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Reader Comments: Trump Indictment; Nashville Students Protest, Tenn Legislators Continue Dixiecrat Policies; Israeli Protests; Dolly Parton censored; Russian neo-imperialism; The Measures Taken - Live Theater Performance of Bertolt Brecht play;

Tennessee Republicans moving toward expulsion of three Democrats who supported students protesting for gun control after Nashville school shooting.

Authoritarianism vs public media, and other fights for the right to know

This lefty publisher is giving out censored books for free in Florida. We know that books in and of themselves don't change the world. But people reading together, learning together, organizing together; people coming together to know these ideas, and to think about how our side wins is actually dangerous.

Florida’s unapologetically racist governor, Ron DeSantis, has effectively declared war on the Black freedom movement.

Snowflake, Los Espookys, and other media breakthroughs you should know about

When objectivity is impossible, and other media mishugas

The fascists are moving from covert to overt

Reader Comments: Hearings and Republican Witnesses Show that Trump Planned Armed Coup; Supreme Court Rules Based on Lies, and Religion; Librarians and Books Under Attack; Starbucks Union Grows; Socialism 2022 Conference Labor Day weekend; more ....