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May 18, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Scientists Calculated the Energy Needed To Carry a Baby. Shocker: It’s a Lot.

Scientists Calculated the Energy Needed To Carry a Baby. Shocker: It’s a Lot.     Carl Zimmer May 16, 2024 New York Times The energetic cost of a human pregnancy is about 50,000 dietary calories — far higher than previously believed, a new study found. …

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May 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM

In the 1960s and the 2020s, Antiwar Movements Change the Landscape

In the 1960s and the 2020s, Antiwar Movements Change the Landscape     Max Elbaum and Stephanie Luce May 9, 2024 Convergence Magazine Difficult as the road to forcing the US out of Vietnam was, the path to winning Palestinian self-determination and equal rig…

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May 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Safe Space

Portside Culture Safe Space     Carol Smith April 3, 2024 Radical Teacher New Jersey teacher and poet, Carol Smith explains the hazards of racist content, subtle, accidental, sometimes deliberate. ,   Safe Space By Carol Smith Saf…

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May 17, 2024 at 12:05 AM

In a First, Jewish Biden Administration Staffer Resigns Over War in Gaza

In a First, Jewish Biden Administration Staffer Resigns Over War in Gaza     Ron Kampeas May 15, 2024 Jewish Telegraphic Agency “I can no longer in good conscience represent this administration amidst President Biden’s disastrous, continued support for Israe…

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May 17, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Reflections on Student Activism – and the Struggle for a Better World

Reflections on Student Activism – and the Struggle for a Better World     William D. Hartung May 14, 2024 TomDispatch My most important training came outside the classroom, as a student activist. As I look at the surge of student organizing aimed at stopping…

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May 17, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Trump’s War on Government Will Take Public Health Back a Century

Trump’s War on Government Will Take Public Health Back a Century     Abdullah Shihipar May 15, 2024 The New Republic Trump and his allies are planning to “deconstruct” the administrative state by stripping its power and forcing out tens of thousands of worke…

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May 17, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Genocide Trial in Guatemala Brings Memories of Israel’s Role in the Killings

Genocide Trial in Guatemala Brings Memories of Israel’s Role in the Killings     Mary Jo McConahay May 10, 2024 The Progressive Magazine Along with the United States, Israel provided weapons and training to Guatemala’s military and their campaign against Ind…

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May 17, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – May 16 – Reader Comments: Trump Trial, Arms to Netanyahu, Campus Protests – Impact on Gaza War, Colleges, Society, Elections; Palestine, Gaza, Israel; Haiti; Kenya; Sing in Solidarity; Song Nights for Social Change; Cartoons; More …

Tidbits – May 16 – Reader Comments: Trump Trial, Arms to Netanyahu, Campus Protests – Impact on Gaza War, Colleges, Society, Elections; Palestine, Gaza, Israel; Haiti; Kenya; Sing in Solidarity; Song Nights for Social Change; Cartoons; More …     May 16, 2024 xxx…

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May 16, 2024 at 6:55 AM

‘Most Thorough Legal Analysis’ Yet Concludes Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza

‘Most Thorough Legal Analysis’ Yet Concludes Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza     Jessica Corbett May 15, 2024 Common Dreams The University Network for Human Rights report also stresses that other nations are legally obligated to "refrain from recognizing …

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May 16, 2024 at 6:40 AM

We’re in a Pivotal Moment in American History. We Cannot Retreat

We’re in a Pivotal Moment in American History. We Cannot Retreat     Bernie Sanders May 15, 2024 The Guardian Clearly, our job is not just to re-elect Biden. It’s much more than that , Courtesy of CNN   In 1776, Americans, living in a Briti…

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May 16, 2024 at 6:20 AM

She Campaigned for a Texas School Board Seat as a GOP Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism.

She Campaigned for a Texas School Board Seat as a GOP Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism.     Jeremy Schwartz May 15, 2024 ProPublica Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on…

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May 16, 2024 at 5:50 AM

Detailing Israeli Attacks on Known Aid Worker Locations

Detailing Israeli Attacks on Known Aid Worker Locations     May 14, 2024 Human Rights Watch Israeli authorities did not issue advance warnings to any of the aid organizations before the strikes, which killed or injured at least 31 aid workers and those with …

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May 16, 2024 at 5:20 AM

Oh Say AOC

Portside Culture Oh Say AOC     David Klion April 1, 2024 Bookforum This new book is a chronicle of the Democratic Party’s left flank ,   The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a…

