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9/11 legacy: A quarter-century of endless war. How many have lives have been lost and dollars wasted in America’s post-September 11 wars? #911Remembrance #war #politics
9/11 legacy: A quarter-century of endless war
Twenty-five years ago, 2,977 people were killed when hijacked planes struck the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. Five years ago, People’s World asked how to measure the t...
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Big firms spent at least $1.7B on union-busting last year. Even that figure is an underestimate, say researchers at many institutions #unions #labor
Big firms spent at least $1.7B on union-busting last year
WASHINGTON—The nation’s corporations spent $1.7 billion on union-busters last year—and that figure actually is an understatement. A new report from LaborLab, which in turn mined the data it received f...
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Trump and Xi: Two Views on international relations. One wants aggression and punishment, while the other advocates respect and mutual benefit. #politics #China
Trump and Xi: Two Views on international relations
It should come as no surprise to the knowledgeable observer that the current state of international affairs is, to put it mildly, a mess. In recent weeks, we have seen how the leadership of the United...
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Beyond Iran: America’s long record of Middle East blunders. The failure lies in Washington’s attempt to impose an outdated model of regional domination on a Middle East—and a world—that has fundamentally changed. #MiddleEast #war #politics
Beyond Iran: America’s long record of Middle East blunders
The U.S. government continues to double down, even as its stubbornness costs it dearly—not only in material terms, but also in geopolitical influence.
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Nurses tell Prime Healthcare to end sub-prime care. Save a life, and you’re a hero, save a hundred—you’re “just” a nurse #HealthCare #nurses #labor
Nurses tell Prime Healthcare to end sub-prime care
CHICAGO—Save one life, and you're a hero. Save a hundred, and you're “just” a nurse. That sentiment was on full display Thursday, Sept. 3, when nurses at three Prime Healthcare hospitals—Saint Mary of...
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‘A Case for the Existence of God’ theater review: Well-crafted but ill-named play. This is an excellent character study of two different yet similar men that is about friendship and family and loneliness. #theater #review #culture
‘A Case for the Existence of God’ theater review: Well-crafted but ill-named play
Before this atheistic aesthete indulges, with tongue firmly planted in cheek, in a rant about this play’s egregiously pompous hifalutin name, I feel compelled to confess that: 1.
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Incumbents prevailed in Massachusetts primaries, but divisions simmer. Challengers failed to meet the moment, pushing attention to now focus on referendum questions. #politics
Incumbents prevailed in Massachusetts primaries, but divisions simmer
At first glance, Massachusetts primaries seemed to favor incumbents, but a closer look shows deep-set divisions in the voter base and campaign strategies from challengers that failed to meet the histo...
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UN climate report raises question: Is Earth already doomed? The planet will overshoot the temperature limits set by the Paris Agreement, but activists say we can’t resign ourselves to environmental apocalypse. #ClimateChange #environment #news #politics
UN climate report raises question: Is Earth already doomed?
In 2015, 196 nations came together to sign the Paris Agreement in order to combat the growing threat of climate change. The goal was set to prevent the Earth from exceeding a global warming limit of 1...
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The resistible rise of a fascist party in Germany. The policies of the ruling parties, the CDU and the SPD alike, served to propel alienation, angst, and anger among the masses—especially in the east. #Germany #politics
The resistible rise of a fascist party in Germany
Upon learning of the landslide electoral triumph of a fascist political party in a province that was once part of socialist Germany, these foreboding words immediately came to mind: “The womb is ferti...
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After 37 years, federal oversight of Teamsters ends. Election to top offices, including one-member, one vote, remain in place #labor #news @teamsters.bsky.social
After 37 years, federal oversight of Teamsters ends
NEW YORK—After 37 years, six U.S. presidents and four union presidents, U.S. government oversight over the Teamsters has come to an end. But the changes in the union’s structure, including making ele...
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GOP mid-term ‘Convention’: More false promises inside, protests planned outside. Desperate Trump promises $5,000 checks for everyone if GOP wins midterms. #politics #MAGA #news
GOP mid-term ‘Convention’: More false promises inside, protests planned outside
DALLAS—The Republicans’ two-day “Midterm convention” opened in Dallas Sept. 9 and featured a promise by Trump, made after two-thirds of the audience had already left the arena, that he would send ever...
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Make Philly Affordable campaign carries city budget demands into fall. Following activist-organizer Erica Brown’s 21-day hunger strike, MPA will continue the budget campaign into the fall. #Philadelphia #affordability
Make Philly Affordable campaign carries city budget demands into fall
PHILADELPHIA—Residents concerned over their ability to afford life’s necessities may want to follow the second phase of the Make Philly Affordable (MPA) campaign closely.
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How a small park became part of D.C. mayor’s anti-immigrant agenda. Amigos Park would have been a culturally-rooted public space to bring neighbors together, but now it’s future is in limbo. #news
How a small park became part of D.C. mayor’s anti-immigrant agenda
WASHINGTON—Since 2014, residents of the Mount Pleasant community in Washington, D.C. have advocated for the establishment of a small community-controlled park adjacent to Kenyon St. and the main roadw...
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Mamdani says Giuliani, Bush, and EPA hid 9/11 dangers. Mayor reveals that the city found a cache of 170,000 documents in 68 boxes in a locked storeroom. #news
Mamdani says Giuliani, Bush, and EPA hid 9/11 dangers
NEW YORK—In the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaeda attacks on Manhattan and D.C., New York City officials—along with Republican President George W.
