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November 30, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – November 29, 2022

Media Bits and Bytes – November 29, 2022     November 29, 2022xxxxxx Twitter SNAFUs, and more reports from MSM and cyberworld Credit, Nicholas Konrad / The New Yorker   A Progressive News Network Fox News’s Crime Wave Goes Poof   Twitter Litter Can Deepf…

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November 30, 2022 at 1:00 AM

‘Nanny’ Employs African Folklore in a Haunting Black Horror Film

Portside Culture ‘Nanny’ Employs African Folklore in a Haunting Black Horror Film     Pilar Galvan November 23, 2022NPR While recent films in the Black horror genre have presented the terrifying realities of being Black in America, Nanny is rooted in the specif…

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November 29, 2022 at 6:25 AM

New York Democrats Didn’t Defend Their Bail Law Changes. It Bit Them at the Polls.

New York Democrats Didn’t Defend Their Bail Law Changes. It Bit Them at the Polls.     Anna Gronewold November 27, 2022Politico Republicans across the country campaigned on crime. Nowhere did it resonate more than in New York. Kathy Hochul speaks to supporters…

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November 29, 2022 at 3:05 AM

On Giving Tuesday: New Challenges for the Left

On Giving Tuesday: New Challenges for the Left     xxxxxx Moderators November 28, 2022xxxxxx Once in a while, we – the volunteer moderators of xxxxxx – take the opportunity to talk directly to us – the entire xxxxxx community – about how we see things and how you can…

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November 29, 2022 at 1:05 AM

Why a New Special Counsel’s Trump Investigations Won’t Be Like the Mueller Probe

Why a New Special Counsel’s Trump Investigations Won’t Be Like the Mueller Probe     Ari Shapiro November 25, 2022NPR NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Andrew Weissmann, a former senior prosecutor on the Robert Mueller probe, about what's next for the special counsel on t…

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November 29, 2022 at 1:05 AM

Amazon Workers Walk Off the Job on the Biggest Shopping Day of the Year

Amazon Workers Walk Off the Job on the Biggest Shopping Day of the Year     Kara Voght November 25, 2022Rolling Stone Amazon warehouse workers have walked off the job on Friday which is one of the busiest shopping days of the year to demand higher wages and better wo…

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November 29, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Media Misled on Issues Important to Midterm Voters

Media Misled on Issues Important to Midterm Voters     David Moore November 23, 2022FAIR The real problem with the 2022 news coverage is not that it was off target, but rather that “prognostication-as-reporting is utterly dysfunctional.” Fox (11/1/22) greatly …

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November 29, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Farm Workers Push for Congressional Action During Lame Duck Session

Farm Workers Push for Congressional Action During Lame Duck Session     Rebekah Entralgo November 23, 2022Inequality.org A delegation of farm workers lobbied Congress ahead of the holiday weekend to pass legislation that would provide a pathway to citizenship for tho…

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November 29, 2022 at 1:00 AM

The Fakelore of Food Origins

Portside Culture The Fakelore of Food Origins     Ashawnta Jackson November 22, 2022JSTOR Food history is replete with honored legends, creative stories, slightly twisted truths, unsupported claims, leaps of faith, and outright lies. Actually most new dishes ar…

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November 28, 2022 at 7:45 AM

RSV and the Flu Are Straining Health Care Systems

RSV and the Flu Are Straining Health Care Systems     Rebecca S.B. Fischer, Annette Regan November 18, 2022The Conversation Two Epidemiologists Explain What the ‘Triple Threat’ Means for Children Pediatric emergency rooms in some states are at or over capacity…

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November 28, 2022 at 5:50 AM

Why Saudi Arabia Is So Quiet About Iran’s Protests

Why Saudi Arabia Is So Quiet About Iran’s Protests     Kim Ghattas November 24, 2022The Atlantic The kingdom’s rulers may have managed their own social pressures better, but they’re wary of the tumult that’s shaking their neighbor. , Getty; The Atlantic …

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November 28, 2022 at 5:15 AM

The Life and Afterlife of the Paris Commune.

