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May 20, 2023

Wisconsin Teacher To Be Fired After Complaining About “Rainbowland” Song Ban

Prem Thakker The New Republic

A Wisconsin schoolteacher is being punished for trying to have her students sing a popular song by Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus.

May 20, 2023

Condemned to Freedom, Sartre Sought Existential Rescue

Claudio Tognonato il manifesto

For existentialism, the choice for oneself is the choice for a world, for commitment to a plural world. Returning to Sartre today means not accepting the distracted somnambulism of our societies, because we have only one life and only one planet.

May 20, 2023

The Other Border Crisis: Mining

Miriam Davidson The Progressive

El Jefe, one of at least seven jaguars documented north of the border since 1996, became a powerful symbol for environmentalists, Native tribes, and others who vehemently oppose both mining and border wall construction in remote areas.

May 19, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | May 19, 2023

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Jim Jordan Shut Down at 'Whistleblower' Hearing. Masters Of War | Bob Dylan (The RoJ LiGht Cover). Malcolm X at 98 | Angela Davis. We Talked to The Wire’s David Simon About the Writers' Strike. Pussy Riot's Powerful Message to Vladimir Putin.

May 19, 2023

This Teach-In Is Taking the Fight for Democracy to DeSantis

Kellie Carter Jackson CNN

The goal of the event is to confront the political assault on Florida’s educational system by teaching truthful history and providing education on voter suppression and voter empowerment.

May 19, 2023

Bernie Sanders: It’s Time To Guarantee Healthcare to All Americans as a Human Right

Bernie The Guardian

It is time to end the international embarrassment of the US being the only major country that does not guarantee healthcare

May 19, 2023

A.I. Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading

Oliver Whang The New York Times

In a recent experiment, researchers used large language models to translate brain activity into words.

May 19, 2023

North Carolina’s Devastating New Abortion Ban and the Fight Ahead

Billy Corriher Slate

North Carolina has been here before. From 2013 through 2018, Republicans had a veto-proof supermajority in the Legislature. They engaged in a series of power grabs. North Carolina’s citizens can rally to save the state’s democracy once again.

Jim Jordan Shut Down at 'Whistleblower' Hearing | Brian Tyler Cohen

May 19, 2023

Jordan's witnesses are not really whistleblowers, but they are very much deserving of being fired from law enforcement and having their security clearances revoked.

Masters Of War | Bob Dylan (The RoJ LiGht Cover)

May 19, 2023

Dylan's second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, debuted 60 years ago, in May 1963. It marked the beginning of the period of Dylan's intense political engagement, including the songs Masters of War, Blowin' in the Wind and A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall.