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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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    Democracy Now
    Democracy Now

    You will see ICE now being the single largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the nation, potentially with enough funding to hire more law enforcement agents than the FBI and more detention potentially than the entire Federal Bureau of Prisons.

    Published On: 07/02/2025

    Published On: 07/02/2025

  • Taking Away Your Citizenship

    Joyce Vance
    Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

    We’ve moved onto the next phase of the plan, where the Civil Rights Division, the once proud crown jewel of the Justice Department, will participate in stripping naturalized American citizens of their citizenship.

    Published On: 07/01/2025

    Published On: 07/01/2025

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  • 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

  • CPJ condemns arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort over Minnesota protests coverage

    Committee to Protect Journalists
    CPJ

    It is highly unusual for a journalist to be charged with a felony in relation to their reporting.

    Published On: 01/30/2026

  • The DOJ’s Fulton County Raid to Seize Ballots is Really About Future Elections

    Marc Elias
    Democracy Docket

    The department has demanded this highly sensitive data from all 50 states and has already sued 23 states, including DC, for refusing to comply. Pam Bondi even attempted to leverage the tragic killing of Alex Pretti to obtain this data from Minnesota.

    Published On: 01/30/2026

  • Tim Walz Fears a Fort Sumter Moment in Minneapolis

    Isaac Stanley-Becker
    The Atlantic (Gift)

    The Minnesota governor warns of a national unraveling.

    Published On: 01/28/2026

  • The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good

    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    Vanity Fair

    Pretti and Good were labeled “domestic terrorists” of The Homeland—rhetoric employed by the administration to justify the state taking life, by associating the dead with national villainy.

    Published On: 01/26/2026

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