The Life and Afterlife of the Paris Commune.     David A. Bell November 15, 2022The Nation The life and afterlife of the Paris Commune. Paris Commune, 1871., Getty Images   We generally don’t see Paris as a city scarred by war. It is not like London and …

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November 28, 2022 at 4:00 AM

One Day of Warren Buffett Wealth Gains Could Fund 15 Days of Paid Sick Leave for Rail Workers

One Day of Warren Buffett Wealth Gains Could Fund 15 Days of Paid Sick Leave for Rail Workers     Jake Johnson November 25, 2022Common Dreams "Buffett could avert a rail strike today by giving workers what they need: paid sick days," said Sen. Bernie Sanders' staff d…

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November 28, 2022 at 3:40 AM

Industrial Policy Without Industrial Unions

Industrial Policy Without Industrial Unions     Lee Harris September 28, 2022The American Prospect Democrats’ new industrial manufacturing plan leaves unions behind, fumbling a moment of relative leverage for organized labor. , Illustration by Robert Meganck …

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November 28, 2022 at 1:00 AM

It’s Been a Helluva Year, Tuesday Is Giving Tuesday

Portside Culture It’s Been a Helluva Year, Tuesday Is Giving Tuesday     Portside Moderator November 27, 2022Portside Once in a while, we – the volunteer moderators of Portside – take the opportunity to talk directly to us – the entire Portside community – abou…

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November 28, 2022 at 1:00 AM

‘Andor’ Soared — It Was About the Force, Not the Force, of the Star Wars Universe

Portside Culture ‘Andor’ Soared — It Was About the Force, Not the Force, of the Star Wars Universe     Glen Weldon November 23, 2022NPR Andor showed the growing discontent and anger that gives rise to heroes. In many different ways, for their own individual rea…

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November 27, 2022 at 1:05 AM

Rebellion Against the Legalized Robbery

Rebellion Against the Legalized Robbery     Yanis Varoufakis November 21, 2022Socialist Project My focus shall be on what we can do, as activists, to help translate humanity’s remaining capacities into the necessary praxes, into the collective actions that will permi…

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November 27, 2022 at 1:05 AM

ANC Crisis May Foreshadow Its Demise

ANC Crisis May Foreshadow Its Demise     Raymond Suttner November 21, 2022Daily Maverick The ANC now signifies dishonourable conduct. It is habituated to preying on the poor, manifested in defrauding funds intended for the needs of the impoverished majority. It may n…

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November 27, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Politicians in Colorado Springs Chose Flouting Gun Laws Over People’s Lives

Politicians in Colorado Springs Chose Flouting Gun Laws Over People’s Lives     Tim Miller November 22, 2022xxxxxx + The Club Q shooter had threatened his family and told police he would kill them, too. El Paso County politicians refused to use their state's red-flag…

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November 27, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Peace in Rome

Peace in Rome     Roberto Morea , Roberto Musacchio November 18, 2022Transform! Europe We held a massive pacifist rally for a diplomatic solution in Europe, where warmongering rages among the ruling classes. With radical rightists in government and a dismal centre-le…

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November 27, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Ideas, Including Foolish Ones, Have Consequences

Ideas, Including Foolish Ones, Have Consequences     Walden Bello November 22, 2022Foreign Policy in Focus The intellectual godfathers of the “alt right” and their descendants are on a fool’s errand: to rationalize irrational hatreds. Oswald Spengler's "The De…

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November 26, 2022 at 1:45 AM

Friday Nite Videos | November 25, 2022

Friday Nite Videos | November 25, 2022     November 25, 2022xxxxxx Howard Zinn and Voices of a People’s History. Qatar World Cup | John Oliver. The Torch | The Story of Buddy Guy. The Global Movement To Restore Nature's Biodiversity. Fox News Finally Abandons Trump.…

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November 26, 2022 at 1:15 AM

‘The US Can Still Become a Fascist Country’: Frances Fox Piven’s Midterms Postmortem

‘The US Can Still Become a Fascist Country’: Frances Fox Piven’s Midterms Postmortem     Ed Pilkington November 24, 2022Guardian While many observers have breathed a sigh of relief over the rout of extreme election deniers endorsed by Trump, and his seemingly deflate…

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November 26, 2022 at 1:15 AM

How Young Climate Activists Built a Mass Movement To Be Reckoned With

How Young Climate Activists Built a Mass Movement To Be Reckoned With     Nick Engelfried November 15, 2022Waging Nonviolence Even more important than the decisions of the UN climate talks are the next steps of a youth-led movement strengthened by two decades of tran…

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November 26, 2022 at 1:10 AM

The Case for Supreme Court Term Limits Just Got a Lot Better

The Case for Supreme Court Term Limits Just Got a Lot Better     Jamelle Bouie November 22, 2022New York Times What if lifetime tenure, rather than raising the barriers to corruption, makes it easier to influence the court by giving interested parties the time and s…

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November 26, 2022 at 1:10 AM

Deep Geothermal — One Renewable Energy Source To Rule Them All?

