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May 28, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Texas Forced This Woman To Give Birth to a Stillborn Son. She’s Suing

Texas Forced This Woman To Give Birth to a Stillborn Son. She’s Suing     Tessa Stuart May 22, 2023Rolling Stone “I was told that if I tried to discharge myself, or seek care elsewhere, that I could be arrested for trying to kill my child” Abortion rights demo…

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May 27, 2023 at 2:40 AM

Friday Nite Videos | May 26, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | May 26, 2023     May 26, 2023xxxxxx The Corporate Money Behind 'No Labels.' Tina Turner Talks About Gaining Respect in the Music Industry. Henry Kissinger Is 100 and Still Free, Somehow | Mehdi Hasan. After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politic…

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May 27, 2023 at 1:50 AM

Trump and DeSantis: (White Nationalist) Peas in a Pod

Trump and DeSantis: (White Nationalist) Peas in a Pod     Clarence Lusane May 21, 2023tomdispatch Sadly, the problem isn’t just Trump — or DeSantis either. The horror of our moment is the way the base of the Republican Party has come to embrace the most extreme views…

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May 27, 2023 at 12:30 AM

Cancelling Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Cancelling Elizabeth Gurley Flynn     Mary Anne Trasciatti May 24, 2023Labor and Working Class History Association Republican lawmakers in New Hampshire had a marker at Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's childhood home removed just two weeks after it was unveiled, arguing that…

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May 27, 2023 at 12:15 AM

A Plea From the Russian Left to Western Progressive Friends

A Plea From the Russian Left to Western Progressive Friends     Boris Kagarlitsky May 23, 2023Russian Dissent Please stop identifying Putin and his gang with Russia. Realize at last: those who want the good of Russia and the Russians cannot but be irreconcilable enem…

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May 27, 2023 at 12:10 AM

Is Exercise Really Good for the Brain? What the Science Says

Is Exercise Really Good for the Brain? What the Science Says     Matthieu P. Boisgontier and Boris Cheval May 22, 2023The Conversation It is common for scientific studies to produce apparently conflicting results, but the benefits of physical activity on a wide range…

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May 27, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Simply Breathing

Portside Culture Simply Breathing     Beau Beausoleil May 29, 2020Killing George Floyd Three years after the murder of George Floyd on March 25 2020, San Francisco poet and publisher Beau Beausoleil offers a limited portfolio of 20 poems as homage and legacy. …

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May 26, 2023 at 12:05 AM

We’ll Never Live in a World Without Tina Turner

We’ll Never Live in a World Without Tina Turner     Rob Sheffield May 24, 2023RollingStone Nothing could ever scare the fire out of her voice, which carried the whole story of American music in it. Tina Turner’s voice will never go silent. In the end, she is the big …

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May 26, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Imagine a Renters’ Utopia. It Might Look Like Vienna.

Imagine a Renters’ Utopia. It Might Look Like Vienna.     Francesca Mari; Photographs by Luca Locatelli May 23, 2023New York Times Soaring real estate markets have created a worldwide housing crisis. What can we learn from a city that has largely avoided it? The diff…

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May 26, 2023 at 12:05 AM

These Israeli Youth Are Burning Their Draft Orders — And No Longer Feeling Alone

These Israeli Youth Are Burning Their Draft Orders — And No Longer Feeling Alone     Oren Ziv May 24, 2023+972 Magazine Left-wing high schoolers describe how the anti-government protests have provided a window for the mainstreaming of views long deemed illegitimate. …

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May 26, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Writers’ Strike Opens Old Wounds

The Writers’ Strike Opens Old Wounds     Kate Fortmueller May 19, 2023Los Angeles Review of Books While the methods of production and distribution have transformed several times over, every industry-wide strike since 1950 has been about residuals. Residuals have hist…

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May 26, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – May 25, 2023 – Reader Comments: GOP Default Disaster; Child Labor Laws GOP Solution in Red States: Gun Deaths Still Climb, Uvalde Anniversary; Sartre; Welcome-This Week in People’s History; Ukraine Peace Appeal; Cartoons; More...

