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July 22, 2024 at 7:00 AM

Selected Reporting on Biden/Harris Announcement

Selected Reporting on Biden/Harris Announcement     July 21, 2024 Selected reporting on Joe Biden's announcement withdrawing from presidential race on Sunday and endorsing Kamala Harris for president. Biden on picket line with striking UAW members…

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July 22, 2024 at 6:40 AM

Deceive, Defy, and Defer: Netanyahu’s Time-Tested Strategy To Outmaneuver Biden

Deceive, Defy, and Defer: Netanyahu’s Time-Tested Strategy To Outmaneuver Biden     Lev Grinberg July 16, 2024 972 Magazine For 15 years, the Israeli prime minister has proven his ability to scuttle political agreements — while never losing the United States…

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July 22, 2024 at 5:50 AM

Disneyland Workers in Anaheim, California, Vote To Authorize Strike

Disneyland Workers in Anaheim, California, Vote To Authorize Strike     Lauren Aratani July 20, 2024 The Guardian Largest US strike so far this year could take place if negotiations, including over wages, fail next week , The Guardian   Mem…

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July 22, 2024 at 5:35 AM

The Constitution and the American Left

The Constitution and the American Left     Azia Rana July 19, 2024 Dissent A culture of reverence for the U.S. Constitution shields the founding document from criticism, despite its many shortcomings. We need an alternative vision that provides meaningful fr…

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July 22, 2024 at 2:50 AM

‘Always Sunny’ Creator Rob McElhenney on His Pandemic Purchase: A Welsh Soccer Team

Portside Culture ‘Always Sunny’ Creator Rob McElhenney on His Pandemic Purchase: A Welsh Soccer Team     Sam Briger June 12, 2024 NPR  “[The show] is, at its core, a love letter to working-class people,” he says. “I wanted people to fall in love with…

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July 21, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Illinois Has Already Had 100 Tornadoes

Illinois Has Already Had 100 Tornadoes     Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, TNS July 19, 2024 Governing On Monday, July 15, Chicago issued 16 tornado warnings, the most sent on a single day since 2004. In an average year, the state only experiences 50 tornado…

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July 21, 2024 at 12:05 AM

New AFL-CIO Guide on Project 2025

New AFL-CIO Guide on Project 2025     Brett Wilkins July 19, 2024 CommonDreams "A second Trump term would put everything we've fought for—good jobs, fair wages, healthcare, retirement security, worker safety—on the chopping block," said AFL-CIO president Liz…

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July 21, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Macron Loyalist Elected Parliamentary Speaker in ‘Coup’ Against the Left

Macron Loyalist Elected Parliamentary Speaker in ‘Coup’ Against the Left     Roger McKenzie July 19, 2024 Morning Star Unions and left-wing activists staged protests across France on Thursday to put pressure on President Macron to choose a prime minister fro…

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July 21, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Cori Bush, Activist-Politician, Still Inspires Working People Like Me

Cori Bush, Activist-Politician, Still Inspires Working People Like Me     India Walton July 17, 2024 Progressive Hub Rep. Cori Bush is the first line of defense for working-class people and the most vulnerable members of our community. We need her in Congres…

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July 21, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Zionism: The End of an Illusion

Zionism: The End of an Illusion     Richard E. Rubenstein July 19, 2024 CounterPunch Zionism as currently defined connotes Jewish supremacy in Israel, Israeli supremacy in Palestine, and American supremacy in the region. , Photograph Source: Hossam…

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July 20, 2024 at 2:55 AM

Friday Nite Videos | July 19, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | July 19, 2024     July 19, 2024 xxxxxx The GOP Wants Us To Forget. Delta's Illegal Union-Busting Habit. The Project 2025 Song. We Need to Rethink Exercise – The Workout Paradox. How Cults Use Language to Control | Otherwords. T…

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July 20, 2024 at 2:05 AM

In Private Speech, J.D. Vance Said the “Devil Is Real” and Praised Alex Jones as a Truth-Teller

In Private Speech, J.D. Vance Said the “Devil Is Real” and Praised Alex Jones as a Truth-Teller     Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented July 16, 2024 ProPublica Vance may these remarkes in a private speech to the secretive Teneo Network. The …

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July 20, 2024 at 1:20 AM

A Party of Precarious Manhood, Led by a Blithering Idiot

A Party of Precarious Manhood, Led by a Blithering Idiot     Harold Meyerson July 19, 2024 The American Prospect Trump’s acceptance speech was a mishmash of self-love, protestations of toughness, and prefabricated lies. ,   The problem with…

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July 20, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Believe Your Own Eyes

Believe Your Own Eyes     Tyler Austin Harper July 16, 2024 The Atlantic We are ask us to believe that the debate was just one bad night, that presidents can have 90-minute stretches of befuddlement. We are asked to believe that this will not happen again. W…

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July 20, 2024 at 12:50 AM

Long COVID Puzzle Pieces Are Falling Into Place

Long COVID Puzzle Pieces Are Falling Into Place     Ziyad Al-Aly July 18, 2024 The Conversation Important progress is being made in understanding the pathways by which long COVID wreaks havoc on the body. Studies suggest that an abnormal immune response may …

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July 20, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Ode to the Cop Next to the One With the Pepper Spray

Portside Culture Ode to the Cop Next to the One With the Pepper Spray     Ryan McCarty May 26, 2024 Rattle Michigan poet Ryan McCarty witnesses the shock of pepper spray from an unfeeling cop doing his job. ,   Ode to the Cop Next …

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July 19, 2024 at 1:55 AM

‘He’s Dangerous. So Is His Book.’

‘He’s Dangerous. So Is His Book.’     Michael Kruse May 6, 2022 Politico An Appalachian writer says Hillbilly Elegy played to bogus notions on the left and right about the impoverished region. The only thing that benefited was Vance’s political career. …

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July 19, 2024 at 1:30 AM

‘I’m Bored, so I Shoot’: The Israeli Army’s Approval of Free-for-All Violence in Gaza

‘I’m Bored, so I Shoot’: The Israeli Army’s Approval of Free-for-All Violence in Gaza     Oren Ziv July 8, 2024 +972 Magazine Israeli soldiers describe the near-total absence of firing regulations in the Gaza war, with troops shooting as they please, setting…

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July 19, 2024 at 12:40 AM

Bernice Johnson Reagon, a Founder of the Freedom Singers and Sweet Honey in the Rock, Has Died

Bernice Johnson Reagon, a Founder of the Freedom Singers and Sweet Honey in the Rock, Has Died     Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong July 17, 2024 National Public Radio It is impossible to separate liberation struggles from song. And in the 1960s — at marches, and in ja…

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July 19, 2024 at 12:10 AM

Donald, You’re No Teddy Roosevelt

Donald, You’re No Teddy Roosevelt     Mike Konopacki July 17, 2024 The Cap Times Since the shooting at Donald Trump's rally in Pennsylvania, pundits have gone from branding it "unprecedented" (which it's not) to comparing it to other incidents of political v…

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July 19, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Radioactive Radicals!

Portside Culture Radioactive Radicals!     Paul Buhle July 6, 2024 Portside Radioactive Radicals is a vivid, galvanizing portrait of two young radicals thrust into the whirlwind of revolutionary working-class politics from the 1960s to the present. H…

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July 19, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – July 18 – Reader Comments: GOP Convention and Trump Shooting; Ocasio-Cortez Takes On Thomas and Alito; IDF Ordered Hannibal Directive on Oct 7; Protest Netanyahu’s Visit to Congress; at the Heart of Health in Cuba Tour; Cartoons, More…

Tidbits – July 18 – Reader Comments: GOP Convention and Trump Shooting; Ocasio-Cortez Takes On Thomas and Alito; IDF Ordered Hannibal Directive on Oct 7; Protest Netanyahu’s Visit to Congress; at the Heart of Health in Cuba Tour; Cartoons, More…     July 18, 2024 …

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July 18, 2024 at 11:15 AM

Why Bernie Sanders Is Thanking Elon Musk

Why Bernie Sanders Is Thanking Elon Musk     Jake Johnson July 17, 2024 Common Dreams The Vermont senator said Musk has done "an exceptional job of demonstrating a point that we have made for years—and that is the fact we live in an oligarchic society." …

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July 18, 2024 at 11:05 AM

Trump Is Trying To “Gaslight the Black Community” About His Racist Record

Trump Is Trying To “Gaslight the Black Community” About His Racist Record     An interview with Clarence Lusane July 17, 2024 Democracy Now Lusane says that “Donald Trump never has anything positive to say about the Black community,” and that his effort to s…

