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March 5, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Biden Says He Won’t Veto Congress’ Move To Block D.C. Bill Overhauling the Criminal Code

Biden Says He Won’t Veto Congress’ Move To Block D.C. Bill Overhauling the Criminal Code     Martin Austermuhle March 2, 2023DCist "National Democrats cannot only be supportive of D.C. statehood and D.C. autonomy when it is politically convenient for them. D.C. laws …
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March 5, 2023 at 1:00 AM

An Escalating Arms Race Will Not Solve the World’s Multidimensional Problems

An Escalating Arms Race Will Not Solve the World’s Multidimensional Problems     Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde March 23, 2023Equal Times The picture emerging from this powerful militarist trend illustrates the continuing strength of the mantras inherited from the Cold Wa…
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March 5, 2023 at 1:00 AM

June Jordan’s Legacy of Solidarity and Love Remains Relevant

June Jordan’s Legacy of Solidarity and Love Remains Relevant     Sriram Shamasunder February 13, 2023Yes Magazine We look to our elders to demonstrate another way of being in this broken world, extending our circle of commitment to the person in front of us, or to a …
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March 4, 2023 at 2:40 AM

Friday Nite Videos | March 3, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | March 3, 2023     March 3, 2023xxxxxx The History of Women's History Month. Trump Train Visit Cold Open | SNL. East Palestine Trump Voters Speak About the Rail Disaster. Alaska Daily 2023 Trailer. The Truth Behind “Self-Made” Billionaires | Rober…
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March 4, 2023 at 1:40 AM

How Did Life Begin? One Key Ingredient Is Coming Into View

How Did Life Begin? One Key Ingredient Is Coming Into View     Amber Dance February 28, 2023Nature The birth of this molecule that links amino acids into chains would have created a fundamental shift in the the prebiotic world, providing a key ingredient to all life …
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March 4, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Rosewood Massacre at 100: Black Florida History and White Terror

Rosewood Massacre at 100: Black Florida History and White Terror     Dan Royles February 27, 2023African American Intellectual History Society Thinking about the role that historical testimony played in getting some measure of justice for the Rosewood survivors, it’s…
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March 4, 2023 at 1:05 AM

‘Russia Ends Nowhere,’ They Say

‘Russia Ends Nowhere,’ They Say     Margarita Liutova February 25, 2023Meduza Russian sociologist Grigory Yudin discusses a year of war and what comes next Grigory Yudin,   Interview by Margarita Liutova. Abridged translation by Emily Laskin. Sociologist…
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March 4, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Beyond the Pandemic Origins Debate

Beyond the Pandemic Origins Debate     Caitlin Rivers February 28, 2023Force of Infection We don't need an answer before acting. COVID-19 Virus, Trinity Care Foundation (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)   The Department of Energy, home to the country’s network of nation…
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March 4, 2023 at 1:00 AM

My California

Portside Culture My California     Beau Beausoleil 03 March 3, 2023 Back in the Sixties, a young Black activist Rap Brown said “violence is as American as cherry pie” and see now how much has not changed. ,   My California By Beau Beausoleil The …
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March 3, 2023 at 2:40 AM

How Police Culture Has Reshaped America

How Police Culture Has Reshaped America     Cristina Beltrán February 25, 2023New York Times America’s wars on drugs, crime, terrorism and more — along with our endless involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan — have created a weapons-saturated politics of policing, borde…
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March 3, 2023 at 2:00 AM

The Nuclear “War” in Ukraine May Not Be the One We Expect

The Nuclear “War” in Ukraine May Not Be the One We Expect     Joshua Frank February 28, 2023TomDispatch From time to time, Vladimir Putin or one of his cronies has hinted that the Russians, pressed to the wall, might use a “tactical” nuclear weapon in Ukraine. And Ru…
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March 3, 2023 at 1:35 AM

Haaretz: Israel Has Erected ‘A Formal, Full-Fledged Apartheid Regime’

Haaretz: Israel Has Erected ‘A Formal, Full-Fledged Apartheid Regime’     Middle East Monitor February 28, 2023Informed Content Israel has erected “a formal, full-fledged apartheid regime,” the editorial of Haaretz newspaper said yesterday, in a stark warning about t…
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March 3, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Andrew Tripp Is an All-Star Union Organizer — And a Kick-Ass Cross-Country Coach, Too

