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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 10h
New article by William Harrtung re policy after Trump: responsiblestatecraft.org/democratic-p...
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Do Democrats have bold enough ideas to break from the past?
Americans disagree with the way that Trump is handling world affairs, but can't yet grasp how the opposition would do better
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 10h
There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Opinion | There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once
The film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 10h
New Israeli documentary dares to report truth to power: one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5974...
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🔊 Listen Now: 'NAZA' filmmakers on what they learned making the doc and the backlash it received
Morning Edition on NPR One | 7:01
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think this is a relevant book for our times: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big...
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The Big Myth - Wikipedia
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Heroine or Public Enemy? The Israeli Blocking Much of Netanyahu’s Agenda. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/w...
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Heroine or Public Enemy? The Israeli Blocking Much of Netanyahu’s Agenda.
Gali Baharav-Miara, Israel’s first female attorney general, has stopped many of the government’s efforts to remove constraints on its power.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A man suffering with a severe narcissistic personality disorder is not fit for public or military service. Heather Cox Richardson's newsletter shows how's Trump's narcissism threatens our free press: September 21, 2026 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 21, 2026
On September 18, while White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was out of town, Trump suddenly announced he was banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Three views on prospects for ending the US -Iran war: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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How could US-Iran conflict end? Three experts give their views
After renewed strikes this week, does either side have an exit strategy?
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
These Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ as the Threat. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/w...
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These Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ as the Threat.
A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with government support. “Once a society b...
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Interesting NYT opinion piece: When My Father Told Me He Wanted a Gun, I Knew Everything Had Changed www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
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Opinion | When My Father Told Me He Wanted a Gun, I Knew Everything Had Changed
It’s time to reframe the debate.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
FCNL’s weekly summary by Bryan Bowman with action suggestions www.fcnl.org/updates/2026...
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This Week in the World: One Year Later, Congress Must Stop Trump's Murder at Sea | Friends Committee On National Legislation
Next week will mark one year since the Trump administration carried out its first attack against an alleged drug trafficking boat, killing 11 people.In that time, the U.S. military has blown up 68 boa...
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Wonderfully informative article by John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy in Focus, “The New Cold War of Rocks vs. Chips” fpif.org/the-new-cold...
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The New Cold War of Rocks vs. Chips - FPIF
The two major superpowers have asymmetric super powers.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Wake Up Everybodyhttps://open.spotify.com/track/5kQ2ZEav7TgUoLSLrm7h8S?si=QCLcsC5iTsyJOtIKOReDzQ
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Wake Up Everybody (feat. Teddy Pendergrass)
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Teddy Pendergrass · Wake Up Everybody (feat. Teddy Pendergrass) · Song · 1975
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Excellent article by Trita Parsi on Trump’s self-inflicted damage to US world standing: tritaparsi.substack.com/p/why-so-man...
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Why so many countries around the world quietly root for Iran
It’s not about Iran. It’s the threats that an unchecked America poses to others
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
What was the Trump elections national address really all about? Laying the ground work for rigging our election systems so that the MAGA movement won’t have to win elections inorder to take power over us all: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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July 17, 2026
Yesterday President Donald J.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Thank you Representative Houlahan for your vote for HR 8595 and for your excellent statement! houlahan.house.gov/news/documen...
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My Statement on Rep. Massie’s Amendment to H.R.8595
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Trump's and Justice Roberts' assault on our nation's public parks puts oligarchs' profits before our people and our responsibilities to restore the earth. Heather Cox Richardson explains in her newsletter of July 14, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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July 14, 2026
In August 1870 a U.S.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Interesting, informative , and very relevant strategic view that Congress should take time to watch now. open.substack.com/pub/glenndie...
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Chas Freeman: All-Out War With Iran & Dark Future for Israel
Ambassador Freeman was a former Assistant Secretary of Defense, earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense for his roles in designing a NATO-centred post-Cold War European ...
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I finished listening to the book, “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Daudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson, 2021, on Audible. Excellent account of scientific breakthroughs that will change our world and that will pose very difficult ethical and policy challenges.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Insights on Israel’s vulnerabilities in today’s NYT opinion piece by Israeli journalist Yonatan Touval, “U.S. Support Is Israel’s True Weakness” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/o...
