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March 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM

20% of Americans Support Boycott of Firms Aligning Themselves With Trump Agenda

20% of Americans Support Boycott of Firms Aligning Themselves With Trump Agenda     Lauren Aratani March 22, 2025 The Guardian New poll also shows that a significant share of Americans will avoid companies that drop social-inclusion policies A demo…
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March 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM

This Week in People’s History, Mar 26 – Apr 1

This Week in People’s History, Mar 26 – Apr 1     xxxxxx A Brand-New Protest Format Catches on in a Very Big Way (1965), Wasn’t That a Time? Yes, It Sure Was (1995), A Catchy Name for a Rotten Program (1950), Texas Racists Throw the Book at Student Protester…
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March 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Why Gavin Newsom’s Podcast Is a Political Disaster

Why Gavin Newsom’s Podcast Is a Political Disaster     Gil Duran March 18, 2025 FrameLab Gavin Newsom's effort to go upside-down has harmed his public standing. The upside of his venture is that provides, in hard numbers and immediate practical implications,…
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March 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Cheesy Terroir-Ism: The ABCs of AOCs

Portside Culture Cheesy Terroir-Ism: The ABCs of AOCs     Matthew Wills Jstor.org Whether it supports the production of wine or cheese, terroir is a “particularly French conception of cultural territory” says historian Tamara L. Whited. Piec…
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March 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM

How Intergenerational Organizing Strengthens Movements

How Intergenerational Organizing Strengthens Movements     Annie Faye Cheng March 19, 2025 Prism Combining the wisdom of experience with the energy of youth can create powerful, lasting change. ,   While New York City has always been a reli…
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March 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM

The Momentous Class Struggle of the German Peasants’ War

The Momentous Class Struggle of the German Peasants’ War     Daniel Colligan March 22, 2025 Jacobin This year marks the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War, the largest European uprising before the French Revolution, in which peasants seized upon t…
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March 24, 2025 at 6:40 AM

Sunday Science: ‘More Than a Hint’ That Dark Energy Isn’t What Astronomers Thought

Sunday Science: ‘More Than a Hint’ That Dark Energy Isn’t What Astronomers Thought     Katrina Miller, Dennis Overbye March 19, 2025 New York Times An international team of astronomers unveiled the most compelling evidence to date that dark energy — a myster…
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March 24, 2025 at 4:45 AM

The Anti-Constitutional Attack on Birthright Citizenship

The Anti-Constitutional Attack on Birthright Citizenship     Evan D. Bernick January 30, 2025 Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project Looking back at our constitutional history to capture Trump's order’s viciousness. Doing so reveals that the order is not m…
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March 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM

Resistance Is Alive and Well in the United States

Resistance Is Alive and Well in the United States     Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman, Soha Hammam March 19, 2025 Waging Nonviolence Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches of 2017, but research shows they are far more numerous and frequent — w…
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March 24, 2025 at 3:35 AM

Trump’s Antisocial State

Trump’s Antisocial State     Melinda Cooper March 18, 2025 Dissent The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport. …
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March 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM

Constitutional Collapse

Constitutional Collapse     Aziz Rana March 21, 2025 Sidecar, blog of New Left Review Trump/Musk are pursuing the collapse of the American constitutional model, fundamentally altering the terrain on which the US left operates, requiring an oppositional polit…
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March 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Severance Is an Indictment of Workplace Hell

Portside Culture Severance Is an Indictment of Workplace Hell     Eileen Jones March 18, 2025 Jacobin Apple’s dystopian workplace thriller Severance entered its second season as a genuine cultural phenomenon. With its brutal satire of the American co…
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March 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Democrats in Congress Should Be Very Afraid.

Democrats in Congress Should Be Very Afraid.     Lakshya Jain March 21, 2025 Politico Democratic voters are even angrier than you think. A constituent shouts comments during a town hall hosted by Democratic Rep. Emily Randall in Tacoma, Wash., Frid…
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March 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM

The Dark, McCarthyist History of Deporting Activists

The Dark, McCarthyist History of Deporting Activists     Michelle Chen March 21, 2025 The Progressive Donald Trump is using decades-old laws to expel critics and opponents. Newspaper clippings taken from the Los Angeles Committee for the Protection…
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March 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Trump’s Latin America Policy: Inconsistencies and Vacillations

Trump’s Latin America Policy: Inconsistencies and Vacillations     Steve Ellner March 12, 2025 NACLA Reports The Trump administration’s volatility on foreign policy reveals internal divisions within Trumpism. But when threats and populism lose their momentum…
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March 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Fighting the Trans Care Scare

Fighting the Trans Care Scare     Eva Moschitto March 17, 2025 Indypendent “Withholding the availability of services from transgender individuals based on their gender identity or their diagnosis of gender dysphoria, while offering such services to cisgender…
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March 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM

“When the Banality of Evil Becomes Normalized, It Grows Unchecked.”

“When the Banality of Evil Becomes Normalized, It Grows Unchecked.”     Rafael Sergi in conversation with Francesca Albanese March 15, 2025 Left Berlin We are at the potential tipping point of a necessary revolution. Right now, capitalism has armed itself — …
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March 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM

Friday Nite Videos | March 21, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | March 21, 2025     March 21, 2025 xxxxxx AOC, on Fight Oligarchy Tour, Gives Speech of the Year. Imprisoned Israelis Refuse Military Service in Gaza. Why Your Brain Blinds You for Two Hours Every Day. Stripped for Parts | Documentary. Tr…
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March 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM

Bernie’s Anti-Oligarchy Tour Is Showing Dems How To Fight

Bernie’s Anti-Oligarchy Tour Is Showing Dems How To Fight     Zeeshan Aleem March 12, 2025 MSNBC Sanders is doing some things that Democrats ought to pay attention to. He is using the theme of oligarchy and class domination as an overarching message. “We are…
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March 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM

The European Left Faces a Historic Challenge

The European Left Faces a Historic Challenge     Stefan Bekier February 20, 2025 Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières Introduction to the Ensemble! (FR) meeting on the consequences of the Trump presidency for Europe. Europe must deepen and broaden its integratio…
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March 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM

‘Tesla Takedown’ Protesters Planning ‘Biggest Day of Action’

‘Tesla Takedown’ Protesters Planning ‘Biggest Day of Action’     Andrew J. Hawkins The Verge Organizers are calling for 500 demonstrations at all 277 Tesla showrooms, as well as Supercharger stations, on March 29th. ,   Tesla protesters are …
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March 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM

Universities Choice: Surrender or Fight Back Against Trump ‘Takeover’

Universities Choice: Surrender or Fight Back Against Trump ‘Takeover’     J Oliver Conroy March 20, 2025 Guardian ‘Extraordinary fear’ takes hold at universities as Trump campaign threatens investigations or loss of federal funds Students stage a w…
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March 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Nothing Important

Portside Culture Nothing Important     Peter Neil Carroll The Truth Lies on Earth: a Year by Dark, by Bright Poet Peter Carroll reminds us why we celebrate the arrival of spring. , Jeannette Ferrary   Days of mist complete the season…
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March 21, 2025 at 3:25 AM

Trump Has Ordered a Hit on Judaism

Trump Has Ordered a Hit on Judaism     Dave Zirin March 18, 2025 The Nation Under the guise of “fighting antisemitism,” Trump is shredding our rights and telling us we are safe. "The truth is that they hate us. We should have some pride and return the favor.…
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March 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM

There Is No Justification at All for Israel To Resume the War in Gaza

There Is No Justification at All for Israel To Resume the War in Gaza     Yossi Melman March 19, 2025 Haaretz Renewing the war will certainly not bring the hostages home. What will the massive aerial assault, further devastation and the elimination of a few …
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March 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM

Amid Right-Wing Attacks on Education, the American Association of University Professors Organizes for Academic Freedom

Amid Right-Wing Attacks on Education, the American Association of University Professors Organizes for Academic Freedom     Eleanor J. Bader March 14, 2025 MS. Magazine Project 2025 puts forward a total attack on education, closing the Dept. of Education, inc…
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March 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM

Who Started the War Between Russia and Ukraine?

Who Started the War Between Russia and Ukraine?     Matthew Hallinan March 14, 2025 xxxxxx The NATO issue did not trigger the war. However, the thoughtless expansion of NATO contributed to a climate of mistrust that was a factor in Russia’s moving in an aggr…
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March 21, 2025 at 2:15 AM

Tidbits - Mar.20 - 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....

Tidbits - Mar.20 - 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....     March 20, 2…
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March 20, 2025 at 6:15 AM

On Trump’s Effort To Undo Free Speech

Portside Culture On Trump’s Effort To Undo Free Speech     Lloyd Green March 16, 2025 The Guardian This book examines efforts of the network of Trump, government members, and the ultra-rich, to overturn Times v. Sullivan, the SCOTUS decision that mad…
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March 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM

Netanyahu Breaks Ceasefire To Save Political Career

Netanyahu Breaks Ceasefire To Save Political Career     Interview of Muhammad Shehada by Amy Goodman March 19, 2025 Democracy Now “When you’re in crisis, nothing would unite your government, nothing would suppress any sort of protest or opposition, more than…
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March 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM

Greenpeace Must Pay at Least $660M Over Dakota Pipeline Protests, Says Jury

Greenpeace Must Pay at Least $660M Over Dakota Pipeline Protests, Says Jury     Rachel Leingang and Nina Lakhani March 19, 2025 The Guardian Non-profit, which will appeal decision, says lawsuits like this are aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protes…
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March 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM

‘I Am a Political Prisoner’: Mahmoud Khalil’s Letter From Jail

‘I Am a Political Prisoner’: Mahmoud Khalil’s Letter From Jail     Mahmoud Khalil March 18, 2025 Document Cloud 'My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a freePalestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, w…
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March 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Trump White House Tests Supreme Court Loyalty With Increasingly Crackpot Legal Arguments

Trump White House Tests Supreme Court Loyalty With Increasingly Crackpot Legal Arguments     Joe Patrice March 17, 2025 Above the Law Trump has not forgotten the John Roberts decision removing presidents from legal liability for committing crimes while in of…
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March 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – Focus on Eastern Europe

Global Left Midweek – Focus on Eastern Europe     March 19, 2025 xxxxxx Unprecedented mass protests hit Serbia “Women in the front lines.” International Women’s Day, 2025, Belgrade. Credit, AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic   The European Left Faci…
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March 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM

In the Ongoing Billionaire Heist, Schumer and Fetterman Are Driving the Getaway Car

In the Ongoing Billionaire Heist, Schumer and Fetterman Are Driving the Getaway Car     Mark Pinsley March 18, 2025 Common Dreams While the senators claim to be fighting for the working class, their actions—like voting for a government funding bill that slas…
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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 , …