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Monthly Archives: January 2026
A strong UAW statement against current ICE and DHS actions …
UAW Stands With Our Members Against the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Higher Education, Immigrant & International Workers, & Our Freedom of Speech | UAW Region 9A https://share.google/WrA2txeuyWgeWcvaX
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We are in a bad way! (Dan Little)
The shooting of Alex Pretti, citizen, nurse, and caring man, a killing that was fundamentally unprovoked, fundamentally an execution, and apparently beyond all accountability or genuine investigation — this latest murder by ICE and Homeland Security thugs, goons, and stormtroopers … Continue reading
MAGA’s “Dilbertian” Movie (Gary Krenz)
I should be posting about our very real and very immediate world crisis. There is a lot to say, to be sure, but really one thing that should be done: “25th Amendment: Now!” I’d like instead to turn to a piece … Continue reading
Robert Reich on Nazi use of Brown Shirts
This careful piece documents the awful parallel between Hitler’s expansion of violent, unaccountable "security forces" in 1933 and Donald Trump’s shock troops of Homeland Security … Very much in line with Ernst Fraenkel’s dual state analysis. https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/trumps-ice-and-hitlers-brown-shirts?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=fzsj7
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Ernst Fraenkel’s Dual State (1941) — a chilling account of the “Prerogative State” and fascism
Scary parallels with the Trump state over the past twelve months … https://undsoc.org/2025/12/19/the-dual-state-1938/
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Trump’s unequivocal defense of white supremacy
It doesn’t get much more explicit than this … Trump equates the achievements of the Civil Rights movement with discrimination against whites … George Wallace and Lester Maddox back on the national stage. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/politics/trump-charlottesville-white-nationalists.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ElA.LYG4.y46hG_84ebBK&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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The John Lewis Example
Friends, the news gets more chilling every day. On the one hand, there are good signs that Trump’s coalition is fracturing; on the other hand, he is getting more and more brazen in his statements and in his actions, aided … Continue reading
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The Wrath of Stephen Miller
[here is the Atlantic article without a paywall …] Stephen Miller is now acting as an accelerant for the president’s most incendiary impulses and shaping the lives of individual Americans in nearly every realm, @AshleyRParker, @michaelscherer and @NickMiroff report. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/stephen-miller-trump-white-house/685516/?gift=wJKU4MSSbaZAFRm84mZhD5x0TtuZN0tVUIjlNZPiOXA
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ICE OUT rally in NYC
A great rally in NYC today, with the sun coming out literally as the march down 5th Avenue began! A fantastic turnout for a winter day and on short notice. As always, lots of people peaceful, courteous, helpful, and absolutely … Continue reading
Stephen Miller’s hate
This Atlantic piece sheds a lot of light on Stephen Miller’s hate-based advocacy and influence in the White House. What it doesn’t address is how he came to be the dangerous bigot he is today, and was at the age … Continue reading
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