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On April 18, 1905, sugar workers in Puerto Rico went on strike in a coordinated action of 20,000 workers that build connections between agricultural and urban labor. Although this did not transform the Puerto Rican labor movement long-term, it was an important early step in its...
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I suspect that unfortunately we're talking tip of the iceberg stuff here: The NBA issued a lifetime ban to Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter on Wednesday for violating league gambling rules. The league's investigation found Porter guilty of "disclosing confidential information to sports bettors, limiting his own participation in one or more...
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Help Me Somebody

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Something possessed me -- probably something that needs to be bound, rebuked, and cast out, in roughly that order -- to look at Dr. Naomi Wolf's Twitter. Whoa Nellie. Highlights include: Wolf is now engaged in biblical exegesis, using a Greek/English dictionary. She's doing her own...

Bob Graham, RIP

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If Al Gore had selected Bob Graham in 2000 instead of pandering to right-wing "moral voters" by picking Joe Lieberman, he almost certainly wins Florida and thus the election. Good.

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Ralph Nader in winter

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This interview with Ralph Nader in Mother Jones made me rather sad. Among other things, it made me think of the parallels between Nader and Donald Trump. Now these days pretty much everything makes me think of the parallels between it and Donald Trump, including this...
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