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July 18, 2024 at 10:45 AM

The Long Shadow of JD Vance’s Hillbilly Pathology

The Long Shadow of JD Vance’s Hillbilly Pathology     Billy J. Stratton July 16, 2024 LA Progressive When I read Vance’s book as a person born and raised in Eastern Kentucky myself, something just didn’t seem right. ,   After Andy Beshear’s…

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July 18, 2024 at 10:25 AM

The Rise of the ‘Union Curious’

The Rise of the ‘Union Curious’     John S. Ahlquist, Jake Grumbach, and Thomas Kochan July 16, 2024 Economic Policy Institute Support for unionization among America’s frontline workers ,   Two major shifts are occurring in U.S. workers’ at…

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July 18, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Cause at Heart: Socialists & the Abolition of Antisemitism

Portside Culture Cause at Heart: Socialists & the Abolition of Antisemitism     Alan Wald September 1, 2024 Against the Current In his omnibus review of these five books, reviewer Wald shows how these authors offer valuable insights into "how and…

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July 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – July 17, 2024

Global Left Midweek – July 17, 2024     xxxxxx Climate action is breaking out all over Mounia Merzouk (centre) - the mother of Nahel, a 17-year-old who was shot dead by police in 2023 - walks behind a banner saying 'Justice for Nahel' during a rally…

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July 17, 2024 at 12:05 AM

How the Israeli Extreme Right Has Achieved Victory

How the Israeli Extreme Right Has Achieved Victory     Ellen Cantarow July 14, 2024 Tom Dispatch The settler movement in the West Bank has been key to the rise of Israel's far right. Bethlehem, Palestine, Shutterstock   In 1979, I made the …

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July 17, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Targeting Corporate Landlords, Biden To Unveil National Rent Control Plan

Targeting Corporate Landlords, Biden To Unveil National Rent Control Plan     Jessica Corbett July 16, 2024 Common Dreams "The rent is too damn high—and rent control is a real fix," one group said, praising the proposal. Tenants protest outside the…

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July 17, 2024 at 12:05 AM

J.D. Vance Wants Police To Track People Who Have Abortions

J.D. Vance Wants Police To Track People Who Have Abortions     Veronica Riccobene; Helen Santoro; Joel Warner July 15, 2024 The Lever Trump’s vice presidential pick pressured regulators to let police access the records of people who cross state lines for abo…

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July 17, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Teamsters Union President Calls Trump ‘Tough SOB’ in Unprecedented Speech at Republican Convention

Teamsters Union President Calls Trump ‘Tough SOB’ in Unprecedented Speech at Republican Convention     Alice Herman July 15, 2024 The Guardian Sean O’Brien thanks ex-president for ‘opening RNC’s doors’, breaking with most major unions who have backed Biden …

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July 17, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Kevin Costner’s Horizon Is As Bad as You’ve Heard

Portside Culture Kevin Costner’s Horizon Is As Bad as You’ve Heard     Eileen Jones July 8, 2024 Jacobin Supposedly the first of four films, Kevin Costner’s dull and messy Western throwback, Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1, is almost certainly …

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July 17, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – July 16, 2024

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – July 16, 2024     July 16, 2024 xxxxxx Bang! Now what? , Spencer Platt, art by Liz Coulbourn   Bang! Now What? Poof! Goes Law. Poof! Goes Order The Big Oops: Project 2025 Worldwide War on Enviro Activists…

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July 16, 2024 at 12:50 AM

This Week in People’s History, July 17–23

This Week in People’s History, July 17–23     xxxxxx Jazz in Rhode Island (1954), United Against Fascism (1969), Self-Defense Works (1919), Pickets Killed by Minneapolis Police (1934), Vietnam’s Disastrous Cease-Fire (1954), Whitewash as Public Service (2004…

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July 16, 2024 at 12:05 AM

‘All of Our Tricks Worked’: Spoof ExxonMobil Ad Nails Just How Easy It’s Been for Big Oil

‘All of Our Tricks Worked’: Spoof ExxonMobil Ad Nails Just How Easy It’s Been for Big Oil     Brett Wilkins July 9, 2024 Common Dreams "Do you have any idea how easy it is to get you off our backs with a little bullsh*t about your responsibilities to the pla…

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July 16, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Only One Party Favors Political Violence

Only One Party Favors Political Violence     Brian Tyler Cohen July 14, 2024 Brian Tyler Cohen's Youtube Channel Political violence should never be acceptable. But one party has winked at, enabled or outright encouraged violence time after time. The record i…

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July 16, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Rethinking the Concept of the “Social Movement Left”

Rethinking the Concept of the “Social Movement Left”     Bill Fletcher Jr July 8, 2024 Liberation Road Marta Harnecker meant radical mass movements, not individual leftists or NGOs. Chilean sociologist Marta Harnecker, 16 August 2011. Cancillería E…

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July 16, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Tariffs Don’t Protect Jobs. Don’t Be Fooled.

Tariffs Don’t Protect Jobs. Don’t Be Fooled.     Richard D. Wolff July 12, 2024 Independent Media Institute - Economy For All Both Trump and Biden imposed high tariffs on imported products made in China and other countries. Those impositions broke with and d…

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July 15, 2024 at 7:05 PM

FTC calls for further investigation into pandemic grocery profits in US

Portside Culture FTC calls for further investigation into pandemic grocery profits in US     Fiona Holland March 22, 2024 JustFood.com Retailers' high profits during and since 2021 "warrant further consideration", said the FTC. Kraft Heinz …

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July 15, 2024 at 7:15 AM

Sunday Science: Why Consciousness May Have Evolved To Benefit Society Rather Than Individuals

Sunday Science: Why Consciousness May Have Evolved To Benefit Society Rather Than Individuals     Peter W Halligan, Cardiff University and David A Oakley, UCL July 10, 2024 The Conversation Why did the experience of consciousness evolve from our underlying b…

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July 15, 2024 at 6:15 AM

Tipping Is a Racist Relic and a Modern Tool of Economic Oppression in the South

Tipping Is a Racist Relic and a Modern Tool of Economic Oppression in the South     Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: This spotlight details the racist history of tipping, federal and state policy governing tipped work, and the experience of tipped…

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July 15, 2024 at 5:50 AM

Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying To Sway the Election and Change the Country

Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying To Sway the Election and Change the Country     Andy Kroll, Propublica and Nick Surgey, Documented July 13, 2024 Propublica The little-known charity is backed by famous conservative donors, …

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July 15, 2024 at 5:35 AM

How the US Supreme Court Shredded the Constitution and What Can Be Done To Repair It

How the US Supreme Court Shredded the Constitution and What Can Be Done To Repair It     Laurence H Tribe July 8, 2024 The Guardian Court’s troubling rulings on presidential immunity and regulatory power make it clear that change is an ethical essential …

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July 15, 2024 at 5:10 AM

Myanmar: The Coup, Resistance, and Global Solidarity

Myanmar: The Coup, Resistance, and Global Solidarity     Kurt Stand July 7, 2024 The Bullet Three years ago, on February 1, 2021, the Myanmar military staged a coup, ending nearly a decade of civilian rule, arresting countless numbers in a brutal crackdown o…

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July 15, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Having an Asian Bachelorette Is a Milestone. It’s Also About Power.

Portside Culture Having an Asian Bachelorette Is a Milestone. It’s Also About Power.     Li Zhou July 8, 2024 Vox As the first Asian American lead in the franchise’s two-decade history, Jenn Tran's casting makes a statement. , Disney/John F…

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July 14, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Sticking With High Rates Will Crash the Economy

Sticking With High Rates Will Crash the Economy     Thomas Ferguson and Servaas Storm June 24, 2024 Institute for New Economic Thinking In persisting with its high rates policy, the Fed is acting like James Dean in the famous “chicken run” auto race in Rebel…

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July 14, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Wall Street Is Investing in Your Asbestos Poisoning

Wall Street Is Investing in Your Asbestos Poisoning     Helen Santoro July 10, 2024 The Lever Private equity firms are buying up asbestos liability claims — and asbestos victims will pay the price. , AP Photo/Richard Drew/Steve Helber   Pri…

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July 14, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Mining Lithium in Europe’s(Semi)Periphery and the Making of an Extractivist Frontier

Mining Lithium in Europe’s(Semi)Periphery and the Making of an Extractivist Frontier     Nina Djukanović July 5, 2024 LeftEast Lithium mining in Serbia reveals the ever-expanding extractivist frontiers and integration of peripheries. Yet, the resistance to t…

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July 14, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Republican Convention Puts Spotlight on Wisconsin GOP’s Anti-Union Agenda

Republican Convention Puts Spotlight on Wisconsin GOP’s Anti-Union Agenda     Kalena Thomhave July 12, 2024 Capital & Main State Republicans devastated unions, but union electoral power is crucial to defeating Trump. Now there is heightened union support…

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