Category: Social Sciences
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More Americans Supported Hitler Than You May Think. Here’s Why One Expert Thinks That History Isn’t Better Known
Lily Rothman explains some of the forgotten history of Nazi support in the United States. It’s some interesting information, and has a strong anti-populist bent to it, but it’s well worth reading and considering.
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1529 Pizarro St. Los Angeles, CA 90026
I was moving some photos around from my father’s hoard, and found a photo of a tiny piece of paper with his name at that address, 1529 Pizarro St.
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The Commodity Fetish
I’ve been thinking about an explanation of the Commodity Fetish, an idea Marx often used, on Wikipedia, and not finding it.
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Everyone Hates ICE
A part of ICE wants to leave ICE behind and get a new agency with a different three-letter-acroynm, because everyone hates ICE. People in Huntington Park called the cops on ICE. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ice-conflict-20180630-story.html
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Statement from Montanans for Immigrant Justice and Missoula Rises re: Trump’s Pending Executive Order to Stop Separating Families
Trump has indicated that he will be signing an Executive Order today to stop separating families when they initially cross the border. While this is movement in the right direction, DO NOT BE FOOLED by what this Order does.…
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Taking Over “Public School”
As public schools are being decimated through corporate takeovers by charters, the idea of “public schools” seems to have become a new hipster relic.
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
I’m glad that Alice Johnson is out of prison. I don’t like the way the press are saying she’s a “first time nonviolent drug offender”. Please. She was operating up a the executive level. She wasn’t some lady selling…
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
This article starts out about Dianne Feinstein, but gets into California economic demographics and history. Source: Why California Hasn’t Moved On From Dianne Feinstein
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
I didn’t know about this law, but I think Los Angeles folks should learn about it. It’s called Proposition Q, and it was passed in 2016. The law prohibits tents on public property.
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Ethnic and Unhoused
I’m not sure if people still believe this, but there used to be a bit of “common wisdom” or racial stereotyping that said there aren’t Asian or Latino homeless.