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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How RFK Jr. Broke the Vaccine Decision-Making Process

Kennedy announced by tweet that Covid vaccines have been removed from the CDC's recommended schedule for healthy children and pregnant women, bypassing any rigorous decision process. Health care for millions is at stake.

Everyone Loves…Harvard

Harvard became the first university to push back and sue Trump over his intrusions into academia. Before Harvard, Columbia folded. As with the law firms, the question is, who will bend the knee and who would tell the tyrant-in-the-making NO!

Defeating a Bloc Ginned Up on Delusion and Hate

Removing this toxic force from power requires both the broadest possible anti-MAGA front and a radical contingent aware of just how deep the roots of US fascism run.

What Would Recognizing Palestine Really Mean?

Everyone wants Palestinian statehood but Israel, and Israel won't change on its own. Recognition must be a big package of policy, one with teeth and bricks alike, or it will end up like all the other failures.
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Culture

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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?

books

“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.

tv

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.

poetry

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.

books

Double Negative

George Blaustein The European Review of Books
This book is a detailed history of an aspect of modern European history and the treaty that catalyzed that story.

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 Building Trades Want To Save the IRA

Paul Prescod Jacobin
The Inflation Reduction Act has helped create good union jobs in the clean energy sector. Republicans want to derail this progress to pay for tax cuts for the rich. The building trades are starting to fight back, and environmentalists should join

Friday nite video

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?