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Something Weird Happens When You Keep Squeezing

January 12, 2024

Under extreme pressures, matter defies the rules of physics as we know it.

Trump: A President Can Assassinate Rivals

January 12, 2024

Trump’s lawyer claims that presidential immunity covers having rivals assassinated; why RFK, Jr. dropped out of his own birthday gala

Radical | Movie

January 12, 2024

In a Mexican border town, a frustrated teacher tries a radical new method to break through to his students. Based on a true story. In theaters.

Trump Issues Most Chilling Claim Yet

January 12, 2024

Trump's claim to be immune from prosecution for any act as president would make him not a president, but a dictator

January 12, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | January 12, 2024

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Trump Issues Most Chilling Claim Yet. Radical | Movie. Trump: A President Can Assassinate Rivals. Something Weird Happens When You Keep Squeezing. Inshallah a Boy | Movie.

January 11, 2024

Answering the Call: Strategy and Power-Building From the Bottom Up

James Mumm Reviews 4 Radicals

The role of strategy in making social movements and organizations more effective, and who creates it, are the urgent questions four authors explore in three new books. Their answers will surprise you, as they surprised me.

January 11, 2024

Serving Justice: The Fight To Eliminate the Tipped Minimum Wage

Mariama Sidime The Progressive

Subminimum wages reinforce the notion that food service is not serious labor and that payment for that work should be conditional.

January 11, 2024

Tidbits – Jan. 11, 2024 – Reader Comments: Enough IS Enough!; Seizing Russia’s Frozen Assets – Readers Ask: What About Israel?; Supreme Ballot; Chicken Soup; Forums: What Should Progressives Do About Biden?; Protect the Squad & Block the Right;

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Reader Comments: Enough IS Enough!; Seizing Russia’s Frozen Assets - Readers Ask: What About Israel?; Supreme Ballot; Texas Abortion Law; Chicken Soup; Forum: What Should Progressives Do About Biden?; Protect the Squad & Block the Right in 2024; more

January 11, 2024

A Second Trump Term Could Spell Economic Disaster

Max B. Sawicky In These Times

From trade wars to border policy, Trump’s plans if he wins the presidency again are set to make the U.S. economy far worse for working people.

January 11, 2024

Martin Luther King – a Video Selection 1954 – 1968

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Martin Luther King's speeches from 1954's Montgomery Bus Boycott to the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike. Compiled by Abdul Alkalimat, Prof Emeritus Dept of African American Studies and School of Information Sciences, Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign