Phil Free
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Politics, economics, planet - I live in Essex, UK.
âAt Any Future Timeâ
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âAt Any Future Timeâ
In 1880, the daughter of a Welsh politician turned to fiction to expose perspectives missing from the official record, upending histories for generations to come.
https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/at-any-future-time
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ICE Is Okay With Renee Goodâs Killing
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ICE Is Okay With Renee Goodâs Killing
Read the use of âdeadly forceâ documents laying out the logic
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenklippenstein/p/exclusive-ice-is-okay-with-renee?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 13 hours ago
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Yoav Gallant says Israel should steer Iran protests 'with an invisible hand'
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Yoav Gallant says Israel should steer Iran protests 'with an invisible hand'
Former Israeli defence minister, who is wanted by the ICC, says Israel must remain 'ready to act' in Iran
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/yoav-gallant-says-israel-should-steer-iran-protests-invisible-hand
about 14 hours ago
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UN rights chief calls on Israel to end 'apartheid system' in West Bank
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UN rights chief calls on Israel to end 'apartheid system' in West Bank
The comment follows the release of UN report documenting Israel's intensifying 'discrimination' against Palestinians
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-rights-chief-calls-israel-end-its-apartheid-system-west-bank-0
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âJanuary 6 Succeeded Hereââ Arundhati Roy on Trump, Modi, & Her New Memoir
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âJanuary 6 Succeeded Hereâ â Arundhati Roy on Trump, Modi, and Her New Memoir
The new book focuses on her mother Mary Roy, and how the writerâs life was shaped through her terror and inspiration.
https://truthout.org/video/january-6-succeeded-here-arundhati-roy-on-trump-modi-and-her-new-memoir/?utm_campaign=Truthout+Share+Buttons
about 14 hours ago
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Coal Miners Were Poised to Win Key Safety Protections. Then Trump Showed Up
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Coal Miners Were Poised to Win Key Safety Protections. Then Trump Showed Up.
After courting coal miners during his campaign, Trump has left a trail of broken promises.
https://truthout.org/articles/coal-miners-were-poised-to-win-key-safety-protections-then-trump-showed-up/?utm_campaign=Truthout+Share+Buttons
about 15 hours ago
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âThere is no climate protection worthy of the name in the rich countries, nor globally.â Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are Leading the US & EU Into Industrial Decline
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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are Leading the US and EU Into Industrial Decline
We must reject the argument that climate protection is a burden on the economy, says energy expert Hans-Josef Fell.
https://truthout.org/articles/fossil-fuel-subsidies-are-leading-the-us-and-eu-into-industrial-decline/?utm_campaign=Truthout+Share+Buttons
about 15 hours ago
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Britainâs Housing Reform Wonât Tackle the Crisis for Renters
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Britainâs Housing Reform Wonât Tackle the Crisis for Renters
A new piece of legislation will give private tenants in Britain more protection from arbitrary eviction. But without a major expansion of public housing, tenants will continue paying exorbitant rents ...
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/britain-labour-housing-crisis-reform
about 15 hours ago
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Donald Trump, Union Buster
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Donald Trump, Union Buster
Trump's second term in office has been an all-out assault on organized labor.
https://inequality.org/article/donald-trump-union-buster/
about 18 hours ago
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about 19 hours ago
These are absolutely monstrous people "Mr. Thompsonâs resignation came after senior DOJ officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent"
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3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victimâs Widow
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âChlorophyll decline shows a vital life-support system is weakening, threatening food chains & climate.â Climate change is ungreening the oceans
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Climate change is ungreening the oceans | Climate & Capitalism
Chlorophyll decline shows a vital life-support system is weakening, threatening food chains and the climateâŠ
https://climateandcapitalism.com/2025/10/25/climate-change-is-ungreening-the-oceans/
about 18 hours ago
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about 23 hours ago
A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate
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Youâve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. Iâm the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html
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âThe revolving door between those who run our country & private finance threatens our democracy. The costs of increased militarisation to our planetâenvironmentally, socially & otherwiseâfar outweigh any supposed âinvestment opportunityâ this presents.â
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Taxpayers paid to send MoD official to work for elite bank
The secondment, which comes as ministers court private finance, ended on same day we asked the government about it
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/ministry-of-defence-official-seconded-rothschild-bank-private-finance-military/
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âIf you saw Palestinians as human beings with lives of equal worth, you wouldnât object to local people & teachers opposing a school visit by a vice-chair of an organisation which lobbies in favour of a state which has committed genocide against those Palestinians.â
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Lies over pro-Israel MP "banned" from school
The government and the media are lying to you
https://open.substack.com/pub/owenjonesjourno/p/lies-over-pro-israel-mp-banned-from?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 20 hours ago
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The Consequences of Rejecting "Defund the Police"
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The Consequences of Rejecting "Defund the Police"
Political cowardice is paid for in blood.
