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Like the story of the frog placed into a pot of water on the stove: the water slowly gets warmer until suddenly the frog dies in its boiling... Authoritarianism seeks to slowly acclimate citizens to acceptance of what was once considered absurdly...
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A Pivotal Time
Democracy and freedom challenged
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August 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Like the story of the frog placed into a pot of water on the stove: the water slowly gets warmer until suddenly the frog dies in its boiling... Authoritarianism seeks to slowly acclimate citizens to acceptance of what was once considered absurdly...
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Three Challenges and One Opportunity for the Left
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Three Challenges and One Opportunity for the Left
A populism that can win must make the case for restoring economic sovereignty against the private power of the rich.
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May 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Three Challenges and One Opportunity for the Left
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Those celebrating or defending the arrest, removal and detention in a foreign country of any person without due process, is no better than Hitler's brown shirts in rounding up Jews during the Holocaust. We are a nation based upon law and due process. No one is above or below the law, citizen or not.
April 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Those celebrating or defending the arrest, removal and detention in a foreign country of any person without due process, is no better than Hitler's brown shirts in rounding up Jews during the Holocaust. We are a nation based upon law and due process. No one is above or below the law, citizen or not.
Today, I am thankful for honest reporting. The trump team committing this breach of national security should all be investigated and charged with endangering the lives of our service personnel. And at a minimum, they should be fired.
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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March 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Today, I am thankful for honest reporting. The trump team committing this breach of national security should all be investigated and charged with endangering the lives of our service personnel. And at a minimum, they should be fired.
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We need a new free speech movement.
And universities should sue the Trump regime for abridging the First Amendment rights of their institutions and their students.
Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/we-need-a-new-free-speech-movement
And universities should sue the Trump regime for abridging the First Amendment rights of their institutions and their students.
Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/we-need-a-new-free-speech-movement
March 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We need a new free speech movement.
And universities should sue the Trump regime for abridging the First Amendment rights of their institutions and their students.
Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/we-need-a-new-free-speech-movement
And universities should sue the Trump regime for abridging the First Amendment rights of their institutions and their students.
Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/we-need-a-new-free-speech-movement
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"The abuse of the word 'antisemitism' is meant to generate a sense of plausibility, confuse opposition, and create more space for the actual phenomenon of antisemitism. And this misdirection is an integral part of the effort to replace a constitutional order with an authoritarian one."
Fascism places emotion over reason. Words become just tools to achieve the vision of the Leader. In our post-truth world, this takes the special form of the inversion of meaning: fascists call other people "fascists" and antisemites call other people "antisemites"
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"Antisemitism" and Antisemitism
The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon
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March 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"The abuse of the word 'antisemitism' is meant to generate a sense of plausibility, confuse opposition, and create more space for the actual phenomenon of antisemitism. And this misdirection is an integral part of the effort to replace a constitutional order with an authoritarian one."
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There’s something happening in this country.
Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.
February 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
There’s something happening in this country.
Peace or Partition?
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Peace or Partition?
Russians and Americans speak about Ukraine, without Ukrainians
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February 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Peace or Partition?
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SIGN: Keep ICE out of our churches >>: More than two dozen organizations and denominations just filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration's policy of allowing immigration raids at houses of worship. Let's show our support as fellow Christians now >> act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/Trump-I...
SIGN: Keep ICE out of our churches >>
More than two dozen organizations and denominations just filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration's policy of allowing immigration raids at houses of worship. Let's show our support as fellow ...
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February 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
SIGN: Keep ICE out of our churches >>: More than two dozen organizations and denominations just filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration's policy of allowing immigration raids at houses of worship. Let's show our support as fellow Christians now >> act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/Trump-I...
Cutting Cancer Research
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Cutting Cancer Research
Sometimes, it gets personal.
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February 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Cutting Cancer Research
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Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?
February 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?
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Are you against Kennedy's nomination? I absolutely am.
Tell your Senators to oppose him too:
Tell your Senators to oppose him too:
Tell your Senators: Oppose Kennedy for Health and Human Services Secretary
Please contact Congress now!
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December 9, 2024 at 12:50 AM
Are you against Kennedy's nomination? I absolutely am.
Tell your Senators to oppose him too:
Tell your Senators to oppose him too:
It is sadly fitting that today's inauguration will be held in the same rotunda where rioters, on January 6th, 2021 spread feces and urinated. Now, it's supposed to be a place of dignity and celebration for the same man in whose name those acts were committed.
January 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
It is sadly fitting that today's inauguration will be held in the same rotunda where rioters, on January 6th, 2021 spread feces and urinated. Now, it's supposed to be a place of dignity and celebration for the same man in whose name those acts were committed.
It's a shame that much of MAGA doesn't read... This is an incredibly insightful analysis.
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Why Greenland?
And Canada, Mexico, Panama...
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January 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
It's a shame that much of MAGA doesn't read... This is an incredibly insightful analysis.
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1/Earlier this month, and largely unnoticed by the national media, a man from southern Virginia was arrested with what has been called the largest cache of explosives ever, perhaps 150 devices. And it's a very curious case. www.smithfieldtimes.com/2024/12/30/f...
Foursquare Road suspect in largest-ever FBI seizure of homemade explosives granted $25,000 bond - Smithfield Times
A federal judge set a $25,000 bond for an Isle of Wight County man facing a federal weapons charge in connection with a Dec. 18 FBI raid at his Foursquare Road home that the case prosecutor called the...
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January 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
1/Earlier this month, and largely unnoticed by the national media, a man from southern Virginia was arrested with what has been called the largest cache of explosives ever, perhaps 150 devices. And it's a very curious case. www.smithfieldtimes.com/2024/12/30/f...
Nothing is more indicative of how authoritarian the political culture of the GOP has become than the fact that over the past few months its elected leaders have basically turned it over to an unelected rich guy who has threatened to primary them if they disobey orders. And no one has complained.
December 26, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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1. A teacher in Ohio who has worked at the same public school for 34 years was suspended without pay and threatened with termination for offering four books in her classroom library that contained LGBTQ characters.
She's fighting back.
She's fighting back.
Ohio teacher suspended for including four books with LGBTQ characters in her classroom library
Karen Cahall has been a teacher in the New Richmond School District in Ohio for 34 years.
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December 12, 2024 at 1:51 PM
1. A teacher in Ohio who has worked at the same public school for 34 years was suspended without pay and threatened with termination for offering four books in her classroom library that contained LGBTQ characters.
She's fighting back.
She's fighting back.
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We create happiness for others. If we choose to
November 17, 2024 at 11:43 AM
We create happiness for others. If we choose to