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April 5, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Law of Tehran Review – Gritty Iranian Crime Thriller Takes No Prisoners

Portside Culture Law of Tehran Review – Gritty Iranian Crime Thriller Takes No Prisoners     Mark Kermode April 2, 2023The Guardian Iranian American screen polymath Payman Maadi (who made such an impact in films such as Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation) is Samad, …

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April 5, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – April 4, 2023

Media Bits and Bytes – April 4, 2023     April 4, 2023xxxxxx Authoritarianism vs public media, and other fights for the right to know ,   Tiktok: Best Laid Plans SOS Public Media House Hearing on Social Media Censorship Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent…

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April 4, 2023 at 5:55 AM

Nashville Students Rally for Gun Control Ahead of April 5 Nationwide Walkout

Nashville Students Rally for Gun Control Ahead of April 5 Nationwide Walkout     Brett Wilkins April 3, 2023Common Dreams One organizer said that if Tennessee lawmakers "actually cared about protecting kids" they would "address what kills kids every single day" inste…

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April 4, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Why Tornadoes Are Still Hard To Forecast

Why Tornadoes Are Still Hard To Forecast     Chris Nowotarski March 31, 2023The Conversation Even though storm prediction is improving, tornadoes are still hard to predict, with a warning typically of only about 10 to 15 minutes. This is why tornado prediction is har…

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April 4, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Alon Shaya Is Cooking for Connection

Portside Culture Alon Shaya Is Cooking for Connection     Laine Doss March 20, 2023Broken Palate Alon Shaya believes food can help people connect; sharing a meal is a powerful tool against the rising hate against Jewish people and everyone else. “Through cookin…

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April 4, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Cold War Was Never About Democracy

The Cold War Was Never About Democracy     Vincent Bevins, Loren Balhorn March 27, 2023Rosa Luxemburg Foundation After World War II, the Indonesian Communist Party threw itself into democratic politics and outreach to broad segments of society. Western intelligence a…

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April 4, 2023 at 12:00 AM

‘A Foundational Moment for Palestinians’: Remembering the First Land Day

‘A Foundational Moment for Palestinians’: Remembering the First Land Day     Said Zeedani March 30, 2023+972 Said Zeedani, who was part of the 1976 strike by Palestinian citizens in which Israel killed six protesters, recalls the build-up to 'a political earthquake.'…

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April 3, 2023 at 4:45 AM

Sunday Science: How Nancy Hopkins and Her Tape Measure Revealed the Extent of Sexism in Science

Sunday Science: How Nancy Hopkins and Her Tape Measure Revealed the Extent of Sexism in Science     Alexandra Witze March 27, 2023Nature When the MIT molecular biologist quantified how much more lab space men were given, she unleashed a US-wide reckoning about how wo…

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April 3, 2023 at 4:20 AM

Breaking Away From Secret Concessions in the Middle East

Breaking Away From Secret Concessions in the Middle East     Jon Hoffman, Sarah Leah Whitson April 28, 2023The American Prospect Saudi Arabia is exploiting great-power competition to obtain security commitments from the U.S. This should be rejected. Secretary …

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April 3, 2023 at 4:10 AM

Kneecapping ‘A League of Their Own’ With a Four-Episode Final Season Sucks

Portside Culture Kneecapping ‘A League of Their Own’ With a Four-Episode Final Season Sucks     Caitlin Cruz March 16, 2023Jezebel Amazon's remake of Penny Marshall's classic movie is an exploration of sexuality, friendship, and baseball. It deserves more than …

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April 3, 2023 at 3:25 AM

The Red Scare Took Aim at Black Radicals Like Langston Hughes

The Red Scare Took Aim at Black Radicals Like Langston Hughes     Peter Dreier March 31, 2023Jacobin Poet Langston Hughes was invited to speak at Occidental College on this day in 1948, then uninvited when red-baiters released a report calling him a “subversive.” His…

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April 3, 2023 at 2:50 AM

Chicago’s Election Will Shape the Future of Public Safety in America

Chicago’s Election Will Shape the Future of Public Safety in America     Eric Reinhart March 31, 2023The TRiiBE Johnson, a progressive, has been calling for change by implementing a public health approach to safety. Vallas, who has often identified himself as a Repub…

