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#1619 A Guide to Protests Against Injustice from the Peaceful to the Deadly 2024-03-30
Bonus Sample #296 Coping: Magic Mushrooms, Bath Time, Perpetual Therapy, and Pain Killers 2024-03-28
#1463 People Are Waking Back Up To The Need For Labor Unions (Throwback) 2024-03-26
#1618 Forget Equality, Embrace the Feminism of Freedom - Breaking entirely free from the structures of White supremacy and heteropatriarchy 2024-03-23
Bonus Sample #295 Cause it's all about control 2024-03-21
#1617 The Profitable and Political Moral Panic Around Trans People: Debunking Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, Groomers, and Detransitioning Misconceptions 2024-03-19
#1616 The Party of Putin and the Propaganda Leading the GOP to Trump and the US to Russian-Style Autocracy 2024-03-15
Bonus Sample #294 Answering men's cry for help 2024-03-11
#1165 To Exist is to Resist: Life and Activism in Occupied Palestine Working Toward Rights and Democracy For All in Israel (Throwback) 2024-03-08
#1163 Strange Bedfellows: Looking at why Ethno-Nationalists Admire Israel and the Violence Inflicted on Gaza (Throwback) 2024-03-05
Bonus Sample: #293 I love you, man 2024-03-03
#1615 Envisioning a LeftisÈ› Economic Future of Postcapitalism, High-Tech Automation, Universal Basic Income and a World (Mostly) Without Work 2024-03-01
#1614 Deep-Fakery and Deep Consequences for Democracy: AI-generated fake news threatens elections around the world and makes people question the ability to know what is real 2024-02-28
Bonus Sample #292 Techno Authoritarians vs Interoperabilities 2024-02-25
#1613 Breathless Speculation: Biden's Baggage, Trump's Tyranny, Misleading Media, Courts and Criminality 2024-02-23
#1612 New Tech and the New Luddite Movement; Inequitable Distribution of Benefits from New Technology Always Sparks Demands from Labor and AI is Rekindling the Old Arguments 2024-02-20
Bonus Sample #291 Recommendations and Manipulations 2024-02-19
#1611 Higher Education: the Myths, McCarthyism, and Change Makers at a time when education is under attack for free speech, DEI and CRT but arguably needs changes to meet a changing world 2024-02-17
#1610 The Border, and Our Border Politics, Are a Mess - As Trump and MAGA-driven misunderstanding and panic about the nature of immigration dominates election concerns. 2024-02-14
#1609 The Post-Roe World is Bad But it Could Still Get Worse - Abortion Bans in the US Are Causing Widespread Suffering for Both Patients and Doctors Attempting to Navigate the New Normal 2024-02-10
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