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June 24, 2023 at 12:10 AM

Survey: Belief in God Not Necessary To Be Moral

Survey: Belief in God Not Necessary To Be Moral     Janell Fetterolf and Sarah Austin April 20, 2023Pew Research In European and North American countries, at least six-in-ten respondents believe that it is not necessary to believe in God in order to be moral. Respons…

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June 24, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Popular Vote

Portside Culture The Popular Vote     Star Black January 1, 2019Popular Vote What really do we mean by the “popular vote”? The poet Star Black sees the consequences of misunderstanding. ,   The Popular Vote By Star Black Glass-ceiling balloons, w…

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June 23, 2023 at 2:25 AM

A Teamsters Strike Against UPS Could Remake the Union Movement for the Better

A Teamsters Strike Against UPS Could Remake the Union Movement for the Better     Michael Hiltzik June 21, 2023Los Angeles Times Teamsters have overwhelmingly voted to strike July 31. The vote doesn’t mean that a walkout is inevitable. The vote is a signal UPS manage…

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June 23, 2023 at 2:05 AM

Fighting Fire and Fascism in the American West

Fighting Fire and Fascism in the American West     Patrick Bigger and Sara Nelson May 1, 2023Dissent Magazine Ecological crisis, rural deindustrialization, and real estate speculation have created conditions in which the far right thrives. Combatting the rising right…

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June 23, 2023 at 1:50 AM

GOP Targets Researchers Who Study Disinformation Ahead of 2024 Election

GOP Targets Researchers Who Study Disinformation Ahead of 2024 Election     Steven Lee Myers and Sheera Frenkel June 19, 2023New York Times A legal campaign against universities and think tanks seeks to undermine the fight against false claims about elections, vaccin…

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June 23, 2023 at 12:15 AM

Ecuador’s Divided Electoral Landscape

Ecuador’s Divided Electoral Landscape     Marc Becker June 16, 2023NACLA Facing certain impeachment, on May 17 Ecuador's deeply unpopular rightwing president Guillermo Lasso pulled the plug and dissolved the National Assembly, calling for new elections. Enviro…

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June 23, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – June 22, 2023 – Reader Comments: Daniel Ellsberg; Winning Working Class Voters; RFK, Jr.; Mental Health Crisis; Unhoused; Chile; Sudan; National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression Turns 50; Cartoons; More...

Tidbits – June 22, 2023 – Reader Comments: Daniel Ellsberg; Winning Working Class Voters; RFK, Jr.; Mental Health Crisis; Unhoused; Chile; Sudan; National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression Turns 50; Cartoons; More…     June 22, 2023xxxxxx Reader Comm…

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June 23, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Celebrating the Leadership and Comradeship of Charlene Mitchell

Portside Culture Celebrating the Leadership and Comradeship of Charlene Mitchell     William P. Jones June 17, 2023Portside “People who truly believe in justice and equality, and peace and socialism, should not actually really care whether their contributions a…

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June 22, 2023 at 3:55 AM

Abolition As Method

Portside Culture Abolition As Method     Kay Gabriel October 1, 2022Dissent Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Abolition Geography is written to be used. ,   Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation Ruth Wilson Gilmore Verso ISBN: 9781839761713 The long h…

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June 22, 2023 at 2:15 AM

Child Care Disruptions Expected As Record Funding Nears an End

Child Care Disruptions Expected As Record Funding Nears an End     Claire Cain Miller, Alicia Parlapiano and Madeleine Ngo June 21, 2023New York Times Three million children could be affected as the largest investment in child care in U.S. history expires in Septembe…

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June 22, 2023 at 2:00 AM

This Teacher Couldn’t Talk About Systemic Racism in Class Because the GOP Banned It

This Teacher Couldn’t Talk About Systemic Racism in Class Because the GOP Banned It     Nathalie Baptiste June 20, 2023Huff Post South Carolina Republicans have banned teaching about topics like systemic racism — and students have played a part in it. Ta-Nehis…

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June 22, 2023 at 1:30 AM

Who’s Unhoused in California? Largest Study in Decades Upends Myths

Who’s Unhoused in California? Largest Study in Decades Upends Myths     Sam Levin June 20, 2023The Guardian Most unhoused people are from in state and desire to find housing, while Black and older people are disproportionately affected Homeless encampment in L…

