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October 14, 2024 at 5:20 AM

How Elections Are Certified in Battleground States

How Elections Are Certified in Battleground States     Lauren Miller Karalunas October 10, 2024 Brennan Center for Justice State laws require officials to certify results, and safeguards are in place should someone fail to fulfill that obligation. …
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October 14, 2024 at 5:00 AM

The Most Prominent Historian of Palestine on What the Last Year Has Meant

The Most Prominent Historian of Palestine on What the Last Year Has Meant     Rashid Khalidi, Noah Lanard October 10, 2024 Mother Jones Professor Rashid Khalidi on Israel’s growing wars in the Middle East and the United States’ complicity in them ,…
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October 14, 2024 at 4:15 AM

The U.S. Benefits From Immigration but Policy Reforms Needed To Maximize Gains

The U.S. Benefits From Immigration but Policy Reforms Needed To Maximize Gains     Daniel Costa, Josh Bivens, Ben Zipperer, Monique Morrissey October 4, 2024 Economic Policy Institute Recommendations and a review of key issues to ensure fair wages and labor …
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October 14, 2024 at 3:15 AM

A Visual History of the Harlem Renaissance

A Visual History of the Harlem Renaissance     Text by Reece Taylor Williams and Veronica Chambers. Edited by Marcelle Hopkins, Eve Lyons and Veronica Chambers. Designed and Produced by Alice Fang and Antonio de Luca. Archival Research by Lisa Dalsimer, Allyson Torr…
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October 14, 2024 at 12:00 AM

‘Sweetpea’ Star Ella Purnell Is Leaning Into the Coming-of-Rage Trend: ‘Female Empowerment Does Seem Threatening’ to Some People

Portside Culture ‘Sweetpea’ Star Ella Purnell Is Leaning Into the Coming-of-Rage Trend: ‘Female Empowerment Does Seem Threatening’ to Some People     Samantha Bergeson October 8, 2024 IndieWire "There is something about female rage that feels incredi…
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October 13, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Companies Price Gouging Hurricane Milton Evacuees

Companies Price Gouging Hurricane Milton Evacuees     Sharon Kelly October 9, 2024 DeSmog For years, United, American, and other airlines have led massive lobbying efforts against regulations to prevent climate change. Airport customers line up at …
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October 13, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Florida Republicans Aim To Block Climate Declaration

Florida Republicans Aim To Block Climate Declaration     Freddy Brewster, Katya Schwenk, Helen Santoro October 8, 2024 The Lever As the storm bears down on their districts, fossil fuel-backed Reps. Greg Steube and Byron Donalds are pushing legislation claimi…
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October 13, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Why Eric Adams Rose So High

Why Eric Adams Rose So High     John Teufel October 2, 2024 Indypendent Adams made it easier for centrist Democrats to distance themselves from Black Lives Matter. ,   In the hours after Eric Adams’ downfall, as cheers rang out from open wi…
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October 13, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Where Are the Voices for Peace?

Where Are the Voices for Peace?     Jeremy Corbyn October 4, 2024 Morning Star The lack of diplomatic efforts to end wars in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, and Congo shame the international community — as the death tolls mount, we need an urgent shift towards peace-b…
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October 13, 2024 at 12:00 AM

The Dangers of White Totalitarianism

The Dangers of White Totalitarianism     Elizabeth Schmidt September 12, 2024 Africa is a Country Why is the US ultra-right turning to Rhodesia as their model for a white supremacist state? Air Rhodesia Vickers Viscount VP-YND at Bulawayo in the ea…
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October 12, 2024 at 2:40 AM

Friday Nite Videos | October 11, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | October 11, 2024     October 11, 2024 xxxxxx Washington's Dream 2 | SNL. Jon Batiste | Für Elise-Batiste. Why They Can't Make an HIV Vaccine (They're Trying!) My Life Behind the Lens: a Year Reporting from Gaza. Who Do Trump Voters Blame…
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October 12, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Limit SCOTUS: Congress Should Pass the No Kings Act

Limit SCOTUS: Congress Should Pass the No Kings Act     Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan New York Times The Supreme Court has grown too powerful. Congress can and should intervene to limit its overreach. ,   The Supreme Court’s stunning decis…
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October 12, 2024 at 12:55 AM

Gaza’s Governance Must Remain in Palestinian Hands

Gaza’s Governance Must Remain in Palestinian Hands     Said Zeedani October 8, 2024 972 Magazine Amid plans for external interventions, it is vital to build a consensus around an interim body to manage Gaza’s urgent needs and pave the way for unity. …
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October 12, 2024 at 12:45 AM

AI Comes to the Nobels: Double Win Sparks Debate About Scientific Fields

AI Comes to the Nobels: Double Win Sparks Debate About Scientific Fields     Davide Castelvecchi, Ewen Callaway and Diana Kwon October 10, 2024 Nature While many researchers celebrated this year’s chemistry and physics prizes, others were disappointed by the…
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October 12, 2024 at 12:30 AM

Who Will Care for Americans Left Behind by Climate Migration?

Who Will Care for Americans Left Behind by Climate Migration?     Abrahm Lustgarten October 2, 2024 ProPublica As people move away from flooding and heat, new research suggests that those who remain will be older, poorer and more vulnerable. , …
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October 11, 2024 at 12:05 AM

25 Islamic Imans and Clerics Urge Muslims Across US To Defeat Trump

25 Islamic Imans and Clerics Urge Muslims Across US To Defeat Trump     Brett Wilkins October 7, 2024 Common Dreams "Knowingly enabling someone like Donald Trump to return to office, whether by voting directly for him or for a third-party candidate, is both …
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October 11, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Israel Today: After October 7, Just How Far Right Will Israel Go?

Israel Today: After October 7, Just How Far Right Will Israel Go?     Dahlia Scheindlin October 8, 2024 Haaretz October 7 should have handed Israel's wild-eyed right the perfect storm for success: wartime rallying and vengeful fury. So why don't the polls ov…
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October 11, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Harris Proposes Medicare Expansion for Home-Based Long-Term Care: “It’s About Giving Folks’ Dignity”

Harris Proposes Medicare Expansion for Home-Based Long-Term Care: “It’s About Giving Folks’ Dignity”     Wendell Potter October 8, 2024 HEALTH CARE un-covered Monday on The View, Vice President Kamala Harris’ announced a proposal to expand Medicare to cover …
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October 11, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Harris Holds Massive Edge Over Trump Among College Students. It’s Even Bigger in Swing States.

Harris Holds Massive Edge Over Trump Among College Students. It’s Even Bigger in Swing States.     Johanna Alonso October 9, 2024 Inside Higher Ed A new Inside Higher Ed/Generation Lab survey shows Harris leading nationally by 38 points, with around a third …
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October 11, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – Oct. 10 – Reader Comments: The Election – Biden and Settling of Dock Strike; Immigration As Lightening Rod in U.S. Politics; Climate Disaster and Climate Denialism; New Resource – the Benefits of Immigration; More…

Tidbits – Oct. 10 – Reader Comments: The Election – Biden and Settling of Dock Strike; Immigration As Lightening Rod in U.S. Politics; Climate Disaster and Climate Denialism; New Resource – the Benefits of Immigration; More…     October 10, 2024 xxxxxx Reade…
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October 10, 2024 at 5:30 AM

The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Crisis: Wyden’s Revolutionary Fix

The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Crisis: Wyden’s Revolutionary Fix     Thom Hartmann October 9, 2024 The Hartmann Report How expanding and regulating the court could save America from GOP billionaires , herbinisaac/Pixabay   The six Republica…
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October 10, 2024 at 5:15 AM

One Year In, Salt Lake City’s New Approach to Prosecuting Low-Level Offenses ‘A Massive Success’

One Year In, Salt Lake City’s New Approach to Prosecuting Low-Level Offenses ‘A Massive Success’     Kyle Dunphey October 1, 2024 Utah News Dispatch ‘For many, it’s the first time in their life that they can see people within the system trying to help them, …
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October 10, 2024 at 5:05 AM

Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Bucking the Media’s Palestine Consensus

Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Bucking the Media’s Palestine Consensus     Branko Marcetic October 9, 2024 Jacobin The problem with Ta-Nehisi Coates’s recent grilling on Palestine by CBS News’s Tony Dokoupil isn’t that it was rude. It’s that Dokoupil’s questioning betr…
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October 10, 2024 at 4:55 AM

Joe Biden Chose This Catastrophic Path Every Step of the Way

Joe Biden Chose This Catastrophic Path Every Step of the Way     Matthew Duss October 7, 2024 The New Republic What’s happening in the Middle East was enabled by a president with ideological priors, aides who failed to push back, and a cheerleading media est…
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October 10, 2024 at 1:55 AM

Exposing the Violence of Empire in the Novels It Left Behind

Portside Culture Exposing the Violence of Empire in the Novels It Left Behind     Sophie Gee October 8, 2024 The New York Times For her new book, “Salvage,” the Trinidadian-born writer Dionne Brand rereads classic English novels, teasing out evidence…
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October 10, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – Parties In and Out of Power

Global Left Midweek – Parties In and Out of Power     xxxxxx Political concentration points in a chaotic world Communist Party of India-ML (Liberation) leader Dipankar Bhattacharya speaks a rally announcing the merger of his party with the Jharkhand…
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October 9, 2024 at 12:10 AM

The Chasm Between Oklahoma and Connecticut

The Chasm Between Oklahoma and Connecticut     Kalena Thomhave October 7, 2024 The American Prospect Stark differences color red- and blue-state lawmakers’ policy choices—which makes all the difference in residents’ well-being. , Illustration by Al…
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October 9, 2024 at 12:05 AM

A Trump Win Would Bring Both Monarchy and Aristocracy to the US

A Trump Win Would Bring Both Monarchy and Aristocracy to the US     Thom Hartman October 8, 2024 Common Dreams This election may be America’s last stand against this country becoming, like Hungary and Russia, a full-on oligarchy run of, by, and for a small, …
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October 9, 2024 at 12:05 AM

The United States and Israel Set Out To Remake the Middle East, Again

The United States and Israel Set Out To Remake the Middle East, Again     Mitchell Plitnick October 5, 2024 Mondoweiss The mood in Washington today is similar to 2003 when the neocons of the Bush administration sought to remake the Middle East. This time, a …
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October 9, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Who’s Afraid of Democracy?

Who’s Afraid of Democracy?     Steve Fraser October 8, 2024 Logos Democracy Where Art Thou? Year after year polls register those same healthy majorities in favor of everything from universal health care to tuition free college, from serious climate change mi…
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October 9, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Hollywood’s New Sex Worker Roles Are Girlboss Heroines

Portside Culture Hollywood’s New Sex Worker Roles Are Girlboss Heroines     Emma Paling October 5, 2024 Jacobin In Hollywood, sex workers have become the ultimate girlbosses. The message is clear: there’s no need for collective empowerment when one c…
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October 9, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – October 8, 2024

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – October 8, 2024     October 8, 2024 xxxxxx Season of showdowns WNBA players in action. Credit, Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph   Leaving MAGA for the Left Squaring Off Over Palesti…
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October 8, 2024 at 1:00 AM

One Year After October 7, Jewish Peace Group Says: ‘We Cannot Only Mourn’

One Year After October 7, Jewish Peace Group Says: ‘We Cannot Only Mourn’     Jake Johnson October 7, 2024 Common Dreams "We must fight like hell for the living," said the anti-occupation group Jewish Voice for Peace. "Today, we recommit ourselves to that fi…
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October 8, 2024 at 12:30 AM

Interview: Imperialism, Putin’s Russia and the Global Left

Interview: Imperialism, Putin’s Russia and the Global Left     Federico Fuentes September 28, 2024 Links Magazine Russian socialist Ilya Matveev discusses imperialism today, the nature and development of capitalism in Russia and China, and the need for a glo…
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October 8, 2024 at 12:05 AM

This Week in People’s History, Oct 9–15

This Week in People’s History, Oct 9–15     xxxxxx A Long Time Coming, and How! (1949), A Work of Towering Imagination (1959), August Wilson Takes Broadway (1984), The Truth Hurts (1999), If Only There Had Been More Advertising (1929), ‘We Are Everywhere’ (1…
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October 8, 2024 at 12:00 AM

California's Koda Farms, Heirloom Rice Producer, Ceases Operations

Portside Culture California's Koda Farms, Heirloom Rice Producer, Ceases Operations     Elena Kadvany August 12, 2024 San Francisco Chronicle Koda Farms, the family-owned rice farm in Merced County, which Keisaburo Koda started 97 years ago, is shut…
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October 8, 2024 at 12:00 AM

The Far Right, a Reactionary Backlash

The Far Right, a Reactionary Backlash     Marga Ferré September 17, 2024 Transform!Europe The antithesis to the far right is the defence of feminism, the concept of class versus nation, the defence of peace, diversity, equality, social justice, solidarity, e…
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October 8, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Review: Goodman Theatre’s Inherit the Wind Renews a Century-Old Courtroom Drama With 21st Century Spirit

Review: Goodman Theatre’s Inherit the Wind Renews a Century-Old Courtroom Drama With 21st Century Spirit     Nancy S. Bishop September 28, 2024 third coast review Director Henry Godinez recognizes that today’s divisive political environment might change how …
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October 7, 2024 at 4:55 AM

Sunday Science: Does Kamala Harris Believe in Evolution?

Sunday Science: Does Kamala Harris Believe in Evolution?     Daniel Engber September 12, 2024 The Atlantic In another election, she might have been asked. , Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty.   On a presidential-debate stage 17 ye…
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October 7, 2024 at 4:35 AM

The People Fleeing Climate Disasters Are Going To Transform the American South

The People Fleeing Climate Disasters Are Going To Transform the American South     Abrahm Lustgarten October 2, 2024 New York Times Researchers now estimate tens of millions of Americans may ultimately move away from extreme heat and drought, storms and wild…
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October 7, 2024 at 4:15 AM

The Making of the Springfield Working Class

The Making of the Springfield Working Class     Gabriel Winant September 30, 2024 The New York Review Each generation of this country’s workforce has always been urged to detest the next—to come up with its own fantasies of cat-eating immigrants. C…
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October 7, 2024 at 3:25 AM

Killing Hezbollah Leaders Failed 30 Years Ago. It Won’t Work Now

Killing Hezbollah Leaders Failed 30 Years Ago. It Won’t Work Now     Elia Ayoub October 4, 2024 972 Magazine Instead of debilitating Hezbollah, Israel’s assassination of Hassan Nasrallah may prove to be a major PR boost for the embattled organization. …
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October 7, 2024 at 3:00 AM

Love Is Blind: DC Sadly Doesn’t Feel Like DC

Portside Culture Love Is Blind: DC Sadly Doesn’t Feel Like DC     Alex Abad-Santos October 4, 2024 Vox There seems to be a reluctance to get into politics this season, a missed opportunity. A reveal from Love Is Blind trying to prove whethe…
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October 7, 2024 at 2:55 AM

Taking Frantz Fanon at His Word

Taking Frantz Fanon at His Word     Sazi Bongwe September 18, 2024 The Nation There has been an effort to negate Fanon’s ideas and sever them from the people of Palestine. But in his work, I find the beginning of a credible path towards liberation. …
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October 6, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Before Helene, a Perfect Storm of Climate Denialism

Before Helene, a Perfect Storm of Climate Denialism     Lucy Dean Stockton, Freddy Brewster October 2, 2024 The Lever North Carolina was once a climate leader, but more than a decade of Republican and corporate obstruction left the state ill-prepared for the…
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October 6, 2024 at 12:05 AM

What Can Helene’s ‘Biblical’ Flooding Teach

What Can Helene’s ‘Biblical’ Flooding Teach     Carl Smith October 3, 2024 Governing Historic rainfall that devastated the Southeast was generated by conditions that still exist. What lessons can local governments in other parts of the country take from Hele…
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October 6, 2024 at 12:00 AM

No Coal No Gas Builds on Recent Victory With Focus on Community and a New Strategic Target

No Coal No Gas Builds on Recent Victory With Focus on Community and a New Strategic Target     Siobhan Senier October 4, 2024 Waging Nonviolence The campaign that ushered in ‘the end of coal in New England’ has its sights set on peaker plants and reclaiming …
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October 6, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Industrial Policy Without Nationalism

Industrial Policy Without Nationalism     J.W. Mason October 2, 2024 Dissent Can we expand the state’s role in the economy while diminishing its capacity for war? ,   In the first two years after Biden’s election, there was considerable ent…
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October 6, 2024 at 12:00 AM

To Build Solidarity With Palestine, Labour Movement Must Look to the Past

To Build Solidarity With Palestine, Labour Movement Must Look to the Past     Chris Webb October 2, 2024 Socialist Project: The Bullet Drawing lessons from history does not mean we romanticize past struggles. For a new generation of labour activists, however…
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October 5, 2024 at 2:10 AM

Friday Nite Videos | October 4, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | October 4, 2024     October 4, 2024 xxxxxx Kamala Harris vs Trump’s Election Lies in Battleground Georgia. Will Trump Try to Steal the Election Again? My Favorite Things About Project 2025 | Song Parody. To Understand JD Vance, You Need …