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January 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM

There’s No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire

There’s No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire     Carl Beijer January 21, 2025 Jacobin Democrats want us to believe that there is some cohort of “good billionaires” who can be relied upon to fight for political progress. But as the right-wing turn of tech bill…
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January 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM

Trump Promises To End Birthright Citizenship and Shut Down the Border – a Legal Scholar Explains the Challenges These Actions Could Face

Trump Promises To End Birthright Citizenship and Shut Down the Border – a Legal Scholar Explains the Challenges These Actions Could Face     Amy Lieberman with Jean Lantz Reisz January 20, 2025 The Conversation Amy Lieberman, a politics editor at The Convers…
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January 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM

Senate Democrats Boil Over Laken Riley Missteps

Senate Democrats Boil Over Laken Riley Missteps     Alexander Bolton January 21, 2025 The Hill “There is huge concern because we’re talking about the mandatory imprisonment based on an accusation without a person even being charged, let alone being convicted…
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January 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM

Citizens United Unleashed the Dark Money Surge That Shaped the 2024 Election

Citizens United Unleashed the Dark Money Surge That Shaped the 2024 Election     Marina Pino, Julia Fishman January 14, 2025 Brennan Center for Justice The influence of wealthy donors and dark money was unprecedented. Much of it would have been illegal befor…
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January 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Palestinian Filmmakers Are Doing the Impossible To Capture Their Stories

Portside Culture Palestinian Filmmakers Are Doing the Impossible To Capture Their Stories     Matt MInton January 10, 2025 The Progressive "We are not belonging to anybody or to any party. We are artists, filmmakers from Gaza, who want to tell our st…
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January 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – January 21, 2025

Media Bits and Bytes – January 21, 2025     January 21, 2025 xxxxxx Media in galloping retreat , Ruben Bolling   Free Our Feeds Media in Galloping Retreat How to Protect Your Meta Data TikTok and RedNote AI Fans the LA Flames Trump’s Crypt…
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January 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM

‘It’s Finally Over, I’m Going Home’: Biden Grants Commutation for Leonard Peltier

‘It’s Finally Over, I’m Going Home’: Biden Grants Commutation for Leonard Peltier     Brett Wilkins January 20, 2025 Common Dreams "The victory of freeing Leonard Peltier is a symbol of our collective strength—and our resistance will never stop," vowed one I…
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January 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM

Woody’s New Year’s Resolutions and Ours

Woody’s New Year’s Resolutions and Ours     George Lakoff and Gil Duran January 1, 2025 FrameLab Advice for defeating the authoritarian threat Let's get to work! , Photo by BoliviaInteligente / Unsplash   It is hard to compete with Woody Gu…
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January 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM

This Week in People’s History, Jan 22–28

This Week in People’s History, Jan 22–28     xxxxxx The Long, Long, Road to Revolution (1905), ‘Can’t Nobody Lick Us’ (1940), Voter Suppression Meets Its Match (1965), Fluoride’s Safe to Drink, Period (1945), Designing the Trail of Tears (1825) , …
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January 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM

California Just Became the First State To Ban Sell-By Dates

Portside Culture California Just Became the First State To Ban Sell-By Dates     Merlyn Miller October 4, 2024 Food & Wine California's new law prohibits sell-by dates and requires standardized language for date labels. A "sell-by" date…
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January 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM

A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle

A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle     T.J. Clark January 17, 2025 London Review of Books If Trump is what the image-world has now revealed itself to be – if he’s the ‘society’ we have settled for, looming against us, cruel and false and ugly and deter…
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January 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Running in Circles on Racial Justice

Running in Circles on Racial Justice     Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler January 16, 2025 LA Progressive The reaction to racial justice is relentless and comes whenever strives are made to make the nation more inclusive. , Image by Thomas G. on Pixabay …
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January 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM

Sunday Science: My Errant Uterus

Sunday Science: My Errant Uterus     Monica J. Casper January 14, 2025 Sapiens.org In a time of heightened threats to reproductive rights, a women’s health scholar and mother of two comes face to face with her uterus. A person touches the keloid sc…
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January 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM

Notes on Fighting Trumpism

Notes on Fighting Trumpism     Robin D. G. Kelley November 12, 2024 Boston Review To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity. , AP   Iam baffled, as I was in 2016, as to why so many liberals are still …
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January 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM

It Wasn’t Just Flawed Forecasts, Dishonesty Has Also Hurt Economists

It Wasn’t Just Flawed Forecasts, Dishonesty Has Also Hurt Economists     Dean Baker January 10, 2025 CEPR Economists have seriously failed the public in important areas over the last three decades. And these failures played a role in fostering the upward red…
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January 20, 2025 at 2:45 AM

For Reality

For Reality     Bill McKibben January 19, 2025 The Crucial Years A few thoughts on the last day of the old world ,   It is hard, watching the richest men on earth grovel before the new king, not to feel a little fear. I have some early morn…
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January 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM

A Public Model for Home Insurance

A Public Model for Home Insurance     Moira Birss, MacKenzie Marcelin January 17, 2025 Dissent We must reimagine our disaster risk finance system so it reduces exposure and provides protection fairly. A house in Manasota Key, Florida, after the des…
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January 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM

An Explosive Fox Sports Lawsuit Has Turned Into a Salacious, Sexist Mess

Portside Culture An Explosive Fox Sports Lawsuit Has Turned Into a Salacious, Sexist Mess     Kyndall Cunningham January 19, 2025 Vox Sexual harassment claims involving hosts Skip Bayless and Joy Taylor have become a playground for misogynists online…
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January 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM

Shove the Presidency Down Trump’s Throat

Shove the Presidency Down Trump’s Throat     Jason Linkins January 18, 2025 The New Republic Liberals spent the president-elect’s first term trying and failing to kick him out of office. This time out, they need to turn the White House into a prison. …
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January 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM

The TikTok Ban Won’t Help

The TikTok Ban Won’t Help     Siddharth Suhas Shanbhag January 18, 2025 Jacobin The TikTok ban is about US tech hegemony, not national security or protecting Americans’ data, which homegrown social media companies make a business of collecting and selling. …
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January 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM

The Urgency of Interracial Solidarity in a Divided Nation

The Urgency of Interracial Solidarity in a Divided Nation     Brenda Victoria Castillo and Marc H. Morial January 18, 2025 Common Dreams By pitting Black and Brown communities against each other, shadow actors promote the false notion that democracy and equa…
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January 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM

José ‘Cha Cha’ Jiménez, Human Rights Activist and Former Chair of Young Lords, Dead at 76

José ‘Cha Cha’ Jiménez, Human Rights Activist and Former Chair of Young Lords, Dead at 76     Violet Miller January 12, 2025 Chicago Sun-Times “The Young Lords Organization turned political because we found out that just giving gifts wasn’t going to help our…
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January 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Amid Layoffs, Cargill’s Owners Given $2B in Stock Buybacks and Special Dividends

Amid Layoffs, Cargill’s Owners Given $2B in Stock Buybacks and Special Dividends     Brooks Johnson January 16, 2025 The Minnesota Star Tribune As 8,000 employees lost their jobs last month in a cost-cutting reorganization, the Cargill-MacMillan family for t…
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January 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM

Friday Nite Videos | January 17, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | January 17, 2025     January 17, 2025 xxxxxx How a Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. 7 Ways to Cut TRILLIONS in Tax Giveaways to the 1%. Gideon Levy and Mouin Rabbani on Ceasefire. Sing Sing | Movie. John Deere Is …
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January 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM

Can US Institutions Withstand Trump 2.0?

Can US Institutions Withstand Trump 2.0?     Daron Acemoglu, Bruce Ackerman, Aziz Huq, Alison L. LaCroix, and Richard K. Sherwin January 16, 2025 Project Syndicate From pursuing “enemies” to cementing plutocracy, Trump’s second term will test the resilience …
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January 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM

All Childhood Vaccines Were Tested Against Placebos – Here’s the Evidence

All Childhood Vaccines Were Tested Against Placebos – Here’s the Evidence     Jess Steier January 17, 2025 Unbiased Science Yes, ALL childhood vaccines have been tested against placebos, and most have been tested against inert placebos (when they aren't, the…
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January 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM

Biden’s Warning of Oligarchy: Trump and the Malefactors of Wealth

Biden’s Warning of Oligarchy: Trump and the Malefactors of Wealth     Editorial January 16, 2025 Guardian The outgoing president was right, in his farewell address, to warn of the dangers posed by the billionaires around the table Joe Biden, by Gag…
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January 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM

Forget Trump — Agreeing to a Ceasefire Was Netanyahu’s Own Calculation

Forget Trump — Agreeing to a Ceasefire Was Netanyahu’s Own Calculation     Meron Rapoport January 17, 2025 972 Magazine In Israel, the war in Gaza has become a burden on the government, the military, and society as a whole. Trump only gave Netanyahu an excus…
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January 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Holding Vigil

Portside Culture Holding Vigil     Alison Luterman November 3, 2024 Rattle Magazine As we approach Trump's second inauguration, poet Alison Luterman asks if the patient will survive? The patient is us, the American people. ,   My co…
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January 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM

First Ceasefire, Then Palestinian Liberation; Next Day Netanyahu Delays Vote

First Ceasefire, Then Palestinian Liberation; Next Day Netanyahu Delays Vote     Jewish Voice for Peace and Al Jazeera and News Agencies January 16, 2025 Jewish Voice for Peace; Al Jazeera Yesterday, a ceasefire and peace agreement was reached between Hamas …
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January 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM

Democrats Will Regret Helping To Pass the Laken Riley Act

Democrats Will Regret Helping To Pass the Laken Riley Act     Michelle Goldberg January 13, 2025 New York Times Democrats have a terrible habit, during moments of right-wing backlash, of voting for Republican legislation that they don’t seem to truly believe…
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January 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Los Angeles Burned, Now They’re Coming for Karen Bass

Los Angeles Burned, Now They’re Coming for Karen Bass     Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier January 10, 2025 Word In Black The first woman and second-ever Black person to serve as mayor of Los Angeles is under attack by conservative trolls like Elon Musk and Donald Tr…
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January 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Remember How Roberto Clemente Lived, Not How He Died

Remember How Roberto Clemente Lived, Not How He Died     Dave Zirin January 14, 2025 The Progressive Magazine Thinking about the legacy of the humanitarian and star as his island home sits in darkness from power outages. Clemente’s solidarity with the less f…
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January 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Tidbits – Jan.16 – Reader Comments: Ceasefire and Hostage Deal – After 15 Months of Genocide; Dr. Martin Luther King’s Prophetic Warning; R.I.P – Mark Solomon, Peter Yarrow; Biden Should Pardon Ethel Rosenberg; for Ann Telnaes; Cartoons; and More…

Tidbits – Jan.16 – Reader Comments: Ceasefire and Hostage Deal – After 15 Months of Genocide; Dr. Martin Luther King’s Prophetic Warning; R.I.P – Mark Solomon, Peter Yarrow; Biden Should Pardon Ethel Rosenberg; for Ann Telnaes; Cartoons; and More…     January 16, …
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January 16, 2025 at 4:55 AM

A Cease-Fire in Gaza Is Far From Enough

A Cease-Fire in Gaza Is Far From Enough     Seraj Assi January 15, 2025 Jacobin The announcement of a cease-fire deal in Gaza is a welcome reprieve after over a year of genocide. But it does nothing to remedy Israel’s numerous violations of international law…
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January 16, 2025 at 4:45 AM

Major Bank Charged With Cheating Customers out of $2 Billion

Major Bank Charged With Cheating Customers out of $2 Billion     Judd Legum and Noel Sims January 15, 2025 Popular Information The bank promised depositors the highest interest rates, but is charged with failing to let them know how to get them. A …
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January 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM

Whose Future Is It Anyway?

Portside Culture Whose Future Is It Anyway?     Jess Maginity November 12, 2024 Los Angeles Review of Books This book discusses the effort by the alt-right and fascist movements to claim the genres science fiction and speculative literature as their …
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January 16, 2025 at 4:20 AM

Embodying MLK’s Dream Today

Embodying MLK’s Dream Today     Rev. Irene Monroe January 13, 2025 LA Progressive If King were among us today, he would say that it is not enough to look outside ourselves to see the places where society is broken. Martin Luther King Jr.,  …
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January 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM

AOC: ‘Bigoted Folks’ Love Trans Sports Ban

AOC: ‘Bigoted Folks’ Love Trans Sports Ban     Julia Conley January 14, 2025 Common Dreams "Los Angeles is on fire right now, and this is the number one priority this majority has," said the congresswoman. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sarahbeth M…
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January 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – January 15, 2025

Global Left Midweek – January 15, 2025     January 15, 2025 xxxxxx Panamanians and Greenlanders have their say People demonstrate against U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in Panama City, Panama on December 31, 2024, as the country marks the 25th a…
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January 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM

Labor’s Prodigal Son Returns

Labor’s Prodigal Son Returns     Harold Meyerson January 13, 2025 The American Prospect SEIU rejoins the AFL-CIO, even as arresting labor’s decline remains a daunting challenge. By reaffiliating with the AFL-CIO, the Service Employees International…
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January 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM

Biden Administration Expected To Lift ‘Terror’ Designation for Cuba

Biden Administration Expected To Lift ‘Terror’ Designation for Cuba     January 14, 2025 Al Jazeera “It means that humanitarian organisations, church groups and various human rights organisations can now move aid to help the people in Cuba without facing any…
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January 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM

Trump’s Felony Conviction Appeal Will Show How Fully He’s Above the Law

Trump’s Felony Conviction Appeal Will Show How Fully He’s Above the Law     Marjorie Cohn January 14, 2025 Truthout Trump’s appeal will decide how the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling applies to his hush money case. Donald Trump speaks …
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January 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM

NPR Shopped for 96 Items at Walmart To Track How Prices Are Really Changing

NPR Shopped for 96 Items at Walmart To Track How Prices Are Really Changing     Alina Selyukh , Juweek Adolphe January 14, 2025 National Public Radio The rate of inflation has cooled for two years, and not everything is going up in price. So why does paying …
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January 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Costa-Garvas Directing the Revolution-‘Z’

Portside Culture Costa-Garvas Directing the Revolution-‘Z’     Kenan Behzat Sharpe November 8, 2018 Jacobin Political cinema can sometimes be too highbrow for a mass audience. But in the 1960s and early '70s, French-Greek director Costa-Garvas showed…
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January 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – January 14, 2025

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – January 14, 2025     January 14, 2025 xxxxxx Judgement Day for the merchants of death ,   Judgement Day for the Merchants of Death The LA Fires Community Collaborative in Arkansas Classical Christian Ed: …
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January 14, 2025 at 7:10 AM

LA Real Estate Lobbied To Develop in High-Risk Fire Areas

LA Real Estate Lobbied To Develop in High-Risk Fire Areas     Katya Schwenk January 13, 2025 Jacobin In California, policymakers have long warned that continued development in high-risk wildfire zones was magnifying fires. But real estate interests have lobb…
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January 14, 2025 at 5:40 AM

Trump and His Crypto Cronies Have Big Plans. Be Afraid.

Trump and His Crypto Cronies Have Big Plans. Be Afraid.     Sam Gustin January 10, 2025 The Nation The incoming president and his Bitcoin-loving acolytes want to turn the government into their personal ATM. Donald Trump visits a cryptocurrency-them…
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January 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM

This Week in People’s History, Jan 15–17

This Week in People’s History, Jan 15–17     xxxxxx Ain’t Gonna Play Acoustic Guitar No More (1965), 40 Acres and a Mule Was Working Fine (1865), ‘Your Heritage Is My Slavery’ (2000) ,   Ain’t Gonna Play Acoustic Guitar No More JANUARY 15 I…
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January 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM

When You Exercise, Your Cells Are Talking to Each Other

When You Exercise, Your Cells Are Talking to Each Other     Sneha Khedkar January 3, 2025 The Scientist How does exercise benefit health? Molecules called exerkines partly regulate its effects and provide therapeutic targets to mimic the benefits of exercise…