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An update on why I haven't sent one of these out in a while
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The other abortion battle
The right has used courts and state legislatures to curtail abortion access. Decades of violence were instrumental in achieving these legal victories.
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This doesn't need to be a new Cold War
NATO has found new purpose. US media declares a new Cold War. It doesn't have to be this way.
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There's (multi) levels (marketing) to this shit
From the rise of the DeVos family to the crypto craze, MLM is everywhere in conservative politics
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Taking Stock
Congress may soon limit or ban stock trading. But there's a deeper conflict.
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Biden Berns Out
I am once again reminding you Biden is not a transformational figure
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Not us, them
When we cast climate change as a collective failure, we obscure the real culprit: capitalism
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Hyperbole to the masses
Lies and exaggeration are a tool of the faux-populist right
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(C)ritical (R)ed (T)heory
What the latest anti-Black ideology shares with its predecessors
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These Violent Delights
Conservatives fetishize violence. Liberals fetishize non-violence. What could go wrong?
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Democracy dies in markets
It's popular to worry about the state of US democracy. To address it, we need to talk about capitalism.
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Reasonable Fears
A secretive, anti-ISIS US military unit justified killing scores of civilians as "self defense." They might have just as easily said they were Standing…
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