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"Which of These Endangers Jews?"
New art at @truthdig.com ft. Zohran Mamdani and Jonathan Greenblatt:
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November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"Which of These Endangers Jews?"
New art at @truthdig.com ft. Zohran Mamdani and Jonathan Greenblatt:
www.truthdig.com/cartoons/whi...
New art at @truthdig.com ft. Zohran Mamdani and Jonathan Greenblatt:
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An Independent, Progressive Journal of News and Opinion.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The Blue Wave
As Silicon Valley CEOs anxiously figure out how much computing it will take to propel artificial intelligence forward, the real question we should be asking is how much more artificial intelligence the planet can take.
The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the microchips behind artificial intelligence grow in complexity, each generation requires more energy, minerals and water than the last, driving a ruinous cycle with no end in sight.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
As Silicon Valley CEOs anxiously figure out how much computing it will take to propel artificial intelligence forward, the real question we should be asking is how much more artificial intelligence the planet can take.
ICE detained a child care worker inside a Chicago preschool as kids watched.
Chicago Child Care Worker Detained by ICE as Children Watched - Truthdig
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, Trump removed that protection.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
ICE detained a child care worker inside a Chicago preschool as kids watched.
Backlash to Energy Star cuts signals political risk for Republicans.
Rising Energy Bills Are Rewiring American Politics - Truthdig
Resounding wins at the polls for efficiency advocates and backlash against plans to kill the Energy Star program give Democrats an opening.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Backlash to Energy Star cuts signals political risk for Republicans.
The U.S. has attacked 15 vessels in the Caribbean since September, killing 64. Venezuela says it’s about oil and sovereignty — not drugs. The people? They’re organizing for war.
Millions of Venezuelans Join Volunteer Militias as US Attacks Continue - Truthdig
Following a decade of economic sanctions on Venezuela, the current wave of boat strikes isn’t actually aimed at stopping drug trafficking.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The U.S. has attacked 15 vessels in the Caribbean since September, killing 64. Venezuela says it’s about oil and sovereignty — not drugs. The people? They’re organizing for war.
Mamdani’s win was historic, but billionaire opposition is far from over.
Why Mamdani’s Win Isn’t a Total Victory - Truthdig
While the roadblocks it bankrolled in the primary and general elections failed, the billionaire class' opposition has just begun.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Mamdani’s win was historic, but billionaire opposition is far from over.
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Love that you can kind of see in Mamdani how Eli struggles to depict regular normal people with untarnished souls. Beautiful.
"Which of These Endangers Jews?"
New art at @truthdig.com ft. Zohran Mamdani and Jonathan Greenblatt:
www.truthdig.com/cartoons/whi...
New art at @truthdig.com ft. Zohran Mamdani and Jonathan Greenblatt:
www.truthdig.com/cartoons/whi...
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Love that you can kind of see in Mamdani how Eli struggles to depict regular normal people with untarnished souls. Beautiful.
The notorious 287(g) task force program is expanding — and raising fears of widespread racial profiling.
Texas Accelerates Integration of State Police and ICE - Truthdig
The notorious 287(g) task force program is expanding — and raising fears of widespread racial profiling in the Lone Star State.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The notorious 287(g) task force program is expanding — and raising fears of widespread racial profiling.
In Green Bay, the chant “We own you” has a double meaning.
Go, Pack, Go: What It Means to Root for the People’s Team - Truthdig
In Green Bay, where fans can expect to wait 35 years for season tickets, the chant “We own you” has a double meaning.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
In Green Bay, the chant “We own you” has a double meaning.
As the microchips behind artificial intelligence grow in complexity, each generation requires more energy, minerals and water than the last, driving a ruinous cycle with no end in sight.
The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the microchips behind artificial intelligence grow in complexity, each generation requires more energy, minerals and water than the last, driving a ruinous cycle with no end in sight.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
As the microchips behind artificial intelligence grow in complexity, each generation requires more energy, minerals and water than the last, driving a ruinous cycle with no end in sight.
The United States helped design a global system that undermined Black sovereignty abroad; now it blames the resulting misery to justify racial exclusion at home.
Sovereignty for Some: Racism, Immigration and the Global Tax Order - Truthdig
How an obscure 20th-century tax rule ensured that newly decolonized nations would never fully escape the orbit of their colonizers.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The United States helped design a global system that undermined Black sovereignty abroad; now it blames the resulting misery to justify racial exclusion at home.
While the world tried to build climate cooperation, Exxon worked to break it.
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South - Truthdig
With Brazil about to host COP30, evidence emerges of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
While the world tried to build climate cooperation, Exxon worked to break it.
