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who won virginia
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Minnesota allowed the sale of one of its electric utilities to a consortium led by BlackRock. Our James Baratta was there to witness the proceeding, and he explains how it's the beginning of a private equity roll-up to cash in on the AI data center boom.
prospect.org/environment/...
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BlackRock Just Bought a Minnesota Utility
On Friday, state regulators voted unanimously in favor of allowing private equity to take a Duluth-based utility holding company private. The Prospect takes you inside the room where it all went down.
prospect.org
October 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Minnesota allowed the sale of one of its electric utilities to a consortium led by BlackRock. Our James Baratta was there to witness the proceeding, and he explains how it's the beginning of a private equity roll-up to cash in on the AI data center boom.
prospect.org/environment/...
prospect.org/environment/...
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The top 1% in the US have now a record $52 trillion in wealth.
The bottom 50% have about $4 trillion.
The bottom 50% have about $4 trillion.
October 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The top 1% in the US have now a record $52 trillion in wealth.
The bottom 50% have about $4 trillion.
The bottom 50% have about $4 trillion.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.
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Pope Leo criticises pay packages of Musk and other corporate chiefs on.ft.com/46BkXd0
Pope Leo criticises pay packages of Elon Musk and other corporate chiefs
Pontiff expresses concern about the widening gap between corporate bosses and workers
on.ft.com
September 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Pope Leo criticises pay packages of Musk and other corporate chiefs on.ft.com/46BkXd0
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"Ever since Mexico ceded half its territory to the United States in 1848, California has posed a challenge for America’s nascent fascists." Dan O’Sullivan traces the legacy of right-wing ideologies in California. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/cracked-costly-fantasies/
Cracked, Costly Fantasies | Los Angeles Review of Books
Dan O’Sullivan traces the legacy of right-wing ideologies in California.
lareviewofbooks.org
August 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"Ever since Mexico ceded half its territory to the United States in 1848, California has posed a challenge for America’s nascent fascists." Dan O’Sullivan traces the legacy of right-wing ideologies in California. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/cracked-costly-fantasies/
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Why Louisa May Alcott may be one of our greatest but least recognized feminist theorists of labor.
Louisa May Alcott’s Utopian Feminist Workplace Novel
In “Work: A Story of Experience,” Alcott fictionalizes her own stints as a servant, a seamstress, a governess, and a lady’s companion—and asks whether a wage counts as freedom for women.
www.newyorker.com
July 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Why Louisa May Alcott may be one of our greatest but least recognized feminist theorists of labor.
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just want to share this Lincoln line from his "electric cords" speech.
"So I say in relation to the principle that all men are created equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can. If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature."
"So I say in relation to the principle that all men are created equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can. If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature."
July 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
just want to share this Lincoln line from his "electric cords" speech.
"So I say in relation to the principle that all men are created equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can. If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature."
"So I say in relation to the principle that all men are created equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can. If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature."
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Linda Kinstler in @nybooks.com surveys online petitions to Zelensky's office, examining how the tone of the appeals has become "increasingly plaintive and grimly realist." A very interesting way to take the public pulse in Ukraine. Also, Linda is a wonderful writer.
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
‘Where Are Our Boys?’ | Linda Kinstler
In mid-February, just ahead of Volodymyr Zelensky’s ill-fated visit to the White House, a thirty-year-old engineer from Kharkiv named Vladyslav Voronin
www.nybooks.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Linda Kinstler in @nybooks.com surveys online petitions to Zelensky's office, examining how the tone of the appeals has become "increasingly plaintive and grimly realist." A very interesting way to take the public pulse in Ukraine. Also, Linda is a wonderful writer.
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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“I don’t know how long it took—ten seconds, maybe fifteen—for the house to come apart."
During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:
During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:
“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”
The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.
www.texasmonthly.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“I don’t know how long it took—ten seconds, maybe fifteen—for the house to come apart."
During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:
During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:
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one beautiful supreme court decision after another. thinking of this queen today, thanks rbg. wouldn’t be here wo her.
July 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
one beautiful supreme court decision after another. thinking of this queen today, thanks rbg. wouldn’t be here wo her.
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It’s the 4th of July. In the empty lot by the playground, a group of Bangladeshi teenagers are setting off professional-grade fireworks. Bang, bang! BANG! Bang-bang! Bang. Sometimes one fails to go off properly; everyone steps back until it’s spent itself into the asphalt.
July 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
It’s the 4th of July. In the empty lot by the playground, a group of Bangladeshi teenagers are setting off professional-grade fireworks. Bang, bang! BANG! Bang-bang! Bang. Sometimes one fails to go off properly; everyone steps back until it’s spent itself into the asphalt.
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@ryanlcooper.com on elite impunity: “any country that completely gives up on accountability for its political class will eventually produce someone like Trump. Open the door to criminals, and sooner or later one will walk through.” prospect.org/politics/202...
Turns Out Appeasing Trump Only Emboldened Him
Having evaded accountability when he was out of power, he’s running amok today.
prospect.org
July 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
@ryanlcooper.com on elite impunity: “any country that completely gives up on accountability for its political class will eventually produce someone like Trump. Open the door to criminals, and sooner or later one will walk through.” prospect.org/politics/202...
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This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country
June 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country
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as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders
June 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders
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brad lander primary chuck schumer
June 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
brad lander primary chuck schumer
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Videos of masked ICE agents detaining immigrants across Los Angeles County have been appearing on social media daily. They’ve become a primary record of what is going on while the federal agency keeps the public in the dark.
The People Being Disappeared by ICE in Los Angeles
As communities across Southern California document and protest the escalating raids, loved ones grapple with the unimaginable.
www.newyorker.com
June 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Videos of masked ICE agents detaining immigrants across Los Angeles County have been appearing on social media daily. They’ve become a primary record of what is going on while the federal agency keeps the public in the dark.
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illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
June 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
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BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out after being released from ICE detention.
"The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.
"The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.
June 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out after being released from ICE detention.
"The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.
"The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.
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250 million acres is just a mind boggling quantity of land www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Treasured Public Lands on the Auction Block in Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'
A Senate provision in Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill puts millions of acres of recreation lands up for sale to the highest bidder.
www.rollingstone.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
250 million acres is just a mind boggling quantity of land www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Today, as we celebrate Juneteenth, we should remember not only the struggle against chattel slavery but the struggle for radical freedom during Reconstruction — snuffed out by the reactionary forces of property and white supremacy.
Juneteenth Is About Freedom
Today, as we celebrate Juneteenth, we should remember not only the struggle against chattel slavery but the struggle for radical freedom during Reconstruction — snuffed out by the reactionary forces of property and white supremacy.
jacobin.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Today, as we celebrate Juneteenth, we should remember not only the struggle against chattel slavery but the struggle for radical freedom during Reconstruction — snuffed out by the reactionary forces of property and white supremacy.
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“It was characteristic of the Civil War era that many of Raymond’s wildest predictions came true, while his safest pledges were broken.”
Matthew Karp on Henry Jarvis Raymond.
Matthew Karp on Henry Jarvis Raymond.
The Mild Revolutionary, by Matthew Karp
On Henry Jarvis Raymond
buff.ly
June 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
“It was characteristic of the Civil War era that many of Raymond’s wildest predictions came true, while his safest pledges were broken.”
Matthew Karp on Henry Jarvis Raymond.
Matthew Karp on Henry Jarvis Raymond.
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For years, Boeing engineers warned about the fatal flaws in the 787 Dreamliner series—especially in planes shipped overseas. Now, one has crashed in India. From Maureen Tkacik
One of the Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed
Whistleblowers always warned that passengers would pay a price for Boeing’s tyrannical corner-cutting, especially with the planes shipped overseas.
trib.al
June 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
For years, Boeing engineers warned about the fatal flaws in the 787 Dreamliner series—especially in planes shipped overseas. Now, one has crashed in India. From Maureen Tkacik