If we want to deploy actual power to block Trump’s vicious agenda once he takes control of the federal government, we will have to look to the states.
We must lay up our supplies – of love, care, trust, community and resolve – so we may resist the storm. No one can deal with every issue at once, and choosing which part of the problem to commit to is part of the work of resistance.
Not satire from Borowitz, but a couple of history lessons. In 1984 after Reagan romped to victory with 59 percent of the popular vote and 525 electoral votes, Reaganism was declared unstoppable. But two years later, Democrats proved the pundits wrong
We cannot deny that fascism, fueled by racism and misogyny, has been leveraged to divide and weaken working people. But our movement was built to fight the forces that seek to undermine democracy and enslave the human soul.
An exploration of how "victims of the past/ Inundated by the echoing pageantry of the government’s traumatizing machine/ Become the victimizers of the present." A tribute to "idealist youth/ Who daily defy/ Refusing to lie/ Valuing all/ Tikkun Olum.
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A ceremony at an old food market in Amsterdam prompts reflections on tragedy, indifference and survival. How could so many Israelis feel indifferent to such grief and afflictions — that recalled how so many Germans had turned a blind eye to the Nazis
During the attack, the more bombs Israel detonated, the more stories I told, and the more I read. Telling stories was my way of resisting. It was all I could do.
One of the recurring themes of the collection: the ways in which the scars caused by slavery and other forms of racial violence in America linger, influencing and echoing future events within a chronology of traumas.
On the electoral front, surges and splits
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