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June 15, 2023 at 6:45 AM

Tori Bowie and the Disturbing Reality of Rising Black Maternal Mortality

Tori Bowie and the Disturbing Reality of Rising Black Maternal Mortality     Sage Howard June 14, 2023Huff Post As Black birthing people remain three times more likely to die during childbirth than white people, racism — both in and outside the medical system — plays…

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June 15, 2023 at 6:30 AM

Trump’s Kryptonite: How Progressives Can Win Back the Working Class

Trump’s Kryptonite: How Progressives Can Win Back the Working Class     Editors June 13, 2023Jacobin A first-of-its-kind study from Jacobin, YouGov, and the Center for Working-Class Politics finds that economic populism can help progressives win more working-class vo…

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June 15, 2023 at 2:40 AM

Black Resistance According to Angela Davis and Tschabalala Self

Portside Culture Black Resistance According to Angela Davis and Tschabalala Self     Alexandra M. Thomas May 30, 2023Hyperallergic A radical communion of painting and writing, Art on the Frontline reckons with the leftist political potential of Black visual and…

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June 15, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – June 14, 2023

Global Left Midweek – June 14, 2023     June 14, 2023xxxxxx The demand: democracy. The response: advancing fascist movements and state repression. Protesters at Place de la Nation in Dakar, Senegal, on March 8. Credit, JOHN WESSELS/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES  …

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June 14, 2023 at 12:30 AM

A Public Power Victory in New York State

A Public Power Victory in New York State     Trade Unions for Energy Democracy June 6, 2023The Bullet “Ninety years ago, FDR [President Franklin Delano Roosevelt] established the New York Power Authority to create power for the people. Today we reclaim that power, by…

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June 14, 2023 at 12:25 AM

America Is Facing a Mental Health Crisis

America Is Facing a Mental Health Crisis     Bernie Sanders June 13, 2023The Guardian Young people are grappling with challenges that no generation in modern history has been forced to deal with. They need our help now ‘The pandemic, the worst public health cr…

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June 14, 2023 at 12:25 AM

Amnesty Probe of Israeli Attacks on Gaza Shows ‘Human Toll of Apartheid’

Amnesty Probe of Israeli Attacks on Gaza Shows ‘Human Toll of Apartheid’     Jessica Corbett June 13, 2023Common Dreams "It has been a month since the cease-fire agreement between Israeli authorities and Palestinian armed groups, but the suffering that these recurren…

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June 14, 2023 at 12:25 AM

Social Housing: How a New Generation of Activists Are Reinventing Housing

Social Housing: How a New Generation of Activists Are Reinventing Housing     H. Jacob Carlson and Gianpaolo Baiocchi June 6, 2023Nonprofit Quarterly What is social housing? The simple answer is that it is a systemic approach to providing homes that treat housing no…

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June 14, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – June 13, 2023

Media Bits and Bytes – June 13, 2023     June 13, 2023xxxxxx How Hollywood became the Marvel Universe , Maxim Usik   How Rightist Media Cover The People v. Trump Everything You Need to Know About AI CEO Out at CNN How Marvel Comics Swallowed Hollywood Th…

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June 13, 2023 at 2:45 AM

The Three Biggest Obstacles to Convicting Trump

The Three Biggest Obstacles to Convicting Trump     Paul Rosenzweig June 11, 2023The Atlantic Although Special Counsel Jack Smith has brought a strong case, he still faces significant challenges. ,   Donald Trump has been indicted on 37 felony counts rel…

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June 13, 2023 at 12:40 AM

The Emerging Anti-MAGA Majority

The Emerging Anti-MAGA Majority     Michael Podhorzer June 8, 2023Weekend Reading Wake up: Trump has fundamentally reshaped the electorate. This is good news for the fight against MAGA fascism. ,   In 2016, Trump shocked the world by tearing down the “Bl…

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June 13, 2023 at 12:05 AM

This Week in People’s History, June 13 . . .