https://open.substack.com/pub/howthingswork/p/the-consequences-of-rejecting-defund?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 21 hours ago
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about 22 hours ago
Displaced people in Gaza are dying from hypothermia & the collapse of damaged buildings they are forced to shelter in. Israel doesn't just kill Palestinians with bullets and bombs
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Trump delivers dumbest climate speech of all time
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Trump delivers dumbest climate speech of all time
The president's easily-debunked 10-minute climate tirade at the U.N. was so stupid and unoriginal, it was actually kind of funny.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heated/p/trump-delivers-dumbest-climate-speech?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 22 hours ago
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The Cult of Hercules-Mammon is Back
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The Cult of Hercules-Mammon is Back
Donald Trumpâs Attack on Venezuela and Latin America
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about 22 hours ago
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The UK is cursed: how finance destroyed our economy
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The UK is cursed: how finance destroyed our economy
For more than 45 years, the UK has suffered not one, but two economic curses: the resource curse and the finance curse. Both were chosen, primarily by Margaret Thatcher, and both inflated the pound, d...
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11/28/the-uk-is-cursed-how-finance-destroyed-our-economy/
about 24 hours ago
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2025 ended with a backlash against disabled people supposedly getting âfree BMWsâ on Motability. To kick off 2026, the
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asked me: what do disabled people in Britain really get from the state? And what do they actually need?
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Angry about Motability? Disabled people face a far bigger crisis
Forget free luxury cars, many disabled people in Britain struggle to afford regular meals
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/motability-disabled-people-far-bigger-crisis-4085185
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âThe primacy of economic growth drives extractive, neocolonial practices which deepen existing socioeconomic inequities through emergent supply chains that green growth scenarios would scale up further.â
#PostGrowth
#Degrowth
Modelling
#BeyondGrowth
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Modelling beyond growth perspectives for sustainable climate futures: The case for rethinking Shared Socioeconomic Pathways
IPCC Assessment Reports narrate a particular story of possible futures within a climate constrained world. The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways that are âŠ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629624002962
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Shareholder Payouts, Underinvestment & the Productivity Slowdown
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Shareholder Payouts, Underinvestment and the Productivity Slowdown
Why have firms been underinvesting since 1980?
https://open.substack.com/pub/policytensor/p/shareholder-payouts-underinvestment?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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How the banning of 37 international aid organizations in Gaza is being felt by Palestinians
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How the banning of 37 international aid organizations in Gaza is being felt by Palestinians
The majority of Gazaâs population now relies on foreign aid to secure food, water, and every other basic necessity. The Israeli governmentâs banning of 37 organizations that provide this vital aid wil...
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/01/how-the-banning-of-37-international-aid-organizations-in-gaza-is-being-felt-by-palestinians/
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The last Columbia protester in ICE detention: Leqaa Kordia on her 9 months in captivity
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The last Columbia protester in ICE detention: Leqaa Kordia on her 9 months in captivity
Leqaa Kordia has been held by ICE since her arrest in March 2025. Her attorneys say the White House is targeting the last remaining Columbia University protester in custody for her activism, using rac...
