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March 12, 2024 at 1:45 AM

This Week in People’s History, Mar. 12–18

This Week in People’s History, Mar. 12–18     xxxxxx Who Wrecked the Trains? (in 1949), Forward Ever, Backward Never! (1979), Take Your Blacklist and Shove It! (1954), Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round (1964), Paris Commune and Marx (1884), Terror in Nic…

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March 12, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Two Oppenheimers, Two Views of Who Should Control the Bomb

Two Oppenheimers, Two Views of Who Should Control the Bomb     KC Cole March 5, 2024 Knowable Magazine A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent Robert Oppenheimer and his brother Frank on diverging paths. For one, the story …

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March 12, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Hardline U.S. Stance Ignores Non-GM Corn Opportunity for U.S. Farmers

Portside Culture Hardline U.S. Stance Ignores Non-GM Corn Opportunity for U.S. Farmers     Ken Roseboro and Timothy A. Wise Food Tank U.S. farmers of non-GMO corn could earn premium prices, particularly attractive right now that corn prices fell more …

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March 12, 2024 at 12:00 AM

New Coalition Aims To Defend ‘Squad’ and Other Progressives Targeted by AIPAC

New Coalition Aims To Defend ‘Squad’ and Other Progressives Targeted by AIPAC     Amanda Becker March 11, 2024 The 19th The overwhelming influence of corporate Super PACs on our elections has expanded the gap between voters and their elected leaders into a c…

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March 12, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Filibuster at Serious Risk As Sinema Begins Her Senate Exit

Filibuster at Serious Risk As Sinema Begins Her Senate Exit     Burgess Everett, Ursula Perano March 5, 2024 Politico While Democrats are more vocal about wanting to abolish the upper chamber's supermajority requirement, it could be in danger regardless of w…

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March 11, 2024 at 7:50 AM

Sunday Science: Immune Cells Can Adapt to Invading Pathogens, Deciding Whether To Fight Now or Prepare for the Next Battle

Sunday Science: Immune Cells Can Adapt to Invading Pathogens, Deciding Whether To Fight Now or Prepare for the Next Battle     Kathleen Abadie, Elisa Clark, Hao Yuan Kueh March 8, 2024 The Conversation How does your immune system decide between fighting inva…

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March 11, 2024 at 7:05 AM

The Long Struggle To Read in Alabama’s Prisons

The Long Struggle To Read in Alabama’s Prisons     Beth Shelburne March 3, 2024 Facing South Jennings and other prisoners say reading is therapy for them, but a hostile bureaucracy often makes access to books and other reading materials difficult. …

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March 11, 2024 at 6:35 AM

At Seattle’s Boeing Field, Real-Time Video Offers a Rare Glimpse of America’s Troubled Deportation Flights

At Seattle’s Boeing Field, Real-Time Video Offers a Rare Glimpse of America’s Troubled Deportation Flights     McKenzie Funk March 8, 2024 ProPublica Key details about what happens inside ICE Air would still be hidden if not for a group of Washington activis…

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March 11, 2024 at 6:25 AM

The Radical History of International Women’s Day

The Radical History of International Women’s Day     Catherine Caruso March 8, 2024 Bucks County Beacon As the holiday has become mainstream, University of Pennsylvania Professor Kristen R. Ghodsee says #IWD has grown further away from its “socialist roots” …

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March 11, 2024 at 6:00 AM

Gender Wage Gap Persists in 2023

Gender Wage Gap Persists in 2023     Elise Gould March 8, 2024 Economic Policy Institute March 12 is Equal Pay Day, a reminder that there is still a significant pay gap between men and women in our country. Women are paid roughly 22% less than men on average…

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March 11, 2024 at 3:35 AM

What Does Winning an Oscar Even Mean Anyway? A Better Question To Ask Than Who Wins the Oscar: Who Benefits the Most, Win or Lose?

