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March 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM

A Strategy for Social Self-Defense

A Strategy for Social Self-Defense     Jeremy Brecher March 18, 2025 Strike! Jeremy Brecher's Corner Trump’s MAGA juggernaut has many vulnerabilities. But these will not automatically lead to its downfall. That will require an active struggle to defend socie…

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March 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Decolonizing Palestine in a Post-American Century

Decolonizing Palestine in a Post-American Century     Tony Karon March 17, 2025 Rootless Cosmopolitan Why South Africa's ambassador was ousted, why USAID isn’t coming back, and the perils and possibilities facing the Global South in the months and years ahea…

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March 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – March 18, 2025

Media Bits and Bytes – March 18, 2025     March 18, 2025 xxxxxx MAGA media mishigas , Dave Whamond / Copyright 2024 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.   Crypto and the Far Right The Media the Left Needs The Online Ecosystem Leans Right Trump’s Scorched …

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March 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM

Learning From the Courage of the Civil Rights Movement

Learning From the Courage of the Civil Rights Movement     Jeanne Theoharis March 17, 2025 Jacobin Many on the Left are wondering what to do against the Trump administration’s vicious assaults on workers, immigrants, and free speech. We can look to US civil …

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March 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM

This Week in People’s History, Mar 19–25

This Week in People’s History, Mar 19–25     xxxxxx Rioters in Harlem Win Concessions (1935), A Big Win for White-Collar Strikers (2000), A Century of Classroom Censorship (1925), Witch-Hunt Targets Get a Very Belated Apology (1980), The Long Road from Selma…

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March 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Don’t Wait Out Four Hard Years: Speak Truth to Power

Don’t Wait Out Four Hard Years: Speak Truth to Power     Arthur Caplan March 17, 2025 Nature These are dangerous times. Scientists globally must stand together for sound science and resist bigotry, bias and hate. To honor one of its core values — a commitmen…

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March 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM

A Book Comes Close to a Unified Theory of Food. It’s a Big Job.

Portside Culture A Book Comes Close to a Unified Theory of Food. It’s a Big Job.     Pete Wells February 5, 2025 The New York Times In “How the World Eats,” the philosopher Julian Baggini grapples with “everything that affects and is affected by” our…

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March 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Don’t Forget the History of COVID in Prison: An Interview With Victoria Law

Don’t Forget the History of COVID in Prison: An Interview With Victoria Law     Maya Schenwar March 11, 2025 Truthout The pandemic bared the cruelty of prison in new ways. It was a lost opportunity to move away from mass incarceration. ,   …

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March 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Trump and Musk Are Getting Their Butts Royally Spanked in the Courts

Trump and Musk Are Getting Their Butts Royally Spanked in the Courts     Michael Tomasky March 14, 2025 The New Republic Some 25,000 federal employees will be back at work Monday. Look beyond Capitol Hill: The resistance, in fact, is strong. , MAND…

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March 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM

Wartime Destruction of Ukraine Dam Has Set Off a ‘Time Bomb’

Wartime Destruction of Ukraine Dam Has Set Off a ‘Time Bomb’     Richard Stone March 13, 2025 Science Breach of Kakhovka Dam now threatens seasonal floods thick with toxic heavy metals, other pollutants A view of the former Kakhovka reservoir botto…

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March 17, 2025 at 5:45 AM

We Can Organize Amazon, but Only if We Understand It

We Can Organize Amazon, but Only if We Understand It     Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno, Benjamin Y. Fong and Scott Jenkins March 10, 2025 Jacobin Organizing Amazon workers is both an existential challenge and an opportunity for labor. But the company’s cas…

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March 17, 2025 at 4:15 AM

Corporate DEI Was a Tool of the Elite. Ironically, So Is This Backlash.

