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July 16, 2022

We Have a Problem: Live With Our Eyes Open Without Allowing Ourselves To Be Defeated

Joan Benach Socialist Project

We have the means and resources to reeducate our minds, to see our Problem, but we need the determination and courage – personal and collective – to do it. We cannot resign ourselves to not thinking and feeling at the same time.

July 16, 2022

AIPAC Has Taken Over the Democratic Primary Process

Alexander Sammon The American Prospect

What will it take for Democratic leadership to cry foul? It’s ultimately toxic for the party leadership to tacitly welcome a group currently endorsing a Republican who compared Democrats to Nazis.

July 15, 2022

Friday Nite Videos | July 15, 2022

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Bannon Confirms Leaked Audio Of Trump Plan To ‘Declare Himself Winner.’ King Clave | Planet Drum. The Replacement Conspiracy Inspiring Mass Shootings. Debunking the Latest Corporate Climate Lie. What Are We Seeing in the New Space Telescope Images?

July 15, 2022

Defund Fox News

Anand Giridharadas The.Ink

Advertisers have no loyalty, period. So if their association with Fox News represents enough of a threat to their brand equity, they will reallocate their budgets.

July 15, 2022

Merrick Garland Should Investigate Trump’s 2020 Election Schemes as a ‘Hub and Spoke’ Conspiracy

Andrew Weissmann The New York Times

The evidence gathered in the hearings describes a multiprong conspiracy—what prosecutors term a hub and spoke conspiracy—in which the Ellipse speech by President Trump and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol were just one “spoke” of a grander scheme.

July 15, 2022

We Need Microchips, but Not Crony Capitalism

Bernie Sanders The Guardian

If private companies are going to benefit from taxpayer subsidies, the financial gains made by these companies must be shared with the American people.

July 15, 2022

Progressives Release Blueprint for Federal Action on Reproductive Freedom

Kenny Stancil Common Dreams

"Access to abortion has reached crisis level—and it demands a response from Congress and the Biden administration that meets this moment," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal.

Bannon Confirms Leaked Audio Of Trump Plan To ‘Declare Himself Winner’

July 15, 2022

“Our article says that acknowledged that Donald Trump had a plan to lie about the election results—he isn’t denying that at all,” says Dan Friedman, who obtained the audio of Steve Bannon describing the Trump coup plot before Election Day.

King Clave | Planet Drum ft. Mickey Hart

July 15, 2022

Planet Drum Song Around The World was created for the UN General Assembly and features the legendary Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart along with extraordinary percussionists Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju, Giovanni Hidalgo and traditional drummers and dancers from around the globe.

The Replacement Conspiracy Inspiring Mass Shootings | Decade of Hate

July 15, 2022

The Great Replacement Theory has fuelled the world’s deadliest white supremacist terror attacks – but what exactly is it? And how has it leaked into mainstream politics?