Portside Culture What Does Winning an Oscar Even Mean Anyway? A Better Question To Ask Than Who Wins the Oscar: Who Benefits the Most, Win or Lose?     Aja Romano March 8, 2024 Vox Many post-Oscar career trajectory outcomes boil down to three things …

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March 10, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Pharma’s Secret Middlemen Are Poisoning Health Care

Pharma’s Secret Middlemen Are Poisoning Health Care     Helen Santoro March 8, 2024 Lever News Following a lobbying blitz, Congress might punt all efforts to stop shadowy pharmacy benefit managers from inflating drug prices and killing small pharmacies. …

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March 10, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Intel’s $3.5 Billion Boondoggle

Intel’s $3.5 Billion Boondoggle     Austin Ahlman March 8, 2024 The American Prospect The microchip giant’s ‘secure enclave’ project will take nearly 10 percent of a CHIPS Act manufacturing fund that is already stretched thin. Intel has only recent…

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March 10, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Parsing Biden’s 2024 State of the Union Address

Parsing Biden’s 2024 State of the Union Address     Karen Dolan March 8, 2024 https://ips-dc.org/parsing-bidens-2024-state-of-the-union-address/ President Biden credited progressive economics with a strong post-COVID recovery. But on Gaza and immigration, he…

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March 10, 2024 at 1:00 AM

'Uncommitted' vote against Biden blows past goal in Minnesota's Democratic primary

'Uncommitted' vote against Biden blows past goal in Minnesota's Democratic primary     Briana Bierschbach and Josie Albertson-Grove March 6, 2024 Star Tribune In Minnesota's primary for the Democratic Party, more than 45,000 people voted uncommitted. Minneso…

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March 10, 2024 at 1:00 AM

The Iron Dome Is Global – And So Is the Resistance

The Iron Dome Is Global – And So Is the Resistance     Naomi Klein March 2, 2024 Red Pepper All we have is our solidarity. Our determination. Our resolve. And our shared moral commitment to the preciousness of life. With that, we can build a world with no ir…

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March 9, 2024 at 5:30 AM

Friday Nite Videos | March 8, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | March 8, 2024     March 8, 2024 xxxxxx Eagle Pass Residents Sound Off on the Real "Invasion. " The IRS Files: How Billionaires Avoid Taxes. This Video Game Software Helps Us Do Paleontology. Working Families Party Responds to State of th…

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March 9, 2024 at 4:40 AM

One Big Thing Biden’s SOTU Got Right

One Big Thing Biden’s SOTU Got Right     Zack Beauchamp March 8, 2024 Vox The president dodged the “norms trap” by going straight after Trump on democracy. There is no hypocrisy in defending truth against lies. ,   During Thursday night’s S…

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March 9, 2024 at 4:25 AM

Florida Is Swamped by Disease

Florida Is Swamped by Disease     Richard Luscombe March 3, 2024 Guardian In Florida, quackery is replacing science. The state is in the grip of a measles outbreak, yet Joseph Ladapo, the surgeon general, continues to ignore medical science to stop it. …

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March 9, 2024 at 4:10 AM

Harold Washington’s Lessons for Taking On a Political Machine

Harold Washington’s Lessons for Taking On a Political Machine     Mark Engler and Paul Engler February 21, 2024 Waging Nonviolence A new documentary explains how, 40 years ago, Chicago’s first Black mayor shattered status-quo politics, offering insights for …

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March 9, 2024 at 4:00 AM

Ozempic Is a Brain Drug

Ozempic Is a Brain Drug     Sarah Zhang March 5, 2024 The Atlantic The latest weight loss drugs succeeded not because we fully understood the hormone they’re based on but because we got lucky. And drug development, for all the careful research required, does…

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March 9, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Extinction Crisis

Portside Culture Extinction Crisis     Susan C. Moser September 1, 2023 Dear Human at the Edge of Time Susan Moser’s poetry addresses the “extinction crisis”—thousands of species disappear forever—as human life goes on in this world. , …

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March 8, 2024 at 1:10 AM

The Missing News About Gaza

The Missing News About Gaza     Alexei Sisulu Abrahams February 26, 2024 The Nation To understand Palestine and Israel, we need more coverage of the everyday structural violence of occupation. Disinformation involves lying by commission. Decontextualization,…

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March 8, 2024 at 1:05 AM

The Shoah After Gaza

The Shoah After Gaza     Pankaj Mishra March 7, 2024 London Review of Books The dark meaning the Israeli state has drawn from the Shoah, and then institutionalized in a machinery of repression. Anyone calling attention to the spectacle of Washington’s blind …

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March 8, 2024 at 1:05 AM

There Were Lynchings in the North, Too

There Were Lynchings in the North, Too     James Barron March 6, 2024 New York Times An NYU project examines the history of lynching's after the Civil War, including one in New York State. Billie Holiday sang a disturbing ballad called “Strange Fruit” for th…

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March 8, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Forty-Three Mexican Students Went Missing. What Really Happened to Them?

