Gary B. Larson, aka Garbl

Trusted Voices for a Turbulent Time Fact-based analysis on democracy, justice, economics, climate, culture, and media.

📰 Trusted Voices for a Turbulent Time
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The Epstein Scandal Is Snowballing And Republicans are running scared.

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We’re All Veterans, Still An updated look at war’s toll—and our duty to prevent it.

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🟪 60 Years of Peace, Anti-War, and Arms Control Organizations Peace isn’t passive: These groups made it a movement

🟪 60 Years of Peace, Anti-War, and Arms Control Organizations
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🌟60 Years of Anti-War Songs in 90 Minutes Protest, remembrance, and resilience — in 25 songs

🌟60 Years of Anti-War Songs in 90 Minutes
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✍️ Why Democrats Miss the Voters They Need It’s not about changing our values. It’s about understanding what moves voters.

✍️ How Democrats Can Keep Reaching the Voters They Need
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FactChecking Trump's "60 Minutes" Interview - FactCheck.org In a lengthy "60 Minutes" interview, President Donald Trump made false and questionable claims about nuclear weapons testing, inflation and military strikes in the Caribbean Sea. He also repeated nume...

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🟦Good Government, Justice & Transparency A ranked guide to advocacy groups strengthening democracy and accountability in public life

🟦Good Government, Justice & Transparency
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Undocumented Immigrants Are Not Feasting on Food Stamps Plus: How Does NewsGuard Evaluate the News? Learn the Tricks of Our Trade

Undocumented Immigrants Are Not Feasting on Food Stamps
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Wired and 404 Media make FOIA reporting free. Other news outlets should too We spoke to Katie Drummond of Wired, Joseph Cox of 404 Media, and Lauren Harper of Freedom of the Press Foundation about the case for unpaywalling public records-based reporting

Wired and 404 Media make FOIA reporting free. Other news outlets should too freedom.press/issues/wired... ➡️ Follow @freedom.press for more.

✍️ The Golden Dome Gamble: A Missile Shield or a Trigger for War? When the promise of invincibility collides with reality, secrecy and escalations follow.

✍️ The Golden Dome Gamble: A Missile Shield or a Trigger for War?
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🟩 Food Security & Hunger Relief A ranked guide to advocacy groups ensuring access to nutritious food and fighting hunger across the U.S.

🟩 Food Security & Hunger Relief
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Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.

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✍️ Who We Think Immigrants Are Spain, Portugal, and a Map We Forgot

✍️ Who We Think Immigrants Are
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🟧Tax Reform & Public Investment A ranked guide to advocacy groups working for a fairer tax system and economic opportunity for all.

🟧Tax Reform & Public Investment
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A president who hates his country can't win a war The United States of America has neither a secretary nor a Department of War.

A president who hates his country can't win a war
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Media must cover — not cover up — Trump’s unfitness The president benefits from the failure to focus on his broken brain

Media must cover — not cover up — Trump’s unfitness
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🔤 Garbl’s Writing Bookshelf 2025 A lifelong editor’s favorite guides to writing, clarity, and style

🔤 Garbl’s Writing Bookshelf 2025
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Venezuela's Maduro says the US is fabricating a war and seeks to revoke citizenship of opponent Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro says the U.S. is “fabricating” a war against him as the world’s biggest warship approaches the South American country, while moving to revoke the citizenship of an...

apnews.com/article/vene... Maduro says the US is fabricating a war and seeks to revoke citizenship of opponent

🏛️ How to Track What Congress Actually Does Simple tools for seeing votes, patterns, and progress — whether the government’s open or not.

🏛️ How to Track What Congress Actually Does
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Leading from Behind — and Cashing In When loyalty becomes currency, democracy pays the price

✍️ Leading from Behind — and Cashing In
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Opinion | Trump Posted a Video of Himself Dumping Excrement on Our Cities. It’s a Glimpse of His Deepest Drives.

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Leading from Behind — and Cashing In When loyalty becomes currency, democracy pays the price

✍️ Leading from Behind — and Cashing In
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🌟 The First Freedom A Playlist About Speech, Press & the People’s Voice

🌟 The First Freedom
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Nearly 7 million people attend overwhelmingly peaceful No Kings Day of Action — No Kings In one of the largest single-day nationwide demonstrations in U.S. history, nearly seven million Americans gathered today, 2 million more than June, in over 2,700 cities and towns for the No Kings Day...

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✍️ A Declaration for a Just and Free Nation As we mark the Fourth of July, other writers have shared new takes on the Declaration of Independence—some satirical, some serious, some reminding us that the original still speaks volumes.

✍️ A Declaration for a Just and Free Nation
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When America Said, 'No Kings' A reminder of the grievances.... And the values that made America.

When America Said, 'No Kings'
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No Kings People are protesting.

No Kings
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Why We Protest No Kings — Freedom

Why We Protest
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✍️ Outrage Is a Start. Here’s What Comes Next. Turning protest into purpose

✍️ Outrage Is a Start. Here’s What Comes Next.
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