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Bernie Sanders Fiery No Kings Speech in DC

Bernie Sanders Common Dreams
This is not the end. This is just the beginning. Together, when we stand united, we will create the kind of nation that you and I know we can become. A nation devoted to freedom, justice and democracy.

Journalist Jelani Cobb on Race in Donald Trump’s America

David Smith The Guardian
‘Indecency has become a new hallmark.’ In a new essay collection, the dean of Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism makes a compelling argument that everything is connected and nothing is inevitable about racial justice or democracy.

This Week in People’s History, Oct 22–28, 2025

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Magazine advertisement for DDT spray
DuPont Has DDT to Sell, So Watch Out! (1945), Women Want the Vote, Men Say No Way (1915), Icelandic Women Go on Strike Against Gender Discrimination (1975), Big Tobacco Kills, and Keeps on Killing (1940), Happy Birthday, Mike Doonesbury! (1970)

The Red Scare Is American Past and Present

Benjamin Balthaser Jacobin
If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here: McCarthyism.

Pervasive Impunity

Cora Currier The New York Review of Books
Richard Beck’s Homeland charts how four presidential administrations managed to evade moral responsibility for the “war on terror” by hiding behind legality and process.