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Politics

• El norte es como el mar

  In 1992 Jorge Durand, a social anthropologist and geographer at Mexico’s University of Guadalajara, coordinated a series of in-depth interviews with Mexican migrants who had experienced the hard journey to the United States. One of these migrants, a man named Aurelio, crossed the US border dozens of times, only …

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• Get that word out of your mouth.

  Generated programmatically using moviepy. Sample code below.

  #!/usr/bin/env python
  
  from collections import Counter
  import random
  import time
  
  from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip, concatenate, vfx
  
  
  if __name__ == '__main__':
  
      srtfile = 'sotu.en.vtt'
  
      # converts subtitle file timestamps to seconds.
      def str2secs(s):
          hh = int(s[0:2])
          mm = int …

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• Robbery in Progress: The Coming Retail Apocalypse

  David Dayden writes in the New Republic:

  Private equity firms borrow massively to buy companies, and use corporate cash reserves to pay themselves back. Workers who supply the value to the business see nothing; in fact, to service the debt, companies usually cut staff. When the retailer collapses under the …

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• boomers.ogg

  The Boomers in one video.

• Let Equifax and Friends Die

  Bryce Covert writes in the New York Times:

  Because of lax security at Equifax, one of the three major credit reporting companies, the private financial and personal details of as many as 143 million Americans have been exposed to hackers. We still don’t know what the full ramifications will …

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• Goliath's Club

  The American Moderate, like the American Conservative, has always been a tolerant and forgiving fellow when it comes to violence. He'll forgive the Indian killer and the slaver, the murdering cop and the armed invader, the groper and feeler-up, the thieving capitalists' bought lawmen and their night-time raids, the soul-stealing …

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• Industrial Co-operative Commonwealth

  

  “The Last Strike” http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lbc2ic/x-sclp1336/sclp_1336. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed: August 24, 2017.

• Eroding Workers' Rights

  Most likely, sometime early next year, the Supreme Court will issue a 5-4 decision holding that agreements where workers waive the right to engage in collective legal action are enforceable. Fox News will probably give the decision little or no coverage, and most of the working-class citizens who voted for …

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• A Hungry Ghost

  

  A hungry ghost always wants the next thing, not the last thing. Rebecca Solnit, “The Loneliness of Donald Trump‟

• West Texas schools "have nothing left to cut"

  Graydon Hicks, Superintendent of Schools in Fort Davis, a small and remote town in Jeff Davis County in the Big Bend of west Texas, has written a powerful open letter to derelict state leaders (Republicans all), who have for a generation now been working very hard to hobble schools and …

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