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August 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM

Corporate Greed and National Interests Torpedoed the UN Plastics Treaty

Corporate Greed and National Interests Torpedoed the UN Plastics Treaty     Dr. Norbert Stute, Klaus Moegling, and Rachael Mellor August 19, 2025 Common Dreams The latest round of negations show just how difficult it is to enforce humanitarian and ecologic…

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August 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Cloud Is a Techno-Thriller for the Age of Online Hustle Culture

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August 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – August 19, 2025

Media Bits and Bytes – August 19, 2025     August 19, 2025 xxxxxx Tech and politics , Nick Anderson/The Contrarian   Big Tech’s AI Offensive The ICE Alert App From MAGA to Meta Trump Helps Tech Moguls Evade the Law Without CPB, Docs for Br…

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August 19, 2025 at 3:30 AM

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Tells Trump To Stay Out; Decries Authoritarianism, War on Poor People

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Tells Trump To Stay Out; Decries Authoritarianism, War on Poor People     Interview by Amy Goodman August 15, 2025 Democracy Now! Responding to Trump’s threats, Mayor Johnson says his city will not “cower or bend or be intimid…

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August 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM

This Week in People’s History, Aug 20–26, 2025

This Week in People’s History, Aug 20–26, 2025     xxxxxx Voting Rights Trial By Fire (1965), Take Your Racist Law and Shove It (1850), Let Slip the Dogs of War! (1775), Never Forget How We Got Here (1791),Thirty Years Too Many (1945), Born to Run, Indeed (19…

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August 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Climate Change Is Devastating Coffee Production Worldwide. Can It Take Root in Florida?

Portside Culture Climate Change Is Devastating Coffee Production Worldwide. Can It Take Root in Florida?     Diana Kruzman July 18, 2025 Ambrook Research When Florida growers last attempted to plant coffee in the 1940s it “got frozen out,” unable t…

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August 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Abandoning mRNA Is a Dangerous Decision

Abandoning mRNA Is a Dangerous Decision     Rick Bright August 18, 2025 The New York Times If the United States abandons mRNA, it will not simply be forfeiting a public health advantage. It will be ceding a strategic asset. In national security terms, mRNA…

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August 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM

How Red-State Republicans Thwart the Left-Wing Desires of Their Voters

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August 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM

A Tale of 10 Cities

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August 18, 2025 at 5:00 AM

Sunday Science: For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible

Sunday Science: For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible     Carl Zimmer August 14, 2025 The New York Times In a recent study, scientists successfully decoded not only the words people tried to say but the words they merely imagined saying.…

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August 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM

What Trump’s Decertification of Federal Employee Unions Means

What Trump’s Decertification of Federal Employee Unions Means     Marc Kagan August 14, 2025 Jacobin The Trump administration moved ahead last week with its plans to void the collective bargaining agreements covering hundreds of thousands of federal worker…

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August 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM

You Might Not Recognize CALI Gubernatorial Candidate Che Ahn, but His Brand of Militant Christianity Should Feel Familiar

You Might Not Recognize CALI Gubernatorial Candidate Che Ahn, but His Brand of Militant Christianity Should Feel Familiar     Keri Ladner August 13, 2025 Religion Dispatches "Joel’s Army"—the militant Protestant movement that fueled both the January 6 insu…

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August 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Why Lelo Juarez Chose Self-Deportation

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August 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Seth Meyers on Donald Trump’s DC Police Takeover: ‘This Is All Just Theater’

Portside Culture Seth Meyers on Donald Trump’s DC Police Takeover: ‘This Is All Just Theater’     Guardian Staff August 14, 2025 The Guardian Late-night host discusses Trump’s rambling Kennedy Center speech and his deployment of the national guard …

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August 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Putin’s Ukraine Proposal Backed by Trump Centers on Donbas. Here’s Why.

Putin’s Ukraine Proposal Backed by Trump Centers on Donbas. Here’s Why.     Anatoly Kurmanaev, Ksenia Churmanova and Nataliya Vasilyeva August 17, 2025 The New York Times The traditionally Russian-speaking area is at the heart of what the Russian president…

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August 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM

How the Rich Got Richer

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August 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM

How Americans View the Trump Tariff Policies

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August 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Why I Joined the DSA

Why I Joined the DSA     Lindsey Boylan August 12, 2025 The Indypendent Not only is everything about DSA so unlike my experience working for Cuomo, it is so disparate from my experience of being abandoned by my own party, the Democratic Party of New York. …

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August 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Progressive Leaders Across the Americas Unite Against Growing Global Fascism

Progressive Leaders Across the Americas Unite Against Growing Global Fascism     José Luis Granados Ceja August 12, 2025 Truthout Mexican Senate President Gerardo Fernández Noroña said the two defining features of the rising fascist threat in the world wer…

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August 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Mass Socialist Politics vs. Vanguard Party

Mass Socialist Politics vs. Vanguard Party     Max Böhnel August 12, 2025 nd - journalismus von links DSA's 2025 convention was, in many ways, a snapshot of the American socialist movement itself: energized, diverse, and ambitious — but also fragmented, in…

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August 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM

Friday Nite Videos | August 15, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | August 15, 2025     xxxxxx August 15, 2025 xxxxxx Immigration Enforcement | John Oliver. Zach Shrewsbury Introduces Bernie Sanders in Wheeling, WV. The Alyaska Summit | Puppet Regime. Alcohol is Amazing. The Epstein Manhattan Townhouse. …

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August 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM

Dear Leftist: Stop Attacking AOC

Dear Leftist: Stop Attacking AOC     Tom Gallagher August 9, 2025 Common Dreams We should not do the billionaires’ work of dividing us. They have enough money to do it for themselves. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (left) and Bernie Sanders (right) on …

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August 16, 2025 at 1:15 AM

Trump’s White Nationalism and the Future of History

Trump’s White Nationalism and the Future of History     William Sturkey August 11, 2025 The New Republic Being a historian during Trump 2.0 is to witness a renewal of debunked mythologies and outdated ideas made fresh by a state apparatus deeply invested i…

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August 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM

Marx in America: The Fourth Boom

Marx in America: The Fourth Boom     Devin Thomas O’Shea May 27, 2025 Los Angeles Review of Books Hartman is a Gen X Marxist, pilled by the revolutionary politics of Rage Against the Machine. “Until the freedom of some no longer required the unfreedom of o…

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August 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Trump’s Cognitive Decline Is on Full Display

Trump’s Cognitive Decline Is on Full Display     Rex Huppke August 11, 2025 USA Today Trump thought he was meeting Putin in Russia. He rambled incoherently during a nationally televised news conference. His performance leaves no doubt: the man’s brain has …

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August 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

My California

Portside Culture My California     Beau Beausoleil West Coast poet Beau Beausoleil reflects on the momentary beauties which somehow compensate for our everyday sense of exile and displacement. , fmsbw press   We were empty of distanc…

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August 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM

Trump Is Taking Over D.C. Police Because He’s a Racist Thug

Trump Is Taking Over D.C. Police Because He’s a Racist Thug     Melissa Gira Grant August 12, 2025 The New Republic Trump doesn’t care about “crime.” He cares about the right white people being in charge. On his first day in office in 2025, he pardoned 1,5…

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August 15, 2025 at 1:50 AM

When Sleeping Is a Crime

When Sleeping Is a Crime     Colleen Shaddox August 11, 2025 The American Prospect With a new executive order and model state legislation criminalizing homelessness, the richest people in the U.S. are making it easier to lock up the poorest. Today in Washi…

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August 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM

In the Heart of the “Commie Corridor” – Meet the City’s Most Pro-Zohran Neighborhood.

In the Heart of the “Commie Corridor” – Meet the City’s Most Pro-Zohran Neighborhood.     Elsie Carson-Holt August 11, 2025 The Indypendent Young people carried Zohran Mamdani in his victory in the mayoral primary, stunning establishment Democrats and resh…

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August 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM

With IDF Soldiers and Settlers Expelling Palestinians, the West Bank Is Seeing a Creeping Nakba

With IDF Soldiers and Settlers Expelling Palestinians, the West Bank Is Seeing a Creeping Nakba     Haaretz Editorial August 13, 2025 Haaretz There's no way, and there won't be one, to justify or defend what Israel is doing in the West Bank. Under the cove…

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August 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits- Aug.14 -Readers Comments: Police State Take-Over of Washington, DC; Israel Continues To Murder Gaza Journalists; NYC Mayor’s Race – Call for Universal Childcare; Chick-fil-A Fined for Child Labor; New Resource – Social Security FAQ; and More

Tidbits- Aug.14 -Readers Comments: Police State Take-Over of Washington, DC; Israel Continues To Murder Gaza Journalists; NYC Mayor’s Race – Call for Universal Childcare; Chick-fil-A Fined for Child Labor; New Resource – Social Security FAQ; and More     August 14…

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August 14, 2025 at 5:05 AM

Debunking the Myths About Mamdani’s Candidacy

Debunking the Myths About Mamdani’s Candidacy     Stewart Lawrence August 13, 2025 CounterPunch Fear-mongering is built on a series of myths about how the electorate in New York – and indeed, elsewhere –is likely to view candidates like Mamdani. What are t…

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August 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM

Vladimir Putin Could Be Laying a Trap

Vladimir Putin Could Be Laying a Trap     Jonathan Lemire August 12, 2025 The Atlantic Donald Trump badly wants a deal to end the war in Ukraine. What is he willing to give up? Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018., Reuters …

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August 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM

Trump’s Rhetoric About DC Echoes a History of Racist Narratives About Urban Crime

Trump’s Rhetoric About DC Echoes a History of Racist Narratives About Urban Crime     Matt Brown August 12, 2025 AP “The president foreshadowed that if these heavy-handed tactics take root here, they will be rolled out to other majority-Black and Brown cit…

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August 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM

Al Jazeera Editor on Israel’s Assassination of 5 Reporters

Al Jazeera Editor on Israel’s Assassination of 5 Reporters     Interview by Amy Goodman August 11, 2025 Democracy Now! Mohammed and Anas were the eye behind the lens catching all the details to the world from Gaza City. They were the only two prominent voi…

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August 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Genocide in Perspective

Portside Culture Genocide in Perspective     David Finkel July 1, 2025 Against the Current "It must be said," writes reviewer Finkel, "that this book is essential reading, but not pleasant for anyone." ,   Gaza Catastrophe The Gen…

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August 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – August 13, 2025

Global Left Midweek – August 13, 2025     August 13, 2025 xxxxxx A better world’s in birth Demonstrators in London turn their backs on Parliament in defiance of an ‘anti-terrorist’ law banning public support for the solidarity group Palestine Actio…

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August 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM

‘Dracula’ Review: Romanian Auteur Radu Jude’s Rowdy, Fellatio-Filled Vampire Flick Is Way Too Many Movies at Once

Portside Culture ‘Dracula’ Review: Romanian Auteur Radu Jude’s Rowdy, Fellatio-Filled Vampire Flick Is Way Too Many Movies at Once     Jordan Mintzer August 10, 2025 The Hollywood Reporter He sees Dracula as fiction’s ultimate capitalist victimizer…

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August 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Corporations Want To Prevent Workers From Leaving Their Jobs

Corporations Want To Prevent Workers From Leaving Their Jobs     Luke Goldstein August 12, 2025 Jacobin As regulators crack down on noncompete agreements that bar workers from finding better jobs, employees across the country are increasingly bound by a ne…

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August 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM

‘This Isn’t Normal!’ Secret Pentagon Plan for Troops To Put Down Local ‘Unrest’ Nationwide

‘This Isn’t Normal!’ Secret Pentagon Plan for Troops To Put Down Local ‘Unrest’ Nationwide     Jon Queally August 12, 2025 Common Dreams "If people aren't allowed to peacefully protest and the elections are being rigged through gerrymandering and voter sup…

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August 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Gaza City’s Iconic Shuja’iyya Neighborhood No Longer Exists

Gaza City’s Iconic Shuja’iyya Neighborhood No Longer Exists     Tareq S. Hajjaj August 11, 2025 Mondoweiss The neighborhood of Shuja'iyya was once home to 120,000 people. It has now been erased. , Photo: Doaa el-Baz/APA Images   On Saturd…

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August 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Back to Basics

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August 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – August 12, 2025

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – August 12, 2025     August 12, 2025 xxxxxx Polarization Nation , Drew Sheneman/The Star-Ledger   From Republic to Reich, Brick by Brick Historians Challenged and Fighting Back Working Class Brooklyn Stand…

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August 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM

This Week in People’s History, Aug 13–19, 2025

This Week in People’s History, Aug 13–19, 2025     xxxxxx Frederick Douglass’ Winning Oratorical Debut (1841), Setting the Standard for Jury Nullification (1670), “Free Joan Little!” Done That. (1975), A Dire Warning, Heeded Not (1975), VERY Late, But Never T…

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August 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Bullets in the Windows

Bullets in the Windows     Katelyn Jetelina August 10, 2025 Your Local Epidemiologist First: gunshots, lockdown. The headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control campus in Atlanta was under attack. Dozens of my friends and colleagues were inside. …

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August 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Conference Report: International Forum for Peace 2025 (Brussels, 23–24 June 2025)

Conference Report: International Forum for Peace 2025 (Brussels, 23–24 June 2025)     August 11, 2025 Transform!Europe The Forum gathered diverse voices advocating peace, climate justice, and social justice, seeking to break Europe’s political deadlock and…

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August 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM

The Death of the Fourth American Republic

The Death of the Fourth American Republic     Jamelle Bouie August 6, 2025 The New York Times Last Friday, the Supreme Court all but announced how it would rule on the future of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Selma, Ala., 1965., Bruce Davidson/Ma…

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August 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Mar-Jac Poultry, Chick-fil-A’s Chicken Provider, Fined for Child Labor

Portside Culture Mar-Jac Poultry, Chick-fil-A’s Chicken Provider, Fined for Child Labor     John McCraken August 6, 2025 Investigate Midwest Chick-fil-A buys its chicken from a company fined by the Department of Labor for employing 14-year-olds to …

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August 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM

Sunday Science: These Genes Can Have the Opposite Effects Depending on Which Parent They Came From

Sunday Science: These Genes Can Have the Opposite Effects Depending on Which Parent They Came From     Rachel Fieldhouse August 7, 2025 Nature New approach finds ‘parent-of-origin’ effects in more than a dozen genes — without the need for parental data. …

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August 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM

The IRS Says Churches Can Now Endorse Candidates. That Could Give Texas Pastors More Power Than Ever.

The IRS Says Churches Can Now Endorse Candidates. That Could Give Texas Pastors More Power Than Ever.     Marissa Greene August 4, 2025 ProPublica While the IRS move applies across the country, Texas — with more than 200 megachurches — will be the epicente…

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