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“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

― Howard Zinn

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    Bill McKibben
    The Crucial Years

    Take this as your first warning that not only the temperature but the politics of the planet are likely to change dramatically, and soon.

    Published On: 02/16/2026

    Published On: 02/16/2026

  • The Real Epstein Bombshell Isn’t at DOJ: It’s at Treasury

    Resistance Media
    Resistance Media (February, 7, 2026)

    There is another set of files, that if made public, could finally and fully explode this coverup and bring the proverbial walls tumbling down. They are sitting in the US Treasury Department and being withheld by Secretary Scott Bessent.

    Published On: 02/14/2026

    Published On: 02/14/2026

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  • The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation

    Mark Engler and Paul Engler
    The Guardian

    The extraordinary level of grassroots solidarity and creative resistance in anti-ICE protests in Minnesota has given people a new appreciation for the power that mass non-cooperation can have in resisting the Trump administration’s drive toward authoritarianism.

    Published On: 02/15/2026

  • Something big is happening in AI — and most people will be blindsided

    Matt Shumer
    Fortune

    We’re past the point where this is an interesting dinner conversation about the future. The future is already here. It just hasn’t knocked on your door yet. It’s about to.

    Published On: 02/11/2026

  • When Love Thy Neighbor Is a Cry of Resistance

    Rebecca Solnit
    Meditations in an Emergency

    At the very heart of almost all our crises is a conflict between two worldviews, the worldview in which everything is connected and the world of isolated individualism, of social darwinism and the war of each against each.

    Published On: 02/02/2026

  • The Manchurian Billionaire: How Trump’s Rise Mirrors Every Classic Intelligence Takeover

    Thom Hartmann
    The Hartmann Report

    Debt, ego, sexual compromise, and fear: why Trump’s behavior makes sense only when you realize he’s been in Putin's pocket for years…

    Published On: 02/02/2026

  • The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism

    Parker Molloy
    The New Republic

    Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.

    Published On: 01/31/2026

  • The Adolescence of Technology

    Dario Amodei
    darioamodei.com

    Humanity needs to wake up, and this essay is an attempt—a possibly futile one, but it’s worth trying—to jolt people awake.

    Published On: 01/31/2026

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