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Authoritarians Like Trump Love Fear, Defeatism, Surrender. Do Not Give Them What They Want
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Here we are in a crisis in which almost everything we love is going to be under siege in the US in ways that will affect the world in many ways. Most of all this will be because a Trump administration is going to go to war on climate action domestically and internationally – on nature itself and...
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13h ago
From portside.org
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Maybe you’ve been asking yourself: 1. “How could Donald Trump have won 51 percent of the popular vote?” 2. “How hard is it to immigrate to New Zealand?” 3. “What the actual fuck?” Fair questions. Let’s try a thought experiment. Could Tuesday’s election results have been any worse?
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7h ago
From portside.org
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Re: Democrats Deserted Working Poor: Bishop William Barber on Healthcare, Living Wages, Voting Rights (Francisco Gonzalez) Re: Democrats Abandoned the Working Class: Robin D.G. Kelley on Trump’s Win & Need for Class Solidarity (Jennifer Nouri; Deborah R Kingery; Mary-Alice Strom) Re: Democrats...
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7h ago
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Israeli Ethnic Cleansing Nears Completion in Northern Gaza
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The Israeli effort to eliminate or expel Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip — an effort that has been apparent since early in Israel’s year-long military assault on the territory — is close to achieving its goal in the northernmost portion of the Strip.
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7h ago
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Is There Any Red Line That Israel Will Be Held To? Biden Has Just Confirmed the Answer Is No
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This is a story about an apparently invincible fortress: the west’s official narrative about Israel’s war on Gaza. No matter how depraved the atrocity, or overwhelming the evidence, or confessed-to the crime, the fortress will not crumble. In fact, even when Israel flagrantly insults its main...
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20h ago
From portside.org
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In late 2016, progressives, ordinary citizens, and outraged women began organizing a resistance to President Trump. It began with the epic Women’s Marches of January 2017. Grassroots groups, some of them organized spontaneously through networks like Indivisible and Run for Something, set in...
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20h ago
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What To Know About Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Pick for Defense Secretary
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President-elect Donald J. Trump has picked Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host and veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to lead the Pentagon and the 1.3 million active-duty men and women of the American military. The choice of Mr. Hegseth, 44, was outside the norm of the traditional defense...
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22h ago
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Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence Between American and Soviet Women
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Dear Unknown Friend The Remarkable Correspondence between American and Soviet Women Alexis Peri Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674987586
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23h ago
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From School Librarian to Activist: ‘The Hate Level and the Vitriol Is Unreal’
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One Sunday morning two years ago, Amanda Jones, a middle school librarian in Watson, La., woke up and saw an email on her phone that left her shaking and breathless. The expletive-laced message from a stranger accused her of being a pedophile and a groomer, and concluded with a threat: “You...
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on Sep 6
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Workers Say Plant Eligible for $2 Billion in Public Funds Is Union Busting
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When Stan Upshaw got a job at Eos Energy Enterprises Inc. in 2020, he hoped for good pay and benefits, like the ones that went to union workers who decades ago built American manufacturing.
on Sep 5
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Ultium Workers in Tennessee Win Their Union As Majority Sign Cards To Join the UAW
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A majority of workers at Ultium Cells in Tennessee have signed cards to join the UAW and the company has agreed to recognize their union. Ultium, a joint venture of General Motors and LG Energy Solution, did not interfere with the decision by its 1,000 employees to join the UAW. The workers...
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on Sep 5
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‘Apprehensive and Fearful’: Federal Workers Await a Dismantling Under Trump
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President-elect Donald Trump has vowed once again to "drain the swamp". He's tapped two billionaires, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, to help him "dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies" through a commission Trump is...
on Thu, 1PM
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Global Fury After State Dept Claims Israel Not Violating US Law by Blocking Gaza Aid
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Human rights advocates around the world reacted angrily to Tuesday's U.S. State Department determination that Israel is not violating humanitarian law—even as its forces annihilate Gaza and block aid from entering the embattled Palestinian enclave.
on Wed, 5AM
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Samir Amin on the Theory of Multipolarity
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It is almost universally recognized today that we are living in a multipolar world, symbolized by the continuing decline of U.S. hegemony; the economic stagnation of the imperial triad of the United States, Europe, and Japan; and the rise of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South...
