For progressives too, working-class heroes are bearded, buff white guys. Their treatment of women can be overlooked
Ana Marie Cox’s New Republic profile of the Maine oyster farmer and former Democrati…
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Judith Levine
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The US supreme court’s ruling on trans people in sports is an assault on bodily autonomy | Judith Levine ⊕
Laws banning trans athletes claim to defend science, fairness, and women’s safety. They do the opposite
Last week, the US supreme court ruled that states may restrict participation in girls’ and women…
40 days ago
The removal of Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center is a much-needed act of iconoclasm | Judith Levine ⊕
The desecration of a ruler’s symbols is among the oldest forms of political revolt
There’s a reason the first two of the Ten Commandments prohibit worshiping false gods and making false idols. And a r…
46 days ago
America’s 250th birthday celebration is replacing history with toxic myth | Judith Levine ⊕
This year’s events will be a mélange of Trumpian egotism, Maga populism and Christian nationalism
Musicians who dropped out of the Great American State Fair said they were tricked.
“I HAVE INFORMED MY …
60 days ago
Trump’s corruption leaves us cynical – and complacent | Judith Levine ○
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Impunity breeds popular cynicism, and cynicism undergirds autocracy
As his mentor Roy Cohn counseled, Donald Trump never admits wrongdoing or apologizes. But he occasionally evinces something resembli…
3 months ago
The anti-ICE resistance is working | Judith Levine ⊖
A mass movement defending immigrants has slowed the Trump administration’s abuses
Resistance, in physics, is the force that hinders the flow of charged electrons as they zigzag from point to point. Re…
4 months ago
Fears about nuclear war are reaching a fever pitch. Another grim sign of the times | Judith Levine ⊖⊖⊖
News stories are weighing nuclear risk as experts muse on the possibility of global warfare
Intimations of world war three – the big one, nuclear Armageddon – didn’t arise yesterday. But they got more…
5 months ago
Shut it down! The US is better off with no government than with the one it has | Judith Levine ⊖
As senators refuse to fund Trump’s immigration crackdown, a partial shutdown is likely. For Democrats, it’s the right move
Shut it down!
It took not one but two killings of unarmed white American citiz…
6 months ago
Trump’s Venezuela incursion has nothing to do with its freedom | Judith Levine ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Trump’s actions at home tell a different story – and they parallel many of Maduro’s own repressive moves
Whatever else the US attack on Venezuela is ostensibly about – oil, drugs, communism – it’s not…
7 months ago
The Trump administration is trying to legislate trans people out of existence | Judith Levine ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Robert F Kennedy Jr is pushing a plan to block medical treatments, the latest move against bodily autonomy
On Thursday, when Robert F Kennedy Jr announced an effort to block medical treatments for tra…