Chronicles of a Dying Empire

Chronicles of a Dying Empire

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August 2025

The rise of the fragile “tough guy”
From police to our president, and the federal goon squads he has deployed from Los Angeles to DC, we all seem to exist at the whim of supposed “tough…
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Promises made, promises betrayed
The president mouths rhetoric about “freedom,” while degrading it from DC to LA
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Return of the Jedi
The Israeli genocide in Gaza continues to grow more horrifying with every passing day—yet the global grassroots movement to end it has victories worth…
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July 2025

The empire strikes back
Israeli officials detained—and physically assaulted—a visionary Black U.S. labor leader standing in solidarity with international human rights in exile
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The audacity of ignorance
Climate denialism invites death & destruction, as institutional ignorance invites more preventable risks in the future
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A nation of morons
Watching Americans celebrate July 4 felt grotesque given the right wing revolution dragging America back to the darkest parts of its past
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June 2025

May 2025

A dozen ways that the Trump administration is destroying America’s economy (Part II)
The Trump administration’s attack on the U.S. economy stretches well beyond tariffs
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We all got some presents for Mother's Day this year
A holiday formed as a plea for peace coincides with a ceasefire in one theater of an emergent world war, and a global role for an American leader…
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A dozen ways that the Trump administration is destroying America's economy (Part I)
The candidate trusted by confused voters to improve the nation’s economy is doing precisely what he said he would—and no one should be surprised by the…
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April 2025

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