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Video: The Raging Grannies

These Grannies were made for raging
And that’s just what we’ll do
One of these days these Grannies
Are gonna help get rid of You

December 27, 2025 · 10 Comments

David Kirby: The Way I See It

I wonder if our bosses have any idea how much time we spend
thinking about them. My friend Silvia can’t sleep because
she can’t remember the name of her boss from twenty years ago.

December 27, 2025 · 11 Comments

Video: The 60 Minutes Story The Trump Administration Doesn’t Want You To See

This video is a 60 Minutes segment about how the Trump administration violated our constitution and people’s basic human dignity. The editor-in-chief of CBS News tried to suppress the story in order to curry favor with the Trump administration.

December 26, 2025 · 5 Comments

Judith Sanders: Bubbe and Zayde Take Me to the Ice Capades

I danced past the hospital playroom
where bald children rode tricycles,
because you, my son, would get well.

December 26, 2025 · 14 Comments

Luke: 2:1-16

And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

December 25, 2025 · 6 Comments

John Guzlowski: Love Your Neighbor?

Yes, Jesus said, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” but, of course, he’s not the only one who said it.  Almost every religion has that phrase or something like it at its core. 

December 25, 2025 · 9 Comments

Julia Conley: Greta Thunberg Arrested in UK for Supporting Palestine Action and Opposing Gaza Genocide

Thunberg joined a call for British officials to meet with the lawyers of Palestine Action protesters who have been on a hunger strike in prison. 

December 24, 2025 · 9 Comments

Eva-Maria Simms: An Ordinary Christmas

My family has lived in Siegen, an old town in Germany, for generations. My grandfather, a small business owner, bought a townhouse with three apartments in 1936. My father was … Continue reading

December 24, 2025 · 19 Comments

Video: Whatever moves is alive

In this haunting animated lyric. the world is seen through the eyes of a child.

December 23, 2025 · 2 Comments

Tony Gloeggler: Magnitude

the first time he ran to me, grabbed
my hand when I picked him up
at school, the first morning
he walked into our Brooklyn
bedroom to cuddle between us

December 23, 2025 · 14 Comments

Robbi Nester: Delicious

For me, 
love has to rise like bread dough, worked until 
it has a tender crumb. It’s not simple, though maybe
simplicity might come, if I work hard enough.

December 22, 2025 · 22 Comments

Wayne Hsiung: Four Takeaways from the Shocking Conviction in the Beagle Rescue Trial

Beagle rescuers may soon join the laboratory dogs in being trapped in a cage. 

December 22, 2025 · 7 Comments

Liz Theoharis: American Nero

The Immoral Politics of Authoritarianism and the Bible 

December 21, 2025 · 6 Comments

Ma Yongbo: A Dream at the Beginning of Winter (English & Chinese) 

The broad leaves of the sycamore tree fall onto the small car,
once all the leaves have fallen, the car’s colour turns white,
receiving signals from the stars of the departed

December 21, 2025 · 43 Comments

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