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May 17, 2025

America’s Descent Into Authoritarianism May Have Started With Policing in Blue Cities.

Stephen Janis and Taya Graham real News Network

As the Trump administration continues to press the boundaries of the Constitution, Johns Hopkins Professor Lester Spence says we need to understand one yet-to-be-examined source of the push towards authoritarianism: urban policing.

May 17, 2025

Genocide, Trauma, and Jewish Identity

Paul Von Blum The Progressive

Peter Beinart’s ‘Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza’ offers an incisive perspective on Zionism and Jewish identity.

May 17, 2025

Unpacking the House’s Highly Regressive Tax Plan

Carl Davis Common Dreams

Two-thirds of the tax cuts offered in 2027 would go to the top 20% of families, and 41% would flow to just the top 5% of families.

May 17, 2025

Starbucks Dress Code Causes Walkouts

Grace Snelling Fast Company

The union has been bargaining to reach a contract with Starbucks for over three years, with no end in sight. It says that the new dress code represents “bad faith bargaining,” .

May 16, 2025

Poem

Muriel Rukeyser The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser

Writing in 1968, poet and activist Muriel Rukeyser addresses the struggle to imagine and build a more humane world.

May 16, 2025

A West Virginia Coal Miner Just Saved NIOSH’s Black Lung Program

Kim Kelly In These Times

Photo of a painted mural of three coal miners.

A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the NIOHS's Respiratory Health Division after a veteran coal miner filed a class action lawsuit arguing that the mass firings would lead to irreparable harm.

Trump's Epic 'Weave'

May 16, 2025

Concluding his Mideast corruption tour in the United Arab Emirates, Trump engages in a 15 minute ramble about Sean Duffy and Pete Buttigieg’s bicycle

Fear of AIPAC and Elon Musk Intimidates Democrats and Republicans

May 16, 2025

“If you speak up on that issue you’ll have ... AIPAC going after you” says Sanders, explaining why many Democrats in Congress are refusing to take a stand against the intentional starvation of children in Gaza.

Rep. Delia Ramirez Accuses Kristi Noem of Corrupt Acts and Demands Resignation

May 16, 2025

At a House Homeland Security Committee hearing, Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) relentlessly questions Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Andor | Season 2

May 16, 2025

Andor is the Star Wars series that shows what fascism really looks like. Full review.