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January 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – January 14, 2025

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – January 14, 2025     January 14, 2025 xxxxxx Judgement Day for the merchants of death ,   Judgement Day for the Merchants of Death The LA Fires Community Collaborative in Arkansas Classical Christian Ed: …

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January 14, 2025 at 7:10 AM

LA Real Estate Lobbied To Develop in High-Risk Fire Areas

LA Real Estate Lobbied To Develop in High-Risk Fire Areas     Katya Schwenk January 13, 2025 Jacobin In California, policymakers have long warned that continued development in high-risk wildfire zones was magnifying fires. But real estate interests have lobb…

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January 14, 2025 at 5:40 AM

Trump and His Crypto Cronies Have Big Plans. Be Afraid.

Trump and His Crypto Cronies Have Big Plans. Be Afraid.     Sam Gustin January 10, 2025 The Nation The incoming president and his Bitcoin-loving acolytes want to turn the government into their personal ATM. Donald Trump visits a cryptocurrency-them…

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January 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM

This Week in People’s History, Jan 15–17

This Week in People’s History, Jan 15–17     xxxxxx Ain’t Gonna Play Acoustic Guitar No More (1965), 40 Acres and a Mule Was Working Fine (1865), ‘Your Heritage Is My Slavery’ (2000) ,   Ain’t Gonna Play Acoustic Guitar No More JANUARY 15 I…

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January 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM

When You Exercise, Your Cells Are Talking to Each Other

When You Exercise, Your Cells Are Talking to Each Other     Sneha Khedkar January 3, 2025 The Scientist How does exercise benefit health? Molecules called exerkines partly regulate its effects and provide therapeutic targets to mimic the benefits of exercise…

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January 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Dr. Martin Luther King’s Prophetic Warning, Denouncing the Merchants of Death

Dr. Martin Luther King’s Prophetic Warning, Denouncing the Merchants of Death     Kathy Kelly January 13, 2025 ZNet Who are the criminals? News coverage of five former or current presidents gathered for the funeral of President Jimmy Carter never hinted that…

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January 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Lawsuit Over Poland Spring’s ‘Natural Spring Water’ Label Moves Forward

Portside Culture Lawsuit Over Poland Spring’s ‘Natural Spring Water’ Label Moves Forward     Eric Russell January 2, 2025 Portland Press Herald A Connecticut judge ruled that the lawsuit claiming Poland Spring mislabeled its water and deceptively mar…

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January 13, 2025 at 6:20 AM

Sunday Science: How Stephen Jay Gould Fought the Science Culture Wars

Sunday Science: How Stephen Jay Gould Fought the Science Culture Wars     Myrna Perez January 12, 2025 Jacobin In the 1970s, a crop of books purporting to provide a scientific basis for gender inequality met sharp criticism from figures like Stephen Jay Goul…

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January 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM

An Open Letter to CNN Regarding Your Fluoride Coverage

An Open Letter to CNN Regarding Your Fluoride Coverage     Please see signatures at the bottom of letter January 8, 2025 Unbiased Science When you ignore context, public health suffers. Structure of sodium fluoride, Public Domain   Dear CNN…

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January 13, 2025 at 5:15 AM

Doctors Without Politics

Doctors Without Politics     Mary Turfah January 6, 2025 The Baffler What can medical workers do to stop genocide? , Ricardo Tomás   A letter signed by ninety-nine American health care workers and addressed to the “honorable” president and …

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January 13, 2025 at 4:40 AM

Canada as a 51st State? Republicans Would Never Win Another General Election

Canada as a 51st State? Republicans Would Never Win Another General Election     Aaron Ettinger January 6, 2025 The Conversation For a supposed anti-interventionist, it’s odd that Trump is enthusiastically embracing ideas from the era of intense American imp…

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January 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM

Mark Solomon – Rest in Power

Mark Solomon – Rest in Power     Danny Rosenberg January 11, 2025 xxxxxx Mark Ira Solomon – historian, author, teacher, organizer, and socialist – passed away December 19, 2024, at the age of 92. ,   Mark Ira Solomon – historian, author, te…

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January 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM

Squid Game 2, an Allegory of Capitalism Versus Democracy

Portside Culture Squid Game 2, an Allegory of Capitalism Versus Democracy     Caitlyn Clark January 8, 2025 Jacobin In the nail-biting new season of Netflix’s hit series Squid Game, players’ desperate circumstances push them to make fatally risky bet…

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January 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM

Should Cities Open Their Own Grocery Stores?

