Civics
“The lightweight, right-wing media operation that now operates under the once-venerated Newsweek brand, asserts the following “truth”: “the old Trump Resistance politics is dead.”
“This is complete crap, of course. The core of the resistance is not a bunch of centrist Democrats. In fact, it is the upstart progressives – the “fighters” – who represent resistance values.
“They are the ones who have captured the enthusiasm of voters both by vigorously decrying Trump and by offering a vision of a more dramatically reconstructed post-Trump America.”
Noted on: August 20, 2026
“Why did it take the killing of a Maine resident to stir Susan Collins to action? Could it be that she doesn’t care who gets killed by ICE, but cares only that thousands of furious Maine residents protested outside her offices, calling for her ouster?”
Noted on: July 15, 2026
The Center for American Progress has the clearest vision for the post-Trump, new federal government for all of us, not the donor class, especially their strategy around ending Citizens United.
Noted on: July 15, 2026
Noted on: July 15, 2026
Noted on: July 12, 2026
“A spate of primary victories by democratic socialists — from New York to Colorado — have Republicans trying out the kind of hyperbole not heard since Sen. Joseph McCarthy. To paraphrase Barack Obama: The 1950s called. They want their rhetoric back.”
Noted on: July 12, 2026
I usually resonate with Rebecca Solnit, but this piece is strange. It is like all she knows of Platner is what she has absorbed from corporate media. What she missed: the movement is larger than one person, as Platner insisted in his countless town halls. We are the movement.
Noted on: July 7, 2026
“Israel will be holding elections no later than Oct. 27, and it’s time for American Jews to tell Israelis: We’re sick of Netanyahu. His regime has done more damage to the Jewish State than Hamas or Hezbollah could ever hope to do.”
Noted on: July 1, 2026
“More than 200 of the world’s elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.”
Noted on: June 16, 2026