Forty-Three Mexican Students Went Missing. What Really Happened to Them?     Alma Guillermoprieto March 4, 2024 The New Yorker One night in 2014, a group of young men from a rural teachers’ college vanished. Their families have fought for answers. “I don’t h…

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March 8, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Tidbits – Mar.7, 2024 – Reader Comments: Ceasefire Now; Mitch McConnell Water Boy for Trump; Trump Courts Teamsters; Alabama’s Embryos; Harry Belafonte Celebration of Life; Film Workers for Palestine; 1st Annual Walter Rodney Symposium; Cartoons;

Tidbits – Mar.7, 2024 – Reader Comments: Ceasefire Now; Mitch McConnell Water Boy for Trump; Trump Courts Teamsters; Alabama’s Embryos; Harry Belafonte Celebration of Life; Film Workers for Palestine; 1st Annual Walter Rodney Symposium; Cartoons;     March 7, 2024…

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March 8, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Sketches From Spain: Homage to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Portside Culture Sketches From Spain: Homage to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade     Philip C. Kolin, reviewer March 1, 2024 Portside No one is better qualified than Peter Neil Carroll to write a book of memorial poems about the valiant men and women who …

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March 7, 2024 at 7:30 AM

The World Must Calculate the Real Gaza Death Toll

The World Must Calculate the Real Gaza Death Toll     Ralph Nader March 6, 2024 Common Dreams With virtually no healthcare left, no medications, and infectious diseases spreading especially among infants, children, the infirm, and the elderly, can anybody be…

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March 7, 2024 at 7:15 AM

Between You and Your Doctor: How Medicare Advantage Care Denials Affect Patients

Between You and Your Doctor: How Medicare Advantage Care Denials Affect Patients     Matthew Cunningham-Cook March 6, 2024 The American Prospect As UnitedHealth racks up unprecedented profits, the people it insures battle for care. , PATRICK SISON/…

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March 7, 2024 at 7:00 AM

Dartmouth Men’s Basketball Votes To Become First College Team To Unionize

Dartmouth Men’s Basketball Votes To Become First College Team To Unionize     Brian Niemietz March 5, 2024 New York Daily News Their initiative follows a 2021 Supreme Court ruling that the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s restrictions on student-at…

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March 7, 2024 at 6:40 AM

The Saudi & Putin Scheme for Screwing Biden’s Election Hopes

The Saudi & Putin Scheme for Screwing Biden’s Election Hopes     Thom Hartmann March 5, 2024 The Hartmann Report So, get ready: it’s coming this fall. And unless the administration acts quickly, there will be nothing they can do about it. Gas at $6 a gal…

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March 7, 2024 at 3:10 AM

Rethinking “Civilization”

Portside Culture Rethinking “Civilization”     Steven Poole February 28, 2024 The Guardian A radical new history of the ancient world that challenges modern chauvinism. ,   How the World Made the West A 4,000-Year History Josephine …

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March 7, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – March 6, 2024

Global Left Midweek – March 6, 2024     March 6, 2024 xxxxxx Feminists against dictatorship of the dollar , La Via Campesina   Parties and Movements Putin, Navalny and Kagarlitsky For International Women’s Day: La Via Campesina Declaration…

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March 6, 2024 at 1:40 AM

France Makes Abortion a Constitutional Right in Historic Versailles Vote

France Makes Abortion a Constitutional Right in Historic Versailles Vote     Kim Willsher March 4, 2024 The Guardian The French parliament has enshrined abortion as a constitutional right at a historic joint session at the Palace of Versailles. A m…

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March 6, 2024 at 1:35 AM

Thousands March in Cambridge for Cease-Fire in Gaza

Thousands March in Cambridge for Cease-Fire in Gaza     Laura Crimaldi March 2, 2024 The Boston Globe Demonstration organizers encouraged the crowd to use Tuesday’s presidential primary election in Massachusetts to choose the “no preference” option on the De…

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March 6, 2024 at 1:35 AM

A Rebuttal to Racial Hierarchies

A Rebuttal to Racial Hierarchies     Sujata Gupta February 24, 2024 Science News February 24, 2024 Anthropologist Anténor Firmin wrote a critical race theory book in 1885 A photo of Anténor Firmin in black and white overlayed on a tan background. …

