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The Fantasy of Liberation by War The current U.S.–Israel war on Iran is being celebrated in some quarters as a long-awaited rupture.

This helped me to develop some better questions to ask.
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It's such a preposterous "policy" proposal.

I mailed out the letterpress prints that I raffled through my newsletter. Congratulations to the winners. Of course I ended up selecting more than the 5 people I said I would. I sent out prints to 10 people.

How the Abortion Rights Activists Found Their Radical Imagination A long-shot campaign to restore public funding for abortion turned into the movement’s biggest success in a generation.

For @thenation.com in this excerpt from Killers of Roe, a HOPEFUL story about the abortion rights movement's greatest unsung success story in a generation, and how it grew out of frustration with Democrats following the ACA.

The story of @allaboveall.bsky.social: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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People can be ridiculous.

This is actually funny to me because Muslims were in America before most of Mr. Ogles's people were I AM CERTAIN, LOL. Sit down, loser. Muslims will be here as they have been here for hundreds of years (before there was a U.S.).

Some of you talk to people #onhere as though you know zero about them. And if you know zero about a person then you should be much less confident in speaking to them as though you know them, their work or anything.

Establishment Dems would rather twist themselves into knots and come up with convoluted policies than to simply fight for universal provision of public goods for all.

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They are also mistaken if they believe that what happens to other people's children is separate from what will happen to their own.

Dilla and Ancestry Present: ‘The Women Who Built Chicago’ Bus Tour Running throughout Women's History Month, 'The Women Who Built Chicago' bus tour celebrates the women who made a lasting impact on Chicago.

Tickets for the bus tour: www.eventbrite.com/e/dilla-and-...

'Women Who Built Chicago' Bus Tour Highlights History Of City’s Trailblazers Urban historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas teamed up with Ancestry on the March tour honoring women whose contributions to Chicago — and the world — are often overlooked.

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Congratulations to Kwaneta!

Respectfully you are not the one being bombed if you're living in the U.S. Please be serious.

wonderful. I think you'll appreciate it.

The racial hierarchy in gulf societies is truly disgusting to witness

Iran Signals Willingness To Play Long Game, Touts Oil-Price Brinkmanship Iran Signals Willingness To Play Long Game, Touts Oil-Price Brinkmanship

“I don’t see any room for diplomacy,” an official told CNN.

I truly loved making this project with Marc, Brett and Jon!!! It turned out great and I've appreciated hearing from people that this is the first time they've heard about this protest and history.

That's wonderful!

Louise E. Jefferson: Trailblazing Black Cartographer Black Women in Publishing

In the spirit of #WomensHistoryMonth, I am revisiting @prisonculture.bsky.social 's essay about Louise E. Jefferson, polyglot cartographer extraordinaire

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thank you for reading and sharing.

Guess What Moderate Democratic Voters Aren’t Anymore? Moderate. Two new polls suggest that moderate Democrats, too, want higher taxes on the rich and some measure of economic populism. Moderate isn’t what it was in 1992.

Third Way and other "moderate" Democratic groups and elites constantly bash progressive politicians and ideas. But moderate Democratic VOTERS really like raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations, Medicare-for-all, and Bernie Sanders. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

So many bad things happening. Here’s a photo of a tiny figurine of Notorious BIG (with Tupac in the back) that made me smile.

It's not at all suspicious that one of the guards at the prison where Epstein was held googled "how to fake a suicide" during the weeks leading up to Epstein's death.

Trump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount U.S. President Donald Trump bought more than $1.1 million of Netflix bonds over the last three months as the streaming giant unsuccessfully fought Paramount Skydance to ​buy Warner Bros Discovery , ac...

Trump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount
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A Year After His Arrest, Mahmoud Khalil Lives in Limbo and in Fear

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/n...

Most Cops Get Crisis Intervention Training. Some Calls Still End in Tragedy. Eight times since 2019, NYPD officers shot or tased someone while responding to a 911 mental health call — despite completing the department's crisis intervention program, a review by THE CITY found.

Mental health crisis training for police doesn't work. We need a civilian alternative. www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/09/c...

Americans have no idea how much the world is shook, folks. Here in Thailand they have a running tally of how many days' worth of fuel the country has left.