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The Washington Post DOJ charges Southern Poverty Law Center over paid informants

Not content to pardon white supremacists for their role in January 6 insurrection, the aggressive Trump DOJ goes after the Southern Poverty Law Center, the nation’s premier hate group monitoring organization. As a longtime supporter of SPLC I applaud their … Continue reading →

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He spreads hate online — and fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars

So here’s how hate spreads … the Fuentes money machine and the racist extremism it creates. He spreads hate online — and fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/04/20/nick-fuentes-stream-donors-funding/

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The Film That Explains Contemporary America – The Atlantic

A lot of lessons for us from the willing collaboration of much of French society with the Nazi and Vichy regimes… The Film That Explains Contemporary America – The Atlantic https://share.google/QfYirFMygmxYa4NhY

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Generational apathy and No Kings …

An alarming analysis of generational apathy in face of Trump’s outrageous damage to our democracy and world peace… [free version] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/opinion/trump-protest-ai-phones-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bFA.L7VJ.MX7VcwdU-HaX&smid=url-share

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Time to “Orban” Trump (Gary Krenz)

There has been much good commentary on Magyar’s decisive victory over Orban in Hungary. It will take some time to sort out various lessons, but as Anne Applebaum suggests in this piece, “Illiberalism is not Inevitable,” in The Atlantic, perhaps … Continue reading →

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Dems, Please Meet the Moment! (Barb Krenz)

In this abhorrent moment in our nation’s history, we are reminded that a crazy man can accomplish great evil…but only if he is aided and abetted by people who are malleable enough to let their own morality slip away in … Continue reading →

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Let’s change how we talk about taxes (Gary Krenz)

The Nation has an excellent article by Zephyr Teachout on US energy prices and policy and the need for reform. My immediate reason for posting about it, however, is not energy, it’s about the framing that the article utilizes for … Continue reading →

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My dream of Democratic strength (Gary Krenz)

Over the past five days, Donald Trump has engaged in an increasingly unhinged and evil rant on social media: April 5: an expletive-filled post yelling at Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or suffer US attacks on civilian infrastructure, … Continue reading →

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The danger of the cease fire (Gary Krenz)

OK, if you feel insane, you’re not alone. We begin the day with Trump threatening genocide of the “whole civilization” of Iran. Senator Elissa Slotkin and others are compelled to issue, again, statements to the effect that our military personnel … Continue reading →

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Members of neo-Nazi ‘active clubs’ join combat events at secretive Virginia compound (Dan Little)

Worse and worse … extreme right wing paramilitaries practice war against America … https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/07/neo-nazi-virginia-combat-event?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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