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Tue, 19/12/2023 - 01:00
“Don’t just vote. Run.” “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do,” Jesus said from the cross. American women like Allie Phillips, 28, will be less forgiving of politicians who know not what they do and those who do know and don’t care. Remember, first they come for the women. In mid-October, the Guardian reported on Phillips’ confrontation early this year with her nonviable pregnancy and Tennessee’s abortion ban. Allie Phillips thinks of herself as the ordinary neighbor nextdoor. She shops at the Walmart clearance rack. She posts TikTok videos of herself and her six-year-old daughter, Adalie, singing along to Taylor Swift and dancing the Wednesday Addams dance. Up until recently, the most political thing she’d ever done was vote, and only in presidential elections. That was then. This is now. Normally I peruse a lot of headlines before something grabs my attention, but this story via a rural organizing list did that first thing this morning. You need to see this story from Kathie C. Reilly at Elle: Allie Phillips cried into the camera.
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Tue, 19/12/2023 - 00:39

Dive into the intricate geopolitics of Northeast Asia with Tim Shorrock in today's MintCast interview, exploring the shaping of Japan and South Korea by the United States, their complex political landscapes, and the potential for regional unification amidst growing U.S.-China tensions

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Tue, 19/12/2023 - 00:00

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Are You a Witch? Yes, and Here’s Why

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Mon, 18/12/2023 - 21:58

Even as its fortieth anniversary approaches, the repercussions of the 1984-85 miners’ strike continue to reverberate. For almost a year, 180,000 miners — alongside their families and allies drawn from a plethora of other social movements — fought valiantly in defence of their pits and jobs, and in defiance of the Thatcher government. Their defeat […]

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Mon, 18/12/2023 - 20:39
Modularity is the mark of a type of independence from context. The same functional relationship between variables will hold in a given component of the contributing mechanisms whether or not there is a change in a different component. The total effect may change when different components contribute, but the operation of the modular mechanism will […]
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Mon, 18/12/2023 - 13:27
The – Australian Election Study (AES) – is the “leading study of political attitudes and behaviour in Australia” and has been running for 35 years. It provides a great time series for investigating electoral trends. The most recent analysis covers the period of the most recent federal election (May 2022). The data shows that Labor…
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Mon, 18/12/2023 - 12:00
And none too soon The Army will remove a Confederate memorial from Arlington this week and the wingnuts are having a hissy fit, as usual: A woman representing the American South, standing atop a 32-foot pedestal, lords above most other monuments within America’s most revered resting place. It portrays, according to the cemetery’s website, a “mythologized vision of the Confederacy, including highly sanitized depictions of slavery.” This month, 44 Republican lawmakers cautioned Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the first African American to hold the post, that the Pentagon would overstep its authority by removing the memorial, and they demanded that all efforts to do so stop until Congress works through next year’s appropriations bill. The memorial “commemorates reconciliation and national unity,” not the Confederacy per se, the group led by Rep. Andrew S. Clyde (Ga.) claimed.