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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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  • Republicans Are Already Plotting to Steal the Midterms

    Ross Rosenfeld
    The New Republic

    With Trump’s help, Republicans across the country are sowing doubt about next year’s congressional elections—and gearing up for 2028.

    Published On: 05/06/2025

    Published On: 05/06/2025

  • A Russian journalist’s escape from Moscow to Paris

    RSF
    Reporters Without Borders

    Exhausted but free, Ekaterina Barabash recounted her escape from the Russian authorities, who put her on their wanted list as she faced up to ten years in prison.

    Published On: 05/05/2025

    Published On: 05/05/2025

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  • We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start

    Claire Finkelstein
    The Guardian

    Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania.

    Published On: 01/20/2026

  • Trump Is Screwing with the Midterms. Will He Succeed?

    The Big Picture and Jay Kuo
    The Big Picture

    Will Trump screw with the midterms? Will they be free and fair? Will we even have them?

    Published On: 01/20/2026

  • Joe Rogan Trained Men to Accept Authoritarianism

    W. A. Lawrence
    Glass Empires by W. A. Lawrence

    Rogan spent years grooming Trump’s base to equate toxic masculinity with strength and authoritarianism with safety. In 2026, that conditioning is locked in with force.

    Published On: 01/20/2026

  • Why Has ICE Turned Minneapolis Into a Battlefield?

    Thom Hartmann
    The Hartmann Report

    Why the largest-ever ICE operation isn’t just about immigration, but about who gets to walk freely in America’s cities and who pays with their lives…

    Published On: 01/15/2026

  • The FBI’s raid of journalist’s home was the product of decades of backsliding

    Seth Stern and Chip Gibbons
    The Guardian

    The trend of invading newsrooms, in violation of federal law, has now spread to the highest levels of the federal government

    Published On: 01/15/2026

  • They Were Ordinary Germans. We Are Ordinary Americans.

    Shalom Auslander
    The New York Times (Gift)

    I miss the comfort of believing Germans were different.

    Published On: 01/15/2026

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