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The Generational Divide

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Back in the late 90s, I was active in progressive Tennessee politics for a couple of years, when I lived in Knoxville. It was the most active I've been in my life in terms of real organizing and such. Something about living in a place like...
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The American Concentration Camp

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The United States has a long history of concentration camps, for Native Americans and for Japanese Americans. We now have concentration camps for immigrants. People are dying in our concentration camps. The March 4, 2026, edition of the Arizona Daily Star put the facts succinctly: “A Haitian asylum seeker...
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The failed politics of nostalgia

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The primary justification for Trump's tariffs was that it is worth it for everyone to pay higher prices if it would bring back more manly-man blue collar jobs (or at least what New York/Florida billionaires imagine to be such.) The problem, as has long been evident,...
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Bondi Fired

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It basically doesn't matter which fascist scumbag is Attorney General under Trump, so I get no particularly joy from this news or even find it interesting. The only part I am interested in is the confirmation process for a new AG if Trump picks someone even...

LOL whatever

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Good comment from rm about what a lot of people are saying was the greatest wartime (or peacetime) speech any president has ever given: Here's that sense of unreality again..

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