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August 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM

The Liberal Who Hates Leftists

Portside Culture The Liberal Who Hates Leftists     Pratinav Anil July 22, 2025 The Guardian In his caustic critique of identity politics, Williams ends up condemning every kind of collective action. ,   Summer of Our Discontent: …

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August 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – Focus on Eastern Europe

Global Left Midweek – Focus on Eastern Europe     August 6, 2025 xxxxxx Democracy is messy “You have blood on your hands.” Students protest in Belgrade. Credit, Reuters   New Generation of Left Activists Ukraine’s Left on the Anti-Corrupti…

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August 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM

600+ Journalists Renew Call To Let Foreign Press Enter Gaza As Israel Begins ‘Full Conquest’

600+ Journalists Renew Call To Let Foreign Press Enter Gaza As Israel Begins ‘Full Conquest’     Stephen Prager August 5, 2025 Common Dreams "When governments can unilaterally shut down access to war zones," the petitioners warn, "they undermine the very f…

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August 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Texas Republicans: It’s About Power, and Their Radical Agenda

Texas Republicans: It’s About Power, and Their Radical Agenda     Perry Bacon August 5, 2025 The New Republic Of course this gerrymandering plan is about keeping power. But it’s about keeping power to a specific end: to pass laws people hate and block ones…

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August 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Britain’s New Left-Wing Party May Be Devastating for Labour

Britain’s New Left-Wing Party May Be Devastating for Labour     David Broder August 1, 2025 Jacobin The new party announced by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana shows that Gaza has become a key fault line in British politics. Keir Starmer’s Labour Party can …

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August 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Why a NASA Satellite That Scientists and Farmers Rely on May Be Destroyed on Purpose

Why a NASA Satellite That Scientists and Farmers Rely on May Be Destroyed on Purpose     Rebecca Hersher August 4, 2025 NPR The Trump administration has asked NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellite missions. They are the only t…

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August 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Eddington Is a Tragic Masterpiece of the 2020s

Portside Culture Eddington Is a Tragic Masterpiece of the 2020s     Dustin Guastella July 30, 2025 Jacobin Ari Aster’s new film, Eddington, pulls no punches against the Right or the Left. Yet its message is anything but moderate. Joaquin …

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August 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – August 5, 2025

Media Bits and Bytes – August 5, 2025     August 5, 2025 xxxxxx No future for TV...? , Ruben Bolling   CPB Gets the Ax Big Tech Under Legal Fire The Democrat at the FCC Working at a Tech Co-op The Grasp of Palantir ADL Backs Clampdown on S…

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August 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM

This Week in People’s History, Aug 6–12, 2025

This Week in People’s History, Aug 6–12, 2025     xxxxxx A Bomb Unlike Any Other (1945), When the K.K.K. Came to D.C. (1925), An Authoritarian Racist in the White House (1835), Getting Rid of a Brutal Occupation for 12 Years (1680), Rebellion in Watts, 60 Yea…

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August 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Netanyahu Ministers Vote To Dismiss Israeli Attorney General, Pending Top Court Ruling

Netanyahu Ministers Vote To Dismiss Israeli Attorney General, Pending Top Court Ruling     Chen Maanit August 4, 2025 Haaretz In a letter to ministers ahead of the vote, Gali Baharav-Miara said the move effectively removes the chief prosecutor in the prime…

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August 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Give Us Equality or Give Us Death?

Give Us Equality or Give Us Death?     Damian Carrington August 2, 2025 The Guardian An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished. “It is not about human nature. It is about .. comp…

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August 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM

The GOP’s New Civil War Against America Isn’t With Bullets — It’s With Ballots

The GOP’s New Civil War Against America Isn’t With Bullets — It’s With Ballots     Thom Hartmann August 4, 2025 Hartmann Report Why 51 Texas lawmakers fled the State to stop a power grab, and what it means for us all… ,   The Republican m…

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August 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM

38 Million Lives

38 Million Lives     August 2, 2025 Progressive International A study by the Center of Economic and Policy Research has revealed that, between 1971 and 2021, US and EU sanctions killed 38 million people around the world. ,   The people of…