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April 3, 2023 at 2:00 AM

The Revolution Against Shady Landlords Has Begun

The Revolution Against Shady Landlords Has Begun     Molly Crabapple April 1, 2023The Nation In New York, the real estate industry and the politicians in its pocket both reign supreme. These tenants have a plan to change that forever. , Illustration by Molly C…

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April 2, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Tax the Rich, Because Inequality Is Bad for All of Us

Tax the Rich, Because Inequality Is Bad for All of Us     John L. Hammond March 14, 2023Jacobin Economic inequality undermines democracy, hastens environmental destruction, fosters anxiety, and erodes social trust. We can start to solve these problems by taxing the r…

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April 2, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Biden Admin Delays Medicare Advantage Reforms

Biden Admin Delays Medicare Advantage Reforms     Jake Johnson April 1, 2023Commondreams "Medicare Advantage providers whined for months that they simply couldn't survive without being able to rip off the government, so the government said 'you can rip us off for jus…

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April 2, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Ecological Power Gap in Sweden

The Ecological Power Gap in Sweden     Jonathan Michael Feldman March 30, 2023xxxxxx Ecological imperialism is a "blind spot" for environmentalists who cannot see the connection between war and ecocide. We would expect environmentalists to fight for disarmament and s…

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April 2, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Social Security Remains Strong

Social Security Remains Strong     Social Security Works March 31, 2023Social Security Works The 2023 Trustees Report Shows that Social Security Remains Strong, Despite Republican Attacks , Social Security Works   (Washington, DC) — The 2023 Annual Repor…

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April 2, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Will We Always Be This Way?

Will We Always Be This Way?     Kathy Kelly March 27, 2023The Progressive Rescuers come from all over the world following an earthquake, but when wars are waged, governments send only more munitions, prolonging the agony. Those who have an insatiable appetite for wa…

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April 1, 2023 at 2:20 AM

Friday Nite Videos | March 31, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | March 31, 2023     March 31, 2023xxxxxx Criminal Defendant Trump's First Court Date. The January 6th Prisoners Choir Had It Comin’. Bernie Unloads on Howard Schultz at Senate Hearing. Crossborder Mural Project 1997. What America Gets Wrong About …

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April 1, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Act Like a Mob Boss, Be Indicted Like One

Act Like a Mob Boss, Be Indicted Like One     March 30, 2023 The mobster comparisons are befitting not just in Trump’s life and business modus operandi, but also now in the way Trump is finally being held accountable. Donald Trump, Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)…

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April 1, 2023 at 12:45 AM

I Stopped Trying To Be a Woman – And I Felt Resurrected, Fully Myself for the First Time

I Stopped Trying To Be a Woman – And I Felt Resurrected, Fully Myself for the First Time     Jackson King March 31, 2023Guardian My decision to come out as a trans man was lifechanging. What’s so scary about the possibility of choice when it comes to gender? M…

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April 1, 2023 at 12:15 AM

The Israeli Right’s Arrogance Has Made a New Struggle Possible

The Israeli Right’s Arrogance Has Made a New Struggle Possible     Meron Rapoport March 29, 2023+972 Magazine The mass protests have opened the possibility, however slight, that Israelis will begin to demand fundamental changes we haven't seen since 1948. Prim…

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April 1, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Math Amateur Solves “Einstein” Problem

Math Amateur Solves “Einstein” Problem     Siobhan Roberts March 28, 2023New York Times An “einstein” is a shape that tiles an infinite flat surface without repetition. It all began with a hobbyist “messing about and experimenting with shapes.” ,   Last…

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April 1, 2023 at 12:00 AM

A Guest From War

Portside Culture A Guest From War     Oksana Maksymchuk January 1, 2023Manhattan Review Ukrainian refugee poet Oksana Maksymchuk depicts life in exile as “an endless cellar/that’s now her mind.” ,   A Guest from War By Oksana Maksymchuk In a bed …

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March 31, 2023 at 2:55 AM

Detailed Chronology in Trump-Cohen Hush Money Investigation

Detailed Chronology in Trump-Cohen Hush Money Investigation     Gretchen Knaut, Norman L. Eisen, McKenzie Carrier, Vicka Heidt, Greg Phea and Madison Gee March 29, 2023Just Security Former President Donald Trump was indicted today by a New York Grand Jury for crimina…

