DANIEL HUNTER – Each of us has a choice right now — do we get smaller, or bigger? More bold or less? I think we follow the folks in Ohio, in Minneapolis, in Georgia, in the streets and the jails and the capitol buildings and the Signal group chats. My encouragement: keep getting bigger.
Trump Is Already Telling Us He Will Steal the Midterms (If We Let Him)
THOM HARTMANN – Donald Trump is already telling us he’s going to try to steal the 2026 election, and the fact that he’s saying it now, months in advance, is the whole tell.
Being honest with ourselves 250 years after July 4, 1776
KARY LOVE – America must be vigilant against encroaching erosions of its great principles. Every generation must renew their commitment to defending and expanding those human rights, not only in rhetoric, but in the halls of Congress, the White House, and the courts, and the streets, until “liberty and justice for all” is the lived reality of “we the people.” Only then will the right to celebration of the Declaration be earned. And every generation must earn that right by carrying forward the struggle for the “inalienable” rights of all.
Data Centers Threaten the Health of the Columbia River
KRISTEEN BARCLAY – The Columbia River is being re-engineered into a cooling system. Cooling system for industrial-scale computers. This shift is fundamentally changing the capacity of our river to function. The Snake and Yakima Rivers are at risk as well.
The U.S. Labor Movement as a force for peace and international cooperation
LAWRENCE WITTNER – This June’s AFL-CIO call for a just and peaceful world is in line with much of labor’s past. And the labor movement shouldn’t be written off as a force for peace and international cooperation in the future.
10 reasons to resist AI
JOSEPH MOGUL – To counter Big Tech’s narrative of AI inevitability, movements are beginning to resist on many fronts where this dangerous tech is being deployed.