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May 23, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The Irish Fasting Tradition

Portside Culture The Irish Fasting Tradition     Livia Gershon April 17, 2023JSTOR Particularly before the Second Vatican Council (a.k.a. Vatican II), fasting was part of the Catholic calendar. No one took it more seriously than the Irish. A Trappist mon…

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May 23, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Obey the Constitution (Before the Supreme Court)

Obey the Constitution (Before the Supreme Court)     Garrett Epps May 8, 2023Washington Monthly For the President to pay the national debt, regardless of the debt ceiling, would not be disobeying the Constitution—it would be obeying it and insisting that doing so sup…

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May 23, 2023 at 12:00 AM

75 Years After Its Foundation, WHO Struggles for Sovereignty

75 Years After Its Foundation, WHO Struggles for Sovereignty     Dian Maria Blandina May 17, 2023Peoples Dispatch This year marked the 75th anniversary of the WHO. As the UN agency approaches its yearly assembly in Geneva, it is struggling to secure adequate resource…

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May 23, 2023 at 12:00 AM

New Look at ‘Einstein Rings’ Just Got Us Closer to Solving the Dark Matter Debate

New Look at ‘Einstein Rings’ Just Got Us Closer to Solving the Dark Matter Debate     Rossana Ruggeri May 20, 2023The Conversation Physicists believe most of the matter in the universe is made up of an invisible substance that we only know about by its indirect effec…

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May 23, 2023 at 12:00 AM

This Week in People’s History, May 23 . . .

This Week in People’s History, May 23 . . .     xxxxxx Historic auto workers contract. 1st Amendment protects mail. U.S. army crosses ocean for the first time. Ford Company thugs assault union organizers. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan released. Major union victory in Roc…

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May 22, 2023 at 12:10 AM

Sunday Science: Did Life Evolve More Than Once? Researchers Are Closing In on an Answer

Sunday Science: Did Life Evolve More Than Once? Researchers Are Closing In on an Answer     Jordi Paps May 18, 2023The Conversation If life emerged once, why not more times? , Maximillian cabinet/Shutterstock   From its humble origin(s), life has infect…

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May 22, 2023 at 12:05 AM

New York Strikes a Blow Against Citizens United

New York Strikes a Blow Against Citizens United     Joanna Zdanys May 17, 2023The Brennan Center for Justice Matching programs give small donors bigger voices. , John Scott/Getty   American politics is awash in big money. Ever since the Supreme Court’s i…

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May 22, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Killing in the Name of Precision – The Technoscientific Origins of Drone Warfare

Killing in the Name of Precision – The Technoscientific Origins of Drone Warfare     Hamid Ekbia March 27, 2023Science for the People Technically, drone technology has been around for quite a long time, going back to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twe…

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May 22, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Labor’s Upsurge Isn’t Just Hype

Labor’s Upsurge Isn’t Just Hype     Eric Blanc May 8, 2023Labor Politics Data on what's new — and why unions should turn to new organizing , Fred Wright   Is the current labor uptick just more hype than reality? Numerous articles have recently made this …

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May 22, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Kissinger’s Bloody Paper Trail in Chile

Kissinger’s Bloody Paper Trail in Chile     Peter Kornbluh May 15, 2023The Nation The secret memo in which he plotted the murder of Chilean democracy. ,   As Henry Kissinger reaches 100 years of age on May 27, Chileans are preparing to commemorate the 50…

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May 22, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Succession’s Election Night Painfully Shows Us How Cable News Is Made

Portside Culture Succession’s Election Night Painfully Shows Us How Cable News Is Made     Whizy Kim May 14, 2023Vox Succession's idea of a media executive personally picking a winner is no longer all that shocking. The recent defamation lawsuit Fox News settle…

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May 21, 2023 at 12:05 AM

FBI for Abuses Surveillance Tool 278,000+ Times

FBI for Abuses Surveillance Tool 278,000+ Times     Jessics Corbett May 20, 2023Common Dreams "The FBI's systematic misuse of these resources proves that it (and the rest of the federal government) simply can't be trusted to wield this sort of power," said one campai…

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May 21, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Think CEO Pay Is Outrageous?

Think CEO Pay Is Outrageous?     Timothy Noah May 18, 2023The New Republic Get a Load of CEO Retirement Plans. They are called—I kid you not—“top hat” plans. And they drain everybody else’s 401(k)s. Walmart chief executive officer Doug McMillon is set to recei…

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May 21, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Wisconsin Teacher To Be Fired After Complaining About “Rainbowland” Song Ban

Wisconsin Teacher To Be Fired After Complaining About “Rainbowland” Song Ban     Prem Thakker May 18, 2023The New Republic A Wisconsin schoolteacher is being punished for trying to have her students sing a popular song by Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus. Dolly Pa…

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May 21, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Condemned to Freedom, Sartre Sought Existential Rescue

Condemned to Freedom, Sartre Sought Existential Rescue     Claudio Tognonato May 12, 2023Il Manifesto Global For existentialism, the choice for oneself is the choice for a world, for commitment to a plural world. Returning to Sartre today means not accepting the dist…

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May 21, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Other Border Crisis: Mining

The Other Border Crisis: Mining     Miriam Davidson May 17, 2023The Progressive El Jefe, one of at least seven jaguars documented north of the border since 1996, became a powerful symbol for environmentalists, Native tribes, and others who vehemently oppose both min…

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May 20, 2023 at 2:00 AM

Friday Nite Videos | May 19, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | May 19, 2023     May 19, 2023xxxxxx Jim Jordan Shut Down at 'Whistleblower' Hearing. Masters Of War | Bob Dylan (The RoJ LiGht Cover). Malcolm X at 98 | Angela Davis. We Talked to The Wire’s David Simon About the Writers' Strike. Pussy Riot's Pow…

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May 20, 2023 at 1:25 AM

This Teach-In Is Taking the Fight for Democracy to DeSantis

This Teach-In Is Taking the Fight for Democracy to DeSantis     Kellie Carter Jackson May 15, 2023CNN The goal of the event is to confront the political assault on Florida’s educational system by teaching truthful history and providing education on voter suppression …

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May 20, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Bernie Sanders: It’s Time To Guarantee Healthcare to All Americans as a Human Right

Bernie Sanders: It’s Time To Guarantee Healthcare to All Americans as a Human Right     Bernie May 18, 2023Guardian It is time to end the international embarrassment of the US being the only major country that does not guarantee healthcare ,   Let’s be c…

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May 20, 2023 at 12:50 AM

A.I. Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading

A.I. Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading     Oliver Whang May 1, 2023New York Times In a recent experiment, researchers used large language models to translate brain activity into words. Alex Huth (left), Shailee Jain (center) and Jerry Tang (right) prepare to …

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May 20, 2023 at 12:40 AM

North Carolina’s Devastating New Abortion Ban and the Fight Ahead

North Carolina’s Devastating New Abortion Ban and the Fight Ahead     Billy Corriher May 18, 2023Slate North Carolina has been here before. From 2013 through 2018, Republicans had a veto-proof supermajority in the Legislature. They engaged in a series of power grabs.…

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May 20, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Minneapolis

Portside Culture Minneapolis     Peter Neil Carroll October 1, 2022This Land, These People: The 50 States Approaching the 3rd anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, the crisis of race relations remains contested ground, even in liberal states like Minnesot…

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May 19, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Progressive Senators Tell Biden: Prepare To Invoke 14th Amendment To Prevent Default

Progressive Senators Tell Biden: Prepare To Invoke 14th Amendment To Prevent Default     Jessica Corbett May 17, 2023Common Dreams As negotiations with congressional Republicans over raising the debt ceiling drag on, at least five U.S. senators are circulating a lett…

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May 19, 2023 at 12:30 AM

How Saudi Money Returned to Silicon Valley

How Saudi Money Returned to Silicon Valley     Jonathan Guyer May 1, 2023Vox All the ways Saudi Arabia’s cash powers tech startups and venture capital. In two years, MBS poured at least $11 billion into US startups, making it the industry’s largest single investor. …

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May 19, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The Immigrants Are the Same — America Is Different

The Immigrants Are the Same — America Is Different     Razvan Sibii May 16, 2023Greenfield Recorder The immigrants haven’t really changed since the Ellis Island days — but America has. In 1923, immigrants did not need a visa, or any other sort of prior permission, to…

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May 19, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Khader Adnan’s Last Hunger Strike

Khader Adnan’s Last Hunger Strike     Mouin Rabbani May 8, 2023London Review of Books Khader Adnan died in prison on May 2, aged 45, after an 87-day hunger strike. He had been repeatedly held in administrative detention since 1999. Despite vilifying him as a terroris…

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May 18, 2023 at 9:30 PM

Tidbits – May 18, 2023 – Reader Comments: GOP Rot at the Top; Florida Lies; MAGA PRESENTS: The Three Scamigos; Nabka at 75; 75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; African American Singing Traditions; Cartoons; More...

Tidbits – May 18, 2023 – Reader Comments: GOP Rot at the Top; Florida Lies; MAGA PRESENTS: The Three Scamigos; Nabka at 75; 75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; African American Singing Traditions; Cartoons; More…     May 18, 2023xxxxxx Reader Comme…

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May 18, 2023 at 2:50 AM

Vietnam Changed the Way This Jazz Man Heard the World

Portside Culture Vietnam Changed the Way This Jazz Man Heard the World     Dwight Garner May 15, 2023The New York Times Henry Threadgill’s memoir unfolds from his maddening wartime experience to his boundary-pushing musical career. ,   Easily Slip …

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May 18, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Lessons From Barcelona’s 8-Year Experiment in Radical Governance

Lessons From Barcelona’s 8-Year Experiment in Radical Governance     Mark Engler and Paul Engler May 9, 2023Waging Nonviolence Activists who took over Barcelona’s City Hall have made lasting progressive gains, while also confronting the limits of being in power. …

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May 18, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Firearms Classes Taught Me, and America, a Very Dangerous Lesson

Firearms Classes Taught Me, and America, a Very Dangerous Lesson     Harel Shapira May 16, 2023New York Times The classes I attended trained students to believe that their lives are in constant danger. They prepared us to shoot without hesitation and avoid legal cons…

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May 18, 2023 at 12:00 AM

America’s Cold Civil War

America’s Cold Civil War     David A. Love May 15, 2023LA Progressive The nation is now divided between people who want a multiracial democracy in which every American is allowed and encouraged to vote, and those who yearn for an anti-democratic system in which an ex…

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May 18, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Young Afghan Girls Are Finding Ways To Keep Learning

Young Afghan Girls Are Finding Ways To Keep Learning     Mahsa Kosha and Emily Khossaravi May 16, 2023Hechinger Report Teens in California and Afghanistan have formed the Flowers for the Future club to help keep dreams of education alive After the Taliban seiz…

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May 18, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – May 17, 2023

Global Left Midweek – May 17, 2023     May 17, 2023xxxxxx xxxxx Hiroshima protest against G7 summit, May 14, 2023. Credit, Twitter/ @Whistle020   Unions and LGBTQ+ Rights BRICS, ANC and Anti-Imperialist Solidarity Thailand Voters Rebuke Military Rulers U…

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May 17, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – May 17, 2023

Media Bits and Bytes – May 17, 2023     May 17, 2023xxxxxx Is tech taking us over a cliff, or giving us wings? , Electronic Frontier Foundation   Open Letter to News Media and Policy Makers A Digital Pioneer is Worried NYT’s Sneak Attack on Randi Weingar…

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May 17, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The Washington Consensus Supporting Sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela Is Breaking

The Washington Consensus Supporting Sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela Is Breaking     Branko Marcetic May 16, 2023Jacobin Twenty-one members of Congress last week called for lifting US sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela, including most of the Squad. The pushback is needed…

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May 17, 2023 at 12:00 AM

To Protect Our Children, Let’s Tax Our Rich

To Protect Our Children, Let’s Tax Our Rich     Sam Pizzigati May 16, 2023Counterpunch Last week brought the alarming news that three Kentucky-based McDonald’s franchises had kids as young as 10 working at 62 stores in four different states. Some of these under-worki…

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May 17, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Economists Hate Rent Control. Here’s Why They’re Wrong.

Economists Hate Rent Control. Here’s Why They’re Wrong.     Mark Paul May 16, 2023The American Prospect Half of Americans, namely homeowners, already have rent control. It’s time to expand it to everyone. Some 67 percent of Americans live in owner-occupied hom…

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May 17, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Big Win for Victims of Racist Restrictive Covenants

Big Win for Victims of Racist Restrictive Covenants     James Gregory May 12, 2023LAWCHA The Covenants Homeownership Account Act provides compensation in the form of substantial mortgage assistance to victims and their descendants. It was written with a view to overc…

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May 16, 2023 at 8:10 PM

‘Plan 75’ Review: Haunting Japanese Heartbreaker Imagines a Dystopia That Could Start Any Day Now

