"One Battle After Another" Is What Happens When Art Refuses to Kneel Conservatives call Anderson’s film “irresponsible” because it dares to show what happens when power turns its guns on the powerless...

"One Battle After Another" Is What Happens When Art Refuses to Kneel
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The Great Chicago Fire Today is the anniversary of several deadly wildfires that took place in 1871.

The Great Chicago Fire
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Trump Explodes with Rage after Gavin Newsom Wins Nobel Peace Prize The committee recognized Trump with a "certificate of participation."

Trump Explodes with Rage after Gavin Newsom Wins Nobel Peace Prize
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‘It’s a flat-out lie!’ Elizabeth Warren exposes GOP’s shutdown bullsh-t Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts appeared on CBS News Friday, where she took host Tony Dokoupil to task after he echoed a context-free GOP talking point about undocumented ...

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Oh look—another right-winger seems to be committing voter fraud If there’s one thing that Jack Posobiec of “Pizzagate” fame wants everyone to know, it’s that he’s very, very concerned about “election integrity”—especially in Pennsylvania, where ...

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How Trump gets and processes information How Trump is making potentially lethal decisions

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October 5, 2025 On Friday the Minnesota Star Tribune reported a conversation on the messaging app Signal between one of Stephen Miller’s top deputies, Anthony Salisbury, and a senior advisor to Secretary of Defense P...

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America’s Fourth Amendment Is on Life Support — What Do You Do When Your Government Becomes the Criminal? Raids without warrants, kids in zip-ties, and officials who say “F** the children”: this is the moral collapse of the American state. It's time for state authorities to start making arrests...

America’s Fourth Amendment Is on Life Support — What Do You Do When Your Government Becomes the Criminal?
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Sunday thought: A national trauma We need to talk about it openly

Sunday thought: America’s trauma
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October 3, 2025 Although President Donald J.

October 3, 2025
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Saturday Report 10/4/25 — As the wealth of the top 1% of Americans hit a record $52 trillion, young people’s support for the Trump administration is in free fall... The Best of the Rest of the News

Saturday Report 10/4/25 — As the wealth of the top 1% of Americans hit a record $52 trillion, young people’s support for the Trump administration is in free fall...
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Russ Vought must have been one weird ass kid: Project 2025 architect 'dreamed of purging our government since puberty'

Russ Vought must have been one weird ass kid:
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October 2, 2025 At about 1:00 on Tuesday morning, federal agents from Border Patrol, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) raided an apartment b...

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America the beautiful

Pauline Shea Sad day for democracy.

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Twelve Steps to National Collapse: A Blueprint for How Democracies Die A historian’s alarm: when these twelve familiar steps appear in a nation, the result is often irreversible—unless citizens rise up and demand otherwise…

Twelve Steps to National Collapse: A Blueprint for How Democracies Die
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Sad day for democracy

October 2, 2025 At about 1:00 on Tuesday morning, federal agents from Border Patrol, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) raided an apartment b...

October 2, 2025
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Is this the country you want?

We're Deep in the Shit Now The Only Way to Win the Shutdown Was Not to Play

We're Deep in the Shit Now
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The GOP’s Addiction to Lies: The Death of Truth and the Rise of Post-Fact Politics When lies become policy and propaganda becomes identity, democracy itself is put at risk…

The GOP’s Addiction to Lies: The Death of Truth and the Rise of Post-Fact Politics
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October 1, 2025 Last night, as the government barreled toward a shutdown, President Donald J.

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"Radical Left Violence” Is the New Big Lie — And It’s Deadlier Than You Think Decades of disinformation have built a rightwing propaganda empire—now it’s aimed at silencing dissent.

"Radical Left Violence” Is the New Big Lie — And It’s Deadlier Than You Think
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Senate Dems: Don't cave! And explain the big picture! Friends,

Senate Dems: Don't cave! And explain the big picture!
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Impeach or Perish: Why Republicans Must Choose Between Trump and the Constitution Impeachment isn’t just a political strategy; it’s the last defense of our Constitution. Republicans must act now, decisively and unapologetically. If they do, they may yet save America and themselves…

Impeach or Perish: Why Republicans Must Choose Between Trump and the Constitution
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The Danger of U.S. Culture Continuing to Unravel Into MAGA Autocracy Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension Shows How Authoritarians Atomize Culture, Creating Division, Dissension & Ultimately Upending Democracy

The Danger of U.S. Culture Continuing to Unravel Into MAGA Autocracy
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September 28, 2025 Late last night, President Donald J.

September 28, 2025
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