Weekends: Amazon Union Aftermath, Remote Workplace Control, and the Left Post-Bernie w/ Meagan Day

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The US-Israeli war against Iran may have been initiated without any coherently stated goals or popular support, but we can already see that it’s a horrific quagmire. It also doesn’t look like Trump and Israel will get the swift Iranian regime change they hoped for. On the latest ...  Show more

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