Yougov conducted a poll with the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and found that 70% of millennials would happily vote for a socialist and that half of millennials and Gen Z have an unfavorable view of capitalism — all figures that have climbed since the same poll was conducted last year. Gen X support for socialist candidates is 44%. It’s 33% for boomers and “silent generation” voters. (via Naked Capitalism)
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Elizabeth Warren publishes a massive, detailed plan for addressing the injustice of US relations with indigenous American peoples
Even by Elizabeth Warren’s high standards, her plan for “honoring and empowering tribal nations and indigenous peoples is detailed, ambitious, and important.
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Six charts that illuminate the state of US immigration
Working with The Hamilton Project, the BBC has drawn six charts that serve as both a snapshot of the state of US immigration and provide historical context for migration today versus US immigration in both the recent and distant past.
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Clown Car 2.0: Matt Taibbi on the Democratic nomination race
Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi (previously) is one of my favorite political writers, with the style chops of Hunter S Thompson, but without Thompson’s often juvenile politics (Taibbi having outgrown that phase, something Thompson never managed to do).
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Summing up the Democrats’ debate: Colbert’s scorching monologue
“It’s hard to sum up what happened tonight. But most of it was a bunch of guys with no chance to win the Democratic nomination yelling Republican talking points at the people who can. It was like watching the seven dwarves offering Snow White a poison apple.”
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From #TelegramGate to #RickyLeaks: Puerto Rico is on ?!
Two weeks ago, Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism published one of the most consequential investigative stories in the island’s history: a trove of leaked private Telegram chats between Governor Ricardo Rossello and his most senior advisors and officials, in which the group use crude, homophobic and misogynist labels to mock and degrade opposition figures, Puerto Rican celebrities, and the people of Puerto Rico as they struggled with the aftermath of hurricanes Maria and Irma, left to swelter and die by a local and national government that had abandoned them.
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Elizabeth Warren’s banking proposals are designed to demolish the private equity sector and force finance to serve the people
Elizabeth Warren’s bid for the Democratic 2020 presidential nomination has been dominated by a series of bold, detailed policy proposals that are designed to enact deep, structural changes in American law and policy to reverse 40 years of post-Reagan corruption and wealth accumulation by the richest 1%.
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A free, accessible, hyperlinked version of the Mueller Report
The Internet Archive, the Digital Public Library of America and Muckrock have released a version of the Mueller Report as an Epub with 747 live footnotes, fully compliant with both Web and EPUB accessibility requirements.
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London police official warns journalists not to publish leaks on pain of imprisonment
After a leak revealed that the British Ambassador to the USA had called Trump “inept, insecure and incompetent” (leading to the ambassador’s resignation and a round of Twitter insults between Trump and senior Tory officials), London’s Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu publicly warned journalists not to publish government leaks, threatening to imprison them if they do: “The publication of leaked communications, knowing the damage they have caused or are likely to cause may also be a criminal matter. I would advise all owners, editors and publishers of social and mainstream media not to publish leaked government documents that may already be in their possession, or which may be offered to them, and to turn them over to the police or give them back to their rightful owner, Her Majesty’s Government.”
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Juicy Ghost: Rudy Rucker’s tale of an American coup
“Juicy Ghost” is a new tale from Rudy Rucker (previously), an explicitly politican sf story told from the point of view of a suicide-assassin who is getting ready to take out an illegitimate president during his inauguration; as Rucker describes, he really struggled with the story, and couldn’t figure out where or if to publish (he even contemplated rebooting his late, great, much-lamented webzine Flurb with an “all-politics” issue as a means of giving the story a home).
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