My fellow Americans: Does this seem like something likely to protect or enhance your right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Or more like something a dictatorship would want to use for whatever purpose suits it? Read (no paywall) and decide for yourself: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

Wonder why this is happening? Because "Trump’s seemingly irrational policies...are not designed to succeed within the old paradigm, but to accelerate its failure. The tariffs are not economic tools—they are weapons in a class war, disguised as nationalist policy." More: substack.com/home/post/p-...

The first two lines of Niemoller’s famous poem “First They Came” are likely not what you remember -- and the author is not some anti-fascist hero, either. Its significance today lies in both when he wrote it, as well as what he put down on paper. www.joewrote.com/p/it-cant-ha...

"We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone."

There's a coup underway right now, folks. Department by department, system by system, the federal government is being overthrown and overtaken by tech-oligarchs: