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The Town Elon Musk Took Hostage

Elon Musk sold hope to this Texas town, one of the poorest communities in America. Instead, SpaceX has caused earthquakes and rampant workplace injuries, while securing millions in corporate welfare.

No Other Land | Oscar-Nominated Movie

Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel's occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist. Too hot for any streaming service, but you can watch it in theaters.

Clean Slate | Prime Video

This heartfelt Norman Lear comedy follows an old-school car wash owner in Alabama who has a lot of soul searching to do when the child he thought was a son returns as a proud, trans woman, Desiree 

The Democratic Capitulation Point

Hamilton Nolan Working in These Times
photo of a weather-worn and tattered poster on the street that says Neither Party Represents the Working Class.
Hope begins when Democratic Party leadership gives way to the Left. Unions can make it happen.

In Memory of the Forgotten

Suzanne Cleary The Odds
Poet Suzanne Cleary sneaks a peek into the production of art in a theocratic society.

Bob Dylan Biopic and the Origin Story of an Electrified Maggie’s Farm

Peter Dreier Common Dreams
The film, A Complete Unknown, accurately portrays Dylan's two sides—a brilliant creative genius as a songwriter/poet and a narcissist who used and discarded people on behalf of his ambition. It tells a good story, but certainly not all the stories.

How To Organize Our Way out of the Trump-Musk Putsch

Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg The Nation
A plan to harness grassroots energy—and to hold Democratic leaders accountable. Our predecessors deposed a brain-addled king; crushed the violent insurrectionists of a slaveholding confederacy; they forced the robber barons to contend with workers.

Trump Saved Eric Adams’s Bacon—and Put the Country Up for Sale

Casey Michel The New Republic
The quid pro quo deal between the president and the mayor of New York City will throw open the foreign corruption floodgates. As the Trump administration moves to drop the case and gut any remaining independence out of the DOJ, damn the consequences

Trump and Netanyahu Have Devised the Crime of the Century

Aida Touma-Sliman Haaretz
Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented an imperialist horror show. An American and an Israeli, each with his own criminal indictments, decided to determine the future of the Palestinian people.