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September 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM

The Far Right Is Already Blaming the Left for Charlie Kirk’s Shooting

The Far Right Is Already Blaming the Left for Charlie Kirk’s Shooting     Robert McCoy September 10, 2025 The New Republic The attack on the conservative activist Wednesday garnered an outpouring of rage online. Is this our Reichstag moment, similar to wha…
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September 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM

Who Died? Did Trump Know? What About the Hostages? Five Key Questions on Israel’s Strike in Doha

Who Died? Did Trump Know? What About the Hostages? Five Key Questions on Israel’s Strike in Doha     Amir Tibon September 10, 2025 Haaretz Many details surrounding the IDF's airstrike on a Hamas leadership meeting in Qatar remain unclear – including the le…
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September 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM

Electing a Socialist in New York City – Where Taking Care of Everyone Is Common Sense.

Electing a Socialist in New York City – Where Taking Care of Everyone Is Common Sense.     Hamilton Nolan September 8, 2025 How Things Work What socialism really means is public services for the public good. Using government to socialize the things that ca…
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September 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM

What I Got Wrong About D.E.I.

What I Got Wrong About D.E.I.     Eugenia Cheng September 5, 2025 The New York Times Math teaches us that D.E.I. initiatives should be about carefully defining metrics we use to measure how far people have come, thus how far they have the potential to go. …
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September 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM

Tidbits- Sept 11 -Readers Comments: Dept of War, Trump War on All People of Our Country; in Memory of Melissa Hortman; Mainstream Democrats; Epstein Files and Domestic Violence; MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler; Block the Bombs Act-Sept 15

Tidbits- Sept 11 -Readers Comments: Dept of War, Trump War on All People of Our Country; in Memory of Melissa Hortman; Mainstream Democrats; Epstein Files and Domestic Violence; MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler; Block the Bombs Act-Sept 15     September 11, …
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September 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM

All Elements in Place for a US Decapitation Strike on Venezuela

All Elements in Place for a US Decapitation Strike on Venezuela     Roger D. Harris and Joe Emersberger September 5, 2025 LA Progressive All the elements, especially US impunity, are in place to eventually attempt a decapitation strike eliminating the Sout…
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September 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM

Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures

Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures     Reed Abelson and Teddy Rosenbluth August 28, 2025 The New York Times A pilot program in six states will use a tactic employed by private insurers that has been heavily criticized for delaying …
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September 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM

Marx’s Last Studies

Portside Culture Marx’s Last Studies     Charles Reitz May 15, 2025 Marx & Philosophy Review of Books Between 1879 and 1882, Marx the studied latest research and writing on communal clan-based social formations around the globe, focusing on the…
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September 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM

Sotomayor Slams SCOTUS for Unconscionable Racial Profiling Decision

Sotomayor Slams SCOTUS for Unconscionable Racial Profiling Decision     Robert McCoy September 8, 2025 The New Republic Every liberal justice on the Supreme Court issued a scathing dissent in the decision to let ICE resume its racial-profiling tactics. …
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September 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM

Federal Agents in NY Retreat in SUV With Slashed Tires As Protesters Shout ‘Gestapo’

Federal Agents in NY Retreat in SUV With Slashed Tires As Protesters Shout ‘Gestapo’     Gino Fanelli September 10, 2025 Gothamist The group shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-led action d…
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September 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek — September 10, 2025

Global Left Midweek — September 10, 2025     September 10, 2025 xxxxxx The planet in play , La Via Campesina   Via Campesina: Reclaim Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power! “Block Everything!” France Ignites  Xi Platforms East and South U…
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September 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM

What We Can Learn From Nordic Socialism

What We Can Learn From Nordic Socialism     Chris Kutalik September 9, 2025 Jacobin A new book by Danish MP Pelle Dragsted argues that socialists can start building economic democracy even before capitalism is fully overcome. Dragsted’s vision is…
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September 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Global Sumud Flotilla: When States Fail, Humanity Sets Sail

Global Sumud Flotilla: When States Fail, Humanity Sets Sail     Deniz Baran September 9, 2025 Middle East Eye The flotilla sails as a lawful act of civil society, seeking to challenge Israel's blockade of Gaza and deliver essential humanitarian aid to a st…
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September 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM

What the Polls Are Screaming to ‘Mainstream’ Democrats

What the Polls Are Screaming to ‘Mainstream’ Democrats     Harold Meyerson September 9, 2025 The American Prospect The Democratic rank and file is much more aligned with Bernie, AOC, and Zohran than it is with Chuck and Hakeem. Sen. Bernie Sander…
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September 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM

The One Crime Trump Doesn’t Seem To Have a Problem With? Domestic Violence.

The One Crime Trump Doesn’t Seem To Have a Problem With? Domestic Violence.     Julianne McShane September 8, 2025 Mother Jones “If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see? So now I can’t claim 100 percent [reduction in crime…
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September 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars — September 9, 2025

Dispatches From the Culture Wars — September 9, 2025     September 9, 2025 xxxxxx Culture wars turning from cold to hot , Patrick Chappatte   Multilevel Marketing Shapes Our Reality The Rich Democratic Party Gerontocracy Mobile Home Mobili…
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September 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Caught Stealing Is a Wild and Violent Romp

Portside Culture Caught Stealing Is a Wild and Violent Romp     Eileen Jones September 2, 2025 Jacobin Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing sees the typically pretentious auteur shift gears toward fun and violence in late 1990s NYC. It’s a throwback …
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September 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM

Need I List All the Reasons Why Trump Shouldn’t Get a Nobel Peace Prize?

Need I List All the Reasons Why Trump Shouldn’t Get a Nobel Peace Prize?     Sidney Blumenthal September 8, 2025 The Guardian Trump has been an enabler of war, famine, disease and death , REUTERS/Brian Snyde   Donald Trump’s thuggish camp…
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September 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM

Trump Is Scrubbing Slavery From Our Historical Sites

Trump Is Scrubbing Slavery From Our Historical Sites     Kevin Sack September 5, 2025 The New York Times This is a betrayal of history’s fundamental purpose: to learn from the past. If we ever aspire to become one nation, the entirety of our past, includin…
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September 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM

This Week in People’s History, Sep 10–16, 2025

This Week in People’s History, Sep 10–16, 2025     xxxxxx Starvation in the Midst of Plenty: Deadly Landlordism During the Potato Famine in Ireland Police evicting an Irish farm family,   Starvation in the Midst of Plenty: Deadly Landlordism…
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September 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM

People “Are Tired of Backroom Decisions”: A Conversation With Minneapolis’s Omar Fateh

People “Are Tired of Backroom Decisions”: A Conversation With Minneapolis’s Omar Fateh     Peter Lucas September 5, 2025 The Nation The Minnesota state senator won Minneapolis’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party endorsement for mayor—but the state-level party …
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September 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM

The Pomegranate in History and Myth

Portside Culture The Pomegranate in History and Myth     Demir Alp August 29, 2025 JSTOR DAILY The pomegranate shows a marked versatility in its cultural connotations and connections. The intrigues of pomegranates extend beond the culinar…
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September 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM

D.C. Sues Trump Over National Guard Deployment, Alleging Illegal Federal Takeover

D.C. Sues Trump Over National Guard Deployment, Alleging Illegal Federal Takeover     Stacy M. Brown September 4, 2025 Washington Informer “Deploying the National Guard to engage in law enforcement is not only unnecessary and unwanted, but it is also dange…
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September 8, 2025 at 5:40 AM

Sunday Science: Trump’s Department of Energy Gets Scienced

Sunday Science: Trump’s Department of Energy Gets Scienced     Bill McKibben September 7, 2025 The New Yorker International climate experts have extensively debunked the D.O.E.’s recent report, but will science win out? Chris Wright testifies at …
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September 8, 2025 at 5:10 AM

80 Years Ago, a Jewish Radical and Two Negro League Stars Led a Crusade To Integrate Baseball That Paved the Way for Jackie Robinson

80 Years Ago, a Jewish Radical and Two Negro League Stars Led a Crusade To Integrate Baseball That Paved the Way for Jackie Robinson     Peter Dreier September 7, 2025 Common Dreams The little known story about Sam Nahem, Leon Day, and Willard Brown who in…
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September 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.     Robert Faturechi, Justin Elliott, Alex Mierjeski September 4, 2025 ProPublica The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, fo…
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September 8, 2025 at 2:15 AM

An Arkansas Group’s Effort To Build a White Ethnostate Forms Part of a Wider US Movement Inspired by White Supremacy

