MATHUSLA: Long Live the Long-Lived Particles!

As powerful as the Large Hadron Collider is, it does have one blind spot: long-lived neutral particles that can slip through the detector before they're found. Coming up soon is an upgrade, called MATHUSLA, that hopes to change that.

Trump’s New Rule Will Destroy American Science

The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way for state-controlled science

Get Ready To Pay in ZuckBucks

The GENIUS Act isn’t just a crypto giveaway — it could turn tech giants into unregulated banks.

The Roots of Bukele’s Gulag

Understanding why Trump is using El Salvador to test the limits of illegal deportation requires returning to the US’s long history of outsourcing violence.

Collective Property, Private Control

The U.S. was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley knows that war is good for business. Many of its most powerful people want us to stop worrying about ethics or ecology and love the bomb.

The Canada Post Strike Is Not Just a ‘Labour Dispute’

The weaponization of ‘balance’ increasingly permeates our society. It emerges when powerful institutions call police to suspend free speech or shut down protests in the name of ‘safety’ when really, there’s no realistic danger.

Police-Custody Deaths Should Have Been Ruled Homicide

The audit found that the state’s medical examiners “often failed to acknowledge restraint as a potential contributing factor” when restrained by police and "often failed to appropriately classify homicides” when the people who died were non-white.

Family Sues Fossil Fuel Giants for Wrongful Death

A Washington woman is taking Big Oil to court over her mother’s death in a historic heatwave, opening a new front in the fight to hold polluters legally accountable for climate-fueled deaths.

‘Remigration’ Office To Supercharge Deportations

The State Department wants to create an alarming office to expel immigrants.

Will We Have an 1854 Moment?

The point here is not to replicate a particular historical episode, but rather to suggest the urgency of breaking with conventional thinking about what is permissible. Lethargy and pusillanimity got us into this mess in the first place.
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Small Comment

Sonia Sanchez, From Collected Poems by Sonia Sanchez Copyright © 2021 by Sonia Sanchez From Collected Poems by Sonia Sanchez Copyright © 2021 by Sonia Sanchez Reprinted with permission from Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts
Poet Sonia Sanchez asks the obvious question: man or beast?

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“The Wolves Came”

Richard Steigmann-Gall The Society for U.S. Intellectual History USIH Blog
Reviewer Steigmann-Gall considers what took so long for so many, including some left wing public intellectuals, to publicly acknowledge that Trumpism is fascism.

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The Woke Right Wants To Cancel Ms Rachel

Meagan Day
Children’s content creator Ms Rachel is opposed to slaughtering children in Gaza and everywhere else. The Right’s attacks in response are reactionary wokeness run amok.

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My Vote

Charles Finn The Nature of our Times
Poet and environmentalist Charles Finn imagines a regime that respects the world and all its creatures.

Labor

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Getting to Medicare for All

Dean Baker Center for Economic and Policy Research
If people understand the issues and have given a president a clear mandate for universal Medicare, they have some ability to push recalcitrant senators and Congresspeople.

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DOGE Already Happened in Chicago: How To Resist Through Coalition Building

Michaela Brant interview with Stacy Davis Gates The Progressive
The practice of solidarity, the practice of coalition, those two practices are going to be critically important for how we withstand these moments. But not just for survival – to make a better path forward. Survival is one thing; living is another.

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Nurses at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital Announce Intent To Unionize

Kiley Koscinski 90.5 WESA
“When we’re regularly struggling with what we feel are inadequate staffing levels, it is difficult to care for our patients to the degree we believe they deserve,” said nurse Gianna Pomponi, who works in the adult intensive care unit.

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The Sexy Paradox That Stumped Darwin

We all know Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, right? But what about his lesser-know theory of evolution: sexual selection?