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March 25, 2023

Beyond Fatalism: Renewing Working-Class Politics

Sam Gindin Socialist Project

Working people never stopped fighting as neoliberalism was imposed. Bouts of resistance kept resurfacing, but remained localized and politically narrow. In the absence of structures that could give workers confidence in collective struggles, workers were left with survival tactics that came at great cost and unintentionally reproduced neoliberalism’s individualist ethos.

March 25, 2023

Dems and the Folly of Micromanaging the Trump Spectacle

Josh Marshall Talking Points Memo

What is going to stop ex-President Trump from returning to the White House is voters refusing to vote for him. Indictments and prosecutions can play a role in that inasmuch as they are the society communicating to itself what is okay and what is not. They can play a role in shaping public opinion but they are no replacement for an election.

March 25, 2023

Gideon v. Wainwright Was a Landmark Decision, but Women Invented the Idea of the Public Defender

Emily Galvin-Almanza Teen Vogue

When we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Gideon ruling this year — recognizing the right to counsel conferred by Gideon’s persistence and Justice Hugo Black’s resolve — we are erasing a far longer and richer legacy: the history of the women who invented the idea of the public defender.

March 24, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | March 24, 2023

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Jordan Klepper Meets Trump Arrest Protesters. De La Soul and The Roots: Stakes Is High. Western Weapons Transform the War in Ukraine. Nuclear Fusion: Who'll Be First To Make It Work? "I Almost Ended My Life Because of the Corrupt Beef Industry."

Jordan Klepper Meets a Handful of Trump Arrest Protesters | The Daily Show

March 24, 2023

Jordan Klepper chats with the handful of Trump supporters who actually turned out to protest the former president's predicted arrest. #DailyShow #Comedy

De La Soul and The Roots: Stakes Is High | Jimmy Fallon

March 24, 2023

As of March 2023, the iconic and iconoclastic De La Soul catalog is available on streaming platforms

How Western Weapons Transformed the War in Ukraine

March 24, 2023

How the US influences which weapons the Ukrainians they get, and which ones they don't.

Nuclear Fusion: Who'll Be First To Make It Work?

March 24, 2023

We survey the biggest and most interesting nuclear fusion startups which want to make nuclear fusion commercially relevant.

"I Almost Ended My Life Because of the Corrupt Beef Industry" | The Class Room

March 24, 2023

Coy Young nearly ended his life due to the consolidation in the beef industry. He’s one of 14,700 cattle farmers who will have to sell their farms or go bankrupt this year.

March 24, 2023

The Government Hasn’t Justified a TikTok Ban

Adam Schwartz and Davide Greene Electronic Frontier Foundation

We are troubled by growing demands for restrictions on TikTok. Before taking such a drastic step, the government must come forward with evidence of a real problem and a narrowly tailored solution. So far, the government hasn’t done so.