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Current topics July 18 to July 24, 2021

1. July 1919: White Mob Terrorizes Black D.C. Residents in Red Summer Rampage
2. Cost comparison: FY2022 DOD budget vs. annual funding from bipartisan infrastructure bill
3. Why Solidarity with Haiti Is Important – Dr. Jemima Pierre
4. Eleven Minutes With Doug Henwood on “Take Me to Your Leader: The Rot of the American Ruling Class”
5. Dozens arrested in Los Angeles as anti-trans protest outside spa turns violent
6. CIA Considered Bombing Miami To Blame Cuba!
7. AOC Caught Deleting Tweets Supporting CIA-Backed Protests
8. A “traitor” to the American death machine faces years in prison — while the killing goes on Daniel Hale was at OWS
9. Abdul Latif Nasser Released From Guantanamo After 19 Years Of Detention Without Charge
10. We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
    • Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police
11. Biden Launches Sweeping Action on “Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag.” Can It Be Real?
12. This is a real crime wave that gets no attention: Contractors steal more than $100 billion a year for Federal Government, FBI says
13. What happens if Chinese wealth is unleashed on the world?
14. New protections for NYC fast food workers to take effect July 4
15. Minimum Wage Workers Can’t Afford Rent ANYWHERE In USA
16. Ben & Jerry’s Stops Selling Ice Cream In Occupied Palestinian Territory
17. Eyeing Federal Infrastructure Windfall, Private Equity Courts Public Utilities
18. New Controversy Emerges Over The Selling Of Hunter Biden’s High Priced Art
19. Space Returns Unwanted Amazon Delivery
20. A Murder ‘Solved’ in 4 Hours Sent the Wrong Man to Prison for 23 Years
21. Candace Owens Accidentally Backs Medicare For All!
    • Candace Owens Says COVID is a Trojan Horse for Communism
22. Taxpayers helped pay for Bezos’ boondoggle

July 11 to July 17, 2021

1. Taking Stock: U.S. Counterterrorism Interventions in Africa Today
2. Haiti: Black Despots and White Rulers
3. Black Alliance for Peace: Statements on Haiti
4. NACLA: Haiti in Context: In the wake of the assassination of Haiti’s president, this NACLA reading list offers background on the country’s political situation and social movements’ demands.
5. The Power of the Fed
6. Federal Reserve Actions Have Significantly Weakened Post-Crisis Banking Protection Rules
7. The legacy of 9/11
8. Biden Illegally Bombs Middle East Again!
9. US Can’t Seem To Build Enough Human Extinction-Causing Nukes!
10. YouTube Censorship Is Out Of Control
11. An idea New York should invest in: A municipal bank makes great sense
12. Why Shouldn’t the People Own the Banks?
13. A Democratic Socialist Agenda Is Possible in Buffalo. It Depends on Labor Unions.
14. Costa Rica’s Banco Popular shows how banks can be democratic, green – and financially sustainable
15. The Frightening New Republican Consensus
16. Scottsdale woman indicted for casting dead mother’s ballot
17. Inside The Nation’s Overdose Crisis in Prisons and Jails
18. Joe Manchin’s “highly suspicious” reversal on voting bill follows donation from corporate lobby
19. MSNBC Courts Younger Viewers With NeoCons & FBI Agents
20. US media co-opts Cuba protests for imperialist ends
21. Cuba Today: Homeland, People and Sovereignty: Elements of the current crisis in Cuba and proposed measures to respond.
22. Marvel Confirms Captain America Would Have Switched Sides in Vietnam
23. Jamaica Seeks Reparations for Slavery from Britain
24. The U.S. Is Increasingly Diverse, So Why Is Segregation Getting Worse?
25. Lost Opportunity, Lost Lives: During the pandemic, prison officials could have prevented sickness and death by releasing those most vulnerable.

July 4 to July 10, 2021

1. Last American Vagabond: Interview of Dr. Robert Malone, Inventor of mRNA Technology
2. TrueAnon Podcast on Tesla: The Lamest Show On Earth (Part 1 of 3)
3. Supreme Court “Hijacking” Democracy with Rulings That Gut Voting Rights & Allow More Dark Money
4. The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Have Laid the Groundwork for the Devastation to Come
5. Class Struggle Built the Welfare State
6. Why Is It So Hard To Sue a Bad Cop?
7. Critical Race Theory: What is it and why does the right wing hate it so much?
   • Josh comment: Actually, the Right loves to hate CRT. Very effectively using it as a scare tactic doing so.
8. Utica: The Last Refuge film (long trailer)
9. There Are No Mass Migrations Without U.S. Meddling and Militarism
10. Workers Are Funding The War On Themselves
11. Kristin Richardson Jordan, a 34-year-old activist and democratic socialist, poised to topple incumbent Bill Perkins in City Council District 9
12. Chi Ossé’s Revolution Is About to Land in New York City Politics
13. Senators Want to Pay for Infrastructure With “Asset Recycling.” That’s Just a Fancy Term for Privatization
14. New Alaskan Oil Quest Sparks Battle Over Tribal Sovereignty
15. Civilian Climate Corps would be a win-win for climate and equity
16. Why the Climate Crisis Demands Democracy Reform
17. Dirty tricks campaign in Peru to deny the left’s Presidential victory
18. ‘A Great Day’: Biden Fires Trump’s Social Security Boss Who Refused to Resign
19. Biden Defends Decision To Pull U.S. Troops From Afghanistan
20. CIA Stories: Death Squads in Afghanistan
21. Stressed-out Houston renters battling back against landlords with new help: A tenants union

June 27 to July 3

1. Connecticut Becomes 1st State To Make All Prison Phone Calls Free
2. We Need A Resurrection, Not An Insurrection
3. 14 Steps to Moral Fusion Organizing
4. NYPD use pepper spray at peaceful Queer Liberation March
5. Weapons with minds of their own: The future of warfare is seen in computer algorithms that enable weapons to decide what to hit – and therefore whom to kill
6. The Thin Blue Lies Behind Crime Wave Hype
   • CNN Helps Biden Kick Off ‘War On Crime 2.0: This Time It’s Not Racist, Trust Us’
7. How Alvin Bragg Rejects Bill Bratton and Broken Windows Policing
8. Socialist Candidates Can Win Working-Class Voters of All Colors
9. The Billionaires Are Nervous. And They Should Be Nervous by Alexa Aviles, likely winner of city council district 38
10. Socialist, presumptive Buffalo mayor-elect India Walton discusses her campaign and plans
    • Another interview of India Walton
11. Nina Turner Is Reaching Forward and Reaching Back: Dems should learn from her, not oppose her
12. US carries out air raids on Iran-backed militias in Syria, Iraq
13. Investors Will Buy Anything Now
14. US Media Give New Respect to Lab Leak Theory—Though Evidence Is as Lacking as Ever
15. “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass
16. That Sad History That Led to Ma’Khia Bryant’s Death & Why We Blame Her
17. Renters, Owners, and the New York City Left’s Mayoral Ennui
18. Spies in the media: influencing the terms of debate
19. Biden and Trump appeals court nominees
    • Candace Jackson-Akiwumi
    • Lawrence Van Dyke
20. Hell’s Kitchen Hotel Residents Protest Move Back To Shelters
21. Shelter residents lock themselves in hotel rooms as eviction begins in Hell’s Kitchen
22. NYPD budget:
    • NYPD budget will rise in next fiscal year despite calls to defund
    • About $11 billion from the City’s budget are allocated to the NYPD
23. How Rumsfeld deserves to be remembered
    • Weapon of Mass Destruction found dead at 88
24. Kristi Noem Is Activating Forces That She Does Not Understand and Will Never Be Able to Control South Dakota sending troops to patrol the southern border
25. July is Homeless Rights Month in NYC
26. Revealed: ExxonMobil’s lobbying war on climate change legislation
    • How to sabotage climate legislation? An Exxon lobbyist explains.
27. Astra Taylor: Case for a debt jubilee (NY Times + Twitter)
28. The Supreme Court Is Putting Democracy at Risk
29. Eleven Minutes With Doug Henwood on American Ruling Class
    • Take Me to Your Leader: The Rot of the American Ruling Class