Andrew Tripp Is an All-Star Union Organizer — And a Kick-Ass Cross-Country Coach, Too     Derek Brouwer February 22, 2023Seven Days (Vermont) Andrew Tripp has organized more than 100,000 people in Vermont and 20 other states, and has coached Nordic skiing, track and …
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March 3, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Tidbits – Mar. 02, 2023 – Reader Comments: Peace Movement Now?; Centrality of Black-White Unity; Roberto Clementine Book Restored; Ukrainian War – Differing Perspectives; Honoring Pathbreakers-Celebrating International Women’s Day; Resources; More

Tidbits – Mar. 02, 2023 – Reader Comments: Peace Movement Now?; Centrality of Black-White Unity; Roberto Clementine Book Restored; Ukrainian War – Differing Perspectives; Honoring Pathbreakers-Celebrating International Women’s Day; Resources; More     March 2, 2023xxxxxx…
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March 3, 2023 at 1:00 AM

What It’s Like To Be a Female Union Electrician – A Review of Wirewomen: Lighting It Up

Portside Culture What It’s Like To Be a Female Union Electrician – A Review of Wirewomen: Lighting It Up     Kurt Stand March 1, 2023Portside International Women’s Day is next week, when we celebrates the achievements of women in numerous walks of life–individu…
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March 2, 2023 at 2:40 AM

OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not To Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit

OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not To Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit     Chloe Xiang February 28, 2023Vice OpenAI is today unrecognizable, with multi-billion-dollar deals and corporate partnerships. Will it seek to own its shiny AI future? …
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March 2, 2023 at 2:25 AM

I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction

Portside Culture I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction     Paula Tarnapol Whitacre February 15, 2023Washington Independent Review of Books This book draws from the once well-known Ku Klux Klan hearings before Con…
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March 2, 2023 at 2:25 AM

The GOP’s Grand Immigration Con Job

The GOP’s Grand Immigration Con Job     Thom Hartmann February 23, 2023The Hartmann Report Republicans have figured out how to have it both ways. They get cheap labor for their big business buddies, while stoking the hate and fear of their white racist base , …
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March 2, 2023 at 2:15 AM

Brandon Johnson Is Heading to Chicago’s Mayoral Runoff as a Champion of the Working Class

Brandon Johnson Is Heading to Chicago’s Mayoral Runoff as a Champion of the Working Class     Miles Kampf-Lassin March 1, 2023Jacobin The results of last night’s Chicago mayor election were stunning: former Chicago Teachers Union organizer Brandon Johnson advanced to…
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March 2, 2023 at 1:55 AM

Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.

Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.     Hannah Dreier February 25, 2023The New York Times Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for …
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March 2, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – Indigenous in the World

Global Left Midweek – Indigenous in the World     March 1, 2023xxxxxx Reports and analyses from the world left's hot spots Eduardo Mendúa, an Indigenous activist who was fighting to protect Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest from oil extraction, was killed by hooded …
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March 1, 2023 at 2:05 AM

Inequality Is Weakening Social Security. Here’s How We Fix That.

Inequality Is Weakening Social Security. Here’s How We Fix That.     Linda Benesch February 24, 2023Inequality.org When Congress set the cap on Social Security contributions in 1983, they didn’t anticipate forty years of rising inequality. And it’s cost us — a lot. …
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March 1, 2023 at 2:00 AM

50 Years On, Legacy of Wounded Knee Uprising Lives in Indigenous Resistance

50 Years On, Legacy of Wounded Knee Uprising Lives in Indigenous Resistance     Brett Wilkins February 27, 2023Common Dreams "We're not the subjugated and disenfranchised people that we were," said one Ponca elder who took part in the 1973 revolt. "Wounded Knee was a…
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March 1, 2023 at 2:00 AM

In 1996, There Was Union Summer. This Year, There’s “Labor Spring.”

