Like #freedomwalk2026, Josiah Henson went from Maryland to Canada. Like Harriet Tubman, he, too, was a hero of the Underground Railroad. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/w...

#freedomwalk2026 will be in Havre de Grace, MD, this coming Sunday, May 10.

The second day of #freedomwalk2026. It included a stop at the Harriet Tubman Cultural Center in Howard County. www.relive.com/view/vJOKjMX...

The first day of #freedomwalk2026. www.relive.com/view/vr63W1R...

#FreedomWalk2026 Begins! The walk started at the Sandy Spring Slave Museum and continued past caves where Freedom Seekers hid. The next day brought them to Freedom Farm and the Harriet Tubman Cultural Center in Howard County. open.substack.com/pub/thomasde...

Tony Cohen will keep of blog of #freedomwalk2026. It started yesterday. This is the first entry. www.menare.org/walk-blog/a-...

#freedomwalk2026 begins. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Huu...

After Mythos: "Every company that ships open-source code in its products — which is most of the technology industry — should invest in the essential workers who maintain it." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

A dark night on Truth Social shows a president who is not well. Congress, especially the GOP, needs to speak up; they need to act. If not, what tragedies will come? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Like many, I am concerned about Trump's mental condition, but the 25th Amendment Is an unlikely and inapt solution. www.cato.org/blog/25th-am...

Tony Cohen will travel from Maryland to Canada along the path of the Underground Railroad from May 4 to July 4, accompanied by a statue of Harriet Tubman. See the statue and support Tony at the Riverworks Outdoor Stage in Poolesville, April 30, 6-8pm www.riverworksart.org/event-detail...

China is an electrostate, leading the world is generation and consumption of renewable-based electric power. The US is a petrostate, consuming far more petroleum than it produces. Does this not make it patriotic to push for and use renewable energy? open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

When the Trump administration chooses not to act in support of others, countries choose not to rely on the US. The consequences will be long-lasting. Australia is a prime example. www.aspistrategist.org.au/get-serious-...

How admirable a people. open.substack.com/pub/maxboot/...

Tony Cohen will walk the path of the Underground Railroad beginning in Sandy Spring. MD, on May 4, ending in Canada on July 4. For more information and a chance to support this effort, see menare.org. www.mocolmp.org/post/walking...

Randy Marchany argues that the software industry has chosen not to fix vulnerabilities that were well known a quarter of a century ago. He's not wrong. open.substack.com/pub/vtrandy/...

In the Strait of Hormuz, geography favors the defender; the US controls nothing. Worse, it seems, the lessons of Gallipoli in 1915 have yet to be learned. foreignaffairsinfo.substack.com?utm_campaign...

Hormuz 2026 is like Gallipoli 1915: Despite the US Navy, the Iranians will be able to keep the strait closed. www.aspistrategist.org.au/ghost-of-gal...

If Trump were a stopped clock, inevitably correct twice a day, there are Trump haters who would deny that he could ever be right. There are also MAGA supporters who would deny that he could ever be wrong. The truth, of course, lies somewhere in between.

In Iran as in Venezuela, cyber + kinetic ops are used to degrade situational awareness, compress decision-making cycles and widen windows of advantage. Also, the target is not just connectivity but the Iranian public’s connection to their country. www.aspistrategist.org.au/beyond-bombs...

Tom Nichols lays out the risks from the attacks on Iran. We may succeed, but there are a 100 ways to fail. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Why are folks not asking more questions about this FBI complaint in the Epstein Files? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Daniel Stid argues for responsible pluralism in philanthropy. It is something we should see throughout our political life. open.substack.com/pub/artofass...

It has been a year since Trump and Rubio stopped funding USAID. The costs born by the poor who those programs helped have enormous. But they are far from us; we do not see how they suffer and die. It is an American-made catastrophe. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...

What if the enshittification cycle of Big Tech includes a political capture loop? If Big Tech--Google. Meta, Twitter, etc.--controls information, how can we bring it down? How can we do to Amazon what Tarbell did to Standard Oil? open.substack.com/pub/hypertex...

Questions about the recent cyber incident in Poland. In any type of analysis, it is important to ask what sources are used with what limits and what assumptions are made. pylos.co/2026/01/31/a...

Joe Collins lays out reasons why we have been able to wear a white hat in international affairs. Trump and his administration seem to be trying the black hat on for size. open.substack.com/pub/josephco...

Montgomery County, MD, has changed dramatically since Sidney Randolph was lynched in Rockville on the Fourth of July, 1896. But its history since then shows that anger and hate in the county have not disappeared. www.mocolmp.org/post/racial-...

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

I watched Trump’s speech at Davos and came away convinced that his mental state is abnormal, to use a neutral phrase. This article gives clinical reasons why we should all be concerned. What makes it worse: his condition is progressive. open.substack.com/pub/clairebe...

U.S. manufacturing is struggling. Why? Tariffs raise the prices of inputs; their implementation and complexity add to uncertainty. Beware of forecasts that any of this will change. www.cato.org/commentary/a...

Trump at Davos: Soliloquy of a lunatic. It is sad, dispiriting. humiliating, maddening.

An eloquent appraisal of where we stand in our 250th year.

The Trumpian worldview is consistent, sort of, and bonkers. We will have to live with and try to undo the damage it is wreaking. That will be a task for the next generation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Peace for a prize, not simply because it's good. In case anyone doubted that Trump is transactional, not principled. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now. Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations. Source: dr.dk

Our imperialist president proves that hypocrisy is but a venial sin. Would that he saw American interests as Kipling and McKinley did rather than as Stephen Miller does.

May Trump have a Dickensian NYE night. May he be visited by ghosts of America Past, Present, and Future. May he greet the New Year as a new man, happy, generous, loving his fellow man, great and small, rich and poor.

Barton Swaim sees profanity as a political statement. one that will leave us when the political winds change. Alas, it's not. It has become ubiquitous, embedded in our culture. www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

Trump. Hegseth, et al., like Peter Pan, will never grow up. Pity them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The Trump administration does not understand that Russia cares not about economics, only empire, and is dedicated to the complete subjugation of Ukraine. Believing that they think as we do is a fool's game. www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...

The label 'competitive authoritarianism' might be accurate for the US. But the factors favoring democracy remain strong. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Is there corruption in Ukraine? Of course. But how do we know? Ukrainians, determined to root it out, are making it transparent. In contrast, Russia is determined to make it opaque and the Trump administration has made it translucent. open.substack.com/pub/anneappl... @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

A small thing, but telling. The National Park Service Ends Fee-Free Days on MLK Day and Juneteenth and Places Trump on America the Beautiful Passes open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

The article is somewhat snarky, but it has insight into what makes Trump tick: The joys of a 12-year old boy with no parents to say he can't.

Peggy Noonan on this era of political violence. We need to cool it. How can we? www.wsj.com/opinion/were...

The cybersecurity of our country always had to depend on cooperation between government and the private sector. It now seems that the federal government is folding its tent. wapo.st/4iaHqBR

Rich Harwood has seen that we have fallen out of the habit of thinking locally; we focus instead on national issues and look outside our community for solutions. This makes us spectators, not players. There is so much more that we can do if we think and act locally. open.substack.com/pub/civicbar...

The empathy is missing.

Ukraine reports that Russia's draft defense budget cuts military spending, but increases spending on state-run media. If this is true, it suggests that Russia is emphasizing information warfare and propaganda. open.substack.com/pub/jamestow...