June 20 to June 26, 2021

1. Corporate America loves to fly the rainbow flag, while donating to anti-LGBTQ causes
2. Of Course Mitch McConnell Has No Interest in Joe Manchin’s Voting Rights Compromise
3. Leaked Call Reveals Manchin Colluding With Wall Street to Preserve Filibuster
4. Why Are There Shortages of Plastic Bags Needed for Vaccine Production? Monopolies and Patents
5. STUNNING: Biden Tells Biggest Lie Ever!
6. Aaron Maté Addresses TYT Feud, Media HYPOCRISY On U.S. Weapons Freeze In Ukraine
7. Krystal and Saagar: America Should NOT Become A Nation Of Renters
8. Biden Tracking ‘Anti-Capitalist Extremists’
9. Biden’s Craven Death Penalty Reversal
10. Kamala Harris’ Creepy Laugh Signals Dishonesty
    • What does Jimmy Dore’s sneer signal?
11. Biden’s first 100 days: How U.S. immigration policy has — and hasn’t — changed
12. Why Juilliard Students are Protesting
13. Police SHOCKED When Held Accountable For Their Actions
14. Justice Alito is “Pissed” SCOTUS didn’t strip healthcare away from millions
15. GOP pushes CENSURE of The Squad over factual comments
16. OUTRAGEOUS! Biden packs immigration courts with Trumpers
17. How billionaires pay millions to hide trillions
18. The Authoritarian Instincts of Police Unions
19. Why This Proudly Jewish Lawmaker Is One of Israel’s Biggest Critics in Congress
20. India Walton Could Become The First Socialist Mayor Of A Major U.S. City In Decades
21. Ban killer drones: here and abroad
22. The Propaganda Playbook: A Section-by-Section Dissection of Tucker Carlson’s Communication Strategy
23. ‘The Tea Party to the 10th power’: Trumpworld bets big on critical race theory
24. Public Transportation Should Be Free
25. The unknown history of Black uprisings
26. Ohio Republican official indicted for voter fraud after forging his deceased father’s signature
27. NYC Voters: Prioritize Policing Alternatives To Tackle Violence Also, note that we are NOT in the midst of a crime wave
28. Cancel student debt: Biden, you can do it
29. The Private Equity Firm That Made a Killing From the Saudi Death Squad

June 6 to June 19, 2021

1. Map of historical massacres of Black people
   • Fuller context of organized white violence against Blacks: The “other” Tulsas
   • Tulsa isn’t the only race massacre you were never taught in school. Here are others.
2. Martin Luther King, Jr. called the filibuster a “tragedy” used by “misguided Senators” to block people “even from voting”
3. Pedro Castillo ready to lead Peru after election count
4. The corruption of the SEC, over decades and till today
5. Manchin ENDS Biden Presidency With TSUNAMI Of Lies
6. Biden Keeping Trump’s Tax Cuts For The Wealthy; AOC Simps for Him
7. Biden ABANDONS Public Option, Media LIES For Him
8. Biden Sides With Anti-LGBTQ Extremist Groups
9. Kamala Harris Repeats Trump’s Message To Immigrants
10. OOPS: Bernie Praises Biden For Policies He DROPPED
11. Canada: Kamloops Indian Residential School Graves filled with 215 Children
    • Indigenous leaders criticize pope’s response to Kamloops graves
12. Harvard Study: Car Pollution in NYC Claims 1,400 Lives, Billions in Costs
13. Georgia Board of Education Votes to Censor American History
14. Pentagon running ‘secret army of 60,000 around world’
15. What happened in the Israeli police ‘torture room’ in Nazareth?
16. Ilhan Omar Presses Blinken on Palestinian Rights—He Faceplants
17. SHAMEFUL Dems Throw Ilhan Under The Bus For TRUTH!
18. The true price cost of coal
19. The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
20. Inside New York’s Grueling Parole Application Process
    • Some progress (assuming our Dear Leader signs it, which we cannot take for granted): Transformative Parole Reform Bill, Passes Senate & Assembly
21. NY Passes HONDA bill to turn unused hotels into permanent housing for at risk New Yorkers
22. Developer Abandons Keystone XL Pipeline Project, Ending Decade-Long Battle
23. Rep. Jayapal OPPOSES Voting On Her Own Bill!
24. N.Y.P.D. Says It Used Restraint During Protests. Here’s What the Videos Show.
25. Low-Flying DHS Helicopter Showers Anti-Pipeline Protests With Debris
26. Marni reports a victory: We stopped the Trust
27. Marco Rubio Will Defer Your Student Loans, But Only if You Survive a Terrorist Attack
28. Senate opponents of democracy reform were elected with millions in dark money
29. Warren Buffett and the Myth of the ‘Good Billionaire’
30. What the Rich Don’t Want to Admit About the Poor
31. Noam Chomsky: The Elites Are Fighting a Vicious Class War All the Time
32. Corporations LARP as LGBTQ Allies While They Fund Anti-LGBTQ Politicians
33. Krystal Ball: Groundbreaking Study PROVES Culture Wars KILL Class Politics
34. Krystal and Saagar: Wuhan Lab CAUGHT Housing Bats Despite Past Lies
35. House tees up war authorization repeal while Senate waits on White House
36. Transparency on police shootings:
    • Some progress in CA on disclosure: 20-20 Hindsight
    • Police fight against disclosure: In Florida, police shootings could be shrouded in secrecy for years to come
37. The public option is now a reality in 3 states
38. Less policing + more resources = safer communities

