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Never thought I’d live to see the day when America would willingly march into authoritarianism with a prayer breakfast, and unleashing a secret police force, ICE to remove nonwhites.

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A Life’s Testament: Watching Democracy Die in Real-Time From constitutional republic to authoritarian theater in one generation

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My evangelical neighbors are happy that “Christian values” are coming back to government, but I’m watching the last nails being hammered into the coffin of pluralistic democracy. They see God’s plan; I see the end of the Enlightenment.

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Opinion | Being Latino in the United States Should Not Be a Crime

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Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration has become a campaign of discrimination against Latinos. Federal agents are rounding up people..

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Seventy-Eight Years of Watching the Human Experiment: A Field Report I can say what I think at seventy-eight. I have seen individuals from Tokyo to Copenhagen, served customers from all over the world…

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I don’t keep my distance because I think I’m better than others. I keep my distance because being close to mediocrity is tiring, and as you age, energy is the most important thing in every calculation.

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Children’s Vaccinations Are Morally, Medically, and Historically Demanded Everyone’s freedom to adopt a fringe theory ends at my child’s bus, school, and classroom door.

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Parents who are philosophically against vaccinations need to teach their children at home. They just don’t have the right to put other people’s children, their family members, bus drivers, teachers, and school staff in harm's way of preventable disease.

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The Exquisite Agony of Not Mattering We’ve given our self-worth to an audience that isn’t very reliable and has better things to do than confirm that we exist.

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We are, at our core, a species of children who want attention but are afraid that the other kids will stop watching us perform.

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Trump’s Rise to Power and America’s Theatrical Collapse in The Human Comedy I don’t need a Sherlock Holmes deduction kit to figure out how Donald Trump got to be president, how the Republican Party keeps secrets…

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They always choose tribal loyalty over principle, and they will gladly accept terrible leadership if it supports their prejudices and punishes their enemies with speed.

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How We Perfected the Art of Theatrical Impotence I spent yesterday evening watching the news coverage of the No Kings protests with something between awe and despair.

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What if — and stay with me here — what if those millions of demonstrators in states where it’s perfectly legal to do so had shown up to their peaceful protests with pistols holstered at their hips and rifles slung over their shoulders? Not brandishing them

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'These people are terrified': How Trump's recent behavior reflects 'white folks' real fear “Nation” Justice Correspondent Elie Mystal said there is an easy reason to explain President Donald Trump’s list of weird, counterproductive actions over the last few weeks.Mystal pointed to reports t...

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The Trump team’s got a “bold” plan: shut the door on Black and brown refugees, roll out the red carpet for pale folks from Europe and South Africa—because nothing says “refugee crisis” like being slightly inconvenienced while white.

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Start Building the World You Want to Live in After Trump's Dark Age | Common Dreams As Trump demolishes the old and drives America toward a darker future, the Democrats’ instinct has been to grieve, resist, and dream of restoration. But restoration may be the wrong goal.

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Shutdowns are “temporary,” sure—like your ex’s break from drinking. This one feels more permanent though: the old government’s ghost still haunts the place, and nobody’s bothered to hire an exorcist or a replacement.

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'No Kings' Rallies Against Trump Authoritarianism Could Be 'Largest Protest in US History' | Common Dreams "On October 18 and everyday, we’ll show the world what democracy looks like," said one union leader. "No thrones! No clowns with crowns! No kings, just working people united in power to defend our dem...

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In what might be the “largest protest in US history,” No Kings rallies will erupt from New York to Burns, Oregon (population: barely enough for a poker game). Even Bryson City’s 1,500 souls are reportedly ready to overthrow monarchy—if lunch allows

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Opinion | Something Is Stirring in Christian America, and It’s Making Me Nervous

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Ah yes, magical thinking—because why bother with the exhausting labor of actual reasoning when you can simply close your eyes, wish really hard?

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Opinion | Kennedy’s Comments on Circumcision Are Only Going to Confuse and Shame Parents

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Next, it will be the umbilical cord that should never be cut! This absurd nutcase should never be allowed to speak with authority.

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A “Beautiful” Bill for the Wealthy, and a Disaster for Medicare & Medicaid Branded as a patriotic masterstroke, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” promises to cut waste and restore dignity — by emptying Medicaid’s…

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I remember the day they passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which was July 4, 2025. Of course, Independence Day. Nothing says “I’m a patriot” like taking away health insurance from millions of Americans.

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Oct 18th. Stand up America. Soon it will be too late.

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'Cast aside to die': Voters struggle in deep-red Trump country Coal miners supported President Donald Trump and thanked him at the White House in April for "trying to reinvigorate their struggling industry," writes The New York Times, but now those coal miners sa...

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“The companies get the handout, but the miners get nothing,” said Gary Hairston, 71, a coal miner with black lung for 30 years. And you’re shocked? How adorable—corporate greed still has the power to surprise you.

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The Fourth Branch: How Conscience and Civic Vigilance May Save the Republic | Common Dreams ​Ordinary citizens, lower courts, military officers, advocacy groups, and artists together form a novel “fourth branch,” acting as a moral immune system of the body politic, sustaining its health when...

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When the official organs give out, the Republic turns to its “fourth branch”—a noble swarm of moral guardians defending democracy’s last breath. Touching, really. But I wouldn’t hold mine.

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A Beacon Of Hope and Woke Bullshit | Common Dreams Citing the value of “keep(ing) the flame of democracy burning," the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for her “tireless work promoting democratic right...

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In trademark elegance, MAGA-ites fumed that the honor went to “some lady in Venezuela” instead of their favorite mad king—who heroically bombs brown people, bullies citizens, and murders fishermen. American Bullshit.

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People not realize that without ACA subsidies, premiums for most Marketplace enrollees will skyrocket—doubling or more—raising out-of-pocket costs by 75% to 130% across incomes? That kind of hike would push basic medical care out of reach for millions.

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Sanctimony, Surveillance, and the Secession of Common Sense Slither into the murky, twisted truth swamp that is the modern American right-wing propaganda machine, if only for the sake of intellectual…

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They’ve really outdone themselves—turning “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” into obedience, holiness, and a proud ignorance of history.

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From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.

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He proclaimed, “Who am I to tell you what to put in your body?”—then promptly told them what God wanted them to do with it. The crowd loved the hypocrisy as much as the sermon.

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Opinion | The Tom Homan Affair Has More Red Flags Than a May Day Parade

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The FBI’s probe into Homan vanished faster than ethics at a Trump rally. Bondi swears there’s “no evidence” — mostly because they buried it so well

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That charming fellow who swerved across three lanes just to remind me how expendable my existence is? He's not alone.

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American Gulag The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

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Trump’s immigration plan: now with extra funding, fresh manpower, and cutting-edge cruelty. Innovation meets inhumanity!

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Untethered To the Facts | Common Dreams Armed terrorism by the White House escalates - What stage of fascism is it when the fuhrer defies the courts to send in troops anyway? - as does the batshit rhetoric about left-wing "terrorism" to hid...

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Congrats, America — after 249 years, you finally made the Human Rights Watch list! Turns out “land of the free” has an asterisk.

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Federal Judge Sides With Journalists, Protesters in Chicago Over Violent Tactics of Trump's Federal Agents | Common Dreams Federal judge restricts use of force by federal agents on protesters and journalists in Chicago. Ruling bars riot control weapons unless immediate threat.

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Judge Ellis bravely ruled that maybe, just maybe, tear-gassing reporters, peaceful protestors, and priests isn’t the best look for democracy.

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Boardrooms to Battlefields: Men Silence Rational Women, While the World Is on Fire The persistent treatment of women as second-class citizens is a tangled mess of cultural myths, patriarchal traditions, economic…

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