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July 24, 2023 at 8:40 AM

Sunday Science: The Scientists Who Understood Their Obligation to Humanity

Sunday Science: The Scientists Who Understood Their Obligation to Humanity     John Mark Hansen July 22, 2023The Atlantic Nuclear experts demanded limits on the atomic bomb. AI developers should follow that example. , The Atlantic   J. Robert Oppenheimer…
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July 24, 2023 at 7:55 AM

Chicago Has a Pension Crisis, but It’s Not Progressives’ Fault

Chicago Has a Pension Crisis, but It’s Not Progressives’ Fault     Dean Baker July 19, 2023The New Republic One recent media report is emblematic of the kinds of errors the press makes when it sees a chance to put pressure on a Black progressive mayor. Chicago…
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July 24, 2023 at 7:35 AM

Political Monocultures Weaken Resistance to the GOP and Big Business

Political Monocultures Weaken Resistance to the GOP and Big Business     Ralph Nader July 23, 2023Common Dreams The GOP’s off-the-wall positions should make it easy for the Dems to defeat the out-of-touch Republicans. But not when the party is dialing for the same co…
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July 24, 2023 at 7:15 AM

The Waning Days of the ‘Special Relationship’

The Waning Days of the ‘Special Relationship’     Meron Rapoport July 20, 2023972 Magazine The White House will not cut aid to Israel or stop cooperation overnight, but the day America treats Israel like any other country is nearer than we think. President Joe…
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July 24, 2023 at 6:45 AM

Close to 100,000 Voter Registrations Were Challenged in Georgia — Almost All by Just Six Right-Wing Activists

Close to 100,000 Voter Registrations Were Challenged in Georgia — Almost All by Just Six Right-Wing Activists     Doug Bock Clark July 13, 2023ProPublica The recent transformation of the state’s election laws explicitly enabled citizens to file unlimited challenges t…
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July 24, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Unauthorized AI-Generated ‘South Park’ Episode Leaves WGA and SAG Strikers Enraged: “Straight to Hell”

Portside Culture Unauthorized AI-Generated ‘South Park’ Episode Leaves WGA and SAG Strikers Enraged: “Straight to Hell”     Raven Brunner July 20, 2023Decider While the specific program is new, this isn’t the first time artificial intelligence has created a ver…
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July 23, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Why It Feels Like the 1850s

Why It Feels Like the 1850s     Robert Kuttner July 21, 2023The American Prospect States that deny rights to women are demanding that free states do their bidding—with the help of courts. People demonstrate in Davenport, Iowa, following the Supreme Court decis…
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July 23, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Favorable Views of Supreme Court Fall to Historic Low

Favorable Views of Supreme Court Fall to Historic Low     Katy Lin and Carroll Doherty July 21, 2023Pew Research Center Fewer than half of Americans (44%) now express a favorable opinion of the court, , dbking   Following a series of high-profile rulings…
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July 23, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Nahel’s France: Neo-Colonized and Pan-African Voices Speak Up

Nahel’s France: Neo-Colonized and Pan-African Voices Speak Up     Julia Wright July 15, 2023Pan-African News Wire Since we are listening to muted voices, what about little Nahel's voice? The 14-year-old passenger sitting next to him in the car related that Nahel's la…
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July 23, 2023 at 12:00 AM

A New Strategy To Take On AIPAC: Actually Take Them On

A New Strategy To Take On AIPAC: Actually Take Them On     Ryan Grim July 18, 2023badnews.substack.com “To take money from a lobbying group that dictates your foreign policy, I think it’s completely unacceptable. I do not think it’s OK to take money from a group that…
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July 23, 2023 at 12:00 AM

‘Don’t Let the Chain of Freedom Break at Your Link’

‘Don’t Let the Chain of Freedom Break at Your Link’     Loretta Ross and Scot Nakagawa July 6, 2023Convergence We have three different kinds of allies: potential, problematic and proven. They all have the most important word in there: ally. But we need different stra…
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July 22, 2023 at 12:15 AM

Friday Nite Videos | July 21, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | July 21, 2023     July 21, 2023xxxxxx Lifting the Fog: The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Lean On Me | Kori Withers and Friends. Oppenheimer | Movie. JFK Jr. Was Killed in 1999 ... Or Was He? How Streaming Caused the TV Writers Strike. …
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July 22, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The Manhattan Project Scientist Who Quit

The Manhattan Project Scientist Who Quit     September 28, 2005 Joseph Rotblat was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, believing it was necessary in view of German atom bomb development. When he learned the German project was unsuccessful, he resigned an…
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July 22, 2023 at 12:05 AM

No Labels Says It’s Not a Political Party. But It’s Setting Up State Parties.

