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90 years ago, prominent German physicist Albert Einstein, artist Kathe Kollwitz, writer Heinrich Mann, & others appealed for a unity coalition against the Nazi Party in coming elections. United the other parties could narrowly win. Divided Hitler would win. The opposition didn't unite.

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On this July 4, please pause to remember that one of the colonists’ complaints in the Declaration was that the Crown was paying its judges.

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Douglass’ speech in its entirety. (From link) www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/par...

Fredrick Douglass gave this speech on July 5, 1852.

A Nation's Story: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”nmaahc.si.edu In July of 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech titled “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?,” a call for the promise of liberty be applied equally to all Americans. Douglass’s speech...

Africans in America/Part 4/Frederick Douglass speechwww.pbs.org

Suhas Bhujbal, Market #17, oil on canvas, 78 x 43 inches

Chris Steele-Perkins, 1978, Northern Ireland, West Belfast, Catholic area, Youth with a stone during a riot at the top of Leeson Street

Mindaugas Buivydas, 2024

Paul Slade/Paris Match, 1965, Los Angeles

Hiroji Kubota, 1969, Black Panthers in Chicago, Illinois

Greg Girard, 1979, Haneda Airport

Morris Rosenfeld, 1939, The Larchmont Yacht Club, New York

Betternotcollage, 2024

William Claxton, 1960, John Coltrane, Guggenheim Museum

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BREAKING: Advocates submit double the amount of signatures needed to put a constitutional right to abortion on the ballot in Arizona.

Abortion-rights advocates in Arizona submit needed signatures to put the issue on November ballotapnews.com Abortion-rights advocates in Arizona have submitted more than enough signatures to put the issue on November’s ballot in the key swing state.

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what left and the right both understand is that we are approaching a moment of constitutional rupture. what the right understands and the left does not is that extraconstitutional violence is not some magic "i win" button. rather the rupture will proceed through the forms and orders of american law.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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I do not regret analogizing these people to the men who took photos of themselves at lynchings www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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"The ruling must be understood as a permission slip for the despotic power that Trump has vowed to assert if he is reelected. It is not just a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of the ones he will commit if given the chance."

The Supreme Court Puts Trump Above the Lawwww.theatlantic.com And gives him permission for a despotic second term.

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My article for @newrepublic “The Supreme Court has effectively ruled that 250 years of U.S. history under a republic is enough.” newrepublic.com/article/1833...

The Supreme Court Turns the President Into a Kingnewrepublic.com The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law.

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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.

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An unfairly maligned formulation of the true meaning of the separation of powers, according to today’s Supreme Court majority.

Michaël Borremans, 2023, The Monkey, Oil on canvas

Jesse Rieser, Fiesta Mall, Mesa, AZ