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Mothers Deported Without Their Children Seek to Be Reunited

February 5, 2021

Amna Nawaz reports on two mothers in Central America who have been waiting years to be reunited with their children.

Racially Charged: America's Misdemeanor Problem

February 5, 2021

Racially Charged: America’s Misdemeanor Problem exposes how our country’s history of racial injustice evolved into an enormous abuse of criminal justice power. 13 million people a year – most of them poor and people of color – are abused by this system.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Gets Punished by House and Disavows QAnon

February 5, 2021

Despite publicly disavowing QAnon, the House votes to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committees while GOP lawmakers continue to stand by her. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #MajorieTaylorGreene

February 5, 2021

Journalists at New York Daily News Form Union, Joining a Wave

Marc Tracy The New York Times

The organizing effort at the century-old tabloid comes roughly 25 years after its editorial union was effectively broken.

February 5, 2021

Inaugural

Jericho Brown The New York Times

Pultizer-prize winning poet Jericho Brown speaks to this critical moment—“the single item on the agenda”—that inspires hope at “this American hour of our lives.”

February 4, 2021

AOC's Powerful Plea for Republican Accountability Cannot Be Ignored

Moira Donegan The Guardian

The congresswoman knows impunity for those who incited the Capitol attack just allows them to do the same, or worse, again. Impunity for the people who told the lie would amount to complicity in their conduct...

February 4, 2021

Epidemic of Despair Could Haunt America Long After COVID

Lynn Parramore Institute for New Economic Thinking

Researchers worry the pandemic may have severe after-effects, with deaths of despair impacting more distressed and newly-vulnerable populations. Only a serious reform of American capitalism can address the kind of distress and insecurity that kills.

February 4, 2021

How Grassroots Organizing Defeated the Keystone XL and Built a Broader, Savier Climate Movement

Nick Engelfried Waging Nonviolence

Overwhelming odds, unexpected alliances and tough losses — defeating Keystone XL built a bolder, savvier climate movement. From frontline battles to large national mobilizations, tar sands resistance developed new tactics and organizing strategies.

February 4, 2021

Change Is Not Scary — The Present System Is

Judith G. Atkins Greenfield Recorder

If you have Medicare, you know you just have to give your provider your Medicare card and they will bill Medicare for your treatment. Improved Medicare for All would do away with the need for supplemental coverage and expand the services covered.

February 4, 2021

Tidbits - Feb. 4, 2021 - Reader Comments: Biden and the Left; Trumpism as Fascism; Andrew Yang; Palestine Denied Vaccine; China; Myanmar; Jim Campbell, Presente; Lila Downs New Song; Reinventing Solidarity Podcasts; Radical Futures of Black History

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Reader Comments: Biden and the Left; Trumpism as Fascism; Andrew Yang; Palestine Denied Vaccine; China; Myanmar; Jim Campbell, Presente; Lila Downs New Song to Essential Workers; Reinventing Solidarity Podcasts; Radical Futures of Black History; more