No Labels Says It’s Not a Political Party. But It’s Setting Up State Parties.     David Corn July 17, 2023Mother Jones No Labels says its not a political party. It runs on dark money. But now it's setting up state parties. Democrats and Never-Trump GOPers are worried…
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July 22, 2023 at 12:05 AM

How College Towns Are Decimating the GOP

How College Towns Are Decimating the GOP     Charlie Mahtesian and Madi Alexander July 21, 2023Politico Growing population in America’s highly educated enclaves has led to huge gains for the Democratic Party. And Republicans are scrambling for answers. , …
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July 22, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Wagnerization: How Putin Degraded the Russian State

Wagnerization: How Putin Degraded the Russian State     Ilya Matveev July 3, 2023Left East The Wagner mutiny exposed the weakness of the Russian state. Behind the monolithic facade of Putinism are clans, networks and corporations pursuing their own goals. They are qu…
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July 22, 2023 at 12:00 AM

F Is for Fear

Portside Culture F Is for Fear     Heidi Seaborn June 25, 2023Rattle Poet Heidi Seaborn (a distinctive surname) envisions a death at sea by strangulation, though it didn’t quite happen that way. ,   F is for Fear By Heidi Seaborn And it is raining…
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July 21, 2023 at 12:10 AM

Fran Drescher Breaks Down the SAG-AFTRA Strike’s Heated First Days: ‘We’re Striking for the Journeyman,’ Not Tom Cruise

Fran Drescher Breaks Down the SAG-AFTRA Strike’s Heated First Days: ‘We’re Striking for the Journeyman,’ Not Tom Cruise     Stephen Rodrick July 19, 2023Variety "The Nanny" speaks on land barons, new business models and why she is the right person for the job. “I thi…
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July 21, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Vast Majority of House Dems Back GOP Resolution Saying Israel Isn’t an Apartheid State

Vast Majority of House Dems Back GOP Resolution Saying Israel Isn’t an Apartheid State     Michael Arria July 19, 2023Mondoweiss The House overwhelmingly passed a resolution declaring Israel is "not a racist or apartheid state." The final vote was 412-9. Rep. Rashida…
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July 21, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Alabama Legislators Buck Supreme Court, Cling to Racially Discriminatory Voting Districts

Alabama Legislators Buck Supreme Court, Cling to Racially Discriminatory Voting Districts     Judd Legum July 19, 2023Popular Information In the 1950s and 60s, southern officials — desperate to maintain the racial status quo — regularly ignored court orders affirming…
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July 21, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The Crimes and Dangers of Elliott Abrams: Why Biden Should Not Appoint Him

The Crimes and Dangers of Elliott Abrams: Why Biden Should Not Appoint Him     Ariel Gold and Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler July 14, 2023Fellowship Magazine To honor those who have died and suffered from the fires Biden nominee Elliott Abrams lit and fanned abroad, we mu…
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July 21, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – July 20, 2023 – Reader Comments: Hollywood Strike To Limit AI Is for You and Me – We Are All Extras; DeSantis Using State Guard As Private Army; Negro League, Baseball Integration the Left; Hollywood Labor Films; Robert Reich; War on Women

Tidbits – July 20, 2023 – Reader Comments: Hollywood Strike To Limit AI Is for You and Me – We Are All Extras; DeSantis Using State Guard As Private Army; Negro League, Baseball Integration the Left; Hollywood Labor Films; Robert Reich; War on Women     July 20, 2023xxxx…
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July 21, 2023 at 12:00 AM

How Jeremy Corbyn Was Toppled by the Israel Lobby

Portside Culture How Jeremy Corbyn Was Toppled by the Israel Lobby     Michael Steven Smith July 12, 2023Mondoweiss Asa Winstanley's new book shows how the Israel lobby weaponized antisemitism to create a new McCarthyism to bring down Jeremy Corbyn and those bu…
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July 20, 2023 at 5:45 AM

Cop City and the Escalating War on Environmental Defenders

Cop City and the Escalating War on Environmental Defenders     Basav Sen and Gabrielle Colchete July 13, 2023In These Times From laws targeting fossil fuel protests to the crackdown on Stop Cop City activists, corporations are calling in militarized law enforcement t…
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July 20, 2023 at 5:30 AM

Palestinian Resistance Will Not Be Snuffed Out by Israel

Palestinian Resistance Will Not Be Snuffed Out by Israel     Mohammed R. Mhawish July 5, 2023Jacobin The Israeli incursion into Jenin showed the violence of occupation and blatant disregard for Palestinian rights. At least 133 Palestinians have been killed by Israel …
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July 20, 2023 at 4:30 AM

Plenty of Black College Students Want To Be Teachers, but Something Keeps Derailing Them

Plenty of Black College Students Want To Be Teachers, but Something Keeps Derailing Them     Jill Barshay July 10, 2023The Hechinger Report Study inside Michigan’s teacher preparation programs sheds light on some of the reasons for the scarcity of Black teachers in A…
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July 20, 2023 at 4:10 AM

Big Oil Quietly Walks Back on Climate Pledges As Global Heat Records Tumble

Big Oil Quietly Walks Back on Climate Pledges As Global Heat Records Tumble     Dharna Noor July 16, 2023The Guardian Energy firms have made record profits by increasing production of oil and gas, far from their promises of rolling back emissions Pictured is o…
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July 20, 2023 at 12:10 AM

When the Welfare Rights Movement Was a Powerful Force for Uplifting the Poor

Portside Culture When the Welfare Rights Movement Was a Powerful Force for Uplifting the Poor     Eleanor J. Bader July 10, 2023The Indypendent The War on Poverty comes to life in this newly updated edition of a book that explores how welfare mothers in Las Veg…
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July 20, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – Focus on Canada

Global Left Midweek – Focus on Canada     July 19, 2023xxxxxx Canada is alive with resistance Hundreds of Toronto tenants turn out for rent strike rally Saturday. Credit, CityNews Toronto   The Left Lacks Leadership Breakthrough in Toronto Tide Turning f…
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July 19, 2023 at 12:10 AM

Sanders NDAA Amendments Would Cut US Military Budget by 10%, Target Rampant Fraud

Sanders NDAA Amendments Would Cut US Military Budget by 10%, Target Rampant Fraud     Jake Johnson July 18, 2023Common Dreams One of the Vermont senator's amendments would require the Pentagon to return a portion of its budget if it fails another audit. Sen. B…
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July 19, 2023 at 12:10 AM

A Highway Destroyed Tulsa’s Thriving Black Wall Street – Now There’s Hope It Could Come Back

A Highway Destroyed Tulsa’s Thriving Black Wall Street – Now There’s Hope It Could Come Back     Geoff Dembicki July 18, 2023The Guardian Decades after a chilling racist massacre, Tulsa’s Greenwood district was bulldozed for I-244 – but a new plan aims to reverse its…
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July 19, 2023 at 12:10 AM

RFK Jr. Is Running on the Kennedy Name. What Does That Mean for the Family’s Legacy

RFK Jr. Is Running on the Kennedy Name. What Does That Mean for the Family’s Legacy     Tal Kopan July 18, 2023The Boston Globe The campaign is vexing some of the family in no small part because of how central public health and vaccine access were to the Kennedy agen…
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July 19, 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 18, 2023Counterpunch “The company has promised to create 2,500 new jobs that it says will pay an average annual wage of just $45,000 a year,” Good Jobs First points out, “while reaping subsidies of $3.4 …
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July 19, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Hollywood on the Picket Line – 5 Unsung Films That Put America’s Union History on the Silver Screen

Portside Culture Hollywood on the Picket Line – 5 Unsung Films That Put America’s Union History on the Silver Screen     Peter Drier July 14, 2023The Conversation The SAG-AFTRA strike comes at a time when polls suggest unions are more popular in the U.S. than a…
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July 19, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – July 18, 2023

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – July 18, 2023     July 18, 2023xxxxxx Choosing sides in the longest, hottest summer , Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press   Science Activism is Surging Education and Climate in MAGAland Dutch Ban on Hoarding Hous…
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July 18, 2023 at 12:10 AM

This Week in People’s History, July 18 – 24

This Week in People’s History, July 18 – 24     xxxxxx Jelly Roll Morton's hit single in 1923. Women's Rights Convention in 1848. Disability rights a winner in 1968. Prepaid comprehensive healthcare in 1945. Investigation smoke and mirrors in 2004. Prisoner abuse in …
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July 18, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The Businessmen Broke Hollywood

The Businessmen Broke Hollywood     Xochitl Gonzalez July 17, 2023The Atlantic And now they don’t want to pay their employees. , David Butow / Redux   The Hollywood machine—from script writing, to shooting and production, to late-night talk-show PR—has o…
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July 18, 2023 at 12:05 AM