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May 16, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – May 15, 2024

Global Left Midweek – May 15, 2024     May 15, 2024 xxxxxx Matters of life and death Grenada PM Dickon Mitchell is greeted by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel in Havana. Credit, Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo   We Have a Deadline Eq…

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May 15, 2024 at 12:40 AM

The US Plan To Outsource Its Imperialism in Haiti to Kenya

The US Plan To Outsource Its Imperialism in Haiti to Kenya     Samar Al-Bulushi May 14, 2024 Jacobin The US has long outsourced meddling in Haiti to Global South countries. Recently Kenya has agreed to take over leading a US-backed multinational police inter…

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May 15, 2024 at 12:40 AM

An Internet Connectivity Lifeline for Millions Is About To Go Dark

An Internet Connectivity Lifeline for Millions Is About To Go Dark     Grace Segers May 14, 2024 The New Republic The Affordable Connectivity Program is about to come to an end—unless Congress does something. Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/Getty I…

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May 15, 2024 at 12:40 AM

University of California Workers Could Launch Strike To Reject Repression of Student Protests

University of California Workers Could Launch Strike To Reject Repression of Student Protests     People's Dispatch May 11, 2024 People's Dispatch UAW Local 4811, representing student workers from the University of California system, are holding a strike vot…

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May 15, 2024 at 12:35 AM

Weight Loss Drugs Go Hand-in-Hand With Junk Food Industry

Weight Loss Drugs Go Hand-in-Hand With Junk Food Industry     Sonali Kolhatkar May 13, 2024 City Watch; Economy for All With drugs like Mounjaro, Wegovy, and Ozempic in the mix, new vistas of corporate exploitation have opened up. ,   Manuf…

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May 15, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Repo Man at 40: A Journey Deep Into the Heart of LA Punk in the Age of Reagan

Portside Culture Repo Man at 40: A Journey Deep Into the Heart of LA Punk in the Age of Reagan     Billy J Stratton May 10, 2024 Hollywood Progressive Set against the corrupt, soulless “greed is good” (or was it greed is god?) era of Reaganomics, the…

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May 15, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – May 14, 2024

Media Bits and Bytes – May 14, 2024     May 14, 2024 xxxxxx TikTok, AI, iPad and Black Twitter , akemilab   Big Tech’s Walled Gardens Social Media for the Revolution Superhero Fatigue The Beginning and the End of the iPad Divergent Paths o…

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May 14, 2024 at 6:35 AM

When Bad Cops Become Private Security Guards

When Bad Cops Become Private Security Guards     Soshana Walter May 11, 2024 The Marshall Project There’s growing evidence that former officers with troubling histories of abuse can easily find second careers in private security. ,   Privat…

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May 14, 2024 at 1:25 AM

This Week in People’s History, May 14–20

This Week in People’s History, May 14–20     Mississippi Racists Fight Back (in 1959), Bessie Smith, Fortune-Teller (1929), Fortress Germany Unveiled (1939), “The Germans Are Coming!” Or Not. (1919), ¡Karen Silkwood, Presente! (1979), Big Brother’s Listening…

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May 14, 2024 at 12:05 AM

The Food Blogger Cooking Through Gaza’s Hunger Crisis

Portside Culture The Food Blogger Cooking Through Gaza’s Hunger Crisis     Sarah Aziza April 24, 2024 Bon Appetit In a refugee camp, Hamada Shaqoura turns aid packages into pizza wraps, curry, and “Gazan style” tacos, gaining internet-wide attention.…

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May 14, 2024 at 12:00 AM

The Israeli War on Gaza: Post-War Scenarios

The Israeli War on Gaza: Post-War Scenarios     Omar Shaban April 30, 2024 Arab Reform Initiative The war on Gaza, with all the killing and destruction it has caused, must provide a historic opportunity to start a new path towards a landmark settlement that …

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May 14, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Palestine and History: Macklemore v. Hillary Clinton

Palestine and History: Macklemore v. Hillary Clinton     Juan Cole May 11, 2024 Informed Consent I have never understood the trope that Israel made generous offers to the Palestinians (it never did) but that the Palestinians rejected them, and therefore the …

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May 14, 2024 at 12:00 AM

The Number of Religious ‘Nones’ Has Soared, but Not the Number of Atheists – and As Social Scientists, We Wanted To Know Why

