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How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras

Eric Umansky, with additional reporting by Umar Farooq Propublica, co-published with The New York Times Magazine
Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill.

“Against Muslims Today Means Against Jews Again Tomorrow”

Iris Hefets and Nadija Samour The Left Berlin
Normalisation and full support in word and deed of Israeli settlement colonialism, apartheid and military occupation of Palestinian territories have paved the way for Germany to once again be involved as a world political superpower.

The Leftist Case for Collecting

Charlie Squire The Progressive
The desire to collect is the desire to understand objects as vehicles for human expression, the physical manifestation of labor, knowledge, collaboration, and movement.

Starbucks Ordered To Reopen 23 Stores

Julia Conley Common Dreams
"This complaint is the latest confirmation of Starbucks' determination to illegally oppose workers' organizing," said one unionized employee.

Dear Human at the Edge of Time

Cassandra Bousquet Dear Human at the Edge of Time
Our poet Cassandra Bousquet pleads for the shrinking opportunities before us, reminding us that “the edge is not the end”—yet!