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August 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM

One Love Community Fridge in Brooklyn Is Feeding People and Changing Lives

Portside Culture One Love Community Fridge in Brooklyn Is Feeding People and Changing Lives     Laine Doss July 17, 2025 Broken Palate One Love Community, which offers free food for neighbors in need, operates 10 community fridges and supports 30 p…

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August 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM

Sunday Science: Physicists Disagree Wildly on What Quantum Mechanics Says About Reality, Nature Survey Shows

Sunday Science: Physicists Disagree Wildly on What Quantum Mechanics Says About Reality, Nature Survey Shows     Elizabeth Gibney July 30, 2025 Nature First major attempt to chart researchers’ views finds interpretations in conflict. , Illustrati…

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August 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM

Trump Can’t Stop This Guy

Trump Can’t Stop This Guy     Steven Colbert Facebook Steven Colbert is joined by friends. We'll meet again, Courtesy of Comedy Central   Steven Colbert       Interpret the world and change it     …

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August 4, 2025 at 7:20 AM

The Premature Guide To Post-Trump Reform

The Premature Guide To Post-Trump Reform     Paul Starr July 31, 2025 The American Prospect American history offers three general strategies of repair and renewal. American history offers three general strategies of repair and renewal.,  …

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August 4, 2025 at 6:55 AM

US Appeals Court Indicates It Might Declare Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order Unconstitutional

US Appeals Court Indicates It Might Declare Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order Unconstitutional     Reuters August 1, 2025 The Guardian Judges express deep skepticism about a key piece of the US president’s hardline immigration agenda A woman w…

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August 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM

How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline

How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline     Franklin Foer July 28, 2025 The Atlantic The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk. , Photo-illustration by Fernando Pino*   In the beginning, the…

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August 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM

Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man

Portside Culture Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man     Carl Beijer July 26, 2025 Jacobin Hulk Hogan, who died this week at age 71, was the most important professional wrestler who ever lived. He was also a terrible human being. Hulk Hogan tak…

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August 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Trump Demands BLS Director Fired Over Bad Jobs Report

Trump Demands BLS Director Fired Over Bad Jobs Report     Brad Reed August 1, 2025 Common Dreams One economist mused that the president's economic advisers could make "a picture book" so they can "explain to Trump how the data are collected." , A…

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August 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Article Can States Reinvent U.S. Healthcare?

Article Can States Reinvent U.S. Healthcare?     Lynn Parramore July 29, 2025 Institute for New Economic Thinking Phillip Alvelda, a former DARPA program manager, reveals how a fracturing federal system has opened the door for bold state leadership. Will b…

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August 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Mamdani for NYC Mayor: The Fight We’ve Been Waiting For

Mamdani for NYC Mayor: The Fight We’ve Been Waiting For     Tom Gallagher July 29, 2025 The Stansbury Forum This is our race. Who’s the we in “our”? Anyone who feels that we the people have to find a way wrest control of the economic future of this country…

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August 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Entering a Golden Age for War Profiteers

Entering a Golden Age for War Profiteers     William D. Hartung August 27, 2025 TomDispatch Trump's Washington Breathes New Life into the Military-Industrial Complex , Shutterstock   When, in his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight D.…

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August 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Badar Khan Suri, the Georgetown Researcher Abducted by ICE Speaks Out

Badar Khan Suri, the Georgetown Researcher Abducted by ICE Speaks Out     Badar Khan Suri interviewed by Hira Ahmed July 25, 2025 Acacia “If my ordeal exposed authoritarianism and put a spotlight on the suffering in Gaza, I’m happy to do it again and again…

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August 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM

Friday Nite Videos | August 1, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | August 1, 2025     xxxxxx August 1, 2025 xxxxxx Tom Lehrer | We Will All Go Together When We Go. Epstein's Killer Caught on Camera? Forensic Expert Analysis. Don't Disrespect The Flag! | Trevor Noah. Gang Databases | John Oliver. South P…

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August 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM

Mamdani’s Winning Formula: Fuse the Message and the Media

Mamdani’s Winning Formula: Fuse the Message and the Media     Greg Sargent July 28, 2025 The New Republic If politics is ultimately about communicating in appealing ways, Mamdani is charting a new way forward for the digital era by the deliberate fusion of…

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August 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM

Tom Lehrer: Singer, Songwriter and Satirist

Tom Lehrer: Singer, Songwriter and Satirist     Francis Beckett July 29, 2025 The Guardian Lehrer's songs, by turns gloriously vulgar, ludicrously macabre or ferociously political, were mostly written and recorded before 1960, after which he returned to te…

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August 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM

New Peace Plan Increases Pressure on Israel and US As Momentum Grows for Palestinian Statehood

New Peace Plan Increases Pressure on Israel and US As Momentum Grows for Palestinian Statehood     Scott Lucas July 31, 2025 The Conversation In theory, the plan, embraced by the EU and the Arab League, could end the Israeli mass killing in Gaza, remove Ha…

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August 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM

How Do Human Egg Cells Stay Healthy for Decades?

How Do Human Egg Cells Stay Healthy for Decades?     Sahana Sitaraman July 18, 2025 The Scientist Contrary to long-standing assumptions, human egg cells stay pristine for decades not by ramping up waste disposal, but by dialing it down. human egg…

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August 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM

In a Time of Peace

Portside Culture In a Time of Peace     Ilya Kaminsky Ukanian-American poet Ilya Kaminsky examines the way complicity with an authoritarian regime can corrupt a whole society. , Graywolf Press   Inhabitant of earth for fortysomething…

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August 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM

In a First, Majority of Democratic Senators Vote To Stop Arming Israel

In a First, Majority of Democratic Senators Vote To Stop Arming Israel     Prem Thakker July 30, 2025 Zeteo 26 Democrats joined Bernie Sanders in his effort to end certain weapons' sales to Israel - but were blocked by 70 pro-war senators, including every …

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August 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Zionist McCarthyism Comes for CUNY

Zionist McCarthyism Comes for CUNY     Liza Featherstone July 28, 2025 Jacobin Not content to torment the Ivy League, Republicans are seeking authoritarian control over working-class public universities like the City University of New York. The latest salv…

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August 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM

“Where Is My Antisemitism Money?”: A Columbia Professor’s Letter to the University President.

“Where Is My Antisemitism Money?”: A Columbia Professor’s Letter to the University President.     James Schamus July 28, 2025 Literary Hub Columbia University reached agreement with the Trump administration to pay $200 million for "violations;." also agree…

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August 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Read the Brazilian President’s Comments on His Feud With Trump

Read the Brazilian President’s Comments on His Feud With Trump     Jack Nicas July 30, 2025 The New York Times President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva issued a fierce rejection of President Trump’s demands for Brazil, but said he was ready for dialogue. "Brazi…

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August 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits- July 31-Readers Comments: Trump Screwing Country, World, Climate, Gaza, Now Ready To Make Deal With Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell; McCarthyism and Its Victims; Keep ICE out of MLB Stadiums; Israelis Call for Crippling Sanctions on Israel

Tidbits- July 31-Readers Comments: Trump Screwing Country, World, Climate, Gaza, Now Ready To Make Deal With Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell; McCarthyism and Its Victims; Keep ICE out of MLB Stadiums; Israelis Call for Crippling Sanctions on Israel     July 31, 2…

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July 31, 2025 at 6:45 AM

This Is the Moment Democrats Have Been Talking About for Years

This Is the Moment Democrats Have Been Talking About for Years     Antonio Delgado July 30, 2025 The New York Times A chance to prove it's more than a party of outrage and opposition, but one that will deliver for the working and middle classes without fea…

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July 31, 2025 at 6:20 AM

Fossil Fool

Fossil Fool     Paul Krugman July 30, 2025 Paul Krugman Substack How Europe took Trump for a ride ,   Like many U.S. institutions, the European Union has abysmally failed the Trump test. The EU is an economic superpower and could have ret…