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June 22, 2023 at 1:15 AM

Remembering Gus Newport, a Progressive Titan

Remembering Gus Newport, a Progressive Titan     Chuck Idelson June 20, 2023Common Dreams The former Berkeley mayor's record of accomplishments from civil rights activism to groundbreaking political initiatives to far-sighted community economic development programs t…

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June 22, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – Euro Focus

Global Left Midweek – Euro Focus     June 21, 2023xxxxxx Europe’s left movements and parties are facing tougher challenges Protesters demonstrate in St. Petersburg, Russia, against military actions in Ukraine in February 2022. Credit, VALYA EGORSHIN / NURPHOTO…

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June 21, 2023 at 12:45 AM

‘A True Scandal, and Should Be Covered As Such’: Outrage Over Medicaid Purge Grows

‘A True Scandal, and Should Be Covered As Such’: Outrage Over Medicaid Purge Grows     Jake Johnson June 20, 2023Common Dreams "Pausing disenrollment was a tremendous act of social welfare; restarting it is criminal," tweeted a single-payer advocate who helps people …

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June 21, 2023 at 12:45 AM

The White House’s Strategic Plan on Antisemitism Is Fatally Flawed

The White House’s Strategic Plan on Antisemitism Is Fatally Flawed     Donna Nevel June 16, 2023Truthout Those concerned with antisemitism must understand what it truly means to challenge it as part of movements for justice. President Joe Biden departs a celeb…

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June 21, 2023 at 12:45 AM

How New York’s Democratic Socialists Brought Unions Around to Public Renewables

How New York’s Democratic Socialists Brought Unions Around to Public Renewables     Luca GoldMansour June 19, 2023The American Prospect State lawmakers worked hard to convince utilities and construction union members that they would not end up on the chopping block. …

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June 21, 2023 at 12:40 AM

Can Canada Contain Conflagration?

Can Canada Contain Conflagration?     Steve Pyne June 18, 2023History News Network The serial ice ages that erased and repopulated Canada like a palimpsest have yielded to a fire age that is rewriting history with flame. An interglacial period has morphed into an epo…

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June 21, 2023 at 12:10 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – June 20, 2023

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – June 20, 2023     June 20, 2023xxxxxx Rising tide in Capital’s sewage drains , Alamy   Morale in the Workplace Fear, Violence and MAGA The Fight Over Education Biden’s Faulty Take on Antisemitism Onward Christian Soldie…

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June 20, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Coalition Convenes in DC To Fight ‘American Death Sentence’ of Poverty

Coalition Convenes in DC To Fight ‘American Death Sentence’ of Poverty     Jake Johnson June 19, 2023Common Dreams "Until our nation's leaders invest the great riches of this nation in ensuring equal justice for all, beginning with the poor and low-wealth of this nat…

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June 20, 2023 at 12:05 AM

This Week in People’s History, June 20 . . .

This Week in People’s History, June 20 . . .     xxxxxx CIA impunity in 1988. U.S. imperialism's baby steps in 1898. Free speech for Nazis in 1978. U.S. responsibility for Vietnam War in 1971. Smallpox-infected presents in 1763. Voting wrongs, not rights, in 2013. Ha…

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June 20, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Of Potato Latkes and Pedagogy

Portside Culture Of Potato Latkes and Pedagogy     Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall May 23, 2023Perspectives on History: the newsmagazine of the American Historical Association The process of examining recipes and cooking instills concepts more deeply than traditiona…

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June 20, 2023 at 12:00 AM

From Colonialism to Fascism: A History of Spain’s Elite Forces

From Colonialism to Fascism: A History of Spain’s Elite Forces     Uma Arruga i López May 21, 2023Red Pepper Fascism is, arguably, the application of colonial violence to the imperial core. Franco implemented what he had learnt during the colonial conflict in the civ…

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June 20, 2023 at 12:00 AM

What Juneteenth Looks Like for Prisoners

What Juneteenth Looks Like for Prisoners     Antoine Davis and Darrell Jackson June 16, 2023Waging Nonviolence As Black men in prison, we live the tension between celebrating the abolition of slavery and struggling inside the system that replaced it. Prison ba…

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June 20, 2023 at 12:00 AM

A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press

A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press     Ralph Engelman, Carey Shenkman January 3, 2023Truthdig How the Espionage Act of 1917 is the most important yet least understood law threatening freedom of the press in modern American history. …

