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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS — JANUARY 27, 2026
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January 27, 2026
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_ Amidst the storm _
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* Learning From Our Own History
* The Great Minnesota Strike
* The Courageous Captive Children of Lillie TX
* ICE’s Corporate Enablers
* The Sopranos Stage of Imperialism
* Needed: A Million Midwives
* Highjacking the Midterms
* Starbucks Strike in Louisiana
* LGBTQ Rights at Work
* “Marty Supreme”: Every Man for Himself
LEARNING FROM OUR OWN HISTORY
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By Mitchell Zimmerman, _Common Dreams_
Persisting—not surrendering to despair—is part of the struggle.
Victory over fascism may not be inevitable, but neither is defeat. We
must all become leaders in small or large ways, attempting to persuade
and remind others of the dangers and of the injustices that we are
fighting against, and urging them to act.
THE GREAT MINNESOTA STRIKE
• OUR STORY SO FAR
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By Luis Feliz Leon, _Labor Notes_
• SHOWING HOW
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By Natasha Lennard, _The Intercept_
• AN ORGANIZER SPEAKS
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By Aru Shiney-Ajay, _Jacobin_
• SOMALI-LED RESISTANCE
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By Fatima Khan and Meghnad Bose, _The Intercept_
• COMMUNITY IS KEY
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By Ana Marie Cox, _The New Republic_
THE COURAGEOUS CAPTIVE CHILDREN OF DILLEY TX
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By Chris Walker, _Truthout_
An uprising broke out at an immigrant jail in southern Texas on
Saturday, with around 1,000 immigrants detained in the facility —
many of them children — chanting “Libertad” and “Let us go,”
according to an attorney who witnessed the event. The protest took
place at South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley.
ICE’S CORPORATE ENABLERS
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By Judd Legum, _Popular Information_
Amazon Web Services hosts the database known as Investigative Case
Management (ICM), that ICE uses to target and deport immigrants.
Amazon is one of several consumer-facing brands with deep financial
connections to ICE, including Citizens Bank and AT&T.
THE _SOPRANOS_ STAGE OF IMPERIALISM
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By Benjamin Fogel, _Jacobin_
The attack on Venezuela marks the arrival of the Sopranos stage of
imperialism: the transformation of US hegemony into naked extortion.
As with the Mafia, loyalty may ultimately buy nothing, and deals can
be broken at gunpoint.
NEEDED: A MILLION MIDWIVES
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By Kat Lay, _The Guardian_
A global shortage of nearly a million midwives is leaving pregnant
women without the basic care needed to prevent harm, including the
deaths of mothers and babies, according to new research. Almost half
the shortage was in Africa, where nine in 10 women lived in a country
without enough midwives, the researchers said.
HIGHJACKING THE MIDTERMS
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By Chauncey DeVega, _Salon_
Pro-democracy Americans — and those simply hoping for a return to
normalcy — are pinning their hopes on a Democratic victory in
November’s midterm elections. But that salvation will not be easy or
cheap. Their hopes will face a coordinated effort by Trump and the
anti-democracy right-wing to secure victory before a single ballot has
even been counted.
STARBUCKS STRIKE IN LOUISIANA
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By Jason Kerzinski, _The Progressive_
Starbucks baristas have been at the center of the largest labor fight
in their company’s history. Since November 13, thousands of
unionized workers have walked off the job at roughly forty-five store
locations nationwide, in an unfair labor practices strike they’re
calling the “Red Cup Rebellion.”
LGBTQ RIGHTS AT WORK
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By Amanda Becker, _The 19th_
It will be more difficult, timely and costly for LGBTQ+ workers to
seek justice for these and other workplace harassment issues related
to their gender identities and sexualities. The U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, voted 2-to-1 to rescind
years-in-the-making guidance that the agency released in 2024 on
applying current civil rights laws to workplace harassment.
“MARTY SUPREME”: EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF
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By Michael Kanyongolo, _The Indypendent_
The most impressive aspect of “Marty Supreme” isn’t that it
entertains for two and a half hours straight. It’s that it manages
to do that and have it all amount to something much more than the sum
of its parts. It shows us that to live only for yourself is to live a
half-life, to fake your way through reality, always in search of
something more. But to live for other people, even just one, is to
truly live.
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* Dilley Texas
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* detained children
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* 2026 Midterms
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