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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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  • Christian Nationalists Have Decided Monks Walking for Peace Are on a One-Way Trip to Hell

    Dr. Stacey Patton
    Dr. Stacey Patton

    The religion that claims to follow a poor, itinerant teacher who walked everywhere, who owned nothing, who told people to put down their swords, now produces followers who cannot tolerate the sight of men doing precisely that. Walking. Owning little. Practicing peace. Not demanding shit. Not conquering and colonizing. Just being.

    Published On: 01/21/2026

    Published On: 01/21/2026

  • Paramount settles with Trump for $16m over 60 Minutes interview

    Edward Helmore
    The Guardian

    Paramount agreed to pay $16m to Trump’s future library or other cause, but not to him, made no apology

    Published On: 07/02/2025

    Published On: 07/02/2025

  • “Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency in the History of the Nation”

    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

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  • Greenland ‘Freedom City’? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north

    Rachael Levy and Alexandra Ulmer
    Reuters (April 10, 2025)

    Silicon Valley investors propose Greenland as a libertarian 'freedom city'

    Published On: 01/14/2026

  • JD Vance Is A Hog That’ll Eat Any Slop

    Giri Nathan
    Defector

    This is a man who used to cry while watching Garden State. Now he posts numbered lists in defense of fascism.

    Published On: 01/13/2026

  • My Final Message Before I’m on an FBI Watchlist: Palantir, Epstein, & The New York Times

    Juan Sebastian Pinto
    Ziggurat

    ICE brings the hybrid warfare and terror we brought to Gaza back home. It's time to learn where it comes from, how it works, who enables it, and how to fight back.

    Published On: 01/09/2026

  • Recording ICE Isn’t ‘Violence’ – It’s a Constitutionally Protected Act of Journalism

    Timothy Karr
    Pressing Issues

    How the First Amendment plays an essential role in exposing the truth about Renee Good’s tragic death in Minneapolis.

    Published On: 01/09/2026

  • ‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture

    Ashifa Kassam
    The Guardian (December 27, 2025)

    ‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture
    Extremist messaging now woven into music and YouTube videos, with one expert saying: ‘You can be radicalised sitting on your couch’

    Published On: 01/09/2026

  • Letters from an American

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    Letters from an American

    “Get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt. Families are being ripped apart…and now somebody is dead.”

    Published On: 01/08/2026

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