May 30 to June 5, 2021

1. David Sirota: INSIDE Koch Network’s Bid To Become America’s Landlord
2. What’s Really Fueling The U.S. Labor Shortage | The Mehdi Hasan Show
3. Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
4. Amazon Prime Is an Economy-Distorting Lie
5. How the Supreme Court Contributed to Growing Inequality
6. NY Times & Israeli paper feature photos of all 67 Palestinian children killed in Gaza
7. His Rule Slipping Away, Netanyahu Could Bring Capitol Insurrection to Israel
8. Jim Crow Killed Voting Rights for Generations. Now the GOP Is Repeating History
   • 14 States have enacted more than 20 laws this year that will make it harder for Americans to vote
9. Supreme Court ruling in Arizona case will be another front in the voting rights wars
10. Biden’s Justice Department Is Walking Into a Trap Set by Trump Appointees
11. The next PM of Israel even more openly racist than Netanyahu
12. Public figures deal with stress, get different receptions:
    • Missing Gerald for many reasons but this story particularly brings him to mind.
    • French Open 2021: Naomi Osaka withdraws from tournament after being fined for skipping media obligations
    • City Council Speaker Johnson suddenly withdraws from 2021 mayoral race
    • Naomi Osaka and the Power of ‘Nope’
13. With police reform, better lives for all
14. Tulsa isn’t the only race massacre you were never taught in school. Here are others.
15. America’s poor foot much of the bill for credit card points, miles, and cash back.
16. NYPD removal of students from schools on the rise They handcuffed 23 seven-year-olds, seven six-year-olds and three five-year-olds.
17. The Tulsa massacre, denial of tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones, whitewashing of American history
18. As a vet spoke about Memorial Day’s roots in Black history, his mic was cut. It was no accident.
19. Meet Your Mayor We have more choices than you might think. If you can find 5 you like better than Adams and Yang, list them all.
20. 24 Minutes In Mott Haven: A year ago, NYPD beat peaceful protestor in the South Bronx
21. NYPD’s Sprawling Facial Recognition System Has More Than 15,000 Cameras
22. A Quick History of McDonald’s Exploitation of Workers
23. Kamala Harris Abandons Helping Border Immigrants
24. Biden Ruining Presidency With Magical Thinking

May 23 to May 29, 2021

1. Squad Caves & Votes To SUPER FUND Police!
2. Stunner: Biden Retracts EVERY Campaign Promise
   • Biden proposes budget to increase federal spending to highest since WWII
   • Biden Betrays Promise For Student Debt Relief
3. Americans REALLY Want Higher Taxes On The Rich
4. Cops Charged For Assaulting 73-Year-Old Woman With Dementia
5. Feckless Bernie Too Late To Force The Vote
6. Hospital Chain Sues THOUSANDS of Patients For Unpaid Medical Bills
7. 100-Plus AP Staffers ‘Strongly Disapprove’ of Emily Wilder Firing, Call for Updates to Social Media Policies
8. A Black Lives Matter activist reflects on a year of fighting for justice
9. Lawmakers are Targeting the Courts that Could Shoot Down Voter Suppression Laws
10. GOP Megadonors Fund Andrew Yang Super PAC
11. MyPillow CEO Says He Got & Hid Voting Machines Across Country
12. Abby Martin WINS Lawsuit Against Georgia—Court Strikes Down Their Anti-BDS Law
13. Historian says 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre was “actively covered up” by White community
14. Rand Paul Is Anti-Vax, Says He’s Immune
15. How privilege and capital warped a movement: George Floyd and America
16. Biden, unlike Trump, thinks businesses shouldn’t be free to abuse consumers
17. NY City Council expected to pass increase in homeless vouchers
18. Council Will Hold Long-Awaited Vote to Raise Value of NYC Housing Vouchers Changes were made at the last minute and the final bill is not what homeless NYers fought for.
    The Outgoing New York City Council Is Disgusting, and It Doesn’t Seem to Be Ashamed. (member blog post about above)
19. Midtown Shelter On ‘Billionaire’s Row’ Can Be Built, Court Rules
20. Activists push for parole reform
    • Momentum builds for legislation to cut prison sentences
21. Exxon and Chevron Got Their Teeth Kicked In, But Shareholders Won’t Finish the Job
22. Dutch Court Orders Shell Oil Company to Halve Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2030
23. The Rights of Nature — Can an Ecosystem Bear Legal Rights?
24. Why is the Palestinian Authority arresting West Bank activists?
25. Jeremy Corbyn Tells Jacobin: Israel Must End the Siege of Gaza
26. EPIC Video Lampoons Insanity Of For-Profit Healthcare
27. The Chinese Forced Labor Lie Collapses

May 16 to May 22, 2021

1. Georgia Supreme Court Rules You Can Use FORCE, and Damage Property, to Resist Unlawful Arrest!
2. Intercept Smears WRONG Reporter For Doing Reporting
3. Unions Take Up the Fight for Racial Justice
4. Philadelphia reform DA Krasner easily wins primary
5. Survivors of Tulsa Massacre Testify in Congress
6. MSM “Independently Confirms” Totally False STORIES
7. Non-Americans Respond In HORROR To US Healthcare System
8. DEBUNKED: Two Straight Minutes Of Fox LIES About The Economy
9. MSNBC Host: Palestinians Have A Right To Defend Themselves!
10. The Tide is FINALLY Turning in the U.S. in Favor of Palestinian Human Rights
11. Zaid Jilani: Why Media Coverage Of Israel-Palestine Is DANGEROUS
12. Krystal Ball: Israel DECIMATES AP Bureau And Biden Does NOTHING
13. Israel Lied to the U.S. About Their War Crimes, Biden GIVES Them More Weapons Anyway
14. Israel SMEARS Bella Hadid For Palestine Post
15. Every Israeli Talking POINT Debunked
16. Rashida Tlaib PHYSICALLY Confronts Biden Over Israel
17. Social Media HELPS Silence Palestinians
18. Former NYTimes Journo Bari Weiss Approves Killing CHILDREN while Sitting in Fertility Clinic
19. Debunking Israel’s ‘Human Shield’ Defense in Gaza Massacre
20. Bernie Sanders MOVES to Block U.S. Arms Sale to Israel
21. Biden Threatens To RUN Over Reporters For Asking About Israel
22. Palestinian general strike
    • Krystal Ball: Palestinians Launch HISTORIC GENERAL STRIKE Hailed Most Significant Action In Decades
    • Under Occupation, Palestinian Resilience Builds Unity
23. Alan Dershowitz Viciously ATTACKS Bernie Sanders on Newsmax
24. Multiple Unions Say No To Shipping To Israel
25. Ocasio-Cortez Leads House Dems’ Demand That Biden ‘End the Carceral Approach to Immigration’
26. OUTRAGEOUS! Defense Contractors Will Sue Pentagon If Wars End
27. CNN Host SHREDDED For Asking If Americans Are Lazy
28. Krystal Ball: Employers know your class status in SEVEN WORDS
29. STUDY: Over-Working KILLS
30. Krystal and Saagar: Biden QUIETLY Appoints Neera Tanden To Key WH Position
31. Chile’s Communist Party WON Santiago Mayor’s Office
32. Dianne Morales’s Public Bank Proposal vs. Andrew Yang’s Public Bank Proposal
33. Pro-Transparency Tucker Carlson DOESN’T Want Riot Investigation
34. Opinion: COVID-19 Taught Us That Housing is Healthcare—NYC Must Pass Intro 146
35. Bernie & AOC Give LIP Service To McDonald’s Workers & #FightFor$15
36. AFGHANISTAN, The 20-year War
37. Squad Members Reject Capital Hill Security Bill
38. Is This the Beginning of the End of Israeli Apartheid?
39. Why Does the United States Support Israel?
40. SHOCKER: Biden Continues Doing Putin’s Bidding
41. Krystal Ball: New Data Reveals CEOs LIED About Taking Pay Cuts
42. A Day of Action: Educators Pledge to Teach the Truth, June 12
43. YouTube Censoring Israel Coverage By Independent News
44. Twitter-Restricted Palestine-Based Journalist Debunks One of Israel’s Biggest Lies
45. B’Tselem: Killing blockaded civilians and destroying infrastructure on a massive scale: Israel is committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip
46. DEADLY Mass Protests Enter Third Week In Colombia
47. Lawmakers are Targeting the Courts that Could Shoot Down Voter Suppression Laws
48. GOP Megadonors Fund Andrew Yang Super PAC

