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Outflankened Again

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Joe Biden has proposed what would be one of the most important expansions of the welfare state in American history. I'm sure that the response from the Republican Party, which is totally a worker's party now, will have be positive. And socialists like America's Most Populist...

Derby!

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As you can imagine, the return of the Derby in a quasi-normal form is a moment for some excitement in the Bluegrass. There'll be parties, but for the first time.

Title 42

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In another sign of Biden's indifference to immigration as an issue, he has not revoked Trump's use of public health measures as a reason for mass deportation. President Joe Biden.

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The Iron Heel

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If you want some fun May Day action, I was asked to contribute some comments to a left-wing theater group's radio play adaptation of Jack London's The Iron Heel. The first episode is today at 3 eastern and you might be interested in checking it out!
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The Anglo-Saxons

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"Anglo-Saxon" has long been a term white supremacists from Theodore Roosevelt to Marjorie Taylor Greene have used to justify a particular type of white America, one that is a complete myth. Another thing that is a complete myth about this is the idea that Anglo-Saxons were...
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Rural vaccine reluctance

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This is actually quite an interesting article, showing how fatalism and atomism are discouraging people from taking the COVID vaccine in rural Appalachia: He scoffs at the perception that people here are vaccine-hesitant simply because they, like him, are Republicans.“That doesn’t make sense to me,” he...
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