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This is a moment of opportunity
Strange as it may seem
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No more crabs, no more buckets
It’s about to get ugly. Thursday and Friday saw the biggest stock market losses since 2020, this time from an entirely avoidable crisis that the President and his administration have created. The stock market is not the economy, but it is a snapshot of investor confidence, and they’re
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We’re in a fight to be human
By now you’ve probably seen the immensely viral Miyazaki AI images. Millions of photos have been run through the machine that spits them out in the Studio Ghibli style, mimicking the beautiful art made famous by movies like Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Kiki’s Delivery Service and
US Politics
Politics is a direction, not a destination
Ten years ago, precisely, I was organizing against police brutality in St. Louis. A group called Students in Solidarity had emerged in the wake of the Ferguson uprising, with members from multiple schools in the area. We protested St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch, we disrupted events, and we tried
media
Social media is the house that always wins
On taking our resistance offline
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Turns out we need each other
Right now more than ever
Elon Musk
Used Car Salesman Fascism
Trump, Musk, and the effort to prop up Tesla
US Politics
Don’t wait for the tipping point
ICE agents have kidnapped a Palestinian man, Mahmoud Khalil, who helped organize Columbia student protests against Israel’s genocide. He’s a green card holder. His wife, an American citizen who is eight months pregnant, was also threatened, says his attorney. Just before the publication of this piece, journalist Prem
US Politics
Convenience is killing us
Let me be the first to say I like my little conveniences. I enjoy it when my web browser memorizes my passwords and saves me six seconds, sometimes I get food delivered to my house, and I take a Lyft to the airport when I can’t get a cab
US Politics
A Government of Looters
The oligarchs are trying to steal everything they can
boycott
What comes after a one-day boycott?
So there was a one-day boycott. It’s impossible to know how many people participated, but millions liked, posted, and shared the message, and quite a few probably withheld their money from corporate America for a day. Today the question some people are naturally asking is, now what? But, before
US Politics
The Deadly Dumbing Down
Reversing the deliberate effort to curtail the American mind