This Week in People’s History, June 13 . . .     xxxxxx A people's tribune's birthday. Opposing the Vietnam War in 1968. Opposing U.S. imperialism in 1898. Debs' 1918 sedition conviction. A win for abolitionists in 1833. Boycotting Jim Crow in 1953. Thousands say, 'E…

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June 13, 2023 at 12:00 AM

California’s ‘Local Food Producers’ Hope Proposed New Label Will Boost Support

Portside Culture California’s ‘Local Food Producers’ Hope Proposed New Label Will Boost Support     Naoki Nitta May 19, 2023Modern Farmer A new bill aims to help the state’s independent farmers by first labeling who they are. The Sunday Marin Farmers Mar…

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June 13, 2023 at 12:00 AM

To Deepen Democracy, Give Workers More Say

To Deepen Democracy, Give Workers More Say     Desmond Serrette May 12, 2023Convergence If we are to save our democracy, we must increase the influence of everyday people, of the workers who make corporations run. Worker power is the only counterbalance to corporate …

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June 13, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The SEC Comes for Big Crypto

The SEC Comes for Big Crypto     Ryan Cooper June 7, 2023The American Prospect The agency has sued both Binance and Coinbase for violating securities law. , Jonathan Raa/NURPHOTO via AP   The crypto industry hasn’t had a great year. We’ve seen the epic c…

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June 12, 2023 at 12:10 AM

The Implications of New US Troop Arrivals in Peru

The Implications of New US Troop Arrivals in Peru     W. T. Whitney June 9, 2023CounterPunch The U.S. troops arrive amid an upsurge of Peru’s underclass. Peru’s mostly rural, poor, and indigenous majority elected the recently deposed Castillo as president in 2021, th…

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June 12, 2023 at 12:05 AM

A Slow Emancipation

A Slow Emancipation     Anna Wood June 9, 2023Africa Is A Country What peanut trading in late 19th century Senegal tells us about the fine line between slavery and freedom. , E. Diop on Unsplash   In Slaves for Peanuts, Jori Lewis, an award-winning journ…

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June 12, 2023 at 12:05 AM

How Hollywood’s Anti-Communist Crackdown Made TV and Movies Bland and Boring

Portside Culture How Hollywood’s Anti-Communist Crackdown Made TV and Movies Bland and Boring     Eileen Jones June 8, 2023Jacobin The conformity of 1950s film and television was the result of the successful McCarthyist purge of leftists — and their genres — fr…

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June 12, 2023 at 12:00 AM

What’s Behind the Summit of South American Nations in Brasilia?

What’s Behind the Summit of South American Nations in Brasilia?     Presenter: Adrian Finighan, Guests: Temir Porras Ponceleon, Guillaume Long, Danny Shaw May 31, 2023Aljazeera Brazil’s president wants economic and political bloc to benefit region. Leaders from South…

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June 12, 2023 at 12:00 AM

How Black Women Writers Got It Done

How Black Women Writers Got It Done     Marina Magloire June 6, 2023The Nation Claudia Tate’s 1983 collection of interviews is an important look into the trials writers like Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou faced on their way to mainstream acceptance Nikki Giova…

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June 12, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Sunday Science: Discovered in Collections, Many New Species Are Already Gone

Sunday Science: Discovered in Collections, Many New Species Are Already Gone     Katarina Zimmer May 29, 2023Undark Scientists are increasingly seeing evidence of “dark extinction” in museum and botanical garden collections. The bee species Hypotrigona kleiner…

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June 11, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Biden’s Antitrust Adviser Tees Off on Golf Merger

Biden’s Antitrust Adviser Tees Off on Golf Merger     Sara Morrison June 9, 2023Vox Why Tim Wu thinks regulators might block a PGA Tour-LIV Golf “partnership.” Tim Wu, gruntzooki   The golf world was rocked this week by news that the PGA Tour, Europe’s D…

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June 11, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Merck Says Negotiating Drug Prices Is Unconstitutional

Merck Says Negotiating Drug Prices Is Unconstitutional     Ryan Cooper June 8, 2023American Prospect The Inflation Reduction Act took minor steps against Big Pharma price-gouging. Merck is outraged. Merck’s core argument is that the drug price reform in the In…

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June 11, 2023 at 12:00 AM

When California Set Minimum Staffing Levels for Overworked Nurses, Better Patient Outcomes Followed

When California Set Minimum Staffing Levels for Overworked Nurses, Better Patient Outcomes Followed     Mark Kreidler May 12, 2023Capital & Main The case for strict staffing ratios in American hospitals and skilled nursing facilities is remarkably straightforward…

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June 11, 2023 at 12:00 AM

I Crashed Henry Kissinger’s 100th-Birthday Party: The Elite Love Him But for Some Reason Won’t Say Why.

