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Molly Fisk: The Northeast Edge of Normal

parents of children
I’ll never meet are gone into the open
arms of the sky and the sea and their
sons and daughters with them how
can this happen again

October 18, 2025 · 11 Comments

Thom Hartmann: Will US Democracy Survive? This Is a Threshold Moment

The moment is urgent. If we don’t speak up and rise up now, we may not get another chance.

September 22, 2025 · 8 Comments

Arlene Weiner: Ghazal

When parting or meeting we wish each other peace.
We show with every greeting that we are lovers of peace.

October 7, 2024 · 10 Comments

Derrick Z. Jackson: Ripe for Disaster Declarations | Heat, Wildfire Smoke…and Death Data

It is clear that the opposition is willing to risk sacrificing lower-wage construction and farm workers to the sun’s brutality as executives count the cash in air conditioned offices.

July 27, 2024 · 10 Comments

Abby Zimet: Taking On Bigots, Yahoos and Perpetrators Of All Kinds

Talk about flipping the script. Within days, in an historic act of grace, old Joe did the “right and honorable thing” and handed the reins to Kamala, “in every possible way (the) anti-Trump,” who ran with them.

July 26, 2024 · 6 Comments

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