Van
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Van
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MD student, Cooking, Music is life
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Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar explored how the ideology of real estate finds geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a turn to unmediated accumulation, exemplified by the egregious “Gaza development plan.”

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Slumlord Empire • Protean Magazine
In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a tu...
proteanmag.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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The US aggression against Venezuela is naked imperialism. All pretext has been exposed as farce. An invasion would cause tens of thousands of deaths. Every sane person must oppose this madness.
December 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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My tribute to my dad, who passed away last month in the UK.

He was a proud Indian immigrant *and* a proud British citizen.

His life story is one long rebuttal to the nativists, bigots and xenophobes.
Mehdi Pays Tribute To His Late Father
YouTube video by Zeteo
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December 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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"America’s systems, structures, and policies were not ready for Alice Wong. I dream of a world where her vision for disability rights isn’t “radical” but the norm."

www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong
Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.
www.thenation.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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What is fascism? What forms has it taken in the past? And how can we fight against it?

I try to answer these questions, and more, in our latest video. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWYqrVsBvwI
Are We Witnessing Fascism?
Robert Reich
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December 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Great microsimulation model shows Mexico's 51+ population will double by 2051 with increasing prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, MI, stroke, and functional limitations. This study is essential to help guide policy makers address the fast growing aging population of Mexico
A dynamic microsimulation of health outcomes in Mexico’s aging population
AbstractBackground and Objectives. Mexico faces health policy challenges because of rising prevalence of health conditions, a rapidly aging population, and
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December 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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“We are the ones that are saying what the forest is demanding. We are the ones that are saying what the river is asking for. We are going through a lot of violence in our territories.”
“We Need to Be Heard”: Indigenous Amazon Defender Alessandra Korap Munduruku on COP30
Thousands of Amazonian land defenders, both Indigenous peoples and their allies, have traveled to the COP30 U.N. climate conference in Belém, Brazil. On Friday night, an Indigenous-led march arrived a...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"The Trump administration is seeking to make its mark on the asylum system. Secretary Kristi Noem of the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday tweeted an ad asking candidates to apply to be a “deportation judge,” promising a salary between $159,901 and $207,500."
Friday night massacre: 5 judges fired from S.F. immigration court today
The Trump administration has fired at least 12 immigration judges in San Francisco so far this year, part of a national trend.
missionlocal.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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I wrote about the man Florida plans to kill tonight and how the death penalty impacts people in ways we might never imagine.
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
Richard Randolph, now Malik Abdul-Sajjad, is scheduled to die tonight. His biological mother will never get a chance to meet him.
theintercept.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"It has been more than a month since a “ceasefire” took hold in Gaza. That, of course, does not mean that the killing of Palestinians has stopped. It simply means that it has been reduced to a rate that allows international media to ignore it." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
No medical training could prepare me for a ‘life-genocide balance’
I volunteered in Gaza as a doctor. The anger, guilt, and helplessness I continue to feel are unbearable.
www.aljazeera.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"As the country prepares to host COP30 in Belém this year, the efforts to accelerate the license approval of fossil fuel projects at the mouth of the Amazon reveals a clear contradiction between the Brazilian government’s domestic actions and its desire to be a global leader in climate action."
What is COP and why is this year’s meeting in Brazil so important?
From 10-21 November, world leaders, scientists, activists, negotiators, diplomats, Indigenous Peoples and other affected communities will gather in Belém, Brazil for COP30, the annual UN climate confe...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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“How do you celebrate 10 years of Paris, 30 years of COP, to show that, actually, multilateralism matters and implementation matters?”

We speak to Friends of the Earth's Asad Rehman at the U.N. climate conference in Belém, Brazil.
“Just Transition”: Polluting Countries Must Take Responsibility for Extreme Climate Change
With negotiations in their second week here at the COP30 climate conference in Belém, Brazil, we get an update on the United Nations talks from Asad Rehman, chief executive of Friends of the Earth. He...
www.democracynow.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we offer an extensive reading list about border and police ab...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM