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July 15, 2023 at 1:20 AM

Friday Nite Videos | July 14, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | July 14, 2023     July 14, 2023xxxxxx Fran Drescher Delivers Fiery Speech on SAG-AFTRA Strike. Integrity Watch: Harvard Fake Data Scandal Explained. Jack Smith Smacks Down 'Frivolous' Trump Delay Move. AOC Teams Up With UPS Workers. The Greediest…

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July 15, 2023 at 12:25 AM

A Voice That Has Shaped the Court and the Country: One Year of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

A Voice That Has Shaped the Court and the Country: One Year of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson     Candice Norwood June 30, 2023The 19th News In her first year on the Supreme Court, Jackson's words have offered historical context as the majority-conservative bench has …

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July 15, 2023 at 12:05 AM

A Good Year’s Pay for a Good Day’s Work?

A Good Year’s Pay for a Good Day’s Work?     Sam Pizzigati July 9, 2023Inequality.org Pay levels for top U.S. corporate execs have lost any connection to organizational rationality. Will Be CEO For Food, by Peter Kaminski (CC BY 2.0)   Can you imagine a …

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July 15, 2023 at 12:05 AM

“Orange Is the New Black” Signalled the Rot Inside the Streaming Economy

“Orange Is the New Black” Signalled the Rot Inside the Streaming Economy     Michael Schulman July 12, 2023The New Yorker The innovative and daring show was a worldwide hit for Netflix, but some of the actors say that they were never fairly compensated. Some c…

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July 15, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Where Am ‘I’? Your Brain and You

Where Am ‘I’? Your Brain and You     Diana Kwon July 12, 2023Scientific American How does your brain create a physical sense of self? New insight comes from zapping a region, known as the anterior precuneus, that causes people to feel dissociated from their body. …

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July 15, 2023 at 12:00 AM

History Repeats Itself

Portside Culture History Repeats Itself     W. D. Ehrhart A poet sensitive to injustice, W.D. Ehrhart projects a “broken-hearted world without end.” ,   History Repeats Itself By W. D. Ehrhart But sooth is seyd, go sithen many yeres, That “feeld h…

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July 14, 2023 at 2:25 AM

Actors Strike Is On, Throwing Hollywood Into Turmoil

Actors Strike Is On, Throwing Hollywood Into Turmoil     Natalie Jarvey and Joy Press July 13, 2023Vanity Fair 160,000 actors, members of SAG-AFTRA, are shutting down all industry filming and voice-over production at midnight tonight. They are joining the 11,000 writ…

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July 14, 2023 at 1:55 AM

‘A Story That Didn’t Used To Be Told’: The Rise and Fall of Baseball’s Negro Leagues

‘A Story That Didn’t Used To Be Told’: The Rise and Fall of Baseball’s Negro Leagues     Andrew Lawrence July 5, 2023The Guardian In an eye-opening documentary The League, director Sam Pollard tells a fully-rounded tale of how Black baseball used to thrive. By the 19…

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July 14, 2023 at 1:25 AM

Racism and Race – The John Roberts Two-Step

Racism and Race – The John Roberts Two-Step     Jamelle Bouie July 8, 2023New York Times The Roberts two-step. He takes racism, a system of subjugation and social control, and removes the racists. What’s left is the mark of racism - race. A landmark case about the le…

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July 14, 2023 at 1:10 AM

The Destruction of This Palestinian Community Was Greenlit by Israel’s Supreme Court

The Destruction of This Palestinian Community Was Greenlit by Israel’s Supreme Court     Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham July 10, 2023The Nation The stories of the Palestinians struggling against Israel’s decades-long attempts to expel over 1,000 people from their homes…

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July 14, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – July 13, 2023 – Reader Comments: Supreme Court: Return To Separate and UnEqual; Child Labor; Remembering Pat Fry; Museums That Remember Slavery; Culture Wars Against Education; Ending Climate and Nuclear Crises; Announcements; Cartoons

Tidbits – July 13, 2023 – Reader Comments: Supreme Court: Return To Separate and UnEqual; Child Labor; Remembering Pat Fry; Museums That Remember Slavery; Culture Wars Against Education; Ending Climate and Nuclear Crises; Announcements; Cartoons     July 13, 2023xxxxxx …

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July 14, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Writers Who Went Undercover To Show America Its Ugly Side

