August 22, 2025 Colonizing Mars Is a Really, Really Terrible Idea Stuart Jeffries The Guardian Woah! say Kelly and Zach Weinersmith in this romp through the many rooms of a space folly. “Leaving 2C warmer Earth for Mars would be like leaving a messy room so you can live in a toxic waste dump.”
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labor February 18, 2025 Want To Defeat Trump? Support Unions Eric Blanc The Guardian Organized labor could be Trump’s kryptonite
labor February 5, 2025 The Musk-Bezos War on Collective Bargaining Harold Meyerson The American Prospect When Biden’s NLRB began to restore workers’ rights, the world’s richest men moved to shut down the NLRB altogether.
January 7, 2025 Media Bits and Bytes – January 7, 2025 Portside Coming soon to a screen near you – “Trump’s Life Matters!”
October 28, 2024 Don’t Cancel The Washington Post. Cancel Amazon Prime. Ellen Cushing The Atlantic The subscription money enriching Jeff Bezos could instead be spent on the journalism crucial to preserving democracy.
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