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Organizing the Battery Belt

Amos Barshad Jacobin
In deep-red Hardin County, Kentucky, workers are trying to unionize a new electric vehicle battery plant. If Donald Trump scraps the IRA, it may cost thousands of his supporters safe, well-paying jobs.

What Are You Looking At?

Carine Topal Pedestal Magazine
Poet Carine Topal finds resistance even in the most crushingly authoritarian society.

This Small Rust-Belt City Holds the Secret to Democrats’ Latino Woes

Greg Sargent The New Republic
Latino voters shifted dramatically toward Trump in the last election. Reading, Pennsylvania offers a clue to how Democrats can claw them back. Both campaigns saw Reading as strategically critical and it happens to be nearly 70 percent Latino.

It Was an Ambush

Tom Nichols The Atlantic
Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.

Tidbits – Feb.27 – Reader Comments: Fighting the Coup; Support for Public Employees Rising; Trump’s Tax Proposals; Texas Measles Outbreak Was ‘Inevitable’; Trump/Netanyahu Crime of the Century; ‘Stand Up for Science’ Rallies March 7; Lots More;

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Reader Comments: Fighting the Coup; Support for Public Employees Rising; Trump’s Tax Proposals; Texas Measles Outbreak Was ‘Inevitable’; Trump/Netanyahu Crime of the Century; ‘Stand Up for Science’ Rallies March 7; lots more and Cartoons;