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/01/the-last-columbia-student-protester-in-ice-detention-leqaa-kordia-on-her-9-months-in-captivity/
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The Most Interesting Primary of 2026
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The Most Interesting Primary of 2026 - The American Prospect
The race for Michiganâs Senate seat between Haley Stevens, Mallory McMorrow, and Abdul El-Sayed mirrors the jockeying for power in the Democratic Party.
https://prospect.org/2026/01/06/michigan-primary-2026-democrats-senate-haley-stevens-mallory-mcmorrow-abdul-el-sayed/
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Judge Warns Vought of Contempt Order if He Back-Door Shuts Down CFPB
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Judge Warns Vought of Contempt Order if He Back-Door Shuts Down CFPB - The American Prospect
Judge Amy Berman Jackson has clarified that Vought would violate her injunction against shuttering the consumer protection agency if he declines to seek funding for it.
https://prospect.org/2025/12/30/judge-warns-vought-contempt-order-if-back-door-shuts-down-cfpb/
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The Empty Suit
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The Empty Suit - The American Prospect
How FBI Director Kash Patel undermines the FBIâs performance and credibility.
https://prospect.org/2025/12/23/kash-patel-fbi-director-brown-university-shooting/
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"..steady-state economy offers a blueprint for surviving climate breakdown, tackling runaway inequality, and rethinking the notion of prosperity itself. Going Steady with Herman Daly - A New Podcast Series
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Lightning in a Bottle
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Lightning in a Bottle - The American Prospect
Regulatory capture is at the root of the affordability crisis in electricity. Public power could offer a way out.
https://prospect.org/2025/12/03/lightning-in-bottle-regulatory-capture-electricity/
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View from Africa: Plunder deal, not peace deal
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View from Africa: Plunder deal, not peace deal
Rosebell Kagumire on whatâs really behind the US-brokered peace deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
https://newint.org/war-and-peace/2025/view-africa-plunder-deal-not-peace-deal
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Branko MilanoviÄ â Note on new technologies in China and on our human future - Brave New Europe
What negative changes new technologies are bringing with them. Branko MilanoviÄ is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His new book, The Visions of inequality, was published Octobe...
https://braveneweurope.com/branko-milanovic-note-on-new-technologies-in-china-and-on-our-human-future
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Keeping Power Utilities in Corporate Hands Doesnât Make Sense
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Keeping Power Utilities in Corporate Hands Doesnât Make Sense
A new study shows that socialist plans to take over the privately owned power utility in New Yorkâs Hudson Valley would lower rates for users and improve its long-term health. Public ownership of powe...
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/hudson-valley-public-power
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The New Political Football
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The New Political Football
The release of a Reform football shirt this summer was a depressing sign of how effectively the Right has colonised working-class popular culture. Now the Left must fight back with a determined cultur...
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/the-new-political-football
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âFreedom & agency came to refer not to freedom from starvation, homelessness or exploitation. It meant freedom for the market to decide winners & losers based on the natural order without any state interference.â
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A corporate agenda by any other name
Neoliberal governments dominate most of the West partly thanks to the language they use to package their policies
https://open.substack.com/pub/weareunderused/p/a-corporate-agenda-by-any-other-name?r=da5yr
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âI am an anti-capitalist because I have watched capital strip the wiring from every public institution built by my parentsâ generation. Thatcher began the demolition & every government since has carried it on.â -
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I Am What You Fear
A Letter to the Department of Homeland Security from Across the Water
https://open.substack.com/pub/simonpearson1/p/i-am-what-you-fear?r=da5yr
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âRather than changing ânearly everythingâ about carbon offsets, Iâd suggest that the only possible way that carbon offsets could support the Paris Agreement would be to abolish them.â -
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Carbon offsets are incompatible with the Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (Article 6.4) faces the same problems, and the same governance structure, as the Clean Development Mechanism.
https://open.substack.com/pub/reddmonitor/p/carbon-offsets-are-incompatible-with?r=da5yr
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Epstein & Leviathan: How the Financier Opened Doors to Netanyahu & Ehud Barak Amid Israel's Offshore Gas Fight
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Epstein and Leviathan: How the Financier Opened Doors to Netanyahu and Ehud Barak Amid Israel's Offshore Gas Fight
Epstein advised on U.S. role in Israeli energy as Ehud Barak sought foreign partners to save gas monopoly.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dropsitenews/p/epstein-leviathan-jpmorgan-gas-deals-netanyahu-ehud-barak?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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World roundup: January 10-11 2026
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World roundup: January 10-11 2026
Stories from Iran, Sudan, Cuba, and elsewhere
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We need capital controls
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We need capital controls
A commentator called Martin Clews posted this morning on this blog, saying: It is a real worry for me that any independent attempt by the UK to democratise our economy, backed by MMT, will experience ...
