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September 23, 2023 at 3:10 AM

Friday Nite Videos | September 22, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | September 22, 2023     September 22, 2023xxxxxx The Scheme To Capture the Court. Hannity Tonight | Parody. Rupert Murdoch Resigns, Will Lachlan Be More Extreme? Long Knife | Documentary. The Real Reason Auto Workers Are Fed Up. To view an …
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September 23, 2023 at 2:00 AM

Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events

Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events     Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski September 22, 2023ProPublica Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a poli…
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September 23, 2023 at 1:30 AM

Hip-Hop — and America — Are Changing, and Not for the Better

Hip-Hop — and America — Are Changing, and Not for the Better     Kevin Powell September 17, 2023Politico Hip-hop was rooted in politics and social justice and a diversity of voices. But now, at 50, has it become a minstrel show? ,   “I went to the crossr…
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September 23, 2023 at 1:15 AM

The Animals Are Talking. What Does It Mean?

The Animals Are Talking. What Does It Mean?     Sonia Shah September 20, 2023New York Times Language was long understood as a human-only affair. New research suggests that isn’t so. ,   Can a mouse learn a new song? Such a question might seem whimsical.…
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September 23, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Was the Freak ‘Medicane’ Storm That Devastated Libya a Glimpse of North Africa’s Future?

Was the Freak ‘Medicane’ Storm That Devastated Libya a Glimpse of North Africa’s Future?     Mike Rogerson, Belkasem Alkaryani and Mahjoor Lone September 21, 2023The Conversation Storm Daniel was a Mediterranean cyclone or hurricane (a "medicane") that struck Greece,…
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September 23, 2023 at 12:45 AM

What Is Left

Portside Culture What Is Left     Bunkong Tuon July 24, 2023Copper Nickel A survivor of the American war in Cambodia, the poet Bunkong Tuon lives with ancestral ghosts and gratitude for what is left. ,   What is Left   By Bunkong Tuon What is lef…
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September 22, 2023 at 12:10 AM

How the Federal Government Can Hold the Oil and Gas Industry Accountable

How the Federal Government Can Hold the Oil and Gas Industry Accountable     Mariel Lutz and Jenny Rowland-Shea September 19, 2023Center for American Progress Oil and gas companies have been cheating the leasing and drilling system for years, but the Biden administra…
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September 22, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Labor’s Militant Creativity

Labor’s Militant Creativity     Robert Kuttner September 18, 2023The American Prospect UAW builds on a tactic—selective strikes—pioneered 30 years ago by the Flight Attendants. It conserves the strike fund, which would only last about 90 days if all workers were out.…
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September 22, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Trump Attacked Me. Then Musk Did. It Wasn’t an Accident.

Trump Attacked Me. Then Musk Did. It Wasn’t an Accident.     Yoel Roth September 18, 2023New York Times Donald Trump publicly attacked me. Two years later, following his acquisition of Twitter and after I resigned my role as the company’s head of trust and safety, El…
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September 22, 2023 at 12:05 AM

What Eric Adams Is Getting Wrong About the Migrant Crisis

What Eric Adams Is Getting Wrong About the Migrant Crisis     Errol Louis September 12, 2023New York Magazine No sensible New Yorker should believe for a moment that a stream of migrants — despite the daunting financial and logistical issues involved in giving them f…
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September 22, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – Sept. 21, 2023 – Reader Comments: Auto Strike; Ukraine War; Billionaire Tax, Dems, SCOTUS; Africa and France; Walter Mosley’s New; Nuclear Truth Telling; Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich; Nano Stern Sings Victor Jara; Vito Marcantonio;

Tidbits – Sept. 21, 2023 – Reader Comments: Auto Strike; Ukraine War; Billionaire Tax, Dems, SCOTUS; Africa and France; Walter Mosley’s New; Nuclear Truth Telling; Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich; Nano Stern Sings Victor Jara; Vito Marcantonio;     September 21, 2023xxxxx…
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September 22, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Arundhati Roy: The Dismantling of Democracy in India Will Affect the Whole World

Portside Culture Arundhati Roy: The Dismantling of Democracy in India Will Affect the Whole World     Arundhati Roy September 14, 2023Scroll.in The text of the writer’s speech as she received the 45th European Essay Prize on September 12..."What’s happening in …
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September 21, 2023 at 4:55 AM

