Gustavo Petro Isn’t Afraid of Donald Trump

Colombian president Gustavo Petro lambasted Donald Trump’s human rights abuses and Israel’s genocide at the United Nations last week. The US State Department revoked his visa in response.

I’m Hoping To Break Israel’s Blockade

It’s not likely we will reach Gaza. But until Palestine is free, we will show what solidarity we can from our vessel

We Don't Need Fossil Fuels To Win ‘An AI Arms Race’

These industry players and allies push a misleading narrative the Trump administration now parrots.

Unions Are Handing Democrats a Golden Opportunity

Federal workers’ move offers Democrats a chance to win the budget battle – and their identity.

Media Bits and Bytes — September 30, 2025

Public pressure saves Kimmel’s show

Trump-Netanyahu Remarks Ripped As ‘Litany of Lies'

One critic noted Trump’s plan for Gaza “contains numerous opportunities for Netanyahu to renege on his commitments, as he has repeatedly done in the past.”

This Week in People’s History, Oct 1–7, 2025

A cartoon with this text: Where did all these Nazi scientists come from? That's preposterous. Wernher here is as American as apple pie.
‘Operation Paperclip’, the U.S. Space Program’s Creepy Pedigree (1945), Plugging a Hole in Earth’s Atmosphere (1985), A Coal Miner’s Daughter and Proud of It (1970), A Hard Look at a Failed Strike (1990), Show Your Opposition to Censorship This Week!

Trump and Putin Want To Carve Up Europe

Forget the US president’s seeming volte-face on Ukraine this week: he and Putin fundamentally agree that European liberal democracy is the problem.

Trump Plan Pushes Millions Toward Eviction

Advocates warn that new HUD demands, looming funding cuts, and potential work rules could dismantle Housing Choice Vouchers and upend low-income households nationwide.

Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk

The writer Ta-Nehisi Coates was harshly critical of my response to Charlie Kirk’s assassination. In an article in Vanity Fair, he suggested I was whitewashing Kirk’s legacy, comparing it to the whitewashing of the Southern cause after the Civil War.
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Culture

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MAGA Is Coming for the WNBA

Alex Keeney Politico
The nation’s most prominent — and most politically active — women’s pro sports league is on a collision course with Donald Trump.

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My Grandpa Was Two

Peter Neil Carroll
Stopping in Trempealeau, Wisconsin, during a trip along the Mississippi, historian and poet Peter Carroll contemplates the flow of time.

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Riefenstahl Exposes the Nazis’ Favorite Filmmaker

An interview with Andres Veiel Jacobin
Darkly influential, the cinema of Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl is a powerful blend of art and propaganda. She’s now the subject of a new documentary that wrestles with the question of the culpability of a talented artist working for a vile regi

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The FDA May Change What Legally Counts As Orange Juice

Stacey Leasca Food & Wine
In response to the Florida Citrus Processors Association and Florida Citrus Mutual, the FDA is proposing to amend the standard of identity for pasteurized orange juice, in place for 6 decades, "to promote honesty and fair dealing for consumers."

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Cancellation Is Peak Hypocrisy

Branko Marcetic Jacobin
After campaigning on ending censorship and cancel culture, Donald Trump is making the list of things you're not allowed to say in America longer and longer. ABC’s cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show signals that not even comedians are safe

Labor

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The UAW’s Shawn Fain on Union Growth and Union Power

Shawn Fain Jacobin
United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain: “Make no mistake: the billionaire class is not going to give up power willingly. They are on an endless pursuit of profit, no matter the cost.”

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Trump’s War on Wind

Kari Thompson Labor Notes
Tens of Thousands of Jobs Destroyed, Unions Say

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The Plot To Break Working People

David McCall USW International President Medium.com
“It’s unity. It’s solidarity. It’s strength in each other,” Powell said. “You’re going to see the unions fighting. We stand for what’s right.”

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2025 Oregon AFL-CIO Convention Report

Don McIntosh Northwest Labor Press
In troubling times like these working people and the labor movement remain a necessary check on this vision of profits over people. At the 2025 Oregon AFL-CIO Convention we got serious about building an unstoppable working class movement for change.

Friday nite video

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Bombshell Development in the Epstein Scandal

When Adelita Grijalva is sworn in as a member of Congress next week, she will be the crucial 218th vote to force a vote on release of the Epstein files. What comes next?

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Pregnancy Is Insane

The challenges of pregnancy rival any Olympic competition, yet when successful pregnancy results in an extraordinary achievement

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Jimmy Kimmel: The Final Show?

On his last show before being "indefinitely suspended," Jimmy talks about the NFL, TikTok, the MAGA gang and Charlie Kirk, $200M ballrooms, Fox and Friends and MTG. 

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Colbert's Identical Twin Brings Back 'The Word': Shhhhhh!

Daddy’s home! Stephen appoints Stephen Colbert, former host of “The Colbert Report,” as ombudsman to ensure that the final season of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” remains free from liberal bias.