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“It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and draw conclusions.” – Exterminate All The Brutes, by Raoul Peck.
Star Trek was always about the kind of science fiction ideas that challenge the political status quo. Still manages to stay in that lane all these decades later. When big ideas rattle their cages, viewers either accept that and think harder, or ridicule it so they can escape thinking.
January 16, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Star Trek was always about the kind of science fiction ideas that challenge the political status quo. Still manages to stay in that lane all these decades later. When big ideas rattle their cages, viewers either accept that and think harder, or ridicule it so they can escape thinking.
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Czechoslovakia cannot agree with Nazi Germany about the need for lebensraum.
Danish Foreign Minster Lars Løkke Rasmussen speaks after WH meeting: "For us, ideas that would not respect the territorial of the Kingdom of Denmark and the right of self-determination of the Greenlandic people are of course totally unacceptable. We therefore still have a fundamental disagreement."
January 15, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Czechoslovakia cannot agree with Nazi Germany about the need for lebensraum.
buckscountybeacon.com/2026/01/opin... When I read my late dad's hometown Enid, Oklahoma newspaper clippings online from his childhood (1940s-50s), I'm amazed at how crucial the local paper was to keeping their community knit together. It was literally their social media. Everything was in there!
OPINION: Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home - Bucks County Beacon
Defending it may be one of the most practical and hopeful choices citizens can make, writes Yardley's Stu Faigen.
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January 13, 2026 at 3:52 PM
buckscountybeacon.com/2026/01/opin... When I read my late dad's hometown Enid, Oklahoma newspaper clippings online from his childhood (1940s-50s), I'm amazed at how crucial the local paper was to keeping their community knit together. It was literally their social media. Everything was in there!