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July 8, 2022 at 12:05 AM

Ending Pandemic Aid Created a Disaster

Ending Pandemic Aid Created a Disaster     Andrew Perez & Nick Byron Campbell July 5, 2022The Lever New government data show that after the government terminated pandemic relief programs, millions more Americans began struggling to survive. The Lever, …

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July 8, 2022 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – July 7, 2022 – Reader Comments: Trump Complicity; Supreme Court Coup; Four Facts To Remember on the 4th of July; Salt of the Earth – Only Film Blacklisted; Resources; Announcements;

Tidbits – July 7, 2022 – Reader Comments: Trump Complicity; Supreme Court Coup; Four Facts To Remember on the 4th of July; Salt of the Earth – Only Film Blacklisted; Resources; Announcements;     July 7, 2022xxxxxx Reader Comments: Trump Complicity; Supreme Court Cou…

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July 8, 2022 at 12:00 AM

Severance: A Novel

Portside Culture Severance: A Novel     Chris Brooks July 3, 2022Facebook The story is full of very relatable pandemic moments: workers questioning whether it’s safe to go to work or whether they should stay home, streets suddenly emptied, N-95 masks. What make…

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July 7, 2022 at 5:10 AM

Rebuilding the Working-Class Base One Door at a Time

Rebuilding the Working-Class Base One Door at a Time     Interview With Matt Morrison by Jared Abbott July 5, 2022Jacobin Reinvigorating class-based politics in the US depends on more than inspiring candidates like Bernie Sanders: it requires durable working-class po…

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July 7, 2022 at 4:30 AM

Revealed: Us Water Likely Contains More ‘Forever Chemicals’ Than EPA Tests Show

Revealed: Us Water Likely Contains More ‘Forever Chemicals’ Than EPA Tests Show     Tom Perkins July 6, 2022The Guardian Guardian analysis of water samples taken in nine US locations shows test agency uses is likely missing significant levels of PFAS pollutants …

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July 7, 2022 at 4:15 AM

‘Fight for Us Goddamnit’: Frustration Grows Over Biden Fecklessness Amid GOP Destruction

‘Fight for Us Goddamnit’: Frustration Grows Over Biden Fecklessness Amid GOP Destruction     Julia Conley July 6, 2022Common Dreams "We simply cannot make promises, hector people to vote, and then refuse to use our full power when they do," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasi…

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July 7, 2022 at 4:00 AM

The Nuts and Bolts of Medicare for All

The Nuts and Bolts of Medicare for All     F. Douglas Stephenson July 6, 2022Informed Comment With M4A, citizens are guaranteed access to health care while achieving significant overall savings compared to our existing obsolete system. This is accomplished by lowerin…

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July 7, 2022 at 12:15 AM

Beyond a Biography: Seeing C.L.R. James Afresh

Portside Culture Beyond a Biography: Seeing C.L.R. James Afresh     Paul Buhle June 30, 2022New Frame John L Williams’ new book on the pan-African thinker is a marvel that offers a close, meticulous description of his life and thinking, untangling his transform…

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July 7, 2022 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – No Easy Way Out

Global Left Midweek – No Easy Way Out     July 6, 2022xxxxxx World crises demand groundbreaking strategies Angry protesters stormed the Tobruk-based House of Representatives on Friday evening as part of demonstrations sweeping Libya. The outraged crowd demande…

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July 6, 2022 at 12:55 AM

July 4th Violence Leaves Democrats Frustrated Biden Not Doing More on Gun Control

July 4th Violence Leaves Democrats Frustrated Biden Not Doing More on Gun Control     Alex Gangitano July 5, 2022The Hill “Gun violence is the leading cause of death of children in this country and that is really horrific. If that is the case, why isn’t there a robus…

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July 6, 2022 at 12:50 AM

US Drag Queens Stand Their Ground Amid Intimidation by the Far Right

US Drag Queens Stand Their Ground Amid Intimidation by the Far Right     Edward Helmore July 4, 2022The Guardian The world of American drag has been marred by growing fears of violence and intimidation as they have been specifically targeted by extremist far-right an…

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July 6, 2022 at 12:50 AM

Senate Urged To Block Biden’s Pro-Privatization Nominee for Social Security Board

Senate Urged To Block Biden’s Pro-Privatization Nominee for Social Security Board     Jake Johnson July 5, 2022Common Dreams "The Senate can, and must, block this terrible nomination," Social Security Works said of the administration's choice of Andrew Biggs. …

