Trump Pardons Have Cost Crime Victims $1.7 Billion

Scott MacFarlane MeidasTouch Network
The investigation by the Judiciary Committee and ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) detailed dozens of pardons which zeroed out unpaid fines and restitution of Trump allies and supporters, including money owed by January 6 Capitol rioters.

Was Mamdani's Mandarin AI? The Blooper Reel Reveals the Truth

Mamdani promoted free Broadway tickets for high-school students, speaking to them in Bengali, Mandarin, and Spanish. Critics accused Mamdani of using AI, so he released a blooper reel of his attempts to get each language right.

 

John Oliver: Trump & Crypto

How the Trump family’s cryptocurrency ventures have overshadowed their other businesses, they’ve created massive conflicts of interest, and what it all has to do with Fartcoin.
 

What Is “Far Left”?

Peter Dreier Portside
The growing visibility of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and victories by some DSA-backed candidates has triggered an upsurge of redbaiting by Republicans and fear-mongering by moderate Democrats.

Kate Bronfenbrenner, the Union Organizer’s Scholar

Alex N. Press Jacobin
Kate Bronfenbrenner, who retired this year from Cornell University, has studied how workers win unions, how employers stop them, how organizers can learn from one another for four decades. Her findings have changed how unions think about organizing.