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August 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM

PragerU Wants to Propagandize to Your Kids

Portside Culture PragerU Wants to Propagandize to Your Kids     Lucy Dean Stockton August 22, 2025 Jacobin Right-wing media outlet PragerU is known for its misleading viral videos that it has long created for teens and adults. The operation is incr…

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August 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Class Struggle Unionism, Auto Workers, Reds, and the 1930s

Class Struggle Unionism, Auto Workers, Reds, and the 1930s     Ken Theobald August 19, 2025 Canadian Dimension How the 1937 Oshawa GM strike and radical industrial unionism reshaped labour—and why its lessons matter today A large crowd gathers ou…

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August 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad     Clint Smith August 22, 2025 The Atlantic The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history. , Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History…

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August 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM

US Deploys Warships to Venezuelan Coast

US Deploys Warships to Venezuelan Coast     Stephen Prager August 21, 2025 Common Dreams "These aggressive policies seek to extend US dominance in Latin America, no matter the human cost," CodePink said. A t-shirt depicting US President Donald Tr…

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August 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Weird Origins of the Right’s Hatred of the Smithsonian

Weird Origins of the Right’s Hatred of the Smithsonian     Jason Colavito August 21, 2025 The New Republic The Trump administration has stepped up its antagonism of America’s treasured museums. But conservative antipathy toward the institution began long a…

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August 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM

A Presidential Wrecking Ball

A Presidential Wrecking Ball     Clarence Lusane August 17, 2025 TomDispatch Trump Is Spitting on the Grave of Martin Luther King Jr. ,   On January 20th, Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office with — at least in his mind — an aura of i…

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August 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM

From Mourning To Rage to Transformation

From Mourning To Rage to Transformation     Sarah Jaffe August 8, 2025 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Grief at its start is a kind of anti-desire; it also clears space for new kinds of wants, understandings of what we wanted before. It made space for Tortuguita’s…

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August 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM

A Modest Proposal –From the Alligators

A Modest Proposal –From the Alligators     Joseph G. Ramsey xxxxxx A modern tale in the spirit of Jonathan Swift Homeland Security Thinks This is Cute, (source: Trinity Washington University)   To:       Everglades Detention Center         …

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August 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM

Friday Nite Videos | August 22, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | August 22, 2025     xxxxxx August 22, 2025 xxxxxx Putin Is Trapped by Trump's Misunderstandings. The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio. Lonely Avenue | Jon Batiste. White House Evacuated After Trans Alarm Goes O…

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August 23, 2025 at 12:35 AM

With Trump, the Antisemitism Is Coming From Inside the House

With Trump, the Antisemitism Is Coming From Inside the House     Branko Marcetic August 22, 2025 Jacobin Trump’s crackdown on antisemitism seems to have strangely missed all of his appointees and allies who associate with a range of unabashed anti-Jewish b…

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August 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM

How a Government Autism Study Could Destroy Vaccine Access in America

How a Government Autism Study Could Destroy Vaccine Access in America     Jess Steier August 19, 2025 Unbiased Science A government study promising to identify "the cause" of autism by September is being positioned to blame vaccines despite decades of evid…

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August 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM

Colonizing Mars Is a Really, Really Terrible Idea

Colonizing Mars Is a Really, Really Terrible Idea     Stuart Jeffries December 14, 2023 The Guardian Woah! say Kelly and Zach Weinersmith in this romp through the many rooms of a space folly. “Leaving 2C warmer Earth for Mars would be like leaving a messy …

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August 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM

Pushing MAGA Out: The Resistance Ramps Up

Pushing MAGA Out: The Resistance Ramps Up     Max Elbaum August 19, 2025 Convergence Zohran Mamdani wins big, outrage mounts at Israel’s genocide, and new projects take off, including One Million Rising and the Battleground Alliance PAC—all building moment…

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August 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Rogues in a Nation

Portside Culture Rogues in a Nation     Robert Burns Scotland's national poet, Rabbie Burns, criticized the members of the Scottish aristocracy who in 1707 signed the Act of Union thereby ending Scottish home rule. ,   Robert Burns,…

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August 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM

Netanyahu Declares War on the World, Dragging Israel and Global Jewry Toward the Abyss