Portside Culture The Writers Who Went Undercover To Show America Its Ugly Side     Samuel G. Freedman July 10, 2023The Atlantic In the 1940s, a series of books tried to use the conventions of detective fiction to expose the degree of prejudice in postwar Americ…

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July 13, 2023 at 7:40 AM

The Right Has Flipped the Real Vaccine Scandal on Its Head

The Right Has Flipped the Real Vaccine Scandal on Its Head     Branco Marcetic July 12, 2023Jacobin The real outrage isn’t that people can get vaccinated, but that due to pharmaceutical greed and government inaction, billions of people can’t. ,   Quick: …

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July 13, 2023 at 7:20 AM

As Goes Maine?

As Goes Maine?     Robert Kuttner July 12, 2023The American Prospect A hopeful story about the survival of independent local newspapers The Provincetown (Massachusetts) Independent is one example in a growing movement to save the local press by returning it to…

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July 13, 2023 at 7:05 AM

More Police in Schools Than Counselors

More Police in Schools Than Counselors     Robert Koehler July 11, 2023LA Progressive The nation’s schools are over-criminalized and under-resourced. U.S. schools have more police on hand than support staff. This image or file is a work of a U.S. National Guar…

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July 13, 2023 at 6:55 AM

How Climate Change Accelerates the Danger of Worldwide Fascism

How Climate Change Accelerates the Danger of Worldwide Fascism     Thom Hartmann July 10, 2023The Hartmann Report In addition to stepping up to mitigate climate change & green the world’s economy, the free nations must harden our democracies against reactive righ…

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July 13, 2023 at 1:50 AM

Why Crack Became the 1980s ‘Superdrug’

Portside Culture Why Crack Became the 1980s ‘Superdrug’     Jonathan Green July 11, 2023The New York Times Book Review This book "offers a fresh history of the epidemic that gripped minority communities, inflamed media coverage and led to draconian drug laws." …

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July 13, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – July 12, 2023

Global Left Midweek – July 12, 2023     July 12, 2023xxxxxx Repression breeds resistance in the West Bank, Guatemala, France and Myanmar Angry Palestinians mourn 12 killed in Israeli military operation in Jenin. Credit, Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP/Getty Images  …

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July 12, 2023 at 2:30 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – July 12, 2023

Media Bits and Bytes – July 12, 2023     July 12, 2023xxxxxx The train wreck that is Twitter, and other fun stuff , Claytoonz   Platforms and Human Rights Mark Mashes Musk Warner Discovery in the Clutches of an Idiot Berlin Court Backs Palestinian Journa…

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July 12, 2023 at 1:35 AM

The Jenin Operation Didn’t End. Phase Two Has Begun.

The Jenin Operation Didn’t End. Phase Two Has Begun.     Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau July 10, 2023Mondoweiss The Israeli army's bulldozers and airstrikes not only leveled Jenin refugee camp, but paved the way for the PA to return to the camp and reassert its influenc…

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July 12, 2023 at 1:30 AM

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Tragedy―and Ours

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Tragedy―and Ours     Lawrence Wittner July 11, 2023Common Dreams The development of nuclear weapons had far broader consequences than the downfall of one gifted scientist. The Trinity test of the Manhattan Project, the first detonation …

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July 12, 2023 at 1:30 AM

The Arguments Against Student Debt Forgiveness Are All Bunk

The Arguments Against Student Debt Forgiveness Are All Bunk     Julian Jacobs July 11, 2023Jacobin There are very good reasons the US government should forgive student loan debt — not just for the debtors themselves, but for working-class people without college degre…

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July 12, 2023 at 1:30 AM

Reform Caucus Rises, Sues for Elections in Amazon Labor Union

Reform Caucus Rises, Sues for Elections in Amazon Labor Union     Luis Feliz Leon July 10, 2023Labor Notes Amazon is still refusing to recognize the union, much less begin negotiations. In the face of this stalemate, two approaches have emerged, and they are in confl…

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July 12, 2023 at 12:00 AM

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Tragedy―and Ours

Portside Culture J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Tragedy―and Ours     Lawrence Wittner July 9, 2023Hollywood Progressive The July 21, 2023 theatrical release of the film Oppenheimer, focused on the life of a prominent American nuclear physicist, should help to remind u…

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July 11, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Oppenheimer, Nullified and Vindicated

