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December 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM

‘Unquestionably an Act of War’: Trump Declares Naval Blockade Against Venezuela

‘Unquestionably an Act of War’: Trump Declares Naval Blockade Against Venezuela     Jake Johnson December 17, 2025 Common Dreams “This is the Iraq War 2.0 with a South American flavor to it,” warned one Democratic senator. An oil tanker called th…

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December 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM

Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan and Others Remember Rob Reiner as a ‘Master Story Teller’

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December 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM

Who’s Really Pulling the Trigger: The Shooter, or the Predator Lobby?

Who’s Really Pulling the Trigger: The Shooter, or the Predator Lobby?     Thom Hartmann December 17, 2025 Hartmann Report When politicians hand the gun industry a liability shield, they’re not “protecting freedom,”they’re protecting a business model built …

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December 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM

Trump Administration To Dismantle One of World’s Most Vital Climate Research Centers

Trump Administration To Dismantle One of World’s Most Vital Climate Research Centers     Robert Tait December 17, 2025 The Guardian Governor Jared Polis warned that breaking up Boulder’s NCAR would put ‘public safety at risk’ The National Center …

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December 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM

The Downfall of Larry Summers Was Long Overdue

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December 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM

Donald Trump’s Remarks on the Death of Rob Reiner Are Next-Level Degradation

Donald Trump’s Remarks on the Death of Rob Reiner Are Next-Level Degradation     David Remnick December 16, 2025 The New Yorker On a weekend of terrible violent events, you would not expect a President of the United States to make matters even worse. But, …

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December 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM

Nurses Are the Best of Us. Trump’s Republican Party Should Take Notes.

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December 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM

Rob Reiner Obituary

Rob Reiner Obituary     Michael Carlson December 15, 2025 The Guardian Actor and director of a string of hit films including The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally and A Few Good Men. Rob Reiner and Michelle , Reuters   Rob Reiner, who …

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December 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Netflix’s Jay Kelly Eulogizes an Industry It’s Killing Off

Portside Culture Netflix’s Jay Kelly Eulogizes an Industry It’s Killing Off     Eileen Jones December 10, 2025 Jacobin Noah Baumbach and George Clooney’s Jay Kelly is a Netflix dramedy about the death of Hollywood stardom and the theatrical experie…

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December 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars — December 16, 2025

Dispatches From the Culture Wars — December 16, 2025     December 16, 2025 xxxxxx Breaking the ICE , Current Affairs   The Climate Movement and Fascism The Right Targets Women’s Suffrage Inside Capitalism’s Hidden Command Centres Student R…

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December 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM

This Week in People’s History, Dec 17–23, 2025

This Week in People’s History, Dec 17–23, 2025     xxxxxx ‘Our Government May at Some Time Be in the Hands of a Bad Man’ (1866), Cracking Down on Radicals (1795), Emancipation, What Good Is It? (1865), Music at the Library (1940), New Direction for Jazz (1960…

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December 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM

Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance

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December 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM

San Francisco Sues Ultraprocessed Food Companies

Portside Culture San Francisco Sues Ultraprocessed Food Companies     Heather Knight December 2, 2025 The New York Times The city attorney accuses large manufacturers of causing diseases that have burdened governments with public health costs. …

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December 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Abrego Garcia Leaves ICE Custody, As Trump Administration Vows To Fight Release

Abrego Garcia Leaves ICE Custody, As Trump Administration Vows To Fight Release     Ariana Figueroa December 11, 2025 Maryland Matters Abrego Garcia was imprisoned in a brutal prison in El Salvador and returned to the United States to face criminal charges…

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December 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Sven Beckert’s Chronicle of Capitalism’s Long Rise

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December 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Europe Needs a New Strategy Too

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December 15, 2025 at 6:30 AM

Sunday Science: Star Talk With Special Guest Physicist and Musician Brian Cox

Sunday Science: Star Talk With Special Guest Physicist and Musician Brian Cox     Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Cox December 9, 2025 StarTalk Are We The Universe’s Way of Knowing Itself? Discussing Emergence, StarTalk     Life Lessons From …

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December 15, 2025 at 5:25 AM

Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism

Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism     Vivek Chibber, Melissa Naschek December 14, 2025 Jacobin Despite what you may have heard, colonial plunder didn’t give rise to capitalism. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber discusses why the “colonial…

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December 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM

Thailand and Cambodia: A Trump-Brokered Truce Falls Apart

Thailand and Cambodia: A Trump-Brokered Truce Falls Apart     Guardian Editorial December 14, 2025 The Guardian The US president’s claims to have ended eight conflicts look shakier than ever as conflict reignites in south-east Asia and the Democratic Repub…

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December 15, 2025 at 4:50 AM

Congo and Rwanda To Sign Symbolic Peace Deal in Washington As Fighting Rages

Congo and Rwanda To Sign Symbolic Peace Deal in Washington As Fighting Rages     Emmet Livingstone December 4, 2025 NPR Fighting rages on while President Trump declares deal "a glorious triumph." Congo, one of the poorest countries on the planet also signe…