I Crashed Henry Kissinger’s 100th-Birthday Party: The Elite Love Him But for Some Reason Won’t Say Why.     Jonathan Guyer June 8, 2023New York Magazine Kissinger is having an extended birthday month. It has also been a month of outstanding watchdog reporting — inclu…

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June 11, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Corbyn in Budapest: “We Have To Be Organized on an International Basis”

Corbyn in Budapest: “We Have To Be Organized on an International Basis”     Levente Szadai and Csaba Tóth June 6, 2023LeftEast We have global capital organized on energy supplies, organized on food production and distribution, organized on services, and organized on …

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June 10, 2023 at 1:55 AM

Friday Nite Videos | June 9, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | June 9, 2023     June 9, 2023xxxxxx I Tracked Down My Anonymous Landlord... Here's What Happened. How a 1968 Student Protest Fueled a Chicano Rights Movement. Santos' Lawyer Was Part of the J6 Mob. Why Did Our Brains Shrink? The Canadian Village …

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June 10, 2023 at 12:05 AM

How To Convict Trump

How To Convict Trump     Norman Eisen, Andrew Weissmann and Joyce Vance June 9, 2023New York Times The potential for conviction and actually winning a jury verdict are two very different things — particularly against the notoriously combative and slippery former pre…

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June 10, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Who Gets To Try Trump First?

Who Gets To Try Trump First?     Darryl K. Brown June 8, 2023The Conversation Nothing in the U.S. Constitution or federal law dictates that federal criminal cases get priority over state cases, or that prosecutions proceed in the order in which indictments are issued…

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June 10, 2023 at 12:05 AM

“People’s Media” Network, but Pro-Russia and Pro-China

“People’s Media” Network, but Pro-Russia and Pro-China     William Bredderman May 29, 2023The Daily Beast Tech mogul Neville Singham’s vast dark money network has fueled BreakThrough News and a raft of other online outlets pushing Moscow and Beijing’s favorite narrat…

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June 10, 2023 at 12:00 AM

SCOTUS Voting Rights Win Will Impact Multiple States

SCOTUS Voting Rights Win Will Impact Multiple States     Michael Li June 9, 2023Brennan Center for Justice A ruling in an Alabama case upheld a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, but challenges remain for communities of color. U.S. Supreme Court, by zackl…

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June 10, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Arc

Portside Culture The Arc     Kenneth Pobo May 1, 2023Freshwater Literary Journal The so-called “arc of history,” says poet Kenneth Pobo, does not “bend toward justice,” and he tells us why! ,   The Arc By Kenneth Pobo That the arc of history bends…

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June 9, 2023 at 12:10 AM

Is Killing Blacks a Growth Industry?

Is Killing Blacks a Growth Industry?     Ishmael Reed June 2, 2023CounterPunch A growth industry is a sector of an economy that experiences a higher-than-average growth rate compared to other sectors. Growth industries are often new or pioneer industries that did not…

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June 9, 2023 at 12:05 AM

More Indications RFK Jr’s Anti Vaccine Claims Have Little Basis

More Indications RFK Jr’s Anti Vaccine Claims Have Little Basis     Russ Baker June 3, 2023Going Deep with Russ Baker At a time when disinformation and narrow-mindedness are at an all-time high, the last thing we need is a purported “reform” candidate who contributes…

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June 9, 2023 at 12:05 AM

“This Ain’t No Disco,” Broadway Tells David Byrne

“This Ain’t No Disco,” Broadway Tells David Byrne     Chris Lehmann June 2, 2023The Nation The former Talking Heads front man is battling Broadway musicians, the concept of musical theatrical productions on Broadway, and the local musicians’ union over a production t…

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June 9, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Readers Debate: The Surprising Pervasiveness of American Arrogance

Readers Debate: The Surprising Pervasiveness of American Arrogance     Kevin Young; Charles Patrick Lynch; John Feffer June 8, 2023xxxxxx Last week xxxxxx ran John Feffer's column, which generated a number of likes and shares on xxxxxx's Facebook page. We are are sha…

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June 9, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – June 8, 2023 – Reader Comments: Why I Voted No on the McCarthy Agreement; Supreme Court Rulings; Henry Kissinger; Ukraine War; UPS Strike?; Karl Marx Critics; Wealthiest Billionaire in Each State; Bill Fletcher’s New Novel; Cartoons;

Tidbits – June 8, 2023 – Reader Comments: Why I Voted No on the McCarthy Agreement; Supreme Court Rulings; Henry Kissinger; Ukraine War; UPS Strike?; Karl Marx Critics; Wealthiest Billionaire in Each State; Bill Fletcher’s New Novel; Cartoons;     June 8, 2023xxxxxx …

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June 9, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Tricky Thing With Humanism, This Book Implies, Is Humans

