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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 11m

Even if the genocide is over, Gaza still needs you. Its people still need all of us. @jackmirkinson.bsky.social explains why. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Gaza Still Needs You

The fight for true Palestinian liberation is far from over.

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 26m

The White House is openly complaining that Trump didn't win a Nobel Peace Prize. This is a churlish response since they Nobel's just endorsed Trump's rush to war against Venezuela www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The Nobel Peace Prize Just Surrendered to Trump

Trump is mad he didn't win. But by honoring María Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee has endorsed his war against Venezuela—and continued Europe's MAGA groveling.

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DG Farnsworth @dgfarnsworth.bsky.social · 50m

"Unfortunately, destroying press freedom is a core focus of the Trump administration’s agenda.

"Decades of media consolidation, cost cutting, & layoffs...obliterated...local journalism...Cable-channel talking heads offer scant insight... less diversity of opinion"
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We Defeated McCarthyism Before. We Can Do It Again.

It’s easy to feel despair about what looks like a new age of government censorship. But being around for 160 years gives you perspective.

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Joy Castro @joy-castro.bsky.social · 1h

“…we proudly take the side of muckraking journalists, constitutional lawyers, and undaunted jurists, of the artists and actors who are fighting for their creative freedom, and above all, of the Constitution-defending citizens who will not yield…” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

We Defeated McCarthyism Before. We Can Do It Again.

It’s easy to feel despair about what looks like a new age of government censorship. But being around for 160 years gives you perspective.

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 30m

Trump is livid that he didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize. But he should be thrilled, because the Nobels just tacitly endorsed his burgeoning war against Venezuela, writes @jeetheer.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The Nobel Peace Prize Just Surrendered to Trump

Trump is mad he didn't win. But by honoring María Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee has endorsed his war against Venezuela—and continued Europe's MAGA groveling.

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 1h

It's easy to despair about what looks like a new era of McCarthyism. But, as @katrinanation.bsky.social and @nicholsuprising.bsky.social write, history shows us that the forces of repression can be defeated. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

We Defeated McCarthyism Before. We Can Do It Again.

It’s easy to feel despair about what looks like a new age of government censorship. But being around for 160 years gives you perspective.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1h

I'm sometimes accused of being all doom and gloom about US medicine and doctors. But critique doesn't mean despair. Anti-fascist medicine is both possible and essential right now––and some among us are already practicing it.
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NWArkProgressive @arkprogressive.bsky.social · 2h

Read this article, subscribe to @thenation.com and follow @sarahsophief.bsky.social maybe print this out .. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 1h

Name changes were real wins for Indigenous communities. But as Trump rolls these back, @josephvlee.bsky.social argues that we have lost sight of why those name changes were important in the first place. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Renaming Columbus Day Was Never the End Goal

Don’t let fights over names distract you from the real fights over Indigenous land, sovereignty, and rights.

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Anya Kamenetz @anya1anya.bsky.social · 2h

"We grieved because we had survived, and survival comes with its own weight." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

We Are Genocide Survivors. But Our War Is Far From Over.

We in Gaza will remember the martyrs—those who died teaching, reporting, healing, mothering, surviving. We will carry their memory like fire in our hearts. And we will begin again.

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 1h

Karl Marx never visited the United States, but he cast a long shadow of influence on its politics and culture, writes Robin Blackburn in his review of @andrewhartman.bsky.social's book "Karl Marx in America." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Triumphs and Travails of  American Marxism

Karl Marx never visited the United State but he and his ideas left an imprint nonetheless.

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 1h

This magazine is old enough to have fought McCarthyism the first time. We know from experience that America’s witch-hunt fever has been broken before. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

We Defeated McCarthyism Before. We Can Do It Again.

It’s easy to feel despair about what looks like a new age of government censorship. But being around for 160 years gives you perspective.

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Owain Smolović Jones @osmoj.bsky.social · 2d

A powerful account of what the ceasefire means to Gazans, by Ali Skaik, published in The Nation. ‘We, the ones who made it out alive, carry the duty of memory. We survived to speak the names of the martyrs, to share their stories, and to keep their voices alive.’
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We Are Genocide Survivors. But Our War Is Far From Over.

We in Gaza will remember the martyrs—those who died teaching, reporting, healing, mothering, surviving. We will carry their memory like fire in our hearts. And we will begin again.

