2024 Nonprofit Quarterly A lot of mobilizing is tactics in search of a strategy. There is no strategic context to it because there is no org…
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November 30, 2024 at 2:35 AM

Friday Nite Videos | November 29, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | November 29, 2024     November 29, 2024 xxxxxx Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee) | Lance Canales. Faces of Deportation | ICE Raid in Mississippi. What Happens When R's Lose: The NC Test Case. Union | (Amazon) Documentary. How AI Cracke…
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November 30, 2024 at 2:20 AM

Elon Musk and the Age of Shameless Oligarchy

Elon Musk and the Age of Shameless Oligarchy     Whizy Kim November 25, 2024 Vox Musk is showing other members of the ultra-wealthy a bold alternative to stealth politics, urged on by a president-elect who has embraced giving billionaires a seat at the table…
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November 30, 2024 at 1:50 AM

Mexican President Sheinbaum’s Letter to Donald Trump

Mexican President Sheinbaum’s Letter to Donald Trump     Joel Cano November 26, 2024 infobae.com Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sent a letter to president-elect Donald Trump, addressing the issues of border crossings and labor mobility, the fentanyl epi…
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November 30, 2024 at 1:30 AM

Extinct Hominin Species Lived Side by Side 1.5 Million Years Ago

Extinct Hominin Species Lived Side by Side 1.5 Million Years Ago     Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Kevin Hatala and Purity Kiura November 28, 2024 The Conversation These fossil footprints are the first definitive evidence ever that two hominin species – one our like…
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November 30, 2024 at 1:10 AM

Dr. Strangekennedy

Dr. Strangekennedy     Rick Perlstein November 27, 2024 The American Prospect The reactionary playbook frames all COVID-era public-health measures as an elite conspiracy to enrich what it calls “a small group of highly paid and unaccountable insiders.” It's …
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November 30, 2024 at 1:00 AM

On Progress

Portside Culture On Progress     Ruben Quesada Omnium Gatherum Quarterly, Brutal Companion In the shadow of 9/11, poet Ruben Quesada shows us the destructiveness and death that come with "progress." ,   Beyond the amplitude of sky fi…
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November 29, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Democrats Much Touted Ground Game Was Not Enough. Here’s How To Fix It

Democrats Much Touted Ground Game Was Not Enough. Here’s How To Fix It     Astra Taylor November 25, 2024 The Guardian Democrats should stop mocking trump’s ground game snd start learning from it. Cable ads and bussed-in volunteers don’t cut it any more. If …
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November 29, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Madeleine Riffaud, ‘The Girl Who Saved Paris,’ Dies at 100

Madeleine Riffaud, ‘The Girl Who Saved Paris,’ Dies at 100     Sam Roberts November 23, 2024 New York Times Humiliated by a Nazi officer as a teenager, she joined the French Resistance. By the time she was 20, she had killed a German soldier, survived tortur…
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November 29, 2024 at 1:05 AM

The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus

The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus     Stephania Taladrid November 25, 2024 The New Yorker Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state. A new reality set in for ob-gyns in Texas - “The standard of care can no…
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November 29, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Tidbits – Nov. 28 – Reader Comments: Trump 2.0; Resistance 2.0; Thankful for Farmworkers; Another Woman Dies in Texas; U.S. Military Spending vs Other Top Countries; New Directions in Labor Politics; Cartoons; and More…

Tidbits – Nov. 28 – Reader Comments: Trump 2.0; Resistance 2.0; Thankful for Farmworkers; Another Woman Dies in Texas; U.S. Military Spending vs Other Top Countries; New Directions in Labor Politics; Cartoons; and More…     November 28, 2024 xxxxxx Reader Co…