Oppenheimer, Nullified and Vindicated     Kai Bird July 7, 2023The New Yorker The inventor of the atomic bomb, the subject of Christopher Nolan’s new film, was the chief celebrity victim of the national trauma known as McCarthyism. 1947... Albert Einstein, Rob…

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July 11, 2023 at 12:05 AM

This Week in People’s History, July 11 – 17

This Week in People’s History, July 11 – 17     xxxxxx ' No accommodation to racism' in 1905. Smoking causes lung cancer in 1957. Nixon on tape, really? in 1973. FBI admits to burglaries in 1975. CIA admits to more bad behavior in 1977. Forgetting about the Civil War…

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July 11, 2023 at 12:05 AM

How Stovemakers Helped Invent Modern Marketing

Portside Culture How Stovemakers Helped Invent Modern Marketing     Howell J. Harris February 20, 2023JSTOR The history of stovemaking in the nineteenth century, as businesses turned from small to mass manufacturing, is the story of the making and selling of th…

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July 11, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Human Rights and Housing

Human Rights and Housing     Peter Eglin July 2, 2023Socialist Project: The Bullet Housing is increasingly treated as both a speculative or an investment commodity for the rich and satisfied, and a charitable donation for the poor and precarious, in a system of corpo…

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July 11, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Angry Parents Protest Religious Right in a Southern California School District

Angry Parents Protest Religious Right in a Southern California School District     Blake Jones July 9, 2023Politico Novice school board members get a hard lesson in politics in a region that could determine control of the House. Students have held protests, an…

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July 11, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Black Radical Tradition Can Guide Our Struggles Against Oppression

The Black Radical Tradition Can Guide Our Struggles Against Oppression     Robin D. G. Kelley, Daniel Denvir July 6, 2023Jacobin Historian Robin D. G. Kelley has uncovered a tradition of African American radicalism that was — and is — a crucial part of the American l…

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July 10, 2023 at 12:10 AM

Sunday Science: Aging Is Complicated

Sunday Science: Aging Is Complicated     Ellen Quarles July 6, 2023The Conversation A biologist explains why no two people or cells age the same way, and what this means for anti-aging interventions >While some people may be older in chronological age, thei…

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July 10, 2023 at 12:05 AM

‘Democracy Is at Risk’: Inside the Fight for Supreme Court Reform

‘Democracy Is at Risk’: Inside the Fight for Supreme Court Reform     Joan E Greve, Ed Pilkington July 9, 2023The Guardian As the court concludes another term that upended lives, conservative justices are attracting criticism for their rulings and their behavior away…

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July 10, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Supreme Court Term Limits

Supreme Court Term Limits     Alicia Bannon, Michael Milov-Cordoba June 20, 2023Brennan Center for Justice Staggered 18-year terms would bring regular turnover to the bench. The result would be a Court that better reflects prevailing public values. , BCJ/Rudy …

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July 10, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Eugenics, Environmental Ruin, and Surveillance: The Story of Silicon Valley

Eugenics, Environmental Ruin, and Surveillance: The Story of Silicon Valley     Edward Ongweso Jr. June 23, 2023The Nation California’s tech industry cannot escape its original sins. Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1862), Emanuel Leutze   In…

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July 10, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Rebecca Ferguson Delivers the Sci-Fi Hero We Need in Apple TV+’s Silo

Portside Culture Rebecca Ferguson Delivers the Sci-Fi Hero We Need in Apple TV+’s Silo     Leila Latif May 5, 2023Primetimer The dystopian drama spins class warfare into gold. Rebecca Ferguson in Silo, (Photo: Apple TV+)   Few actors can pull off w…

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July 10, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Ambitions of the Civil Rights Movement Went Far Beyond Affirmative Action

The Ambitions of the Civil Rights Movement Went Far Beyond Affirmative Action     Jerome Karabel June 29, 2023TIME Magazine Affirmative action is now a policy of the past. Something far more powerful than affirmative action is still needed. The vision of Randolph, Ru…

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July 9, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Debunking the Five Major Myths About Outmigration

Debunking the Five Major Myths About Outmigration     Kurt Wise June 14, 2023Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center In 2022 the voters in Massachusetts enacted a special tax on millionaires. During that campaign and after, the supporters of millionaires have flooded …

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July 9, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Child Labor Is Making a Big Comeback in the US

Child Labor Is Making a Big Comeback in the US     Steve Fraser July 7, 2023Jacobin Child labor was common in urban, industrial America for most of the country’s history. It’s now making a disturbing comeback: lawmakers across the US are undertaking concerted efforts…

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July 9, 2023 at 12:00 AM

A Brutal Colonial Legacy Is Tinder for the Fires That Are Sweeping Across France

A Brutal Colonial Legacy Is Tinder for the Fires That Are Sweeping Across France     Vijay Prashad July 6, 2023Peoples Dispatch Racism against people of Arab and African descent in France has become almost banal, something that takes place and no longer raises an eye…

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July 9, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Eviction Filings Are 50% Higher Than They Were Pre-Pandemic in Some Cities As Rents Rise

Eviction Filings Are 50% Higher Than They Were Pre-Pandemic in Some Cities As Rents Rise     Michael Casey Associated Press and R.J. Rico Associated Press June 18, 2023Amsterdam News “Across the country, low-income renters are in an even worse situation than before t…

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July 9, 2023 at 12:00 AM

A Patriot’s Fourth of July

A Patriot’s Fourth of July     Victor Grossman July 4, 2023Berlin Bulletin #213 The world needs millions to join in this fight, this fight back! In the United States, there have been models enough of genuine patriots. There is a need for U.S. patriots who are at the …

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July 8, 2023 at 1:25 AM

Friday Nite Videos | July 7, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | July 7, 2023     July 7, 2023xxxxxx SCOTUS Axed Student Debt Relief. What Happens Next? Anthem | Trailer. Lakota Nation vs. United States | Movie. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Torches Clarence Thomas Over Affirmative Action | Roland Martin. Why …

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July 8, 2023 at 12:45 AM

‘Rent-To-Own’ or ‘Rent-Until-Evicted’?

‘Rent-To-Own’ or ‘Rent-Until-Evicted’?     Rebecca Burns July 7, 2023Insider Home Partners entices Americans locked out of traditional mortgages with rent-to-own deals. But an Insider analysis of three major markets found that eviction filings were more common than s…

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July 8, 2023 at 12:25 AM

The Segregationist Roots of Anti-Woke Ideology

The Segregationist Roots of Anti-Woke Ideology     Lawrence B. Glickman July 5, 2023Slate After Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, segregationists attempted to use state power to punish progressive corporations, civil rights groups, and media outlets; pundits conde…

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July 8, 2023 at 12:10 AM

The Russians Who Are Returning

The Russians Who Are Returning     Meduza staff July 5, 2023Meduza ‘It’s not me who needs to leave.’ We asked some of our readers who left Russia during the war and came back why they returned. Here’s what they said. ,   Some Russian residents who left t…

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July 8, 2023 at 12:10 AM

Moving On to Adversity-Based Affirmative Action

Moving On to Adversity-Based Affirmative Action     Paul Starr July 3, 2023The American Prospect A great deal can still be done. President Biden’s mention of “adversity” in his comments on the Court’s decision is one key to a new and more politically defensible form …

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July 8, 2023 at 12:00 AM

It’s Different Now

Portside Culture It’s Different Now     Christopher Clauss May 5, 2023Radical Teacher “I just want to teach science,” says New Hampshire poet Christopher Clauss, but his responsibilities also range from the absurd to the dangerous. ,   It’s Differ…

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July 7, 2023 at 12:10 AM

In Jenin, Israel Is Unveiling the Next Phase of Apartheid

In Jenin, Israel Is Unveiling the Next Phase of Apartheid     Amjad Iraqi June 30, 2023+972 Magazine Palestinians in West Bank cities are fast discovering that if their expulsion won’t be possible, Gazafication will be their future. Palestinians gather around …

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July 7, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Pat Fry: A Tribute in Memoriam

Pat Fry: A Tribute in Memoriam     Geoffrey Jacques July 6, 2023xxxxxx Pat Fry was a long-time activist, journalist, and leader in the working class, peace, solidarity, anti-imperialist, and left-wing and socialist movements in the United States, dies after long stru…

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July 7, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Industrial Revolution Iron Method ‘Was Taken From Jamaica by Briton’

Industrial Revolution Iron Method ‘Was Taken From Jamaica by Briton’     Hannah Devlin July 5, 2023The Guardian Wrought iron process that drove British industrial revolution success and colonialism was appropriated from black metallurgists, historical records now sug…

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