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Midwest Dispatch: Election Fraud Misinformation Runs Rampant in Northern Minnesota
Residents of a county in the middle of the state have successfully lobbied commissioners to relitigate the 2020 election, despite there being no evidence of fraud. Read more
Jan 21, 2022
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Inside Chicago Teachers’ Bid for Safer Schools
Despite Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s opposition, the Chicago Teachers’ Union was able to secure better protections against COVID through democratic organizing. Read more
Jan 14, 2022
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Autocracy Is SO Much More Efficient...
I still say a political party with two wrong-headed idiot senators is waaaay better than a party with fifty of them. Read more
Jan 21, 2022
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After a Year of Biden, Why Do We Still Have Trump’s Foreign Policy?
In 2020, candidate Joe Biden promised to reverse Trump’s regressive policies. He has instead spent his first year as President reinforcing them. Read more
Jan 20, 2022
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Sidney Poitier, Tightrope Walker
A look at the political highlights and meanings of the late actor’s screen career. Read more
Jan 19, 2022
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Smart Ass Cripple: West Virginia’s Disregard for the Disabled
Senator Joe Manchin’s opposition to the Build Back Better Act’s funding for disabled people leads me to believe that the state he represents must have something against people like me. Read more
Jan 17, 2022
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Tesla’s Long History of Silencing Whistleblowers
Despite Elon Musk’s “visionary” meme rhetoric, Tesla has engineered a practice of ignoring legitimate safety complaints and punishing those who make them. Read more
Jan 15, 2022
