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The Streets of Minneapolis

Bruce Springsteen YouTube
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst

The Innocence Trap: Survival Should Not Require Sainthood

Andrea Pitzer Degenerate Art
The answer is not just to get rid of an individual official. It's to insist on human rights for everyone, and to create a system in which punishment is not the central and defining feature of government for whole sectors of the U.S. population.

Friday Nite Videos | January 30, 2026. Fascism Can Be Defeated!

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Here’s how fascism can be defeated. March. Vote. Sing. Paint. Animate. All ways to defeat fascism. "Freedom Is A Verb." Streets Of Minneapolis. Democratic Penguins Republic - Greenland. "All You Fascists Bound To Lose." Only You Can Prevent Fascism.

Maxwell Lobs Grenade Naming 29 ‘Protected’ Epstein Friends

David Gardner, Farrah Tomazin, and Sarah Ewall-Wice Daily Beast
Buried in a petition that Maxwell recently filed in court, the convicted associate of Jeffrey Epstein references four potential “co-conspirators” and “25 men” who allegedly reached “secret settlements” —and were never indicted.

Minneapolis May Be Trump’s Gettysburg

Jamelle Bouie The New York Times
Gettysburg was supposed to be the blow that forced the United States to negotiate an end to the Civil War. What Lee did not anticipate was the iron resolve, the ferocious tenacity, of the Union defenders.

Greenland’s Inuit Have Spent Decades Fighting for Self-Determination

Susan A. Kaplan and Genevieve LeMoine The Conversation
While contemporary Greenland encompasses this range of lifestyles, Kalaallit are unified in their desire for self-determination. Greenland’s leaders have delivered this message clearly to the public and to the White House directly.

Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging

Evan Gorelick The New York Times
A flurry of posts from the White House, Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security have included images, slogans and even a song used by the white nationalist right. The posts have referred to neo-Nazi literature, ethnic cleansing...
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