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Our June issue is here, featuring @joanwalsh on Peggy Flanagan, @brycecovert on pregnant workers at Amazon, @DavidFutrelle on the prediction marketfication of everything, Corey Robin on capitalism's long revolution, and more!

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The NY-12th congressional race has become a proxy war over whose version of AI regulation will prevail in Congress.
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A controversial bill is proposing that the NYPD create a plan for instituting anti-protest buffer zones around many NYC schools. If Intro. 175-B becomes law, “the barrier to organizing an effective protest or demonstration of discontent in the first place would be so much larger.”
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It’s not quite clear what exactly Peter Thiel thinks is coming now, but he’s let us know that he’d like to be at least 6000 miles away when it hits.
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“I firmly believe the party needs to show the American people that we have a substantive agenda that’s gonna make their lives better. Quickly,” says Micah Lasher, running for Congress in NY-12.
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Tech overlord Peter Thiel suspects that something big and bad is coming—not necessarily for you or me or anyone we know but for him, and for others in his rarified political and social class.
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The clear implication of Peter Thiel’s move to Argentina is that an aspiring cosmic prophet like Thiel must know that something is coming—something really, really bad, at least for those of us hapless Yanks deprived of the option of repatriating to a tony neighborhood.
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The Ukraine war is increasingly becoming a test of whether diplomacy can outrun escalation.
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Of all the 7,386 state legislators nationally, “not a single one has been more effective at pushing back on the Trump administration than Micah” Lasher—who's running for Congress in NY-12:
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As battlefield gains shrink, both Russia and Ukraine are turning to riskier strategies with potentially catastrophic consequences.
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The greatest danger in Ukraine may now be a desperate escalation that pulls NATO directly into the war.
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If the Intro. 175-B proposal passes, students could fear possible arrest, disciplinary action, or even consequences in the college admissions process as a result of joining protests. Instead, “we should be encouraging our students to be standing up to participate in our multi-faceted, complex democracy.”
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“We got here in part because too many Democrats have been weak.” Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan wins the DFL nomination in her race for Senate:
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“I know we are going to be outspent, but we will not be out-organized.” Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan wins the DFL nomination in her race for Senate:
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Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan has won the DFL nomination in her race to succeed Tina Smith in the Senate:
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The right is so invested in policing human genders that they are policing the full expanse of the web of life, no matter how far their distortions disconnect us from that web, and from ourselves.
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"Our children are going to work at corporations like this. We need to prepare them to make conscious decisions. Our fight is everyone’s fight," says @amazonlabor's Chris Smalls.
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We are the troops in this fight for democracy, and Springsteen and his band toured for two months to keep us fighting.
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As tech companies race ahead with AI, ordinary people are organizing to slow the transformation of society.
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"Amazon is the new slavery, but with technology, mechanization, machinery, and AI," Chris Smalls tells @SaraFranklin10.
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From the Vatican to college campuses, the backlash against artificial intelligence is rapidly growing.
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