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The Platner Pattern – Are We Really Doing This Again?

Jessica Valenti Abortion, Every Day
The hatred of women is serious - and the left's inability to accept or grapple with that fact is no small problem. In a country where men are perpetually protected, women talking about assault is the real act of violence.

labor

United Farmworkers’ Complex and Contradictory History

David Bacon Labor Notes
What Chavez did to young women has a lot to do with the power of men, and the system of male supremacy embedded in our labor movement and society. We have to confront this directly, and not assume that being able to vote for leaders will care of it.

The Paranoid Style of Jeffrey Epstein Has Come for Us All

Ana Marie Cox The New Republic
The pedophile plutocrat had some peculiar predilections—especially for academics and thinkers who showed a potential to further his grand experiments in inhumanity. Epstein didn’t pull people into his web and then corrupt them. The club existed.

film

Send Help and Sam Raimi’s Genre Movie Joy

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Are you desperate for genre movie escapist fun amid all this hell lately? Who isn’t? Sam Raimi’s Send Help is just what the doctor ordered.

Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging

Evan Gorelick The New York Times
A flurry of posts from the White House, Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security have included images, slogans and even a song used by the white nationalist right. The posts have referred to neo-Nazi literature, ethnic cleansing...

How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails

Anand Giridharada The New York Times
As journalists comb through the Epstein emails, surfacing the name of one fawning luminary after another, there is a collective whisper of “How could they?” How could such eminent people, belonging to such prestigious institutions, succumb to this?

Sabrina Carpenter and the Cruel Authoritarianism of Trump

Thom Hartmann Hartmann Report
The Trump White House just showed us something every American should find chilling, no matter what music they listen to or what party they vote for. They took a video of aggressive ICE arrests, slapped Sabrina Carpenter’s song on it, and posted it.
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