The Number of Religious ‘Nones’ Has Soared, but Not the Number of Atheists – and As Social Scientists, We Wanted To Know Why     Christopher P. Scheitle, Katie Corcoran May 6, 2024 The Conversation First, what makes an individual more or less likely to ident…

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May 13, 2024 at 7:10 AM

Sunday Science: Playing With the Kids Is Important Work for Chimpanzee Mothers

Sunday Science: Playing With the Kids Is Important Work for Chimpanzee Mothers     Zarin Machanda, Kris Sabbi May 8, 2024 The Conversation So on this Mother’s Day, consider raising a glass to also celebrate these amazing – and tired – chimpanzee moms. …

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May 13, 2024 at 6:45 AM

The Supreme Court Rules That Cops Can Steal Your Stuff—As They Always Have

The Supreme Court Rules That Cops Can Steal Your Stuff—As They Always Have     Elie Mystal May 10, 2024 The Nation By a 6-3 vote, the conservative justices decided that there is no need for the state to provide a preliminary hearing in civil forfeiture cases…

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May 13, 2024 at 6:15 AM

How Bondage Built the Church

How Bondage Built the Church     Tiya Miles May 7, 2024 The New York Review Rachel Swarns’s recent book about a mass sale of enslaved people by Jesuit priests to save Georgetown University reminds us that the legacy of slavery is simultaneously the legacy of…

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May 13, 2024 at 5:35 AM

Who Created the Israel-Palestine Conflict?

Who Created the Israel-Palestine Conflict?     Harold Meyerson May 6, 2024 The American Prospect It wasn’t really Jews or Palestinians. It was the U.S. Congress, which closed American borders 100 years ago this month. The Jewish population of Pales…

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May 13, 2024 at 5:20 AM

What Latin American Literature Can Teach the Current Leaders of Latin America

What Latin American Literature Can Teach the Current Leaders of Latin America     Ariel Dorfman May 6, 2024 Lit Hub Ariel Dorfman Has Some Recommendations for Culturally Illiterate Presidents and Autocrats , Lit Hub   Daniel Noboa, the pres…

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May 13, 2024 at 12:45 AM

Why Did It Take 30 Years for a Latino Character To Join the Core X-Men on TV?

Portside Culture Why Did It Take 30 Years for a Latino Character To Join the Core X-Men on TV?     Isabel Sophia Dieppa Betancourt May 8, 2024 AV Club The Disney+ series X-Men '97 finally shines a light on Sunspot, the first Latino character to be a …

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May 12, 2024 at 12:05 AM

The Promise and Problems of US Construction Industry

The Promise and Problems of US Construction Industry     Jeff Grabelsky May 8, 2024 Commonwealth Beacon A former union leader wrestles with the challenge of making construction work the path to the middle class it once was , Peggy Marco   T…

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May 12, 2024 at 12:05 AM

The Ponzi-Friendliest Court in America

The Ponzi-Friendliest Court in America     Maureen Tkacik May 6, 2024 American Prospect Steward Health just filed for bankruptcy in Houston’s scandal-plagued, private equity-pilled bankruptcy court. The "complex cases panel" in the Southern Distric…

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May 12, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Will the Palestinian Groups Create a New Palestinian Political Project?

Will the Palestinian Groups Create a New Palestinian Political Project?     Vijay Prashad May 8, 2024 Peoples Dispatch The first task is to prevent the attack on Rafah and end the genocide. However, soon thereafter, the political malaise that has befallen th…

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May 12, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Groups Look To Bail Out Black Mothers, Caregivers in Pretrial Detention for Mother’s Day

Groups Look To Bail Out Black Mothers, Caregivers in Pretrial Detention for Mother’s Day     Ralph Chapoco May 10, 2024 Alabama Reflector “We don’t look at the crime. We are looking at predetention when you have not been convicted of a crime. We didn’t make …

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May 12, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Why So Many Young Asian Americans Stand With Palestine

Why So Many Young Asian Americans Stand With Palestine     Cathi Choi May 8, 2024 Yes Magazine If we are to make meaning out of “Asian America” this AAPI Heritage Month, we must root ourselves in intersectional principles, draw threads across global and loca…

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May 11, 2024 at 12:15 AM

Global Elections in the Shadow of Neoliberalism

Global Elections in the Shadow of Neoliberalism     Joseph E. Stiglitz May 1, 2024 Project Syndicate Scandals, culture wars, and threats to democracy dominate the headlines in this super election year. But anti-democratic populist authoritarianism is itself …

