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July 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM

The Court’s Liberals Are Trying To Tell Americans Something

The Court’s Liberals Are Trying To Tell Americans Something     Aziz Huq July 17, 2025 The Atlantic Justices Kagan, Jackson, and Sotomayor aren’t merely disagreeing with the majority’s technical readings of the law. , Photo-illustration by The At…
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July 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM

Cancelling Colbert, Bribery, an $8Bn Deal: What’s Going On at Paramount?

Portside Culture Cancelling Colbert, Bribery, an $8Bn Deal: What’s Going On at Paramount?     David Smith July 19, 2025 The Guardian The fallout from the Trump payoff comes as a merger threatens the company’s integrity and A-list talent, such as St…
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July 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Ken Saro-Wiwa Pardoned Posthumously but Oil Still Scars Nigeria’s Lands and Communities

Ken Saro-Wiwa Pardoned Posthumously but Oil Still Scars Nigeria’s Lands and Communities     Andrea Spinelli Barrile July 17, 2025 Il Manifesto Global In the mid-1990s Saro-Wiwa and MOSOP denounced the military junta for failing to enforce regulations on oi…
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July 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Health Insurers Push Huge Premium Hikes

Health Insurers Push Huge Premium Hikes     Veronica Riccobene, Helen Santoro July 18, 2025 The Lever Health insurance companies are asking state regulators to approve eye-popping rate increases nationwide — reaching 66 percent for some policies. …
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July 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Film Review: James Gunn’s Superman

Film Review: James Gunn’s Superman     Mitchell Plitnick July 18, 2025 Mondoweiss James Gunn’s new Superman movie, which draws an analogy between Israel and the villainous country of Boravia, demonstrates how Israel's idealized image in American culture ha…
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July 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM

With ‘The Fierce Urgency of Now,’ NAACP Convenes 116th Annual Convention

With ‘The Fierce Urgency of Now,’ NAACP Convenes 116th Annual Convention     Dorothy A. Clark July 15, 2025 The Bay State Banner For the first time in its history, the NAACP declined to invite the sitting president. Nor was Vice President JD Vance asked to…
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July 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM

What California History Has To Say About the New York Mayor’s Race

What California History Has To Say About the New York Mayor’s Race     Fred Glass July 13, 2025 The Stansbury Forum If Mamdani loses, the leadership of the Democratic Party will redouble its push to field empty neoliberal suits in 2026. Harriman’s defeat i…
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July 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM

Friday Nite Videos | July 18, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | July 18, 2025     July 18, 2025 xxxxxx Crossroads | Playing For Change. Jordan Klepper on the Trump-Epstein Relationship. Wall Street Jacked Up Your Electricity Bill. The Fiercest Debate in Linguistics. Three Phrases That Get You Arreste…
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July 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM

Jeffrey Epstein Is a Policy Issue

Jeffrey Epstein Is a Policy Issue     David Dayen July 15, 2025 The American Prospect There’s an incorrect belief that the Epstein case is somehow separate from the real concerns facing America, a conspiracist concoction. But it’s actually about the two-ti…
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July 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM

Trump Can Hurt PBS and NPR, but He Can’t Kill Them

Trump Can Hurt PBS and NPR, but He Can’t Kill Them     Josef Adalian July 17, 2025 New York Magazine Killing funding to CPB is expected to have devastating effects for many public radio and TV stations. CPB grants keep smaller stations — including many in …
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July 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM

80 Years After Trinity

80 Years After Trinity     Eric Ross July 17, 2025 TomDispatch In 1945, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico worked feverishly to complete the first atomic bomb. Meanwhile, their colleagues at the University of Chicago mounted a final…
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July 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM

More Woody Guthrie Songs? Yes, From a Trove of Homemade Recordings.

