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May 22, 2020

Jacinda Ardern Calls for Four-Day Week: No Wonder She's Popular

Jacinda Ardern Calls for Four-Day Week: No Wonder She's Popular The Guardian

Ardern’s idea upends four decades of neoliberal insistence that workplace ‘flexibility’ is the purview only of employers

May 22, 2020

Fast-acting Countries Cut Their Death Rates. US Delays Cost 1000s of Lives

Joshua Aizenman The Conversation

Research that looked at 60 countries worldwide over the first 100 days of the pandemic found how important a quick response was for reducing the death toll.

May 22, 2020

A Trump Second Term: Tyranny by Another Name

Van Gosse Organizing Upgrade

In a second Trump term basic legal structures will be pulverized and a fundamentally lawless regime will set about maintaining itself in power, while pretending to democratic norms

Why We're Seeing Mass Layoffs in the US but Not the UK

May 22, 2020

Tens of millions of Americans are out of work because of the coronavirus. But it didn't have to be that way -- and it's not too late for the US to change course.

Trump Takes Hydroxychloroquine

May 22, 2020

President Trump claims he’s been taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventative measure against coronavirus, and Nancy Pelosi calls him morbidly obese in her response. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #Coronavirus

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

May 22, 2020

An intimate portrayal of two teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania. Faced with an unintended pregnancy and a lack of local support, Autumn and her cousin Skylar embark on a brave, fraught journey across state lines to New York City. Full review here.

DISTRACTION! | A Randy Rainbow Song Parody

May 22, 2020

A song from Fiddler on the Roof is repurposed

What Happens If You Can’t Pay Rent? | Hasan Minhaj

May 22, 2020

Record numbers of Americans have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic, but rent is still due. Hasan investigates the impending eviction crisis.

May 22, 2020

Friday Nite Videos | May 22, 2020

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What Happens If You Can’t Pay Rent? | Hasan Minhaj, DISTRACTION! | A Randy Rainbow Song Parody. Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Movie. Trump Takes Hydroxychloroquine. Why We're Seeing Mass Layoffs in the US but Not the UK.

May 21, 2020

How Capitalist Economics Structures Inequality

Gregory Heires Portside

The world economy, to the degree it still works at all, serves to benefit the few at the expense of the many. The author of the book under review does an economic deep dive into ways that can reverse that antidemocratic equation.