The Shutdown Is the Two Santa Clauses Scam Rearing Its Ugly Head Again

The Shutdown Is the Two Santa Clauses Scam Rearing Its Ugly Head Again     Thom Hartmann September 20, 2023The Hartmann Report Hopefully this time Democratic politicians and our media will, finally, call the GOP out on Wanniski’s and Reagan’s Two Santa Clauses scam a…
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September 21, 2023 at 4:45 AM

The Shared Struggle of Iranian Women and African Americans

The Shared Struggle of Iranian Women and African Americans     Piruz Alemi and Gregory N. Heires September 20, 2023The New Crossroads The far reach of the Iranian and U.S. struggles for freedom is a testament to the tenacity and resistance of both Iranian and African…
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September 21, 2023 at 4:25 AM

Biden Latest President To Tout the Vietnam War As Proud History

Biden Latest President To Tout the Vietnam War As Proud History     Norman Solomon September 18, 2023LA Progressive You might think that—after killing such a vast number of people in a war of aggression based on continuous deceptions—some humility and even penance wo…
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September 21, 2023 at 4:15 AM

Half a Million California Workers Get a Raise—And a Seat at the Table

Half a Million California Workers Get a Raise—And a Seat at the Table     Harold Meyerson September 13, 2023The American Prospect Fast-food workers compel McDonald’s and Starbucks to abandon a ballot measure that would have squelched both. RINGO CHIU VIA AP In…
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September 21, 2023 at 1:25 AM

Walter Mosley’s New York: Classes Divided, Races at War

Portside Culture Walter Mosley’s New York: Classes Divided, Races at War     Daniel Nieh February 17, 2023The New York Times Book Review His new novel, “Every Man a King,” is a hard-boiled tale of billionaires, white nationalists and a detective with a complica…
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September 21, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – September 20, 2023

Global Left Midweek – September 20, 2023     September 20, 2023xxxxxx News and analysis from, and about, left social movements and parties around the world Greta Thunberg was arrested with others at a protest in Malmö, for blocking a road for oil trucks in pro…
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September 20, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The GOP Is the Party of Corrupt Oligarchy

The GOP Is the Party of Corrupt Oligarchy     Ryan Cooper September 19, 2023The American Prospect In Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton escaped conviction after being impeached. Ellen McCluskey holds a sign outside the Senate Chamber as the impeachment trial f…
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September 20, 2023 at 12:05 AM

A Global Maui Moment

A Global Maui Moment     Tom Engelhardt September 13, 2023Tom Dispatch The most devastating war on the planet is the war waged against the planet. The effects of the wildfire in Lahaina on Maui , Getty Images   From the earliest kingdoms to late last nig…
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September 20, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Demanding an End to ‘Deadly Fossil Fuels,’ Tens of Thousands Take the Streets in NYC

Demanding an End to ‘Deadly Fossil Fuels,’ Tens of Thousands Take the Streets in NYC     End Fossil Fuels, Tens of Thousands Demand September 17, 2023Common Dreams "It's time for Biden to declare a climate emergency and phase out the fossil fuels killing people and w…
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September 20, 2023 at 12:00 AM

UAW’s “Element of Surprise” Strike Appears To Be Working

UAW’s “Element of Surprise” Strike Appears To Be Working     Sarah Lazare, Jeff Schuhrke September 15, 2023In These Times - Labor “We heard like everyone else at 10 p.m.,” a Stellantis spokesperson says Supporters and workers cheer as United Auto Workers membe…
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September 20, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Errol Morris Tells Us About Finding an ‘Exquisite Poet of Self Loathing’ in John le Carré

Portside Culture Errol Morris Tells Us About Finding an ‘Exquisite Poet of Self Loathing’ in John le Carré     Anne Thompson IndieWire For the AppleTV+ production “The Pigeon Tunnel,” documentary filmmaker Errol Morris again captured elusive quarry by recording …
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September 20, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – September 19, 2023

Media Bits and Bytes – September 19, 2023     September 19, 2023xxxxxx Gearing up to de-monopolize Google , Drew Sheneman/The Star-Ledger   First Week of Google Antitrust Trial Stephen Fry Sounds the Alarm Did NBC Normalize Trump? Ransomware Attacks Educ…
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September 19, 2023 at 4:40 AM

Against the Odds, Gustavo Petro Has Implemented Ambitious Left Policies in His First Year

Against the Odds, Gustavo Petro Has Implemented Ambitious Left Policies in His First Year     Carlos Cruz Mosquera September 16, 2023Jacobin The Colombian right has done everything in its power to undermine Gustavo Petro. That hasn’t stopped the nation’s first leftis…
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September 19, 2023 at 12:05 AM