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Opinion | U.S. Support Is Israel’s True Weakness
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Excellent interview with Joe Cirincione on the Dean Obeidallah Show: youtu.be/XjrjBXFLOWg
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Nat Security expert: Trumps’s Iran war is One of greatest strategic defeats the US has ever suffered
YouTube video by The Dean Obeidallah Show
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
It’s Crow, Mr. Trump, Not Lobster www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/o...
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Opinion | It’s Crow, Mr. Trump, Not Lobster
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
News from World Central Kitchen about their operations in Gaza: wck.org/news/gaza-qu...
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Your Gaza Questions Answered | Updated May 2026 | WCK
WCK answers your questions about our efforts in Gaza. Your Gaza Questions Answered | Updated May 2026 Gaza
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Hearher Cox Richardson gathers a summary of fraud and abuse by the Trump Administration that costs us taxpayers and corrupts our government: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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May 14, 2026
Vice President J.D.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Jim Wallis challenges Christian Nationalism and describes its opposite as a better alternative: open.substack.com/pub/jimwalli...
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The Great Commission
Jesus did not command his followers to build a Christian nation. He commanded them to love, feed, welcome, and tell the truth.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Justin Wolfer article: Hegseth Says This War Has Cost $25 Billion. I Tallied Up the True Amount. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...
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Opinion | Hegseth Says This War Has Cost $25 Billion. I Tallied Up the True Amount.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
What wasn’t news and what really was news? Hearther Cox Richardson compares and contrasts: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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May 8, 2026
In case you’re wondering what kind of a news day it was, President Donald J.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus, takes a deep dive into the effects of Trump’s denial of climate change and efforts to increase reliance on fossil fuels: fpif.org/the-airbrush...
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The Airbrushing of Climate Change - FPIF
Donald Trump is leading the United States in a great leap backward. The rest of the world, at least when it comes to climate science, is refusing to take that leap with him.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I just finished listening on Audible to the 2026 book by Wil Haygood, The War Within a War. Learned a lot about the Black experience during the U.S. War in Vietnam, www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
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The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and…
The Vietnam war era, in many ways, mirrored and was the…
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Rep Chrissy Houlahan, a veteran and my representative, questioned Sec Def Hegseth at a hearing: youtube.com/shorts/XiMq1...
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No explanation from Sec. Hegseth
YouTube video by Rep. Chrissy Houlahan
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Great article by David Cortright and Bill Hartung outlining an agenda for citizens’ action to demilitarize US policy and end wars: znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
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A Peace Agenda To End Military Madness
To create a safer world, millions of Americans need to mobilize to end the war on Iran, prevent nuclear proliferation, halt the arms race and slash
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Excellent article by Bill Hartung on the costly, negative impact of the Military Industrial Complex and what has to be done to reduce the harm it is doing to us: znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
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Reining in the Pentagon
Right at this moment, we are witnessing an unprecedented shift of resources from domestic investments in the United States to the military-industrial
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus, focuses on the meaning of the Hungary election defeat of Orban. fpif.org/the-axis-of-...
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The Axis of Evil Suffers a Big Loss - FPIF
After Viktor Orban's landslide loss in Hungary, will Trump and even Putin be next in line for their political comeuppance?
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Walter Herbert reflects on Jesus’s resistance to despotism and his lesson for us in these times: religionnews.com/2026/04/15/j...
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Jesus showed how to defy despots
(RNS)— Truth has come alive in a new way, amid the terrible state of American public affairs, where religious corruption is fostered by those who rely on the use of force to gain compliance, who attem...
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
FCNL Action Alert for today!!!https://action.fcnl.org/page/email?mid=b476b5d2ef4a41519c8d79d89c22d8a5
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
What’s the significance of the election in a little European country, Hungary? And why did Trump & Vance support the loser? Heather Cox Richardson summarizes a history lesson for us: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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April 13, 2026
On April 12, the day of Hungary’s parliamentary elections, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) posted on social media that it was closely watching the election and stood firmly behind ...