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June 19, 2023 at 5:50 AM

Sunday Science: Boston’s Colonial Universities Grab Land for Profit, War, and Medical Apartheid

Sunday Science: Boston’s Colonial Universities Grab Land for Profit, War, and Medical Apartheid     The Mapping Project June 3, 2023The Mapping Project Our interactive map illustrates some ways in which institutional support for the colonization of Palestine is struc…

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June 19, 2023 at 3:55 AM

AI, Job Loss, and Productivity Growth

AI, Job Loss, and Productivity Growth     Dean Baker June 12, 2023CEPR The moral of the story is that there is nothing about AI technology that should lead to mass unemployment and inequality. If those are outcomes, it will be the result of how we structured the rule…

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June 19, 2023 at 3:40 AM

Juneteenth, Explained

Juneteenth, Explained     Fabiola Cineas June 15, 2023Vox The holiday’s 158-year history holds a lot of meaning in the fight for Black liberation today. Juneteenth Celebration at Emancipation Park 1880 touched up. Thirty-one people in Houston's Fourth Ward. Re…

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June 19, 2023 at 2:45 AM

Mandela’s Black Marxism

Mandela’s Black Marxism     An interview with Paul S. Landau by Chris Webb June 16, 2023Africa is a Country Nelson Mandela is deified everywhere. But typically missing is an account of his early years, when he insisted that Marxism be responsive to South African cond…

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June 19, 2023 at 2:25 AM

The Colonial Origins of the UChicago Police

The Colonial Origins of the UChicago Police     Julian Go June 6, 2023Rampart Modern policing has its origin in colonial violence. The University of Chicago has long played a part in cultivating, promoting, spreading, and normalizing the tools of such state violence.…

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June 19, 2023 at 12:00 AM

In Obama’s Working, There Is No Way Out

Portside Culture In Obama’s Working, There Is No Way Out     Alex N. Press June 12, 2023Jacobin Barack Obama abandoned his commitments to unions, and many top staffers went to work for the gig economy. In his Netflix series Working, the former president bears w…

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June 18, 2023 at 12:05 AM

GOP Wants To Destroy Social Security As We Know It

GOP Wants To Destroy Social Security As We Know It     Jake Johnson June 15, 2023Common Dreams "The largest group of House Republicans just released a budget that calls for massive tax cuts for the super-rich and raising the Social Security retirement age, a benefit …

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June 18, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Massachusetts Green Bank Is Created

Massachusetts Green Bank Is Created     Gov. Maura Healey June 13, 2023Mass.gov Governor Healey Announces Creation of Massachusetts Community Climate Bank, Nation’s First Green Bank Dedicated to Affordable Housing Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, Robin Lubbock…

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June 18, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Time To Seek Justice, Not Hand Out the Nobel Prize, for Economic Crimes

Time To Seek Justice, Not Hand Out the Nobel Prize, for Economic Crimes     Walden Bello June 13, 2023Foreign Policy in Focus Neoliberalism has caused the widespread and institutional violation of human rights. Trash picker in the Philippines, (Shutterstock) …

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June 18, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The End of the Line for the Raunchy Billionaire Who Set the Stage for Donald Trump

The End of the Line for the Raunchy Billionaire Who Set the Stage for Donald Trump     Sam Pizzigati June 15, 2023Inequality.org This billionaire’s legacy? Two-thirds of all Italians between the ages of 18 and 34 are now living at home with their parents because Ital…

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June 18, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Daniel Ellsberg, American Hero

Daniel Ellsberg, American Hero     Chip Gibbons June 16, 2023Jacobin Honoring Ellsberg requires not just recalling him as a historic figure, but carrying on his work and legacy to dismantle the machinery of war that has claimed far too many lives and end its accompan…

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June 17, 2023 at 3:40 AM

Friday Nite Videos | June 16, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | June 16, 2023     June 16, 2023xxxxxx DeSantis and Trump Among the Disciples. "We Built This" - Black-ish Season 4 Premiere. Big Win for Tribal Sovereignty in the Supreme Court. School Board President Destroys Homophobic Protestors. Why Disney W…

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June 17, 2023 at 2:40 AM

‘I’ve Never Regretted Doing It’: Daniel Ellsberg (1931–2023)

‘I’ve Never Regretted Doing It’: Daniel Ellsberg (1931–2023)     David Smith June 13, 2021Guardian Fifty years after exposing US lies about the Vietnam war, Daniel Ellsberg said the culture of official secrecy had gotten worse. He urged whistleblowers: ‘Don’t wait ye…

