Dispatches From the Culture Wars — August 11, 2026
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Defrosting our streets
Defrosting our streets
Defrosting our streets
How Donald Trump Created the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak This Century
The American Prospect
The ‘MAHA Trots’ are what happens when Republicans implement their anti-government agenda. On the food side of the equation, Trump has wreaked havoc on American food safety infrastructure.
Dispatches From the Culture Wars — June 16, 2026
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Will John Fetterman Go Full Benedict Arnold?
The American Prospect
Any re-election campaign in 2028 is doomed. Will he spend the remainder of his term completing the betrayal of his own constituents? Is Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) going to switch parties? That’s the scuttlebutt in Washington, D.C.
How Trump, Republicans, and Their Billionaires Took Your Money and Then Sold You Hate
Hartmann Report
The decades-long strategy that gutted the middle class and then turned Americans against each other to cover it up…
Congress Pulls the Trigger on Big Oil’s Shot at Immunity
The Lever
As climate lawsuits mount nationwide, new GOP bill borrows from gun-industry strategy to grant fossil fuel companies sweeping legal immunity and other protections.
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Why Labor Needs a Declaration of Political Independence
Common Dreams
No matter how you slice the demographics, aside from Democratic and Republican Party operatives, a new working-class political party independent of the Democrats and Republicans is really popular.
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U.S Workers Just Took Home Their Smallest Share of Capital Since 1947, at Least
Fortune
The stark bifurcation of corporate victories and weak labor data raises concerns among economists of jobless growth jeopardizing the U.S. workforce, as well as a K-shaped economy, where the rich get richer while the poor get poorer.
Will the Court Rule for Trump or for Wall Street?
The American Prospect
As the Supreme Court now considers whether Trump can take over the Federal Reserve, we lose either way. In what may be its most difficult challenge: To whom does it owe its ultimate submission and greatest obeisance: Donald Trump, or Wall Street?
Friday Nite Videos | November 28, 2025
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You Can Get It If You Really Want | Jimmy Cliff. Why Trump Supporters Are at a Breaking Point, I'm Genetically Male. Republicans Get Bad News in Deep Red District. Nuremberg | Movie.
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