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January 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM

This Call Is From an Inmate at a Federal Prison

Portside Culture This Call Is From an Inmate at a Federal Prison     Erik Tschekunow The Sun Minnesota poet Erik Tschekunow seeks to amplify the voices of the incarcerated and the previously incarcerated. ,   They say you eventually …

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January 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM

Democrats Are About To Surrender to Trump in a Hugely Damaging Way on Laken Riley Immigration Deportation Bill

Democrats Are About To Surrender to Trump in a Hugely Damaging Way on Laken Riley Immigration Deportation Bill     Greg Sargent January 9, 2025 The New Republic By all indications, at least nine Senate Democrats will vote to advance the Laken Riley Act, a sw…

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January 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM

The ‘Weather Whiplash’ Fueling the Los Angeles Fires Is Becoming More Common

The ‘Weather Whiplash’ Fueling the Los Angeles Fires Is Becoming More Common     Kate Yoder January 9, 2025 Grist Dramatic swings between heavy rain and drought are increasing exponentially, according to new research. Since then, bone-dry conditions have set…

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January 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM

Largest U.S. Historians Organization Condemns Israel’s ‘Deliberate’ Destruction of Gaza Education System

Largest U.S. Historians Organization Condemns Israel’s ‘Deliberate’ Destruction of Gaza Education System     Etan Nechin January 7, 2025 Haaretz American Historical Association overwhelmingly votes in favor of resolution accusing Israel of 'scholasticide': s…

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January 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM

President Biden Should Pardon Ethel Rosenberg

President Biden Should Pardon Ethel Rosenberg     Phillip Deery January 2, 2025 The Nation A newly released classified document shows that the National Security Agency knew Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy—and that the government executed her anyway. …

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January 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM

Tidbits – Jan.9 – Reader Comments: Greenland, Panama Canal, Gulf of America and He Still Hasn’t Taken Office; Trump Voters’ Rude Awakening; Jimmy Carter; AHA Votes To Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Academy for Socialist Education NYC Spring Classes;

Tidbits – Jan.9 – Reader Comments: Greenland, Panama Canal, Gulf of America and He Still Hasn’t Taken Office; Trump Voters’ Rude Awakening; Jimmy Carter; AHA Votes To Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Academy for Socialist Education NYC Spring Classes;     January 9, …

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January 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM

Firms That Donated to Republican Party Avoided Tariffs in Trump First Term – Study

Firms That Donated to Republican Party Avoided Tariffs in Trump First Term – Study     Callum Jones January 6, 2025 The Guardian President-elect has threatened to levy tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China, which can burden businesses and boost cons…

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January 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM

The Military to Prison Pipeline: Trading One Uniform for Another

The Military to Prison Pipeline: Trading One Uniform for Another     Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon January 5, 2025 LA Progressive Fifty years after the official end of U.S. intervention in southeast Asia, “Vietnam vets are still the single largest populatio…

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January 9, 2025 at 7:55 AM

Universities and the Coming Storm

Universities and the Coming Storm     Francois Furstenberg January 6, 2025 The American Prospect It’s difficult for colleges to defend democracy if they aren’t run democratically. The New York Police Department handcuffs student protesters at Colum…

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January 9, 2025 at 7:45 AM

‘This Is Unprecedented’: Several Horrific Wildfires Ravage Los Angeles

‘This Is Unprecedented’: Several Horrific Wildfires Ravage Los Angeles     Jake Johnson January 8, 2025 Common Dreams "There is no 'firefighting' in these kinds of conditions," said one meteorologist. "There is only saving as many lives as possible and getti…

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January 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM

Balance of Power: Central Banks and the Fate of Democracies

Portside Culture Balance of Power: Central Banks and the Fate of Democracies     Ivan Radanović November 7, 2024 LSE Review of Books Reviewer Radanović calls this book essential reading for understanding why reconnecting central banks to the people i…

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January 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – January 8, 2025

Global Left Midweek – January 8, 2025     January 8, 2025 xxxxxx Two presidents have a warning for Trump , Presidents meet: from left, Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, Xiomara Castro of Honduras   Imminent Threat to Rojava Women Reports from S…

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January 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM

The Richest Have Never Been Richer As Trump Arrives To Make Them Richer Still

The Richest Have Never Been Richer As Trump Arrives To Make Them Richer Still     Sam Pizzigati January 7, 2025 Inequality.org Overall, the world’s 500 richest ended 2024 worth a combined $9.8 trillion. Some 34 percent of the $1.5 trillion they gained over t…

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January 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM

Ford and Musk. They Made Cars. They Backed Fascists.

