'Hope Is Alive!' Mamdani Victory in NYC Seen as Historic Turning Point | Common Dreams "If there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump. It is how we stop the next one."

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The Authoritarian Architect: Dick Cheney and the Dystopian World He Built We live in Dick Cheney's America. God help us.

The Worst of Us: Dick Cheney and the Dystopian World He Built
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Socialism or Barbarism More than a century ago, from a Berlin prison cell where she was confined for her uncompromising opposition to the slaughter of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg warned, “Bourgeois society stands at...

"What makes Mamdani’s campaign so unsettling to those (all too literally) invested in this status quo is not merely his critique of capitalism but his insistence on genuine democracy"
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10 Richest Americans Have Gained $700 Billion in Wealth Since Trump Reelection | Common Dreams "The new American oligarchy is here," said the CEO of Oxfam America. "Billionaires and mega-corporations are booming while working families struggle to afford housing, healthcare, and groceries."

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Kat Abughazaleh on the Right to Protest Illinois congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh on why more Democrats aren’t taking direct action and how leaders should be responding to the right.

Kat Abughazaleh on the Right to Protest
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Trump throws himself a Great Gatsby party while people can’t even afford ketchup New polls show people are disgusted with Trump!

Trump throws himself a Great Gatsby party while people can’t even afford ketchup
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Cuomo closes his campaign for NYC Mayor with an appeal to white supremacy Cuomo says diversity is a "weakness"

Cuomo closes his campaign for NYC Mayor with an appeal to white supremacy
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Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People “What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”

“Mamdani speaks for the people and the establishment speaks for the corporations,”
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Cuomo closes his campaign for NYC Mayor with an appeal to white supremacy Cuomo says diversity is a "weakness"

Cuomo is a disgrace.
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SIGN TO DEMAND: No ICE ads on Spotify!

Spotify is allowing ICE to run recruitment ads on its platform, even though they violate the company's ad policies against promoting violence, behaviors that put people at risk of harm, and harmful & unlawful content. Let's ramp this protest up.

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2 Illinois National Guard Members Speak Out: “I Won’t Turn Against My Neighbors” Chicago — Two Illinois National Guard members told CBS News they would refuse to obey federal orders to deploy in Chicago as part of President Trump's controversial immigration enforcement mission — a...

"Illinois National Guard members told CBS News they would refuse to obey federal orders to deploy in Chicago as part of President Trump's controversial immigration enforcement mission — a rare act of open defiance from within the military ranks"
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Fed Interest Rate Cut Shows Trump Agenda 'Pushing Our Economy to the Brink': Economist | Common Dreams After the US Federal Reserve announced another interest rate cut, one economist said that President Donald Trump's "reckless economic agenda is pushing our economy to the brink, and working families...

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Donald Trump Would Rather Starve Children than Lower Health Care Costs A cruel and cynical strategy to try end the shutdown

Donald Trump Would Rather Starve Children than Lower Health Care Costs
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Petition: For nearly 15 hrs, apps & technology went down bc a vast portion of our daily tech rely on just 1 corporation to keep them running: Amazon. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft & Google control more than 60% of the internet. This monopoly is a risk to our safety.The FTC must investigate!

SIGN: Release SNAP contingency funding now On November 1, 42 million Americans stand to lose their SNAP benefits. Sign our Christian petition demanding that the USDA release emergency funding now.

SIGN: Release SNAP contingency funding now! On November 1, 42 million Americans stand to lose their SNAP benefits. Sign our Christian petition demanding that the USDA release emergency funding now. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/SNAP-US...

A War Against the People: Fascism will Steal Everything From Us 42 million Americans will lose food assistance this week. This is a crime against the people.

A War Against the People: Fascism will Steal Everything From Us
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Judge Indefinitely Blocks Trump Admin From Firing Federal Workers During Shutdown | Common Dreams US District Judge Susan Illston again sided with federal workers over President Donald Trump's administration, indefinitely extending her block on the mass firing of government employees during the se...

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Choosing to let kids go hungry The USDA asserts that Democrats are blocking funding to secure “health care for illegal immigrants” and funding for “gender mutilation procedures.” All of these claims are false.

Choosing to let kids go hungry
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Tell all government leaders: launch negotiations for a treaty to stop killer robots. action.eko.org/a/stop-kille...

Permanently close the Irwin County Detention Center! Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced that they are planning to once again detain people at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, despite its disturbing history of hu...

Add your name to the petition to say NO to resuming jailing immigrants at the Irwin County Detention Center and demand its closure once and for all! sign.moveon.org/petitions/pe...

These Corporations Stopped Worrying About Democracy and Bought Trump a Ballroom It has been nearly five years since the 2020 presidential election, but President Trump continues to baselessly insist it was stolen.

These Corporations Stopped Worrying About Democracy and Bought Trump a Ballroom
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'Tax the Rich!': Packed Mamdani Rally Features Sanders, AOC, and Hochul Ahead of Election Day | Common Dreams "While Donald Trump's billionaire donors think that they have the money to buy this election, we have a movement of the masses," Zohran Mamdani said during the sold-out rally in Queens.

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3 Scandals in 4 Days That Would Define Any Other Presidency During the second Trump administration, corruption scandals that would typically define a presidency receive a day or two of coverage.

3 Scandals in 4 Days That Would Define Any Other Presidency
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Stick With the Facts & Don't Be Like Them: Some Notes on a Recent Spate of Misreadings On July 31, the Washington Post ran a story noting that the National Museum of American History, a branch of the Smithsonian, took down a portion of an exhibit about presidential impeachment concernin...

Being careful about the use of language is useful for surviving authoritarianism because authoritarianism seeks to control fact, truth, history, reality itself through misleading, false, inflammatory, and distorted language, as well as suppressed information, and to make it the norm.

Living with Men An excerpt from Manon Garcia's extraordinary new book on the Pelicot trial

Must read.
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Cuomo Embraces Islamophobia in Waning Days of Mayoral Campaign “This story was originally published by THE CITY. Sign up to get the latest New York City news delivered to you each morning.”  At the final mayoral debate of the general election late Wednesday, form...

HOW PITIFULLY OBVIOUS IS THE FEAR OF CUOMO AND THE ESTABLISHMENT?
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Media Bias Is About to Get Even Worse—Here’s How to Fight Back As billionaires increase control of major media, here's how to protect yourself from the forthcoming disinformation campaigns

Media Bias Is About to Get Even Worse—Here’s How to Fight Back
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These survivors are brave and powerful

Petition: Far too many women musicians’ careers are controlled, cut short, and even destroyed by men in the classical-music industry who wield power over them and abuse them sexually. It's time for the League of American Orchestras to step in. share.weareultraviolet.org/s/dW1SvpPT

'The Establishment Is Spooked': Poll Shows Platner With Big Lead Over Mills in Maine Democratic Primary | Common Dreams Despite media scrutiny and attacks on his character, progressive Senate candidate Graham Platner continues to gain support in Maine, with 58% of voters backing him. His platform focuses on making life...

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Is it enough? Have we destroyed ourselves enough to satisfy the greed of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk? Must we now take what's left, the very water and air that sustains us, and give it all away to Peter Thiel?