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Will Lindsey Boylan Be New York’s Newest Sewer Socialist?

Ilana Cohen The Nation
The first woman to accuse Cuomo of sexual harassment is running for City Council. Her progressive campaign has been backed by Zohran Mamdani. Now Boylan is running a sewer socialist–style campaign that has resonated...from Trump-proofing New York...

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Reader Comments: Taxing the Rich; Trump Cabinet Departures; Is the Pope Catholic?; Lack of Democracy in the UFW Gave Chavez Immunity - Letter in Response; Young Communists Grow Older; "State Ideology" of Zionism; After No Kings: What’s Next; Cartoons

United Farmworkers’ Complex and Contradictory History

David Bacon Labor Notes
What Chavez did to young women has a lot to do with the power of men, and the system of male supremacy embedded in our labor movement and society. We have to confront this directly, and not assume that being able to vote for leaders will care of it.

Trump Officials Built an AI Tool To Turbocharge Deregulation

Freddy Brewster and Luke Goldstein Jacobin
Artificial intelligence has a history of making poor regulatory decisions with disastrous effects on people’s lives. Newly released documents show the Trump administration sought to deploy a powerful AI tool to accelerate its deregulation spree.

GOP School Censorship 2.0

Timothy Messer-Kruse CounterPunch
How the MAGA Crusade Against Critical Race Theory has Become a Movement Against Knowledge Itself

Good Riddance to Trump’s Horrible, No Good Labor Secretary

Robert Reich Common Dreams
The disgraced Lori Chavez-DeRemer is what you get when you have a president and White House staff who don’t give a rat’s ass about whom they appoint to positions of power except for their loyalty to Trump and how they look on television.