Choose Class War, Not Boomer Resentment

The generational warfare promoted by centrists and the Right, who have long been desperate to cut and privatize Social Security, is a fool’s solution to what ails the system. Taxing the rich is the answer.


“Total boomer luxury communism” is the Right’s latest attempt to convince younger Americans to slash their own future benefits under the guise of sticking it to older generations.…

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Meta continues using transphobic company language despite its Oversight Board’s warning

Social media companies create hate speech policies to set boundaries for what users can say on their platforms, seeking to reduce bigotry and violent rhetoric. But the policy page of one major tech company, Meta, features something unexpected: an anti-trans term that company advisors already recommended it remove.

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Livre : « Aqua », de Gaspard Kœning… La guerre de l’eau aura bien lieu

On ouvre le robinet, et l’eau coule. Chaude ou froide, docile. Qui se pose la question de sa provenance ?L’eau a le goût de l’évidence – jusqu’au jour où elle...

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ICE Chief Admits Agents Seem to Have Lied About Why They Shot Someone

On January 14, two ICE officers were involved in a confrontation with two Venezuelan immigrants in Minneapolis that ended with one of the agents shooting one of the men in the leg. The officers claimed that the immigrants were assaulting them with a broom and a shovel, justifying their use of force. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called it an “attempted murder of federal law…

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From the Community | Federal cuts threaten postdocs: Stanford must step up

Postdoc Wesley Allen Williams writes on behalf of Stanford Postdocs United, sharing results of a survey they conducted and calling on Stanford to stand up in defense of postdocs' research and careers.

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When the University President Endorses the “Indoctrination” Narrative (updated)

For some reason, Renu Khator, the longtime president of the University of Houston and chancellor of the University of Houston System, has felt the need to remind her faculty that “our responsibility is to give [students] the ability to form their own opinions, not force a particular one on them. Our guiding principle is to teach them, not indoctrinate them.” In the wake of this reminder,…

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