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July 6, 2022 at 12:50 AM

U.S. Supreme Court’s ‘Miranda’ Decision Guts 150-Year-Old Civil Rights Law

U.S. Supreme Court’s ‘Miranda’ Decision Guts 150-Year-Old Civil Rights Law     Hassan Kanu June 27, 2022Reuters The court held that a violation of Miranda rules – which protect the Constitutional right against compelled self-incrimination – isn’t a violation of the C…

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July 6, 2022 at 12:00 AM

The Forgiven Puts Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain at the Center of a Tense Culture Clash

Portside Culture The Forgiven Puts Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain at the Center of a Tense Culture Clash     Jack Smart July 1, 2022AV Club John Michael McDonagh’s film The Forgiven hinges on an act of accidental violence that means so much more Ralp…

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July 6, 2022 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – July 5, 2022

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – July 5, 2022     July 5, 2022xxxxxx School officials try to whitewash slavery and the Japanese-American internment Credit, Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images   Nationalism F’s Us Up SCOTUS Disposes of Evidence Wishing That Wo…

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July 5, 2022 at 3:25 AM

U.S. Elections: The End of Majority Rule

U.S. Elections: The End of Majority Rule     Steven Hill July 2, 2022LA Progressive The US, which has been teetering on the edge of a cliff for some time, is now starting to tip into an abyss of "minority rule medievalism.” , Star Tribune   Over the last…

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July 5, 2022 at 12:05 AM

Hawaii Hotel Workers Union Fights for Bringing Back More Services As Contract Expires

Hawaii Hotel Workers Union Fights for Bringing Back More Services As Contract Expires     Marisa Yamane July 1, 2022KITV4 Nearly 6,000 union hotel workers in Hawaii are now working without a contract. UNITE HERE! Local 5 wants the hotels to bring back services and st…

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July 5, 2022 at 12:05 AM

Why American Leaders Relish Hot-Dog Diplomacy

Portside Culture Why American Leaders Relish Hot-Dog Diplomacy     Doug Mack June 17, 2022Atlas Obscura When King George visited Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1939, the White House lunch included hot dogs. It kickstarted an enduring tactic of American internatio…

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July 5, 2022 at 12:05 AM

This Right-Wing U.S. Supreme Court Is the New King George III

This Right-Wing U.S. Supreme Court Is the New King George III     Juan Cole July 4, 2022Common Dreams Our most fundamental rights are being trampled by a tyrannical, unaccountable, and unelected force. A portrait of King George III seated in a General Officer'…

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July 5, 2022 at 12:00 AM

Feminism Hasn’t Failed. Here’s the Evidence.

Feminism Hasn’t Failed. Here’s the Evidence.     Rebecca Solnit July 3, 2022Guardian You can take away a right through legal means, but it is harder to take away the belief in that right. The uproar over the court’s hideous abortion decision is a reminder of how unpo…

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July 5, 2022 at 12:00 AM

CRISPR, 10 Years On: Learning To Rewrite the Code of Life

CRISPR, 10 Years On: Learning To Rewrite the Code of Life     Carl Zimmer June 27, 2022New York Times The gene-editing technology has led to innovations in medicine, evolution and agriculture — and raised profound ethical questions about altering human DNA. , …

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July 4, 2022 at 6:15 AM

Science and Civil Liberties: The Lost ACLU Lecture of Carl Sagan

Science and Civil Liberties: The Lost ACLU Lecture of Carl Sagan     Steven Pinker and Harvey Silverglate July 1, 2022Quillette Around 1987, Sagan gave an uncannily prescient lecture to the Illinois state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Portrait…

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July 4, 2022 at 5:55 AM

Peter Schuman Turns Sketches Into Comics — And Comics Into Street Theater

Peter Schuman Turns Sketches Into Comics — And Comics Into Street Theater     Sally Pollak June 29, 2022Seven Days A sketch in his notebook might become the basis for a comic, Schumann said. "Instead of leaving it hidden on those pages," he said, "start drawing away …

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July 4, 2022 at 5:30 AM

When the Fourth of July Was a Black Holiday

When the Fourth of July Was a Black Holiday     Ethan J. Kytle, Blain Roberts July 3, 2022The Atlantic After the Civil War, African Americans in the South transformed Independence Day into a celebration of their newly won freedom. , Wesley Hitt / Getty Images …

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July 4, 2022 at 4:40 AM

The United States Extends Its Military Reach Into Zambia

The United States Extends Its Military Reach Into Zambia     Vijay Prashad July 1, 2022CounerPunch The U.S. military has 29 known military bases in 15 of the African countries. , Photograph Source: Semsûrî – CC BY 4.0   On April 26, 2022, the United Stat…