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December 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM

Israel’s Gaza Proxy Strategy Is Collapsing

Israel’s Gaza Proxy Strategy Is Collapsing     Muhammad Shehada December 12, 2025 +972 Magazine The killing of gang leader Yasser Abu Shabab, a known felon and druglord, by one of his own men has exposed the bankruptcy of Israel’s vision for the Strip. …

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December 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Heated Rivalry Raises the Bar for Queer Sex on TV

Portside Culture Heated Rivalry Raises the Bar for Queer Sex on TV     Hunter Ingram December 11, 2025 AV Club In less than two weeks, “the gay hockey show,” as so many have generalized it, has become an out-of-nowhere phenomenon at the end of a ye…

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December 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM

Measles Outbreak Nears Grim Milestone As Hundreds Quarantine in South Carolina

Measles Outbreak Nears Grim Milestone As Hundreds Quarantine in South Carolina     Matt Novak December 10, 2025 Gizmodo What happens when your country's public health system is run by anti-vaccine activists? ,   The South Carolina Depart…

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December 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM

These Are the Companies That Rolled Back DEI Amid Trump Backlash

These Are the Companies That Rolled Back DEI Amid Trump Backlash     Jessica Guynn December 9, 2025 USA Today Here are some of the companies that made DEI changes, in alphabetical order, from Accenture and AT&T to Walmart. One of the companie…

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December 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM

The Radical Who Invented Robin Hood

The Radical Who Invented Robin Hood     Mat Coward December 7, 2025 Morning Star An 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero — and blacklisted writers popularized his story for a ne…

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December 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM

NYC-DSA Strategy in Zohran’s Race

NYC-DSA Strategy in Zohran’s Race     Grace Mausser November 5, 2025 Convergence Shows the Path to Mass Municipal Governance , Kimmie Dearest   On September 6th, Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani packed a public school auditorium in Broo…

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December 13, 2025 at 3:45 AM

Friday Nite Videos | December 12, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | December 12, 2025     xxxxxx December 12, 2025 xxxxxx Surveillance Pricing: The Invisible Way We're Being Gouged. Know Your Rights When Dealing With ICE. Why Gerrymandering Won't Save Republicans. Brad Lander for Congress. Rescuing the I…

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December 13, 2025 at 3:25 AM

The Paris Climate Treaty Changed the World. Here’s How

The Paris Climate Treaty Changed the World. Here’s How     Rebecca Solnit December 12, 2025 The Guardian What we’ve done to rescue the climate is far from good enough, but we are “bending the curve.” Landmarks like the Paris treaty and the Vanuatu victory …

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December 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM

Mamdani’s Child Care Plan Is Audacious. Here’s How It Could Work.

Mamdani’s Child Care Plan Is Audacious. Here’s How It Could Work.     Rachel Cohen Booth December 11, 2025 The New York Times If Mamdani learns from the mistakes that have derailed past efforts, he could pull off something that could change the lives of hu…

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December 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM

Operation Condor: A Network of Transnational Repression 50 Years Later

Operation Condor: A Network of Transnational Repression 50 Years Later     National Security Archive November 26, 2025 National Security Archive Launched in 1975 from Pinochet’s Chile, Operation Condor was a secret police operation of “cross-border repress…

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December 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM

In Cover-Up, Laura Poitras Investigates Seymour Hersh

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December 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Nameless in Hell

Portside Culture Nameless in Hell     Suzanne Lummis Poet Suzanne Lummis imagines the inconveniences our Fearless Leader might experience in a less comfortable place than Mar-a-Lago. , Ground   There's only one TV, an old Philcothe s…

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December 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM

2026: A Year of Reckoning

2026: A Year of Reckoning     xxxxxx Moderators December 11, 2025 xxxxxx As a reader of xxxxxx, you know it’s been a rollercoaster year. While many economic, legal and academic elites rushed to capitulate to a wannabe dictator, millions of people resisted th…

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December 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM

Will the Court Rule for Trump or for Wall Street?

Will the Court Rule for Trump or for Wall Street?     Harold Meyerson December 11, 2025 The American Prospect As the Supreme Court now considers whether Trump can take over the Federal Reserve, we lose either way. In what may be its most difficult challeng…

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December 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM

Asking the Right Questions When Lawless US Officials Go on a Murder Spree

Asking the Right Questions When Lawless US Officials Go on a Murder Spree     Phyllis Bennis and Khury Petersen-Smith December 10, 2025 Common Dreams From Venezuela to Yemen to Iran, the extrajudicial slaughter of civilians has been allowed to continue. Wh…

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December 12, 2025 at 4:50 AM

How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails

How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails     Anand Giridharada November 23, 2025 The New York Times As journalists comb through the Epstein emails, surfacing the name of one fawning luminary after another, there is a collecti…

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December 12, 2025 at 4:25 AM

Why Walmart Wants To See the Starbucks Barista Strike Fail

Why Walmart Wants To See the Starbucks Barista Strike Fail     Derek Seidman December 8, 2025 Truthout Corporations far beyond Starbucks want to keep baristas out of unions. The ongoing barista strike also represents something much broader: a pitched battl…

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December 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM

Tidbits-Dec. 11- Reader Comments: Trump’s Deportations; Starbucks Strike; Rural America Myths; Trump’s MRI Results; New Resource – Zohran and Municipal Socialism; Amazon Labor Union; Online Forum-Building Working Class Solidarity With Ukraine; More..

