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Still No Kings: Millions To Protest Trump on Saturday

Whitney Curry Wimbish The American Prospect
A coalition of civil rights groups expects the turnout on Oct. 18 will be even bigger than the first nationwide protest held in June, which by some counts was the largest in U.S. history.

MIT Says ‘No’ to Trump Extortion Pact

Jessica Corbett Common Dreams
"This offer looked like an invitation, but it wasn't," said Ariel White, vice president of MIT's American Association of University Professors chapter. "It was a ransom note."

This Week in People’s History, Oct 15–21, 2025

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Charlie Chaplin impersonating Adolf Hitler Chaplin’s Timeless Attack on Dictatorship (1940), U.S. Anti-War Rally Was Record-Big, but Not for Long (1965), Revolutionary Stirrings in Manhattan (1765), Permission to Come Aboard, Who Needs It? (1960), Is the C.I.A. Is a Law Unto Itself? (1975)

Injury to Buildings and Vegetables

Alyssa Battistoni n+1
Pigou noted the problem that Marx had only glancingly acknowledged: that the production of commodities was often accompanied by unintentional and sometimes severe physical side effects.

It’s Not Government They Don’t Like

Jamelle Bouie New York TImes
Like the slave owners, the MAGA movement and its allies are opposed only to those aspects of government that they can’t wield against their enemies. They will happily enlarge the scope of federal authority beyond the limits of our Constitution.

The Rift in American Socialism

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
Realists (Mamdani, AOC) seek immersion in mass politics; fundamentalists oppose it.
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