Ford and Musk. They Made Cars. They Backed Fascists.     Harold Meyerson January 6, 2025 The American Prospect Each age’s premier industrialist has had appalling politics Elon Musk attends the opening of the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, Ma…

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January 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM

‘Nobody Can Embargo Sunlight’: Jimmy Carter and the US Solar Revolution That Wasn’t

‘Nobody Can Embargo Sunlight’: Jimmy Carter and the US Solar Revolution That Wasn’t     Bill McKibben January 7, 2025 Common Dreams Why didn't we listen? We could so easily have listened. Jimmy Carter speaking in front of Solar Panels on White Hous…

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January 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM

Annual ‘Winners’ for Most Egregious US Healthcare Profiteering Announced

Annual ‘Winners’ for Most Egregious US Healthcare Profiteering Announced     Marina Dunbar January 7, 2025 The Guardian Selling body parts without consent and billing desperate parents $97,599 for air transport among worst examples Police outside t…

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January 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM

‘The Brutalist’ Review: Ambitions Unbound

Portside Culture ‘The Brutalist’ Review: Ambitions Unbound     Manohla Dargis December 19, 2024 The New York Times Adrien Brody stars as a talented architect who flees postwar Europe to meet his match in America, a power-hungry industrialist played b…

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January 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – January 7, 2025

Media Bits and Bytes – January 7, 2025     January 7, 2025 xxxxxx Coming soon to a screen near you – “Trump’s Life Matters!” ,   Cartoonist Quits WashPost, Tells All Meta’s MAGA Move Bluesky Shows Up Net Giants Goodbye Net Neutrality Kari …

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January 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM

What’s Really Going On With Growing Homeless Rates?

What’s Really Going On With Growing Homeless Rates?     Dick Platkin January 4, 2025 LA Progressive Homelessness has doubled in the past four years, yet some observers still parrot top-down excuses for this increase. , Planning Watch LA   T…

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January 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM

This Week in People’s History, Jan 8–14

This Week in People’s History, Jan 8–14     xxxxxx Educational TV Gets Schooled About Race (1975), ‘It Was the Right Thing To Do’ (1930), Negligence Kills, But Only the Victims Pay (1860), Paul Robeson Is John Henry (1940), New Technology Remakes an Industry…

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January 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM

This Land Is Your Land: The Story Behind the Song

This Land Is Your Land: The Story Behind the Song     The Kennedy Center January 6, 2015 The Kennedy Center Today, this classic folk song is usually sung as a popular pro-America anthem by Americans of every background. But it was written to have a radical e…

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January 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM

We Need To Talk About Trader Joe’s

Portside Culture We Need To Talk About Trader Joe’s     Adam Reiner April 1, 2024 Taste Cooking Behind the bubbly cashiers in Hawaiian shirts, craveable snacks, and bargain-basement prices are questionable business practices that have many food brand…

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January 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM

What Magnus Carlsen’s Jeans Have To Do With Chess

What Magnus Carlsen’s Jeans Have To Do With Chess     Louisa Thomas January 5, 2025 The New Yorker The fuss around the grand master’s wearing of denim pants to a tournament is a reflection of tensions within the game.The fuss around the grand master’s wearin…

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January 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM

Until Weapons Are Silenced There Can Be No Development. War Is the Greatest Enemy of Progress

Until Weapons Are Silenced There Can Be No Development. War Is the Greatest Enemy of Progress     Yücel Demirer January 2, 2025 Junge Welt The increasing number of murdered women, armed civilians, construction of ever larger prisons and violence against anim…

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January 6, 2025 at 6:25 AM

Sunday Science: Oldest Human Genomes Reveal How a Small Group Burst out of Africa

Sunday Science: Oldest Human Genomes Reveal How a Small Group Burst out of Africa     Carl Zimmer January 12, 2025 New York Times DNA from European fossils dating back 45,000 years offers new clues to how our species spread across the world. An art…

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January 6, 2025 at 5:55 AM

History’s Lessons on Anti-Immigrant Extremism

History’s Lessons on Anti-Immigrant Extremism     Michael Luo January 5, 2025 The New Yorker The scale of what Trump has promised is difficult to fathom and without recent precedent. A century and a half ago, however, a movement to cast out a different group…

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January 6, 2025 at 5:40 AM

Why Congress Members Face a Lawsuit for Funding Israel’s War on Gaza

Why Congress Members Face a Lawsuit for Funding Israel’s War on Gaza     Norman Solomon January 5, 2025 CounterPunch More than 600 constituents of Jared Huffman and Mike Thompson have signed on as plaintiffs in a class action accusing them of helping to arm …

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January 6, 2025 at 5:10 AM

Best Bet for 2025: Stronger Trade Ties Between Europe and China

Best Bet for 2025: Stronger Trade Ties Between Europe and China     Dean Baker January 2, 2025 CEPR Donald Trump is doing everything he can to convince the world that, under his leadership, the United States is an unreliable trading partner. , CEPR…

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January 6, 2025 at 4:45 AM

Free Cash, Mergers, and Capital Spillage

Free Cash, Mergers, and Capital Spillage     Craig Medlen January 1, 2025 Monthly Review It is the purpose of this article to relate how this creeping stagnation has added its own force in contributing to the monopoly power associated with consolidation and …

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January 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM

Love Is Blind Just Got Hit With a Federal Labor Complaint. Will It Change Anything?

Portside Culture Love Is Blind Just Got Hit With a Federal Labor Complaint. Will It Change Anything?     Li Zhou December 14, 2024 Vox Love Is Blind just got hit with a federal labor complaint. Will it change anything? It sends an important message, …

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January 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM

Unions Get Bigger in Texas

Unions Get Bigger in Texas     Emily Markwiese December 23, 2024 The Progressive Open hostility to unions has left the Lone Star State largely without worker power. Until now. Matt Lloyd (front right) and other UAW Local 2360 members on strike in f…

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January 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM

The Rise of the French Fry Cartel

The Rise of the French Fry Cartel     Katya Schwenk January 3, 2025 Jacobin After decades of consolidation, just four firms now control at least 97 percent of the $68 billion frozen potato market. A new spate of antitrust lawsuits accuses them of brazen pric…

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January 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM

How Trump Nominees Could Make Project 2025 a Reality

How Trump Nominees Could Make Project 2025 a Reality     Amanda Becker January 2, 2025 The 19th While many of the policies in Project 2025 have been floating around Republican circles for years, the document is a roadmap that shows how its authors believe th…

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January 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Today, As in the Past, Germany Claims the Authority To Define Who Is a Jew

Today, As in the Past, Germany Claims the Authority To Define Who Is a Jew     Nelson Pereira January 3, 2025 CounterPunch "Germany is using a term that was designed to protect Jews as a weapon not only to silence Palestinians, but also to silence Jews and I…

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January 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Tariq Ali: Memories of the Struggle Reloaded

Tariq Ali: Memories of the Struggle Reloaded     Michael Lavalette interviews Tariq Ali December 13, 2024 Counterfire Over the last few decades, we have witnessed the growth of dynamic movements, like Stop the War. But we need to think about organisational o…

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January 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM

Friday Nite Videos | January 3, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | January 3, 2025     January 3, 2025 xxxxxx H-1B ('16 tons' Song Parody). Suze Rotolo Interview: Dylan, NY and Art. Inside a Science Sexual Harassment Scandal. How Elon Musk Is Corrupting the Government. Why the Trumpiest Congress May Not…

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January 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM

This Is Some of What We Must Do To Reform Our Dysfunctional Healthcare System

This Is Some of What We Must Do To Reform Our Dysfunctional Healthcare System     Bernie Sanders December 31, 2024 Guardian We are the wealthiest nation on Earth. There is no rational reason as to why we are not the healthiest nation on Earth "Hand…

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January 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM

What Is the Duty of the Israeli Left in a Time of Genocide?

What Is the Duty of the Israeli Left in a Time of Genocide?     Hadas Binyamini January 3, 2025 972 Magazine Israeli leftists have been more divided and marginalized than ever since the October 7 assault, with joint Palestinian-Jewish struggle at a breaking …

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January 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM

How Will Mexico’s New President Deal With Trump, Migration, and Drug Cartels?

