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There’s No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire

Carl Beijer Jacobin
Democrats want us to believe that there is some cohort of “good billionaires” who can be relied upon to fight for political progress. But as the right-wing turn of tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk suggests, this is nonsense.

Running in Circles on Racial Justice

Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler LA Progressive
The reaction to racial justice is relentless and comes whenever strives are made to make the nation more inclusive.

A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle

T.J. Clark London Review of Books
If Trump is what the image-world has now revealed itself to be – if he’s the ‘society’ we have settled for, looming against us, cruel and false and ugly and determined to destroy – then what answer is left but a fight to the finish?

This Week in People’s History, Jan 22–28

Portside
Drawing of soldiers shooting demonstrators in St. Petersburg
The Long, Long, Road to Revolution (1905), ‘Can’t Nobody Lick Us’ (1940), Voter Suppression Meets Its Match (1965), Fluoride’s Safe to Drink, Period (1945), Designing the Trail of Tears (1825)

Nurses and Doctors Are on Strike at Eight Oregon Hospitals

Kari Thompson Labor Notes
5,000 nurses, doctors, midwives, and nurse practitioners walked off the job January 10 in an open-ended strike at Providence Health and Services, the dominant hospital chain in the Pacific Northwest.