Racist Push for Mamdani To Skip 9/11 Memorial

“Hi Democrats, don’t think that millions of Muslims—and not just Muslims but anti-racist liberal and leftist Americans—don’t hear the deafening silence from most of you,” said one journalist.

Socialists Can Lead the Fight Against AI Data Centers

Americans across the political spectrum are coming together to fight against AI data centers and for solutions like public power. Beholden to big donors, mainstream politicians won’t meet the moment — but the Left can.

Trump’s Census Plan: Remove Immigrants, Race Questions

The proposals for 2030 are among significant changes that would upend a process for helping allot congressional seats and shape policies that address disparities.

College's Money Problems Will Make Students Suffer

Many schools will resort to laying off faculty, cutting services and increasing prices

Global Left Midweek — September 9, 2026

Mass opposition to Chile’s far-right Führer

Republicans May Lose Half the Seats They Gerrymandered

With some gerrymandered seats looking much more competitive than they hoped, Republicans are wondering if mid-decade redistricting can actually save their majority.

The Anti-DSA Bill, It's Just the Old Red-Baiting

The House just passed a resolution condemning the Democratic Socialists of America and socialism broadly. While it rehearses opposition to Stalinist authoritarianism, the bill’s real preoccupation is with socialists’ advocacy for expanded democracy.

Defend Your Right to Vote: Show Up and Vote Early

Resources that could be going toward preventing human trafficking or domestic terrorism are instead going toward a phantom problem: vanishingly rare non-citizen voting.

Labor Day 2026: Unions are Popular But Not Powerful

Wages now constitute the lowest share of the nation’s income since the government began measuring them in 1947.

Dispatches From the Culture Wars — September 8, 2026

Public enemy: data centers
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Culture

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The Party of Baristas

Gabriel Winant Dissent Magazine
Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.

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Muriel Rukeyser and the Poetry of Antifascism

Jeremy Wang-Iverson Rain Taxi
This new collection of essays, articles, and radio scripts should help bring renewed attention to this too-little-known modernist left wing poet and writer.

Labor

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I Refused To Train the AI That Could Replace Me

James Maisiri rest of world
AI companies are paying highly educated workers to teach machines the judgment they spent years developing — even when those systems could eventually replace them.

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Denver Library Workers Unionize With Overwhelming Vote

Paolo Zialcita Denverite
Nearly 600 workers at Denver Public Library will be represented by a collective bargaining unit after employees voted overwhelmingly in favor of forming Denver’s first union under newly afforded labor rights.

Friday nite video

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Filipinana | Movie (2026)

This grippingly understated drama of class on a luxury Philippine golf course is an invitation to look closer and question why these systems are still in place. Read a full review here.

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Meta’s Legal Troubles Are Worse than You Think

For the first time in history, the legal system can go after Meta and other social media platforms and demand them to change the way their apps operate and are designed.

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I Tracked Down the Company Ruining Fruit

America’s biggest berry empire doesn’t actually grow berries. A middleman controls the genetics, reaps the profits, and then shifts blame.