State Guard Set Up by DeSantis Is Being Trained As Personal Militia, Veterans Say

State Guard Set Up by DeSantis Is Being Trained As Personal Militia, Veterans Say     Richard Luscombe July 15, 2023Guardian Veterans resign from the Florida State Guard force established as civilian disaster relief, citing concerns over ‘militaristic’ training and ‘…
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July 18, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Almonds Are Under Threat. The Key to Saving Them Could Be in the Soil

Portside Culture Almonds Are Under Threat. The Key to Saving Them Could Be in the Soil     Emily Baron Cadloff July 14, 2023Modern Farmer Rising temperatures, lack of water and encroaching development are creating tough conditions for the crucial California cro…
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July 18, 2023 at 12:00 AM

On the Anniversary of ‘The Fire Next Time’

On the Anniversary of ‘The Fire Next Time’     David Shih July 4, 2023The Progressive Rereading The Fire Next Time after the death of Michael Brown, and then again after that of George Floyd, changed the book for me—because those events had changed me. I want my stu…
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July 18, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Iraq’s Climate Crisis

Iraq’s Climate Crisis     Juan Cole July 9, 2023TomDispatch You don’t want to be in the Iraq that this country invaded in what was, in essence, a giant oil grab and helped turn into a land of overheated rubble, dust, sand, drought, and increasingly over-the-top tempe…
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July 17, 2023 at 6:15 AM

Sunday Science: What Does ‘Brain Dead’ Really Mean? The Battle Over How Science Defines the End of Life

Sunday Science: What Does ‘Brain Dead’ Really Mean? The Battle Over How Science Defines the End of Life     Max Kozlov July 11, 2023Nature Ideological differences threaten to muddy the definition of death in the United States — with potentially negative consequences …
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July 17, 2023 at 5:25 AM

“Cobalt Red”: Smartphones & Electric Cars Rely on Toxic Mineral Mined in Congo by Children

“Cobalt Red”: Smartphones & Electric Cars Rely on Toxic Mineral Mined in Congo by Children     Siddharth Kara, Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh July 13, 2023Democracy Now Those who dig up the valuable mineral often work in horrific and dangerous conditions, says Siddh…
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July 17, 2023 at 4:10 AM

Want a Labor Party? Learn From the UK

Want a Labor Party? Learn From the UK     Eric Blank July 11, 2023Labor Politics What is the most viable path to a working-class party in the United States? How to Implode a Two-Party System from Within. ,   [I went on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer show yesterday …
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July 17, 2023 at 3:45 AM

Jesse Jackson Is Keeping Hope Alive

Jesse Jackson Is Keeping Hope Alive     Robert L. Borosage July 13, 2023The Nation Veterans of his remarkable insurgent 1988 campaign gather to pay tribute. The Rev. Jesse Jackson., Cynthia Johnson / Getty Images   I did not start with the money, the ads…
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July 17, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Nuclear History in Lubumbashi

Nuclear History in Lubumbashi     Roger Peet July 1, 2023Justseeds I’ve been working for several years on a large linoleum blockprint that traces the history of the use of Congolese uranium in the Manhattan project. , Courtesy of Roger Peet   I spent thr…
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July 17, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Barack Obama’s New Netflix Series Shows That He Has Critiques but No Answers

Portside Culture Barack Obama’s New Netflix Series Shows That He Has Critiques but No Answers     Paul Prescod June 5, 2023Jacobin While it’s always refreshing to see the lives of working people centered in our media, the docuseries Working: What We Do All Day …
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July 16, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Abortion Ballot Measures Set the Stage Ahead of 2024

Abortion Ballot Measures Set the Stage Ahead of 2024     Caroline Vakil July 15, 2023The Hill Florida, South Dakota and Arizona are also battlegrounds for whether abortion is restricted or protected as states continue to contend with the Supreme Court’s decision to o…
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July 16, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Nanoplastics Are Entering Our Bodies

Nanoplastics Are Entering Our Bodies     Erica Cirino July 14, 2023The Bullet Clearly, micro- and nanoplastics are getting into us, with at least some escaping through our digestive tracts. We seem to be drinking, eating, and breathing it in. ,   The air…
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July 16, 2023 at 12:00 AM

“We Are at the Beginning of a New Phase”

“We Are at the Beginning of a New Phase”     Roberto Morea interviews Fausto Bertinotti July 11, 2023Transform! Europe Italy needs a coalition — not a coalition of anti-fascist forces, but rather a coalition for anti-fascism. Fausto Bertinotti, Source: Fabio P…
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