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October 28, 2024 at 4:15 AM

Washington Post Says It Will Not Endorse Candidate for First Time in 30 Years

Washington Post Says It Will Not Endorse Candidate for First Time in 30 Years     Anna Betts October 25, 2024 The Guardian Newspaper condemned for ‘chicken-shit’ decision on White House race as staffers say they are ‘deeply concerned’ Will Lewis wr…
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October 28, 2024 at 12:00 AM

In Search of the Trump-Osborn Voters

In Search of the Trump-Osborn Voters     Austin Ahlman October 25, 2024 The American Prospect Dan Osborn is forging a new path through red states with anti-corporate populism and working-class identity politics. Independent Senate candidate Dan Osb…
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October 28, 2024 at 12:00 AM

How’s Iceland’s 4-Day Work Week Working? ‘Incredibly Well,’ Study Says

How’s Iceland’s 4-Day Work Week Working? ‘Incredibly Well,’ Study Says     Brett Wilkins October 25, 2024 Common Dreams "The Iceland story offers a very different vision to countries across Europe that are grappling with low productivity but trying the same …
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October 27, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Pro-Trump Oligarchs Driving Americans Into Homelessness

Pro-Trump Oligarchs Driving Americans Into Homelessness     Thom Hartmann October 26, 2024 Common Dreams The principle cause of today’s crisis of homelessness and housing affordability has one, single, primary cause: billionaires treating housing as an inves…
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October 27, 2024 at 12:05 AM

The Other Sherman’s March

The Other Sherman’s March     Richard R. John October 22, 2024 History News Network How the younger brother of the famous general set out to destroy the scourge of monopoly power. John Sherman, c. 1880. , Library of Congress   The U.S. Just…
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October 27, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Crime Is Down. Why Do So Many Rural Americans Think It’s Going Up?

Crime Is Down. Why Do So Many Rural Americans Think It’s Going Up?     Rachael Hanel October 16, 2024 Barn Raiser False claims of “migrant crime” echo the Ku Klux Klan’s fear mongering. Colorado GOP chairman Dave Williams speaks before Republican p…
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October 27, 2024 at 12:00 AM

When Hurricane Evacuation Isn’t an Option

When Hurricane Evacuation Isn’t an Option     Ayurella Horn-Muller October 18, 2024 Grist Not everyone rides out storms like Milton or Helene by choice. Some simply cannot afford to flee. Helene’s brutal winds and deadly storm surge left a path of …
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October 27, 2024 at 12:00 AM

“We the People” Includes We the Incarcerated

“We the People” Includes We the Incarcerated     Kwaneta Harris October 18, 2024 Yes Magazine Since the end of the Civil War, the United States has found ways to disenfranchise Black voters. It started with literacy tests and poll taxes and threats of racist…
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October 26, 2024 at 1:55 AM

Friday Nite Videos | October 25, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | October 25, 2024     October 25, 2024 xxxxxx Is America Ready Ditch the Electoral College? Voters May End Gerrymandering in Ohio. The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane. The Right-Wing Plan To Recruit Poll Workers in Swing States. How Much Sleep…
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October 26, 2024 at 12:50 AM

Will Donald Trump Go Full Fascist at Madison Square Garden?

Will Donald Trump Go Full Fascist at Madison Square Garden?     David Rothkopf October 25, 2024 The Daily Beast In February 1939, the German-American Bund held an infamous, Hitler-supporting rally in Madison Square Garden. On Sunday, Trump will be holding a …
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October 26, 2024 at 12:40 AM

Real Men Reject Fascism

Real Men Reject Fascism     Anand Giridharadas October 23, 2024 The.Ink However one might reject their premises, some fraction of the American men who have succumbed to the lure of Trump’s fascism need to feel seen and heard and recognized. Saving the countr…
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October 26, 2024 at 12:30 AM

Billie Jean King Led a Revolution in Women’s Sports and LGBTQ History

Billie Jean King Led a Revolution in Women’s Sports and LGBTQ History     Peter Dreier October 18, 2024 Teen Vogue Tennis star Billie Jean King challenged America to create more opportunities for women and LGBTQ people. Her advocacy for women’s sports in the…
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October 26, 2024 at 12:05 AM

How Much Energy Does It Take To Make a Baby?