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July 4, 2022 at 3:20 AM

SCOTUS EPA Ruling Signals Court Will Strike Down Rules Limiting Corporate Profit

SCOTUS EPA Ruling Signals Court Will Strike Down Rules Limiting Corporate Profit     Marjorie Cohn July 1, 2022Truthout The court’s decision sends an ominous signal that it will use the major questions doctrine to strike down other regulations that limit corporate pr…

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July 4, 2022 at 12:40 AM

Why Superhero Satire the Boys Turned Off Its Rightwing Fanbase

Portside Culture Why Superhero Satire the Boys Turned Off Its Rightwing Fanbase     Stuart Heritage June 28, 2022The Guardian Amazon’s subversive smash hit has irked some fans with a more overtly political season that dares to position the show’s villain as a D…

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July 3, 2022 at 12:05 AM

The Time Is Now for a People-Powered Backlash

The Time Is Now for a People-Powered Backlash     Bill McKibben July 2, 2022Common Dreams The Supreme Court's decisions are insanely unpopular; we have to make that matter. Hundreds of young climate activists rally in Lafayette Square on the north side of the …

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July 3, 2022 at 12:05 AM

Supreme Court EPA Climate Ruling

Supreme Court EPA Climate Ruling     Gary Yohe July 2, 2022The Hill What did Congress intend with Clean Air Act? , ABC7Chicago   When it handed down its decision on West Virginia v. EPA on Thursday, the Supreme Court hung its judicial hat on the “major q…

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July 3, 2022 at 12:00 AM

Climate Activists Across the Global South and North Unite To Stop the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline

Climate Activists Across the Global South and North Unite To Stop the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline     Nick Engelfried June 28, 2022Waging Nonviolence As a movement born in Uganda and Tanzania arrives in the United States, activists are drawing strength from lesson…

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July 3, 2022 at 12:00 AM

‘I Feel Trapped in Violence That Extends From Palestine to the UK’

‘I Feel Trapped in Violence That Extends From Palestine to the UK’     Pádraig Ó Meiscill and Shahd Abusalama June 23, 2022Red Pepper I feel trapped in violence that extends from Palestine to here and I don’t know how to get free from it. I’m trying my best, but even…

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July 3, 2022 at 12:00 AM

The Media Celebrated Julian Assange and Is Now Too Afraid To Defend Him

The Media Celebrated Julian Assange and Is Now Too Afraid To Defend Him     Patrick Cockburn June 27, 2022CounterPunch When WikiLeaks first released its hoard of documents, extracts were published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and El País…

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July 2, 2022 at 12:45 AM

Friday Nite Videos | July 1, 2022

Friday Nite Videos | July 1, 2022     July 1, 2022xxxxxx AOC: Members Who Sought Pardons Should Be Expelled. SCOTUS Restricts the EPA, R. Kelly and Ghislaine Maxwell Get Prison Sentences. Dark Winds | TV Trailer. How Democrats Can Run And Win In Rural Areas. Salt of…

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July 2, 2022 at 12:15 AM

Seven Steps Before the Midterms

Seven Steps Before the Midterms     Poor People's Campaign June 18, 2022 This Declaration to Reconstruct American Democracy was adopted at a Mass Poor Peoples and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls as a warning and a call to act…

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July 2, 2022 at 12:15 AM

Originalism Run Amok at the Supreme Court

Originalism Run Amok at the Supreme Court     Michael Waldman June 28, 2022Brennan Center for Justice Originalism, as used by this Court, just provides cover for a right-wing polit­ical agenda. It is a threat to democracy. Supreme Court - Sepia, IslesPunkFan (…

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July 2, 2022 at 12:10 AM

Google’s Powerful AI Spotlights a Human Cognitive Glitch: Mistaking Fluent Speech for Fluent Thought

Google’s Powerful AI Spotlights a Human Cognitive Glitch: Mistaking Fluent Speech for Fluent Thought     Kyle Mahowald and Anna A. Ivanova June 24, 2022The Conversation You cannot simply trust a language model when it tells you how it feels. Words can be misleading, …

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July 2, 2022 at 12:10 AM

The Insane Saga of ‘Salt of the Earth,’ the Only Film To Be Blacklisted

The Insane Saga of ‘Salt of the Earth,’ the Only Film To Be Blacklisted     Allison McNearney June 26, 2022Guardian Blacklisted Hollywood workers independently produced one of the great labor films. “One of the reasons we made ‘Salt of the Earth’ after we were blackl…

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July 2, 2022 at 12:00 AM

Before Roe

Portside Culture Before Roe     Peter Neil Carroll July 1, 2022 They say you can’t go home again, but the Supreme Court says otherwise. Peter Neil Carroll’s Before Roe offers a glimpse of “normal” from the bad old days. ,   Before Roe By Peter Nei…

