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September 30, 2023

One School’s Missing History: A Family Heirloom, Lost in Plain Sight

Tamar Sarai TomDispatch

Reshaping the Kansas Technical Institute’s campus into an actual prison provides a perspective on what it means when, over time, whole populations are functionally criminalized.

September 30, 2023

Automakers’ Electric Vehicle Lie

Lucy Dean Stockton The Lever

Corporations say they can’t meet auto workers’ demands while also transitioning to electric vehicles — but they just need to fork over the money.

September 30, 2023

NYC Is Totally Unprepared for Climate Disaster

Kate Aronoff The New Republic

If hordes of cops are going to keep polluting New York’s increasingly flood-prone subways, the least they could do is grab a bucket and be helpful.

September 30, 2023

2023, the US Finally Destroyed Its Chemical Weapons

Jen Kirby Vox

The world banned chemical weapons in 1997. Here’s why it took so long for the US to eliminate its arsenal.

September 29, 2023

Where Are We Headed

Beau Beausoleil

Loss of liberty, the rise of civil terror, asks San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil. Is that where we are headed?

The 'Transformer' That Crawls, Rolls and Flies

September 29, 2023

M4, the multi-modal mobility morphobot, draws inspiration from the natural world, adapting how it uses its limb-like rotors and wheels to move in a wide range of ways

Insurance Reps Laugh at Denying Claim

September 29, 2023

UnitedHealthcare tried to deny Chris McNaughton health coverage. He fought back, filed a lawsuit and exposed the insurance company’s inner workings.

AOC Speaks at UAW Strike Rally

September 29, 2023

Solidarity IS the strategy.

As we overcome division and bigotry, we will win economic dignity for all.

The people stand with @UAW 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/tc6mSa77Ht

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 28, 2023