Tidbits – May 25, 2023 – Reader Comments: GOP Default Disaster; Child Labor Laws GOP Solution in Red States: Gun Deaths Still Climb, Uvalde Anniversary; Sartre; Welcome-This Week in People’s History; Ukraine Peace Appeal; Cartoons; More…     May 25, 2023xxxxxx Reader…

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May 25, 2023 at 4:50 AM

Organizing Despite the Churn

Organizing Despite the Churn     Jenny Brown May 22, 2023Labor Notes Despite the high turnover, at Amazon, in charter schools, in restaurants, and among student workers, unions are developing strategies to organize high-turnover workplaces. Amazonians United b…

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May 25, 2023 at 4:35 AM

Is the Surge to the Left Among Young Voters a Trump Blip or the Real Deal?

Is the Surge to the Left Among Young Voters a Trump Blip or the Real Deal?     Thomas B. Edsall May 24, 2023New York Times Two key Democratic constituencies — the young and the religiously unobservant — have substantially increased as a share of the electorate. This …

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May 25, 2023 at 4:20 AM

Recycled Plastic Can Be More Toxic and Is No Fix for Pollution, Greenpeace Warns

Recycled Plastic Can Be More Toxic and Is No Fix for Pollution, Greenpeace Warns     Damien Gayle May 24, 2023The Guardian Campaign group says plastics are incompatible with circular economy as countries prepare for treaty talks Representatives from 173 countr…

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May 25, 2023 at 4:05 AM

Minnesota Dems Set Bar for State Legislatures, Passing Nearly Every Item on ‘Transformational’ Agenda

Minnesota Dems Set Bar for State Legislatures, Passing Nearly Every Item on ‘Transformational’ Agenda     Julia Conley May 23, 2023Common Dreams "The work we've done over the last five months will make a generational impact on our state—it will lower costs, improve l…

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May 25, 2023 at 4:00 AM

Amanda Gorman ‘Gutted’ After Florida School Bans Biden Inauguration Poem

Portside Culture Amanda Gorman ‘Gutted’ After Florida School Bans Biden Inauguration Poem     Ed Pilkington May 24, 2023The Guardian Poet Amanda Gorman, 25, vows to fight back after single complaint, which wrongly ascribed The Hill We Climb to Oprah Winfrey, pr…

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May 25, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – May 24, 2023

Global Left Midweek – May 24, 2023     May 24, 2023xxxxxx Nakba at 75 A demonstrator waves two Palestinian flags next to a stack of burning tires during a protest over tension in Jerusalem, held on April 5, 2023, at the Israel-Gaza border fence, east of Gaza C…

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May 24, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Global South Saw More Than 90% of All Extreme Weather Deaths in Last 51 Years: UN Agency

Global South Saw More Than 90% of All Extreme Weather Deaths in Last 51 Years: UN Agency     Olivia Rosane May 22, 2023Common Dreams The findings from a World Meteorological Organization report released Monday are another example of how those who did the least to cau…

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May 24, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The Serbian Movement Against Violence

The Serbian Movement Against Violence     Mira Oklobdzija May 23, 2023Foreign Policy in Focus In the aftermath of the two mass killings in and around Belgrade, Serbian citizens have handed over a huge number of illegal weapons. That is surely a positive step, but muc…

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May 24, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The Democrats Have Already Lost the Debt Ceiling Fight

The Democrats Have Already Lost the Debt Ceiling Fight     Alex Shephard May 22, 2023The New Republic Party leaders thought they had set a trap for Republicans. It hasn’t worked out that way at all. , Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images   Six months ago, Demo…

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May 24, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Reaffirming the Progressive Project in 2023

Reaffirming the Progressive Project in 2023     Harry Targ May 22, 2023Diary of a Heartland Radical For today and tomorrow, demanding a return to the reforms of the New Deal/Great Society period provides the only way to defeat the Right. ,   These are in…

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May 24, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Killers of the Flower Moon Review – Scorsese’s Remarkable Epic About the Bloody Birth of America

Portside Culture Killers of the Flower Moon Review – Scorsese’s Remarkable Epic About the Bloody Birth of America     Peter Bradshaw May 20, 2023The Guardian Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone star in this macabre western about serial murders …

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May 24, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – May 23, 2023

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – May 23, 2023     May 23, 2023xxxxxx Students show their antifascist colors New College of Florida graduating students attend the college’s “alternative commencement” on May 18, 2023, in Sarasota. Credit, Douglas R. Clifford /…