on Wed, 4AM
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How Trump Avoided the Mainstream Media — and Won the Presidency
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Just hours before officially clinching a second term in the White House, Donald Trump ceded his victory speech podium to Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White, who praised the president-elect before quickly pivoting to deliver thanks.
on Wed, 4AM
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Democrats Must Choose: The Elites or the Working Class
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The results of the 2024 election have confirmed a reality that is too frequently denied by Democratic Party leaders and strategists: The American working class is angry — and for good reason.
on Wed, 4AM
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What Trump’s Reelection Means for Union Workers, According to Experts
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In recent years, the labor movement received a makeover. A surge in organizing and a swell of popularity coincided with the tenure of President Joe Biden, who some labor leaders have praised as the most pro-union president in the nation’s history.
on Wed, 4AM
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The Surprising Story of How Peaches Became an Icon of the U.S. Southeast
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Behind every peach you bite into is the work of countless human generations.
on Tue, 7AM
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This Week in People’s History, Nov 13–19
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¡Karen Silkwood, Presente!
on Tue, 6AM
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US House Urged To Stop Bill Enabling Trump To Attack Nonprofits
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The Republican-controlled U.S.
on Tue, 6AM
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Is This What Democracy Looks Like?
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Where to begin? So much to say. On Wednesday morning, the banner headlines trumpeted Donald Trump’s “decisive win,” heralding a great “rightward shift.” Nearly every story about the election since then has fallen into line with an explanation of what happened as a remarkable personal triumph...
on Tue, 6AM
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After Trump’s Victory, Palestinians Cannot Afford To Wait Until the Next US Election
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In the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election, I exchanged daily voice messages with a close relative in Lebanon who had fled her home soon after the Israeli army began leveling entire buildings with American weapons.
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From portside.org
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The most important image of the 2024 election, to my eye, was generated one evening of the Democratic National Convention, when delegates had to file past protesters chanting the names and ages of dead Palestinian children.
on Tue, 6AM
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Can Call Center Workers of the World Unite?
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American politicians love to pose as defenders of factory workers threatened by globalization, corporate restructuring, and overseas outsourcing. But their campaign spiels rarely mention other jobs at risk, for the same reasons, in white-collar workplaces that now employ more workers than all...
on Tue, 5AM
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Sunday Science: Microbes Drove Methane Growth Between 2020 and 2022, Not Fossil Fuels
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"Understanding where the methane is coming from helps us guide effective mitigation strategies," said Sylvia Michel, a senior research assistant at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research(INSTAAR) and a doctoral student in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at CU Boulder. "We...
on Mon, 3AM
From portside.org
A Review of Key 2024 Ballot Measures. Voters Backed Progressive Policy Measures.
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By the numbers:
on Mon, 3AM
From portside.org
When a Multi-Racial Democracy Was Violently Overthrown in America
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In 1935, when fascism was rising globally, Sinclair Lewis wrote It Can’t Happen Here, a novel warning Americans against homegrown threats of dictatorship.
on Mon, 2AM
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How We Can Defend Ourselves in the New Trump Era
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Bill Fletcher Jr. is one of the most revered political organizers of the last 40 years and a Nation editorial board member. He’s been an activist since his teen years and joined the labor movement after college when he worked as a welder in a shipyard. He has worked for and with numerous unions...
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Labor Movement Must Unite Working Class
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Statement of the UE officers
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Yes for Legislative Audit, No to MCAS in Massachusetts
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Most Massachusetts residents didn’t have a choice this November of who represented them at the State House. That didn’t stop them from sending legislative leaders a message.
on Mon, 1AM
From portside.org
America at the End of Its Tether
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With every tick, the election clock feels like dread closing in on Americans.
on Mon, 12AM
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Underlying the Democrats’ Defeat
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Throughout the campaign, Donald Trump has had supporters of many stripes. There are the rich looking for even lower taxes, the energy barons looking for the end of “climate nonsense,” the suburbanites and country-club types who can’t imagine voting for a Democrat–the so-called traditional...
on Mon, 12AM
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Democrats Deserted Working Poor: Bishop William Barber on Healthcare, Living Wages, Voting Rights
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“Why is it that the issues that most of the public agrees with — healthcare, living wages, voting rights, democracy — why is it that those issues weren’t more up front?” We speak to Bishop William Barber about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s failed election campaigns, Donald Trump’s election as...