Deep Geothermal — One Renewable Energy Source To Rule Them All?     Steve Hanley November 14, 2022CleanTechnica Deep geothermal technology can harness the heat stored beneath the Earth’s crust to make abundant zero emissions energy. , image: MIT   Imagin…

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November 26, 2022 at 1:00 AM

The Americans

Portside Culture The Americans     Peter Neil Carroll March 14, 2019Amsterday Quarterly Thanksgiving Day is surely an American holiday, even for some subversives who defy the US government--at least on TV! ,   The Americans By Peter Neil Carroll …

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November 25, 2022 at 1:10 AM

Keith Ellison’s Narrow Victory

Keith Ellison’s Narrow Victory     William P. Jones November 23, 2022Dissent Minnesotans voted to reelect the attorney general who prosecuted Derek Chauvin. The result holds important lessons for the Democratic Party on its approach to criminal justice. Keith …

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November 25, 2022 at 1:05 AM

Why Is AARP Boosting Medicare Privatization?

Why Is AARP Boosting Medicare Privatization?     Matthew Cunningham-Cook November 21, 2022The Lever AARP, the advocacy organization is welcoming the for-profit takeover of its members’ national health insurance program — because it earns hundreds of millions as part …

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November 25, 2022 at 1:05 AM

Netanyahu’s Comeback Widens Divide Over Israel Among American Jews

Netanyahu’s Comeback Widens Divide Over Israel Among American Jews     Liam Stack November 20, 2022New York Times Less than half of US Jews had positive feelings for Mr. Netanyahu, according to a Pew Research Center study last year. Younger Jews, may not feel much co…

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November 25, 2022 at 1:05 AM

Q&A: Navigating the Left’s Ukraine Debate

Q&A: Navigating the Left’s Ukraine Debate     Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Elly Leary November 15, 2022Convergence Magazine “Sovereignty and self-determination are important concepts to keep at the heart of Left analysis” — and can help orient us in the confusion and m…

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November 25, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Tidbits – Nov. 24, 2022 – Reader Comments: Lessons From the Midterms; Public Pensions; Rail Workers; Wakanda Forever; Book Sales; Vietnam Era Antiwar Movement: Successes, Failures, Legacies; Socialists in Office; Cartoons; More...

Tidbits – Nov. 24, 2022 – Reader Comments: Lessons From the Midterms; Public Pensions; Rail Workers; Wakanda Forever; Book Sales; Vietnam Era Antiwar Movement: Successes, Failures, Legacies; Socialists in Office; Cartoons; More…     November 24, 2022xxxxxx Reader Com…

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November 25, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Jazz Musician Esperanza Spalding To Depart Harvard

Portside Culture Jazz Musician Esperanza Spalding To Depart Harvard     Paton D. Roberts and Eric Yan November 18, 2022The Harvard Crimson I am no longer willing to endorse a cultural norm whereby artists & artist-educators passively participate-in, and ben…

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November 24, 2022 at 5:20 AM

Hospital Billing Is a Crime Against American Patients

Hospital Billing Is a Crime Against American Patients     Robert Kuttner November 22, 2022The American Prospect A visit to a hospital in Europe is an eye-opener to the many ways monopolized U.S. hospitals pad their profits with unnecessary costs. The entrance …

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November 24, 2022 at 5:05 AM

Teachers’ Union Leader Hits Back After Pompeo Calls Her the ‘Most Dangerous Person in the World’

Teachers’ Union Leader Hits Back After Pompeo Calls Her the ‘Most Dangerous Person in the World’     Kenny Stancil November 22, 2022Common Dreams "Maybe spend a minute in one of the classrooms with my members and their students and you will get a real lesson in the p…

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November 24, 2022 at 4:55 AM

The U.S. Needs More Housing Than Almost Anyone Can Imagine

The U.S. Needs More Housing Than Almost Anyone Can Imagine     Annie Lowrey November 21, 2022The Atlantic For Americans to live a productive, prosperous, happy life, homes need to be truly abundant. , Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty   How many homes m…

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November 24, 2022 at 4:45 AM

The First Thanksgiving: Separating Myth From Fact

The First Thanksgiving: Separating Myth From Fact     Ruth Hopkins November 11, 2020Teen Vogue Ruth Hopkins, a Dakota/Lakota Sioux writer, biologist, attorney, and former tribal judge, breaks down the myths and facts about Thanksgiving and early encounters between Pi…