How Much Energy Does It Take To Make a Baby?     Carissa Wong October 22, 2024 Nature Researchers are rethinking what they know. Across the animal kingdom, models have vastly underestimated the energy females invest in reproduction. A lack of women in the fi…
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October 26, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Bullets

Portside Culture Bullets     Terry Adams October 25, 2024 Portside Poet Terry Adams relates how a sensitive child might learn about the intricate relationship between bullets and death. ,   At age five my 16 year-old cousin let me h…
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October 25, 2024 at 12:05 AM

We, Israelis, Are Calling for Global Pressure on Israel To Force an Immediate Ceasefire

We, Israelis, Are Calling for Global Pressure on Israel To Force an Immediate Ceasefire     Open letter October 24, 2024 The Guardian More than 2,700 Israelis have signed this open letter, published in 11 languages, asking the international community to use …
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October 25, 2024 at 12:05 AM

What (Really) Happens if Trump Wins? – Hitler – Then and Now

What (Really) Happens if Trump Wins? – Hitler – Then and Now     Heather Cox Richardson October 22, 2024 Letters from an American Three months after Hitler promised to uphold the German Constitution, the concentration camp Dachau was open. Its first prisoner…
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October 25, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Bob Dylan Was an Endearing Young Scallywag!’ Barbara Dane, the Singer Who Burned a Path Through Folk, Blues and Activism, Dies at 97

Bob Dylan Was an Endearing Young Scallywag!’ Barbara Dane, the Singer Who Burned a Path Through Folk, Blues and Activism, Dies at 97     Garth Cartwright October 21, 2024 The Guardian The US singer-songwriter, who has died at 97, encountered Louis Armstrong …
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October 25, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Puerto Rico Could Be About To Elect Its First Pro-Independence Governor

Puerto Rico Could Be About To Elect Its First Pro-Independence Governor     Alberto Medina October 21, 2024 Medium Something unprecedented is happening in Puerto Rico which, like the U.S., will hold its general election on November 5th. For the first time ev…
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October 25, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – Oct. 24 – Reader Comments: Elections – Ten Days To Go; Hard Lessons From 1968; Gaza War: Jews for Ceasefire; Learning From the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Calling for a Peace Movement; Project 2025- Why It’s Bad-Comic Resource; Announcements

Tidbits – Oct. 24 – Reader Comments: Elections – Ten Days To Go; Hard Lessons From 1968; Gaza War: Jews for Ceasefire; Learning From the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Calling for a Peace Movement; Project 2025- Why It’s Bad-Comic Resource; Announcements     October 24,…
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October 24, 2024 at 3:00 AM

Trump Is Anti-Worker. Here Are 10 of His Most Shocking Anti-Worker Statements

Trump Is Anti-Worker. Here Are 10 of His Most Shocking Anti-Worker Statements     Steven Greenhouse October 23, 2024 The Guardian The former president actually said that the wages of US workers are ‘too high’. And that’s far from the worst , …
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October 24, 2024 at 2:35 AM

Property Taxes Under Fire: North Dakota’s Radical Plan To End Them

Property Taxes Under Fire: North Dakota’s Radical Plan To End Them     Thom Hartmann October 22, 2024 The Hartmann Report Is this the beginning of the end for property taxes? One state could change the game… ,   North Dakota may shake this …
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October 24, 2024 at 2:25 AM

One Year of Israeli Bombing Has Set Gaza Back 7 Decades: UN Report

One Year of Israeli Bombing Has Set Gaza Back 7 Decades: UN Report     Jake Johnson October 22, 2024 Common Dreams A new United Nations report sounds alarm "over the millions of lives that are being shattered and the decades of development efforts that are b…
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October 24, 2024 at 2:15 AM

As Election Nears, Kelly Warns Trump Would Rule Like a Dictator

As Election Nears, Kelly Warns Trump Would Rule Like a Dictator     Michael S. Schmidt October 23, 2024 New York Times John Kelly, the Trump White House’s longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that Donald Trump met the definition of a fascist…
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October 24, 2024 at 2:00 AM

The Far Right’s 70-Year Crusade To Extinguish Public Education

Portside Culture The Far Right’s 70-Year Crusade To Extinguish Public Education     Eleanor J. Bader October 21, 2024 The Indypendent Heightened efforts in recent years to paint public schools as bastions of ideological perversion, sexual permissiven…
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October 24, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – October 23, 2024

