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A Portrait of How Workers Build a Strike (opens the original)
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The AI media frenzy is getting ridiculous. (opens the original)
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Labor Day Weekend In the Hood (opens the original)
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I was in my old hood yesterday, eating sancocho and glugging down beers and wine on the curb, like an uncouth bastard that I am. When I noticed a burly garbage man, I greeted the fellow worker and invited him to eat. He was done with his shift, and I inquired if he got triple time for working Labor Day weekend. He said that he only got time-and-a-half. When tall and blue-eyed white men appear on the block, they are usually jonesing for some drugs or sex or state-sanctioned violence. This ungainl
On Looking Over My Shoulder for ICE (opens the original)
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On an overcast Sunday in August, when my daughter turned seven, we visited my father in Corona, Queens. He filled an inflatable pool in the parking lot of the three-story apartment where he rents, and the kids played, his young daughters and their neighbors, a riot of giggles and splashing. Next to them adults chatted about the camps and the masked agents. As we went around taking turns in conversational roulette, pausing to take swigs of beer from a bottle, a neighbor swung in his portable rock
DSA Rich Kids: Is Your Hatred Pure? (opens the original)
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The journalist and polemicist Alexander Coburn is said to have once asked Ed Miliband at The Nation magazine, “Is your hatred pure?” The question was meant to gauge his class hatred, a test for ideological commitment to an us-vs-them class-struggle orientation. Miliband reportedly said he didn’t hate anybody. Unlike poor Eddie, class hatred is a defining feature of my psychological makeup, and it’s an important fuel for anyone’s politicization and reliability in class struggle, leavened by love
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