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Monthly Archives: October 2025
America Needs a Mass Movement—Now – The Atlantic
Here is a brilliant analysis by David Brooks on affirming democracy and resisting dictatorship. ttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/11/autocracy-resistance-social-movement/684336/
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No, Spkr Johnson: “No Kings” IS “Love America”
We Americans love to label things, no doubt. And labeling things can be important in politics. Labels can give us a shorthand, and they can serve as rallying cries. At this point, we can’t for instance any longer avoid calling … Continue reading
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Who was Who in Weimar Germany (video)
History matters, and Tim Snyder is excellent on twentieth century totalitarian regimes. He puts his finger on this horrendous antifa conspiracy theory. https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/when-anti-antifa-means-pro-nazi-video?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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More use of DOJ to persecute Trump’s enemies — fascist!
The Department of (In)justice has indicted Letitia James after Trump’s repeated calls for indictments against his enemies. Shameful and surely illegal! The Guardian reports: Lindsey Halligan, the US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, personally presented the case to … Continue reading
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Higher ed solidarity, please!
Last week, the Trump administration sent to nine universities A Compact for Excellence in Higher Education, the idea being that institutions that sign on to the compact would receive “preferential access to federal funds.” This is the latest effort by … Continue reading
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Tim Snyder on Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video)
And here is Tim Snyder’s take on Stephen Miller on Substack … https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/stalinism-and-stephen-miller-video?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Stephen Miller’s agenda of hate
Stephen Miller is a real conveyor of hate in the administration…. Here is Jennifer Rubin’s take on Substack …. https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/stephen-miller-is-the-poster-boy?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Whispering in the Storm
The daily nightmares continue. There are reasons for hope – more on that another time. But there continue to be reasons to fear, perhaps most significant among them is that the more Trump feels cornered, the more desperate his actions … Continue reading
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Affirming Democracy, Gathering Resistance 