Source: In These Times
by Lindsay Eanet

“From their offices and living rooms, hundreds of volunteer archivists gather for a virtual ​’hackathon’ session to download LGBTQ+ resources from websites controlled by state and federal governments and universities before the institutions completely scrub the materials. In light of the increasing hostility toward queer history, further spurred by President Donald Trump’s executive orders attacking diversity, equity and inclusion at the beginning of his second term, citizen archivists began holding these download parties to preserve the soon-to-be-deleted DEI information. These gatherings are organized by Invisible Histories, a community-based nonprofit focused on archiving queer history in the Deep South. Although the erasure of DEI content from institutional websites (for example, the National Park Service removing transgender people from its description of the Stonewall Uprising on its official website) is not a new challenge, the nonprofit has had to adopt a more rapid response in this moment.” (12/15/25)

https://inthesetimes.com/article/fighting-anti-queer-backlash-with-citizen-archivists

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Donald J Boudreaux

“My teacher announced, as if it were a fact as firm as any law of thermodynamics, that the Great Depression was caused by laissez-faire policies advocated by Smith, and that salvation came from the more scientifically sound ideas of Keynes — ideas expertly put into practice by Franklin Roosevelt. ‘Depressions are a thing of the past,’ my teacher proclaimed. ‘Keynes taught us how to prevent them.’ ‘Cool!’ I recall thinking with as much relief as a 15-year-old can muster about such matters. Seven years later, I graduated from college with a degree in economics. By then I’d learned that my high-school history teacher’s history was bunk. The Great Depression wasn’t a failure of capitalism or of the ideas of Adam Smith. Instead, it was caused chiefly by the Federal Reserve foolishly allowing the money supply to shrink by more than a third.” (12/14/25)

https://fee.org/articles/fake-history-is-giving-capitalism-a-bad-name/

Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp

“America’s already crawling with creepy wannabe cops demanding — Third Reich or Soviet Union style — that people ‘show their papers’ as a condition of going just about anywhere or doing just about anything (including their jobs if the ICE gang happens to drop in on a workplace). If you think they won’t eventually escalate to browsing through YOUR shared memes, photos of cats and memories with your significant others, etc., think again.” (12/13/25)

https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20201

Source: Liberal Currents
by Jason Kuznicki

“Thinking that you’re the privileged descendant of the conquerors has always been a key part of the mythology that every nation-state teaches to, and about, its favored ethnicity. Maybe you’re not a lineal descendant of the Founder Himself, but you’re still a part of a noble and honored bloodline. That’s why life is good for you, and perhaps why it’s hard for your neighbor. When the favored people claim the land that’s rightfully theirs, that’s progress …. The theory that a nation is made of the descendants of a band of conquering heroes is still both popular and normative among nationalists. Like the social contract story that developed in its shadow, the theory of the conquering heroes is incomplete. It just about always resounds in the midst of an actually unfinished conquest, or in a situation of semi-permanent social inequality.” (12/13/25)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/they-were-all-our-ancestors/