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June 2, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – June 1, 2023 – Reader Comments: Debt Ceiling Agreement; Tina Turner; Ukraine War; Amanda Gorman; Tribute Book for Charlene Mitchell; Nakba 75 Conference; Fascism 101 – 8-Part Series; Cartoons; More...

Tidbits – June 1, 2023 – Reader Comments: Debt Ceiling Agreement; Tina Turner; Ukraine War; Amanda Gorman; Tribute Book for Charlene Mitchell; Nakba 75 Conference; Fascism 101 – 8-Part Series; Cartoons; More…     June 1, 2023xxxxxx Reader Comments: Debt Ceiling Agree…

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June 1, 2023 at 5:00 AM

The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On “Liberal” as an Adjective

Portside Culture The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On “Liberal” as an Adjective     Mario Clemens May 30, 2023LSE Review of Books In this new book, writes reviewer Clemens, author Walzer "muses on the evolution of the word liberal, from indicating a fixed id…

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June 1, 2023 at 3:05 AM

Have Any of Karl Marx’s Critics Today Actually Read Him?

Have Any of Karl Marx’s Critics Today Actually Read Him?     Ben Burgis May 31, 2023Jacobin The Right never seems to stop talking about “Marxism” and its wily tricks. But for all their denunciations, conservative pundits really just keep proving they don’t even know …

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June 1, 2023 at 2:25 AM

My Friend Jordan Neely Was Homeless and in Mental Distress. But He Was Not Expendable.

My Friend Jordan Neely Was Homeless and in Mental Distress. But He Was Not Expendable.     Moses Harper, as told to Nicole Lewis May 28, 2023The Marshall Project Jordan Neely was choked to death on a New York City subway car. Mentor and fellow Michael Jackson enthusi…

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June 1, 2023 at 2:00 AM

The GOP Vote Thieves Strike Again

The GOP Vote Thieves Strike Again     Thom Hartmann May 31, 2023The Hartmann Report Republicans know the only way they can continue to hold onto national power — and even keep their control over states like Texas, Georgia, and Florida — is by making it difficult to r…

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June 1, 2023 at 1:45 AM

For Black Drivers, a Police Officer’s First 45 Words Are a Portent of What’s To Come

For Black Drivers, a Police Officer’s First 45 Words Are a Portent of What’s To Come     Nell Greenfieldboyce May 29, 2023NPR Car stops that result in a search, handcuffing, or arrest are nearly three times more likely to begin with the police officer issuing a comma…

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June 1, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – May 31, 2023

Global Left Midweek – May 31, 2023     May 31, 2023xxxxxx Labor is busting out all over Extinction Rebellion protestors have been apprehended in the Netherlands for blocking a major road in The Hague. The 1,579 people who refused to leave the A12 motorway afte…

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May 31, 2023 at 12:50 AM

Common Good a Big Subject in Oakland Schools Strike

Common Good a Big Subject in Oakland Schools Strike     Daria Marcantonio Kieffer and Micaela Morse May 19, 2023Labor Notes Eighty-eight percent of teachers had voted to strike, after it became clear that our demands were not being taken seriously at the negotiating …

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May 31, 2023 at 12:45 AM

Not All Political Comedy Is Equal – How Comics Can Either Depress Turnout or Activate Voters in 2024

Not All Political Comedy Is Equal – How Comics Can Either Depress Turnout or Activate Voters in 2024     Lorna Grisby May 26, 2023The Conversation There’s no question that it is easy to make fun of the two top presidential candidates for 2024. But as I explain in my new …

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May 31, 2023 at 12:45 AM

When Will US Join Global Call To End Ukraine War?

When Will US Join Global Call To End Ukraine War?     Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies May 30, 2023Common Dreams Must our leaders take us to the brink of World War III, with all our lives on the line in an all-out nuclear war, before they will permit a ceasefire a…

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May 31, 2023 at 12:45 AM

The Peasants Are Seizing the Commons (Again)

The Peasants Are Seizing the Commons (Again)     Charlotte Elton May 25, 2023In These Times Protesters stormed a U.K. national park, demanding the freedom to camp anywhere on public land. "Right to Roam" protesters gather on the edge of Dartmoor National Park…

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May 31, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Discovery of a Little-Known History of the Nuremberg Trials

Portside Culture The Discovery of a Little-Known History of the Nuremberg Trials     Peter Canby May 24, 2023The NewYorker “Filmmakers for the Prosecution” producer describes emptying out her mother's loft and under a daybed, found boxes of documents concerning…

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May 31, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – May 30, 2023

Media Bits and Bytes – May 30, 2023     May 30, 2023xxxxxx The endless tentacles of ad tech Advertising technology and motivations of advertising undergird the economy of the internet. The information we seek about our world is underpinned with, and shaped by,…

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May 30, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The First Decoration Day

The First Decoration Day     David W. Blight May 29, 2011Zinn Education Project A precursor to Memorial Day occurred in 1865 when thousands of freed slaves marched in Charleston, South Carolina to declare their sense of the meaning of the Civil War, that it was about…

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May 30, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Will ‘Superfood Powders’ Actually Make You Healthier?

Portside Culture Will ‘Superfood Powders’ Actually Make You Healthier?     Dani Blum May 19, 2023New York Times These once-daily supplements claim to boost energy, nourish your gut, support your immune system and more. But health experts aren’t convinced. …

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May 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM

As Deals Go, This Is One of Them

As Deals Go, This Is One of Them     David Dayen May 28, 2023The American Prospect The slings and arrows in this agreement result from the failure to solve the debt ceiling in 2022 when Democrats controlled the government. It generally makes things a little bit worse…

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May 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM

This Week in People’s History, May 30 . . .

This Week in People’s History, May 30 . . .     xxxxxx Union organizer fired for insubordination. In 1779, no peace for Native Americans. Sojourner Truth takes her new name. Child labor on the rise. "No nukes" on Long Island. Boston says NO! to slave-catchers. Anti-sl…

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May 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Clintons and the Rich Women

The Clintons and the Rich Women     Jeffrey St. Clair May 26, 2023CounterPunch Who is Marc Rich? And why did he need a presidential pardon? Clinton talks on the Oval Office telephone with Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel. , David Scull, National Archives. …

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May 29, 2023 at 9:00 AM

Debt Ceiling Agreement Reflects Improvements Over House Bill, Harmful Provisions Remain

Debt Ceiling Agreement Reflects Improvements Over House Bill, Harmful Provisions Remain     Statement of Sharon Parrott, CBPP President May 28, 2023Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Troubling elements include the provision that will put at risk food assistance f…

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May 29, 2023 at 4:35 AM

Sunday Science: Fossil Teeth Reveal How Brains Developed In Utero Over Millions of Years of Human Evolution

Sunday Science: Fossil Teeth Reveal How Brains Developed In Utero Over Millions of Years of Human Evolution     Tesla Monson January 25, 2023The Conversation The rate of prenatal growth directly relates to how big an adult brain grows. How and when Homo sapiens‘ high…

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May 29, 2023 at 2:15 AM

One Big Union

One Big Union     Michael Kazin May 15, 2023The Nation The Red Scare and the fall of the IWW. A new history examines the lost promise and fierce persecution of the IWW. Big Bill Haywood, Adolph Lessing, and Carlo Tresca, Paterson, New Jersey, 1913. , Walter P.…

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May 28, 2023 at 3:30 AM

The Character Assassination of San Francisco

The Character Assassination of San Francisco     Ari Paul May 24, 2023FAIR Homelessness and poverty are the tragic results of unfettered capitalism and raging inequality, whether it’s in rural West Virginia or in San Francisco’s Tenderloin. ,   CNN has j…

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May 28, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Wave of Lawsuits Against US Gun Makers

Wave of Lawsuits Against US Gun Makers     Adam Gabbatt May 27, 2023The Guardian Campaigners take legal route after success against big tobacco and other industries led to change Nashville students demand gun control after a school shooting on 27 March., Benja…

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May 28, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Henry Kissinger Is a Disgusting War Criminal.

Henry Kissinger Is a Disgusting War Criminal.     Ben Burgis May 27, 2023Jacobin It’s Henry Kissinger’s 100th birthday today. The fact that this monster is celebrated instead of in jail tells you that he’s part of a much bigger problem — and that problem is America’s…

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May 28, 2023 at 12:00 AM

FISA Is the “Trust Me, Chumps!” Surveillance Act

FISA Is the “Trust Me, Chumps!” Surveillance Act     James Bovard May 26, 2023CounterPunch Going back more than 20 years, FISA court rulings have complained of FBI agents lying to the court and abusing the law. As long as the FBI periodically promises to repent, the …

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May 28, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Texas Forced This Woman To Give Birth to a Stillborn Son. She’s Suing

Texas Forced This Woman To Give Birth to a Stillborn Son. She’s Suing     Tessa Stuart May 22, 2023Rolling Stone “I was told that if I tried to discharge myself, or seek care elsewhere, that I could be arrested for trying to kill my child” Abortion rights demo…

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May 27, 2023 at 2:40 AM

Friday Nite Videos | May 26, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | May 26, 2023     May 26, 2023xxxxxx The Corporate Money Behind 'No Labels.' Tina Turner Talks About Gaining Respect in the Music Industry. Henry Kissinger Is 100 and Still Free, Somehow | Mehdi Hasan. After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politic…

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May 27, 2023 at 1:50 AM

Trump and DeSantis: (White Nationalist) Peas in a Pod

Trump and DeSantis: (White Nationalist) Peas in a Pod     Clarence Lusane May 21, 2023tomdispatch Sadly, the problem isn’t just Trump — or DeSantis either. The horror of our moment is the way the base of the Republican Party has come to embrace the most extreme views…

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May 27, 2023 at 12:30 AM

Cancelling Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Cancelling Elizabeth Gurley Flynn     Mary Anne Trasciatti May 24, 2023Labor and Working Class History Association Republican lawmakers in New Hampshire had a marker at Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's childhood home removed just two weeks after it was unveiled, arguing that…

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May 27, 2023 at 12:15 AM

A Plea From the Russian Left to Western Progressive Friends

A Plea From the Russian Left to Western Progressive Friends     Boris Kagarlitsky May 23, 2023Russian Dissent Please stop identifying Putin and his gang with Russia. Realize at last: those who want the good of Russia and the Russians cannot but be irreconcilable enem…

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May 27, 2023 at 12:10 AM

Is Exercise Really Good for the Brain? What the Science Says

Is Exercise Really Good for the Brain? What the Science Says     Matthieu P. Boisgontier and Boris Cheval May 22, 2023The Conversation It is common for scientific studies to produce apparently conflicting results, but the benefits of physical activity on a wide range…

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May 27, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Simply Breathing

Portside Culture Simply Breathing     Beau Beausoleil May 29, 2020Killing George Floyd Three years after the murder of George Floyd on March 25 2020, San Francisco poet and publisher Beau Beausoleil offers a limited portfolio of 20 poems as homage and legacy. …

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May 26, 2023 at 12:05 AM

We’ll Never Live in a World Without Tina Turner

We’ll Never Live in a World Without Tina Turner     Rob Sheffield May 24, 2023RollingStone Nothing could ever scare the fire out of her voice, which carried the whole story of American music in it. Tina Turner’s voice will never go silent. In the end, she is the big …

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May 26, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Imagine a Renters’ Utopia. It Might Look Like Vienna.

Imagine a Renters’ Utopia. It Might Look Like Vienna.     Francesca Mari; Photographs by Luca Locatelli May 23, 2023New York Times Soaring real estate markets have created a worldwide housing crisis. What can we learn from a city that has largely avoided it? The diff…

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May 26, 2023 at 12:05 AM

These Israeli Youth Are Burning Their Draft Orders — And No Longer Feeling Alone

These Israeli Youth Are Burning Their Draft Orders — And No Longer Feeling Alone     Oren Ziv May 24, 2023+972 Magazine Left-wing high schoolers describe how the anti-government protests have provided a window for the mainstreaming of views long deemed illegitimate. …

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May 26, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Writers’ Strike Opens Old Wounds

The Writers’ Strike Opens Old Wounds     Kate Fortmueller May 19, 2023Los Angeles Review of Books While the methods of production and distribution have transformed several times over, every industry-wide strike since 1950 has been about residuals. Residuals have hist…

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May 26, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – May 25, 2023 – Reader Comments: GOP Default Disaster; Child Labor Laws GOP Solution in Red States: Gun Deaths Still Climb, Uvalde Anniversary; Sartre; Welcome-This Week in People’s History; Ukraine Peace Appeal; Cartoons; More...

Tidbits – May 25, 2023 – Reader Comments: GOP Default Disaster; Child Labor Laws GOP Solution in Red States: Gun Deaths Still Climb, Uvalde Anniversary; Sartre; Welcome-This Week in People’s History; Ukraine Peace Appeal; Cartoons; More…     May 25, 2023xxxxxx Reader…

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May 25, 2023 at 4:50 AM

Organizing Despite the Churn

Organizing Despite the Churn     Jenny Brown May 22, 2023Labor Notes Despite the high turnover, at Amazon, in charter schools, in restaurants, and among student workers, unions are developing strategies to organize high-turnover workplaces. Amazonians United b…

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May 25, 2023 at 4:35 AM

Is the Surge to the Left Among Young Voters a Trump Blip or the Real Deal?

Is the Surge to the Left Among Young Voters a Trump Blip or the Real Deal?     Thomas B. Edsall May 24, 2023New York Times Two key Democratic constituencies — the young and the religiously unobservant — have substantially increased as a share of the electorate. This …

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May 25, 2023 at 4:20 AM

Recycled Plastic Can Be More Toxic and Is No Fix for Pollution, Greenpeace Warns

Recycled Plastic Can Be More Toxic and Is No Fix for Pollution, Greenpeace Warns     Damien Gayle May 24, 2023The Guardian Campaign group says plastics are incompatible with circular economy as countries prepare for treaty talks Representatives from 173 countr…

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May 25, 2023 at 4:05 AM

Minnesota Dems Set Bar for State Legislatures, Passing Nearly Every Item on ‘Transformational’ Agenda

Minnesota Dems Set Bar for State Legislatures, Passing Nearly Every Item on ‘Transformational’ Agenda     Julia Conley May 23, 2023Common Dreams "The work we've done over the last five months will make a generational impact on our state—it will lower costs, improve l…

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May 25, 2023 at 4:00 AM

Amanda Gorman ‘Gutted’ After Florida School Bans Biden Inauguration Poem

Portside Culture Amanda Gorman ‘Gutted’ After Florida School Bans Biden Inauguration Poem     Ed Pilkington May 24, 2023The Guardian Poet Amanda Gorman, 25, vows to fight back after single complaint, which wrongly ascribed The Hill We Climb to Oprah Winfrey, pr…

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May 25, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – May 24, 2023

Global Left Midweek – May 24, 2023     May 24, 2023xxxxxx Nakba at 75 A demonstrator waves two Palestinian flags next to a stack of burning tires during a protest over tension in Jerusalem, held on April 5, 2023, at the Israel-Gaza border fence, east of Gaza C…

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May 24, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Global South Saw More Than 90% of All Extreme Weather Deaths in Last 51 Years: UN Agency

Global South Saw More Than 90% of All Extreme Weather Deaths in Last 51 Years: UN Agency     Olivia Rosane May 22, 2023Common Dreams The findings from a World Meteorological Organization report released Monday are another example of how those who did the least to cau…

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May 24, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The Serbian Movement Against Violence

The Serbian Movement Against Violence     Mira Oklobdzija May 23, 2023Foreign Policy in Focus In the aftermath of the two mass killings in and around Belgrade, Serbian citizens have handed over a huge number of illegal weapons. That is surely a positive step, but muc…

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May 24, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The Democrats Have Already Lost the Debt Ceiling Fight

The Democrats Have Already Lost the Debt Ceiling Fight     Alex Shephard May 22, 2023The New Republic Party leaders thought they had set a trap for Republicans. It hasn’t worked out that way at all. , Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images   Six months ago, Demo…

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May 24, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Reaffirming the Progressive Project in 2023

Reaffirming the Progressive Project in 2023     Harry Targ May 22, 2023Diary of a Heartland Radical For today and tomorrow, demanding a return to the reforms of the New Deal/Great Society period provides the only way to defeat the Right. ,   These are in…

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May 24, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Killers of the Flower Moon Review – Scorsese’s Remarkable Epic About the Bloody Birth of America

Portside Culture Killers of the Flower Moon Review – Scorsese’s Remarkable Epic About the Bloody Birth of America     Peter Bradshaw May 20, 2023The Guardian Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone star in this macabre western about serial murders …

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May 24, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – May 23, 2023

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – May 23, 2023     May 23, 2023xxxxxx Students show their antifascist colors New College of Florida graduating students attend the college’s “alternative commencement” on May 18, 2023, in Sarasota. Credit, Douglas R. Clifford /…

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May 23, 2023 at 5:50 AM

Dark Arts

Dark Arts     Interview by J.J. Gould May 18, 2023The Signal How are authoritarians using artificial intelligence for political repression? Steven Feldstein on the global spread of anti-democratic applications for innovative technologies. , Photo by Denley …

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