Please listen from 4:00-27:52 about the Paramount, Warner Bros, and further consolidation of media. Also please listen from 27:53-50:08 about AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R18k...

🚨BREAKING: More than 300,000 Missourians have signed a petition demanding that the gerrymander be put to a statewide referendum, advocacy organization People Not Politicians announced as it delivered those signatures to the state government Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Virginia’s “Data Center Alley” is a military-industrial buildout. Fueled by deregulation and military contracts, data centers are reshaping land, law, and life across the region.

Grrrrr.....These are bleak times indeed.

Here are three news stories Democracy Docket published today. If you agree that independent, pro-democracy media is more important now than ever before, please support Democracy Docket with a membership today. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

Whenever a politician tells you something the government does is "God's will", watch out. This is from October, but just as relevant today. WHY ARE US TROOPS OCCUPYING AMERICAN CITIES? open.substack.com/pub/seymourh...

May she rest in peace. Cora Weiss, Lifelong Champion of Social Justice, Dies at 91 - With a group called Women Strike for Peace, she helped organize demonstrations against the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...

Your donation supports our work to build a movement powerful enough to end all war. Through education, media, and nonviolent activism, we have the blueprint to ensure a sustainable and just peace. buff.ly/sCiWuBR

Please listen (at least) to the section on the Economy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=74-R...

John Lennon was murdered 45 years ago today. May he rest in peace.

Hey folks-- I've been asked to pin this link here, so here you go. The lectures and podcast episodes for "America at 250," the lecture course that I'm teaching with David Blight and Beverly Gage are at this link. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Trump has put election deniers in charge of overseeing “election integrity” for the 2026 midterms.

Just a reminder that at the founding of our nation, corporations were not intended to be permanent entities, let alone "people".

When do we insist on holding U.S. war criminals accountable for their crimes? Now would be a good time. open.substack.com/pub/thegrayz...

Important reporting and discussion here. (Skip the Epstein segment if you want to - not that impactful.) youtu.be/YYBfig2EDDs?...

We call on the U.S. government to abide by the rule of law and the will of the U.S. public, and to leave behind its long history of interventions, overthrows, and coups. Sign the petition.

Please listen to historian Joanne Freeman from 45:29-46:00 into this video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=isBC...

Here we go AGAIN!! This is NOT what people voted for. Americans have got to realize that our biggest challenge is what Pres. Eisenhower called the "military industrial complex" that runs the show no matter who is in office. theanalysis.news/venezuelans-...

I agree with you, Nina!!

Top 10 Reasons to Pretend It’s Unusual for the U.S. Government to Blow People Up worldbeyondwar.org/top-10-reaso...

Hmmm....

Senate Chooses $32 Billion For Pentagon Over Healthcare www.nationalpriorities.org/blog/2025/11...

I think this will be an important discussion. “Making Life Unbearable” catholicsocialthought.georgetown.edu/events/makin...

Thank You!!

Donald Trump actually said that Rep. Ilhan Omar is "garbage". This kind of language is completely unacceptable from a president of the United States. I happen to appreciate Rep. Ilhan Omar and would rather have her as my representative than the one who has been in office here for 25 years.

Excellent Show - important reporting and discussion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xRl...

This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Boycotts work. Keep going.

A new book which I highly recommend - newsociety.com/book/regener...

The incident is part of a pattern of extrajudicial killings as Israel escalates its military assault on the West Bank.

Pete Hegseth is a straight-up serial killer No asterisk, no caveat, he simply orchestrated—multiple times on multiple dates—a criminal conspiracy to murder unarmed persons who the U.S. military code deemed incapacitated and not a threat and then went online and admitted to doing it knowingly

We’re not shopping at Target, shop Black-owned. Here’s a list of Black- and minority-owned businesses that are in Target, buy from them directly. open.substack.com/pub/ninaturn...

The DC shooter is a man whose work *for the United States* drove him crazy from guilt. That work, conducted at the direction of *our* CIA, allegedly involved murdering civilians. So for Trump to now say that the DC shooting confirms that *Afghans* categorically have shitty values is.... beyond vile.

(🚨) BREAKING: Trump Steals Another $75 Million From Higher Ed, Continuing One of the Most Shameful Heists in the History of Big Government in Any Nation Worldwide

"Washington is targeting the Venezuelan people in an escalating regime-change offensive, combining open military violence with an economic siege that has quietly claimed far more lives."

Feeling grateful for my wonderful state rep. Debra Lekanoff.

What boggles my mind is that Stephen Miller is actually Jewish. His family escaped the pogroms in Ukraine the way some of mine did. It seems to me he suffers from self-hate, at the very least. Mental illness, at the very most.

Big congratulations to Gerry Condon! A prize well-deserved! www.pressenza.com/2025/11/gerr...

Sing to the tune of "Pop! Goes the Weasel": All around the economy We are in big trouble AI is the latest thing - POP! goes the bubble!

Yesterday I shared what I thought was an important video of John Mearsheimer. It looked so real, but it was fake - AI generated. We're living in such dangerous times, and it's very hard to know what's real and what's not. I'm going to be more careful, even when someone I respect shares something.

Did you know? Mapping Militarism breaks down global war systems, military spending, weapons sales, active wars, nukes, and resistance. Check it out!

Interesting piece about "X" accounts revealed to be foreign actors, from 1:45:32-1:55:33 into this Breaking Points. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjm4...