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May 23, 2023 at 5:50 AM

Dark Arts

Dark Arts     Interview by J.J. Gould May 18, 2023The Signal How are authoritarians using artificial intelligence for political repression? Steven Feldstein on the global spread of anti-democratic applications for innovative technologies. , Photo by Denley …

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May 23, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The Irish Fasting Tradition

Portside Culture The Irish Fasting Tradition     Livia Gershon April 17, 2023JSTOR Particularly before the Second Vatican Council (a.k.a. Vatican II), fasting was part of the Catholic calendar. No one took it more seriously than the Irish. A Trappist mon…

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May 23, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Obey the Constitution (Before the Supreme Court)

Obey the Constitution (Before the Supreme Court)     Garrett Epps May 8, 2023Washington Monthly For the President to pay the national debt, regardless of the debt ceiling, would not be disobeying the Constitution—it would be obeying it and insisting that doing so sup…

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May 23, 2023 at 12:00 AM

75 Years After Its Foundation, WHO Struggles for Sovereignty

75 Years After Its Foundation, WHO Struggles for Sovereignty     Dian Maria Blandina May 17, 2023Peoples Dispatch This year marked the 75th anniversary of the WHO. As the UN agency approaches its yearly assembly in Geneva, it is struggling to secure adequate resource…

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May 23, 2023 at 12:00 AM

New Look at ‘Einstein Rings’ Just Got Us Closer to Solving the Dark Matter Debate

New Look at ‘Einstein Rings’ Just Got Us Closer to Solving the Dark Matter Debate     Rossana Ruggeri May 20, 2023The Conversation Physicists believe most of the matter in the universe is made up of an invisible substance that we only know about by its indirect effec…

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May 23, 2023 at 12:00 AM

This Week in People’s History, May 23 . . .

This Week in People’s History, May 23 . . .     xxxxxx Historic auto workers contract. 1st Amendment protects mail. U.S. army crosses ocean for the first time. Ford Company thugs assault union organizers. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan released. Major union victory in Roc…

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May 22, 2023 at 12:10 AM

Sunday Science: Did Life Evolve More Than Once? Researchers Are Closing In on an Answer

Sunday Science: Did Life Evolve More Than Once? Researchers Are Closing In on an Answer     Jordi Paps May 18, 2023The Conversation If life emerged once, why not more times? , Maximillian cabinet/Shutterstock   From its humble origin(s), life has infect…

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May 22, 2023 at 12:05 AM

New York Strikes a Blow Against Citizens United

New York Strikes a Blow Against Citizens United     Joanna Zdanys May 17, 2023The Brennan Center for Justice Matching programs give small donors bigger voices. , John Scott/Getty   American politics is awash in big money. Ever since the Supreme Court’s i…

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May 22, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Killing in the Name of Precision – The Technoscientific Origins of Drone Warfare

Killing in the Name of Precision – The Technoscientific Origins of Drone Warfare     Hamid Ekbia March 27, 2023Science for the People Technically, drone technology has been around for quite a long time, going back to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twe…

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May 22, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Labor’s Upsurge Isn’t Just Hype

Labor’s Upsurge Isn’t Just Hype     Eric Blanc May 8, 2023Labor Politics Data on what's new — and why unions should turn to new organizing , Fred Wright   Is the current labor uptick just more hype than reality? Numerous articles have recently made this …

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May 22, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Kissinger’s Bloody Paper Trail in Chile

Kissinger’s Bloody Paper Trail in Chile     Peter Kornbluh May 15, 2023The Nation The secret memo in which he plotted the murder of Chilean democracy. ,   As Henry Kissinger reaches 100 years of age on May 27, Chileans are preparing to commemorate the 50…

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May 22, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Succession’s Election Night Painfully Shows Us How Cable News Is Made

Portside Culture Succession’s Election Night Painfully Shows Us How Cable News Is Made     Whizy Kim May 14, 2023Vox Succession's idea of a media executive personally picking a winner is no longer all that shocking. The recent defamation lawsuit Fox News settle…

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May 21, 2023 at 12:05 AM

FBI for Abuses Surveillance Tool 278,000+ Times

FBI for Abuses Surveillance Tool 278,000+ Times     Jessics Corbett May 20, 2023Common Dreams "The FBI's systematic misuse of these resources proves that it (and the rest of the federal government) simply can't be trusted to wield this sort of power," said one campai…

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May 21, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Think CEO Pay Is Outrageous?