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11/24/we-need-capital-controls/
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ââŠHallâs psychoanalytic account of ideology has parallels in research which emphasise the roots of Brexit in âresurgent reification of colonial imaginariesâ which inspire âcrippling interior anxietiesâ.â Race, Nation, Empire?
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00471178231196073
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Trump Admin Tries to âBribeâ Afghan Allies to âAccept Deathâ in Afghanistan
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Trump Admin Tries to âBribeâ Afghan Allies to âAccept Deathâ in Afghanistan
US officials are paying Afghan allies in Qatar to return to Afghanistan, where they face brutal retribution from the Taliban, an Afghan asylum seeker tells Zeteo.
https://open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/trump-admin-tries-to-bribe-afghan?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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The hidden list of Jewish terrorists Israelâs far-right wants to free
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The hidden list of Jewish terrorists Israelâs far right wants to free
Ministers and activists are pushing to release dozens of prisoners who attacked Palestinians. The state wonât disclose their identities.
https://www.972mag.com/hidden-list-jewish-terrorists-far-right/
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âTogether, these have left Israeli society suspended in a collective stupor, obscuring the depth of the abyss into which we are rapidly descending.â How Israel entrenched apartheid rule during Gaza war
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How Israel entrenched apartheid rule during Gaza war
In a two-year blitz, Israeli lawmakers passed over 30 laws curtailing Palestinians' rights and punishing dissent, a new report shows.
https://www.972mag.com/knesset-apartheid-laws-gaza-war/
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The Conservative Intellectual Who Laid the Groundwork for Trump
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The Conservative Intellectual Who Laid the Groundwork for Trump
William F. Buckley Jr. was the erudite heart of American conservatism. But the political vision that he helped forge wasâand remains todayâfocused less on adhering to principles and more on ferreting ...
https://newrepublic.com/article/195954/buckley-conservative-intellectual-laid-groundwork-trump
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Prosecuting ICEâs Goons Will Be Hardâbut Not Impossible
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Prosecuting ICEâs Goons Will Be Hardâbut Not Impossible
To a growing number of Americans, the necessity of holding the fashy agency to account is becoming obvious. Better start planning how to do it now.
https://newrepublic.com/article/203855/prosecute-ice-goons-legal-roadmap
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Costco Is Coming for Trump. It Wants Its Money Back
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Costco Is Coming for Trump. It Wants Its Money Back.
The wholesale retailer has devised a clever legal argument against the presidentâs big tariff scam.
https://newrepublic.com/article/203883/costco-lawsuit-trump-tariffs-wants-money-back
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Erika Kirk & Bari Weissâs Weird Pro-Israel Religious Revival
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Erika Kirk and Bari Weissâs Weird Pro-Israel Religious Revival
The new head of CBS News interviewed the late Charlie Kirkâs wife, who turned a question about antisemitic violence into a sermon on Christian Zionism.
https://newrepublic.com/article/204614/erika-kirk-bari-weiss-interview-pro-israel-christian-zionism
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How Much Worse Could the Internet Get?
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How Much Worse Could the Internet Get?
Cory Doctorowâs âEnshittificationâ is premised on the idea that we created a technological marvel and then corporate greed ruined it. But what if that is not the case?
https://newrepublic.com/article/202796/enshittification-doctorow-review-worse-internet
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America in the Deep Fryer
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America in the Deep Fryer | Aaron Boehmer
Artists and protesters are becoming equally culpable in the eyes of American leaders.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/america-in-the-deep-fryer-boehmer
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âThere is no longer a foreign âelsewhereâ where we can displace our anxieties. America is the imperial, authoritarian âOtherâ.â Kneel Before Zod
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Kneel Before Zod | John Semley
The new Big Bad is the American Way itself.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/kneel-before-zod-semley
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