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June 17, 2023 at 2:10 AM

Justice Department Finds Pattern of Discriminatory Policing in Minneapolis

Justice Department Finds Pattern of Discriminatory Policing in Minneapolis     Stephen Montemayor and Liz Navratil June 16, 2023Star Tribune The Minneapolis Police Department routinely engaged in a pattern of racist and abusive behavior, according to a Justice Depart…

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June 17, 2023 at 1:55 AM

Beyond Racial Liberalism

Beyond Racial Liberalism     Felicia Wong and Kyle Strickland November 16, 2021Democracy Journal Victory requires the long view: the values and ideas that must animate our new fight for racial justice. March to commemorate the 55th anniversary of Bloody Sunday…

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June 17, 2023 at 1:45 AM

Major SCOTUS Victory for Native American Rights

Major SCOTUS Victory for Native American Rights     Kolby KickingWoman June 15, 2023ICT “We won on every single issue and [the petitioners' law firm] is not taking home anything. They're not winning on a 10th amendment issue. They're not winning on Indian as a race-b…

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June 17, 2023 at 1:10 AM

Chile: “We Are Currently Witnessing an Acceleration of Authoritarianism and the Deprivation of Fundamental Rights”

Chile: “We Are Currently Witnessing an Acceleration of Authoritarianism and the Deprivation of Fundamental Rights”     Nazaret Castro June 2, 2023Equal Times To understand what the population rejected on 4 September, we have to look at the left’s lack of an economic …

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June 17, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Not Brave, Not Free

Portside Culture Not Brave, Not Free     Lee Rossi October 4, 2022Cultural Daily California poet Lee Rossi knows what’s wrong with America—but who will listen? ,   Not Brave, Not Free By Lee Rossi                         after Tony Hoagland All m…

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June 16, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Living on a Smoke-Bomb of a Planet

Living on a Smoke-Bomb of a Planet     Tom Engelhardt June 15, 2023TomDispatch As those Canadian wildfires suggest, we’re now living on a new, not terribly recognizable, ever more perilous world in which not just this country but Planet Earth itself is in decline. Cl…

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June 16, 2023 at 12:05 AM

We Ignore Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Candidacy at Our Peril

We Ignore Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Candidacy at Our Peril     Naomi Klein June 14, 2023The Guardian If recent developments in the Kennedy campaign have demonstrated anything, it’s that denial is not a viable political strategy. His sycophantic treatment of Elon Musk is …

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June 16, 2023 at 12:05 AM

I’m a TV Writer on Food Stamps

I’m a TV Writer on Food Stamps     Jeanie Bergen May 16, 2023New York Magazine While writers like me struggle to make ends meet, Hollywood studios get rich off the content we create. Illustration: by Samantha Hahn // New York Magazine,   I was working as…

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June 16, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Surprising Pervasiveness of Pro-War Propaganda

The Surprising Pervasiveness of Pro-War Propaganda     Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies, Marcy Winograd June 15, 2023Foreign Policy in Focus The war in Ukraine has divided progressives like few other foreign policy issues in recent years. A Foreign Policy in Focus…

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June 16, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – June 15, 2023 – Reader Comments: Trump Indictment; Killing Blacks a Growth Industry; David Byrne Relents; Readers Respond: “People’s Media” Network; 10 Years of Fight for $15; Eddie Kay Way-Street Naming Ceremony; Cartoons; More

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June 15, 2023 at 7:05 AM

How Much Damage Has the Trump-Putin Collusion Inflicted on America?

How Much Damage Has the Trump-Putin Collusion Inflicted on America?     Thom Hartmann June 14, 2023The Hartmann Report Does Trump’s goal appear to be, to paraphrase Ron DeSantis, to “Make America Russia?” , Image by hafteh7 from Pixabay   If Trump shared…

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June 15, 2023 at 6:55 AM

In ‘Climate-Wrecking’ Reversal, Shell Ditches Plans for Oil Production Cut and Hikes Dividend

In ‘Climate-Wrecking’ Reversal, Shell Ditches Plans for Oil Production Cut and Hikes Dividend     Jake Johnson June 14, 2023Common Dreams "It will always be profit over people and planet for polluters," said one campaigner. "Shell simply cannot be trusted—with either…

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