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AOC, Tiffany Cabán and the Struggle For a People's DA in Queens

June 28, 2019

Filmmaker Erik Rist made this compelling mini-doc after his time embedded with the Indypendent and the Cabán campaign. Cabán has declared victory in the June 25 race, leading by over 1,000 votes with all same-day results reported.

These Photos Ended Child Labor in the US

June 28, 2019

Child labor was widely practiced until a photographer showed the public what it looked like

June 28, 2019

Does Anyone 'Deserve' to Be a Billionaire?

Sam Pizzigati Inequality.org

Most of the candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination seem to have no problem with the presence of grand private fortunes

June 28, 2019

Joe Biden’s Response to Kamala Harris on Busing Is Going to Haunt His Campaign

Tim Murphy Mother Jones

He had 40 years to come up with a better answer than this

June 28, 2019

Megan Rapinoe Doesn't Back Down to Anyone, President Trump Included

Nancy Armour USA Today

If Trump thought he could bully Rapinoe and, by extension, the rest of the U.S. team ahead of their most important game at the World Cup, he miscalculated

June 28, 2019

The Infamous Birth of the Custer Myth

Meteor Blades Daily Kos

On this date 143 years ago, America began creating the Custer myth, much of which survives today

June 28, 2019

Falling

Kathy Engel

“Yet another story” of a black woman “getting shafted by white women” knocks the poet off her feet, literally, and she rises to the continuing struggle.