Tidbits-Dec. 11- Reader Comments: Trump’s Deportations; Starbucks Strike; Rural America Myths; Trump’s MRI Results; New Resource – Zohran and Municipal Socialism; Amazon Labor Union; Online Forum-Building Working Class Solidarity With Ukraine; More..     December …

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December 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM

The Mostest Anarchist

Portside Culture The Mostest Anarchist     Paul Buhle December 4, 2025 Portside These days “anarchism” has become an official swear word. A little history should help. Only with the middle of the 19th century does something clearly and (somewhat) str…

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December 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM

Phillip Bonosky’s Fight for the Working Class

Portside Culture Phillip Bonosky’s Fight for the Working Class     Richard Gazarik December 9, 2025 Pittsburgh Review of Books Born in the Mon Valley, Bonosky transformed from a devout Catholic into a committed Communist writer, chronicling the str…

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December 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM

‘We’ll Need To See a Warrant’: The Group Teaching Businesses a Vital Tool To Fight ICE Raids

‘We’ll Need To See a Warrant’: The Group Teaching Businesses a Vital Tool To Fight ICE Raids     Emily Cataneo December 8, 2025 The Guardian Siembra in North Carolina gives owners fourth amendment rights trainings should federal agents show up at their doo…

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December 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM

America’s New Political Reality: Trump Decides Which Beliefs Are “Legal”

America’s New Political Reality: Trump Decides Which Beliefs Are “Legal”     Thom Hartmann December 9, 2025 Hartmann Report When dissent becomes an “indicator,” the First Amendment stops being a right and starts being a risk… ,   Back in …

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December 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM

The Trump Corollary

The Trump Corollary     Eric Ross December 7, 2025 TomDispatch U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro Aircraft carrier U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford which has been deployed in the Caribbean near Venezuela.,   In rec…

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December 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM

Bernie’s Advice to His Fellow Elected Socialists

Bernie’s Advice to His Fellow Elected Socialists     Bernie Sanders December 9, 2025 Jacobin Over the weekend, Bernie Sanders spoke to a gathering of over a hundred democratic socialist elected officials. Here’s what he said. “You gotta do your j…

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December 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Global Left Midweek — December 10, 2025

Global Left Midweek — December 10, 2025     December 10, 2025 xxxxxx “Let’s block everything!” Activists of the Sommilito Garments Sramik Federation (Combined Garments Workers Federation) stage a protest procession against Amazon in a “Make Amazon …

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December 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM

Get on the Job and Organize: A Q&A With Jaz Brisack

Get on the Job and Organize: A Q&A With Jaz Brisack     Chris Mills Rodrigo December 3, 2025 Inequality.org The labor organizer at the core of the Starbucks Workers United campaign wants a braver labor movement. Their new book is titled "Get on the Job…

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December 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM

Six Myths About Rural America: How Conventional Wisdom Gets It Wrong

Six Myths About Rural America: How Conventional Wisdom Gets It Wrong     Tim Slack, Shannon M. Monnat December 9, 2025 The Conversation We are rural demographers who study the causes and consequences of well-being in rural America. Here we outline six myth…

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December 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM

The Beautiful Game Is Getting Ugly

The Beautiful Game Is Getting Ugly     Whitney Curry Wimbish, Emma Janssen December 6, 2025 The American Prospect Soccer fans braved a winter storm to demand FIFA President Gianni Infantino reject Trump’s white supremacy, using the slogan ‘No ICE in Our Cu…

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December 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM

Tufts Student Can Resume Research After Trump Officials Revoked Her Visa, Judge Rules

Tufts Student Can Resume Research After Trump Officials Revoked Her Visa, Judge Rules     Associated Press December 9, 2025 The Guardian Rümeysa Öztürk was arrested in March amid White House’s crackdown on foreign students’ pro-Palestinian advocacy …

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Next Sohee Is Korean Cinema at Its Bleak and Brilliant Best

Portside Culture Next Sohee Is Korean Cinema at Its Bleak and Brilliant Best     Kap Seol December 2, 2025 Jacobin Behind South Korea’s economic growth, there’s a system that grinds workers to the bone at every stage of the life cycle, from high sc…

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