Islamic Clerics Urge Muslims Across US to Defeat Trump

"Knowingly enabling someone like Donald Trump to return to office, whether by voting directly for him or for a third-party candidate, is both a moral and a strategic failure." [Full letter from Islamic Imans and Clerics, listing signers is below]

Today's Israel: Just How Far Right Will Israel Go?

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 over the past year back that up?

Harris: Expand Medicare for Home-Based Long-Term Care

Monday on The View, Vice President Kamala Harris’ announced a proposal to expand Medicare to cover long-term care at home could be the most meaningful shift in our system in decades.

Harris Holds Massive Edge Among College Students

A new Inside Higher Ed/Generation Lab survey shows Harris leading nationally by 38 points, with around a third of students reporting they are more likely to cast a ballot because she’s top of the ticket.

Reader Comments & Tidbits, October 10, 2024

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

SCOTUS' Dark Money Crisis: Wyden’s Revolutionary Fix

How expanding and regulating the court could save America from GOP billionaires

New Approach to Low-Level Offenses ‘A Massive Success'

‘For many, it’s the first time in their life that they can see people within the system trying to help them, trying to reduce barriers to their success,’ says one attorney

Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Bucking Media’s Palestine Consensus

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 betrays a fundamental lack of concern for Palestinians’ basic humanity, shared across mainstream me

Joe Biden Chose Every Step of This Catastrophic Path

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 establishment.

Global Left Midweek – Parties In and Out of Power

Political concentration points in a chaotic world
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Culture

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Hollywood’s New Sex Worker Roles Are Girlboss Heroines

Emma Paling Jacobin
In Hollywood, sex workers have become the ultimate girlbosses. The message is clear: there’s no need for collective empowerment when one can escape the low-wage economy by cashing in on the power of bootstrapping entrepreneurism.

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Donald Trump, Sexual Predator

Lloyd Green The Guardian
This book and this review are nearly five years old. Their relevance remains undiminished.

Labor

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How Climate Change Threatens Workers

Jordan Barab Combined Space
Photo of the outside of a factory building after being devastated by the hurricane. Worker risk is also a function of workers’ power in the workplace — or lack thereof. Where they work, the conditions they work under and their ability to protect themselves against obvious threats make workers more vulnerable than average citizens.

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Boeing Strike Continues

Don McIntosh Northwest Labor Press
On Sept. 23, Boeing announced a new contract offer, but did so in a press release and directly to members instead of to their union in bargaining. Union members said the proposal was inadequate, and disrespectful in the way it bypassed the union.

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Biden’s Amazing Win Settling the Dock Strike

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
The terms are a total victory for dockworkers and for smooth supply chain operation, as the White House faced down exorbitant shipper profits. What would Trump have done?

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The UAW’s Rank-and-File Takeover Isn’t Over Yet

Keith Brower Brown / Jane Slaughter Labor Notes
Rank-and-file autoworkers democratized their union, elected president Shawn Fain, and won a landmark strike. Now they will have to win local officer positions, dominated by the old guard, to hold bosses to their word and maintain a fighting union.

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