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August 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM

How Rep. Nicole Collier’s Capitol Protest Sparked Solidarity Among These Texas Women

How Rep. Nicole Collier’s Capitol Protest Sparked Solidarity Among These Texas Women     Leslie Rangel and Olivia Messer August 20, 2025 The 19th The Fort Worth Democrat spent the night held hostage in the Texas House in protest. Then four enraged women — …

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August 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM

Friday Nite Videos | August 29, 2025

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August 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM

How Zohran Mamdani Can Win the War

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August 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM

When Hospitals Act Like ICE

When Hospitals Act Like ICE     Liset Cruz August 14, 2025 Type Investigations These patients needed long-term care. Instead, the hospitals pushed for them to be deported. ,   This article was produced in partnership with The Nation, with…

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August 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM

How Bad Slavery Was

How Bad Slavery Was     Robert Kuttner August 26, 2025 The American Prospect Donald Trump joins a long line of apologists for America’s peculiar institution, falsifying history in the interest of whitewashing slavery. ,   Last week, in a …

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August 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM

Humans Aren’t As Special As We Once Thought

Humans Aren’t As Special As We Once Thought     Kate Wong August 19, 2025 Scientific American Darwin opined that differences between humans and other animals were a matter of degree. New findings show that a wide variety of other species exhibit capabiliti…

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August 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM

In a Berlin Bar

Portside Culture In a Berlin Bar     Rafaella Del Burgo Poet Raffaela Del Bourgo offers a quick intro to sexual politics, reminding us that sex is "a tune both familiar and strange." ,   Stella says it first, I am not a lesbian. I sa…

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August 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Head of National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Resigns in Fiery Social Media Post

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Head of National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Resigns in Fiery Social Media Post     Dr. Demetre Daskalakis August 28, 2025 DrDemetre "I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate p…

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August 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM

Maryam Was My Friend. Israel Killed Her and Four Other Gaza Journalists

Maryam Was My Friend. Israel Killed Her and Four Other Gaza Journalists     Ruwaida Amer August 27, 2025 +972 Magazine After the airstrike on Nasser Hospital, our plea is ever more urgent: Palestinian reporters need international protection now, or Gaza's …

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August 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM

The Imminent Death of the Voting Rights Act

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August 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM

Sounds Like the Plan: The Historical Roots of the Takeover of D.C.

Sounds Like the Plan: The Historical Roots of the Takeover of D.C.     Rick Massimo August 24, 2025 Forget I Said Anything The capital has for most of its history been a largely-to-mostly-Black city run by open racists. This takeover by white federal offic…

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August 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits- Aug.28 -Readers Comments: National Guard to Washington, DC, Where Next?; Standing Up to Fascism – Learning From Martin Niemöller; Killing Medics and Journalists; RFK Gutting Our Defense Against Future Pandemics; New Book About Alger Hiss;

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August 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM

Dems Break GOP Supermajority in Iowa Statehouse With 20-Point Swing in Trump District

Dems Break GOP Supermajority in Iowa Statehouse With 20-Point Swing in Trump District     Stephen Prager August 27, 2025 Common Dreams In a race that bodes well for Democrats' hopes in 2026, Catelin Drey won by championing "affordable housing, childcare, a…

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August 28, 2025 at 5:05 AM

Prosecutors Fail To Obtain Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent

Prosecutors Fail To Obtain Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent     Alan FeuerDevlin Barrett and William K. Rashbaum August 27, 2025 The New York Times It was a sharp rebuke to the prosecutors who were assigned to bring charges agains…

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August 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM

Donald Trump’s Madcap Crusade Against Wind

Donald Trump’s Madcap Crusade Against Wind     Ryan Cooper August 26, 2025 The American Prospect A wind project off Rhode Island is more than 80 percent completed. Trump just stopped it in its tracks. Turbines operate at the Block Island Wind Far…

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August 28, 2025 at 4:45 AM

Why Trump’s ‘Anti-Woke’ Attack on the Smithsonian Matters

Why Trump’s ‘Anti-Woke’ Attack on the Smithsonian Matters     Kimberlé Crenshaw and Jason Stanley August 27, 2025 The Guardian The president’s assault on US museums, education and memory is a critical dimension of his fascist aims Smithsonian Ins…

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August 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM

The New Samizdat

Portside Culture The New Samizdat     Lee Rossi August 27, 2025 Portside These two anthologies showcase poets that are responding to the anxieties of our time. ,   At the Corner of Hope and Despair: An Anthology for the Trump Era Ch…

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August 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek — August 27, 2025

