An interview with Dhoruba Bin Wahad about the Black Panthers and movements of today. more
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
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'The Fix Is In': GOP Wants Poor People to Pay More for Medicaid to Fund Tax Cuts for Wealthy
"Poor people will pay more for healthcare so rich people can get tax cuts. Sometimes the stakes are pretty simple." more
Trump Stooge Byron Donalds Visibly CRUMBLES After CAUGHT In LIE Live On Air!
He wants to be our governor
Trump stokes a Vance-Rubio competition
Trump gave JD Vance and Marco Rubio huge portfolios and has openly named both as his potential successors — putting two unlikely friends on a collision course for the GOP nomination in 2028. more
After Marathon Markup, House GOP Advances 'Most Extreme Anti-Environment Bill in American History'
"Donald Trump and his allies in Congress are working like mad to hand over our public lands to billionaires and corporate polluters to drill, mine, and log with the bare minimum oversight or accountability," said one critic. MORE
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Genocide, Trauma, and Jewish Identity
Peter Beinart begins Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning—a provocative and incisive book about trauma and Jewish identity after October 7, 2023—with a note to an unnamed former friend whose fanaticism about Israel he’d come to view as unacceptable. The note reflects the painful divisions that have deepened within Jewish communities in the aftermath of Hamas’s horrific attack on Israel, and Israel’s subsequent, grotesque destruction of Gaza. In deeply felt, achingly personal terms that will surely resonate with millions of Jews in the United States and throughout the world, Beinart argues that far too many Jews are so committed to that with which they identify—the Israeli hostages, Israel, and Zionism itself—that they have somehow neglected, or even cavalierly dismissed, the lives and suffering of millions of Palestinians. His note concludes with a plea: “I hope the rupture is not final.” more
'We Don't Do Kings': Mass Protests Planned to Counter Trump's Birthday Military Parade
"Donald Trump wants to spend tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to throw himself a big fancy parade with tanks in the streets," said one organizer. "This is straight out of the authoritarian playbook." more
Monday, May 5, 2025
Trump will pay immigrants in the US illegally $1,000 to leave the country
Pushing forward with its mass deportation agenda, President Donald Trump's administration said Monday that it would pay $1,000 to immigrants who are in the United States illegally and return to their home country voluntarily. more
The Attentional Oligarchy
True enough. Indeed, what troubles so many advocates for independent journalism is the prospect that Bezos’s new editorial line will jettison critiques of the many ways in which the billionaire class assaults democracy, creating a “darkness” that is all too likely to confirm the accuracy of The Post’s shibboleth. more
The Legal Theory Behind Trump’s Power Grabs
It all started with Richard Nixon. It was the summer of 1974, and Watergate was closing in on his presidency. A grand jury had subpoenaed secret recordings of Nixon and his aides that would show the president had been involved in the criminal conspiracy. A judge had ordered Nixon to honor the subpoena. The president’s lawyers faced a daunting task: block the release of those damning tapes. more
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'Mockery' of Humanitarian Law: Israel Wants US Mercenaries for Aid Relief in Gaza
What the Israeli government is planning is "not an aid plan," said one legal scholar, but rather "an aid denial plan." more
Sunday, May 4, 2025
'Chilling Attempt to Normalize Fascism': Groups Decry Trump Official's Arrest Threats
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