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March 6, 2024 at 1:35 AM

The Supreme Court Once Again Reveals the Fraud of Originalism

The Supreme Court Once Again Reveals the Fraud of Originalism     Adam Serwer March 4, 2024 The Atlantic The justices did not want to throw Trump off the ballot, and so they didn’t. , Illustration by The Atlantic, Eric Lee / Bloomberg via Getty Ima…

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March 6, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Pan African Film Festival 2024: “One Love” Bob Marley

Portside Culture Pan African Film Festival 2024: “One Love” Bob Marley     Ed Rampell February 24, 2024 Hollywood Progressive Set against the tempestuous politics of post-colonial Jamaica, through flashbacks, "One Love" portrays the rise of the belov…

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March 6, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – March 5, 2024

Media Bits and Bytes – March 5, 2024     March 5, 2024 xxxxxx Michael Klare on AI The entrance to the New York Times as pro-Palestine activists denounce the paper's coverage of Gaza destruction. Credit, Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images   A…

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March 5, 2024 at 8:30 AM

Segregation Academies Still Exist

Segregation Academies Still Exist     Christopher Young March 1, 2024 LA Progressive Despite the law of the land, lawmaker’s find workarounds to maintain segregation funding through charter schools ,   Sometimes you just have to go see for …

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March 5, 2024 at 1:55 AM

The Hidden Dissent in the SCOTUS Metadata

The Hidden Dissent in the SCOTUS Metadata     Mark Joseph Stern March 4, 2024 Slate We can guess that the bulk of this hidden dissenting opinion, which in the final version appears only a a concurrence, was authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. "Son…

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March 5, 2024 at 1:05 AM

This Week in People’s History, Mar 5–11

This Week in People’s History, Mar 5–11     xxxxxx If This Be Treason (in 1774), War Is Such an Ugly Word (1919), U.S. Thumbs Nose at International Law (1984), International Women's Day! (1914), Joe McCarthy's Dam Cracks (1954), Whose Streets? Our Streets! (…

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March 5, 2024 at 1:00 AM

The Ironies of Drinking Fluid Milk

Portside Culture The Ironies of Drinking Fluid Milk     Marion Nestle March 1, 2024 Food Politics Today’s mega-milk-industry stems from a lack of scientific perspective that turned milk into a supposed daily necessity for children and, to a lesser ex…

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March 5, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Netanyahu Was Right: Israel Acts Like a US Aircraft Carrier

Netanyahu Was Right: Israel Acts Like a US Aircraft Carrier     Alan Wagman March 3, 2024 Common Dreams Netanyahu likened Israel to a mighty American aircraft carrier. That is how Israel, as a military colony, serves its imperial master A Palestini…

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March 5, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Remembering the 1932 Ford Hunger March: Detroit Park Honors Labor and Environmental History

Remembering the 1932 Ford Hunger March: Detroit Park Honors Labor and Environmental History     Paul Draus March 1, 2024 The Conversation When the Ford workers Hunger March to deliver a list of 14 demands to Henry Ford became the Ford Massacre . . . and ulti…

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March 4, 2024 at 8:35 AM

Sunday Science: On the Trail of the Denisovans

Sunday Science: On the Trail of the Denisovans     Carl Zimmer March 2, 2024 New York Times DNA has shown that the extinct humans thrived around the world, from chilly Siberia to high-altitude Tibet — perhaps even in the Pacific islands. Researcher…

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March 4, 2024 at 8:15 AM

Harris County Sends 15 Times More Black Men to Death Row Than White

Harris County Sends 15 Times More Black Men to Death Row Than White     Michelle Pitcher February 22, 2024 Texas Observer Texas’ largest county remains the state’s deadliest when it comes to capital murder convictions, a new report says. 1910 Harri…

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March 4, 2024 at 7:55 AM

W.E.B. Du Bois’ Study ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ at 125 Still Explains Roots of the Urban Black Experience – Sociologist Elijah Anderson Tells Why It Should Be on More Reading Lists

W.E.B. Du Bois’ Study ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ at 125 Still Explains Roots of the Urban Black Experience – Sociologist Elijah Anderson Tells Why It Should Be on More Reading Lists     Elijah Anderson February 28, 2024 The Conversation W.E.B. Du Bois is widel…

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March 4, 2024 at 7:25 AM

Growing Racial Disparities in Voter Turnout, 2008–2022

Growing Racial Disparities in Voter Turnout, 2008–2022     Kevin Morris, Coryn Grange March 2, 2024 Brennan Center for Justice The gap is increasing nationwide, especially in counties that had been subject to federal oversight until the Supreme Court invalid…

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