Global Left Midweek — August 27, 2025     August 27, 2025 xxxxxx Struggles making history ‘We Defend Freedom.’ Blockade of the Sloboda Bridge in Novi Sad, Serbia. Credit, Mašina   13 Million Mexicans Rescued From Poverty Social Media Unlea…

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August 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM

The Low-Wage 100

The Low-Wage 100     Sarah Anderson August 25, 2025 CounterPunch Starbucks takes the prize for the most obscene corporate pay disparities of 2024. But jaw-dropping gaps are the norm among America’s leading low-wage corporations. , Photograph by N…

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August 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM

Killing Medics and Journalists: What Impunity for Genocide Looks Like

Killing Medics and Journalists: What Impunity for Genocide Looks Like     Yousef Munayyer August 25, 2025 The New Republic Israel’s Monday morning strike on a Gaza hospital—a so-called “double-tap” assault—was designed for maximum killing. When is enough? …

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August 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM

Trump Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

Trump Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans     F. Douglas Stephenson August 25, 2025 Informed Comment The Trump administration is refusing to enforce a Biden-era rule limiting junk short-term health plans that are notorious for ch…

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August 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM

The Labor Movement Is in a Fight for Its Existence Against a Neofascist Threat

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August 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – August 26, 2025

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – August 26, 2025     August 26, 2025 xxxxxx A busy summer Artist Viril the Mouse’s mural depicting Superman punching an ICE agent first appeared on a Pilsen viaduct in June. In July, vandals painted over Superman. …

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August 26, 2025 at 6:40 AM

Top Senate Dem Says Gaza Famine Is a ‘Shameful Black Mark on Humanity,’ Admits Party Failed To Act

Top Senate Dem Says Gaza Famine Is a ‘Shameful Black Mark on Humanity,’ Admits Party Failed To Act     Stephen Prager August 25, 2025 Common Dreams "We should have done more," said Jeanne Shaheen, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.…

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August 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM

Orwell As Advocate for Workers and Against Exploitation

Orwell As Advocate for Workers and Against Exploitation     Mark Satta August 25, 2025 The Conversation That George Orwell, famous as the author Animal Farm and 1984, came to his ideas about freedom via his thinking about work, poverty and democratic socia…

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August 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM

This Week in People’s History, Aug 27-Sep 2, 2025

This Week in People’s History, Aug 27-Sep 2, 2025     xxxxxx Show-Business Witchhunters Hit Paydirt (1950), Jim Crow Justice, Ugly as Sin (1955), Los Angeles Deputies Sow Deadly Chaos (1970), Like a Rolling Stone (1965), What’s In a Name? (2015), This Land Is…

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August 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Abrego Garcia Arrested by ICE As Judge Orders Postponement of Deportation to Uganda

Abrego Garcia Arrested by ICE As Judge Orders Postponement of Deportation to Uganda     Ariana Figueroa and William J. Ford August 25, 2025 Maryland Matters Federal courts and public outcry forced the Administration to bring Ábrego García back to Maryland,…

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August 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM

I’ll Have the Chicken: A Guide to Climate Conscious Animal Eating

Portside Culture I’ll Have the Chicken: A Guide to Climate Conscious Animal Eating     Paul Greenberg Southern Foodways Alliance To be reliably more climate-friendly, we need to figure out which fixes might sync up with the ingrained habits we alrea…

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August 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM

The Crypto State

The Crypto State     Ramaa Vasudevan, Daniel Finn June 13, 2025 Jacobin The Trump White House has helped install the ticking time bomb that is cryptocurrency directly into our economy. When it blows up, the damage will be catastrophic. , Illustra…

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August 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM

Obsession, Blackmail and Instagram: Inside Lurker, the Year’s Most Compelling Thriller

Portside Culture Obsession, Blackmail and Instagram: Inside Lurker, the Year’s Most Compelling Thriller     Owen Myers August 22, 2025 The Guardian The Talented Mr Ripley gets an upgrade in a buzzy and biting film about a desperate outsider who inf…

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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 12:05 AM

Sunday Science: Trump’s Global War on Decarbonization

Sunday Science: Trump’s Global War on Decarbonization     Mark Blyth, Daniel Driscoll August 21, 2025 Project Syndicate The Trump administration is doing everything it can to ensure that fossil fuels remain dominant in the energy mix of the twenty-first ce…

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August 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM

The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Economic Populism

The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Economic Populism     Michael A. McCarthy August 14, 2025 Hammer & Hope A left that ignores the differences within the working class will never build power. , Brittney Leeanne Williams, Inner Sto…

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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 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Can Donald Trump Police the United States?

Can Donald Trump Police the United States?     Cristian Farias August 19, 2025 The New Yorker In a trial over the legality of the President’s deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles, there may be a definitive answer to where his power ends. …

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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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