More Woody Guthrie Songs? Yes, From a Trove of Homemade Recordings.     Jon Pareles July 14, 2025 The New York Times A new, intimate album will include 13 previously unheard songs, written, performed and recorded by Woody himself in a “home studio” that ee…
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July 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Electrodomestico

Portside Culture Electrodomestico     Prartho Sereno Marin County poet Prartho Sereno meditates on the ironic response of her mother's generation to the promises of technology. , Word Works Press   One day the iceman came no more. Ne…
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July 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM

Why Did This Farmworker Die in an Immigration Raid?

Why Did This Farmworker Die in an Immigration Raid?     David Bacon July 17, 2025 The Nation With Trump and Stephen Miller cheering on ICE’s terror tactics, Jaime Alanis Garcia’s fatal fall in the raid on Glass House Farms was the most recent example of a …
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July 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM

I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.     Omer Bartov July 15, 2025 The New York Times A professor of Holocaust and genocide studies comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza. My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel i…
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July 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Zohran Mamdani Has Awakened a Powerful New Political Force

Zohran Mamdani Has Awakened a Powerful New Political Force     Errol Louis July 16, 2025 New York Magazine Where all politics is tribal, Mamdani has emerged as a leader of New York’s South Asian community, 600,000 strong, which is now following its Irish, …
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July 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Labor-Backed Coalition Launches Working-Class Effort To Flip 35+ House Seats in 2026

Labor-Backed Coalition Launches Working-Class Effort To Flip 35+ House Seats in 2026     Stephen Prager July 16, 2025 Common Dreams "Working people deserve leaders who will fight for them, not grovel at the feet of their billionaire donors," said Maurice M…
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July 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits- July 17-Readers Comments: GOP Budget ‘Total Betrayal’ of Working Class; Immigration and Health in Rural America; Story Behind Removal of Univ of Virginia President – Eliminate DEI As Fight Against Anti-Semitism; David Schwartzman-RIP; More;

Tidbits- July 17-Readers Comments: GOP Budget ‘Total Betrayal’ of Working Class; Immigration and Health in Rural America; Story Behind Removal of Univ of Virginia President – Eliminate DEI As Fight Against Anti-Semitism; David Schwartzman-RIP; More;     July 17, 2…
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July 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM

Get Ready for Citizens United 2.0

Get Ready for Citizens United 2.0     Meagan Day July 14, 2025 Jacobin Is it possible for American democracy to be further degraded by the influence of billionaires? Thanks to champion of the working class J. D. Vance and his right-wing friends, including …
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July 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM

Israel Unveils a Concentration Camp in Southern Gaza

Israel Unveils a Concentration Camp in Southern Gaza     Mitchell Plitnick July 12, 2025 PopularResistance.org Israel would create a ghetto which would quickly become a concentration camp on the ruins of the southern Gaza city of Rafah. President…
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July 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM

Senate GOP Set to Eviscerate Public Media Funding

Senate GOP Set to Eviscerate Public Media Funding     Stephen Prager July 16, 2025 Common Dreams The bill threatens "emergency alerts that save lives, local journalism that informs communities, and educational tools that support families, job seekers, and …
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July 17, 2025 at 6:50 AM

Teachers in Red States Are Walking Away for Good

Teachers in Red States Are Walking Away for Good     Kenneal Patterson July 9, 2025 The New Republic The predictable consequences of the right wing’s war on public schools are being felt as educators leave their communities—and their profession. …
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July 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Red Channels: America’s Lasting Legacy of Repression

Portside Culture Red Channels: America’s Lasting Legacy of Repression     Ed Rampell June 21, 2025 The Progressive Writer Rampell looks at a long-forgotten, but deeply influential, document from the domestic Cold War that served the unofficial blac…
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July 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – July 16, 2025

Global Left Midweek – July 16, 2025     July 16, 2025 xxxxxx World in transition “New Planet”, Konstantin Yuon, 1921, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow   The Hague Group Indicts Genocide World in Transition Brazil News War and Counterrevolution in…
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July 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM

How Do You Stop an AI Model Turning Nazi? What the Grok Drama Reveals About AI Training