Corporate DEI Was a Tool of the Elite. Ironically, So Is This Backlash.     Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò March 10, 2025 Slate The battle over diversity and inclusion has always been about labor. But Trump was able to frame it as something else. “Fight or Be S…

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March 17, 2025 at 3:50 AM

Mahmoud Khalil’s Abduction Is a Fascist Move — and Universities Must Respond

Mahmoud Khalil’s Abduction Is a Fascist Move — and Universities Must Respond     Dima Khalidi March 11, 2025 972 Magazine Schools across the United States have a choice: defend their students against Trump or be complicit in his crimes. Students fr…

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March 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM

Heather Cox Richardson on March 15th, the Day Maine Joined the Union

Heather Cox Richardson on March 15th, the Day Maine Joined the Union     Heather Cox Richardson March 15, 2025 Letters from an American Maine's petition for statehood was stopped dead by southerners who refused to permit a free state—one that did not permit …

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March 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM

Poorna Jagannathan on Why Hulu’s Sweet, Sinister Deli Boys Is a Dream Gig

Portside Culture Poorna Jagannathan on Why Hulu’s Sweet, Sinister Deli Boys Is a Dream Gig     Saloni Gajjar March 12, 2025 AV Club Created by Abdullah Saeed, Deli Boys also centers South Asians in a genre that they’re rarely featured in , …

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March 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Why We’re Mobilizing on April 5th

Why We’re Mobilizing on April 5th     March 15, 2025 Hands Off! Whether you're outraged by skyrocketing healthcare costs, job cuts, attacks on privacy, or the gutting of essential services—this moment is for you. , Hands Off   We are facing…

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March 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Better Funding for Public Education in Massachusetts

Better Funding for Public Education in Massachusetts     Doug Selwyn March 15, 2025 Special to xxxxxx There is another place we can look for more money, from a most unlikely source. Single Payer Health Insurance. , National Nurses United   …

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March 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Militarism Is No Answer to Trump

Militarism Is No Answer to Trump     Gavin Rae March 11, 2025 Transform!Europe As Europe ramps up military spending in response to Trump’s shifting policies, the continent faces rising militarism, austerity, and the risk of further conflict. Is this the righ…

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March 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Leader Schumer Leads Another Capitulation to Trump

Leader Schumer Leads Another Capitulation to Trump     Marc Cooper March 14, 2025 The Coop Scoop This is a moment of maximum Democratic leverage that they will not have again until the midterms and that is not a lock. It is a tragic, stupid and rather repugn…

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March 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Now We Know

Now We Know     Jeanette Winterson March 9, 2025 Mind Over Matter Now we know, in all their serious nonsense about not being able to afford to battle climate breakdown, afford to save the planet, or afford a basic decent life for ordinary humans - it isn’t e…

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March 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM

Friday Nite Videos | March 14, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | March 14, 2025     March 14, 2025 xxxxxx Why the US Has Birthright Citizenship. Who Is the Leader of the People | Edwin Starr. Oligarchs Are Our Modern Day Kings. Sen. Jeff Merkley Asks if Trump Is a Russian Asset. Blood Moon, Trump Trad…

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March 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM

Everybody Hates Elon

Everybody Hates Elon     Paul Krugman March 14, 2025 Paul Krugman's Substack Blog The closest thing we have to a Trump economic spokesman is Elon Musk, who sees dead people collecting Social Security. And here’s the thing: while there’s still a dwindling Mus…

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March 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM

How ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Investigations

How ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Investigations     Charles Ornstein March 13, 2025 ProPublica When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify “woke” themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability stor…

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March 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM

Ten Questions & Answers on Measles Protection

Ten Questions & Answers on Measles Protection     Katelyn Jetelina March 14, 2025 Your Local Epdemiologist The main thing to know: MMR vaccines are highly effective and provide long-lasting protection. Outbreaks occur mainly among unvaccinated individual…

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March 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM

A Science Protest Offers Insight Into the Science of Protesting

A Science Protest Offers Insight Into the Science of Protesting     Dan Vergano March 12, 2025 Scientific American The most important people may not be on the stage but in the audience. Without social media, a big national march connected activists and culmi…

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March 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM

He Left Me Hundreds

Portside Culture He Left Me Hundreds     Florence Weinberger In the Black, In the Red: Poems of Profit $ Loss Poet Florence Weinberger contemplates what her husband, an Auschwitz survivor, left behind. , Tim Barnhart / Charles Barsotti …

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March 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM

Senate Democrats Must Vote Against the Republicans’ Continuing Budget Resolution

Senate Democrats Must Vote Against the Republicans’ Continuing Budget Resolution     Robert Reich March 12, 2025 Robert Reich It’s the only way to hold the Trump regime accountable. Call your senators now. Why should any member of Congress vote to give Trump…

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March 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Mahmoud Khalil’s Wife Speaks Out on His Unconstitutional Arrest

Mahmoud Khalil’s Wife Speaks Out on His Unconstitutional Arrest     March 12, 2025 Progressive Hub The following is a press statement from Mahmoud Khalil’s wife. Khalil was unconstitutionally arrested by ICE agents over the weekend. "I am pleading with the w…

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March 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM

‘Smokescreen Antisemitism’: How the Trump-Fueled Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil Endangers Jews

‘Smokescreen Antisemitism’: How the Trump-Fueled Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil Endangers Jews     Jamie Beran March 12, 2025 Haaretz The White House has been abundantly clear: the arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was pursued on behalf of Jews. It's p…

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March 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM

The End of U.S. Soft Power?

The End of U.S. Soft Power?     John Feffer March 4, 2025 Hankyoreh Trump’s effort to end US foreign aid throws out a lot of babies with the bathwater. During the Cold War, the US waged a war of ideas with the Soviet Union to capture the hearts and minds of …

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March 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – Mar.13 – Reader Comments: Mahmoud Khalil Arrest Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since Red Scare; Assault on Social Security; DHS Ends TSA Officers’ Contract; Teachers and Schools; Call Script: Demand the Release of Mahmoud Khalil; More…

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March 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM

‘Project 2025 in Action’: Trump Administration Fires Half of Education Department Staff

‘Project 2025 in Action’: Trump Administration Fires Half of Education Department Staff     Jake Johnson March 12, 2025 Common Dreams "Trump and Elon Musk have aimed their wrecking ball at public schools and the futures of the 50 million students." …

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March 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM

An Inequality Tale of Two Capital Cities

An Inequality Tale of Two Capital Cities     Sam Pizzigati March 9, 2025 Inequality.org In one, lawmakers are taxing the rich. In the other, they're rushing the rich a free pass at tax time. ,   Nine of the world’s ten wealthiest billionair…

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March 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM

Lessons From Wisconsin: The Slow, Stealthy, and Strategic Threat of School Vouchers

Lessons From Wisconsin: The Slow, Stealthy, and Strategic Threat of School Vouchers     Bob Peterson March 1, 2025 Rethinking Schools The message from Wisconsin to other states considering so-called voucher or private school “choice” programs: Beware. Well-f…

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March 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM

Democrats Must Defend Mahmoud Khalil

Democrats Must Defend Mahmoud Khalil     Branko Marcetic March 12, 2025 Jacobin Individual Democrats have made strong statements against the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. The bulk of the party and its leadership has offered silence or mealymouthed equivocation. …

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March 13, 2025 at 4:40 AM

Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought

Portside Culture Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought     Tim Christiaens February 17, 2025 LSE Review of Books In this book, writes reviewer Christiaens, author Bruno Leipold expertly surveys the writings of Ka…

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March 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – March 12, 2025

Global Left Midweek – March 12, 2025     March 12, 2025 xxxxxx Women worldwide speak as one Demonstrators march to mark International Women's Day, in Quito, Ecuador March 8, 2025. Credit, Karen Toro, REUTERS   Thousands Turn Out for IWD Th…

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March 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM

Cuba Sends Doctors, the US Sends Sanctions

Cuba Sends Doctors, the US Sends Sanctions     Helen Yaffe March 8, 2025 Jacobin The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism "human trafficking" — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South. Doctors and nurses fro…