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March 31, 2023 at 2:35 AM

Why the Main Players Behind the Israeli Protest Movement Are Bringing the Confrontation to a Head

Why the Main Players Behind the Israeli Protest Movement Are Bringing the Confrontation to a Head     Razi Nabulse March 27, 2023Mondoweiss The protests roiling Israel represent a struggle over its future. The traditional elite is in an existential fight to maintain …

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March 31, 2023 at 2:05 AM

About Russian Neo-Imperialism

About Russian Neo-Imperialism     Bernd Gehrke December 1, 2022Against the Current Bernd Gehrke is critical of those in the peace movement and left who dismissed the threat of invasion coming from Russia - a failure to understand the genesis of today’s Russian capita…

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March 31, 2023 at 12:15 AM

New York City Retirees Fight Their Own Unions To Stop Catastrophic Health Care Cuts

New York City Retirees Fight Their Own Unions To Stop Catastrophic Health Care Cuts     Jenny Brown March 10, 2023Labor Notes New York City’s Municipal Labor Committee voted March 9 to scrap some of the best retiree health care coverage in the country. The change wou…

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March 31, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Staughton Lynd: The Perils of Sainthood

Portside Culture Staughton Lynd: The Perils of Sainthood     Paul Buhle March 29, 2023Portside Staughton Lynd seemed like a personal force almost more than a person within the antiwar movement of the 1960s. My Country Is the World largely and usefully recounts …

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March 30, 2023 at 5:10 AM

Why We Must Defend Against the GOP Plan To Destroy Public Education

Why We Must Defend Against the GOP Plan To Destroy Public Education     Randi Weingarten March 28, 2023Common Dreams Our public schools shouldn't be pawns for politicians' ambitions. Or defunded and destroyed by ideologues. We are at a crossroads: Fear and division, …

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March 30, 2023 at 4:40 AM

‘They’re Killing Us’: Anger Grows After Deadly Fire at Mexican Migrant Center

‘They’re Killing Us’: Anger Grows After Deadly Fire at Mexican Migrant Center     Marisol Chávez March 29, 2023The Guardian Protesters call for justice as blaze at detention facility in Ciudad Juárez highlights tough US immigration policies Mexico: calls for j…

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March 30, 2023 at 4:30 AM

How American Cultural Assumptions Keep Us From Having Universal Health Care

How American Cultural Assumptions Keep Us From Having Universal Health Care     Nick Licata March 29, 2023Counterpunch Those beliefs are not evil but are stopping our healthcare system from being universally accessible to all Americans. Consequently, let’s examine ho…

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March 30, 2023 at 4:15 AM

We’re About To Find Out How Far the Supreme Court Will Go To Arm America

We’re About To Find Out How Far the Supreme Court Will Go To Arm America     Linda Greenhouse March 29, 2023The New York Times The court is being asked to overturn an Appeals Court decision that would allow domestic abusers to possess firearms despite the fact that "…

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March 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Untold Story of Capitalism

Portside Culture The Untold Story of Capitalism     Joel Wendland-Liu March 10, 2023Marx & Philosophy Review of Books This book, writes reviewer Wendland-Liu, shifts the geographic focus of "origins of capitalism" debates from Europe "to the motion, spaces,…

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March 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – March 29, 2023

Global Left Midweek – March 29, 2023     March 29, 2023xxxxxx Movements and parties grapple with democracy, cost-of-living and shifting power arrangements ,   La Via Campesina: Peasants Organize Worldwide “Macron Must Fall” Unions Meet on Haiti Questions…

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March 29, 2023 at 12:05 AM

No Country for Nuclear Madmen

No Country for Nuclear Madmen     Norman Solomon March 27, 2023Common Dreams Everything that can be done must done to avert global nuclear annihilation. Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, says he struck a deal with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko …

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March 29, 2023 at 12:05 AM

America Is in a Disgraced Class of Its Own

America Is in a Disgraced Class of Its Own     Matthew Desmond March 16, 2023The New York Times The United States has a poverty problem. , Photo illustration by Guillem Casasus; photograph by Javier Zayas Photography   The United States has a poverty pro…

