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Kevin Brown @kevinbrownwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

@eleanorjbader1.bsky.social reviews Kevin Waite's THE BOUNDLESS BIDDY MASON; she not only praises the "beautiful writing," but calls it "an insightful look at the foundational racism that the country rests on": turnedpagereview.substack.com/p/review-of-...

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Review of The Boundless Biddy Mason by Kevin Waite

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Kevin Brown @kevinbrownwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

@eleanorjbader1.bsky.social reviews Jessie Speer's BULLDOZED; Bader describes the book as "a humane, people-centered, and compassionate portrait that deserves the attention of policy setters, housing activists, and local lawmakers": turnedpagereview.substack.com/p/review-of-...

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Review of Bulldozed by Jessie Speer

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Political Research Associates @praeyesright.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In this new article, @eleanorjbader1.bsky.social interviews Yotam Marom, organizer and author of 'For Louder Days'. They discuss resistance strategies, healthy conflict, and the necessity of building and embracing power on the Left. Read the full interview at politicalresearch.org/2026/08/11/r....

Reaching
For Our Power
Q&A with Yotam Marom,
Author of For Louder Days

PRA:
You were very involved in initiating Occupy. What were the main takeaways for you from the encampment?

Yotam Marom:
The key lesson for me was that to succeed, movements need to want to be powerful. I know that sounds like common sense but, in practice, people in movements—and progressives broadly—are typically uneasy with having power. Of course, many people come to movements because they were victimized by someone, or some system, that had power over them, and they do not want to repeat that. But we also tend to stay on the margins because we never thought we’d be anywhere else.

Yotam Marom (continued):
When activists spend a lot of time losing, they pick up habits from that, and they get used to it. That was true about the movement I came up in, and it was also true about me and many of the elders who influenced me. They were part of a lineage of resistance and saw themselves as having the right politics and ideas, but they still felt they’d failed. These 60s activists thought they’d change the system, but they ended up living in a world that was far from the one they’d dreamed of creating. That experience, that disappointment, leads many of us to get comfortable existing on the margins. And then we start to choose being right over being effective. We set up barriers that make it hard for people to join the movement and develop an internal culture that can be punishing of mistakes or deviations.

Yotam Marom (continued):
If we are serious about long-term social change, we must confront these tendencies and turn outward, embrace power, welcome people in, and accept that leadership is important. We have to end what I call the politics of powerlessness.

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Kevin Brown @kevinbrownwrites.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

@eleanorjbader1.bsky.social reviews ROGUES GALLERY by Joel Schecter, a collection of essays that satirizes "tyrants and fools," thus becoming "a community of joyful resistance to greed, injustice, vanity, and lies": turnedpagereview.substack.com/p/review-of-...

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Review of Rogues Gallery by Joel Schechter

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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star

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Kevin Brown @kevinbrownwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

@eleanorjbader1.bsky.social reviews 20 OVER 60 (@regalhouse.bsky.social), a "compelling, well-wrought anthology" about life in the later years of life: turnedpagereview.substack.com/p/review-of-...

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Review of 20 Over 60

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.

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Kevin Brown @kevinbrownwrites.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

@eleanorjbader1.bsky.social reviews Gabriel San Román's DAYS OF DISSENT (@pmpress.bsky.social), praising it as "a kaleidoscopic introduction to the ups-and-down endemic to movements for social change": turnedpagereview.substack.com/p/review-of-...

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Review of Days of Dissent by Gabriel San Roman

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Exactly 3 months from today is the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Our opportunity to hold him accountable. Register to vote here: Iwillvote.com The stakes have never been higher. Show the world the majority of Americans are good, decent, honest people. #VoteBlue🗳️ #RejectMAGA 👎

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eleanorjbader1.bsky.social @eleanorjbader1.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'm looking to speak to people with a disability who receive SNAP benefits. I want to talk about the new work rules. Anonymity can be assured. It's for The Progressive Magazine website. Thanks. Email eleanorbader@gmail.com to schedule a time to talk.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Good grief, this hits home.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.

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Kevin Brown @kevinbrownwrites.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

@edgeofsports.bsky.social has written a biography of Howard Zinn that @eleanorjbader1.bsky.social describes as "a wonderful evocation of a man worthy of emulation": turnedpagereview.substack.com/p/review-of-...