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March 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM

Columbia Activist in Detention Was Public Face of Protest Against Israel

Columbia Activist in Detention Was Public Face of Protest Against Israel     Ana Ley March 11, 2025 The New York Times Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent resident of the United States, was arrested in his Manhattan apartment and sent to Louisiana. His detention set…

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March 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM

Making America Powerless Again: How Trump Is Robbing America of Its Greatest Strengths

Making America Powerless Again: How Trump Is Robbing America of Its Greatest Strengths     Emes Ilyes March 11, 2025 Common Dreams While Trump fixates on the symbols of 19th-century power, he systematically dismantles the infrastructure of 21st-century Ameri…

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March 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM

The Need To Protect Direct Democracy

The Need To Protect Direct Democracy     Marcus Gadson March 10, 2025 Governing Citizens in half the states have the power to place initiatives or referendums on the ballot. That process is under threat, but in an era of partisan gerrymandering and unrespons…

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March 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Anger Over ‘No Other Land’ Reflects Dysfunction of Israeli-Palestinian ‘All or Nothing’ Divide

Portside Culture Anger Over ‘No Other Land’ Reflects Dysfunction of Israeli-Palestinian ‘All or Nothing’ Divide     Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib March 4, 2025 The Wrap The Oscar-winning documentary provoked reactions along the fault lines of the ongoing con…

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March 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – March 11, 2025

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – March 11, 2025     March 11, 2025 xxxxxx Filling in for services under attack ‘Helping people before, during, and after (this democratic) disaster,’ says the #AltGov Fema account on Bluesky. Composite, Guardian De…

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March 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM

This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare

This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare     Michelle Goldberg March 10, 2025 New York Times In a post on Truth Social, Donald Trump made it clear that Mahmoud Khalil was snatched because of his activism. “This is the first arrest of ma…

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March 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM

This Week in People’s History, Mar 12–18, 2025

This Week in People’s History, Mar 12–18, 2025     xxxxxx A Protest that Congress Can’t Ignore (1990), ¡Breonna Taylor, Presente! (2020), A McCarthy Victim’s Belated Vindication (1950), Happy Sunshine Week!, Herbie Hancock’s Early Hit (1965), When a Postal S…

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March 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM

A Third of Women Get This Infection. The Fix: Treat Their Male Partners.

A Third of Women Get This Infection. The Fix: Treat Their Male Partners.     Alisha Haridasani Gupta March 5, 2025 New York Times Bacterial vaginosis is most likely a sexually transmitted infection, according to a new study. , Getty Images …

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March 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Brownsville, Texas: The Last Stand Against Corporate Rule

Brownsville, Texas: The Last Stand Against Corporate Rule     Alfonso Saldana March 5, 2025 Move to Amend Brownsville is more than a town on the border—it’s a symbol of what happens when corporate power goes unchecked. Musk’s attempt to privatize a community…

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March 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Why Did We Start Drinking Milk? On the Ancient Rise of Dairy Consumption

Portside Culture Why Did We Start Drinking Milk? On the Ancient Rise of Dairy Consumption     Anne Mendelson January 9, 2025 Lithub In her book, “Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood,” Anne Mendelson explores the prehistoric origins of nonhuman mil…

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March 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM

Sunday Science: ‘Pac-Man With a Ponytail’ Proteins Regulate Everything From Night Vision to Heartbeats – Studying What GRKs Look Like Could Improve an Array of Drugs

Sunday Science: ‘Pac-Man With a Ponytail’ Proteins Regulate Everything From Night Vision to Heartbeats – Studying What GRKs Look Like Could Improve an Array of Drugs     Priyanka Naik March 7, 2025 The Conversation Each cell in your body relies on precise co…

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March 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM

How To Save the Democratic Party From Itself

How To Save the Democratic Party From Itself     Jeet Heer March 7, 2025 The Nation The flailing and unpopular party elite needs to be replaced with fighting economic populists. Democrats protest with signs (“Medicaid,” “Musk”) as President Donald …

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