How Will Mexico’s New President Deal With Trump, Migration, and Drug Cartels?     Walden Bello January 2, 2025 Foreign Policy in Focus Journalist Laura Carlsen discusses how Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum will navigate a series of domestic challenges an…

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January 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM

Elvis, the Polio Vaccine, and Us

Elvis, the Polio Vaccine, and Us     Charles Idelson January 1, 2025 Medium In October 1956 the ascending rock idol lent his considerable stardom to helping save lives by getting vaccinated against polio on the Ed Sullivan show. Today an anti-vax fanatic wit…

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January 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Election Results

Portside Culture Election Results     Beau Beausoleil Poet Beau Beausoleil contemplates the horrors which await the American public as a result of the recent election. ,   The knives  and the  sharpening  stones laid out in plain si…

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January 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM

Trump Voters Are In for a Rude Awakening

Trump Voters Are In for a Rude Awakening     Robert McCoy January 1, 2025 The New Republic Trump sold them countless, often conflicting fantasies. In 2025, he’ll face political reality. He was whoever they wanted him to be—a choose-your-own-candidate. Voters…

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January 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM

Jimmy Carter Was Right About Israel’s Apartheid

Jimmy Carter Was Right About Israel’s Apartheid     Seraj Assi December 30, 2024 Jacobin No US president has ever been willing to call the system imposed by Israel on the Palestinians what it is: apartheid. Except Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter was a champion of…

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January 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM

Palestinians Are Souring on Hamas – and They Want an End to the War

Palestinians Are Souring on Hamas – and They Want an End to the War     Dahlia Scheindlin December 30, 2024 Haaretz There's the bad news – apocalyptic destruction in Gaza, rampant poverty, utter despair about the Palestinian Authority–and there's more bad ne…

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January 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM

5 Things To Know About the AfD, Elon Musk’s New Friends on the German Far Right

5 Things To Know About the AfD, Elon Musk’s New Friends on the German Far Right     Mehdi Hasan December 23, 2024 Zeteo First, Elon Musk helped buy the U.S. presidential elections. Now, he is interfering in Germany's elections, by supporting the ultra-righti…

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January 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Tidbits – Jan.2 – Reader Comments: MAGA Divide – Round One to the Plutocracy; GOP Plan To Dismantle Pro-Palestinian Movement; Chanukah Is Choice Between Life and Death; Resource – World-Changing Impact of Vaccines; Cartoons; and More…

Tidbits – Jan.2 – Reader Comments: MAGA Divide – Round One to the Plutocracy; GOP Plan To Dismantle Pro-Palestinian Movement; Chanukah Is Choice Between Life and Death; Resource – World-Changing Impact of Vaccines; Cartoons; and More…     January 2, 2025 xxxxxx …

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January 2, 2025 at 7:30 AM

The MAGA Honeymoon Is Over

The MAGA Honeymoon Is Over     Ali Breland December 30, 2024 The Atlantic Silicon Valley and the nativist right worked together to elect Trump. Now the infighting has begun. , Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Reuters   Elon Musk spent …

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January 2, 2025 at 7:10 AM

Her Mental Health Treatment Was Helping. That’s Why Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage.

Her Mental Health Treatment Was Helping. That’s Why Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage.     Maya Miller and Duaa Eldeib December 31, 2024 ProPublica Insurers use a patient’s improvement to justify denying mental health coverage which, in some cases, can cause da…

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January 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM

Will Defeating the Oligarchs Be Easy? Of Course Not

Will Defeating the Oligarchs Be Easy? Of Course Not     Bernie Sanders December 31, 2024 Common Dreams If there was ever a moment when progressives needed to communicate our vision to the people of our country, this is that time. Despair is not an option. …

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January 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM

What It’s Truly Like To Sleep in a Damp, Frigid Gaza Tent

What It’s Truly Like To Sleep in a Damp, Frigid Gaza Tent     Abubaker Abed January 1, 2025 Dropsite News Five newborns have died of hypothermia amid the cold in Gaza. Doctors tell Drop Site the deaths are a direct result of Israel's blockades The …

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