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Myanmar Micks

Christian Alexander

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Letโ€™s put this upfront and made clear, the Myanmar military junta is a murderous regime. It has seized control of the entire political apparatus, rounded up opposition politicians, and launched a war against everyday people around ...

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The Big Takeover

Jarrod Shanahan

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On January 6th a determined mob from across the United States descended on Washington, D.C. They rumbled with police, overturned barricades, breached the perimeter of the United States Capitol, and smashed their way into the building ...

โ€œThe Last Stand of Freedom in Americaโ€

Zhandarka Kurti

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โ€œHow many of you have an easy life?โ€ the speaker asked the audience. To his dismay a handful of people raised their hands. โ€œWell, okay, I guess some of you have it good, but many of ...

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Thankful for President Trump: Thanksgiving with Stop the Steal

Jarrod Shanahan

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On Thanksgiving morning supporters of President Trumpโ€™s doomed reelection effort descended on the Loop neighborhood of Chicago to raise the battle cry โ€œStop the Steal!โ€ The โ€œstealโ€ in this tortured locution is the purported Democratic Party ...

โ€œRemember What My Number Isโ€: RIP Toots Hibbert

Mike Morgan

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54-46 was Toots Hibbertโ€™s prison number.ย  He sang it out loud on the electrifying track 54-46 Thatโ€™s My Number (1969), one of a crop of tunes that made Toots and the Maytals a household name on ...

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John Brownโ€”โ€œone of the most clear-sighted and courageous patriots our nation has ever producedโ€

Hard Crackers Editors

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An Interview with Marty Brown Marty Brown is a descendant of Jason Brown, one of John Brownโ€™s children.ย  She lives in Portland, Oregon.ย  We contacted her after we read a letter that she had written to ...

The Show Must Go On

Jarrod Shanahan

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โ€œItโ€™s so great that we are all together in one place,โ€ a middle-aged white woman gushed, almost directly in my ear. โ€œTrump was sent by God!โ€ I had other theories, but she was right about one ...

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COVID, protest, and now fire: Portland at a tipping point

Peter Little

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The past four months in Portland have felt like nature doling out warning slaps, demonstrating the fragility of all of our systems. In the midst of years of far right groups mobilizing and marching in the ...

Dispatches from our new Angry Red Planet

Christian Alexander

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First, Iโ€™m thinking of all my friends and comrades out here on theย West Coast โ€“ with all the fires everywhere. Iโ€™m hoping folks can stay safe, whether itโ€™s just trying to get by, or being part ...

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In the Eye of the Storm: A Report from Kenosha

Fran, JF and Lane

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What’s so simple in the moonlight by the morning never is. ย -Bright Eyes The night of the shooting, bands of armed white men dotted the landscape before we even arrived in Kenosha. Police roadblocks along I-94 ...