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These strategies of outright reaction bind many rural and impoverished urban communities and play directly into the hands of major industries in the agricultural and extractive energy sectors by disavowing a regulatory culture and measures designed to protect labor and the environment. This is neoliberalism with a vengeance, one that
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Marc Elias of Democracy Docket noted today that states and local governments have regular programs to keep voter registration accurate, while right-wing activists are operating on a different agenda. In one 70,000-person town in Michigan, a single activist challenged more than a thousand voters, Elias reported, and in Allegheny
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The workers who died in the bridge collapse on Tuesday “were not ‘poisoning the blood of our country,’” Will Bunch wrote, quoting Trump; “they were replenishing it…. They may have been born all over the continent, but when these men plunged into our waters on Tuesday, they died as Americans.
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I mean, that’s part of it. The question I’m really interested in is what you do when you’re a member of a group that has been (a). given a whole bunch of power and (b). taught that we really only need to take care of ourselves. How
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Oh my goodness, I’m so hopeful! Because I’m just so alive to the fact that we can’t declare failure yet because we (and here I mean White people) have never really tried to dismantle White supremacy. Men have never really tried to dismantle patriarchy. Americans have never
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Now, I could have written a book that just tsk-tsked other White liberals for what they’re doing wrong. But that would have been dishonest. I spent a lifetime believing that, as a well-meaning White liberal, if I just read the right books and yelled loudly and had enough Black
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That is totally, totally wrong A Republican senator talking about a Republican nominee from a Republican president. Mifepristone - Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
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Voters’ frustration with the extremists who have captured the Republican Party appeared to be behind the results in today’s special election for a seat in the Alabama legislature. There, voters in a swing district elected a Democrat, who ran on protecting abortion access, to replace a Republican. In 2022
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“[F]or me,” she said, “it is a daily reminder of the struggle, of the sacrifice, and of how much we owe to those who gave so much before us.” “History is a relay race,” she said. “Generations before us carried the baton. And now, they have passed it to
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In reality, Mike Johnson probably recognized a lot of what he saw in New York’s 3rd: A new-to-politics candidate with red flags in their past who gets caught lying a lot; big donors staying on the sidelines because they don’t trust the new generation of Republican leaders; the
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In his 2022 documentary about Alexei Navalny, director Daniel Roher asked Navalny what message he would leave for the Russian people if he were killed. “Listen,” Navalny answered. “I’ve got something very obvious to tell you. You’re not allowed to give up. If they decide to kill me,
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This strange inability to respond appropriately to Israeli aggression is about more than Gaza. Events there have exposed the flaws in an entire model of politics and the assumptions that underpin it. If liberalism cannot offer a moral and stabilising form of governance, then what is it for? In the