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Prism
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āA legacy is an active thing, a verb, a transgressive appeal to memory that we must form a community around & continually raise,ā wrote D. Musa Springer. Springer's op-ed reclaims MLK Jr. from the grips of imperialism. His spirit will always live on for those who need it.
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Reclaiming Martin Luther King Jr. from the grips of imperialism
Martin Luther King was a true revolutionary. His spirit can never be distorted and will always live on for those who need it
https://prismreports.org/2025/01/16/martin-luther-king-race-imperialism/
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RNS
7 days ago
The Presbyterian Church (USA) calls Renee Good a martyr for her faith and part of āa sacred lineage of faithful witnesses who have risked and lost their lives in defense of human dignity.ā
religionnews.com/2026/01/13/r...
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Renee Good was a martyr for her faith, like MLK, say Presbyterians
(RNS)ā The Presbyterian Office of Public Witness, part of the Presbyterian Church (USA), says Good is part of āa sacred lineage of faithful witnesses who have risked and lost their lives in defenseā¦
https://religionnews.com/2026/01/13/renee-good-was-a-martyr-for-her-faith-like-mlk-say-presbyterians/
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The Trace
13 days ago
Federal officials say the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis was justified. Video evidence tells a more complicated story. After immigration agents killed Good, a law professor explains when deadly force is allowed and whether the shooter could be charged.
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Immigration Agents Are Shooting People. Is It Legal?
A law professor explains whether the agent who fatally shot Renee Good could face prosecution.
https://www.thetrace.org/2026/01/ice-shooting-legal-prosecution-federal-agent/
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Liberal Currents
14 days ago
āA number of extremist Christian nationalists see a future where America embraces its white Christian heritage at home and imposes its will on the world abroad. The phrase that best captures Engelās politics is one he and his allies often repeat: repeal the 20th century.ā
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Remigration, Recolonization, Rechristianization, Restoration: How Some of Americaās Most Extreme Christian Nationalists See the New (Old) World Order
On the right's masculine, white nationalist, and theocratic framework.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/remigration-recolonization-rechristianization-restoration-how-some-of-americas-most-extreme-christian-nationalists-see-the-new-old-world-order/
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Mother Jones
14 days ago
Trump and his gang are deconstructing America. This is their purposeful goal and an obvious one, if you look past the daily barrage of absurdity, indecency, corruption, wrongdoing, and abuses of power. It is the story that must be conveyed to the citizenry.
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Donald Trump and the deconstruction of America
Don't let the daily outrages obscure the big picture.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/donald-trump-deconstruction-america/
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Bobbie Philipsborn
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Mother Jones
18 days ago
Five years later, MAGA World is still engaging in its Orwellian rewriting of history.
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The erasure of January 6
Five years later, MAGA World is still engaging in its Orwellian rewriting of history.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/january-6-5th-anniversary-capitol-mob-trump-orwell/
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Mueller, She Wrote
19 days ago
My friend
@charlotteclymer.bsky.social
has written about Mark Kellyās distinguished military career. This is not to be missed.
open.substack.com/pub/charlott...
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The Extraordinary Military Career of Mark Kelly
Good lord, has this man done a lot.
https://open.substack.com/pub/charlotteclymer/p/the-extraordinary-military-career?r=14rrh9&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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19thnews
19 days ago
To Trump and his Make America Great Again movement, Ashli Babbitt was not an insurrectionist. She was a martyr, someone who died for her beliefs. She was a woman who had died for lack of protection.
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The making of a MAGA martyr
Ashli Babbitt was killed while trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election ā and became proof to Trump and his followers that women need protection.
https://bit.ly/4soRIDl
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Raw Story
20 days ago
OPINION: In the Donald Trump era ā praise be!
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Once you see what is driving Trump into darkness, it can't ever be unseen
In the Donald Trump era ā praise be! ā so much is possible that previously no one had ever even imagined. For instance, not only has āthe late, great Hannibal Lecterā come back to life, he might even join Trumpās cabinet.Well, thatās just a guess, but why not? I think heād fit right in. All of which...
https://bit.ly/4sqBERt
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Mother Jones
24 days ago
āYield, man,ā Johnson said. āLet the troops come into your cities.ā
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Hero of 2025: King George III
The villain of the American Revolution is the patron saint of Donald Trump's second term.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/hero-of-2025-king-george-iii/
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
25 days ago
"What do humans, as a society, do when political actors can create their own history and manufacture the so-called ādocumentsā to back it up? While democratic processes themselves do not require widespread consensus on facts, accountability does."
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What happens when seeing is no longer believing?
Two fast-accelerating trends in how people consume and produce informationāin selective exposure to agreeable content and in our ability to generate realistic-looking audio, documents, photos, andā¦
https://thebulletin.org/premium/2025-12/what-happens-when-seeing-is-no-longer-believing/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=BlueskyPost122025&utm_content=DisruptiveTechnologies_SeeingBelieving_12202025
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The New York Times
28 days ago
New details of White House deliberations reveal how aides with overlapping agendas drove the U.S. toward a militarized confrontation with Venezuela.
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How Oil, Drugs and Immigration Fueled Trumpās Venezuela Campaign
New details of deliberations show how aides with overlapping agendas drove the United States toward a militarized confrontation with Venezuela.
https://nyti.ms/4pci3S0
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Uncle Don
about 1 month ago
One personās terrorist is another personās patriot. Better make damn sure you know the difference general.
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Mother Jones
about 1 month ago
They have a long history of falling for narcissists posing as Saviors.
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Why evangelicals couldn't care less about Trump's Epstein scandal
They have a long history of falling for narcissists posing as Saviors.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/why-evangelicals-couldnt-care-less-about-trumps-epstein-scandal/
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RNS
2 months ago
Victims and church leaders echo Trump's claims that Christians are persecuted. They say theyāve long been attacked, kidnapped or killed because of their faith.
religionnews.com/2025/11/19/t...
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Trump says Christians are being persecuted in Nigeria. The reality is more complicated
LIGARI, Nigeria (AP) ā Victims and church leaders echo Trump's claims that Christians are persecuted. They say theyāve long been attacked, kidnapped or killed because of their faith.
https://religionnews.com/2025/11/19/trump-says-christians-are-being-persecuted-in-nigeria-the-reality-is-more-complicated/
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Liberal Currents
3 months ago
"The far right in America sees women as a nationalāas well as naturalāresource, a means of reversing the mass tide of migration that they think has taken their country from them."
www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
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Women Should Make Babies, Not Vote: Why Some on the Far Right Want to Repeal the 19th Amendment
The far right takes losses at the ballot box as evidence that women do not deserve their rights.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should-make-babies-not-vote-why-some-on-the-far-right-want-to-repeal-the-19th-amendment/
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
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@gloriašļøš§
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The Conversation U.S.
3 months ago
Modern autocrats donāt always wear uniforms or rule by fear. They use elections, media control and polished images. Understanding this āspin dictatorshipā is key to protecting democracy, especially in the U.S, writes an expert on authoritarian regimes:
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Autocrats donāt act like Hitler or Stalin anymore ā instead of governing with violence, they use manipulation
Autocrats today are polished, appear mainstream and use the media, not overt repression or violence, to gain public support and consolidate power. They govern through a āspin dictatorship.ā
https://buff.ly/pbaOfdQ
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Aināt Complicit šŗšø
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Joe lunchbox
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Techdirt
4 months ago
Chicago And The End Of AmericanĀ Liberty. Around 10 PM on Monday, September 30th, 2025, federal agents surrounded an apartment building in Chicagoās South Shore neighborhood. ICE, Border Patrol, FBI, ATFāa multi-agency operation targeting suspected members of the Tren de Aragua gang. What happenedā¦
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Chicago And The End Of AmericanĀ Liberty.
Around 10 PM on Monday, September 30th, 2025, federal agents surrounded an apartment building in Chicagoās South Shore neighborhood. ICE, Border Patrol, FBI, ATFāa multi-agency operation targeting suspected members of the Tren de Aragua gang. What happened next should be the biggest story in America. Pertissue Fisher came out to the hallway of her apartment in her nightgown to find armed agents yelling āpolice.ā She had a gun pointed in her face.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/03/chicago-and-the-end-of-american-liberty/
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Dale Ryder
4 months ago
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The Conversation U.S.
5 months ago
A group called Return to the Land has established two "whites-only communities" in Arkansas, with plans for four more sites in the Ozarks and Appalachia. The creation of white āethnostatesā is the ultimate goal of some white nationalists, a scholar of right-wing extremism explains:
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An Arkansas groupās effort to build a white ethnostate forms part of a wider US movement inspired by white supremacy
Several white nationalist groups such as Return to the Land have attempted to establish all-white communities across the country.
https://buff.ly/ZN0LmJa
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@gloriašļøš§
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Moose 'n Squirrel
5 months ago
... and God be praised for 'welcoming the stranger'.
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22 Bible Verses on Welcoming Immigrants
There are many Bible verses related to migration in the Bible. These passages outline how the people of God are supposed to treat people who are not of their tribe or community, today known as migrant...
https://sojo.net/22-bible-verses-welcoming-immigrants
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