Portside Culture ‘Plan 75’ Review: Haunting Japanese Heartbreaker Imagines a Dystopia That Could Start Any Day Now     David Erlich April 19, 2023IndieWire Chie Hayakawa's raw and sobering debut imagines a near-future Japan in which the elderly are encouraged t…

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May 16, 2023 at 7:10 AM

The Buffalo Massacre Happened a Year Ago — And Racism Is Still Very Much Alive in the City

The Buffalo Massacre Happened a Year Ago — And Racism Is Still Very Much Alive in the City     Phillip Jackson May 14, 2023Huff Post Buffalo residents say the supermarket shooter being put in prison isn't enough — they want more justice. Police walk outside th…

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May 16, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Contemporary Pundits Need a Refresher on Populism’s History

Contemporary Pundits Need a Refresher on Populism’s History     Steve Babson May 14, 2023History News Network Elites who tar their critics in the U.S. with the sly pejorative of “populist” count on our collective amnesia. They’d rather the real Populists remained for…

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May 16, 2023 at 12:05 AM

For US Maple Syrup Producers, Climate Change and Competition Threaten a Way of Life

Portside Culture For US Maple Syrup Producers, Climate Change and Competition Threaten a Way of Life     Elena Valeriote April 11, 2023Modern Farmer Very little about the process of harvesting maple syrup on Maple Breeze Farm has changed in the last four centur…

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May 16, 2023 at 12:00 AM

‘We’re a Community’: These Groups Are Working To Bail Out Incarcerated Women in Time for Mother’s Day

‘We’re a Community’: These Groups Are Working To Bail Out Incarcerated Women in Time for Mother’s Day     Candice Norwood May 12, 2023The 19th Free Black Mamas DMV in 2017 is a self-described Black women and femme-run abolitionist campaign seeking to end the country’…

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May 16, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Debt Ceiling Drama Is All Stagecraft

The Debt Ceiling Drama Is All Stagecraft     James K. Galbraith for The Nation May 11, 2023The Nation Remember: The US Treasury is obligated to make payments. The rest is optics. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has no legal discretion to stop payments. , Alex …

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May 16, 2023 at 12:00 AM

This Week in People’s History, May 16 . . .

This Week in People’s History, May 16 . . .     xxxxxx President Wilson unleashes repression of peace advocates. Republican Party denounces slave trade as a ‘crime against humanity.’ First compulsory public education. Camden draft protestors acquitted. Wiretapping get…

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May 15, 2023 at 7:25 AM

Sunday Science: GIVING HEART

Sunday Science: GIVING HEART     Jennifer Couzin-Frankel May 11, 2023Science A new procedure for donating hearts and other organs is saving lives. But for some it challenges the definition of death. Tony Donatelli (foreground) was the first person ever to rece…

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May 15, 2023 at 6:40 AM

Chile Has Entered Its Thermidorian Period

Chile Has Entered Its Thermidorian Period     Marcelo Casals, Translation by Nicolas Allen May 10, 2023Jacobin The far right’s victory in elections for the Constitutional Council may be the death knell for a progressive constitution in Chile. It’s also a needed wake-…

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May 15, 2023 at 6:00 AM

The Religious Landscape Is Undergoing Massive Change. It Could Decide the 2024 Election.

The Religious Landscape Is Undergoing Massive Change. It Could Decide the 2024 Election.     Ryan Burge May 14, 2023Politico The new decennial Religion Census offers cause for hope — and alarm — for both parties. In former Rust Belt states like Wisconsin, Mich…

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May 15, 2023 at 5:25 AM

Clarence Thomas Reversed Position After Gifts and Family Payments

Clarence Thomas Reversed Position After Gifts and Family Payments     Julia Rock, Andrew Perez May 9, 2023The Lever The Supreme Court justice switched sides on a landmark legal doctrine, satisfying his benefactors’ conservative advocacy machine. Chevron Sign a…

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May 15, 2023 at 5:00 AM

Zulu vs Xhosa: How Colonialism Used Language To Divide South Africa’s Two Biggest Ethnic Groups

Zulu vs Xhosa: How Colonialism Used Language To Divide South Africa’s Two Biggest Ethnic Groups     Jochen S. Arndt May 11, 2023The Conversation South Africa has 12 official languages. The two most dominant are isiZulu and isiXhosa. While the Zulu and Xhosa people sh…

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