Timothy Snyder says Democrats have a “once-in-a-lifetime chance to make big transformative changes,” echoing the recent, major victories against autocrats overseas in places like Serbia and Hungary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffP4...

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“This isn’t just our personal story,” the journalists said in their statement. “It’s the story of a country and a society that are being finished off in exactly the same way.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/w...

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your tax dollars (illegally) at work: "Days before consequential midterm elections, the head of the Social Security Administration blasted out an email to the public praising President Donald Trump..." www.washingtonpost.com/elections/20...

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Last April, when this audiobook came out, I was an avid proselytizer for Patrick Stewart's reading of the complete sonnets. He loved them so much & performed them so well--& sprinkled throughout are his reflections on a life of doing Shakespeare onstage. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Patric...

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The US currently has 50,000 US forces and 20 Navy ships operating across the Middle East, and the Congressional Budget Office estimates the conflict is costing the US $2 billion to $3 billion a month as the Pentagon burns through munitions, jet fuel and supplies to sustain its operations.

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