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Friday Signpost: No Kings Day and the Social Change Map
Find your local protest, and other ways to contribute if you're not able to attend
Jun 13
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Call Them What They Are: Corporate Mobsters
How sweet it is to be a corporate criminal these days!
Jun 12
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Big Brother Is Real… And On The Move
Ok, let’s have a show of hands: How many of you voted to hand ALL of your most personal data to Trump’s intrusive government?
Jun 10
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Should The “Local Shrimp” You Buy Come From 8,000 Miles Away?
Let’s say you like shrimp.
Jun 5
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Right-Wingers To Women: Stay Home And Have Babies!
The right-wing routinely demonizes family-friendly policies of liberals as “social engineering.”
Jun 3
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May 2025
Ronnie Dugger: A Model for What a Journalist Ought to Be
My fondest memory of Ronnie Dugger is him in his cluttered cubbyhole of an office, his brow furrowed and his mind whirring as he pounded away on an old…
May 30
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Why Would Anyone Buy A Ticket To Hell From Elon Musk?
The most embarrassing thing about the ballyhooed war-on-government-waste, run by Elon “Chainsaw” Musk, is not even that it has generated more waste than…
May 29
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What Starlings Could Teach Trump’s Mean Government
There is a species of birds named “superb starlings,” and I propose that we elect one of them to be our next president.
May 27
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Friday Signpost: Send Sex Ed to Your School Board
You hear us chanting our mantra constantly: All politics is local. Local politics are the unsung heroes of grassroots movements, but they often don’t…
May 23
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Deanna Zandt
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Moral Rights For AI Bots? What About Human Bots?
You might be alarmed to learn that a little-known group in America is being treated inhumanely, denied even the most basic human rights.
May 22
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Gutless, Greedy Lawyers Kowtowing to Trump
I am a product of George Washington University Law School, so I feel I have an insider’s right to comment on the super-elite law firms that’ve suddenly…
May 20
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You Asked For It, We're Ready For It: The Return of Your Long-Form Lowdown
Time to get back into our regular deep-dives into issues and topics we love
May 16
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