How Do You Stop an AI Model Turning Nazi? What the Grok Drama Reveals About AI Training     Aaron J. Snoswell July 14, 2025 The Conversation Grok, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot embedded in X (formerly Twitter) and built by Elon Musk’s company xA…
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July 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM

The IRS Is Building a Vast System To Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE

The IRS Is Building a Vast System To Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE     William Turton, Christopher Bing and Avi Asher-Schapiro July 15, 2025 ProPublica ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to …
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July 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM

BDS@20: Redefining International Solidarity

BDS@20: Redefining International Solidarity     Palestinian BDS National Committee July 11, 2025 Socialist Project We must escalate pressure and peacefully disrupt all forms of complicity to contribute to ending Israel’s unspeakable genocide and to dismant…
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July 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

‘Our Hands Are Loud’: Documentary Creates a New Visual Language To Tell a Trailblazer’s Story

‘Our Hands Are Loud’: Documentary Creates a New Visual Language To Tell a Trailblazer’s Story     Matt Minton July 8, 2025 The Progressive Not Alone Anymore paints an emotional portrait of Matlin’s acting career and personal life, tracing a line from Matli…
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July 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Yes, Superman Has Always Been an Immigration Story

Portside Culture Yes, Superman Has Always Been an Immigration Story     Andrew Slack, Jose Antonio Vargas July 12, 2025 The Hollywood Reporter Accusations that James Gunn has “politicized” Superman come laughably late, as the world's most famous su…
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July 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – July 15, 2025

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – July 15, 2025     July 15, 2025 xxxxxx ICE vs USA , Aïda Amer/Axios   Reproductive Police Going to Work For ICE Volunteering Against ICE Military Insubordination A Fourth of July Message From 1828 Church …
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July 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM

This Week in People’s History, Jul 16–22, 2025

This Week in People’s History, Jul 16–22, 2025     xxxxxx Deadly Fallout Heralds the Nuclear Age (1945), Bob Marley’s Breakthrough (1975), Hitler’s Publishing Debut (1925), Struggle Pays (2000), The Origin of Ignorance (1925), The More Things Change, the More…
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July 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Princeton Study Maps 200,000 Years of Human–Neanderthal Interbreeding

Princeton Study Maps 200,000 Years of Human–Neanderthal Interbreeding     Princeton University July 13, 2025 Science Daily For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins. But modern humans and Neanderthals didn’t just cross paths; they repea…
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July 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM

What Happened to America’s Meat Recalls? Pandemic-Era Dip Still Lingers.

Portside Culture What Happened to America’s Meat Recalls? Pandemic-Era Dip Still Lingers.     Melissa Dai July 9, 2025 Investigate Midwest The Trump administration eliminated two food safety committees: the National Advisory Committee on Meat and P…
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July 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Insoumission

Insoumission     Jean-Luc Mélenchon & Tariq Ali July 11, 2025 Sidecar The liberals say it’s every man for himself and the fascists say it’s everyone against the Arabs. They have their worldviews, and we, the left, must offer another way of seeing the w…
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July 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Surge in U.S. Concern About Immigration Has Abated

Surge in U.S. Concern About Immigration Has Abated     Lydia Saad July 11, 2025 Gallup Record-high 79% consider immigration good for the country and support down for border wall and mass deportation. ,   WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans have …
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July 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM

Israeli Settlers Beat American to Death in Illegally Occupied West Bank: Family, Health Ministry

Israeli Settlers Beat American to Death in Illegally Occupied West Bank: Family, Health Ministry     Jessica Corbett July 11, 2025 Common Dreams "If President Trump will not even put America first when Israel murders American citizens, then this is truly a…
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July 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM

Sunday Science: What We Know About Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas

Sunday Science: What We Know About Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas     NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory July 3, 2025 NASA An interstellar traveler has been discovered passing through our solar system. An interstellar traveler has been discovered passin…
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July 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM

As the Bombing of Iran Took Center Stage, Israeli Forces Deployed Deeper Into the Occupied West Bank

As the Bombing of Iran Took Center Stage, Israeli Forces Deployed Deeper Into the Occupied West Bank     Georgia Gee, Dikla Taylor-Sheinman July 10, 2025 Drop Site "They are dealing with the West Bank as if the war is right here." An Israeli mili…
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July 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM

TV Is Tapping Into Our Collective Desire To Rage Against the Machine

Portside Culture TV Is Tapping Into Our Collective Desire To Rage Against the Machine     Avishay Artsy June 25, 2025 AV Club From a trippy Adult Swim satire to a Star Wars saga, shows this year are making the case to question and push back against…
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July 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM

The Quiet Violence of Peace Deals

The Quiet Violence of Peace Deals     Marjorie Namara Rugunda July 12, 2025 Africa is a Country Trump’s Congo-Rwanda deal is hailed as diplomatic triumph. But behind the photo ops lies a familiar exchange: African resources for Western power. A R…
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July 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Document Casts Doubt on White House’s Claims About Deported Venezuelans

Document Casts Doubt on White House’s Claims About Deported Venezuelans     Alan Feuer July 7, 2025 The New York Times The document from El Salvador seems to undermine a position that lawyers for the Justice Department and top Trump officials have taken ti…
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July 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Clarence Thomas Has Long Tried To Undercut the Voting Rights Act. Now, He May Finally Have the Numbers

Clarence Thomas Has Long Tried To Undercut the Voting Rights Act. Now, He May Finally Have the Numbers     Joan Biskupic July 11, 2025 CNN Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been imploring his colleagues for decades to gut a crucial part of the icon…
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July 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Lawmakers Left Gap in Flood Warning System

Lawmakers Left Gap in Flood Warning System     Freddy Brewster, Lucy Dean Stockton July 7, 2025 The Lever Before the Texas disaster, Congress and successive presidents ignored demands to fully fund a nationwide system monitoring rivers for signs of flash f…
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July 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Taking a Stand Against Israel’s Gaza Genocide

Taking a Stand Against Israel’s Gaza Genocide     Raymond Deane July 12, 2025 Jacobin Avi Shlaim is one of Israel’s greatest historians. In his latest work, Shlaim excoriates the genocidal violence that Israel has inflicted on the people of Gaza and takes …
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July 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Socialism Is Good Politics

Socialism Is Good Politics     Hamza Shehryar July 11, 2025 CounterPunch Build movements from the ground up. Refuse to back down on core principles. Refuse to let the right set the terms of the debate. Because no matter what the strategists or the pundits …
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July 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Struggle for the Freedom Charter Goes On

Struggle for the Freedom Charter Goes On     Ronnie Kasrils Mail & Guardian The Freedom Charter’s vision will not be won on moral terms alone. It will require effective political organisation, ideological clarity and courage. The charter was born of str…
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July 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM

No Ordinary Solidarity — Inside Chicago’s Hunger Strike for Gaza

No Ordinary Solidarity — Inside Chicago’s Hunger Strike for Gaza     Joseph Mogul July 10, 2025 Waging Nonviolence For 18 days, six members of Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago led a hunger strike that helped re-center Gaza in the public discourse and pressur…
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July 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM

Friday Nite Videos | July 11, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | July 11, 2025     July 11, 2025 xxxxxx Zohran Mamdani Answers 30 Questions in Five Minutes. Elon’s Grok Chatbot Turns Hitler | The Daily Show. Shocking Update on Epstein Prison Video. Apocalypse in the Tropics | Documentary. Canada Relea…
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July 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM

A New Far-Right American Party?

A New Far-Right American Party?     John Feffer July 9, 2025 Foreign Policy in Focus Elon Musk has disrupted Silicon Valley, the electric car industry, and the U.S. government. His next target: democracy itself. Billionaire Elon Musk saluting whi…
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July 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM

Three Ways Inequality Undermines Democracy, 1970 to Trump

Three Ways Inequality Undermines Democracy, 1970 to Trump     Nathan Meyers July 11, 2025 The Conversation Democratic decline and inequality are not inevitable. But if restoring broad prosperity and social stability are the goals, they may require revisiti…