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Forced Labor in the Supply Chains

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The AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center has a report out about forced labor from Turkmenistan in the cotton supply chains. It's a pretty bloody awful story. Cotton bound for global markets from Turkmenistan—the ninth largest producer and seventh largest exporter of the world’s cotton—was again harvested with forced...

You Don’t Say…

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Interesting stuff at the Monkey Cage on the cultural relevance of guns to America's white conservatives: Studies find that gun rights supporters are highly politically organized and unwavering on their views, while gun.

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The Cruelty is the whole point

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Georgia's ban on even bringing to water to people standing in line in voting lines in urban areas designed to be interminable by Republican legislators is already proving to be influential among other vote suppressing assholes: Florida Republicans are considering a bill that would effectively make...
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What the hell is wrong with people?

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A fifteen-year-old holds a sign at an anti-hate rally outside the San Francisco civic center, Feb. 14, 2021. The fatal assault in San Francisco on a defenseless older man was the latest terrifying episode for Asian-Americans, many of whom have endured racist taunts, rants and worse...
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What’s the Matter with Thomas Frank?

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Thomas Frank evidently has a new book out that explores the same ground as his What's the Matter with Kansas book that made his name. I've always found Frank's vision of America incredibly simplistic, to the point of being ridiculous. But I've never bothered exploring the...
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