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Bob Lucore
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Retired. Web tech support for iSchool at San Jose State U for 9 years. Former Research Director of United American Nurses (AFL-CIO). Econ Research for Teamsters. Research Dept at AFL-CIO. Taught Econ for 8 years at Colorado State U & Centre College.
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The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
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The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
The vendors getting rich from putting administrative burdens on the poor
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January 29, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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The War of Southern Aggression
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The War of Southern Aggression
The MAGA reconstruction of the North is well underway
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January 27, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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How Trump Doomed the American Auto Industry prospect.org/2026/01/20/h...
How Trump Doomed the American Auto Industry - The American Prospect
Ford and GM made a big bet on electrification. Then Trump plunged a knife into their backs.
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January 20, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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How did MLK Jr. Become a Socialist?
A forgotten network of radicals helped teach King how to organize—and how to link civil rights to economic redistribution for all
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January 19, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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47 ways Trump has made life less affordable in the last year www.epi.org/publication/...
47 ways Trump has made life less affordable in the last year
In the first year of his second term, President Trump has actively made life less affordable for working people. Affordability has two sides—prices and pay. While public debate fixates on rising costs...
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January 16, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Mark Ruffalo (@markruffalo)
avoid these companies, they are now acting as the pillars of Trump’s cruel and unusual anti American policies.
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January 16, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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“Will Social Security Run Out?” Is the Wrong Question: How Lawmakers Can Protect Beneficiaries and Strengthen OASI
Is Social Security really in crisis? This report examines the OASI Trust Fund, lessons from 1983, and policy options to secure benefits for the future.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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KFF sums up what we know about Trump's so-called healthcare "plan." There is nothing much there. It is hard to even call it concepts of a plan.
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President Trump Proposes Codifying MFN Drug Pricing Deals But Key Details Are Missing
While codifying most-favored-nation drug pricing could be helpful for bringing more transparency to these arrangements and guaranteeing that drug companies will deliver on what they’ve promised, polic...
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January 16, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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Elizabeth Warren Spells Out The Fight We Have To Have
The Democratic Party is unified on the urgency of stopping Trump and on “affordability”, but there are some fights we have to have inside our party
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January 14, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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Read this one…
Political pragmatism is not about fighting only the battles you expect to win. It is the refusal to let probable failure dictate what you attempt. This is the (Francis) Perkins disposition.

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The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls
On the optimism of preparation in a time of democratic decay.
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January 11, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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Whether It Is ICE or Local Police, the U.S. Has Normalised Anti-Democratic Law Enforcement Practices
The Grotesque Excesses of ICE Sit Within the Broader Context of Police Brutality
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January 10, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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Thousands of New York City nurses set to strike amid contract disputes
Thousands of New York City nurses set to strike amid contract disputes
Nearly 16,000 nurses to join union-led strike on Monday to demand large hospitals across NYC ‘put patients over profit’
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January 9, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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2025 was the worst year for hiring since 2020, December jobs report shows
The U.S. added 50,000 jobs last month, a mixed report capping off a difficult year for the labor market.
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January 9, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
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January 9, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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Plato Censored as Texas A&M Carries Out Course Review
A&M officials have also instructed English faculty not to teach books in core classes that have major plotlines concerning gay, lesbian or transgender identities.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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An Open Letter to Richard Grenell
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An Open Letter to Richard Grenell
The nonprofit arts were built to do what the market cannot. Confusing that with failure puts our cultural infrastructure at risk.
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January 8, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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The Respected Economist Turned Trump Propagandist
Kevin Hassett might do Trump’s bidding at the Federal Reserve, marking a new stage in the president’s control over the American economy.
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January 7, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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Stephen Stills
A Reason To Smile
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January 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Remembering the Great Rob Reiner
In which author Dick Russell recalls his collaboration with a master of American narratives who was also a JFK scholar and a genuinely nice guy.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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The Horror and the Hope
The worst of times bring out the best in people
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December 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Should high earners support scrapping Social Security’s cap on taxable earnings?
Earnings above a cap aren’t subject to the payroll taxes that fund Social Security. As a result, billionaires pay the same tax as someone earning $176,100 in 2025 (the cap is indexed to the average wa...
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December 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Baltimore County’s part-time librarians aren’t going anywhere, board says
Yara Cheikh, the president of the Baltimore County Public Library board, reiterated that the board will abide by a 2019 policy that the part-time librarian positions will be phased out through attriti...
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December 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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This essay is remarkable. Full of insights about U.S. liberalism and social democracy. Highly recommended!
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SNCC’s Ghosts, the Fourth Republic, and the Crisis of Liberalism
Liberalism versus nationalism, social democracy versus identity politics: the Fourth Republic’s buried quarrels and the search for a new American order.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Historic Break: Denmark’s Intelligence Report Now Lists the U.S. as a Potential Security Risk
A Danish defense intelligence assessment cites tariff coercion, force rhetoric and Greenland tensions as it warns of growing strain inside NATO.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Scares the heck out of me.

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Pam Bondi is Coming for Domestic Terrorists. You Might Be One of Them.
An emergency video/podcast
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December 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM