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July 10, 2022

Your Body Has an Internal Clock That Dictates When You Eat, Sleep and Might Have a Heart Attack – All Based on Time of Day

Shogo Sato The Conversation

Your personality might be shaped by whether your internal clock make you a “morning person” or a “night person.

July 9, 2022

A Baltimore Neighborhood Responds to Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Crimes With Community Defense and Mutual Aid

Zane McNeill The Progressive

The burning of two Pride flags, injuring three people and destroying several homes, aims to spread fear within Baltimore's oldest queer community. Residents have come together to rebuild and establish a police-free safety plan.

July 9, 2022

NATO and the Construction of the Enemy

Marga Ferré transform! europe

The two super-structural ideas used to justify western militarism, culturally and ideologically, are the construction of “The Other” that must be fought, and the racist supremacy used to do so.

July 9, 2022

How Socialist Organizer Sarahana Shrestha Pulled Off an Election Upset

Phillip Pantuso and Lissa Harris Times Union

A robust ground game and strong climate message were critical to her primary victory over a 30-year incumbent in Ulster County, New York.

July 8, 2022

Black Woman Selling Her Home in America

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley Poetry Magazine

In America, land of constant real estate deals, a Black woman appraises some hidden costs in the buying and selling of houses.

July 8, 2022

Starbucks Union Push in Atlanta Part of National Organizing Trend

By Michael E. Kanell, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A union voting place sign is taped to the entrance of a Starbucks that reads: NLRB Voting Place Enter Here.

Three Georgia Starbucks stores have voted to unionize, and other efforts are afoot to organize lower-wage workers.

Meet the Microbes That Could Eat Your Trash

July 8, 2022

Explore the possibility of plastivores— organisms that can eat and break down plastic— helping reduce the plastic waste on Earth.

How to Defeat Republicans' Autocracy Strategy

July 8, 2022

The GOP has so successfully rigged state elections in several key states through gerrymandering that even when Dems get more votes, Republicans win more seats. We need a 50-state democracy strategy to successfully counter the drive for autocratic minority rule.

How Abortion Bans Make Inequality Worse

July 8, 2022

A new study documents the economic impact of abortion bans and offers a glimpse into a post-Roe v. Wade future.

Bye, Bye Boris

July 8, 2022

The King of Lies is finally dethroned ... opening a path for one of his enablers. Remind you of anyone?