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Charles Keener

@charleskeener.bsky.social

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Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 19m

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Proles: A Story of Post-Sixties’ Salting Among the “Salt of The Earth”

In the early 1970s, when many student activists were migrating from campus to industrial jobs to promote working class radicalization, no labor film was

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 20m

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Brazil: We Must Confront Bolsonaro’s Supporters In The Streets and At The Polls

A crucial battle awaits us over the next three weeks. We are working across the country — from north to south — seeking votes and engaging in dialogue

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 20m

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Politics and Society

This (quite long), article continued the sequence that excerpts from the seven author book Liberating Theory, published forty years ago. This time the

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 21m

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Western Capitalist Societies Have Rolled Out the Red Carpet for Fascism

How do we explain the rise and normalization of fascism in Germany and the United States? How important are the upcoming midterm elections? And what may

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 21m

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Can Socialists Govern a Capitalist State?

Since the 2016 combination of Donald Trump’s election and Bernie Sanders’s breakthrough campaign, efforts to synergize grassroots organizing with

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 21m

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The Mirage of Statecraft: America's Blind Drift in West Asia

For decades, the architecture of West Asia has rested on a comforting fiction: that Pax Americana could indefinitely manage the region through the policy

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 22m

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What The Climate Movement Can Learn From Organized Labor

Climate activists engaged in nonviolent direct action are used to the rinse and repeat of arrest: handcuffs, short trip to jail, a misdemeanor charge

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 22m

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According to Polls, Americans Like Socialism a Lot

A crop of recent polls shows that socialism’s appeal is surprisingly broad. They also reflect a transformed US political landscape that is ripe for a

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 22m

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Election Protection Vs MAGA Tyranny

With a few honorable exceptions, Democrats have done little to resist Trump’s juggernaut or to present an alternative program to meet the needs of the

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 24m

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The Original Data Centers

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 25m

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The Israeli Filmmakers Behind ‘NAZA’ Might Lose Their Citizenship

Netanyahu has pledged to advance two bills aimed at addressing what he calls the “immense damage” the documentary has done to Israeli soldiers.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 25m

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The Fate of the Endangered Species Act Rests on Two Simple Words

The Trump administration has upended protections for thousands of threatened species by redefining the words "take" and "harm."

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 25m

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Sam Altman Is Driving Drunk. Let Him Face the Consequences

We already have laws to deal with the myriad harms caused by AI. We just need to use them.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 25m

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Meet the 22 California Billionaires Opposing Prop. 40

The rich Californians who've spent the most to fight a ballot proposal to tax billionaires have seen their personal wealth increase by over 64% in the last 20 months.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 26m

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Fordism’s 50-Year Hangover: What Comes Next In the Post-Fordist Economy?

Enough nostalgia — we’ve been in the post-Fordist economy for longer than the Fordist bargain held. What comes next?

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 26m

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"Primetime" Review: Sex and the Single Generation

While “Primetime” explores the heyday of “To Catch a Predator,” two new films show Gen Z taking a very different approach to dirty old men.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 26m

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How Germany’s Electoral System Enabled the Rise of the Far Right

For half a decade, the Alternative for Germany party has been recruiting on TikTok with millions of euros in taxpayer funds.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 28m

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Why conservatives can’t accept that government action helped millions during the COVID-19 crisis. #covid

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 29m

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A Generation of Orphans

From Sudan to Iran, children are losing their parents at a pace the world no longer finds shocking.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 29m

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In Manta, Ecuador, a Community Is Devastated by U.S. Boat Strikes

As Ecuador and the U.S. continue their aggressive campaign in the Pacific, victims' families are trying to hold them accountable.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 29m

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Pete Hegseth Wants to Be President

As he stumps in Iowa, the defense secretary is depending on a "replacement press corps" to rewrite his role in a disastrous war.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 30m

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Discipline and Punish: How to Think About the AI Industry’s Extinction Pitch

The hyped-up threat of AI apocalypse is used to misdirect both opposition and regulation. Don’t fall for it.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 30m

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How the Smithsonian Became the Latest Front in Trump’s Culture War

A political spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and murder of George Floyd exposed the museum to accusations of woke excesses.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 30m

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"The History of Concrete" Review: Where Dreams Are Made

John Wilson’s off-the-cuff documentary explores people through their material world, and vice versa.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 30m

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In India, Women Wrestlers Grapple With Sexual Harassment

Despite facing obstacles to hold a powerful official accountable, top athletes keep fighting to help the next generation.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 31m

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Did a Texas Developer Have a Duty to Disclose Toxic Oil and Gas Waste?

New documents add alarming details to the tale of a North Texas housing development built atop millions of tons of drilling waste.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 31m

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Trump TV: Now Streaming, Constitutional Misconduct

So far, Trump TV is a ratings flop, but the threat to press freedom should be the top news.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 31m

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Pandora's Box of AI Risks

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Austin Communities Rally Around Victim of ICE Shooting as He Faces Criminal Charges

Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez appeared in court in a wheelchair Wednesday, the bullet still lodged in his spine.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 43m

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We’re reporters, not teachers. We were able to start private schools anyway - Salon.com

Our reporting has shown how easily people have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and more

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 43m

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Manchester City's cheating scandal isn't really about soccer - Salon.com

It's a tangled tale of global corruption and cynicism, and we're all complicit

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 44m

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The dark reasons behind all the Richard Nixon worship

MAGA needs to maintain its grip on the GOP after Donald Trump — and the 37th president is key

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 44m

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Please don’t send me your robot music

Generative AI can churn out endless songs. Its evangelists miss why we hit play.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 45m

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"Oh my God! He tricked us!": SNL’s Rubio and others panic over midterms - Salon.com

The cold open imagines Republicans scrambling for a winning midterm message as Trump offers voters a $5,000 bribe

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 45m

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Sen. Kennedy: Trump goes from "Zero to a-hole in 3 seconds" - Salon.com

The GOP senator says Trump crossed a line by posting Sen. Tom Cotton's phone number over daylight saving time

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 46m

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Trump demands Fox cover more Trump - Salon.com

Trump demanded more rally coverage as Fox was covering his Ohio rally, warning supporters could stop watching Fox

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 47m

Vladimir Putin has used the war in Ukraine to crush Russian civil society. He’s had a helping hand from Western politicians, whose jingoistic statements help warn Russians off challenging their rulers.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 48m

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The West Is Only Helping Putin Consolidate Support

Vladimir Putin has used the war in Ukraine to crush Russian civil society. He’s had a helping hand from Western politicians, whose jingoistic statements help warn Russians off challenging their rulers...

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 48m

Donald Trump’s street-level ICE surges and deportation obsession are wildly unpopular. That isn’t stopping the administration from continuing to target noncitizens over constitutionally protected free speech, including green card holders.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 48m

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Trump’s Politically Driven Deportations Are Quietly Rising

Donald Trump’s street-level ICE surges and deportation obsession are wildly unpopular. That isn’t stopping the administration from continuing to target noncitizens over constitutionally protected free...

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 49m

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Reckoning With the Failures of Tech Worker Organizing

Two organizers who helped build the tech worker movement ask why its victories proved so difficult to turn into lasting power.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 49m

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Getting Fired from Mother Jones Made Michael Moore

In 1986, Michael Moore didn’t want to run Paul Berman’s article on Nicaragua. Getting pushed out of Mother Jones turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to his career.

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