Should Cities Open Their Own Grocery Stores?     Jule Pattison-Gordon January 10, 2025 Governing Forty million Americans live in food deserts. Can government-owned grocery stores fix this? Lidl Food Market opens at Paxton Towne Centre in Lower Paxt…

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January 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM

Vermont Faces Legal Challenge From Big Oil

Vermont Faces Legal Challenge From Big Oil     Alexandra Jacobo January 6, 2025 Nation of Change A lawsuit from major fossil fuel groups aims to derail Vermont’s groundbreaking plan to make polluters pay for climate disasters. , Nation of Change …

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January 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Despite Threat of Mass Deportation, Immigrant Workers and Wisconsin Dairy Farmers Carry On

Despite Threat of Mass Deportation, Immigrant Workers and Wisconsin Dairy Farmers Carry On     Ruth Conniff January 10, 2025 Wisconsin Examiner In rural Wisconsin, which voted heavily for Trump, some farmers who support Trump don’t believe he intends to depo…

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January 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Sewa, the Union Empowering Informal Women Workers Through Co-Ops

Sewa, the Union Empowering Informal Women Workers Through Co-Ops     Anca Voinea January 3, 2025 Co-op News Sewa demonstrates how crucial it is that all co-op members – whether professionals or grassroots workers – share the values that the federation repres…

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January 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Peter Yarrow, Singer With Folk Legends Peter, Paul & Mary and Co-Writer of ‘Puff the Magic Dragon,’ Dies at 86

Peter Yarrow, Singer With Folk Legends Peter, Paul & Mary and Co-Writer of ‘Puff the Magic Dragon,’ Dies at 86     Jem Aswad and Chris Willman January 7, 2025 Variety The spirit that bound us together so powerfully so many decades ago is still in our in …

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January 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM

Friday Nite Videos | January 10, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | January 10, 2025     January 10, 2025 xxxxxx Colonialism Is Back, Baby! Rastaman Chant/ Amazing Grace | Playing For Change. An Unprecedented Corporate Assault Is Coming. Q1 Update from Our Leadership Team. What Identical Twins Separated …

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January 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM

The Militia and the Mole

The Militia and the Mole     Joshua Kaplan January 4, 2025 ProPublica A mole spent years undercover infiltrating the highest ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell his family or friends. This is what he uncovered. …

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January 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM

A Judge Finally Faced Down Donald Trump’s Disdain for the Legal System

A Judge Finally Faced Down Donald Trump’s Disdain for the Legal System     Andrea Bernstein January 10, 2025 Slate This is not the outcome Trump wanted. With Merchan’s action Friday, Trump’s criminal case has concluded, and he will enter office—10 days from …

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January 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM

Joe Biden Is Leonard Peltier’s Last Hope

Joe Biden Is Leonard Peltier’s Last Hope     Rose Styron and Alex Matthiessen January 7, 2025 Guardian The imprisoned Native American is long overdue for clemency. Joe Biden is probably the last president who can give it to him "Leonard Peltier in …

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January 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Inside Trump’s Search for a Health Threat To Justify His Immigration Crackdown

Inside Trump’s Search for a Health Threat To Justify His Immigration Crackdown     Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hamed Aleaziz January 9, 2025 New York Times President-elect Donald J. Trump’s advisers have spent months trying to identify a disease that will help t…

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January 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM

This Call Is From an Inmate at a Federal Prison

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January 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM

Democrats Are About To Surrender to Trump in a Hugely Damaging Way on Laken Riley Immigration Deportation Bill

Democrats Are About To Surrender to Trump in a Hugely Damaging Way on Laken Riley Immigration Deportation Bill     Greg Sargent January 9, 2025 The New Republic By all indications, at least nine Senate Democrats will vote to advance the Laken Riley Act, a sw…

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January 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM

The ‘Weather Whiplash’ Fueling the Los Angeles Fires Is Becoming More Common

The ‘Weather Whiplash’ Fueling the Los Angeles Fires Is Becoming More Common     Kate Yoder January 9, 2025 Grist Dramatic swings between heavy rain and drought are increasing exponentially, according to new research. Since then, bone-dry conditions have set…

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January 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM

Largest U.S. Historians Organization Condemns Israel’s ‘Deliberate’ Destruction of Gaza Education System

Largest U.S. Historians Organization Condemns Israel’s ‘Deliberate’ Destruction of Gaza Education System     Etan Nechin January 7, 2025 Haaretz American Historical Association overwhelmingly votes in favor of resolution accusing Israel of 'scholasticide': s…

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January 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM

President Biden Should Pardon Ethel Rosenberg

President Biden Should Pardon Ethel Rosenberg     Phillip Deery January 2, 2025 The Nation A newly released classified document shows that the National Security Agency knew Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy—and that the government executed her anyway. …

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January 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM

Tidbits – Jan.9 – Reader Comments: Greenland, Panama Canal, Gulf of America and He Still Hasn’t Taken Office; Trump Voters’ Rude Awakening; Jimmy Carter; AHA Votes To Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Academy for Socialist Education NYC Spring Classes;

Tidbits – Jan.9 – Reader Comments: Greenland, Panama Canal, Gulf of America and He Still Hasn’t Taken Office; Trump Voters’ Rude Awakening; Jimmy Carter; AHA Votes To Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Academy for Socialist Education NYC Spring Classes;     January 9, …

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January 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM

Firms That Donated to Republican Party Avoided Tariffs in Trump First Term – Study

Firms That Donated to Republican Party Avoided Tariffs in Trump First Term – Study     Callum Jones January 6, 2025 The Guardian President-elect has threatened to levy tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China, which can burden businesses and boost cons…

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January 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM

The Military to Prison Pipeline: Trading One Uniform for Another

The Military to Prison Pipeline: Trading One Uniform for Another     Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon January 5, 2025 LA Progressive Fifty years after the official end of U.S. intervention in southeast Asia, “Vietnam vets are still the single largest populatio…

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January 9, 2025 at 7:55 AM

Universities and the Coming Storm

Universities and the Coming Storm     Francois Furstenberg January 6, 2025 The American Prospect It’s difficult for colleges to defend democracy if they aren’t run democratically. The New York Police Department handcuffs student protesters at Colum…

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January 9, 2025 at 7:45 AM

‘This Is Unprecedented’: Several Horrific Wildfires Ravage Los Angeles

‘This Is Unprecedented’: Several Horrific Wildfires Ravage Los Angeles     Jake Johnson January 8, 2025 Common Dreams "There is no 'firefighting' in these kinds of conditions," said one meteorologist. "There is only saving as many lives as possible and getti…

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January 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM

Balance of Power: Central Banks and the Fate of Democracies

Portside Culture Balance of Power: Central Banks and the Fate of Democracies     Ivan Radanović November 7, 2024 LSE Review of Books Reviewer Radanović calls this book essential reading for understanding why reconnecting central banks to the people i…

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January 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – January 8, 2025

Global Left Midweek – January 8, 2025     January 8, 2025 xxxxxx Two presidents have a warning for Trump , Presidents meet: from left, Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, Xiomara Castro of Honduras   Imminent Threat to Rojava Women Reports from S…

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January 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM

The Richest Have Never Been Richer As Trump Arrives To Make Them Richer Still

The Richest Have Never Been Richer As Trump Arrives To Make Them Richer Still     Sam Pizzigati January 7, 2025 Inequality.org Overall, the world’s 500 richest ended 2024 worth a combined $9.8 trillion. Some 34 percent of the $1.5 trillion they gained over t…

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January 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM

Ford and Musk. They Made Cars. They Backed Fascists.