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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 2d

My latest w/ @edgeofsports.bsky.social: Zohran Mamdani is absolutely right to hold FIFA accountable for fleecing fans through 'dynamic pricing,' but cheaper tix won't matter if fans (& others) end up apprehended by ICE. Bigger issues are in play. For @thenation.com
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Zohran Mamdani Is Right to Call Out FIFA. But He Doesn't Go Far Enough.

Mamdani is right to hold FIFA accountable for fleecing its fans. But cheaper prices won’t matter if you end up in the back of an unmarked van.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 2d

The First Amendment––protecting our right to free speech––means little today under Trump's fascist regime. But it was the oligarchs and their liberal media and university collaborators who brought us to this point. My essay on the uses of 'free speech' discourse:
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How the Rich and Powerful Destroyed Free Speech

And how we get it back.

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Jeff Moore @jbm0.bsky.social · 19h

"The Danes used empathy politically—an action abhorred by right-wing leaders, who have gone so far as to brand it as an enemy and a weakness. But what they are leaving unsaid is that fascism cannot prosper where empathy exists."

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The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We

Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once during World War II. But taken as a whole, the Danes’ actions are a testament to what’s possible when we work together to fight fascism.

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Andrew Hartman @andrewhartman.bsky.social · 3h

The great Robin Blackburn reviews my book for @thenation.com.

"In Karl Marx in America, Andrew Hartman provides us with a kaleidoscopic vision of Marxism in the United States in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries."

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 3h

The Trump administration has launched an assault on “DEI” practices like renaming holidays and places, writes @josephvlee.bsky.social. Amid these attacks, it’s worth thinking about what the value of a day called "Indigenous Peoples’ Day" really is. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Renaming Columbus Day Was Never the End Goal

Don’t let fights over names distract you from the real fights over Indigenous land, sovereignty, and rights.

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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 3h

"Zohran Mamdani Is Right to Call Out FIFA—But He Should Push Harder." Great that Mamdani's holding FIFA accountable for fleecing fans. But cheaper tix won’t matter if you end up in the back of an unmarked van. My latest w/ @edgeofsports.bsky.social @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Zohran Mamdani Is Right to Call Out FIFA. But He Doesn't Go Far Enough.

Mamdani is right to hold FIFA accountable for fleecing its fans. But cheaper prices won’t matter if you end up in the back of an unmarked van.

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 3h

Italian Americans, wrote @chrisgelardi.bsky.social in 2020, should be at the forefront of confronting Christopher Columbus idolatry. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

It’s Time for Italian Americans to Give Up on Columbus

For over a century, Italians have mythologized the genocidal explorer to gain access to American whiteness.

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 3h

These days most people know that Christopher Columbus was a genocidaire and that celebrating him is a disgrace. But did you know that he was also mediocre sailor nearly forgotten to history? @edburmila.bsky.social explained the Columbus myth back in 2017. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Invention of Christopher Columbus, American Hero

How the founding fathers turned Christopher Columbus, a mediocre Italian sailor and mass murderer, into a historical icon.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 2d

We need to make the Hippocratic underground a robust reality—and we need to do so immediately. People are suffering and dying because of state-imposed obstacles to essential care.
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It’s Time for Health Workers to Defy the Law—Again

When the government obstructs care, caregivers must go underground.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3d

You should read @joanwalsh.bsky.social on the utter vindictiveness of the Tish James indictment

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Trump’s Vendetta Prosecution of Letitia James Is a New Low

The New York attorney general has led the legal fight against Trump, and now he has mobilized the Justice Department to go after her.

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 1d

"We will remember the martyrs—those who died teaching, reporting, healing, mothering, surviving. We will carry their memory like fire in our hearts. And we will begin again." Read Ali Skaik, a 19-year-old from Gaza, on the ceasefire that will hopefully bring an end to genocide.

We Are Genocide Survivors. But Our War Is Far From Over.

We in Gaza will remember the martyrs--those who died teaching, reporting, healing, mothering, surviving. We will carry their memory like fire in our hearts. And we will begin again.

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 2d

Lessons from Portland. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Portland's Dancing Protesters Are Showing Us How to Stand Up to Trump

The president wants us to be afraid. These activists are clowning him instead.

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