In 1996, There Was Union Summer. This Year, There’s “Labor Spring.”     Cindy Hahamovitch, William P. Jones, Joseph A. McCartin February 24, 2023In These Times “Labor Spring” brings back a national teach-in on organizing to campuses across the country. Graduat…
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March 1, 2023 at 2:00 AM

Why We Need Pirates

Why We Need Pirates     Paul Buhle, Marcus Rediker, David Lester January 26, 2023Yes! Exploited sailors escaped to form egalitarian outlaw societies under the Jolly Roger. Painted portrait of an unidentified pirate, 20th century., Buyenlarge/Getty Images …
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March 1, 2023 at 1:00 AM

The Netflix Hit “RRR” Is a Political Screed, an Action Bonanza, and an Exhilarating Musical

Portside Culture The Netflix Hit “RRR” Is a Political Screed, an Action Bonanza, and an Exhilarating Musical     Richard Brody June 2, 2022The NewYorker “RRR” -“Rise Roar Revolt”- turns history into legend by way of heightened visual rhetoric. It’s based very l…
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March 1, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – February 28, 2023

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – February 28, 2023     February 28, 2023xxxxxx Dilbert's race problem, how COVID affected the labor market, and more cultural crackups , Luke McGarry   Covid and Workers’ Power Unbanning Books America is Secularizing Hig…
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February 28, 2023 at 3:25 AM

A Ukrainian Socialist Lays Out the Aims and Struggles of Her Country’s Left

A Ukrainian Socialist Lays Out the Aims and Struggles of Her Country’s Left     Ashley Smith February 24, 2023Truthout Leftists in Ukraine are simultaneously resisting Russian imperialism and the domestic imposition of neoliberalism. A woman walks outside a ma…
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February 28, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Is Fear of AI Really Fear of Capitalism?

Is Fear of AI Really Fear of Capitalism?     Ezra Klein February 26, 2023New York Times Somehow, society is going to have to figure out what it’s comfortable having A.I. doing, and what A.I. should not be permitted to try, before it is too late to make those decisio…
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February 28, 2023 at 1:05 AM

‘Old-School Union Busting’: How US Corporations Are Quashing the New Wave of Organizing

‘Old-School Union Busting’: How US Corporations Are Quashing the New Wave of Organizing     Steven Greenhouse February 26, 2023Guardian US corporations have mounted a fierce counterattack against the union drives at Starbucks, Amazon and other companies. , …
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February 28, 2023 at 1:00 AM

How Product Placement Gets Wine Bottles Into Shows

Portside Culture How Product Placement Gets Wine Bottles Into Shows     Esther Mobley February 9, 2023San Francisco Chronicle The appearance of a wine bottle in television and film is almost never an accident; it’s a carefully brokered deal between the wine bra…
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February 28, 2023 at 1:00 AM

‘Trail of Broken Treaties’: How the 1973 Wounded Knee Occupation Came To Be

‘Trail of Broken Treaties’: How the 1973 Wounded Knee Occupation Came To Be     Matt Gade February 25, 2023Rapid City Journal 50 ago the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee with the goal of changing the way the Oglala Sioux governed themselves. AIM also so…
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February 28, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Russia in Africa

Russia in Africa     Malick Doucouré February 24, 2023CounterPunch We should expect an intensification of Russian economic involvement and arms exports to African nations struggling with conflict, many dealing with wars that have their roots in Western colonial parti…
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February 27, 2023 at 6:15 AM

As Antarctic Fieldwork Ends, a Sexual Harassment Reckoning Looms

As Antarctic Fieldwork Ends, a Sexual Harassment Reckoning Looms     Christian Elliott February 6, 2023Undark A 2022 report described harassment as a “fact of life” on the continent. Young researchers are particularly alarmed. The fieldwork camp at Allan Hills…
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February 27, 2023 at 4:50 AM

Census Corrections Show How Southern Communities Benefit From Prisons

Census Corrections Show How Southern Communities Benefit From Prisons     Maydha Devarajan February 24, 2023Facing South The issue of prison gerrymandering has existed since the census was first taken, but became more noticeable in the late 1970s and early 1980s alon…
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February 27, 2023 at 4:35 AM

Breaking Up (With China) Is Hard To Do

Breaking Up (With China) Is Hard To Do     Robert Kuttner February 14, 2023The American Prospect In the absence of more attention to the supply chain, the U.S. is becoming even more reliant on Beijing—and ‘friendshoring’ often increases that dependence. An emp…
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February 27, 2023 at 4:10 AM

The Great Slave Strike That Helped End Slavery

The Great Slave Strike That Helped End Slavery     Mark A. Lause February 20, 2023Jacobin Today, on Presidents’ Day, we rightly celebrate Abraham Lincoln for helping end slavery. But we shouldn’t forget the unstoppable force that also brought down the Slave Power: th…
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February 27, 2023 at 3:15 AM

The Unfulfilled Promise

The Unfulfilled Promise     Robert Greene II February 22, 2023The Nation Peniel Joseph’s history of the three Reconstructions. The Black Panthers’ Liberation School, San Francisco, 1969. , UPI / Getty   When it comes to understanding modern politics, ana…
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February 27, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Party Down: Charmingly Low-Budget Workplace Satire From the Makers of Veronica Mars

Portside Culture Party Down: Charmingly Low-Budget Workplace Satire From the Makers of Veronica Mars     Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen August 23, 2020The Guardian The show never leaves the workplace. The complexities of these characters’ lives and relationships are t…
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February 26, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Eight Lessons From Bernie Sanders’s New Book

Eight Lessons From Bernie Sanders’s New Book     Yaseen Al-Sheikh February 23, 2023Jacobin Bernie Sanders is angry about capitalism. You should be too. Here are eight lessons from our favorite democratic socialist’s new book. Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks to memb…
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February 26, 2023 at 1:05 AM

A Call for One-Party Authoritarian Rule

A Call for One-Party Authoritarian Rule     Matt Ford February 25, 2023The New Republic Marjorie Taylor Greene’s idea for America to “separate by red states and blue states” isn’t just dumb and harmless. It’s also a window into a dangerous vision that’s ascendent in …
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February 26, 2023 at 1:00 AM

History Lessons for Antifascists

History Lessons for Antifascists     Helmut-Harry Loewen February 20, 2023CounterPunch A study of strategies that have shaped antifascist mobilizations over the past century, offers lessons for thinking about an “effective and long-term response to the loose coalitio…
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February 26, 2023 at 1:00 AM

20 Years Ago, the World Said No to War

20 Years Ago, the World Said No to War     Phyllis Bennis February 15, 2023Institute for Policy Studies A look back at the history-making mobilization against the Iraq War that turned ordinary people into a “second superpower” — one we badly need today. Antiwa…
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February 26, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Lessons From Majid Khan’s Release From Guantánamo

Lessons From Majid Khan’s Release From Guantánamo     David Rosen February 16, 2023The Progressive An interview with the attorney for the former al Qaeda operative, who testified to the CIA’s ‘enhanced interrogation’ and more torture at the prison camp. That torture …
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February 25, 2023 at 3:15 AM

Friday Nite Videos | February 24, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | February 24, 2023     February 24, 2023xxxxxx Psychedelic Assisted Therapy | John Oliver. What Ever Happened to Hazel Scott? Gloves Off: Buttigieg Calls Out Trump Record of Deregulation. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Documentary. The Complet…
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February 25, 2023 at 1:55 AM

Putin’s Mein Kampf: An Invasion Foretold

Putin’s Mein Kampf: An Invasion Foretold     Greg Palast February 24, 2023Buzzflash How can too many of my fellow progressives, who marched against Bush’s “preemptive” war in Iraq, now find preemptive war by Putin justified by “NATO provocation”? ,   As …
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February 25, 2023 at 1:35 AM

Abraham Lincoln Is a Hero of the Left

Abraham Lincoln Is a Hero of the Left     Matthew E. Stanley February 20, 2023Jacobin From Karl Marx to Eugene Debs to 1930s American Communists, leftists have regarded Lincoln as a prolabor hero who played a crucial role in vanquishing chattel slavery. We should cel…
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February 25, 2023 at 1:10 AM

Expanding Social Security Is Winning Policy and Politics

Expanding Social Security Is Winning Policy and Politics     Nancy J. Altman February 23, 2023Common Dreams Biden is right to highlight Republican attacks on Social Security. He should also propose a plan to expand it. ,   Democrats learned the wrong les…
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February 25, 2023 at 1:00 AM

To Imagine Is Human: An Evolutionary History

To Imagine Is Human: An Evolutionary History     Andrey Vyshedskiy February 23, 2023The Conversation Imagination involves creating a mental image of something that is not present. Imagination is one of the key abilities that make us human. But where did it come from?…
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February 25, 2023 at 1:00 AM

The Day I Discovered Racism (1965)

Portside Culture The Day I Discovered Racism (1965)     William Earhart W.D. Ehrhart’s poem “The Day I Discovered Racism” leaves the reader first with shock and then…. ,   The Day I Discovered Racism (1965) By William Earhart                       …