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As a retired farm laborer once put it to legendary Chicago journalist Studs Terkel, “Hope dies last.”
Print Media to Mass Protests: “Please Turn to Page 18”
Here’s how newspapers across America minimized one of the largest demonstrations since Trump’s return to power. Below the fold.
The New Republic (TNR), Apr 07, 2025
Jon Stewart & Pete Buttigieg on Tariffs, Trump Chaos and the Democrats’ Future
An hour well spent! After TrumpCo leaves us in a mess, where do we go? Back to the programs that made voters angry? Or ahead to a redesign, to effectively deliver the freedom from want that makes freedom in all other things attainable. Thought-provoking!
The Weekly Show, 1 hr 15 min video, Apr 10, 2025
The Secret Weakness of Trump’s Deportations
Pressure can work to bring people home. A village in upstate New York came out in nines when an immigrant mother and three children were ICEd at a local dairy farm. Some 1000 of the 1400 residents made enough noise to bring them back home. It may have helped that a sometime resident of the village is HHS chief Homan.
Adrian Carrasquillo, The Bulwark, Apr 09, 2025
Rewarding Lawless Behavior: The Alien Enemies Act Decision
The Court's Decision, Its Consequences...And the Chilling, Historic Dissent. David Pepper briefly introduces Justice Sotomayor’s summary of the run-up to the decision and the government’s lawless response.
Pepperspectives, Substack, Apr 09, 2025
‘The Most Extraordinary Attack on Voting Rights in American History’
How the SAVE Act upends over a century and a half of protecting voting. This detailed history centers on disenfranchisement of large groups of voters, especially women, with no mention of the details making voting from abroad more difficult. In-person registration is at issue for UOCAVA voters.
By Matt Cohen, Jacob Knutson, Democracy Docket, Apr 10, 2025
Russian Disinformation Campaign Secretly Rewriting Wikipedia
What do Wikipedia, AI chatbots, and X (formerly Twitter) have in common? They’ve all been quietly infiltrated by the Pravda network—a sprawling web of pro-Kremlin sites posing as legitimate news outlets.
The Source, DFRLab, The Atlantic Council, Apr 11, 2025
Essential Definitions for Rural Development
A comprehensive glossary of key terms and concepts frequently used in rural development. AspenCSG is a hub for rural organizing, both in the far-reaches of the great plains and in the smaller farmsteads of states east of the Mississippi.
AspenCSG, Apr 10, 2025