Source: The UnPopulist
by Andy Craig & Shikha Dalmia
“Trump’s authoritarian assault has decimated our institutions that ‘kitchen table’ issues won’t fix.” [editor’s note: The analogy to post-Civil-War “Reconstruction” sucks. The first time around, its whole point was to rebuild a bad former system minus only one bad feature (slavery), and the emergence of Jim Crow afterward marked even that subtraction at least partly a failure. Trying to “reconstruct” a crappy pre-Trump politics is a terrible idea, and the only good thing about it is that it won’t work either – TLK] (06/17/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/democrats-need-to-lead-the-second
Source: The Hill
“Gunmen attacked the main airport in Niger’s capital of Niamey early Thursday morning, leading to an exchange of fire and explosions, witnesses and a local security official said. Security forces were deployed to repel the attack after the gunmen breached the airport security, said the official …. It was the second attack at Diori Hamani International Airport in Niamey this year, after the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a similar attack in January.” (06/18/26)
https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-international/ap-gunmen-attack-airport-in-nigers-capital-as-explosions-gunfire-heard/
Source: The Chris Hedges Report
“Flotilla Activists’ Harrowing Experience in an Israeli Torture Dungeon Revealed (w/ Thiago Ávila).” (06/17/26)
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/flotilla-activists-harrowing-experience
Source: Hoover Institution
“Shrexting: Free Speech or Criminal Harassment? | Eugene Volokh and Jane Bambauer.” (06/17/26)
https://free-speech-unmuted.podbean.com/e/shrexting-free-speech-or-criminal-harassment-eugene-volokh-and-jane-bambauer-hoover-institution/
Source: Expression
by Angel Eduardo
“Through her detailed reporting on lynching after the Civil War, Wells did more than most to demonstrate the power of using one’s voice in the pursuit of truth and justice.” (06/17/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/ida-b-wells-journalist-activist-civil
Source: Los Angeles Times
by Thomas Renard and Colin P Clarke
“Terrorism is evolving, sometimes almost beyond recognition. The pace of radicalization is accelerating. Attacks have become increasingly basic, unsophisticated and cheap. For some, terrorism seems to be like a craving, a source of dopamine to satisfy carnal impulses. Quick preparation, convenience and mass production: Welcome to the age of fast-food terrorism.” (06/17/26)
https://archive.is/l62Ao
Source: SFGate
“Renters may be able to significantly lower their monthly energy bills under a new piece of legislation that could let Californians power homes on their own with an abundant resource: solar. Senate Bill 868, introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener, would allow consumers to buy solar panels at no extra cost to their utility, and it would also allow large retailers or your local hardware store to sell plug-in solar panels to power your home on your own — and ideally reduce your monthly utility bills. The idea was inspired by a bill passed in Utah last year, and plug-in solar is also popularly used in Europe.” (06/18/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/energy-cost-california-solar-22309856.php
Source: Free Talk Live
“Carter Feldman of Psy Protocol.” (06/17/26)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/mespsy
Source: Parallax Views w/ JG Michael
“Antiwar Dissent & Free Speech Special w/ Medea Benjamin, Chip Gibbons, David Swanson & Angela Keaton.” (06/17/26)
https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/2026antiwarspecial/
Source: Liberalism.org
by Paul Dragos Aligica
“From time to time, we liberals must rethink the world. Deglobalization, the rise of economic decoupling, the return of tariffs, and the increasing salience of weaponized interdependence have come to define the current landscape. Where once the dominant terms were efficiency, integration, and mutual gains, now they are geoeconomics, resilience, chokepoints, and decoupling. The vocabulary shift is an indicator and a diagnostic. Rhetorical change of this order reflects structural change in how economic exchange and political power actually relate. A liberal position adequate to that new reality cannot be built by repeating arguments shaped by an earlier phase of globalization. We must rebuild — analytically and institutionally — for the world that integration, pushed to its limits, has actually produced.” (06/17/26)
https://www.liberalism.org/p/liberalism-in-the-age-of-weaponized-interdependence