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A threat tonfree speech snd to democracy: theintercept.com/2026/04/10/r...
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A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.
An ICE summons to get the user’s identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Jim Wallis on Trump’s profanity and on our responsibility for peacemaking: religionnews.com/2026/04/10/h...
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How Easter turned to blasphemy at the White House
(RNS) — All the perils of Christian nationalism came together and were shown to us with clarity this Easter.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The Republican controlled Congress has endangered the world by failing to exercise its constitutional responsibilities for both war powers and for checking a deranged President. Trump has demonstrated at great cost in lives and treasure that he should be removed. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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April 7, 2026
At 5:06 this morning, President Donald J.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Congress is absent as Trump bizarrely threatens massive war crimes on Iranian civilian infrastructure. Congress should be at working stopping this deranged, irresponsible man: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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April 6, 2026 (Monday)
“It’s really difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is,” journalist Aaron Rupar of Public Notice told George Grylls of The Times about President Donald J.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
More about Trump’s “terror-ifs” on Iran from Paul Krugman: open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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Donald Trump Isn't Sounding Like Himself
And that's terrifying
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Donald Trump and his team seek to erase and replace American history with an authoritarian fairy tale. Fortunately, we the people will insist on the truth and exercise the courage to face and correct our country’s flaws. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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March 28, 2026
Almost exactly a year ago, on March 27, 2025, President Donald J.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I just finished listening to the Audible version of Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide by Tony Horowitz, 2019, 512 pages or 8 hours 56 minutes. Good read about Frederick Law Olmsted.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Just finished reading the “grand-scale biography” titled “Grant” by Ron Chernow, 2017, 959 pages. Very interesting to me for many reasons, especially thinking about comparing and contrasting his times with today’s.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Kenneth Roth in The Guardian on why Trump continues the war of aggression on Iran and why that won’t work www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What to understand why Trump is still bombing Iran? Look to Nixon and Vietnam | Kenneth Roth
Richard Nixon’s strategy was about shielding his own reputation. Now Trump needs a face-saving exit of his own
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Here’s an important public appeal to save UNRWA in Gaza and beyond. Please spread this article widely. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Israel has crushed Unrwa in Gaza – and the rest of the world has done nothing | Philippe Lazzarini
I bow out of my role for the organisation at a perilous time for the international law. There are consequences not just for Palestinians, but the wider Middle East, says Unrwa commissioner-general Phi...
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Heather Cox Richardson has an excellent summary of Trump’s war on Iran. I just want to add that, in my opinion, Donald has a severe narcissistic personality disorder which makes him unfit for public service; he is proving it with this war at the expense of others. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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March 20, 2026
On Wednesday, Israeli forces hit Iranian facilities in the South Pars natural gas field in the Persian Gulf, shared by Iran and Qatar.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I just finished this excellent, well researched, and very readable expose on how the Military Industrial Complex undermines our democracy and wastes your taxpayer dollars. Many thanks to authors Bill Hartung and Ben Freeman and to the Quincy Institute. Please read it and pass it on.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
How our democracy comes apart when billionaires aren’t taxed proportionately is a sad but not inevitable outcome. I’d say that greed is a wrecking ball. Congress should be taxing the rich to return power to the people. Heather Cox Richardson explains: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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March 12, 2026
In Ohio today, Republican candidate for governor Vivek Ramaswamy launched a $10 million TV and digital ad campaign to run until Election Day.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
In “World War III,”John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy in Focus, describes what Putin, Netanyahu, and Trump have done to eliminate the rules-based international order: fpif.org/its-already-...
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It’s Already a World War - FPIF
Ruthless authoritarian leaders--Putin, Trump, Netanyahu--have declared war on international law.
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joevolk.bsky.social @joevolk.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Sec Hegseth & Pres Trump, War at home or abroad is not the Answer, and, because you don’t know that, you are waisting billions of taxpayer dollars, endangering our future, and multiplying human suffering. And making yourselves look like fools. Wake up to reality. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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March 10, 2026
Today, administration officials gave a classified briefing to the Senate Armed Services Committee about the war in Iran.
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