Global Left Midweek – October 23, 2024     October 23, 2024 xxxxxx Elections elsewhere A woman holds cardboard keys reading "Vulture out" and "Right to a roof", as people protest to demand lower housing rental prices and better living conditions in…
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October 23, 2024 at 12:35 AM

Redeeming the Nobel in Economics

Redeeming the Nobel in Economics     Robert Kuttner October 18, 2024 The American Prospect This year’s prize went to three institutionalist critics of neoliberalism. The award is overdue. Economist Simon Johnson poses for a photograph after jointly…
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October 23, 2024 at 12:30 AM

Billionaire Investors Are ‘Supercharging’ Housing Crisis: Report

Billionaire Investors Are ‘Supercharging’ Housing Crisis: Report     Julia Conley October 21, 2024 Common Dreams "Billionaires see housing as a way to boost their bottom line, instead of a necessity to survive." Executives of Invitation Homes, a su…
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October 23, 2024 at 12:30 AM

“Will You Bring My Dad and Give Me My Hand Back?

“Will You Bring My Dad and Give Me My Hand Back?     Nick Turse October 22, 2024 Tom Dispatch War Is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things At least 16,314 Palestinian children were killed in Israel’s devastating offensive on the Gaza Str…
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October 23, 2024 at 12:30 AM

How Did Elon Musk Become the Richest Person on Earth?

How Did Elon Musk Become the Richest Person on Earth?     Sam Pizzigati October 22, 2024 Counterpunch Taxpayers like himself, Boot notes, are subsidizing the “fire hose of falsehoods” that now appear on X, the former Twitter, the social media app that Musk b…
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October 23, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – October 22, 2024

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – October 22, 2024     October 22, 2024 xxxxxx Getting out the vote in Pennsylvania South Shore residents speak about the impact of the Obama Center before a September meeting of the Chicago City Council. The neighb…
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October 23, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Go See ‘The Apprentice’ Before It’s Too Late

Portside Culture Go See ‘The Apprentice’ Before It’s Too Late     Eileen Jones October 15, 2024 Jacobin Trump supporters will never go see 'The Apprentice' and anti-Trumpers won’t be able to bear two hours watching the bane of their existence rise to…
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October 22, 2024 at 4:50 AM

Israel’s War Against the World

Israel’s War Against the World     Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies October 17, 2024 LA Progressive Israel’s relationship with the UN and the rest of the world is at a breaking point, and U.S. obstruction offers no solution to this crisis—it only fuels it. …
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October 22, 2024 at 1:05 AM

This Week in People’s History, Oct 23–29

This Week in People’s History, Oct 23–29     xxxxxx Wrist-Slaps for Racist Terrorists (1964), Stop Global Warming! (2009), An ‘October Surprise’ for the Ages (1924), Nothing New About ‘Lock ‘em Up!’ (1994), Integrated Schools – ‘Just Around the Corner’ (1969…
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October 22, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Meet Lucie Castets, the French Left’s Nominee for Prime Minister

Meet Lucie Castets, the French Left’s Nominee for Prime Minister     Harrison Stetler October 18, 2024 Jacobin After the New Popular Front won July’s French elections, it nominated Lucie Castets for prime minister. Emmanuel Macron ignored the result. Castets…
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October 22, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Exonerated Five Sues Donald Trump for Jogger Case Remarks Made at Presidential Debate

Exonerated Five Sues Donald Trump for Jogger Case Remarks Made at Presidential Debate     Terry Tang October 21, 2024 Amsterdam News "Defendant Trump falsely stated that plaintiffs killed an individual and pled guilty to the crime. These statements are demon…
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October 22, 2024 at 12:00 AM

At the Grocery Store, Blinded by the Light of the ‘Health Halo’

Portside Culture At the Grocery Store, Blinded by the Light of the ‘Health Halo’     Dani Blum October 20, 2024 New York Times Health halo refers to the perception that a food product is generally good for us based on a single claim, casting sublimin…
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October 22, 2024 at 12:00 AM

After Nasrallah

After Nasrallah     Adam Shatz October 11, 2024 London Review of Books Hizbullah is not a personality-driven organisation, or claims not to be, but in Nasrallah it had a leader of unusual gifts. Hassan Nasrallah - Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Wi…
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October 21, 2024 at 6:30 AM

Sunday Science: Sperm Can’t Unlock an Egg Without This Ancient Molecular Key

Sunday Science: Sperm Can’t Unlock an Egg Without This Ancient Molecular Key     Elizabeth Preston October 17, 2024 New York Times Using Google’s AlphaFold, researchers identified the bundle of three sperm proteins that seem to make sexual reproduction possi…
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October 21, 2024 at 4:45 AM

Is This Israel’s First Apartheid War?

Is This Israel’s First Apartheid War?     Oren Yiftachel October 15, 2024 972 Magazine Far from lacking a political strategy, Israel is fighting to reinforce the supremacist project it has built for decades between the river and the sea. Israeli so…
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October 21, 2024 at 4:20 AM

34 Million Seniors in Medicare Advantage Plans Face Rude Awakening

34 Million Seniors in Medicare Advantage Plans Face Rude Awakening     Emma Curchin October 15, 2024 CEPR Insurers are dropping plans and slashing benefits. , CEPR   October 15 marks the first day of open enrollment in Medicare Advantage (M…
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October 21, 2024 at 4:10 AM

Playing Hardball

Playing Hardball     Arkadi Gerney, Sarah Knight October 18, 2024 The American Prospect Rebalancing conflicts over state policy will require that blue states wield power differently. , Illustration by Alex Nabaum   This article appears as p…
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October 21, 2024 at 3:50 AM

In the Shadow of King Coal

In the Shadow of King Coal     Sarah Jones October 8, 2024 Dissent While the coal industry is in terminal decline, it still shapes the culture of central Appalachia. Still from King Coal, Courtesy of Requisite Media   Writer and director El…
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October 21, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Former WWE Writers Allege Hostile, Abusive Workplace Under Vince McMahon

Portside Culture Former WWE Writers Allege Hostile, Abusive Workplace Under Vince McMahon     Matt Schimkowitz October 20, 2024 AV Club Six former WWE staffers paint a hostile picture of working under McMahon, calling him the leader of a "kingdom rul…
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October 20, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Boeing Workers To Vote on New Wage Deal

Boeing Workers To Vote on New Wage Deal     David Shepardson October 19, 2024 Reuters New deal includes $7,000 ratification bonus, enhanced retirement contributions Offer could end month-old strike Boeing negotiated proposal came after talks with Acting U.S.…
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October 20, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Trump’s Most Unsettling Spectacle Yet

Trump’s Most Unsettling Spectacle Yet     Sidney Blumenthal October 18, 2024 The Guardian Trump’s planned rally at Madison Square Garden will be the ultimate act of ego and the climax of his Hitlerian rhetoric ‘Trump’s climactic rally will not be i…
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October 20, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Hurricanes Milton and Helene Were Intensified by Climate Change, Researchers Find

Hurricanes Milton and Helene Were Intensified by Climate Change, Researchers Find     Michael Riojas October 16, 2024 EcoWatch Hurricanes Helene and Milton are following the trend of these storms becoming supercharged and more likely to form, according to a …
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October 20, 2024 at 12:00 AM

It Won’t Just Be Haitians Who Suffer From Anti-Immigrant Lies

It Won’t Just Be Haitians Who Suffer From Anti-Immigrant Lies     Chisom Okorafor October 8, 2024 Other Words Politicians are attempting to redefine who counts as an “American,” with my Black immigrant family and people like us on the outside. , (S…
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October 20, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Letter From a Childless Cat Lady

Letter From a Childless Cat Lady     Rebecca Jamieson October 7, 2024 Isthmus Vance claims that childless people are “sociopathic” and have no stake in our country’s future. Isn’t caring for those who aren’t related to us the exact opposite of sociopathic? …
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October 19, 2024 at 2:05 AM

Friday Nite Videos | October 8, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | October 8, 2024     October 18, 2024 xxxxxx This Working Class Waitress Could Decide Who Controls Congress. Ted Cruz and Colin Allred Debate Abortion. Family Feud Election 2024 Cold Open | SNL. Judge Sets Republican Election Officials St…
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October 19, 2024 at 1:40 AM

Make America Healthy Again?

Make America Healthy Again?     Katelyn Jetelina, Jess Steier and Kristen Panthagani October 16, 2024 Your Local Epdemiologist RFK, Jr.'s plan sounds catchy, but won’t move the national needle. To build a healthier, freer America for all, focus on what truly…