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How Penn Graduate Workers Got Their Union Contract

Emily Aunins, Sam Schirvar, Guru Shabadi Jacobin
As workers at the University of Pennsylvania pursued a first contract, Trump’s second presidency rendered the administration cowed, the labor board unreliable, and international workers afraid. The antidote: high-participation, worker-led organizing.

Elon Musk, Human Ponzi Scheme

Paul Krugman Paul Krugman Substack
The SpaceX IPO makes it clearer than ever that Musk’s greatest skill isn’t developing futuristic products. It’s his mastery of financial shell games and ability to leverage insider influence.

How Big Oil Wrecked Your Summer

Aaron Regunberg The New Republic
Weather extremes are not natural. They are climate disasters. They the kind of catastrophes that Big Oil companies predicted their fossil fuel products would cause—at the same time that they were orchestrating fraudulent campaigns of climate denial..

Tidbits – June 11 – Reader Comments: Elections-California, Maine; NBA Finals; Trump NBC Interview; Voting Rights Act; True Total Cost US Military Budget; Ecosocialist Bookshelf; Corporations Behind Data Centers; Cartoons; and More…

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Reader Comments: Elections-California, Maine; NBA Finals; Trump NBC Interview; Israel’s Curriculum for ‘Influencing Public Consciousness’; Voting Rights Act; True Total Cost US Military Budget; Ecosocialist Bookshelf; Corporations Behind Data Centers

In Colombia, the Fight Is Still On

Pablo Castaño Jacobin
Far-right Abelardo de la Espriella topped the first round of Colombia’s presidential election. Left-wing senator Iván Cepeda is still in the race but now has to find support outside the ruling party’s core vote.

The US House Is Trying To Stop Donald Trump’s War on Iran

David Sirota The Lever
In a stunning House vote, lawmakers began an attempt to end the war without presidential approval — creating conditions for a potentially historic legal showdown, potentially setting the stage for a legal showdown over the limits of executive power.
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