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🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump accelerated his assault on the federal judiciary Thursday by accusing “certain” Supreme Court justices of being “unpatriotic and disloyal” by striking down most of his tariffs. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
20.02.2026 19:05 — 👍 1517 🔁 530 💬 221 📌 51Let’s make a soundtrack for our time. Music that provokes and inspires. Reach across genres. What would be on your list?
19.02.2026 18:31 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 27 📌 1Hegseth invited Christian nationalist Doug Wilson to preach at Pentagon
19.02.2026 07:46 — 👍 37 🔁 21 💬 7 📌 1“I Am Somebody” is a poem written by Rev. William Holmes Borders, Sr. He was the Senior Pastor at Wheat Street Baptist Church in Atlanta. Reverend Jesse Jackson recited the poem often.
17.02.2026 16:45 — 👍 59 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 2www.c-span.org/clip/public-... | Take a moment and listen.
17.02.2026 14:44 — 👍 27 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2You misheard me. I said Democratic.
16.02.2026 18:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ours is a time of shattered mirrors.
13.02.2026 21:39 — 👍 47 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0Trump's EPA will stop regulating greenhouse gases, setting up a legal fight - NPR / what in the living hell?!
12.02.2026 13:14 — 👍 39 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1“The time has come, God knows, for us to examine ourselves, but we can only do this if we are willing to free ourselves from the myth of America and try to find out what is really happening here.”
-James Baldwin
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”
-James Baldwin
As we approach the nation’s 250th anniversary, we find ourselves once again drowning in lies. My new book America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries attempts to reckon with moment. It will be published on May 26, 2026.
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“What it comes to is that if we, who can scarcely be considered a white nation, persist in thinking of ourselves as one, we condemn ourselves…to sterility and decay, whereas if we could accept ourselves as we are, we might bring new life to Western achievements and transform them.”
31.01.2026 14:19 — 👍 53 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0And here we are, in the 250th year of the country, still in the battle, still fighting lies and willful ignorance. Dostoevsky meant a lot to Baldwin. Today I’m reminded of the line from “The Grand Inquisitor”: “This deceit will constitute their suffering.”
31.01.2026 14:19 — 👍 32 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0Baldwin was clear: these so-called innocent people fail to understand that it is their “innocence which constitutes the crime.”
31.01.2026 14:19 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Thinking this morning about the arrests of journalists, activists, and the overall state of the country. As is often the case, James Baldwin came to mind. This the 63rd anniversary of THE FIRE NEXT TIME. He wrote, “Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands.”
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Man Lunges at Ilhan Omar During Minneapolis Town Hall www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
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