Netanyahu Declares War on the World, Dragging Israel and Global Jewry Toward the Abyss     Haaretz Editorial August 19, 2025 Haaretz There are two options: either Israel finally pulls into its defensible and normal borders, or the circles of condemnation w…

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August 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM

The Democratic Establishment’s Shunning of Mamdani Is Disqualifying

The Democratic Establishment’s Shunning of Mamdani Is Disqualifying     Perry Bacon August 20, 2025 The New Republic The shunning of Mamdani is an important illustration of the state of the Democratic Party in 2025. It shows some unfortunate truths about t…

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August 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Robert Kennedy Has Gutted Our Best Defense Against Future Pandemics

Robert Kennedy Has Gutted Our Best Defense Against Future Pandemics     Ryan Cooper August 20, 2025 The American Prospect mRNA technology saved America’s bacon in 2020. Now RFK Jr. is defunding it. In reality, mRNA is by far the best vaccine option should …

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August 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM

As Fires Rage on Colorado’s Western Slope, Some Worry About the Region’s Radioactive History

As Fires Rage on Colorado’s Western Slope, Some Worry About the Region’s Radioactive History     Parker Yamasaki August 21, 2025 The Colorado Sun The frequency and intensity of wildfires in the West adds another variable to the equation, given the high con…

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August 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits- Aug.21 -Readers Comments: Trump-Putin Summit; Trump White-Washington Slavery; Trump’s DC Takeover; Zohran Mamdani – the “Commie Corridor”; Zoom This Sunday: Gaza & the West Bank: Views From the Israeli and Palestinian Left; Cartoons; More…

Tidbits- Aug.21 -Readers Comments: Trump-Putin Summit; Trump White-Washington Slavery; Trump’s DC Takeover; Zohran Mamdani – the “Commie Corridor”; Zoom This Sunday: Gaza & the West Bank: Views From the Israeli and Palestinian Left; Cartoons; More…     August …

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August 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM

As Israeli Genocide Intensifies, Majority of Americans Support Palestinian Statehood

As Israeli Genocide Intensifies, Majority of Americans Support Palestinian Statehood     Stephen Prager August 20, 2025 Common Dreams "Israel has lost the support of the world, including the American people," said policy analyst Jeffrey Sachs. Th…

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August 21, 2025 at 4:20 AM

ICE Is Deporting Thousands With Minor Offenses — From Traffic Violations to Weed Possession

ICE Is Deporting Thousands With Minor Offenses — From Traffic Violations to Weed Possession     Christie Thompson and Anna Flagg August 15, 2025 The Marshall Project Many people with little or no criminal record have been swept into the administration’s im…

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August 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM

‘Historic’: How Mexico’s Welfare Policies Helped 13.4 Million People out of Poverty

‘Historic’: How Mexico’s Welfare Policies Helped 13.4 Million People out of Poverty     Oscar Lopez August 18, 2025 The Guardian Experts are enthusiastic about poverty reductions achieved under former Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador …

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August 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM

CBO Confirms Trump Budget Law Will Trigger Over $500 Billion in Automatic Medicare Cuts

CBO Confirms Trump Budget Law Will Trigger Over $500 Billion in Automatic Medicare Cuts     Brad Reed August 15, 2025 Common Dreams "Republicans knew their tax breaks for billionaires would force over half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts—and they did i…

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August 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM

Why Architecture and Urban Space Are Always Political

Portside Culture Why Architecture and Urban Space Are Always Political     George Themistokleous August 7, 2025 LSE Review of Books The contributors to this latest volume of the Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics offer a w…

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August 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – August 20, 2025

Global Left Midweek – August 20, 2025     August 20, 2025 xxxxxx The masks are coming off Supporters of opposition parties in the neighbourhood of Yopougon, Ivory Coast, call for an inclusive presidential election in October 2025. Credit, AFP - ISS…

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August 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM

The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing

The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing     Eyal Press August 18, 2025 The New Yorker By adopting an overly broad and controversial definition of antisemitism, the university is putting both academic freedom and its Jewish students at risk. …

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August 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM

Trump’s War on Mail-In Voting Threatens the Foundations of Democracy Itself

Trump’s War on Mail-In Voting Threatens the Foundations of Democracy Itself     Thom Hartmann August 19, 2025 Common Dreams Instead of trying to make elections more secure, Trump’s laying the groundwork for election theft in plain sight. Mail-in …

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