May 9 to May 15, 2021

1. AOC’s PAC donated over $100k in leftists’ cash to right-wing Democrat incumbents ahead of 2022 Democratic Primary Elections
2. Is Liz Cheney Is WORSE Than Trump?
3. OUTRAGEOUS: Biden Ramping Up Drug War AGAIN!
4. Newsmax ADMITS It Lied About 2020 Election, Apologizes!
5. Saagar Enjeti: Media CAUGHT Letting Biden WH EDIT THEIR STORIES
6. Understanding how and why misinformation spreads:
   • ‘Belonging Is Stronger Than Facts’: The Age of Misinformation
   • Are Americans as stupid as we seem on Twitter?
7. Why Joe Biden Punched Big Pharma in the Nose Over Covid Vaccines
8. The Supreme Court made the GOP’s new voting restrictions possible
9. Dollar General at center of labor unrest controversy after frustrated workers walk off job in Maine citing low wages and understaffed stores
10. Delta Airlines Wants Slave Labor “Volunteers”
11. Joe Biden Enforces Slave Wages
12. Why Police Reform Fails
13. Philadelphia incinerated remains of police bombing victims without telling families
14. The Hidden Cost of Incarceration
15. War Crimes CALLED OUT To Israeli Official’s Face
16. Teshuvah: A Jewish Case for Palestinian Refugee Return
17. Yang Fails HARD On Israel Then Backpedals
18. TAX-EXEMPT U.S. NONPROFITS FUEL ISRAELI SETTLER PUSH TO EVICT PALESTINIANS
19. DISGUSTING: Biden Admin Neutral On Child Murder
20. Media’s Pro-Israel Headlines: A Reading (doesn’t really start until over 10 minutes in)
21. CAUGHT: NY Times Deceptively Editing Out Truth About Israel
22. Is The Two State Solution A LIE (w/ Rania Khalek)
23. On Palestine, It’s Time for Progressives to Stop Reading From the Same Outrage Script & Support BDS
24. Krystal and Saagar: Biden To The Right Of Obama On Israel Policy
25. Israel’s New Challenge: Violence Among Its Own Citizens
26. Krystal Ball: Elitist NY Mayoral Candidates Have NO CLUE How Expensive Housing Is In Brooklyn
27. Krystal and Saagar: Fauci CAUGHT HIDING Key Facts From Senate On Lab Leak Hypothesis
28. Vaccinated Yankees Test Positive for COVID-19
29. Coronavirus “Most Likely Escaped From Lab” – Former CDC Director
30. Saagar Enjeti: EPSTEIN At Center Of Bill, Melinda Gates Divorce
31. Former Gaetz associate strikes deal to plead guilty and cooperate with prosecutors

May 2 to May 8, 2021

1. How Michael Bloomberg’s Former Campaign Manager Became Andrew Yang’s Favorite Fixer
2. Citigroup will pay NY mayoral candidate, former exec Ray McGuire $5.7 million over next few years
3. FBI: A San Diego man’s phone leads to extremist group and Georgia sheriff’s deputy
4. ‘We’re terrorized’: LA sheriffs frequently harass families of people they kill, says report
5. Saagar Enjeti: Media SMEARS Jeopardy! Contestant As Racist For Using NUMBER 3 Hand Gesture
6. Biden Abandons Pledge To Lower Drug Prices
7. Washington Post Officially Stops Counting Biden’s Lies
8. NYC could and should have a public bank:
   • Council Weighs ‘Public Banking’ Bills as Advocates Push City to Divest from Corporate Banks
   • Competing Visions of Public Banking in New York City
   • Public Bank NYC: Banking for Justice
9. Court Orders Homes For Homeless In Los Angeles
10. Petition calling on Biden to cancel student debt gets more than 1 million signatures
11. Bernie Accused Of White Supremacy By Blue MAGA Trolls
12. Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe
13. Influencers in Bali face deportation over mask face paint stunt
14. Dangerous Republican Anti-Protest Laws Grant Drivers License to Kill
15. Cornel West says Obama didn’t have ‘courage’ to fight racism—but Biden does
16. Biden Backs Suspending Patents on Vaccines
17. James Baldwin’s Shadow
18. Intercept Spying On Regular People Instead Of The Powerful
19. Justice Department Brings Federal Criminal Charges Against Derek Chauvin, 3 Others
20. Teacher suspended after angry rant against BLM recorded by student
21. Pushback against police harassment
    • Bill aims to curb Florida’s data-driven policing programs
    • Congressman urges probe of Pasco school data program
    • Pasco County’s Sheriff Must End Its Targeted Child Harassment Program

April 25 to May Day, 2021

1. JEOPARDY Question Rips Mask Off American History
2. Intersectionality: an Ideological Product of Capitalist Thought
3. AOC: ‘Biden Has Exceeded Expectations That Progressives Had’
4. This Is Deeply, Obviously, and Laughably Corrupt
5. USPS Conducting Covert Surveillance On Americans’ Social Media Posts
6. Two NJ police officers charged for allegedly punching a teenager and lying about it
7. Black woman ‘shocked’ after white North Carolina city official is fired for disrespecting her
8. No one should ever be denied their right to seek asylum
9. George W. Bush Can’t Paint His Way Out of Hell
10. People of Color Are Exposed to More Pollution
11. ‘She Wants Well-Qualified People’: 88 Landlords Accused of Housing Bias
12. Everything We Know About the Sweeping New Housing Discrimination Lawsuit
13. A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution
14. NY Post Reporter Quits: I Was ‘Ordered’ to Write False Story About Kamala Harris
15. North Carolina sheriff identifies deputies involved in fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr.
16. Who Is Mario Gonzalez? Bodycam Shows Police Kneeling on Man Before His Death
17. Trump Obsessively Monitoring Election Recount by Cyber Ninjas
18. Lee Camp: The CIA Has Been Taking Over for Decades—Even Former Presidents Tried to Warn Us
19. Bill Gates Denies Vaccine To Poor Countries
20. Even CNN Asks Squad To Use Their Leverage!

