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August 15, 2023 at 12:10 AM

The Secret Memo at Trump Conspiracy Ground Zero

The Secret Memo at Trump Conspiracy Ground Zero     Norman Eisen, Joshua Kolb, and Fred Wertheimer August 12, 2023MSNBC The newly revealed document written by little-known lawyer Kenneth Cheseboro shows us how the fake elector scheme evolved. Donald Trump’s la…

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August 15, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Raw, the Cooked and the Hydrolysed

Portside Culture The Raw, the Cooked and the Hydrolysed     Fred Warren July 12, 2023The Dark Mountain Project Marketing departments inject Ultra-Processed Foods (UPFs) with stories ranging from the banal (a cereal box cartoon character) and aspirational (healt…

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August 15, 2023 at 12:00 AM

EU for the Few

EU for the Few     August 8, 2023The Left Berlin The right to safety and pursuit of happiness belongs to every human being. This can be reached only through freedom of movement as a universal right. Somali refugee boat, (photo: PH1 Robert R. McRill. Public dom…

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August 14, 2023 at 12:35 PM

Foundation Is Fixing the Trickiest Thing About the Asimov Books

Portside Culture Foundation Is Fixing the Trickiest Thing About the Asimov Books     Ryan Britt August 11, 2023Inverse Isaac Asimov was a science fiction giant. But the Apple TV version of Foundation addresses one place the books fell short. Foundation is no lo…

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August 14, 2023 at 6:05 AM

Sunday Science: Forging Connections

Sunday Science: Forging Connections     Andrew Curry August 3, 2023Science DNA from enslaved Black workers at a 19th century iron forge links them to living descendants. But the research swirls with ethical questions Agnes Jackson, a descendant of an enslaved …

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August 14, 2023 at 5:00 AM

What the Supreme Court’s Decision To Hear the Purdue Pharma Case Means

What the Supreme Court’s Decision To Hear the Purdue Pharma Case Means     Abbie VanSickle, Jan Hoffman August 11, 2023New York Times A federal appeals court had signed off on a deal that would shield members of the wealthy Sackler family from lawsuits in exchange fo…

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August 14, 2023 at 4:50 AM

Political Aspects of Full Employment

Political Aspects of Full Employment     Michal Kalecki May 7, 2018Jacobin Why do capitalists hate full employment? Because it weakens their power over workers. Unemployed women at a Federal Emergency Relief Administration camp in Arcola, PA circa July 1934., …

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August 14, 2023 at 4:25 AM

Constrain the Court—Without Crippling It

Constrain the Court—Without Crippling It     Laurence H. Tribe July 27, 2023New York Review Critics of the Supreme Court think it has lost its claim to legitimacy. But proposals for reforming it must strike a balance with preserving its power and independence, which …

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August 14, 2023 at 3:20 AM

Why Saudi-Israel ‘Peace’ Will Cement a Violent Future

Why Saudi-Israel ‘Peace’ Will Cement a Violent Future     Dana El Kurd August 8, 2023972 Magazine Far from resolving conflicts, Saudi-Israel normalization will serve as a pillar of a repressive architecture that brings no justice for Palestinians or Arab peoples. …

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August 13, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Why the U.S. Needs at Least a $17 Minimum Wage

Why the U.S. Needs at Least a $17 Minimum Wage     EPI July 31, 2023Economic Policy Institute How the Raise the Wage Act would benefit U.S. workers, their families, and entire communities , Boston University   The federal minimum hourly wage is just $7.2…

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August 13, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Public Pharma Is the Best Solution

Public Pharma Is the Best Solution     Dana Brown and Christopher Morten August 9, 2023Stat There is an ongoing problem of drug shortages. , Adobe   Drug shortages in the United States are at a record high. At least 14 essential generic cancer drugs are …

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August 13, 2023 at 12:00 AM

McCarthyism Is Back, and It’s Coming for the Peace Movement

McCarthyism Is Back, and It’s Coming for the Peace Movement     August 10, 2023Defending Rights and Dissent With rising global tensions, unsurprisingly the same old McCarthyite playbook is again being dusted off. We reject these smears. ,   Defending Rig…

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August 13, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Gustavo Petro’s First Year: Social and Environmental Justice and Regional Integration

Gustavo Petro’s First Year: Social and Environmental Justice and Regional Integration     Laura Capote August 9, 2023Peoples Dispatch Petro’s inaugural year was characterized by guaranteeing free higher education, agrarian reform, reopening of relations with Venezuel…