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July 1, 2022 at 12:40 AM

Cassidy Hutchinson Shows Trump’s Complicity in the Attack on the Capitol

Cassidy Hutchinson Shows Trump’s Complicity in the Attack on the Capitol     Ed Kilgore June 29, 2022New York Magazine When the House committee investigating January 6 changed its schedule to hold an immediate hearing on Tuesday, it was clear something big was up. Th…

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July 1, 2022 at 12:30 AM

What the Reversal of Roe Means for Women’s Work – Citizens No More

What the Reversal of Roe Means for Women’s Work – Citizens No More     Tressie McMillan Cottom June 28, 2022New York Times For only 58 years of the nation’s 246-year-old economy, women have been able to avail themselves — thanks to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act —…

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July 1, 2022 at 12:10 AM

China Will Decide the Outcome of Russia v. the West – Is Putin the Face of the Future or the Final Gasp of the Past?

China Will Decide the Outcome of Russia v. the West – Is Putin the Face of the Future or the Final Gasp of the Past?     John Feffer June 23, 2022TomDispatch Only a decisive defeat of Putinism — with its toxic mix of despotism, corruption, right-wing nationalism, and…

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July 1, 2022 at 12:05 AM

Instagram & Facebook Remove Posts Offering Abortion Pills

Instagram & Facebook Remove Posts Offering Abortion Pills     Amanda Seitz June 27, 2022Associated Press (AP) Memes and status updates explaining how women could legally obtain abortion pills in the mail exploded across social platforms. Some even offered to mail…

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July 1, 2022 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – June 30, 2022 – Reader Comments: Supreme Court Dobbs Abortion Decision and the Present Danger; How the World Sees Us – In Cartoons; Debunking 5 Top Inflation Myths; More...

Tidbits – June 30, 2022 – Reader Comments: Supreme Court Dobbs Abortion Decision and the Present Danger; How the World Sees Us – In Cartoons; Debunking 5 Top Inflation Myths; More…     June 30, 2022xxxxxx Reader Comments: Supreme Court Dobbs Abortion Decision and the…

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July 1, 2022 at 12:00 AM

The Fire She Fights

Portside Culture The Fire She Fights     Jane LaTour June 20, 2022New York Labor History Association Women working in the blue-collar “nontraditional” occupations, traditionally occupied by men, have been writing about their experiences, contributing to our kno…

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June 30, 2022 at 12:20 AM

A Great Awakening

Portside Culture A Great Awakening     Molly Worthen April 27, 2012The New York Times This decade-old book is especially relevant now. ,   When God Talks Back Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship With God T. M. Luhrmann Alfred A. Kno…

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June 30, 2022 at 12:05 AM

Non-Police Public Safety Alternatives Work. Denver’s Star Program Proves It.

Non-Police Public Safety Alternatives Work. Denver’s Star Program Proves It.     Joe Mayall June 28, 2022Jacobin Denver’s STAR program sends paramedics and behavioral health clinicians instead of police to respond to 911 calls related to mental health issues, homeles…

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June 30, 2022 at 12:05 AM

Jubilation and Hope As Convention Puts Final Stamp on Chile’s New Draft Constitution

Jubilation and Hope As Convention Puts Final Stamp on Chile’s New Draft Constitution     John Bartlett June 28, 2022The Guardian The draft shifts Chile away from the existing Pinochet-era document, enshrining cultural rights and laying out a path of autonomy for Indi…

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June 30, 2022 at 12:00 AM

Europeans Have Far More Reproductive Freedom Than Americans

Europeans Have Far More Reproductive Freedom Than Americans     Ryan Cooper June 29, 2022The American Prospect In both access to abortion and a pro-family welfare state, Europe beats the U.S. hands down. Activists and supporters protest in solidarity for abort…

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June 30, 2022 at 12:00 AM

How Local Governments Are Advancing Workers’ Rights, and Why Even More Should Get Involved

How Local Governments Are Advancing Workers’ Rights, and Why Even More Should Get Involved     Terri Gerstein and LiJia Gong June 28, 2022Route-Fifty Cities are spearheading efforts to pass and enforce local labor laws that are improving standards for workers in thei…

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June 30, 2022 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – June 29, 2022

Global Left Midweek – June 29, 2022     June 29, 2022xxxxxx The worldwide fight for abortion rights, Die Linke party congress, and a power shift in... Grenada! Indigenous people and farmers block a road in San Juan de Pastocalle, Cotopaxi province, Ecuador, Ju…

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