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The weaponization of ‘balance’ increasingly permeates our society. It emerges when powerful institutions call police to suspend free speech or shut down protests in the name of ‘safety’ when really, there’s no realistic danger.

The audit found that the state’s medical examiners “often failed to acknowledge restraint as a potential contributing factor” when restrained by police and "often failed to appropriately classify homicides” when the people who died were non-white.

A Washington woman is taking Big Oil to court over her mother’s death in a historic heatwave, opening a new front in the fight to hold polluters legally accountable for climate-fueled deaths.

If people understand the issues and have given a president a clear mandate for universal Medicare, they have some ability to push recalcitrant senators and Congresspeople.

The State Department wants to create an alarming office to expel immigrants.

The point here is not to replicate a particular historical episode, but rather to suggest the urgency of breaking with conventional thinking about what is permissible. Lethargy and pusillanimity got us into this mess in the first place.

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Kennedy announced by tweet that Covid vaccines have been removed from the CDC's recommended schedule for healthy children and pregnant women, bypassing any rigorous decision process. Health care for millions is at stake.

Harvard became the first university to push back and sue Trump over his intrusions into academia. Before Harvard, Columbia folded. As with the law firms, the question is, who will bend the knee and who would tell the tyrant-in-the-making NO!

Removing this toxic force from power requires both the broadest possible anti-MAGA front and a radical contingent aware of just how deep the roots of US fascism run.