Sunday, April 6, 2025

Writing as Resistance

Doomed writers buried their accounts of the Warsaw ghetto in the hope that they could teach whoever unearthed the documents about good, evil, indifference and the importance of the truth as an act of resistance. They have left us a trove of papers on how to construct a life of meaning.

You deserve our hatred Elon. Your budget cuts are killing people.

Could Elon and his savage cuts to USAID. cause a subsequent resurgence of drug resistant TB?

Make America Worse – the corrosive blueprint driving Muskrat-Trump’s high-risk demolition derby

Where’s the great Trump hustle, what he does best, that promises the moon while taking away the earth? The battle is now how much scorched earth Trump inflicts without any positive deliverables to offset the pain.

Why more environmental justice organizations must join the call for a militarism-free future

An open letter initiated by CODEPINK urges the world to take the arduous baby step of recognizing the deadly intersection of war and environmental destruction.

The infinities of genocide abroad feed secret police at home

Strange how horror can oscillate into absurdity and back at ever accelerating rates. And strange how it rebounds to undermine basic American rights at home.
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10 worst things about the Trump presidency

We cannot afford to forget just how terrible Trump’s time in the White House was for this nation.

It’s time for Americans to fight like hell against the fascists that have infiltrated...

Even though it and our Constitution are still intact and working, they are under constant attack by these forces of evil.

Renaming The Gulf of Mexico isn’t a laughing matter but part of a US...

It reflects a disregard for historical truth, an aggressive assertion of U.S. superiority, and the continuation of exploitative colonialist practices that harm both the environment and Latin American people.

Frederick Douglass: Power concedes nothing without a demand

Despite presidential misconceptions, Frederick Douglass is dead. But he continues to inspire people around the world.

Trump’s bid to transform international relations may succeed

Eliminating bureaucracy and abandoning the world order that the U.S. helped build may allow Trump to recalibrate foreign policy, at the cost of global stability.