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Author of the novels CRUNCH, FRICTION and THE STARLIGHT LINE. https://bookshop.org/shop/mattmarshall
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"[O]ur current population of 8.2 billion and counting has grossly overshot our planetary boundaries. ... Why on [our overcrowded] Earth should we try to aim for an even bigger population?"

In a scathing letter, Mahmoud Khalil writes from an ICE detention center in Louisiana, blasting Columbia University's role in his abduction and the targeting of other student activists by the Trump administration. mondoweiss.net/2025/04/mahm... #Palestine #Israel

Americans must stop thinking of the Supreme Court as a court of law...

Vichy France ain’t got nothing on the Senate Democrats

Chris Quinn, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer: the problem with Cleveland/Northeast Ohio (and all Ohio cities) is that we don’t have enough MAGA decision-makers.

"[W]e’ve tried to do citizenship Trump’s way before. It led to war. It could again, if Trump is allowed to get away with it."

The President-elect “shall take the following oath or affirmation: ‘I do solemnly swear...and defend the Constitution of the United States.’ ” The popular addition “so help me God” is not there. It never was. And the nation’s first 26 Presidents didn't say it. progressive.org/latest/god-o...

The United States has laws and regulations against arming countries that commit genocide, but "everyone knew the rules were different for Israel.” @tomdispatch.bsky.social tomdispatch.com/when-israeli...