Wall Street panicked when Americans actually used their health insurance.
Relax, Wall Street Journal—Health Insurers Are Still Looting - Truthdig
When insurance stock prices dropped sharply, business journalists fretted about the future profitability of the sector.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Wall Street panicked when Americans actually used their health insurance.
Debs spent a lifetime organizing workers and challenging war profiteers — now he’s quoted by NYC’s next mayor.
Zohran Mamdani, Eugene V. Debs and the Dawn - Truthdig
The mayor-elect chose his words carefully on election night—signaling his Democratic socialist beliefs and issuing a call to action.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Debs spent a lifetime organizing workers and challenging war profiteers — now he’s quoted by NYC’s next mayor.
Franklin D. Roosevelt said we must be judged by how we treat those with the least. Trump’s shutdown proves just how far we’ve strayed from that test.
The True Test of Our Progress - Truthdig
Mamdani’s election lights a path forward and away from a world of masked ICE raids and Gatsby-themed billionaires’ balls.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Franklin D. Roosevelt said we must be judged by how we treat those with the least. Trump’s shutdown proves just how far we’ve strayed from that test.
Mamdani’s victory should put to rest the lie that workers are drawn only to simpleminded economic populism that casts social justice questions as distractions.
New York's Working Class Elects a Movement Mayor - Truthdig
How Zohran Mamdani beat the odds with a vision of municipal governance that serves the needs of working-class people.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Mamdani’s victory should put to rest the lie that workers are drawn only to simpleminded economic populism that casts social justice questions as distractions.
Over the past decade, MeToo films — from “The Assistant” to “She Said” — trace an arc from systemic exposure to industry self-congratulation.
After a Decade of MeToo Cinema, What Have We Learned? - Truthdig
“After the Hunt” is a fitting bookend for a genre that feels less about a movement than the solipsistic impulses that emerged in its wake.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Over the past decade, MeToo films — from “The Assistant” to “She Said” — trace an arc from systemic exposure to industry self-congratulation.
The suspense in “Nuremberg” builds to a virtuous climax that follows history through to the nooses.
"Nuremberg" Review: The Camps and the Gallows
James Vanderbilt’s "Nuremberg" revisits the trial of Hermann Göring, and his relationship with an American psychiatrist sent to examine him.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The suspense in “Nuremberg” builds to a virtuous climax that follows history through to the nooses.
Trump’s crackdown is feeding fear, not America.
Trump’s Deportations Are Causing Farm Labor Issues - Truthdig
Trump has cast the H-2A program as a quick help for farmers. But the program has been suspended during the government shutdown.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Trump’s crackdown is feeding fear, not America.
This week’s elections exposed the GOP’s identity crisis—and its looming post-Trump power vacuum.
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You Can’t Spell Groyper Without G-O-P - Truthdig
From Nick Fuentes to Zohran Mamdani, recent events suggest the future of a headless, increasingly neo-Nazi Republican Party is screwed.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This week’s elections exposed the GOP’s identity crisis—and its looming post-Trump power vacuum.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C.’s longtime delegate, is facing growing concerns over her fitness for office amid reports of cognitive decline and a recent scam incident at her home.
The Race for D.C.’s ‘Delegate’ - Truthdig
To understand the Democratic Party’s troubles, look no further than the race for D.C.’s non-voting congressional representative.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C.’s longtime delegate, is facing growing concerns over her fitness for office amid reports of cognitive decline and a recent scam incident at her home.
Bjørn Lomborg’s think tank has downplayed the climate crisis and promoted fossil fuel development.
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Climate Denier Bjørn Lomborg’s Think Tank - Truthdig
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Bjørn Lomborg’s think tank has downplayed the climate crisis and promoted fossil fuel development.
The president is poised to make nuclear testing great again, despite not understanding his own argument or the global consequences of his recklessness.
Donald Trump's Deep Nuclear Confusion - Truthdig
The president is poised to make nuclear testing great again, despite not understanding his own argument—or the global consequences of his recklessness.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The president is poised to make nuclear testing great again, despite not understanding his own argument or the global consequences of his recklessness.
Over 8 million Venezuelans have enlisted in volunteer militias as the U.S. steps up military pressure. What’s behind the strikes and why drug trafficking might not be the real motive.
Millions of Venezuelans Join Volunteer Militias as US Attacks Continue - Truthdig
Following a decade of economic sanctions on Venezuela, the current wave of boat strikes isn’t actually aimed at stopping drug trafficking.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Over 8 million Venezuelans have enlisted in volunteer militias as the U.S. steps up military pressure. What’s behind the strikes and why drug trafficking might not be the real motive.