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The ADL Goes Quiet on Some Hatreds

Danielle Bryant New York Daily News
Former ADL education director lays bare the dirty secret: "ADL has long abandoned its stated mission of securing justice and fair treatment for all. Instead, it shields Israel from criticism over its decades-long oppression of the Palestinian people"

America Can’t Afford Trump’s Mass Deportations

Alliyah Lusuegro OtherWords.org
For the cost of mass deportations, we could instead erase medical debt, provide universal school lunches, and end homelessness. The American Immigration Council estimates mass deportations will cost $88 billion per year over the course of a decade.

Elon Musk Is South African. We Shouldn’t Forget It.

William Shoki The New York Times
Discussion of Mr. Musk often misses something: He is a white South African, part of a demographic that for centuries sat atop a racial hierarchy maintained by violent colonial rule. That history matters. He is in fact a distinctly ideological figure.

Postal Workers Brace for Trump’s Wrecking Ball

Alexandra Bradbury Labor Notes
“As a true unionist in my blood, withholding labor is always an option. I’m not scared of it. A general strike of all federal workers and postal workers would show the country what’s going to happen if they dismantle everything.”

Tidbits – Mar.6 – Reader Comments: Trump: Ambush in White House; War on Workers; Gut Medicaid; Spread Measles and Bird Flu; Techno-Fascism; Anti-Semitism in Oval Office; No More Medicare Telehealth After Mar 31; Stand Up for Science Mar 7

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Reader Comments: Trump: Ambush in White House; War on Workers; Gut Medicaid; Make Apartheid Great Again; Spread Measles and Bird Flu; Techno-Fascism; Anti-semitism in Oval Office; No More Medicare Telehealth After Mar 31; Stand Up For Science Mar 7

Bernie Blasts Trump's 100 Minute Diatribe

Bernie Sanders sanders.senate.gov
"Let us never forget. Real change only occurs when ordinary people stand up against oppression and injustice – and fight back."

The Communist Folk Singers Who Shaped Bob Dylan

Taylor Dorrell Jacobin
Before Bob Dylan was Bob Dylan, he was a disciple of Woody Guthrie. But Guthrie and his contemporaries were more than folk singers — they were blacklisted radicals, shaping American music while staring down the Red Scare.

Hegseth Cuts Pentagon Work on Preventing Civilian Harm

John Ismay and Azmat Khan The New York Times
Employees at the Pentagon’s Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response office were told their jobs would be eliminated, as would advisory posts at operational commands.

The Missing Persons of Reconstruction

Joshua D. Rothman The New Republic
Enslaved families were regularly separated​. A new history chronicles the tenacious efforts of the emancipated to be reunited​ with their loved ones.