April 18 to April 24, 2021

1. Envisioning Justice: A page of posts about the past, present and possible futures of the criminal legal system
2. Defund Movement: Explained. APTP w/ ACLU CA Action Conference
3. OUTRAGEOUS! Biden Confiscating Homes To Build Trump’s Wall
4. Biden admin moving ahead with UAE F-35, drone sales for now
5. Racial Justice Organizers Call on Mayor de Blasio to Drop the Appeal and Fire Officers Involved in Eric Garner’s Killing After Appeals Court Denies City’s Bid to Stay Judicial Inquiry
6. “Justice Looks Like Abolition”: A Minneapolis Organizer on the Chauvin Verdict
7. Black Lives Matter’s Effect on Police Lethal Use-of-Force protests estimated to have saved 300 lives
8. The End Of The Promises the charade is over. What’s the afterlife of Puerto Rico’s political experiment?
9. Military Withdrawal Marks a Fundamental Shift in U.S. Strategy on Afghanistan
   • Afghans Reflect on Biden’s Announcement to End War
   • Biden Is NOT ENDING Afghan War After All
10. Republican-led states are introducing punitive new measures governing protests
    • Florida Just Passed a Bill Aimed at Protesters
11. “This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends” | Cyberhacking
12. Gold Chains, History of Slavery in California
13. “Dislikes” Canceled?!? Big Tech Protecting Unpopular Politicians & Media
14. Utterly Disgusting’: Big Pharma Lobby Blitz Against Vaccine Patent Waivers Denounced

April 11 to April 17, 2021

1. Why Joe Manchin is an electoral miracle
2. Opinion: Joe Manchin: I will not vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster
3. How Kyrsten Sinema Sold Out
4. How the US military has failed to address white supremacy in its ranks
5. NYPD “Goon Squad” Manual Teaches Officers to Violate Protesters’ Rights
6. Frontline: American Insurrection
7. Essay: What Spurred the Rise in Mass Solitary Confinement
8. The ex-Pfizer scientist who became an anti-vax hero
9. ‘You Have The AUDACITY To Talk About China?’ -Abby Martin to US Citizens Ignoring ‘Genocidal’ US Gov
10. Justice for Yemen: Where do we go from here?
11. Why AOC panders to the Israel lobby
12. Abby Martin’s Lawsuit Exposes SERIOUS Threats to Free Speech in America
13. List of criminal activity by British cops (2008-2020)
14. Virtual Rally and Press Conference to Pass The NY Public Banking Act
15. Panel: MSNBC CONFRONTS Fauci For Lying To Americans On Masks
16. Mehdi Hasan Grills Fauci Over His Infamous ‘Flip-Flop’
17. New Target for New York’s Ascendant Left: Rep. Carolyn Maloney
18. Gary Gensler has a full agenda as he gets set to take over the SEC
19. Let’s Cut Our Ridiculous Defense Budget
20. Reimagining Justice
21. Leaving Afghanistan, and the Lessons of America’s Longest War
22. FedEx mass shooting the deadliest in Indianapolis in at least 15 years
23. Coinbase IPO will cause an explosion in crypto investing
24. Gary Gensler has a full agenda as he gets set to take over the SEC
25. ‘Simpsons’ Actor Hank Azaria Feels He Needs Apologize to Every Indian for Apu

April 4 to April 10, 2021

1. The AFL-CIO’s Police Union Problem Is Bigger Than You Think
   • How Police Unions Bully Politicians
2. Mandatory professional liability insurance for California police? Lawmakers are interested.
3. Liability Insurance Could Hold ‘Reckless’ Police Officers Accountable
4. Yay! New Mexico Will Now Let Victims Of Police Brutality Sue The Police
5. NYPD “Goon Squad” Manual Teaches Officers to Violate Protesters’ Rights
6. AOC:
   • Talking Socialism | Catching up with AOC
   • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounces socialists and praises Biden administration, Democratic Party
   • AOC Stood Up to the DCCC. It’s about time someone did.
   • Study Ranks AOC One Of The Least Effective Members Of Congress
   • Emma Vigeland FLAILS Trying to Defend AOC as Matt Lech Speaks Truth on The Majority Report
   • AOC Donates $160k To Establishment Dems, They Still Hate Her
     AOC Betrays Supporters By Funding Anti-Progressive Democrats
7. Ilhan Omar’s improbable journey from refugee camp to Minnesota
8. Homelessness Priorities Won’t Make the State Budget, Lawmakers and Advocates Say
9. COMMENTARY: Democrats have their own voter suppression issues
10. Wall Street Has Chosen Its Candidate In The Heated Race for District Attorney: Weinstein
11. Legally Sliding into War
12. Flawed Approach Sunk Amazon Union Drive, But Birthed National Movement
13. Def. Sec. Austin launching panel to address extremism in the ranks

March 28 to April 3, 2021

1. Defunding the Police Isn’t Punishment—It Will Actually Make Us Safer
2. They’re hoping you forgot
3. Andrew Yang challenged on BDS + discusses claims of MSM bias against him!
4. Meet The Wrong Type of Jew, The Media Doesn’t Want You To Know Exists | Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi
5. Inside the Koch-Backed Effort to Block the Largest Election-Reform Bill in Half a Century
6. Ilhan Omar Gives Hilarious Word Salad When Challenged on Strategy w/Justin Jackson
   Ilhan Omar Reveals Progressives Had NO STRATEGY On $15 Min Wage
7. The Democratic Party and the political origins of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
8. AOC Twists Into Pretzels For Not Forcing Vote On $15 Minimum Wage
9. AOC Bizarre Deflection About Kids In Cages
10. Buttigieg’s Idea To Screw Workers for Driving To Work
    Jimmy Dore: Biden and Trump “have the exact same policy ideas”
11. The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy From the Ruling Class
    Thom Hartmann: “The most toxic poison to democracy is cynicism.”
12. French farmers dump hundreds of tonnes of manure on the streets and spray city building with slurry in day of protest
13. Special prosecutor in police shooting of De’ Aire Gray promises transparency
14. How monopoly sabotage created the housing crisis
15. In Manhattan D.A. Race, Momentum Builds to Decriminalize Sex Work
16. Effort for U.S. rejoin the Iran Nuclear Deal
17. OPCW Whistle Blowers Debunk Cover-Up & U.S. Propaganda on Syria
18. F-35 shoots itself
    • The F-35 and Other Legacies of Failure
19. Tucker Carlson: White Supremacist Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
20. Soldier Says She Was Sexually Assaulted by 22 Troops at Oklahoma Base
21. Niger sees first peaceful transition as Mohamed Bazoum inaugurated new president

March 21 to March 27, 2021

1. Republican arguments against DC statehood descend into nonsense
2. In City After City, Police Mishandled Black Lives Matter Protests
3. Powerful alternatives to predatory lenders: Postal Service banking and public banks
4. Thanks to covid-19, the age of biometric surveillance is here
5. Tax reform / property taxes on building value vs land value: Henry George
6. Home is a Human Right – Episode 3: Nathylin Flowers and Winsome Pendergrass
7. Krystal Ball: Cinnamon Toast Shrimp Tails Are The Story Of America
8. Racist Republican Gets Blindsided By The Bible
9. Head of Bronx non-profit that received $274 million from NYC to run 70 homeless shelters is arrested for ‘accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes’ after 10 women accused him of sexual assault and harassment
10. How Smoked Salmon Is Destroying Our minds | George Monbiot
11. Virtually No One is Dangerous Enough to Justify Jail
12. Georgia takes the lead in voter suppression
    • Georgia bans giving water to voters in line under sweeping restrictions
    • Georgia G.O.P. Passes Major Law to Limit Voting Amid Nationwide Push
    • Georgia state Democratic lawmaker arrested while trying to watch Gov. Kemp sign voting bill
13. The evil within us: How Christian fascist ideology led to the Atlanta killings
14. Five Facts About Gun Violence
15. Panel: NEW POLL Shows AZ Voters PUNISH Sinema After Minimum Wage Vote
16. Internal Documents Show Amazon Knows Its Drivers Urinate, Defecate in Trucks
17. Green New Deal X: Denmark Shows How a Country Can Power Beyond Fossil Fuels
18. Trump’s Proposed “Patriotic Education” Commission Seeks to Whitewash U.S. History 
19. In Likely First, Chicago Suburb Of Evanston Approves Reparations For Black Residents