on Sun, 11PM
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Friday Nite Videos | November 8, 2024
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Post-Election Call to Action | Maurice Mitchell Working Families Party, MoveOn, Indivisible, and more than 200 other organizations come together to discuss the path forward to protect our democracy and activatw their local communities
on Sun, 10PM
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Trump Got Away With It — Because of the Biden Administration’s Massive Missteps
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We have just witnessed the greatest failure of federal law enforcement in American history. The reasons for Donald Trump’s reelection are numerous and will be hotly debated in the weeks ahead. But the story of his comeback cannot be told without seriously grappling with how he managed to outrun...
on Sun, 10PM
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Amidst the Darkness, a Few Bright Spots in the Fight Against Inequality
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If you’ve ever questioned whether our country has an inequality problem, this election should provide all the evidence you need. As billionaires used their financial firepower to throw support their preferred candidates’ way, Americans who’ve been left behind took out their frustrations at the...
on Sun, 10PM
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Contesting the Idea of Progress: Labor’s AI Challenge
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The material changes ushered in under the aegis of artificial intelligence (AI) are not leading to the abolition of human labor but rather its degradation. This is typical of the history of mechanization since the dawn of the industrial revolution. Instead of relieving people of work, employers...
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From portside.org
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The U.S. election this week sent shock waves through the field of public health—not just domestically, but internationally as well.
on Sun, 9PM
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Republicans Have Won South Texas Latinos. Does the Democratic Party Have a Path Back?
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The oldest woman in Texas, Elizabeth Francis, died at age 115 in Houston on October 24. She was one of the final people in the state who was alive the last time Webb County, home to Laredo, voted for a Republican for president—that is, until the country voted for Donald Trump, nearly two weeks...
on Sun, 9PM
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Media Blame Left for Trump Victory—Rather Than Their Own Fear-Based Business Model
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Corporate media may not have all the same goals as MAGA Republicans, but they share the same strategy: Fear works. Appeals to fear have an advantage over other kinds of messages in that they stimulate the deeper parts of our brains, those associated with fight-or-flight responses. Fear-based...
on Sun, 7PM
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How White Women Doomed Kamala Harris and the Democrats—Again
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Even after destroying abortion rights, even after a judge went to painstaking lengths to clarify that Trump raped E. Jean Carroll, and even as the Harris campaign targeted the imaginary “silent majority” of women hiding their political views from their husbands, 52 percent of white American...
on Fri, 5PM
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Shortly before Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her concession speech on Wednesday, U.S.
on Nov 7
From portside.org
‘Time for Patriots’: Global Far-Right Figures Celebrate Trump’s Win
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Key members of the global far right have celebrated Donald Trump’s US election win, with tributes to the former president rolling in from Rio de Janeiro to Budapest.
on Nov 7
From portside.org
What Trump Can and Can’t Do to Immigrants
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People make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. —Karl Marx, “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,” 1852
on Nov 7
From portside.org
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It is happening again.” This morning, with Donald Trump in command of another crushing presidential victory, the dreadful words from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks sit like lead inside many stomachs. As the climax of a frenzied campaign and the triumph of so much that is vicious and corrosive in...
on Nov 7
From portside.org
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The Anatomy of Fascism Robert O. Paxton Vintage ISBN: 9781400033911 Fascism, to hear President Bush tell it, has been revived by Islamic militants. ''The terrorists are the heirs to fascism,'' he has said. ''They have the same will to power, the same disdain for the individual, the same mad...
on Nov 7
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Unions to Democrats: Don’t Blame Us for Tuesday’s Losses
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Democrats spent months hand-wringing about losing their grasp on rank-and-file union members. On Tuesday that was the least of their worries.
on Nov 7
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‘If Harris Wins, It’s Because of Abortion’
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Leslie Lemus’s top issue in the 2024 election is probably the economy. But she has a close second: “Them fucking with abortion.”
on Nov 6
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The Puerto Rican Right Is Rallying Against a Rising Left
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November 5 will see elections not just in the United States but in Puerto Rico, the island that has been a colony of the United States for 126 years. Throughout much of the twentieth century, opposition to the deeply unequal economic system that has predominated within Puerto Rico has been...
on Nov 6