Threat of Authoritarianism Is No Longer on the Horizon: It’s Arrived in the GOP


The threat of violence once associated with fringe extremist groups has found a home in a Republican Party that now endorses the political, ideological and social conditions that have given rise to a number of violent white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. Racialized violence now runs through American society like an overcharged electric current.

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 Poem for the Beer Drunk Fishermen.. by James Ross Kelly – YouTube


The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast – Season 4 Episode 8: Jonathan Pageau – YouTube


“The question that keeps
lurking in in the back of my mind which
is: does the fact that, that’s how it should
be, mean that that’s the way that it is.” Jordan B. Peterson

Civil War 2.0 – CounterPunch.org


On May 29, 2020, in the wake of the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, a Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstration marched about a half-mile from Oakland’s Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building. Around ten o’clock at night outside the federal building, as the protest continued close by, bullets spewed from a moving vehicle striking security personnel and killing one.

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Sounds of Silence: Extinction Is Erasing the Earth’s Music • The Revelator


“Unless the world acts to stop extinctions, I will write my last nature essay on a planet that is less than half as song-graced and life-drenched as the one where I began to write,” she explains in the book’s preface. “My grandchildren will tear out half the pages in their field guides. They won’t need them.”

Source: Sounds of Silence: Extinction Is Erasing the Earth’s Music • The Revelator