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March 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM

The European Left Faces a Historic Challenge

The European Left Faces a Historic Challenge     Stefan Bekier February 20, 2025 Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières Introduction to the Ensemble! (FR) meeting on the consequences of the Trump presidency for Europe. Europe must deepen and broaden its integratio…

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March 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM

‘Tesla Takedown’ Protesters Planning ‘Biggest Day of Action’

‘Tesla Takedown’ Protesters Planning ‘Biggest Day of Action’     Andrew J. Hawkins The Verge Organizers are calling for 500 demonstrations at all 277 Tesla showrooms, as well as Supercharger stations, on March 29th. ,   Tesla protesters are …

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March 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM

Universities Choice: Surrender or Fight Back Against Trump ‘Takeover’

Universities Choice: Surrender or Fight Back Against Trump ‘Takeover’     J Oliver Conroy March 20, 2025 Guardian ‘Extraordinary fear’ takes hold at universities as Trump campaign threatens investigations or loss of federal funds Students stage a w…

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March 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Nothing Important

Portside Culture Nothing Important     Peter Neil Carroll The Truth Lies on Earth: a Year by Dark, by Bright Poet Peter Carroll reminds us why we celebrate the arrival of spring. , Jeannette Ferrary   Days of mist complete the season…

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March 21, 2025 at 3:25 AM

Trump Has Ordered a Hit on Judaism

Trump Has Ordered a Hit on Judaism     Dave Zirin March 18, 2025 The Nation Under the guise of “fighting antisemitism,” Trump is shredding our rights and telling us we are safe. "The truth is that they hate us. We should have some pride and return the favor.…

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March 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM

There Is No Justification at All for Israel To Resume the War in Gaza

There Is No Justification at All for Israel To Resume the War in Gaza     Yossi Melman March 19, 2025 Haaretz Renewing the war will certainly not bring the hostages home. What will the massive aerial assault, further devastation and the elimination of a few …

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March 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM

Amid Right-Wing Attacks on Education, the American Association of University Professors Organizes for Academic Freedom

Amid Right-Wing Attacks on Education, the American Association of University Professors Organizes for Academic Freedom     Eleanor J. Bader March 14, 2025 MS. Magazine Project 2025 puts forward a total attack on education, closing the Dept. of Education, inc…

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March 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM

Who Started the War Between Russia and Ukraine?

Who Started the War Between Russia and Ukraine?     Matthew Hallinan March 14, 2025 xxxxxx The NATO issue did not trigger the war. However, the thoughtless expansion of NATO contributed to a climate of mistrust that was a factor in Russia’s moving in an aggr…

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March 21, 2025 at 2:15 AM

Tidbits - Mar.20 - Reader Comments: Mahmoud Khalil Arrest Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since Red Scare; Assault on Social Security; DHS Ends TSA Officers' Contract; Teachers And Schools; Call Script: Demand the Release of Mahmoud Khalil; more....

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March 20, 2025 at 6:15 AM

On Trump’s Effort To Undo Free Speech

Portside Culture On Trump’s Effort To Undo Free Speech     Lloyd Green March 16, 2025 The Guardian This book examines efforts of the network of Trump, government members, and the ultra-rich, to overturn Times v. Sullivan, the SCOTUS decision that mad…

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March 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM

Netanyahu Breaks Ceasefire To Save Political Career

Netanyahu Breaks Ceasefire To Save Political Career     Interview of Muhammad Shehada by Amy Goodman March 19, 2025 Democracy Now “When you’re in crisis, nothing would unite your government, nothing would suppress any sort of protest or opposition, more than…

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March 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM

Greenpeace Must Pay at Least $660M Over Dakota Pipeline Protests, Says Jury

Greenpeace Must Pay at Least $660M Over Dakota Pipeline Protests, Says Jury     Rachel Leingang and Nina Lakhani March 19, 2025 The Guardian Non-profit, which will appeal decision, says lawsuits like this are aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protes…

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March 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM

‘I Am a Political Prisoner’: Mahmoud Khalil’s Letter From Jail

‘I Am a Political Prisoner’: Mahmoud Khalil’s Letter From Jail     Mahmoud Khalil March 18, 2025 Document Cloud 'My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a freePalestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, w…

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March 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Trump White House Tests Supreme Court Loyalty With Increasingly Crackpot Legal Arguments

Trump White House Tests Supreme Court Loyalty With Increasingly Crackpot Legal Arguments     Joe Patrice March 17, 2025 Above the Law Trump has not forgotten the John Roberts decision removing presidents from legal liability for committing crimes while in of…

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March 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – Focus on Eastern Europe

Global Left Midweek – Focus on Eastern Europe     March 19, 2025 xxxxxx Unprecedented mass protests hit Serbia “Women in the front lines.” International Women’s Day, 2025, Belgrade. Credit, AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic   The European Left Faci…

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March 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM

In the Ongoing Billionaire Heist, Schumer and Fetterman Are Driving the Getaway Car

In the Ongoing Billionaire Heist, Schumer and Fetterman Are Driving the Getaway Car     Mark Pinsley March 18, 2025 Common Dreams While the senators claim to be fighting for the working class, their actions—like voting for a government funding bill that slas…

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March 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM

A Strategy for Social Self-Defense

A Strategy for Social Self-Defense     Jeremy Brecher March 18, 2025 Strike! Jeremy Brecher's Corner Trump’s MAGA juggernaut has many vulnerabilities. But these will not automatically lead to its downfall. That will require an active struggle to defend socie…

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March 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Decolonizing Palestine in a Post-American Century

Decolonizing Palestine in a Post-American Century     Tony Karon March 17, 2025 Rootless Cosmopolitan Why South Africa's ambassador was ousted, why USAID isn’t coming back, and the perils and possibilities facing the Global South in the months and years ahea…

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March 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – March 18, 2025

Media Bits and Bytes – March 18, 2025     March 18, 2025 xxxxxx MAGA media mishigas , Dave Whamond / Copyright 2024 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.   Crypto and the Far Right The Media the Left Needs The Online Ecosystem Leans Right Trump’s Scorched …

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March 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM

Learning From the Courage of the Civil Rights Movement

Learning From the Courage of the Civil Rights Movement     Jeanne Theoharis March 17, 2025 Jacobin Many on the Left are wondering what to do against the Trump administration’s vicious assaults on workers, immigrants, and free speech. We can look to US civil …

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March 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM

This Week in People’s History, Mar 19–25

This Week in People’s History, Mar 19–25     xxxxxx Rioters in Harlem Win Concessions (1935), A Big Win for White-Collar Strikers (2000), A Century of Classroom Censorship (1925), Witch-Hunt Targets Get a Very Belated Apology (1980), The Long Road from Selma…

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March 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Don’t Wait Out Four Hard Years: Speak Truth to Power

Don’t Wait Out Four Hard Years: Speak Truth to Power     Arthur Caplan March 17, 2025 Nature These are dangerous times. Scientists globally must stand together for sound science and resist bigotry, bias and hate. To honor one of its core values — a commitmen…

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March 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM

A Book Comes Close to a Unified Theory of Food. It’s a Big Job.

Portside Culture A Book Comes Close to a Unified Theory of Food. It’s a Big Job.     Pete Wells February 5, 2025 The New York Times In “How the World Eats,” the philosopher Julian Baggini grapples with “everything that affects and is affected by” our…

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March 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Don’t Forget the History of COVID in Prison: An Interview With Victoria Law

Don’t Forget the History of COVID in Prison: An Interview With Victoria Law     Maya Schenwar March 11, 2025 Truthout The pandemic bared the cruelty of prison in new ways. It was a lost opportunity to move away from mass incarceration. ,   …

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March 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Trump and Musk Are Getting Their Butts Royally Spanked in the Courts

Trump and Musk Are Getting Their Butts Royally Spanked in the Courts     Michael Tomasky March 14, 2025 The New Republic Some 25,000 federal employees will be back at work Monday. Look beyond Capitol Hill: The resistance, in fact, is strong. , MAND…

