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2018 Lesson: 'Nothing Matters' Is Bogus

December 28, 2018

In the Trump era, everyone from comedians to pundits have claimed that “nothing matters”. MSNBC anchor Ari Melber runs through an exhaustive list of times when Trump has been defeated or stopped by facts and reporting. “In a democracy, things matter when we make them matter.”

'Weird Al' Yankovic - Party In The CIA

December 28, 2018

Parody of "Party In The U.S.A." by Miley Cyrus

Springsteen on Broadway

December 28, 2018

The critically acclaimed, three times extended, Broadway phenomenon makes its global debut on Netflix.

Vice | Movie

December 28, 2018

The official Vice trailer about our most notorious vice president, starring Christian Bale. Full review here.

Tumblr CEO: No More Porn

December 28, 2018

Gee, it's more difficult than they thought.

December 28, 2018

How does it end?

Marge Piercy Monthly Review

The award-winning poet Marge Piercy decries America’s refugee policies that would make an earlier poet, Emma Lazarus, weep.

December 27, 2018

Could a Self-governed Workers’ Movement Boost Croatia’s Dying Shipbuilding Industry?

Jelena Prtorić Equal Times

Shipbuilding was a key symbol of the working-classes in Yugoslavia's early socialist years. But during the transition to a market economy in the 1990s shipyards began to close. Today, workers are directly organizing to save the industry.

December 27, 2018

Left Victories That Defined 2018 - Give Us Hope and How the Left Can Win in 2020

Marc Daalder and Sean McElwee In These Times

Despite Trump’s destructive presidency, the Left made important strides this year — from electoral victories to strikes, union campaigns, movement organizing and popularizing left-wing policies. Insurgent candidates can push the agenda left.

December 27, 2018

ICE Dumps Hundreds of Migrants With Nowhere to Go at a Bus Station on Eve of Christmas Without Warning Shelters

Julián Aguilar Texas Tribune

Hundreds of asylum-seekers spent part of Christmas Eve in a downtown parking lot here without knowing where they’ll end up next. Lawmakers and immigrant rights groups scramble after ICE releases hundreds of migrants without alerting local shelters.

December 27, 2018

A Point of Holiday Agreement: Stop Wasting Money on the Pentagon

Lindsay Koshgarian OtherWords.org

Military leaders literally don’t know what they’re doing with our money, but they want more. People on the left and right have had enough.