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Don’t limit what reforms you think can be pursued to the current state of our broken capitalist society. Instead, center them around how badly that system needs to be replaced!

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Supreme Court expands definition of “close familial relationship” in new blow to travel ban

The Supreme Court on Wednesday broadened the list of relatives allowed to enter the United States from the six Muslim-majority countries listed in President Donald Trump’s travel ban.

SCOTUS ruled that grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins of those currently in the country can enter.

Back in June, the Supreme Court allowed Trump’s controversial travel ban to go into effect, but said that travelers from the six countries with a “close familial relationship” to someone already in the U.S. should be allowed to enter the country. Read more (7/19/17)

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Republican health care bill would cause 6.4 million young adults to lose coverage, study finds

The American Health Care Act bill that GOP leaders say makes good on their promise to “repeal and replace Obamacare,” will hit millennials hard, a new study released this week found.

About 6.4 million adults aged 19 to 29 would lose coverage, according to an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

“Lower- and middle-income young adults would see large coverage losses, unsurprising given the large coverage gains these groups made under the [Affordable Care Act]” according to the study. Read more (6/16/17)

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JUST IN: USS Fitzgerald has sustained "significant" damage in collision with merchant ship off Japan, US Defense official says.

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Oregon just became first state to allow residents to identify their gender as non-binary on state ID

According to multiple reports, Oregon became on Thursday the first state in the U.S. to allow non-binary people to identify as such on state IDs, driver’s licenses and permits, awarding a massive civil rights victory to non-binary people and LGBTQ activists.

As of July 1, residents of Oregon will be able to eschew the gender binary on state-issued forms of identification by marking the place where they previously would have had to use an “M” for “Male” or “F” for Female" with an “X”, according to a statement from Lambda Legal, a civil rights group that fights for the rights of LGBTQ people in America. Read more (6/15/17)

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In new study, cannabis users report being more successful, active and well-adjusted overall

Anyone told that cannabis use makes for an unmotivated, uneventful or unimpressive life now has the numbers to refute such myths.

A recent study shows that across a wide array of indicators, cannabis consumers are doing better — socially, mentally and financially — than those who abstain.

The landmark study was conducted by BDS Analytics, whose Cannabis Customer Research Division is the first of its kind. In a release shared with Mic, they called the survey “the most comprehensive and detailed look at cannabis consumers ever conducted,” with extensive data from the states of California and Colorado, both of which have voted to legalize the sale of recreational pot. Read more (6/15/17)

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Utterly disgusting

All politicians and figures who support and defend thus despicable man will go down in history

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At 68, Jeremy Corbyn has been on the Labour Party’s left flank longer than many of his most enthusiastic supporters — the ones who nearly propelled him to an upset victory in this month’s British general election — have been alive. 

Bernie Sanders, who won more votes from young people in the 2016 primaries than Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton combined, is 75, and has a demeanor that, honestly, reminds me of my Jewish grandfather. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the Communist-backed candidate who, thanks to support from young people, surged in the polls ahead of the first round of France’s presidential election, is a sprightly 65.

What has driven so many young people into passionate political work, sweeping old socialists with old ideas to new heights of popularity? To understand what is going on, you have to realize that politicians like Mr. Sanders and Mr. Corbyn have carried the left-wing torch in a sort of long-distance relay, skipping generations of centrists like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, to hand it to today’s under-35s. And you have to understand why young people are so ready to grab that torch and run with it.

Both Britain and the United States used to have parties that at least pledged allegiance to workers. Since the 1970s, and accelerating in the ’80s and ’90s, the left-wing planks have one by one been ripped from their platforms. Under Mr. Blair, Labour rewrote its famous Clause IV, which had committed the party to the goal of “common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange.” Under Mr. Clinton, the Democratic Party cut welfare programs and pushed anti-worker international trade deals. Writing in 1990, Kevin Phillips, a former strategist for Richard Nixon, called the Democrats “history’s second-most enthusiastic capitalist party.” Elsewhere in Europe, traditional socialist parties became sclerotic and increasingly business-friendly.

All of this left many voters with a sense that there is no left-wing party devoted to protecting the interests of the poor, the working class and the young.

Meanwhile, people my age — I’m 29 — are more in need of a robust leftist platform than ever. The post-Cold War capitalist order has failed us: Across Europe and the United States, millennials are worse off than their parents were and are too poor to start new families. In the United States, they are loaded with college debt (or far less likely to be employed without a college degree) and are engaged in precarious and non-unionized labor. Also the earth is melting.

There’s nothing inherently radical about youth. But our politics have been shaped by an era of financial crisis and government complicity. Especially since 2008, we have seen corporations take our families’ homes, exploit our medical debt and cost us our jobs. We have seen governments impose brutal austerity to please bankers. The capitalists didn’t do it by accident, they did it for profit, and they invested that profit in our political parties. For many of us, capitalism is something to fear, not celebrate, and our enemy is on Wall Street and in the City of London.

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I gotta say, I love how vocal companies have become

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