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July 31, 2025 at 6:10 AM

Galvanized by Trump, These States Are Passing Harsh New Laws Against Immigrants

Galvanized by Trump, These States Are Passing Harsh New Laws Against Immigrants     Jill Castellano and Shoshana Walter July 25, 2025 The Marshall Project The policies create new restrictions for immigrants and people who support them — including reviving …

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July 31, 2025 at 5:45 AM

‘Exceptionally Dangerous’: Trump EPA Targets Endangerment Finding That Enables Climate Rules

‘Exceptionally Dangerous’: Trump EPA Targets Endangerment Finding That Enables Climate Rules     Jessica Corbett July 29, 2025 Common Dreams "Zeldin's assertion that the EPA shouldn't address greenhouse gas emissions is like a fire chief claiming that they…

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July 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Playing With Academic Fire

Portside Culture Playing With Academic Fire     Hatim Kanaaneh January 25, 2024 Jadaliyya This study of three late 1940s kibbutzim, writes reviewer Kanaaneh, “analyzes how these so-called leftist settlements” related to their Palestinian neighbors …

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July 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – July 30, 2025

Global Left Midweek – July 30, 2025     July 30, 2025 xxxxxx The old is dying and the new struggles to be born “This is Fascism! Misery...destruction... persecution... and death”, ca. 1935, designed by Antonio López Padial for International Red Aid…

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July 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM

The Ideology of Artificial Intelligence

The Ideology of Artificial Intelligence     João Camargo July 29, 2025 Common Dreams The AI hype is essentially propaganda, the main purpose of which is to accelerate layoffs, to fuel financial speculation, and to divert investment and resources toward a n…

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July 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM

“Woke” Superman Versus MAGA Whiners—Guess Who Won?

“Woke” Superman Versus MAGA Whiners—Guess Who Won?     David Corn July 25, 2025 Mother Jones Guess who won? It wasn’t Fox News. Director James Gunn at the Los Angeles premiere of Superman on July 7 ,   There’s nothing like a $125 million …

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July 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM

Confront or Cave? Federal Pressure Splits the Building Trades

Confront or Cave? Federal Pressure Splits the Building Trades     Natascha Elena Uhlmann, Keith Brower Brown July 24, 2025 Labor Notes One week into President Donald Trump’s first term, top building trades officers were chumming it up in the Oval Office, c…

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July 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM

The Genocidal Partnership of Israel and the United States

The Genocidal Partnership of Israel and the United States     Norman Solomon July 29, 2025 Common Dreams During this century, in the Middle East, the U.S.-Israel duo has vastly outdone all other entities combined in the categories of killing, maiming, and …

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July 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM

The Undeniable Greatness of Jaws

Portside Culture The Undeniable Greatness of Jaws     Eileen Jones July 24, 2025 Jacobin Jaws is rightly celebrated as a landmark, generation-defining hit. But it’s not sufficiently recognized as a great 1970s film, exemplifying that rocky decade’s…

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July 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – July 29, 2025

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – July 29, 2025     July 29, 2025 xxxxxx Monster time ,   “You Have No Rights” Managing Stress, Anxiety and Hopelessness Woke Superman Deprogramming Neo-Nazis Trump is Out for Blood Changing Mood Toward Imm…

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July 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM

This Week in People’s History, Jul 30-Aug 5, 2025

This Week in People’s History, Jul 30-Aug 5, 2025     xxxxxx It’s Your Birthday Medicaid, Chin Up! (1965), A Night at the Opera in the Infield (1925), Who Won the Civil War, Anyway? (1900), Candidate Reagan Shows His True Colors (1980), Robert Purvis, Fighter…

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July 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM

‘South Park’ vs. Trump: And the Little Children Shall Lead Them

‘South Park’ vs. Trump: And the Little Children Shall Lead Them     Mark I. Pinsky July 26, 2025 The Hill Satan! Jesus! In its 27th season opener this week, titled “The Sermon on the Mount,” the Paramount Plus animated show “South Park” provided by far the…

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