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The Spirit of “Party Unity, My Ass” Is Back and Coming for the DSA (and El-Sayed)

Centrist Democrats’ calls to fall in line behind the party’s nominee only ever seem to cut one way — and fall apart when their candidate loses.

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Mamdani’s High-Wire Balancing Act Between ICE and NYPD Can’t Last

The New York City mayor has said he doesn’t want to “normalize” ICE. But the NYPD, led by Jessica Tisch, has other plans.

22.10.2026 7

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Trump Is Targeting Ilhan Omar. Where’s the Elite Media Outrage?

Unlike the raid on John Bolton, the targeting of Omar has elicited zero condemnation from NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post.

15.10.2026 10

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An Arkansas Mom Obtained Public Records About a New Data Center. Then She Got Sued.

Cases in Arkansas and California show how desperately we need a federal law against lawsuits intended to chill free speech.

13.10.2026 50

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ICE Raid on Ilhan Omar Shows How Dangerous Two Years of Flailing Trump Could Get

With his popularity tanking and his grip on power growing tenuous, Trump is becoming a decrepit tyrant — and the checks to stop him are failing.

12.10.2026 10

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Armed Border Agents Arrest Protesters, Bulldoze 200-Year-Old Tree to Build Border Wall

Despite at least 10 arrests and the destruction of the tree at the center of the protest, the standoff continues.

08.10.2026 40

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Public Radio Station Forced to Call Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America”

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is rolling over to Trump and his acolytes in the state, rather than stand up for editorial independence.

02.10.2026 30

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Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop

A Eugene-based publication requested records about a cop accused of misconduct. The city slapped it with a prohibitive fee.

01.10.2026 250

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Inside the Business of Trump’s Third-Country Deportations

As the Trump administration fights to keep deporting immigrants to countries where they have no connections, we studied the system that profits from...

29.09.2026 20

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The Backlash to “NAZA” Shows How Little Israeli Citizenship Really Means

By threatening the filmmakers, Netanyahu lays bare how fragile the notion of what it means to be Israeli is in the age of its genocide in Gaza.

25.09.2026 20

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Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous War Profiteers

The mockumentary “Lords of War” shows how Pentagon money gets funneled into $20-million-plus paydays for weapons company CEOs — and their lavish...

23.09.2026 30

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The Ellisons Could Make a Killing in Big Surveillance With the Paramount Merger

With the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger set to proceed, the Ellisons can stoke Americans’ fears — and sell the government its solution.

23.09.2026 30

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The New York Times Conveniently Forgets the Real Stakes of Attacks on Free Speech

The paper published a long recounting of Trump’s attacks on the press, without ever mentioning Israel, Gaza, or ICE.

16.09.2026 30

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Ed Sheeran’s Craven “Neutrality” Is a Watershed Moment for Mainstreaming Palestine Solidarity

Ed Sheeran’s entire tour quitting in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore proves the logic of BDS.

16.09.2026 20

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Tech CEOs’ Doomsaying Is a Distraction from Real, Existing Harms of AI

The binary between AI apocalypse and AI redemption asks us to ignore data centers and AI war machines — all as tech executives get incredibly rich.

14.09.2026 20

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Centrists Are Soft-Launching the Idea That We Have a Little Too Much Democracy

As the right attacks mass participation head on, the center is telling the rest of us to pipe down while the elites are talking.

13.09.2026 30

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Right-Wing Speech Crackdowns Turned Charlie Kirk Into a Meme

By elevating Kirk to a martyr, the right made his ridicule a logical reaction to their repression.

07.09.2026 40

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Seth Moulton Sold Out Trans Kids — and Lost His Senate Race

Running as a progressive, Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey forced his centrist challenger to apologize for his anti-trans remarks.

02.09.2026 30

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CBS News Spins El-Sayed’s 9/11 Tweets Into a Manufactured Anti-Muslim Scandal

Centrist Democrats opened the door for anti-Muslim attacks on their party’s nominee in Michigan — finding common cause with right-wing bigots.

01.09.2026 30

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A Giant “Grandmother” Tree Sparked a New Struggle to Block Trump’s Border Wall

A single tree sit harnessed a cross-border movement to defend the Arizona borderland ecology. So far, the activists are blocking Trump’s wall.

27.08.2026 60

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RIP to the Russiagate Liberals

With Alex Vindman and George Conway’s losses, Democratic voters are forcefully rejecting the notion that Russia is to blame for America’s ills.

22.08.2026 50

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The Mossad Suffers a Crushing Defeat Entirely of Its Own Making

High-profile firings show that none of the Israeli spy agency's promises about the war with Iran have come to pass.

20.08.2026 30

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ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He’s Approaching 300 Days Behind Bars With a Festering Wound.

With the case of Carlitos Ricardo Parias, the U.S. has broken its own record for holding a journalist in custody.

16.08.2026 50

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Israel Justified Its Wars by Calling Enemies “Crazy.” Now, the Warning Signs All Apply to Israel.

Benjamin Netanyahu shocked the world with violence in Gaza — then took an unhinged Israel to the mainstream.

13.08.2026 80

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No, AOC: “Woke” Wasn’t “Crazy” the Way You Say It Was

Protesting George Floyd’s murder wasn’t the "crazy" part. Centrist Dems selling out was.

11.08.2026 30

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Francesca Hong’s “Thanksgiving-Gate” Shows Her Detractors Are Totally Out of Ideas

Today’s Democratic gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin has featured increasingly desperate attacks against the frontrunner.

11.08.2026 40

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Sophie Cunningham Is the Anti-Trans Right's New White Woman Mascot

The WNBA star has become the latest symbol in the right’s campaign to define which women deserve protecting—and which do not.

09.08.2026 30

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There’s No Time for Centrists to Be Doomers About El-Sayed’s Victory

The public health official faced down AIPAC — and the entire Democratic Party establishment — to beat Haley Stevens. That’s well worth celebrating.

05.08.2026 30

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Bari Weiss’s “60 Minutes” Hires Producer Who Downplayed Gaza Starvation, Justified Killing Journalists

The latest CBS News hire shows that the way to get ahead in journalism is to act as a tool for the powerful.

04.08.2026 30

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Liberals Are Ceding Ground to the Far Right on Ceuta Border Crossings

From the New York Times to the EU, liberals defending Spain from far-right fearmongering are regurgitating the right’s anti-immigrant premise.

03.08.2026 40

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Trump’s Truth Social API Is a Blatantly Corrupt Favor to Wall Street

By selling off early access to his posts at a premium, the president is merging a public good with his own profit motives.

01.08.2026 50

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Fauci’s Diary Isn’t the Key to Why Covid Ravaged the U.S. — Our Broken Healthcare System Is

Rand Paul is trying to put Anthony Fauci in prison for not confirming a conspiracy theory, but the key to blunting the next pandemic is universal...

29.07.2026 40

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The Right Seeks to Capitalize on Berlin Pride Attack — Even as It Poses Its Own Existential Threat to Queer Lives

Day in and day out, it is the likes of Germany’s conservative parties, and the Republicans at home, who are assaulting LGBTQ rights.

27.07.2026 40

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House Investigation of BreakThrough News Is an Attack on All Journalism

Favorable coverage of U.S. adversaries is constitutionally protected speech.

27.07.2026 40

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Fetterman Might Leave Democratic Party Because the Only Thing He Loves More Than Israel Is Attention

Why is the senator floating the idea of leaving the Democratic Party? Well, Israel, of course. Though he sure loves the media coverage.

27.07.2026 30

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It’s Scary As Hell Being Black in America Right Now

The deaths of Nolan Wells and Kohen Wiley are symptoms of a nation retreating from any pretense of equal rights.

19.07.2026 50

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It’s Time for Maine to Ditch Platner — But Not the Politics That Won Over Voters

Platner has lost the moral right to speak for the left. The movement that energized Maine’s voters should choose his replacement.

08.07.2026 40

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Why Would Anyone Trust Ex-CIA Agents in Elected Office?

The agency trains officers to conceal their true intentions — and has long existed to violently suppress the left.

08.07.2026 70

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Graham Platner Inspired Another Left-Wing Veteran to Take On an Establishment Dem

Alex Scheel is running an anti-war campaign to unseat incumbent Rep. Marilyn Strickland. He’s also a longtime member of the DSA in Washington state.

05.07.2026 70

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How to Show That Israel’s Sexual Violence Against Palestinians Is Systemic — and Has Gone on for Decades

A new report demonstrates the patterns by compiling accounts detailing rape by soldiers using bottles, batons, and other sharp objects — even...

30.06.2026 90

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Even the Liberal Supreme Court Justices Ceded Ground in the Fight for Trans Existence

This was always the plan for the anti-trans zealots who saw girls’ sports as an easy entry point from which to decimate trans people’s civil...

30.06.2026 40

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The Businessman Who Helped Peter Thiel Kill Gawker Wanted to Save Journalism. Then His Site Went Dark.

Aron D’Souza sees the media as in peril. His solution is an AI-powered tribunal to adjudicate the facts of reporting.

29.06.2026 60

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Online Age Verification Law Could Kill Whistleblowing

A House bill ostensibly aimed at protecting children will raise the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers.

28.06.2026 40

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Keir Starmer’s Downfall Is the Only Reward for Simpering Centrism

As head of Labour, Starmer served his role ignobly: weeding out the Left and paving the way for the far right.

27.06.2026 60

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30-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech

The harsh sentence for a defendant who wasn’t even at the Prairieland protest is likely only the start of the Trump administration’s efforts to...

26.06.2026 150

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Establishment Democrats to the Dustbin of History

It’s increasingly clear that the energy is with the left wing of the Democratic Party — not the centrists, not the establishment.

25.06.2026 40

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The Surprising Reaction Inside Iran to Its War Victory

Despite extracting extraordinary concessions, the reaction in Iran isn’t entirely jubilant. Past betrayals are too recent to forget.

20.06.2026 50

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Chud the Builder Fantasized About “Race War.” Now He’s Charged With Attempted Murder.

Dalton Eatherly streams his racist provocations online. It was only a matter of time before the violence rhetoric entered the real world.

19.06.2026 60

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Trump’s Spaghetti-Against-the-Wall Indictment Against ICE Protesters — and How to Fight It

Trump’s indictment against ICE protesters in Minneapolis is part of an attempt to criminalize organizing as a “conspiracy.”

17.06.2026 40

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They Weren’t Convicted of Terrorism, But These Palestine Activists Got Sentenced as Terrorists Anyway

The case marks the first time that “criminal damage” convictions in the UK have been classified as terrorism.

13.06.2026 40

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