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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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19h 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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18h 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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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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