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  The Midterms Have Changed the Game. Now What? PODCAST EPISODE: The Midterms Have Changed the Game. Now What? 0:00/3547.251× The midterms delivered a stunning rebuke of Trump and the MAGA movement, but what will it take to turn electoral victories into lasting change? In this episode of “Movement Memos,” I talk with anti-authoritarian strategist Scot Nakagawa about the opportunities and dangers of this political moment, the enduring power of tech oligarchs, and how movements can build the solida...

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  Be as Brave and Gentle as You Can Listen to this article (read by the author)0:00/6411× Are you anxious right now? Me too. While some people are feeling confident about a blue wave, I have lived through too many electoral surprises to make any predictions or take anything for granted. I am worried about electoral interference, and about whether some people are really willing to prioritize their own survival and well-being above their bigotry and allegiance to whiteness. My anxieties also extend...

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  AI Is Class Warfare. Workers Are Fighting Back. PODCAST EPISODE: AI Is Class Warfare. Workers Are Fighting Back.0:00/4162.4166671× Big Tech is selling us a future in which workers are increasingly disposable, human expertise is devalued, and corporate power is more concentrated than ever. But is that future inevitable? In this episode of Movement Memos, I talk with Alex Hanna, co-author of The AI Con, about AI as a tool of class warfare, the hype that obscures its real-world harms, and how work...

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  How Communities Are Fighting AI Data Centers and Winning PODCAST EPISODE: How Communities Are Fighting AI Data Centers and Winning0:00/4135.751× Across the country, communities are fighting back against the construction of AI data centers and winning. In this episode of Movement Memos, Kelly Hayes talks with Saul Levin, host of The Hum, about the growing movement against Big Tech’s infrastructure boom and the strategies organizers are using to stop these projects. They discuss how unlikely coal...

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  What Happens When Fascists Realize They Might Lose? Listen to this article0:00/506.151× On Monday, news broke that the Department of Homeland Security had raided the home of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. The raid was carried out by Homeland Security Investigations, the criminal investigative wing of ICE. The pretext officials offered for the raid was an alleged investigation into immigration paperwork completed by Omar's late father when she was a child. No thinking person should lend any cred...

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  What Actually Matters About AI Right Now Listen to this article0:00/549.3750111× CNN recently reported on an incident that occurred earlier this year in which an AI-produced intelligence report nearly resulted in the US taking military action against China. Based on the assessment of an AI tool, an intelligence analyst concluded that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying materials associated with a nuclear weapons program. The analyst accepted this conclusion, and used an AI tool to sh...

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  Grief Is Not a Verdict: This Is Not Really an Essay About Gloria Steinem Listen to this article0:00/1087.2750111× Someone who respects my opinion sent me a message recently about the social media controversy surrounding Gloria Steinem's death. They expressed that they felt sad about her passing and asked me what I thought about that grief. Was it wrong to feel this way? Was she worthy of such emotions? Did their feelings land poorly with me? I am not inclined to answer any of those question...

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  The Understory Toolkit As many of you know, I co-facilitate a spiritual and emotional support group for activists alongside my dear friend Tanuja Jagernauth. Over the past few years, Tanuja and I have spoken with a number of people who were interested in starting their own version of the project, which we call Understory. We had those conversations often enough that we decided to create a toolkit, so that people who believe these spaces should exist might be better equipped to create their own....

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  Listen to this article0:00/1029.0875061× In May, former GEO Group executive David Venturella became the acting director of ICE. Venturella’s ascent marked the latest victory for GEO Group, a behemoth in the world of private prisons and detention centers, which saw its annual profit rise nearly eightfold during the first year of Trump’s second term. After years of weaving its profit-making machinery into the fabric of the prison industrial complex—with ICE as its largest customer—Venturella’s app...