This Week in People’s History, Sept. 19–25

This Week in People’s History, Sept. 19–25     xxxxxx Terror reigns in Georgia (in 1868). The First Great Depression (1873). First-ever Vietnam War protest (1963). The Redcoats are coming! (1768). A worthless piece of paper (1823). Nuke fallout treaty (1963). Deadly …
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September 19, 2023 at 12:05 AM

America’s Bee Problem Is an Us Problem

Portside Culture America’s Bee Problem Is an Us Problem     Lex Pryor August 3, 2023The Ringer You may have heard America’s honeybees are dying. But what does that mean for the people on the front lines—and what could it mean for what ends up on your plate? …
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September 19, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Putting Women at the Center of Human Evolution

Putting Women at the Center of Human Evolution     Sarah Lyall September 11, 2023New York Times Cat Bohannon’s book, “Eve,” looks at the way women’s bodies evolved, and how a focus on male subjects in science has left women “under-studied and under-cared for.” …
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September 19, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Why Has a Useless Cold Medication Been Allowed on Shelves for Years?

Why Has a Useless Cold Medication Been Allowed on Shelves for Years?     Sarah Zhang September 13, 2023The Atlantic Studies prove that popular decongestants just don’t work. , Mpelletier1 / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0   You wake up with …
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September 19, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Big Agriculture Doesn’t Want a Fair Farm Bill

Big Agriculture Doesn’t Want a Fair Farm Bill     Rebecca Wolf September 12, 2023The Progressive They've turned the food system into a cash cow for the powerful few by undermining small farmers and encouraging operators to “get big or get out.” , (shutterstoc…
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September 18, 2023 at 5:15 AM

Sunday Science: Wiping Out the Dinosaurs Let Countless Flowers Bloom

Sunday Science: Wiping Out the Dinosaurs Let Countless Flowers Bloom     Jack Tamisiea September 12, 2023New York Times While the extinction affected some flower species, most lineages survived and the catastrophe may have helped them become a dominant form of plant …
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September 18, 2023 at 4:45 AM

The Inside Story of How the Navy Spent Billions on the “Little Crappy Ship”

The Inside Story of How the Navy Spent Billions on the “Little Crappy Ship”     by Joaquin Sapien September 7, 2023Propublica Littoral combat ships were supposed to launch the Navy into the future. Instead they broke down across the globe and many of their weapons ne…
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September 18, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Chile: The Secrets the US Government Continues To Hide

Chile: The Secrets the US Government Continues To Hide     Peter Kornbluh August 31, 2023The Nation Fifty years after the military coup that brought down Salvador Allende and installed the Pinochet dicatorship, there are still top secret documents on the US role that…
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September 18, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The Real Issue in the UAW Strike

The Real Issue in the UAW Strike     Ronald Brownstein September 15, 2023The Atlantic Unions fear that the auto industry is using the transition toward EVs to advance a second shift away from well-paying jobs. , Chip Somodevilla / Getty   The United Auto…
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September 18, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Trump, on Meet the Press, Shows He Still Has No Policy Plans

Portside Culture Trump, on Meet the Press, Shows He Still Has No Policy Plans     Ellen Ioanes September 17, 2023Vox In Sunday’s interview with Kristen Welker, Trump went with his classic playbook of vague answers and conspiracy theories. William B. Plow…
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September 18, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Automakers Hand Billions to Shareholders While Stiffing Workers

Automakers Hand Billions to Shareholders While Stiffing Workers     Matthew Cunningham-Cook, Lucy Dean Stockton September 12, 2023The Lever The Big Three car companies have authorized $5 billion in stock buybacks over the past year. United Auto Workers members…
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September 17, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Top Dems Press Supreme Court To Block Billionaire Tax

Top Dems Press Supreme Court To Block Billionaire Tax     Julia Rock September 13, 2023The Lever Obama’s former acting Solicitor General and a senator-turned-lobbyist are helping a dark money group pressure the high court. President Obama’s former acting Solic…
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September 17, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Multi-Millionaire CEO 0nclass Warfare

Multi-Millionaire CEO 0nclass Warfare     James Downie, MSNBC Opinion Editor September 14, 2023MSNBC The wealthy’s arrogance is wholly unearned. Luxury home developer Tim Gurner speaking at the Australian Financial Review’s Property Summit, September 12, 2023.…
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September 17, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Othello and the War