An Arkansas Group’s Effort To Build a White Ethnostate Forms Part of a Wider US Movement Inspired by White Supremacy     Paul J. Becker September 5, 2025 The Conversation The group, which describes itself as a “private membership association” that helps gr…
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September 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM

Mostly Economics Podcast #:18 Beyond ‘I Have a Dream’ – the Forgotten Economic Demands of 1963

Mostly Economics Podcast #:18 Beyond ‘I Have a Dream’ – the Forgotten Economic Demands of 1963     Dean Baker, Dr. William P. Jones August 28, 2025 Center for Economic and Policy Research Dean Baker speaks with historian Dr. William P. Jones about his book…
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September 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM

If You’re a Socialist, Root for the Green Bay Packers

Portside Culture If You’re a Socialist, Root for the Green Bay Packers     Josh Androsky September 4, 2025 Jacobin Let’s get one thing straight: the Green Bay Packers are the only socialist team in the NFL. Israel Abanikanda #23 of the Gr…
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September 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Washington, DC, Residents Protest Against Trump

Washington, DC, Residents Protest Against Trump     Brad Ulery September 6, 2025 Reuters Several thousand protesters march to oppose Trump's troop deployment Justice Department data shows violent crime at 30-year low in D.C D.C. Attorney General files laws…
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September 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Sanders Backs Trump Plan for Government Stake in Intel

Sanders Backs Trump Plan for Government Stake in Intel     August 20, 2025 Al Jazeera The new stake in the tech giant aims to increase US semiconductor chip production. The United States government’s interest in the semiconductor chipmaker has sp…
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September 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM

US Lawmakers Urged To Follow Merkley and Van Hollen’s Lead After Senators Denied Access to Gaza

US Lawmakers Urged To Follow Merkley and Van Hollen’s Lead After Senators Denied Access to Gaza     Jessica Corbett August 31, 2025 Common Dreams CAIR said that they "have taken a bold and necessary step by confronting the Israeli-manufactured and US-backe…
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September 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM

‘Hard Work of Hope’: A Memoir of the New Left, Antiwar Movement, and Working Class Politics

‘Hard Work of Hope’: A Memoir of the New Left, Antiwar Movement, and Working Class Politics     Roger Bybee August 25, 2025 Foreign Policy in Focus While not providing a clear antidote to Trumpism, Michael Ansara’s “Hard Work” still delivers indispensable …
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September 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Trump Promised an Antiwar Presidency. He’s Delivered the Opposite.

Trump Promised an Antiwar Presidency. He’s Delivered the Opposite.     Khury Petersen-Smith September 2, 2025 Newsweek Any expectation that Trump would bring a new era of reduced wars is being dashed by the brutal, opposite reality. The Nimitz-cl…
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September 6, 2025 at 2:35 AM

Friday Nite Videos | September 5, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | September 5, 2025     xxxxxx September 5, 2025 xxxxxx The Ballad of Big Balls. The Most Corrupt Stock Traders in Congress. Could the Epstein Vote Take Down Trump? Graham Platner for U.S. Senate | Launch Video. Chuck Schumer's Fantasy Cou…
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September 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM

A (Scientifically Based) Guide To Fall 2025 Vaccines

A (Scientifically Based) Guide To Fall 2025 Vaccines     Katelyn Jetelina September 3, 2025 Your Local Epidemiologist Vaccines are one of the best things you can do this fall and winter to stay healthy and minimize disruption. Here is the Who, What and Whe…
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September 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM

Epstein Survivors Have Had Enough

Epstein Survivors Have Had Enough     Mimi Rocah September 4, 2025 MSNBC Trump's DOJ shoved Epstein's survivors too many times, and now they are determined to push back and to demand justice. "We are here today, and we are speaking, and we are not going to…
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September 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM

The Cost of Children Is Too Damn High

The Cost of Children Is Too Damn High     Nancy Folbre September 2, 2025 Dollars & Sense Most so-called pronatalist policies seriously underestimate the costs and risks of raising children in today’s economic environment. Sketch by Nancy Folb…
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September 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM

A Two-State Solution for Israel and Palestine Is Still Possible

A Two-State Solution for Israel and Palestine Is Still Possible     Limor Yehuda September 3, 2025 Haaretz The E1 settlement bloc and ethnic cleansing are meant to foreclose Palestinian liberation. But if we revisit our assumptions about partition and recl…
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September 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Poem Revised in a 12th Floor Hotel Room after Seeing a Man in the Building Across the Street Holding What Appears to be Binoculars

Portside Culture Poem Revised in a 12th Floor Hotel Room after Seeing a Man in the Building Across the Street Holding What Appears to be Binoculars     Camille Dungy Poet Camille Dungy offers us insight into the intersection of sexism and the beauty i…
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September 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Andrew Cuomo Has a Jeffrey Epstein Problem

Andrew Cuomo Has a Jeffrey Epstein Problem     Branko Marcetic September 2, 2025 Jacobin A surprising number of Andrew Cuomo’s allies, donors, and friends have close ties to the late pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew Cuomo form…
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September 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Why Does The New York Times Keep Ignoring Polls Showing Mamdani Leading With Jewish Voters?

Why Does The New York Times Keep Ignoring Polls Showing Mamdani Leading With Jewish Voters?     Adam Johnson August 27, 2025 In These Times Polling shows mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a commanding lead with Jewish New Yorkers, but you won’t read abou…
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September 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Most Israelis, Including on the Right, Back Hostage Deal That Ends Gaza War, Poll Shows

Most Israelis, Including on the Right, Back Hostage Deal That Ends Gaza War, Poll Shows     Linda Dayan September 3, 2025 Haaretz A new Israel Democracy Institute survey reveals 64.5 percent of Israelis, including half of the surveyed Likud voters, favor a…
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September 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM

‘In Whose Interests Are We Fighting?’ What Historian Premilla Nadasen Learned About Economic Justice From the Domestic Workers’ Rights Movement

‘In Whose Interests Are We Fighting?’ What Historian Premilla Nadasen Learned About Economic Justice From the Domestic Workers’ Rights Movement     Carmen Rios interviews Premilla Nadasen August 10, 2025 Ms. Magazine “We, as feminists today, like domestic …
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September 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits- Sept 4 -Readers Comments: Death of Voting Rights Act, Gerrymandering, Confederacy Worship, Gestapo Seizures, Camps; RFK Insanity; Zohran Mamdani; Martin Niemöller Real Quote; Italian Dockworkers Threaten Europe Shut Down; No Kings 2 – Oct 18

Tidbits- Sept 4 -Readers Comments: Death of Voting Rights Act, Gerrymandering, Confederacy Worship, Gestapo Seizures, Camps; RFK Insanity; Zohran Mamdani; Martin Niemöller Real Quote; Italian Dockworkers Threaten Europe Shut Down; No Kings 2 – Oct 18     September…
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September 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM

Trump Team’s Contentious Climate Report ‘Makes a Mockery of Science’, Experts Say

Trump Team’s Contentious Climate Report ‘Makes a Mockery of Science’, Experts Say     Oliver Milman and Dharna Noor September 2, 2025 The Guardian Over 85 top climate specialists lambasted administration’s review, calling it a ‘shoddy mess’ that downplays …
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September 4, 2025 at 4:10 AM

Mamdani Rejects ‘Corrupt Politics and Backroom Deals’ After Latest Trump-Cuomo Revelations

Mamdani Rejects ‘Corrupt Politics and Backroom Deals’ After Latest Trump-Cuomo Revelations     Brad Reed September 3, 2025 Common Dreams "The NYC mayor's race is a clear example of a corrupt political system," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. Zohran Mam…
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September 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM

Yes, America Has a Housing Emergency

Yes, America Has a Housing Emergency     Paul Krugman September 3, 2025 Paul Krugman Substack But Trump will make it worse Housing advocates demand the city offer truly affordable housing and units for homeless New Yorkers., Photo: Paul Frangipan…
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September 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM

The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler

The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler     Yair Rosenberg September 3, 2025 The Atlantic A growing constituency on the right wants America to unlearn the lessons of World War II. ,   The story we got about World War II is all wrong,” …
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September 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM

One Nation, Not Under God

Portside Culture One Nation, Not Under God     Stephen Rohde December 19, 2019 Los Angeles Review of Books This book was first published in 2019 and is a classic whose relevance has only grown over time. Reviewer Rohde offers a detailed tour of thi…