Media Bits and Bytes – November 26, 2024
Portside
The great X-odus
The great X-odus
The great X-odus
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – November 19, 2024
Portside
Making sense of the new hell
Authoritarians Like Trump Love Fear, Defeatism, Surrender. Do Not Give Them What They Want
The Guardian
We must lay up our supplies – of love, care, trust, community and resolve – so we may resist the storm. No one can deal with every issue at once, and choosing which part of the problem to commit to is part of the work of resistance.
labor
Ignoring Low-Wage & Low-Wealth Voters Cost Harris
Work-Bites
When Biden’s boosters were confronted with polling that most Americans felt negative about the economy, their response was to point to aggregate data. Yet, no one lives in the aggregate. You remember the day the sheriff puts you out of your home.
Is This What Democracy Looks Like?
Weekend Reading
The real headline of this election isn’t about Trump’s victory. It’s about how the Federalist Society coalition of plutocrats and theocrats has all but completed its mission to repeal and replace the 20th Century by judicial fiat.
How We Can Defend Ourselves in the New Trump Era
The Nation
The labor organizer Bill Fletcher says that, to protect our constitutional democracy, “the union movement needs to become an anti-fascist movement.”
When a Multi-Racial Democracy Was Violently Overthrown in America
The Progressive
A review of the new film 'American Coup: Wilmington 1898,' which premieres November 12 on PBS.
Election Analysis – What Happens, Why, What Next?
Peter Dreier
The country is evenly divided when it comes to party preference. Trump did not win a landslide like FDR in 1936, Johnson in 1964, Nixon in 1972, Reagan in 1980, or Obama in 2008. He won by a small margin in the Electoral College and popular vote.
Global Left Midweek – November 6, 2024
Portside
Building the democracy front
books
These Dictators Are Different. ‘Autocracy, Inc.’ Explains How
NPR
Today's autocracies range “from theocracies to monarchies, that operate more like companies,” united by “a laser-focus on preserving their wealth, repressing their people and maintaining power at all costs."
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