March 14 to March 20, 2021

1. Congress Urged to Take ‘Immediate Action’ to Stop Debt Collectors From Snatching Relief Checks
2. Chris Hedges: Bandaging the Corpse
3. Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” speech was never in “slave talk” until an 1863 Karen Rewrote It
4. The NYPD Sent a Creepy Robotic Dog Into a Bronx Apartment Building
5. Is China Committing Genocide? Behind the U.S. Government’s Propaganda Campaign
6. Evidence of suppression of Uighurs or dupes of U.S. propaganda?
   • Who are the Uighurs and why is the U.S. accusing China of genocide?
   • UN: Act on Broad Expert Call Denouncing China Abuses
   • ‘Their goal is to destroy everyone’: Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape
   • China dismisses Pope Francis’s comments about persecution of Uighurs
   • There is now more evidence than ever that China is imprisoning Uighurs
   • China committing genocide against Uighurs, says report
   • New Leak Shows How China Targets Uighurs in Xinjiang
   • China Moves to Calm Restive Xinjiang Region
   • Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims
   • China & Uighurs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
   • Lee Camp: The Truth About China
7. Why Andrew Cuomo Must Resign
8. Medicare for All Would Have Prevented Hundreds of Thousands of Covid Deaths: New Report
9. Progressives Introduce Med4all Bill After All Leverage Is Gone
10. COVID-19-Denying, Fascist President Dies from “Mysterious Illness”
11. Cuomo Pushes Cuts To Safety-Net Hospitals After They Stepped Up During Pandemic
12. Kshama Sawant To AOC: Time For ‘Open Combat’ With The Dem Establishment
13. AOC Theatrically Gaslights Working People Over Stimulus Bill
14. Columbia University Caught Lying For Biden Over Stimulus Bill
15. People Don’t Even WANT $1,400 Checks! – Fox News Morons
16. FBI facing allegation that its 2018 background check of Brett Kavanaugh was ‘fake’
17. 19-and-a-half years is not long enough. Some think it is “premature” to withdraw from Afghanistan
18. People demanding change — and getting it, eventually
19. The Burglary That Exposed COINTELPRO
20. Plummeting sperm counts, shrinking penises: toxic chemicals threaten humanity
21. HR 1: For the People Act
    • Why the For the People Act Is Critical for Fair Voting Maps
    • HR 1’S Campaign finance proposal: A reform that doesn’t reform
    • Sen. Rafael Warnock’s speech on voting rights under attack
22. Elderly Asian Woman Who Clobbered Her Attacker Talks About Terrifying Assault In San Francisco
23. WBAI Guns and Butter: Bonnie Faulkner interviews Allison McDowell

March 7 to March 13, 2021

1. HEARTWARMING: Child Labor For Healthcare
2. Queens judge overturns wrongful murder convictions for three men in prison for 24 years slaying of NY cop, says prosecutors withheld evidence of innocence
3. American Empire Gets a Reboot (Foreign Policy Under Biden) Best of the Left compilation of clips on the subject: sample what you choose
4. Biden running out of time to make decision on future of US mission in Afghanistan
5. Heather McGhee: How racism hurts (nearly) everyone
6. Racism or Classism? Caste explains that it is both Best of the Left compilation of clips on the subject
7. Sanctions Are Reimposed on Israeli Billionaire Granted Relief Under Trump
8. Life Without A Living Wage Millionaires for a living wage
9. AOC Lied About Using Leverage For $15 Minimum Wage
10. Invest in Our New York: Campaign for equitable tax measures to fund needed priorities
11. The End of Trickle-Down Economics? Joe Stiglitz on the “Transformational” $1.9T American Rescue Plan
    • GOP senator tries to take credit for COVID relief bill he most definitely voted against
    • In the Stimulus Bill, a Policy Revolution in Aid for Children
12. Cleared of Corruption Charges, Will Lula Challenge Bolsonaro in Brazil’s 2022 Presidential Race?
13. Alabama professors thought it would be funny to pose with whips and nooses for a Halloween photo
14. To Win a Green New Deal, Pass the PRO Act
15. Orange County Democrats just won this seat for the first time since 1894
16. Solidarity with Bessemer Amazon Workers Grows

February 28 to March 6, 2021

1. Revisiting Reparations
   • Payback’s a bitch
   • Who’s ‘Black Enough’ For Reparations?
2. Hilarious “#ForceTheVote​ For $15 Minimum Wage” Movement Begins
3. Close Guantanamo: At Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, the U.S. government continues to inflict inhumane treatment on innocent people
4. Mumia Abu Jamal has symptoms of COVID: Call to demand treatment
5. A Christian Nationalist Group Is Quietly Shaping Bills for State Legislatures
6. Frontier Airlines Accused of Anti-Semitism for Canceling Flight Alleging Hasidic Jews Refused to Wear Masks; Video Shows Them Masked
7. Kelly Loeffler Just Lost Her WNBA Team to a Player She Refused to Meet
8. Post 9/11 wars have cost US $6.4 Trillion
9. Black Lives Matter Protesters Were Overwhelmingly Peaceful, Harvard Study Finds
10. Cenk: Jimmy Dore Is Correct About #ForceTheVote
11. Stockton’s Basic-Income Experiment Pays Off
12. 6 Dr. Seuss books won’t be published anymore because they portray people in ‘hurtful and wrong’ ways

February 21 to February 27, 2021

1. Matt Taibbi: Marcuse-Anon: Cult of the Pseudo-Intellectual
2. Hate Crimes Against Asian Americans soar And It’s not White Supremacists
3. John Oliver on Facial Recognition Software
4. Truth Behind SNL’s Controversial Israel Joke
5. Sale Of Tribune Publishing To Alden Global Capital Raises Concerns In Newsrooms
6. When the Profit Motive Kills with Anand Giridharadas
7. Save Lives, Don’t Take Them: A call to reform NYC first response to New Yorkers in psychiatric crisis
8. Liz Cheney Compares Anti-War Voices To Nazi Appeasers
9. President Biden Lets a Saudi Murderer Walk: Nicholas Kristof
10. Democratic lawmakers call on Biden to clarify Yemen policy
11. Joe Biden Violated International Law By Bombing Syria, Commentator Says
    • Biden bombing Syria without Congressional approval, a ‘return to normal’
    • Quakers: Nation must eliminate temptation to more war
12. Ex-NYPD Officer Charged in Violent Capitol Attack
13. “Climate Arsonist”: How the Trump Administration Impacted the Environment
14. Personal Report: The Challenges of Educating During a Pandemic
15. The NYPD has a surveillance problem
16. House Dems pass sweeping $1.9 trillion Covid-19 Relief bill with $15 minimum wage included

February 14 to February 20, 2021

1. Billionaires see Virtual Reality as a way to avoid radical social change
2. Former Trump sycophant turns on him, sort of
3. Matt Taibbi: Marcuse-Anon: Cult of the Pseudo-Intellectual
4. COVID-19 has already cut U.S. life expectancy by a year. For Black Americans, it’s much worse
5. Cuomo caught in COVID cover-up
6. Georgia’s Plan to Require Vehicle Ownership as a Condition of Voting
   • No Car, No Vote: “Emergency” Georgia Registration Roadblock
7. Rush Limbaugh is Dead! Should We Mourn Him?
8. Proposals for NY tax fairness and to fund needed programs
9. ‘Blood Is on Abbott’s Hands’: Anger at GOP Leaders Surges as Food, Water Shortages Compound Texas Power Crisis
   • ‘Brazen lie’: Chris Hayes calls out Gov. Abbott, Fox News for Texas power grid lies
   • Tough-guy Texas mayor tells residents ‘fend for themselves’ and resigns
   • Texas leaders failed to heed warnings that left the state’s power grid vulnerable to winter extremes, experts say
10. The internet’s big carbon footprint need not doom the climate
11. Report: Pandemic Rent Dip In NYC Hasn’t Made Much Difference For Essential Workers
12. Bolivia Returns $350 Million Loan to IMF, Taken Out After 2019 Coup
13. Revisiting Reparations
14. Biden’s Racist & Sexist Debt Plan W/ Katie Halper, Briahna Joy Gray, Justin Jackson, Ed Ongweso & Trevor Beaulieu

February 7 to February 13, 2021

• We’ll be screening: The Mayor on Sunday at 2.Interview with David Osit, Director of The Mayor

1. ‘Downright Scary’: In 2021 Alone, GOP Introduces 100+ Voter Suppression Bills in 28 States
2. Minnesota Representative from Scott County introduces Articles of Impeachment against Gov. Walz
3. Victoria Law’s ‘Prisons Make Us Safer’ Looks At Resistance Behind Bars
4. Did Blacks REALLY Fight for the Confederacy During the Civil War???
5. NY Post Editorial Claims, “Biden is the most radical left-wing president in US history, period”
6. Let’s not conflate white supremacy with white people
7. Case for conviction of Donald Trump (look for link to Rep. Joe Neguse Lays Out Roadmap for House’s Argument) or excerpt of Rep. Raskin’s closing argument
8. As Capitol insurrection arrests pile up, disturbing details about participants’ backgrounds emerge
9. How Black women have built movements and cultivated joy
10. Black Lives Matter Inland Empire Announces Break WIth BLM Global Network
    • Statement from the frontlines of BLM: It is time for accountability
11. Housing Boss Is Fired and Faces Criminal Inquiry After Reports of Abuse
12. Homeless New Yorkers, advocates renew push to increase voucher value
13. Protesters block Midtown traffic with makeshift house as they demand tax on richest New Yorkers
14. Journalist Says He Was Fired by Guardian over Tweet Criticizing U.S. Military Support to Israel
15. China’s Inequality Will Lead It to a Stark Choice
    • Why a takeout deliveryman in China set himself on fire
16. War is betrayal: Persistent myths of combat Chris Hedges

January 31 to February 6, 2021

1. NBC Apologizes For Accurate Reporting on Biden! w/Glenn Greenwald
   • Rep. Jamaal Bowman calls on Israel to vaccinate Palestinians
   • Israel obligated to work with PA to ensure Palestinians in Occupied Territories receive vaccines : J Street
2. How the LAPD and Palantir Use Data to Justify Racist Policing
3. Biden ends use of private prisons
4. Tech Investor Is Raising Funds to Investigate San Francisco Prosecutor’s Decarceral Approach
5. Biden Withdraws U.S. Support for Saudi “Offensive Operations” in Yemen
6. Biden Reverses ‘Dangerous’ Designation of Houthis as Terrorist Group
7. Why isn’t Biden cancelling student debt? Could it be his donors?
8. Charles Blow makes his case for Blacks to amass political power and combat white supremacy
9. The Filibuster’s Sordid Past and Present
10. Border Patrol Beat an Immigrant to Death and Then Covered It Up
11. Housing Boss Is Fired and Faces Criminal Inquiry After Reports of Abuse

January 24 to 30, 2021

1. We plan to have a discussion of ADOS (American Descendants of Slavery).
   • MLK: “We’re Coming to Get Our Check”
2. Films
3. We also agreed to listen to and discuss: Global Capitalism: US Capitalism’s Decline and Desperate Efforts to Save It: Richard Wolff
4. Neoliberalism’s Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital
   • Freedom from markets
5. Nothing to hide — what do I care about privacy? : Gus Hosein
6. AOC Says #ForceTheVote For Impeachment. (contradicts herself again)
7. AOC smeared in despicable Axios article
8. REVEALED: Biden Wants To Overthrow Venezuela.
9. U.S. military officers going about business as usual: raping and killing. Except this time they are raping and killing each other so there are some repercussions
10. McConnell filibusters to prevent a Biden government as his argument to keep the filibuster
11. Trump fans file suit to block Biden’s executive orders and rerun election
12. Instacart is firing every employee who voted to unionize
13. Hunts Point Strike Is the Bold Labor Action the Country Needs
    • 1,170 Strikes in 2020
14. Facebook Bans Left Party Without Explanation.
15. What Is a Teenage Girl? Feeling things is an act of bravery
16. Capitol Riot Puts Spotlight on ‘Apocalyptically Minded’ Global Far Right
17. Trumper caught before deadly AOC attack
18. Kurt Andersen: The True Billionaire Conspiracy To Screw The Working Class
19. Covid job losses four times worse than 2008-9 Great Recession
20. FDR’s Economic Bill of Rights
21. Can an ‘Activist HUD’ Make Housing a Human Right?
22. What Can Sanders Do as Budget Chair?

January 17 to 23, 2021

1. Bernie Sanders Abandons Pushing Biden Left and Medicare4All
2. The promises Biden made: Kids on the Line
3. How networks of influential individuals helped destroy one of the world’s most durable democracies and legitimise a racist, authoritarian state
4. Pandemic reveals hidden poverty in wealthy Japan
5. Ending the uncivil war and how racism hurts (nearly) everyone
6. War is Not Innate to Humanity: A More Peaceful Future is Possible
7. Nuclear weapons are now illegal under international law
8. No, We Do Not Need New Terrorism Laws
9. Facebook shuts down major left wing group in Britain
   • Facebook’s Ban on Far-Left Pages Is an Extension of Trump Propaganda
10. America Has The Tinder To IGNITE Social Uprising – Chris Hedges
11. Global Capitalism: US Capitalism’s Decline and Desperate Efforts to Save It: Richard Wolff
12. America Has a Secret Police Problem
13. The Mayor: movie about mayor of Ramallah. David Osit
14. Tom’s rec: 10 min in Paul Craig Roberts on Jan 6 | 2nd interview on Jan 6 event 30 min is also good
15. The Trial of Julian Assange and Its Implications for Press Freedom
16. Leaked FBI Documents Reveal Bureau’s Priorities Under Trump : Non-existent “Black Identity Extremists”, not white supremacists
17. Why West Virginia’s Winning The Race To Get COVID-19 Vaccine Into Arms
18. What If Climate Change Isn’t as Polarizing as We Think?
19. New Zealand Is Infusing Policing With a Social Work Philosophy

January 10 to 16, 2021

1. Commentary related to events in DC and going forward
   1. Riot on the Hill, Mike Davis, NLR Sidecar blog
   2. Render unto Ourselves, What is Ours—or Caesar Will Seize It, Alex Hochuli, Damage
   3. What Experts on Extremism Want From the Biden Administration, James D Walsh, NYMag
   4. Morbid Symptoms Can Persist for a Long Time, Barry Eidlin, Jacobin
   5. Violence in the Capitol, Dangers in the Aftermath, Glenn Greenwald, Substack
   6. The revenge of the blob, Alex Ward, Vox
   7. FDNY Gives FBI Info on Members Who Attended US Capitol Riot
   8. Rev. Barber on Capitol attack: “When we saw those mobs, it shook something in us because we’ve seen this before.”
   9. Confederates in the Capitol: The Re-enactment of a Lost Cause
      • Best of the Left: The Lost Causes of the Confederacy and the Forty Fives
   10. SHOCKER: AOC endorses #ForceTheVote, Embarrasses Her Defenders!
   11. The Last Thing We Need Is Another War on Terror
       • Capitol Hill Assault Revives Calls for Domestic Terrorism Law, but Civil Liberties Groups Are Wary
       • Critics Warn New Domestic Terror Laws Aimed at Pro-Trump Mob Would Be Used Against Legitimate Protest
       • Jacobin: We should be very worried about Biden’s “domestic terrorism” bill.
   12. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: Trump ban was right but sets a ‘dangerous’ precedent
   13. “This Will Be Remembered as a Turning Point”: Snowden Warns Against Trump Social Media Ban
   14. Silent Melania Trump plods toward end of her husband’s tumultuous term
   15. Women Charged With Assault After Special Police Officer Punched Trump Supporter
2. Other criminal legal system posts
   1. The US police department that decided to hire social workers
   2. Evidence points to fascist cop inciting gang violence in Jersey City
   3. Report on L.A. Police Gangs
   4. This is how you stymie a movement
      • Black Lives Matter Backlash: The NYPD’s War on Protesters Intensified
      • New York State Sues NYPD Over Its Handling Of 2020 Racial Justice Protests
      • Reveal: Stopping a movement The federal government cracked down, filing charges against protesters in 31 states.
3. ‘There’s a red flag here’: how an ethanol plant is dangerously polluting a US village
4. Remembering a White Supremacist Coup
5. Black Men Have the Shortest Lifespans of Any Americans. This Theory Helps Explain Why.
6. Vancouver Gave Its Homeless $5,800. It Changed Their Lives
7. US designating Yemen’s Houthis a ‘terrorist’ group
8. IndyKids: News from the next generation
   • Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis Worsens as COVID-19 Strains War-Torn Country
   • Personal Report: The Challenges of Educating During a Pandemic
9. Silent Melania Trump plods toward end of her husband’s tumultuous ter
10. Congressman who received vaccine tests positive for COVID
11. Opinion: Top-Down Comprehensive Planning Will Further Empower Those on Top

January 3 to 9, 2021

1. The Prosecution of Julian Assange and the Threat to Freedom of the Press and Human Rights
2. One in Three US Rivers Changed Colors Between 1984 and 2018
3. ‘I can’t breathe’: Three words that define an era: Best of the Left Podcast
4. Five Days Without Cops: Could Brooklyn Policing Experiment be a ‘Model for the Future’?
5. Video: Rev. Rafael Warnock was arrested in 2017 for praying in the U.S. Capitol: protesting GOP effort to repeal of Obamacare
   • Raphael Warnock On Senate Win: ‘Welcome To The New Georgia’ : NPR
6. Lame-Duck Trump’s “Middle East Arms Bonanza” Continues With Approval of $290 Million Weapons Sale to Saudi Regime
7. Free food fridge in Bed-Stuy inspires community fridges throughout the city
8. Telling the Stories of 833 Million: People’s Archive of Rural India
9. AFRICOM Causes Humanitarian Crises on Two Continents
10. MAGA Cosplayers Seize Capitol While Cops Flounder
    • Donald Trump Unleashed His Cult on American Democracy
    • Political Violence Is No Anomaly in American History
    • The fascist coup of January 6
    • Trump provoked an attempted coup by his supporters before retreating to the White House to tweet
    • How Police Treat Pro-Trump Terrorists vs. Black Lives Matter Activists
    • American taxpayers will pay for the damage caused by the Capitol riot because the building isn’t insured, experts say
    • Capitol Storming Was Openly Planned but Ignored by Law Enforcement (theintercept.com)
    • Some among America’s military allies believe Trump deliberately attempted a coup and may have had help from federal law-enforcement officials
    • ‘Horrifying’: Former Cruz spokeswoman reacts to Cruz’s role in riot
    • Republican Elites Are Responsible for Today’s Storming of the Capitol
11. Catherine Austin Fitts: The Great Reset
12. California’s deadiest day for COVID-19: More than 670 – Los Angeles Times
13. How Activists Shut Down Key Pipeline Projects In New York
14. Our Best Chance to Slow Global Warming Comes in the Next Nine Years

December 27, 2020 to January 2, 2021

1. Reposted from last week for discussion: The Violent Story Of American Whiteness
2. No federal charges for officers in 2014 fatal shooting of Tamir Rice, DOJ says
3. Video shows White woman falsely accusing Black teen of stealing her phone in NYC hotel
4. Cop Threatens to Kill Phoenix Mayor Over Police Budget
5. Cop Brags About Hitting Protesters With Car
6. #ForceTheVote Town Hall
7. January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all!
8. ‘Sick’: Most Profitable US Companies Fired Workers, Enriched Shareholders During Pandemic
9. Guide to 68 Declarations of Martial Law in the United States
10. Israel’s propaganda on Iran’s nuclear program led to death of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
11. The National Defense Authorization Act and Military Detention of U.S. Citizens
    • Obama wins back the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA (Hedges v Obama case, appeal)
    • Renewal of indefinite detention, and other pernicious provisions in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act
12. Florida Sheriff’s Department Targets Schoolchildren as Future Criminals Based on Their Abuse History
13. Make the World Better

December 20 to December 26, 2020

1. We Have Nowhere To Go’: Back Rent, Late Fees Pile Up As Evictions Loom
2. A Hard Look at Rent and Rent Seeking with Michael Hudson & Pepe Escobar
   • A very short review/synopsis
3. The DC Political Monopoly Just Doesn’t Get It
4. Iraq Insists on Blackwater Case Transfer to Int’l Courts, UN, Urges States to Back Baghdad
5. How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men

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