Dispatches From the Culture Wars — October 7, 2025
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Repression and resistance
Repression and resistance
Repression and resistance
Clarence Thomas Has Long Tried To Undercut the Voting Rights Act. Now, He May Finally Have the Numbers
CNN
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been imploring his colleagues for decades to gut a crucial part of the iconic Voting Rights Act that prohibits practices denying Blacks, Hispanics and other racial minorities an equal right to vote.
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United Auto Workers Move To Unionize Workers at Another Alabama Automotive Plant
AL.com
The United Auto Workers have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to represent workers at International Motors in Huntsville.
Americans Must Prepare To Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners
Sherrilyn’s Newsletter
Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners.
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Alabama Profits off Prisoners Who Work at McDonald’s But Deems Them Too Dangerous for Parole
AP
No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a labor system that dates back more than 150 years, it has constructed a template for the commercialization of mass incarceration.
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Amazon Ordered To Let Workers Vote on Unionizing — for the 3rd Time
NPR
Amazon workers at a warehouse in Alabama should get a third opportunity to vote on unionizing, a federal labor judge has ruled.
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AppleTV+ Is Reportedly “Eying” a TV Version of Ancient Podcast Hit S-Town
AV Club
Producer Brian Reed says he's working with AppleTV+ on a TV adaptation of 2017 podcast phenomenon S-Town
Friday Nite Videos | September 6, 2024
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JD Vance's Donut Disaster; Trump's Really 'Not Weird'. Alabama Generates Billions by Trapping People in Prison. Big Effing Development in DC Case. What Happened When These 6 Dictators Took Over? KAOS | Limited Series.
Alabama Is Generating Billions by Trapping People in Prison
Alabama is farming out incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s
Reggie Jackson Speaks the Ugly Truth About Baseball’s Past
The Nation
Baseball legend Reggie Jackson tells the Fox Sports audience the truth about playing baseball in the 1960s in the South. “I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.” He then spoke for several minutes about being treated like something less than human.
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