Portside Culture The Tricky Thing With Humanism, This Book Implies, Is Humans     Jennifer Szalai March 29, 2023The New York Times Sarah Bakewell’s sweeping new survey of the philosophical tradition, “Humanly Possible,” says that putting your faith in human beh…

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June 8, 2023 at 6:05 AM

Surging Atmospheric CO2 Hits Level Unseen in Millions of Years

Surging Atmospheric CO2 Hits Level Unseen in Millions of Years     Juan Cole June 7, 2023Common Dreams The only way to stop this march to a fully tropical globe is to stop burning gasoline and diesel in our vehicles, and to stop generating electricity and heating our…

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June 8, 2023 at 5:55 AM

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Moves To Vacate 316 Convictions Connected to Crooked NYPD Cops

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Moves To Vacate 316 Convictions Connected to Crooked NYPD Cops     Molly Crane-Newman June 6, 2023New York Daily News “These cases represent hundreds of New Yorkers who have been living with the serious costs that come with a conviction, incl…

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June 8, 2023 at 5:45 AM

Iowa Governor Signs One of the Most Dangerous Rollbacks of Child Labor Laws in the Country

Iowa Governor Signs One of the Most Dangerous Rollbacks of Child Labor Laws in the Country     Jennifer Sherer and Nina Mast May 31, 2023Economic Policy Institute 14 states have now introduced bills putting children at risk ,   In a March 14 report, we d…

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June 8, 2023 at 5:30 AM

UPS Teamsters Are Ready To Strike

UPS Teamsters Are Ready To Strike     Sean Orr and Elliot Lewis June 7, 2023Jacobin With UPS making astronomical profits and public support for unions holding strong, a Teamsters strike at UPS this August could be a watershed moment for the American working class. Tw…

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June 8, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – June 7, 2023

Global Left Midweek – June 7, 2023     June 7, 2023xxxxxx Major strikes in Iran and the UK, repression in Germany and Swaziland, and more , Workers protest in Iran   Iran Strike Wave German Police Attack Climate Activists The Saga of Eritrea From PSOL: B…

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June 7, 2023 at 12:40 AM

Tossed by Cement Mixers, the Court Grows Dizzy

Tossed by Cement Mixers, the Court Grows Dizzy     Harold Meyerson June 5, 2023The American Prospect Last Thursday, the Supremes ruled against a union of cement-mixer drivers—but their very odd decision could have been lots worse for American workers. The Glac…

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June 7, 2023 at 12:35 AM

Atlanta City Council Approves Project Decried As ‘Cop City,’ Rejecting Activists’ Fierce Opposition

Atlanta City Council Approves Project Decried As ‘Cop City,’ Rejecting Activists’ Fierce Opposition     R.J. Rico, Associated Press June 6, 2023PBS News Hour For about 14 hours, residents again and again took to the podium to slam the project, saying it would be a gr…

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June 7, 2023 at 12:35 AM

What Happens When You Tax Billionaires at 90 Percent?

What Happens When You Tax Billionaires at 90 Percent?     Tom Hartman June 6, 2023Economy For All America’s billionaires pay an average of around 3.1 percent as their functional income tax rate; America is the most unequal developed society in the world. The last tim…

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June 7, 2023 at 12:35 AM

Our Epidemic of Mass Shootings Is Traumatizing a Generation and Threatening Democracy

Our Epidemic of Mass Shootings Is Traumatizing a Generation and Threatening Democracy     Firmin DeBrabander June 6, 2023Jacobin The number of mass shootings continues to soar in the US — not just costing lives, but traumatizing our youth and undermining the basis fo…

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June 7, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – Pride Special

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – Pride Special     June 6, 2023xxxxxx Moving forward, facing violent opposition LGBTQ activists march past the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville on February 14, 2023. Credit, John Amis/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign …

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June 6, 2023 at 12:05 AM

History Is a Human Right

History Is a Human Right     Jesse Hagopian May 24, 2023Word in Black From Stone Mountain to the Stonewall Inn, the #TeachTruth National Day of Action fights back against anti-history legislation. Pasadena MD at Banned Books Photo Booth, June 2022, Photograph …

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June 6, 2023 at 12:05 AM

This Week in People’s History, June 6 . . .

This Week in People’s History, June 6 . . .     xxxxxx Bullets don't stop March Against Fear. Strikers' play fills Madison Square Garden. Court rules for lunch-counter sit-in. Cesar Chavez gets started. CIA lawbreaking whitewashed. Environmental racism costs Shell Oi…

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