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August 13, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Argentina’s Slow Crawl to Justice

Argentina’s Slow Crawl to Justice     Amelia Rayno August 7, 2023The Progressive As family members of the disappeared pass away, the momentum of the fight slows. Argentina’s media outlets don’t often cover the trials, or the ensuing sentence mitigations, so many don…

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August 12, 2023 at 1:40 AM

Friday Nite Videos | July 11, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | July 11, 2023     August 11, 2023xxxxxx Is Donald Trump a Fascist? | Robert Reich. This Is Not a Song, It's an Outburst: Or, the Establishment Blues. We Went To a Trump Rally: What We Heard. Dark Winds Season 2. The High Schooler Who Solved a Pri…

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August 12, 2023 at 12:15 AM

Jack Smith Wants a January Trial in D.C. — He Might Actually Get Something Close

Jack Smith Wants a January Trial in D.C. — He Might Actually Get Something Close     Jordan Rubin August 11, 2023MSNBC It could be for the best, in the Justice Department’s view, that Judge Cannon didn’t grant the government’s requested date in Florida. , …

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August 12, 2023 at 12:15 AM

More Than Half of Earth’s Species Live in the Soil, Study Finds

More Than Half of Earth’s Species Live in the Soil, Study Finds     Phoebe Weston August 7, 2023Guardian Soil is estimated to be home to 90% of the world’s fungi, 85% of plants and more than 50% of bacteria, making it the world’s most species-rich habitat Hola…

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August 12, 2023 at 12:10 AM

Navalny: ‘Everyone Has To Make Some Kind of Sacrifice’

Navalny: ‘Everyone Has To Make Some Kind of Sacrifice’     Alexei Navalny July 20, 2023Meduza Facing another 20 years in prison for ‘extremism,’ Navalny’s courtroom speech urges others to fight the ‘unscrupulous evil’ of the Russian authorities Alexei Navalny,…

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August 12, 2023 at 12:10 AM

Gen Z Gets a PAC

Gen Z Gets a PAC     Elena Moore August 9, 2023NPR 'We're not just voting. We're also running': David Hogg launches a young candidate PAC. The success of Maxwell Frost, advocate-turned-politician and the youngest member of Congress, is a motivator, says Hogg. …

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August 12, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Chinese Exclusion Act

Portside Culture Chinese Exclusion Act     Gerald Sloan Arkansas poet Gerald Sloan reminds us that the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was no “act” but often lost to history and found again. ,   Chinese Exclusion Act (A Lost-and-Found Poem) By Gerald…

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August 11, 2023 at 3:40 AM

Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel

Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel     Brett Murphy and Alex Mierjeski August 10, 2023ProPublica And the grift that just keeps giving (or is it taking?) The fullest accounting yet shows ho…

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August 11, 2023 at 2:45 AM

Ohio Issue 1 Fails: Big Cities, Suburbs, Many Rural Counties Voted Down Issue

Ohio Issue 1 Fails: Big Cities, Suburbs, Many Rural Counties Voted Down Issue     Sarah Szilagy August 9, 2023NBC 4 (WCMH -Columbus) Big Cities, Suburbs, and Many Rural Counties Voted Down Issue.1, the special election - hot August, a first, saw a 38% turnout - high …

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August 11, 2023 at 2:05 AM

The World Is Burning. Here’s How We Stop It.

The World Is Burning. Here’s How We Stop It.     Bernie Sanders August 8, 2023FOX News We can still avoid the worst impacts of climate change, save money, and make energy grid more resilient. "Obviously, climate change is not real. I’ve heard, you’ve heard, "expert" …

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August 11, 2023 at 1:40 AM

This World Cup’s Anti-USWNT Outrage Isn’t Just Hateful, It’s Irrational

This World Cup’s Anti-USWNT Outrage Isn’t Just Hateful, It’s Irrational     Meg Linehan August 9, 2023The Athletic Consider the fact that so many of the people heaping invective on this U.S. team are doing so while trumpeting the need to “protect women’s sports” – so…

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August 11, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Tidbits – Aug.10, 2023 – Reader Comments: Ohio Voted!; Hiroshima – Nagasaki – Never Again!; VFX Workers Unionizing at Marvel Studios; How Policy Has Shaped Racial Economic Disparities; Films: Sacco and Vanzetti; King Coal; Cartoons; More; ...

Tidbits – Aug.10, 2023 – Reader Comments: Ohio Voted!; Hiroshima – Nagasaki – Never Again!; VFX Workers Unionizing at Marvel Studios; How Policy Has Shaped Racial Economic Disparities; Films: Sacco and Vanzetti; King Coal; Cartoons; More; …     August 10, 2023xxxxxx …

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August 10, 2023 at 5:15 AM

The Hollywood Strike Drags On Because of One Stumbling Block: Studio Greed

The Hollywood Strike Drags On Because of One Stumbling Block: Studio Greed     Kathleen Sharp August 8, 2023The Guardian Execs make hundreds of millions of dollars, yet 87% of Sag actors don’t make the $26,470 a year to qualify for health insurance , CBS News …

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August 10, 2023 at 5:05 AM

India Is on the Brink

India Is on the Brink     Debasish Roy Chowdhury August 9, 2023New York Times India is a diverse nation, crisscrossed by religious, ethnic, caste, regional and political fault lines. Prime Minister Modi's government has torn those asunder seeking to remake India’s se…

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August 10, 2023 at 4:45 AM

Whole-of-Community Resilience

Whole-of-Community Resilience     Lydia Bates August 7, 2023Learning for Justice Helping young people build resilience against manipulative extremist narratives and conspiracy theories requires all adults in a young person’s trusted network to be equipped with the sk…

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August 10, 2023 at 4:30 AM

A New, Chilling Secret About the Manhattan Project Has Just Been Made Public

A New, Chilling Secret About the Manhattan Project Has Just Been Made Public     Fred Kaplan August 8, 2023Slate Turns out Oppenheimer’s boss lied, repeatedly, about radiation poisoning. Maj. Gen. Groves and J. R. Oppenheimer view the base of the steel tower u…

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August 10, 2023 at 3:05 AM

Poetry, Biography, and the Unknowable

Portside Culture Poetry, Biography, and the Unknowable     Hollis Robbins July 30, 2023Los Angeles Review of Books These books offer two approaches to the life and work of Wheatley, who is a cornerstone figure of the U.S. and African American literary tradition…

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August 10, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – Climate Movement All Over

Global Left Midweek – Climate Movement All Over     August 9, 2023xxxxxx “We need to have a grown-up conversation about what kind of system do we need, that will stop this ridiculous, outrageous harming that we're doing to ourselves and the planet.” - Gail Bradbrook …

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August 9, 2023 at 12:35 AM

“Nurses Fight Godzilla”

“Nurses Fight Godzilla”     Chris Hedges August 3, 2023The Chris Hedges Report Nurses, battered by the almost inhuman demands put on them during the pandemic, have been especially hard hit. Almost one-third of New Jersey’s nurses have left the profession in the last …

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August 9, 2023 at 12:30 AM

The 1933 Conference That Helped Forge Civil Rights Unionism

The 1933 Conference That Helped Forge Civil Rights Unionism     Eben Miller August 8, 2023Jacobin Ninety years ago this month, at the Amenia conference co-organized by W. E. B. Du Bois, young black leftists argued for a mass politics aligned with the labor movement. …

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August 9, 2023 at 12:30 AM

Voters Don’t Have a Voice in Governance. Citizen Assemblies Could Be the Answer.

Voters Don’t Have a Voice in Governance. Citizen Assemblies Could Be the Answer.     Marjan H. Ehsassi August 6, 2023Truthout What will it take for U.S. politicians to provide outlets for a consequential voice to citizens between elections? People gather durin…

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August 9, 2023 at 12:30 AM

Why Reverend Jesse Jackson Was Right. The Issue Is Not Race or Class, but Rather Race and Class.

Why Reverend Jesse Jackson Was Right. The Issue Is Not Race or Class, but Rather Race and Class.     Vincente Navarro August 7, 2023xxxxxx The Issue Is Not Race or Class, but Rather Race and Class. Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke at the UN today for the Internati…

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August 9, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Why Barbie Must Be Punished

Portside Culture Why Barbie Must Be Punished     Leslie Jamison July 29, 2023The NewYorker "She was flawless, something had to be wrong. I wanted to heal her, but I also needed her sick. I wanted to become Barbie, and I wanted to destroy her. I wanted her perf…

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August 9, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – August 8, 2023

Media Bits and Bytes – August 8, 2023     August 8, 2023xxxxxx X marks the despot, hackivists fight the power, and more hot flashes from media land ,   The Digitalization of Work Musk, X and Hate Covering the Tipping Point BlueSky Disney’s Content Purge …

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August 8, 2023 at 12:10 AM

The ‘Socialism of Fools’ of the ‘Anti-Imperialist’ Left

The ‘Socialism of Fools’ of the ‘Anti-Imperialist’ Left     William Robinson August 7, 2023The Philosophical Salon Such 'socialism' condemns repression practiced by the U.S. and the governments it supports, yet turns a blind eye to, or even defends repressive, author…

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August 8, 2023 at 12:05 AM

This Week in People’s History, August 8 – 14

This Week in People’s History, August 8 – 14     xxxxxx Documenting the Vietnam War in 1969. War crime in Yemen in 2018. Face-masks protect from pandemic in 1918. Hip-hop is born in 1973. White House report doesn't see race in 1938. Blowin' In the Wind dropped in 196…

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August 8, 2023 at 12:05 AM

WHO Releases Updated Guidelines on Defining Healthy Diets

Portside Culture WHO Releases Updated Guidelines on Defining Healthy Diets     Harvard Chan Newsletter The Nutrition Source Harvard experts say most recommendations are well-supported, but guidance on total fat intake omits decades of evidence ,   T…

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August 8, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Redemption Songs: The Forgotten History of American Prison Music

Redemption Songs: The Forgotten History of American Prison Music     Maurice Chammah August 3, 2023The Marshall Project From blues to gospel, country to rap, people have been making music behind bars for decades. Here’s why we should all tune in. , MEREDITH RI…

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August 8, 2023 at 12:00 AM

On 78th Anniversary of Hiroshima Bombing, Mayor Decries ‘Folly’ of Deterrence Theory

On 78th Anniversary of Hiroshima Bombing, Mayor Decries ‘Folly’ of Deterrence Theory     Olivia Rosane August 6, 2023Common Dreams "Believers of proactive nuclear deterrence, who say nuclear weapons are indispensable to maintain peace, are only delaying the progress …

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August 8, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Looking Back at the Steelworkers Fight Back Campaign – Part 3

Looking Back at the Steelworkers Fight Back Campaign – Part 3     Garrett Brown July 5, 2023Stansbury Forum 3rd in three-part posting on Steelworkers Fightback reform movement in the 1970s. Brown documents issues and personalities that drove the movement of relevance…

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August 7, 2023 at 7:50 AM

Sunday Science: A Theory of Childbirth’s Evolution May Not Be What You’re Expecting

Sunday Science: A Theory of Childbirth’s Evolution May Not Be What You’re Expecting     Carl Zimmer July 30, 2023New York Times Scientists are revisiting an influential theory that the evolution of big brains made human childbirth risky. , Nicole Rifkin …

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August 7, 2023 at 7:20 AM

Momentum for New and Expanded State Child Tax Credits, Earned Income Tax Credits Continued in 2023

Momentum for New and Expanded State Child Tax Credits, Earned Income Tax Credits Continued in 2023     Samantha Waxman, Amelia Minkin August 1, 2023Center on Budget and Policy Priorities These two efforts build on the success of the federal Child Tax Credit in reduci…

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August 7, 2023 at 6:05 AM

Sarah Polley’s Act of Imagination

Sarah Polley’s Act of Imagination     Brianna Di Monda August 3, 2023Dissent Women Talking is about the struggle to unearth language capable of describing profound desires for freedom and safety. Still from Women Talking , Universal Pictures   In Sarah P…

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August 7, 2023 at 5:45 AM

The Election That Could Determine the Future of Democracy in Ohio

The Election That Could Determine the Future of Democracy in Ohio     Sam Levine August 6, 2023The Guardian Ohio will be voting on a measure that makes it harder to amend the constitution in a high-stakes election – and the Republican proposal is ‘minority rule’, exp…

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August 7, 2023 at 4:05 AM

The Elephant in the Room

The Elephant in the Room     August 5, 2023 There cannot be democracy for Jews in Israel as long as Palestinians live under a regime of apartheid, as Israeli legal experts have described it. , Shoshke   We, academics and other public figures from Israel/…

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August 7, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation Production Staff File To Unionize

Portside Culture Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation Production Staff File To Unionize     Susana Polo July 20, 2023Polygon The effort by Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation production staff filing to unionize was sparked by Warner Bros. recent reorgani…

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August 6, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Liberation Statement on the Situation in Niger

Liberation Statement on the Situation in Niger     Morning Star The people of Niger, facing a desperate situation, are threatened with the withdrawal of vital humanitarian aid from the country in response to the coup, a move tantamount to a punitive measure and essent…

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