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Kevin Brown @kevinbrownwrites.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

@eleanorjbader1.bsky.social reviews RESONANCE, in which a 21-year-old Sophie discovers diaries by Anna Grinberg, a largely-unknown, young, Polish-Jewish sculptor who moved to Paris in 1922; as Bader writes, "the result is a beautiful, heart-felt book about people whose survival you will root for"

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Review of Resonance by Michael S. Tobin and Daniel S. Chertoff

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eleanorjbader1.bsky.social @eleanorjbader1.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Heat-related illnesses and injuries are on the rise thanks to climate change: progressive.org/latest/helpi...

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Helping Workers Beat the Heat

Mamdani’s initiative jumpstarts an essential discussion about the need to address a potentially deadly problem.

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

ProPublica: Trump's FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and fellow Republican commissioner Olivia Trusty received pricey gifts valued at tens of thousands of dollars from Paramount while the company had deals pending before the commission.

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FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals

Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...

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Annalisa @valkyriesong.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Freedom of speech is under attack. #SheShed

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eleanorjbader1.bsky.social @eleanorjbader1.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My latest from The Sunset Post: www.sunsetpost.org/en/stories/s...

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The Sunset Post

Hyperlocal, trilingual news site for Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 29/06/2026

Online mental health companies are rolling out AI chatbots as therapists struggle with insurance industry changes.

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AI’s Other Threat to Mental Health Care - Truthdig

Online mental health companies are rolling out AI chatbots as therapists struggle with insurance industry changes.

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Deborah Wage @wagedj.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Well look at that! Thanks so much Eleanor! @avitalnn.bsky.social

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Sharing this poem again because I think the world needs these words now more than ever.

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Local Solutions Support Center @thelssc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We’ve tracked over 900 abusive preemption bills in 2026, & the most egregious preemption efforts have been driven by FL, OK, and TN – often through anti-LGBTQ+, anti-immigrant, & anti-business regulation legislation. Get the facts via @theprogressivemag.bsky.social: progressive.org/latest/the-p...

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Watchdog Progressive @watchdogprg.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Michael de Adder deserves a Pulitzer Prize for his work....

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Kevin Brown @kevinbrownwrites.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

@eleanorjbader1.bsky.social reviews several books by Patty Prewitt (all from Some People Press); you can read more about her two collections of letters and her children's book at the Turned Page Review: turnedpagereview.substack.com/p/patty-prew...

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Patty Prewitt's Innocence

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Kevin Brown @kevinbrownwrites.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

@eleanorjbader1.bsky.social reviews GRITO2048 by Maritza Arrastia: "Not only have the rich been forced to cede power, but the working classes have put aside their differences to create a new social order. As futurist fantasies go, it’s a good one!": turnedpagereview.substack.com/p/review-of-...

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Review of GRITO2048 by Maritza Arrastia

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justfara @justfara.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

He said it himself. He loves the poorly educated.

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eleanorjbader1.bsky.social @eleanorjbader1.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

What are Leslie Stahl and other 60 Minutes stalwarts saying and doing? They need to issue a statement and condemn what happened to their colleague.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"Mr. Pelley also wrote that senior managers at CBS News had pressured him to insert bias into stories for “60 Minutes” this past season, though he did not provide details about specific segments." Pretty important part of the story re his firing. Maybe *the* most important part. CBS = new Fox.

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CBS News Fires Scott Pelley of ‘60 Minutes’

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Artists Withdraw From Semiquincentennial Concerts #Time

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Artists Withdraw From Semiquincentennial Concerts

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Kevin Brown @kevinbrownwrites.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

@eleanorjbader1.bsky.social reviews Kendra Langford Shaw's THE PILLAGER'S GUIDE TO ARCTIC PIANOS (@pantheonbooks.bsky.social); Bader writes, "the fast-moving and emotional tale...introduces an intriguing world that will be especially revelatory for city dwellers and their suburban counterparts"

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Kevin Brown @kevinbrownwrites.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

@eleanorjbader1.bsky.social reviews LOVING ARRANGEMENTS (@rutgersupress.bsky.social), a collection that "explores the endless array of romantic entanglements that people of all ages and sexual inclinations are choosing as right for them"

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