Ford and Musk. They Made Cars. They Backed Fascists.     Harold Meyerson January 6, 2025 The American Prospect Each age’s premier industrialist has had appalling politics Elon Musk attends the opening of the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, Ma…

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January 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM

‘Nobody Can Embargo Sunlight’: Jimmy Carter and the US Solar Revolution That Wasn’t

‘Nobody Can Embargo Sunlight’: Jimmy Carter and the US Solar Revolution That Wasn’t     Bill McKibben January 7, 2025 Common Dreams Why didn't we listen? We could so easily have listened. Jimmy Carter speaking in front of Solar Panels on White Hous…

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January 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM

Annual ‘Winners’ for Most Egregious US Healthcare Profiteering Announced

Annual ‘Winners’ for Most Egregious US Healthcare Profiteering Announced     Marina Dunbar January 7, 2025 The Guardian Selling body parts without consent and billing desperate parents $97,599 for air transport among worst examples Police outside t…

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January 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM

‘The Brutalist’ Review: Ambitions Unbound

Portside Culture ‘The Brutalist’ Review: Ambitions Unbound     Manohla Dargis December 19, 2024 The New York Times Adrien Brody stars as a talented architect who flees postwar Europe to meet his match in America, a power-hungry industrialist played b…

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January 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – January 7, 2025

Media Bits and Bytes – January 7, 2025     January 7, 2025 xxxxxx Coming soon to a screen near you – “Trump’s Life Matters!” ,   Cartoonist Quits WashPost, Tells All Meta’s MAGA Move Bluesky Shows Up Net Giants Goodbye Net Neutrality Kari …

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January 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM

What’s Really Going On With Growing Homeless Rates?

What’s Really Going On With Growing Homeless Rates?     Dick Platkin January 4, 2025 LA Progressive Homelessness has doubled in the past four years, yet some observers still parrot top-down excuses for this increase. , Planning Watch LA   T…

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January 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM

This Week in People’s History, Jan 8–14

This Week in People’s History, Jan 8–14     xxxxxx Educational TV Gets Schooled About Race (1975), ‘It Was the Right Thing To Do’ (1930), Negligence Kills, But Only the Victims Pay (1860), Paul Robeson Is John Henry (1940), New Technology Remakes an Industry…

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January 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM

This Land Is Your Land: The Story Behind the Song

This Land Is Your Land: The Story Behind the Song     The Kennedy Center January 6, 2015 The Kennedy Center Today, this classic folk song is usually sung as a popular pro-America anthem by Americans of every background. But it was written to have a radical e…

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January 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM

We Need To Talk About Trader Joe’s

Portside Culture We Need To Talk About Trader Joe’s     Adam Reiner April 1, 2024 Taste Cooking Behind the bubbly cashiers in Hawaiian shirts, craveable snacks, and bargain-basement prices are questionable business practices that have many food brand…

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January 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM

What Magnus Carlsen’s Jeans Have To Do With Chess

What Magnus Carlsen’s Jeans Have To Do With Chess     Louisa Thomas January 5, 2025 The New Yorker The fuss around the grand master’s wearing of denim pants to a tournament is a reflection of tensions within the game.The fuss around the grand master’s wearin…

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January 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM

Until Weapons Are Silenced There Can Be No Development. War Is the Greatest Enemy of Progress

Until Weapons Are Silenced There Can Be No Development. War Is the Greatest Enemy of Progress     Yücel Demirer January 2, 2025 Junge Welt The increasing number of murdered women, armed civilians, construction of ever larger prisons and violence against anim…

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January 6, 2025 at 6:25 AM

Sunday Science: Oldest Human Genomes Reveal How a Small Group Burst out of Africa

Sunday Science: Oldest Human Genomes Reveal How a Small Group Burst out of Africa     Carl Zimmer January 12, 2025 New York Times DNA from European fossils dating back 45,000 years offers new clues to how our species spread across the world. An art…

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January 6, 2025 at 5:55 AM

History’s Lessons on Anti-Immigrant Extremism

History’s Lessons on Anti-Immigrant Extremism     Michael Luo January 5, 2025 The New Yorker The scale of what Trump has promised is difficult to fathom and without recent precedent. A century and a half ago, however, a movement to cast out a different group…

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January 6, 2025 at 5:40 AM

Why Congress Members Face a Lawsuit for Funding Israel’s War on Gaza

Why Congress Members Face a Lawsuit for Funding Israel’s War on Gaza     Norman Solomon January 5, 2025 CounterPunch More than 600 constituents of Jared Huffman and Mike Thompson have signed on as plaintiffs in a class action accusing them of helping to arm …

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