Portside

A time to try our souls

Power without legitimacy eventually meets its match.

Murder by meme

“Deploying the National Guard to engage in law enforcement is not only unnecessary and unwanted, but it is also dangerous and harmful to the District and its residents. It’s D.C. today but could be any other city tomorrow."

Several thousand protesters march to oppose Trump's troop deployment Justice Department data shows violent crime at 30-year low in D.C D.C. Attorney General files lawsuit against troop deployment, citing unconstitutionality

Big Tech and civilization

The capital has for most of its history been a largely-to-mostly-Black city run by open racists. This takeover by white federal officials is something many in the Black community have been anticipating for decades. There’s even a name for it-The Plan

Readers Comments: National Guard to Washington, DC, Where Next?; Standing Up to Fascism - Learning from Martin Niemöller; Killing Medics and Journalists; RFK Gutting Our Defense Against Future Pandemics; New Book About Alger Hiss; Cartoons; lots more

A busy summer

Readers Comments: Trump-Putin Summit; Trump White-Washington Slavery; Trump's DC Takeover; Zohran Mamdani - the “Commie Corridor”; Zoom this Sunday: Gaza & the West Bank: Views from the Israeli and Palestinian left; Cartoons and more...