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The Most Successful Con in American History Laid Bare

Thom Hartmann Hartmann Report
When you compare Trump’s cons with the $50 trillion that the GOP has swindled out of the American working class and given to the top 1 percent since 1980, Trump looks like a piker

Post-Gazette Journalists Begin Strike, As Contract Impasse Continues

Patrick Doyle, Julia Zenkevich 90.5 WESA
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalists started a strike at noon on Tuesday, following unmet demands from the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh that the company "end its illegally declared impasse to contract negotiations" and return to the bargaining table.

Friday Nite Videos | July 8, 2022

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The Complicated Life of the Abortion Pill

Lauren Collins The New Yorker
RU-486 was developed by a Jewish scientist, born Étienne Blum, in Strasbourg, France. He took the name Émile Baulieu upon joining the French Resistance. Baulieu and his invention have faced vitriolic resistance from the anti-feminist extreme right.

The Supreme Court v. Religious Liberty

Elliot Mincberg The Hill
For those who are not adherents of the Religious Right, this Court has seriously harmed religious liberty and may do even more harm in the future.