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Trump Voters Are In for a Rude Awakening

Trump sold them countless, often conflicting fantasies. In 2025, he’ll face political reality. He was whoever they wanted him to be—a choose-your-own-candidate. Voters projected their wishes onto his candidacy, regardless of his stated policy program

Jimmy Carter Was Right About Israel’s Apartheid

No US president has ever been willing to call the system imposed by Israel on the Palestinians what it is: apartheid. Except Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter was a champion of peace who also foresaw the perils of apartheid in Palestine.

Palestinians Are Souring on Hamas; Want End to the War

There's the bad news – apocalyptic destruction in Gaza, rampant poverty, utter despair about the Palestinian Authority–and there's more bad news: Over half of Palestinians still back the October 7 attack. Recent polls show that's not the whole story.

AfD - Elon Musk’s New Friends on the German Far Right

First, Elon Musk helped buy the U.S. presidential elections. Now, he is interfering in Germany's elections, by supporting the ultra-rightist party AfD, Alternative for Germany; in German: Alternative für Deutschland. Germany and Europe is protesting.

Reader Comments & Tidbits, January 2, 2025

Reader Comments: MAGA Divide - Round One to The Plutocracy; GOP Plan To Dismantle Pro-Palestinian Movement; Chanukah Is Choice Between Life and Death; Resource - World-Changing Impact Of Vaccines; Cartoons; and more....

The MAGA Honeymoon Is Over

Silicon Valley and the nativist right worked together to elect Trump. Now the infighting has begun.

Why Insurance Cut Off Her Mental Health Coverage

Insurers use a patient’s improvement to justify denying mental health coverage which, in some cases, can cause dangerous, or even fatal, backslides.

Will Defeating the Oligarchs Be Easy? Of Course Not

If there was ever a moment when progressives needed to communicate our vision to the people of our country, this is that time. Despair is not an option.

What It’s Like To Sleep in a Damp, Frigid Gaza Tent

Five newborns have died of hypothermia amid the cold in Gaza. Doctors tell Drop Site the deaths are a direct result of Israel's blockades

Global Left Midweek – January 1, 2025

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The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane

Bill Meyer Hollywood Progressive
An opening scene in the documentary shows Dane flipping through the pages of a massive looseleaf binder that contains her entire FBI Red Squad files.

A Portside Message: Say ‘No’ to a Wannabe Dictator

Portside Moderators Portside
Donald Trump is signaling that he will attempt a coup before even taking office. It's going to take all of our strategizing and mobilizing to defeat it ... again. Portside will be there every day, and we’re asking you to help. Here’s how.

poetry

peeling potatoes

Nels Goñi Christianson
California poet Nels Goñi Christianson honors the women who made him the man he is, their often undervalued care and strength.

books

A Soundtrack of Irrationalism

Blaire Briody Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviewer Briody calls this book "a tightly written and well-reported account of the rise of extremism in small-town America."

Labor

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Carter Presidency Was a Turning Point for Labor

Don McIntosh Northwest Labor Press
Carter's work post-presidency brokering peace and monitoring overseas elections for fairness earned him the Nobel Peace Prize. But when he occupied the White House, Carter was a disappointment to American working people and their labor movement.

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What Is Salting?

Kim Kelly Teen Vogue
A new generation of union activists is embracing all sorts of organizing strategies, including one of the oldest tactics in the pro-union handbook: salting.

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How Labor Can Fight Trump’s Authoritarianism

Alex Caputo-Pearl Convergence
Labor must adopt an intensified ‘Block and Build’ strategy for the coming years as it organizes broad labor, community, and political alliances against authoritarianism.

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Whistleblower Karen Silkwood’s Urgent Message for Us

Sarah Milov, Katherine Turk Jacobin
Karen Silkwood died in 1974 while trying to expose dangerous conditions in her workplace. Her death — and the smear campaign that followed — highlights how retaliation against whistleblowers deflects scrutiny from power by targeting the messenger.

Friday nite video

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Nickel Boys | Movie

Based on the true story of two boys imprisoned in a juvenile detention facility that covered up a long history of abuse

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BBC in Civil War Over Gaza

BBC reporters are in open revolt over the bias in BBC management in its Palestine coverage