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-A living wage
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence

These are the foundations of real freedom.
July 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
I admit I did not predict David Brooks calling for a General Strike and quoting Marx.
Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.
It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.
www.nytimes.com
April 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Lesson 13: "Practice corporeal politics... Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them."

***There will be chances to practice corporeal politics all over the USA on April 5th.***
Find yours here: handsoff2025.com
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Donald Trump is lying to you.
March 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Elon’s mass harassment email to all federal employees underscores the importance of having unions to represent workers against abusive management.
February 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
She Was Right. Kamala was right.
Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.
February 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Do yourself a favor…
February 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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If Trump and the GOP extend their 2017 tax cuts, the top 1% will make out like bandits — taking home an extra $165 per day.

But the bottom 60% will get shafted — getting only an extra $1.10 per day in exchange for massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.

It's reverse Robin Hood.
February 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny:

snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
February 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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"Here is the bill you demanded that nullifies all safety regulations for EVs and rockets, Your Majesty. I'll be back with your iced tea."
December 20, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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Commentary: AI? Ai-Yai-Yai!
By Jean Teasdale
theonion.com/ai-ai-yai-yai/
December 20, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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In honor of Nikki Giovanni passing:
December 10, 2024 at 3:00 AM