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March 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM

Wartime Destruction of Ukraine Dam Has Set Off a ‘Time Bomb’

Wartime Destruction of Ukraine Dam Has Set Off a ‘Time Bomb’     Richard Stone March 13, 2025 Science Breach of Kakhovka Dam now threatens seasonal floods thick with toxic heavy metals, other pollutants A view of the former Kakhovka reservoir botto…

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March 17, 2025 at 5:45 AM

We Can Organize Amazon, but Only if We Understand It

We Can Organize Amazon, but Only if We Understand It     Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno, Benjamin Y. Fong and Scott Jenkins March 10, 2025 Jacobin Organizing Amazon workers is both an existential challenge and an opportunity for labor. But the company’s cas…

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March 17, 2025 at 4:15 AM

Corporate DEI Was a Tool of the Elite. Ironically, So Is This Backlash.

Corporate DEI Was a Tool of the Elite. Ironically, So Is This Backlash.     Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò March 10, 2025 Slate The battle over diversity and inclusion has always been about labor. But Trump was able to frame it as something else. “Fight or Be S…

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March 17, 2025 at 3:50 AM

Mahmoud Khalil’s Abduction Is a Fascist Move — and Universities Must Respond

Mahmoud Khalil’s Abduction Is a Fascist Move — and Universities Must Respond     Dima Khalidi March 11, 2025 972 Magazine Schools across the United States have a choice: defend their students against Trump or be complicit in his crimes. Students fr…

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March 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM

Heather Cox Richardson on March 15th, the Day Maine Joined the Union

Heather Cox Richardson on March 15th, the Day Maine Joined the Union     Heather Cox Richardson March 15, 2025 Letters from an American Maine's petition for statehood was stopped dead by southerners who refused to permit a free state—one that did not permit …

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March 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM

Poorna Jagannathan on Why Hulu’s Sweet, Sinister Deli Boys Is a Dream Gig

Portside Culture Poorna Jagannathan on Why Hulu’s Sweet, Sinister Deli Boys Is a Dream Gig     Saloni Gajjar March 12, 2025 AV Club Created by Abdullah Saeed, Deli Boys also centers South Asians in a genre that they’re rarely featured in , …

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March 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Why We’re Mobilizing on April 5th

Why We’re Mobilizing on April 5th     March 15, 2025 Hands Off! Whether you're outraged by skyrocketing healthcare costs, job cuts, attacks on privacy, or the gutting of essential services—this moment is for you. , Hands Off   We are facing…

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March 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Better Funding for Public Education in Massachusetts

Better Funding for Public Education in Massachusetts     Doug Selwyn March 15, 2025 Special to xxxxxx There is another place we can look for more money, from a most unlikely source. Single Payer Health Insurance. , National Nurses United   …

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March 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Militarism Is No Answer to Trump

Militarism Is No Answer to Trump     Gavin Rae March 11, 2025 Transform!Europe As Europe ramps up military spending in response to Trump’s shifting policies, the continent faces rising militarism, austerity, and the risk of further conflict. Is this the righ…

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March 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Leader Schumer Leads Another Capitulation to Trump

Leader Schumer Leads Another Capitulation to Trump     Marc Cooper March 14, 2025 The Coop Scoop This is a moment of maximum Democratic leverage that they will not have again until the midterms and that is not a lock. It is a tragic, stupid and rather repugn…

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March 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Now We Know

Now We Know     Jeanette Winterson March 9, 2025 Mind Over Matter Now we know, in all their serious nonsense about not being able to afford to battle climate breakdown, afford to save the planet, or afford a basic decent life for ordinary humans - it isn’t e…

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March 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM

Friday Nite Videos | March 14, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | March 14, 2025     March 14, 2025 xxxxxx Why the US Has Birthright Citizenship. Who Is the Leader of the People | Edwin Starr. Oligarchs Are Our Modern Day Kings. Sen. Jeff Merkley Asks if Trump Is a Russian Asset. Blood Moon, Trump Trad…

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March 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM

Everybody Hates Elon

Everybody Hates Elon     Paul Krugman March 14, 2025 Paul Krugman's Substack Blog The closest thing we have to a Trump economic spokesman is Elon Musk, who sees dead people collecting Social Security. And here’s the thing: while there’s still a dwindling Mus…

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March 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM

How ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Investigations

How ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Investigations     Charles Ornstein March 13, 2025 ProPublica When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify “woke” themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability stor…

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March 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM

Ten Questions & Answers on Measles Protection

Ten Questions & Answers on Measles Protection     Katelyn Jetelina March 14, 2025 Your Local Epdemiologist The main thing to know: MMR vaccines are highly effective and provide long-lasting protection. Outbreaks occur mainly among unvaccinated individual…

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March 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM

A Science Protest Offers Insight Into the Science of Protesting

A Science Protest Offers Insight Into the Science of Protesting     Dan Vergano March 12, 2025 Scientific American The most important people may not be on the stage but in the audience. Without social media, a big national march connected activists and culmi…

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March 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM

He Left Me Hundreds

Portside Culture He Left Me Hundreds     Florence Weinberger In the Black, In the Red: Poems of Profit $ Loss Poet Florence Weinberger contemplates what her husband, an Auschwitz survivor, left behind. , Tim Barnhart / Charles Barsotti …

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March 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM

Senate Democrats Must Vote Against the Republicans’ Continuing Budget Resolution

Senate Democrats Must Vote Against the Republicans’ Continuing Budget Resolution     Robert Reich March 12, 2025 Robert Reich It’s the only way to hold the Trump regime accountable. Call your senators now. Why should any member of Congress vote to give Trump…

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March 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Mahmoud Khalil’s Wife Speaks Out on His Unconstitutional Arrest

Mahmoud Khalil’s Wife Speaks Out on His Unconstitutional Arrest     March 12, 2025 Progressive Hub The following is a press statement from Mahmoud Khalil’s wife. Khalil was unconstitutionally arrested by ICE agents over the weekend. "I am pleading with the w…

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March 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM

‘Smokescreen Antisemitism’: How the Trump-Fueled Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil Endangers Jews

‘Smokescreen Antisemitism’: How the Trump-Fueled Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil Endangers Jews     Jamie Beran March 12, 2025 Haaretz The White House has been abundantly clear: the arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was pursued on behalf of Jews. It's p…

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March 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM

The End of U.S. Soft Power?

The End of U.S. Soft Power?     John Feffer March 4, 2025 Hankyoreh Trump’s effort to end US foreign aid throws out a lot of babies with the bathwater. During the Cold War, the US waged a war of ideas with the Soviet Union to capture the hearts and minds of …

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March 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – Mar.13 – Reader Comments: Mahmoud Khalil Arrest Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since Red Scare; Assault on Social Security; DHS Ends TSA Officers’ Contract; Teachers and Schools; Call Script: Demand the Release of Mahmoud Khalil; More…

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March 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM

‘Project 2025 in Action’: Trump Administration Fires Half of Education Department Staff

‘Project 2025 in Action’: Trump Administration Fires Half of Education Department Staff     Jake Johnson March 12, 2025 Common Dreams "Trump and Elon Musk have aimed their wrecking ball at public schools and the futures of the 50 million students." …

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March 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM

An Inequality Tale of Two Capital Cities

An Inequality Tale of Two Capital Cities     Sam Pizzigati March 9, 2025 Inequality.org In one, lawmakers are taxing the rich. In the other, they're rushing the rich a free pass at tax time. ,   Nine of the world’s ten wealthiest billionair…

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March 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM

Lessons From Wisconsin: The Slow, Stealthy, and Strategic Threat of School Vouchers

Lessons From Wisconsin: The Slow, Stealthy, and Strategic Threat of School Vouchers     Bob Peterson March 1, 2025 Rethinking Schools The message from Wisconsin to other states considering so-called voucher or private school “choice” programs: Beware. Well-f…

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