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March 29, 2023 at 12:05 AM

There Is Power in a Pantry

There Is Power in a Pantry     Kim Kelly March 24, 2023In These Times - Labor Meet the women who nourished the longest strike in Alabama’s history. Connie Jones, Haeden Wright and Cheri Goodwin in the pantry that kept the Warrior Met strike going for nearly tw…

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March 29, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – March 28, 2023

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – March 28, 2023     March 28, 2023xxxxxx Apocalypse is the new normal , Clay Jones, claytoonz.com   Electeds Fight GOP Book Banning Conservationists Sue Biden Over Willow Drilling State Takeover of Houston Schools A Wels…

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March 29, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Why Republicans Abandoned Their Economic Message

Why Republicans Abandoned Their Economic Message     Alex Shephard March 28, 2023The New Republic The GOP used to do its wonky best to make the case that it was the party of the pocketbook. But it’s all wokeness, all the time now. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis…

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March 29, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Thelonius Monk - The Fraught Dance Between Artist and Interviewer in “Rewind & Play"

Portside Culture Thelonius Monk - The Fraught Dance Between Artist and Interviewer in “Rewind & Play"     Harmony Holiday March 18, 2023The New Yorker A new documentary by Alain Gomis turns footage from an interview with Thelonious Monk into a commentary on…

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March 28, 2023 at 3:45 AM

Beaten, Bombed and Buried

Beaten, Bombed and Buried     Don Kimball March 17, 2023Global Justice Ecology Project The decades-long persecution of Forest Defenders Tortuguita Memorial at entrance to Weelaunee Forest , Photo: Don Kimball   On January 18, Southeast of Atlanta’s downt…

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March 28, 2023 at 12:55 AM

First Graders Not Allowed To Sing ‘Controversial’ Dolly Parton Song About Acceptance

First Graders Not Allowed To Sing ‘Controversial’ Dolly Parton Song About Acceptance     Anya Zoledziowski March 27, 2023Vice The song includes lyrics like “wouldn't it be nice to live in paradise. Where we're free to be exactly who we are.” dolly parton en am…

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March 28, 2023 at 12:45 AM

Workers of Color Made Up 100% of Union Growth in 2022

Workers of Color Made Up 100% of Union Growth in 2022     Prem Thakker March 24, 2023New Republic Recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the number of unionized workers in the United States increased by 200,000 from 2021 to 2022. And that growth c…

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March 28, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Silent No More

Silent No More     Stewart Acuff March 19, 2023Stansbury Forum It is the families and friends of men who are beaten to death behind bars who suffer the longest. It is the deepest most evil corruption that covers and enables cruelty and torture unto death. , …

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March 28, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Workers Behind Two Popular Food Network Shows Are Unionizing

Portside Culture The Workers Behind Two Popular Food Network Shows Are Unionizing     Amy McCarthy March 20, 2023Eater Writers, producers, stylists, and other workers on “Trisha’s Southern Kitchen” and “The Kitchen” are forming a union with the Writers Guild of…

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March 28, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Paul Vallas Gave Wall Street Massive Amounts of Money As Chicago Schools CEO

Paul Vallas Gave Wall Street Massive Amounts of Money As Chicago Schools CEO     Matthew Cunningham-Cook March 24, 2023Jacobin Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas helped create a financial disaster as head of Chicago Public Schools, making bond deals worth $666 mil…

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March 27, 2023 at 6:25 AM

Sunday Science: Obsidian Cliff – Humanity’s Tool Shed for the Last 11,500 Years

Sunday Science: Obsidian Cliff – Humanity’s Tool Shed for the Last 11,500 Years     Jim Robbins March 20, 2023New York Times X-ray technology has allowed researchers a glimpse at the reaches of the Yellowstone landmark’s prized stone and its importance to Indigenous …

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March 27, 2023 at 5:40 AM

Election-Denying Donors Pour Millions Into Key Wisconsin Supreme Court Race

Election-Denying Donors Pour Millions Into Key Wisconsin Supreme Court Race     Alice Herman March 14, 2023The Guardian ‘An organized group of insurrectionists’ is seeking to swing a vote with big implications for voting rights, redistricting and abortion Dani…

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March 27, 2023 at 5:00 AM

A Big Miss on Drug Prices

A Big Miss on Drug Prices     David Dayen March 22, 2023The American Prospect President Biden’s NIH rejects a petition to seize the patent of an unaffordable prescription drug. The Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health h…

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