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November 24, 2022 at 1:00 AM

The Legacy of a Caged Bird

Portside Culture The Legacy of a Caged Bird     On Gene Andrew Jarrett’s “Paul Laurence Dunbar” November 17, 2022Los Angeles Review of Books During his lifetime, Paul Laurence Dunbar, an African American, was among the most famous poets in the United States. It…

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November 24, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – November 23, 2022

Global Left Midweek – November 23, 2022     November 23, 2022xxxxxx Hell hath no fury like radicalized workers and students A protester holds a sign supporting public healthcare during a demonstration called by citizens under the slogan "Madrid stands up for i…

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November 23, 2022 at 1:05 AM

Elon Musk Went on a Firing Frenzy at Twitter. Now He’s Paying for It

Elon Musk Went on a Firing Frenzy at Twitter. Now He’s Paying for It     Robert Reich November 22, 2022The Guardian Where employees are a corporation’s key assets, workers’ greater power comes in threatening to walk out the door ‘Not even Donald Trump seems pa…

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November 23, 2022 at 1:05 AM

What if We Cancel the Apocalypse?

What if We Cancel the Apocalypse?     Joey Ayoub November 22, 2022New Lines How the aesthetic, utopian yet pragmatic movement of Solarpunk reimagines a future without a climate catastrophe Futuristic concept of cities in the middle of the ocean, Camillo Pasqua…

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November 23, 2022 at 1:05 AM

FIFA’s Cynicism Knows No Bounds

FIFA’s Cynicism Knows No Bounds     Alex Shephard November 22, 2022The New Republic Soccer’s governing body is destroying the World Cup—but for once, the comically corrupt organization is getting called out for its sins. FIFA head Gianni Infantino, Valeriano D…

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November 23, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Barbarians at the Gate: The Appearances Are Awful

Barbarians at the Gate: The Appearances Are Awful     Abby Zimet November 21, 2022Common Dreams Amid heavy security, Alito was joined by three of his accomplices - Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh - at the Federalist Society's 40th anniversary gala, where their sordid wor…

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November 23, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – November 22, 2022

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – November 22, 2022     November 22, 2022xxxxxx Post-midterms turning points as culture clashes get physical Diversity, Federalist Society style. Credit, Wikimedia Commons   No End to Threats on Democracy’s Life Ballot In…

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November 23, 2022 at 1:00 AM

With Namor, Wakanda Forever Does What Latine Media Will Not

Portside Culture With Namor, Wakanda Forever Does What Latine Media Will Not     Dash Harris November 18, 2022Refinery29 For generations, entertainment media has invisibilized and/or stereotyped Black and Indigenous people with origins across Latin America, jus…

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November 22, 2022 at 9:40 AM

Major Strike Looms As Largest Rail Union in US Rejects White House-Brokered Contract

Major Strike Looms As Largest Rail Union in US Rejects White House-Brokered Contract     Jake Johnson November 21, 2022Common Dreams "It's about attendance policies, sick time, fatigue, and the lack of family time," said one union official. "A lot of these things tha…

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November 22, 2022 at 3:00 AM

It’s Been a Helluva Year ... a Message From xxxxxx Moderators

It’s Been a Helluva Year … a Message From xxxxxx Moderators     November 21, 2022xxxxxx Once in a while, we – the volunteer moderators of xxxxxx – take the opportunity to talk directly to us – the entire xxxxxx community – about how we see things and how you can pitc…

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November 22, 2022 at 1:05 AM

This Week, Billionaires Made a Strong Case for Abolishing Themselves

This Week, Billionaires Made a Strong Case for Abolishing Themselves     Anand Giridharadas November 19, 2022New York Times One after another, four of our best-known billionaires laid waste to the image of benevolent saviors carefully cultivated by their class. It i…

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November 22, 2022 at 1:05 AM

Hospital Workers Spotlight Pay, Staffing Woes

Hospital Workers Spotlight Pay, Staffing Woes     Dakota Grossman November 17, 2022Maui News Maui Health System health care workers rallied at the corner of Kaahumanu and Puunene avenues on Wednesday to call for fair wages that will help recruit and retain much-neede…

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November 22, 2022 at 1:00 AM

Naming Plant-Based Foods

Portside Culture Naming Plant-Based Foods     Emily Baron Cadloff October 24, 2022Modern Farmer The world of plant-based alternatives is vast; for every new vegan option on store shelves, there’s a “conventional” producer wondering about the comparisons people …

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