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Tidbits- July 24-Readers Comments: Working-Class Social, Economic Attitudes; Academic Scholarship on Israel, Palestine; Mpls Selects Democratic Socialist; Dem Youth Wing Passes Amendment Opposing Ongoing Genocide in Gaza; Deportations Destroys Jobs

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Readers Comments: Working-Class Social, Economic Attitudes; Genocide; Academic Scholarship on Israel, Palestine; Minneapolis Selects Democratic Socialist; Dem Youth Wing Passes Amendment Opposing Ongoing Genocide in Gaza; Deportations Destroys Jobs

New Report: Working-Class Social and Economic Attitudes

Editors Jacobin
A new study from the Center for Working‑Class Politics and Jacobin reveals where working-class voters stand on key issues and how they differ from wealthier Americans. The message: economic populism must be the core of progressive appeals to workers.

Scott Pelley Warns Graduates About the Threats to American Democracy

Parker Molloy The New Republic
The “60 Minutes” correspondent never mentioned Trump by name, but his call to defend democratic institutions was apparently too much for the MAGA crowd to handle. He had the audacity to suggest that “our sacred rule of law is under attack.

Constitutional Collapse

Aziz Rana Sidecar, blog of New Left Review
Trump/Musk are pursuing the collapse of the American constitutional model, fundamentally altering the terrain on which the US left operates, requiring an oppositional politics the country has not seen since the time of FDR.
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