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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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    Closer to the Edge
    https://closertotheedge.substack.com

    Inside the most dangerous public-private “partnership” in modern U.S. history

    Published On: 04/23/2025

    Published On: 04/23/2025

  • ‘A scary place’: Jason Stanley on leaving Trump’s America

    Stuart Braun
    DW

    Philosopher Jason Stanley is among several critics of US President Donald Trump who have left Yale University, and the United States, to work and live in Canada. He equates the new leadership with "fascism."

    Published On: 03/04/2025

    Published On: 03/04/2025

  • Insurrection Act of 1807

    Wikipedia
    Wikipedia

    The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a United States federal law[1] that empowers the president of the United States to deploy the U.S. military and federalized National Guard troops within the United States in particular circumstances, such as to suppress civil disorder, insurrection, or rebellion.

    Published On: 03/04/2025

    Published On: 03/04/2025

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  • ‘Media and Corporate Power Structures See Genuine Democracy as a Terrible Danger’

    Janine Jackson
    FAIR

    CounterSpin interview with Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats

    Published On: 07/11/2025

  • LA Journalists Reflect on Protest Attacks

    Freedom of the Press Foundation
    Freedom of the Press Foundation

    Journalists covering recent demonstrations in California have been assaulted, detained, shot with crowd-control munitions, and had their equipment searched — simply for doing their jobs.

    Published On: 07/11/2025

  • New report maps a “severe” shortage of local journalists in the U.S.

    Corey Hutchins
    NiemanLab

    The report from Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack finds that more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist.

    Published On: 07/10/2025

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    Jacob Silverman
    The Nation

    The strange saga of a shadowy UAE company’s $100 million investment in World Liberty Financial, the Trump-aligned crypto trader.

    Published On: 07/10/2025

  • How Michigan Is Organizing for Ranked Choice Voting

    Mark Bauer
    Rank The Vote

    Getting RCV on the ballot isn’t easy. It’s a complex, legally binding process. The campaign must collect hundreds of thousands of valid signatures in a tight window of time. Every volunteer counts.

    Published On: 07/08/2025

  • The Rev William Barber’s ‘moral movement’ confronts Trump’s America. Can it work?

    Adam Harris
    The Guardian

    Barber, the co-chair of the revived Poor People’s campaign, a national movement to challenge inequality in all its forms through moral protest and policy change, has spent years preparing people for moments like this.

    Published On: 07/05/2025

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