Think CEO Pay Is Outrageous?     Timothy Noah May 18, 2023The New Republic Get a Load of CEO Retirement Plans. They are called—I kid you not—“top hat” plans. And they drain everybody else’s 401(k)s. Walmart chief executive officer Doug McMillon is set to recei…

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May 21, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Wisconsin Teacher To Be Fired After Complaining About “Rainbowland” Song Ban

Wisconsin Teacher To Be Fired After Complaining About “Rainbowland” Song Ban     Prem Thakker May 18, 2023The New Republic A Wisconsin schoolteacher is being punished for trying to have her students sing a popular song by Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus. Dolly Pa…

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May 21, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Condemned to Freedom, Sartre Sought Existential Rescue

Condemned to Freedom, Sartre Sought Existential Rescue     Claudio Tognonato May 12, 2023Il Manifesto Global For existentialism, the choice for oneself is the choice for a world, for commitment to a plural world. Returning to Sartre today means not accepting the dist…

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May 21, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Other Border Crisis: Mining

The Other Border Crisis: Mining     Miriam Davidson May 17, 2023The Progressive El Jefe, one of at least seven jaguars documented north of the border since 1996, became a powerful symbol for environmentalists, Native tribes, and others who vehemently oppose both min…

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May 20, 2023 at 2:00 AM

Friday Nite Videos | May 19, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | May 19, 2023     May 19, 2023xxxxxx Jim Jordan Shut Down at 'Whistleblower' Hearing. Masters Of War | Bob Dylan (The RoJ LiGht Cover). Malcolm X at 98 | Angela Davis. We Talked to The Wire’s David Simon About the Writers' Strike. Pussy Riot's Pow…

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May 20, 2023 at 1:25 AM

This Teach-In Is Taking the Fight for Democracy to DeSantis

This Teach-In Is Taking the Fight for Democracy to DeSantis     Kellie Carter Jackson May 15, 2023CNN The goal of the event is to confront the political assault on Florida’s educational system by teaching truthful history and providing education on voter suppression …

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May 20, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Bernie Sanders: It’s Time To Guarantee Healthcare to All Americans as a Human Right

Bernie Sanders: It’s Time To Guarantee Healthcare to All Americans as a Human Right     Bernie May 18, 2023Guardian It is time to end the international embarrassment of the US being the only major country that does not guarantee healthcare ,   Let’s be c…

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May 20, 2023 at 12:50 AM

A.I. Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading

A.I. Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading     Oliver Whang May 1, 2023New York Times In a recent experiment, researchers used large language models to translate brain activity into words. Alex Huth (left), Shailee Jain (center) and Jerry Tang (right) prepare to …

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May 20, 2023 at 12:40 AM

North Carolina’s Devastating New Abortion Ban and the Fight Ahead

North Carolina’s Devastating New Abortion Ban and the Fight Ahead     Billy Corriher May 18, 2023Slate North Carolina has been here before. From 2013 through 2018, Republicans had a veto-proof supermajority in the Legislature. They engaged in a series of power grabs.…

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May 20, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Minneapolis

Portside Culture Minneapolis     Peter Neil Carroll October 1, 2022This Land, These People: The 50 States Approaching the 3rd anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, the crisis of race relations remains contested ground, even in liberal states like Minnesot…

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May 19, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Progressive Senators Tell Biden: Prepare To Invoke 14th Amendment To Prevent Default

Progressive Senators Tell Biden: Prepare To Invoke 14th Amendment To Prevent Default     Jessica Corbett May 17, 2023Common Dreams As negotiations with congressional Republicans over raising the debt ceiling drag on, at least five U.S. senators are circulating a lett…

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May 19, 2023 at 12:30 AM

How Saudi Money Returned to Silicon Valley

How Saudi Money Returned to Silicon Valley     Jonathan Guyer May 1, 2023Vox All the ways Saudi Arabia’s cash powers tech startups and venture capital. In two years, MBS poured at least $11 billion into US startups, making it the industry’s largest single investor. …

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May 19, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The Immigrants Are the Same — America Is Different

The Immigrants Are the Same — America Is Different     Razvan Sibii May 16, 2023Greenfield Recorder The immigrants haven’t really changed since the Ellis Island days — but America has. In 1923, immigrants did not need a visa, or any other sort of prior permission, to…

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