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U.S. Police Trainers With Far-Right Ties Are Teaching Hundreds of Cops

Julia Harte and Alexandra Ulmer Reuters
One police instructor who has taught 560 officers in recent years has joined one extremist group and supported other far-right movements. Others have echoed QAnon and other fringe conspiracy theories on social media, a Reuters examination found.

Defending the First Amendment

Paul Ortiz Portside
*Organize where you are* and please understand a simple truth. The widening assault on K-20 education, union rights, intellectual freedom and the First Amendment is soon coming to your back yard if it hasn't yet arrived.

Self-Determination and the War in Ukraine

Taras Bilous Dissent Magazine
We will never achieve a world without war by nonresistance to imperialist intervention. If the left does not take the correct stance on this war, it will discredit and marginalize itself. And we will have to work for a long time to overcome the consequences of this nonsense.

13 Companies Spent $15 Mill. On Anti-Abortion Pols

Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby Popular Information
From the moment Roe was decided anti-abortion forces have been pushing for this outcome. But the effort has gained significant momentum since 2016. It required accumulating and exercising power at the federal and state levels.
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