“Biden Campaign may push back on the polls, but they are running like a campaign that knows its in the fight of a lifetime”
07:26 AM - May 15, 2024
Brett Kavanaugh’s debt relief, explained.
08:22 AM - May 14, 2024
I love clouds’ shadows on land, glimpsed during #travel . #DailyPictureTheme
10:16 AM - May 11, 2024
This week on Reveal: the untold story of the Stuart murder: one that exposed truths about race and crime that few white people in power wanted to confront
09:02 AM - May 11, 2024
Trump “told Big Oil executives that they’ll have an even greater windfall in a second Trump administration — including new offshore drilling, speedier permits, and other relaxed regulations — if they sink a billion into his campaign.”
07:14 AM - May 10, 2024
“Beware of copaganda.”
06:06 PM - May 08, 2024
Teri Kanefield’s blog post includes a brief history of reproductive rights, and an introduction to some interesting women (Margaret Sanger and Susan Struck) and a vile human being (Anthony Comstock).
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The Ninth Amendment and The Law (and Politics) of Reproductive Rights - Teri Kanefield
After I wrote this blog post, I realized it’s really about how laws evolve. Citations and sources for much of the material in this blog post are in this book. * * * During the 1788 debates about whether to add a Bill of Rights, some people worried that including a Bill of Rights would [&hell..
03:42 PM - May 08, 2024
Hitler's End: A Study in Strongman Dysfunction
01:18 PM - May 08, 2024
“Have you noticed that after years of saturation coverage, Fox News hosts have suddenly cooled it on the Hunter Biden stuff? There’s a reason for that.”
11:14 AM - May 08, 2024
Republicans in both states are working furiously to stop them.
10:24 AM - May 08, 2024
“History, as it is said, doesn’t repeat itself. It only rhymes. The mistakes made at one point in time have an eerie way of reemerging two generations later, as memories fade.” ~ @RBReich
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What’s really motivating the protests? - Robert Reich
Friends, I’ve been spending the last several weeks trying to find out what’s really going on with the campus protests. I’ve met with students at Berkeley, visited with faculty at Columbia University, and talked with young people and faculty at many other universities.
08:14 PM - May 03, 2024
“The student-run radio station at Columbia, WKCR, has been praised widely for its coverage of campus protests….And some have said the students should win a Pulitzer Prize.”
06:42 PM - May 02, 2024
“Trump’s blank, aggressive ignorance shouldn’t be a comfort. He has shown, over and over, that incompetence doesn’t have to undermine evil intent; often it can exacerbate it.”
06:16 PM - May 02, 2024
The Shapeshifting Threat of Election Interference: How State Legislatures Are Refining Their Efforts to Manipulate Elections
10:11 AM - May 02, 2024
“By understanding how Americans currently think about work — and mobilizing effective framing strategies — we can build support for the structural changes and redistribution of power needed for more just and equitable labor systems.”
08:25 PM - May 01, 2024
“Woody Guthrie’s prescription for inequality in America was straightforward: ‘Rich folks got your money with politics. You can get it back with politics.’”
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What Should Politics Do? Ask Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie’s prescription for inequality in America was straightforward: “Rich folks got your money with politics. You can get it back with politics.” For Guthrie, “politics” meant more than voting, since both parties routinely cough-up candidates who meekly accept the business-as-usual system of..
06:15 PM - Apr 30, 2024
What to say to a Republican who complains about the federal debt
“…Bush & Trump tax cuts account for > 90% of the increase in the debt ratio….
65% of the benefits of the Trump tax cuts have gone to the richest 1/5 of Americans, 22% to the top 1%.”
“…Bush & Trump tax cuts account for > 90% of the increase in the debt ratio….
65% of the benefits of the Trump tax cuts have gone to the richest 1/5 of Americans, 22% to the top 1%.”
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What to say to a Republican who complains about the federal debt.
Friends, Republicans are attacking Biden for expanding the federal debt, and the House “Freedom Caucus” is livid that speaker Mike Johnson has agreed to more funds for Ukraine, claiming it will expand the debt even further. Can we just have some sanity here?
05:02 AM - Apr 30, 2024
“There are some things people can never take from you, no matter how much power they have. Your conscience, your compassion. These cannot be stolen, only surrendered.” ~ Sarah Kendzior
06:26 PM - Apr 29, 2024
“…if there is a definitive story of the past decade, it is how the net of oppression has widened. Whether through covid, climate change, or the loss of hard-won rights: we are all targets, we are all disposable.” ~ Sarah Kendzior
06:22 PM - Apr 29, 2024
“The war in Ukraine has killed 500 kids in two years and the war in Gaza has killed over 10,000 in less than five months. We have seen wars before but this is something that is a dark stain on our shared humanity.” ~ Canadian doctor Fozia Alvi
06:13 PM - Apr 29, 2024
“…I studied authoritarian regimes and how they brainwash people into believing that state brutality is not only expected, but deserved.” ~ Sarah Kendzior
06:09 PM - Apr 29, 2024
“The top polluters were Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Danone, Altria—the parent company of Philip Morris USA—and Philip Morris International”
05:05 PM - Apr 29, 2024
4th Circuit: Gender Identity Is A Protected Characteristic, Blocks State Coverage Bans
“The decision will likely have nationwide impacts on court cases in other districts.”
“The decision will likely have nationwide impacts on court cases in other districts.”
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04:55 PM - Apr 29, 2024
“But why do university administrators not only fail to see the importance of standing with their students and siding with the movement for liberation, but actively want to oppose it? The answer lies with the nature of the neoliberal university.”
03:10 PM - Apr 29, 2024
“Looks like everyone’s a free speech absolutist when the question is whether those dapper Nazis can yell ‘blood and soil.’ But when 18-year-olds demand we stop funding genocide, it’s terrorism and time to call the cops.”
03:07 PM - Apr 29, 2024
“The founders, in ways they could not have anticipated, placed a ticking time bomb at the heart of American politics.”
04:46 PM - Apr 23, 2024
“Whether democracy is still America’s sacred cause is the most urgent question of our time, and it’s what the 2024 election is all about.” ~ President Joe Biden
04:31 PM - Apr 23, 2024
How Columbia’s Student Radio Station Is Meeting the Moment
“We can keep this up as long as the protests keep going.”
“We can keep this up as long as the protests keep going.”
04:17 PM - Apr 23, 2024
