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Fri, 24/01/2025 - 06:14
Erich Fromm’s insights in The Revolution of Hope, written almost 60 years ago, resonate today—probably surprisingly, or unfortunately not—with the same meaningfulness and a sound call for both actionable and intellectual optimism: “Hope is paradoxical. It is neither passive waiting nor is it unrealistic forcing of circumstances that cannot occur… Neither tired reformism nor pseudo-radical […]
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Fri, 24/01/2025 - 05:30
Mike Johnson is an extreme Bible thumping super-Christian who talks about it at every opportunity. When he was first elected speaker he said this: During an interview Thursday evening with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Johnson said he has been asked by members of the media for his positions on myriad issues. In response, he has told them to turn to Scripture to truly understand his perspective on the matters of the day. “Someone asked me today in the media, they said, ‘It’s curious, people are curious: what does Mike Johnson think about any issue under the sun?’” he explained. “I said, ‘Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it — that’s my worldview.’ That’s what I believe, and so I make no apologies for it.” Maybe he hasn’t gotten to the Jesus part yet. If he had, what Budde said would have been very familiar.
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Fri, 24/01/2025 - 04:00
As I have been saying for months, now that Trump has received (in his mind) vindication and restoration — and stayed out of jail — there are only two things he really wants: vengeance and money. Nothing else interests him. I think it’s clear he plans to leave office a vastly wealthier man than he enters it. He’s well on his way. And then there’s this from Axios. Did they think he was joking? By the way, the revenge tour is not just aimed at DC politicians. He is seeking revenge in various ways against all of blue America. None of us are exempt.
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Fri, 24/01/2025 - 03:44

El gobierno de EE.UU. estaba al tanto de una campaña para destituir a un alto banquero de desarrollo con el fin de detener los préstamos contra la pobreza a Nicaragua, donde Washington buscaba un cambio de régimen. En entrevista exclusiva con The Grayzone, Dante Mossi, quien dirigió el Banco Centroamericano de Integración Económica de 2018 a 2023, denunció un complot de «Costa Rica y Guatemala, con conocimiento de EEUU… para destituirme.» Después de que Nicaragua reprimiera en 2018 un violento […]

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Fri, 24/01/2025 - 02:30
And get a whole lot louder in the right spaces It’s going to be a long several years until the nation collapses. Or Trump does and VP Elegy takes over. Or the world somehow survives. A couple of posts to flag. Rude Pundit (Lee Papa) notes that hardcore MAGA types are beyond reaching. “Most,” anyway. Democrats trying to placate them, policy-wise, will win no points with them. Democrats need to do they best they can policy-wise to pursue their own agenda without compromising in the mistaken belief it will help their electoral prospects in Trump country. They cannot oppose Trump by trying to play nice with him and prove they are the adults in the room. It only makes the weak appear weaker. Nobody wants to vote for that. And even if they do, they won’t turn out to vote for that. Will Stancil has sharper words on pushing back visibly. For all their experience, the Democrats’ gerontocracy is bringing 20th-century knives to a 21st-century gun fight. Too many learned politics in the 1980s. Even if they could learn new tricks, they’re not the ones to bring it now. The Trump-oligarch alliance is not your grandfather’s country-club Republican Party.
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Fri, 24/01/2025 - 01:29

With the return of Donald Trump to the White House, advocates for peace, social justice, racial and economic equality, fair immigration policies, climate renewal, trans rights, and other movements for change are bracing for hard times. The new administration will be doggedly opposed to so many of the values we hold dear, as well as programs that have helped keep millions of Americans above the poverty line. Only recently, newly reelected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson reaffirmed his commitment to an “America First” agenda, which distills the most harmful aspirations of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 into 10 priority areas, including slashing social welfare, healthcare programs, and public education; supporting increased military spending to promote “peace through strength”; unleashing... Read more