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May 11, 2024 at 12:15 AM

Friday Nite Videos | May 10, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | May 10, 2024     May 10, 2024 xxxxxx The Most Shocking Billionaire Interview. Henry Ford versus Karl Marx | Epic Rap Battles of History. Gaza, Gaza. Smoking Is Awesome. Why Trump's Lawyer Called Him the 'Orange Turd.' To view a…

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May 11, 2024 at 12:10 AM

A Simple Fact: There Will Be a Palestinian State. Its Location: Palestine

A Simple Fact: There Will Be a Palestinian State. Its Location: Palestine     Alon Idan May 5, 2024 Haaretz Only a fool doesn't understand that eventually there will be a Palestinian state. And we Israelis are the biggest fools. A child holds a Pal…

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May 11, 2024 at 12:10 AM

A Peek Inside the Brains of ‘Super-Agers’

A Peek Inside the Brains of ‘Super-Agers’     Dana G. Smith April 29, 2024 New York Times New research explores why some octogenarians have exceptional memories. ,   When it comes to aging, we tend to assume that cognition gets worse as we…

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May 11, 2024 at 12:10 AM

Why I’m Not Calling the Police on My Students’ Encampment

Why I’m Not Calling the Police on My Students’ Encampment     Michael S. Roth May 7, 2024 The New Republic The president of Wesleyan University explains why he’s allowing pro-Palestinian protesters to pitch tents on campus. The pro-Palestinian enca…

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Undone

Portside Culture Undone     Michelle Morin March 19, 2024 Canary Literary Review South Dakota poet Michelle Morin takes a super-long view of climate change, with or without us. ,   Undone By Michelle Morin Maybe, when we are gone,…

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May 10, 2024 at 12:25 AM

Netanyahu Ignored Every Warning. Now Biden Is Telling Israel: ‘Enough Is Enough’

Netanyahu Ignored Every Warning. Now Biden Is Telling Israel: ‘Enough Is Enough’     Alon Pinkas May 9, 2024 Haaretz With a shipment of some 3,500 bombs currently on halt, U.S. President Joe Biden is sending a clear message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya…

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May 10, 2024 at 12:10 AM

Build a Majority for Palestine, and the Importance of Free Speech

Build a Majority for Palestine, and the Importance of Free Speech     Norman G. Finkelstein May 8, 2024 Jacobin Holocaust scholar and pro-Palestine activist Norman Finkelstein expresses his support for the student protests, insisting on the importance of fre…

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May 10, 2024 at 12:05 AM

The New Anti-Antisemitism

The New Anti-Antisemitism     Rick Perlstein May 8, 2024 The American Prospect You know who has good reason to fear for their safety? People, many of them Jews, getting pummeled by cops and fascists. People getting high-powered rifles aimed at them from roof…

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May 10, 2024 at 12:00 AM

What Beethoven’s Ninth Teaches Us

What Beethoven’s Ninth Teaches Us     Daniel Barenboim May 6, 2024 New York Times I don’t believe that Beethoven was interested in everyday politics. He was not an activist. He was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was concerned wi…

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May 10, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – May 9 – Reader Comments: Graduation 2024; College Presidents Cave to GOP in Congress; Why University Divestment Matters; We Need “Outside Agitators”; Diary of a Palestinian Living in Israel; Lots of Announcements; Cartoons; More…

Tidbits – May 9 – Reader Comments: Graduation 2024; College Presidents Cave to GOP in Congress; Why University Divestment Matters; We Need “Outside Agitators”; Diary of a Palestinian Living in Israel; Lots of Announcements; Cartoons; More…     May 9, 2024 xxxxxx …

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May 9, 2024 at 6:15 AM

Biden ‘Moving the Goal Post’ With Threat To Withhold Bombs From Israel

Biden ‘Moving the Goal Post’ With Threat To Withhold Bombs From Israel     Brett Wilkins May 8, 2024 Common Dreams "Now Israel has a green light to destroy Rafah in slow motion," said one critic. A Palestinian child injured following an Israeli str…

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May 9, 2024 at 6:00 AM

The Distortion of Campus Protests Over Gaza

The Distortion of Campus Protests Over Gaza     Helen Benedict May 2, 2024 Tom Dispatch How the Right Has Weaponized Antisemitism to Distract from Israel's War Protestors link arms as other police officers enter the campus of Columbia University, i…

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