Othello and the War     Victor Grossman September 11, 2023MR OnLine The world needs to end this confrontation in Ukraine, increasingly dangerous in East Asia. Regardless of differences it must be halted. Not bloodily as in Shakespeare’s tragedy, but with some form of…
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September 17, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Immediately After the 1973 Chilean Coup, US Socialists Supported Those Fighting for Freedom

Immediately After the 1973 Chilean Coup, US Socialists Supported Those Fighting for Freedom     David Duhalde Jacobin The moment that Salvador Allende was violently deposed on September 11, 1973, democratic socialists in the US knew it was a crime. They joined others …
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September 17, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Ecuador Just Showed the World What It Means To Take Climate Change Seriously

Ecuador Just Showed the World What It Means To Take Climate Change Seriously     Nick Gottlieb September 5, 2023Canadian Dimension Ecuador just showed the world what it means to take climate change, biodiversity loss, and Indigenous sovereignty seriously, all with on…
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September 16, 2023 at 3:25 AM

Friday Nite Videos Special | 6/24/2023: Songs of Solidarity

Friday Nite Videos Special | 6/24/2023: Songs of Solidarity     September 15, 2023xxxxxx Rockin' Solidarity Forever. Victor Jara | Manifiesto. Writers' Guild of America Strike Song. GmacCash | On Strike (UAW). Lisa Simpson's Union Strike Folk Song | Dan Cribbs. Paul …
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September 16, 2023 at 2:05 AM

‘No Justice, No Jeeps!’ Scenes From the Auto Workers Strike

‘No Justice, No Jeeps!’ Scenes From the Auto Workers Strike     Keith Brower Brown, Luis Feliz Leon and Jane Slaughter September 15, 2023Labor Notes “The GM CEO, she got 36 percent in raises since our last contract, making $26 million,” one worker says. “Like Fain sa…
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September 16, 2023 at 1:55 AM

Earth ‘Well Outside Safe Operating Space for Humanity’, Scientists Find

Earth ‘Well Outside Safe Operating Space for Humanity’, Scientists Find     Damian Carrington September 13, 2023Guardian The first complete ‘scientific health check’ shows that most global systems are now beyond the stable range in which modern civilization emerged …
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September 16, 2023 at 1:35 AM

Alvin Bragg Keeps Winning in the Trump Hush Money Case

Alvin Bragg Keeps Winning in the Trump Hush Money Case     Norman Eisen, Andrew Weissmann and Joshua Kolb September 13, 2023MSNBC The delay in Bragg's hush money case against Donald Trump is a victory for democracy. It makes room in the schedule for perhaps the most …
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September 16, 2023 at 1:10 AM

Ig Nobel Prizes 2023: Rock Licking and Other Unlikely Winners

Ig Nobel Prizes 2023: Rock Licking and Other Unlikely Winners     Marc Abrahams September 14, 2023New Scientist The year 2023 brings a new crop of 10 Ig Nobel prizes, each for a piece of research chosen with the same simple criterion – that it makes people laugh, the…
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September 16, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Yellow Stars

Portside Culture Yellow Stars     Elizabeth Zelvin “I will not be invisible,” writes NY poet Elizabeth Zelvin of her Jewish female identity, “I will not be herded/…I do not accept your yellow stars.” ,   Yellow Stars By Elizabeth Zelvin the Nazis s…
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September 15, 2023 at 12:05 AM

When Auto Workers Stand Up, Here’s How To Stand With Them

When Auto Workers Stand Up, Here’s How To Stand With Them     Keith Brower Brown September 13, 2023Labor Notes The likely Auto Workers (UAW) strike, which the union is dubbing the "Stand Up Strike," could be a turning point for the U.S. labor movement—and all of us a…
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September 15, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Our Supposedly Glorious Past Existed Only for Some

Our Supposedly Glorious Past Existed Only for Some     Esau McCaulley September 10, 2023New York Times Where can African Americans find this lost golden age? Do we discover it during the first centuries of the Republic when slavery was the law of the land? Do we fast…
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September 15, 2023 at 12:05 AM

‘Youth Against Dictatorship’: Meet Israel’s New Class of Conscientious Objectors

‘Youth Against Dictatorship’: Meet Israel’s New Class of Conscientious Objectors     Oren Ziv September 5, 2023+972 Magazine Eight new draft refusers speak about the occupation, the anti-judicial reform protests, and conscientious objection as a tool of protest. …