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Bolivian bot farms fuel right-wing takeover of Latin America. A botched hit job exposes Fernando Cerimedo and his digital disinformation operation. #LatinAmerica #politics
Bolivian bot farms fuel right-wing takeover of Latin America
The sound of gunfire erupted outside a hotel in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the epicenter of right-wing politics in Bolivia, on the evening of Aug. 17. By the time the commotion was over, a woman lay on ...
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Danbury and Connecticut unite against anti-immigrant terror. Heading back to school, families battle ICE agents. #ICE #Immigration
Danbury and Connecticut unite against anti-immigrant terror
DANBURY, Conn.—As families prepared for back-to-school days in Danbury last week, the Department of Homeland Security brought down a reign of terror on the community with massive ICE raids. Parents w...
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Hundreds of thousands of Communists, workers, youth, and their allies converged this past weekend for a grand gala of culture and politics. Avante! Festival at 50: Portuguese Communists celebrate five decades of democracy and struggle. #culture
Avante! Festival at 50: Portuguese Communists celebrate five decades of democracy and struggle
SEIXAL, Portugal—Hundreds of thousands of Communists, workers, youth, and their allies joined the 50th anniversary of the Avante! Festival (Festa do Avante!) from Sept. 4 to 6 in Seixal, Portugal, a s...
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Official jobless rate stays at 4.1% in August. Number of jobless, however, rises by 115,000 #labor #jobs
Official jobless rate stays at 4.1% in August
WASHINGTON—The nation’s unemployment rate stayed at 4.1% in August, while the number of jobless people rose by 115,000 to 7.031 million, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The private sector cl...
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Mamdani opens Mayor’s Office of Worker Power. He’s tasked city hall staff with aiding efforts to unionize workers. #politics #NYC #NewYork
Mamdani opens Mayor’s Office of Worker Power
NEW YORK—Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked Labor Day, Sept. 7, by announcing the creation of the Mayor's Office of Worker Power (MOWP). The new office is the first such body created anywhere in the nation.
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Mecca military pact: Is it the ‘Islamic NATO’? This is not “the Global South” asserting itself against U.S. hegemony, nor is it a victory for anti-imperialism or popular sovereignty. #world #war #politics
Mecca military pact: Is it the ‘Islamic NATO’?
On Aug. 7, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan established a military alliance that many experts are saying could reshape power across West and South Asia.
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Opposition is not enough: Authoritarian crisis requires a movement that votes. Authoritarian regimes try to subvert elections because they know most people do not want the policies that exclusively benefit authoritarians and their wealthy allies. #politics #vote
Opposition is not enough: Authoritarian crisis requires a movement that votes
3.5% is a data point that has become popular among people who want to build a movement to defeat authoritarianism and reconstruct democracy in the United States.
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‘The Arsonists’ play review: Absurdist theater takes on evils of capitalism. The "morality play without a moral,” actually shows us to always resist the authoritarian extremists, by any means necessary. #culture #theater
‘The Arsonists’ play review: Absurdist theater takes on the evils of capitalism
I strongly suspect that when the Swiss-German playwright Max Frisch wrote The Arsonists during the 1950s, he fully intended it to be mounted in a wildly over-the-top manner.
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Labor Day 2026: Workers under siege and fighting back. The ground underneath workers is shifting fast, and the 2026 midterms are the best chance to push back. #LaborDay2026 #labor #news #politics
Labor Day 2026: Working people under siege and gearing up to fight back
This Labor Day, working people across the country are marking the holiday not just with parades and picnics, but with a hard reckoning: The ground beneath them is shifting fast, and the 2026 midterms ...
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Republican gerrymandering scheme takes a loss in Missouri courts. Court rules that racist GOP gerrymandered map cannot be used in November. #vote #voting #elections
Republican gerrymandering scheme takes a loss in Missouri courts
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—A day after hundreds of people rallied outside the Missouri Supreme Court, justices dealt President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, and the Republican Party a major...
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State of the Unions: Workers tired of the GOP—and corporate Democrats, too. In her latest speech, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler says workers are “sick and tired” of politicians who don’t support them. #AFLCIO #labor #LaborDay #politics
State of the Unions: Workers tired of the GOP—and corporate Democrats, too
WASHINGTON—AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler says workers are “sick and tired of both parties”—but she meant something specific: Republicans who enable Trump’s agenda, and Democrats who talk pro-worker but...
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When plastic companies write the lesson plans. The plastics industry is offering schools curricula that cast plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs. Critics say it’s propaganda. #education #environment #FYI
When plastic companies write the lesson plans
This fall, 54 million K-12 students are headed back to the classroom for another year of lessons in all the classic subjects: math, English, history, biology. But there’s another subject that’s been s...
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Venezuela hands over oil production and reserves to the U.S. Trump says deal takes over control of industry in that country for 25 years #oil #Venezuela #politics
Venezuela hands over oil production and reserves to the U.S.
President Donald Trump on Aug. 28 announced via social media an agreement with Venezuela that puts a sizable portion of that country’s oil production and oil reserves under U.S. control.
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Child care coalition steps up to run in Corvallis, Oregon. This slate of city council candidates is prioritizing affordability and access. #news #politics #elections #Oregon
Child care coalition steps up to run in Corvallis, Oregon
CORVALLIS, Ore.— A coalition of city council candidates has stepped forward in Corvallis, Oregon, seeking to increase the availability of affordable and accessible child care in the city.
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