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September 26, 2025

Recognizing Palestine: What Israeli Leaders Should Tell Israelis, if They Had the Guts

Dahlia Scheindlin Haaretz

In lockstep with Netanyahu, opposition leaders lined up to condemn Israel's closest allies who recognized the State of Palestine. If they had the guts, they'd tell the truth: that death, destruction and 'Super Sparta' need not be their fate.

September 26, 2025

The Kimmel Saga: Evidence the Tide May Be Turning

Paul Krugman Paul Krugman Substack

It's clear that Trump is rushing to lock in permanent power. But there is hard evidence that he may not enjoy the success that Vladimir Putin and Victor Orban did. Is the Jimmy Kimmel affair the harbinger of a failed Trumpian putsch?

Trump And Vance Cannot Be Happy With The New South Park

September 26, 2025

Jon, Jon, and Tommy break down South Park’s latest skewering of FCC Chair Brandon Carr, Trump's attempted satanic baby infanticide, and Bibi Netanhayu

What Mark Zuckerberg Is Hiding About His AI Chatbots

September 26, 2025

Social media fueled the loneliness epidemic — now Big Tech wants to sell us their "cure"

Pregnancy Is Insane

September 26, 2025

The challenges of pregnancy rival any Olympic competition, yet when successful pregnancy results in an extraordinary achievement

Bombshell Development in the Epstein Scandal

September 26, 2025

When Adelita Grijalva is sworn in as a member of Congress next week, she will be the crucial 218th vote to force a vote on release of the Epstein files. What comes next?

Leslie Jones on Memory-Holing Slavery | The Daily Show

September 26, 2025

Trump and MAGA want to whitewash the history of slavery in the U.S. from Smithsonian museums. Leslie Jones has another opinion.

September 26, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | September 26, 2025

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Leslie Jones on Memory-Holing Slavery. Bombshell Development in the Epstein Scandal. Pregnancy Is Insane. What Mark Zuckerberg Is Hiding About His AI Chatbots. Trump And Vance Cannot Be Happy With the New South Park.

September 25, 2025

2025 Oregon AFL-CIO Convention Report

Don McIntosh Northwest Labor Press

In troubling times like these working people and the labor movement remain a necessary check on this vision of profits over people. At the 2025 Oregon AFL-CIO Convention we got serious about building an unstoppable working class movement for change.

September 25, 2025

The Plot To Break Working People

David McCall USW International President Medium.com

“It’s unity. It’s solidarity. It’s strength in each other,” Powell said. “You’re going to see the unions fighting. We stand for what’s right.”