The visual of Pilgrims gathering with their native neighbors to celebrate Thanksgiving is trite and deceptive, as if the settlers didn't go on to rout the natives. Historian Heather Cox Richardson explains. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Surprise! Trump's so-called "peace plan" for Ukraine appears, in part, to be translated from Russian. It's a sweetheart deal to Putin from his eager lapdog, with a Thanksgiving deadline. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Democrats win everywhere all at once. Look at the numbers! We're still a year away from the midterms, but MAGA got kicked in state after state. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

Will the Tony Awards tonight reward George Clooney for bringing "Good Night and Good Luck" to the stage. The worldwide CNN production Saturday can't help, since the voting is long since done, but what Clooney has done, in elevating a morality play at this juncture, is worthy of a much bigger prize.

The Democracy Index: corruption, disinformation and assaults on civil rights and public safety. Lower courts standing firm. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Excellent analysis by historian and labor educator Lane Windham on the organizing imperative for unions. New energy, ideas and investment are essential in the face of ineffective labor laws and political resistance. poweratwork.us/could-sisyph...

Trump is craven and corrupt. The oligarchs own him.
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Mexicans celebrate victory against the French. Americans celebrate the vibrant Mexican culture in the United States. Viva Cinco de Mayo! Celebrate! wapo.st/4d2XGT6

Happy Easter to all those who celebrate! I find my spiritualism outside the church nowadays, but I recognize that Jesus was a good man, whose teachings should lead us NOT into Trumpation. Bless Christianity for teaching us love for our fellow man and woman, and rejecting hate. Thank you, Jesus.

Uprisers Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders drew huge crowds in Los Angeles and Salt Lake City this weekend, as opposition to the Trump-Musk billionaire axis grows. I'm with them!

Here's the Don in full gangster mode, with his hillbilly stooge at hand, putting on a bully show in the Oval Office against the president of a sovereign nation standing up to a Russian invasion. Trump appears to be Putin's agent, pretending to speak for the American people. Shameful.

Get ready for a hot spring of Donald Trump's retribution. His hatchet man, Kash Patel, is in place at the FBI, Republican senators genuflected to the King, Lord Trump, who sullies the American Revolution. Joyce Vance walks us through the next few lawless months. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

President Trump's raging bull is shot out of his Project 2025 playbook, a 180-day Blitzkreig of sound and fury meant to overwhelm you, to demoralize and terrorize you, writes historian Ruth Ben-Ghiatt, whose book, "Strongmen," analyzed the strategies of fascist regimes. We must resist.