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NY Takes Baby Steps Toward Free Child Care

Jessica Gould, Jimmy Vielkind, Andrew Giambrone and Walter Wuthmann Gothamist
The launch of “2-Care” will start in “high-need areas,” building on the city’s existing pre-K and 3-K programs. NYS socialist legislators want to 'tax the rich' to raise the billions that a full implementation will require.

The 5 Stages of the ‘Enshittification’ of Academic Publishing

Martina Linnenluecke and Carl Rhodes The Conversation
Enshittification isn’t confined to the online world. It’s now visible in academic publishing. The same forces that hollow out digital platforms are shaping how a lot of research is produced, reviewed and published.

The Mad King’s Madness Deepens

Paul Krugman Paul Krugman Substack
For Trump, ICE’s violent lawlessness is a feature, not a bug. Sending armed, masked, poorly trained, and out-of-control thugs into blue cities is a war on Americans, just as January 6th was a war on American institutions.

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The Deepening Labor Crisis and Myanmar Election

Su Latt Phyu Transnational Institute
Livelihood conditions are worsening, with trade unionists arrested, internal displacement increasing and youth fleeing the country to escape conscription. An end to military rule is vital if the cycles of human rights repression is to be addressed.

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Policies of Denial

Sara Roy, interviewed by Max Nelson The New York Review of Books
“What I sense most powerfully from my friends in Gaza is a feeling of abandonment. Quiet is not the absence of conflict nor is it peace.” Plans for the “day after” in the Strip impose forms of governance that exclude Palestinians as political agents

Trump’s Childcare Funding Freezes Are Going To Hit All Kids Hard

Grace Segers The New Republic
The administration added new strings for states to receive funding. This could have ripple effects for all households, not just those with low-income children. HHS said it would specifically freeze $10 billion in childcare funds to five blue states.

How Did Astoria Become So Socialist?

Naaman Zhou The New Yorker
One neighborhood in New York has elected so many democratic socialists—including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani—that people have started calling it “the People’s Republic,” or a part of the Commie Corridor.