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Matt Marshall
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Author of the novels CRUNCH, FRICTION and THE STARLIGHT LINE. https://bookshop.org/shop/mattmarshall
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🌍 Earth Overshoot Day keeps moving earlier—November in 1975, July today, and possibly June by 2030. We’re using more than Earth can renew. Help students understand the causes and explore solutions to #MoveTheDate: #edusky #science #K12Education
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Guide to Earth Overshoot Day 2025: How We Got Here and What's Next - Population Education
Tomorrow is an alarming reminder that we’re burning through the planet’s resources faster than it can recover. Earth Overshoot Day... Read more »
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July 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
“We’re living in a world where six Republican Supreme Court justices used the courts of a monarchy we revolted against as the controlling authority on whether the President of the United States has to follow the Constitution.”
Make no mistake, the SCOTUS decision about birthright citizenship IS ALSO ABOUT *birthright citizenship.*
The Court is using nationwide injunctions as the tail, wagging the dog, to take us back to an Antebellum view of citizenship.
That way led to war once.
My latest in @thenation.com
The Supreme Court's Birthright Citizenship Ruling Is a Five-Alarm Catastrophe
In Trump v. CASA, the court hands the president yet more unaccountable authority—and yanks us into a neo-Confederate legal nightmare.
www.thenation.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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The Supreme Court’s decision in Medina hands Christian nationalists a major win—letting states cut off Planned Parenthood from Medicaid with zero accountability.

Patients lose their rights. Religion wins special treatment.
June 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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"6 Trump Voters React to the U.S.’ Bombing of Nuclear Sites in Iran" --New York Times.

--That isn't journalism! It's not even a "story." IT'S A FUCKING ANCEDOTE about some shit your heard while standing in line at a Klan rally. WHAT THE FUCK EVEN ARE WE DOING?
June 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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USA foreign policy in the Middle East for the last 50 is basically just attempting to bomb countries into being liberal democracies and getting really mad every single time when it never ever works.
June 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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As marines descend on LA, as Trump moves closer and closer to martial law, it will be tempting to victim-blame. To equivocate. To find some reason the protesters deserve what’s coming. They don’t.
What I Saw in LA Wasn’t an Insurrection. It Was a Police Riot.
As Trump mobilizes the marines to quell an “insurrection” in LA, it’s essential to be clear about how the protests started and what actually happened.
www.thenation.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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This is exactly why the Founders built a wall between church and state.

A government-led Christian prayer service inside the Pentagon — during duty hours — that elevates Trump as divinely appointed is not just inappropriate, it's deeply unAmerican.
Burn it all down

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led a Christian prayer service in the Pentagon’s auditorium on Wednesday morning, during working hours, in which President Trump was praised as a divinely appointed leader."
Pete Hegseth Leads Christian Prayer Service in the Pentagon
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"[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?"
The @newyorker.com recently published a very long and dramatic article about declining birth rates. We sent a letter in response, which wasn’t published, so we are featuring it here.
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populationconnection.org/blog/re-the-...
Re: The End of Children
Our response to a very long and dramatic New Yorker article about declining birth rates.
populationconnection.org
April 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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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
Mahmoud Khalil’s ‘Letter to Columbia’ from jail
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...
mondoweiss.net
April 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Americans must stop thinking of the Supreme Court as a court of law...
March 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Vichy France ain’t got nothing on the Senate Democrats
March 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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.
January 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"[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."
I went through Trump's birthright citizenship EO, line-by-flagrantly-unconstitutional-line, to highlight the illegal, the racist, and the just plain incorrect understanding of the constitutional *right* to citizenship.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
A Line-by-Line Breakdown of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order
Almost every sentence of the order is wrong, misleading, or flagrantly unconstitutional.
www.thenation.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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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...
Leave God Out of the Presidential Oath
Biden should follow the lead of the nation’s first twenty-six Presidents.
progressive.org
January 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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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...
When Israeli Warplanes Rain Death on Gaza, the Copilot is Uncle Sam
In recent weeks, political soothsayers have speculated about a wide variety of odious new policies the incoming Trump administration and its allies in Congress may or may not pursue. No one can predic...
tomdispatch.com
January 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Every single day in America, for-profit healthcare companies decide who lives and who dies. They don't do this based on morality. They don't do this to preserve limited resources.

They visibly and blatantly do this in the service of profit, which goes exclusively to an executive class.
December 5, 2024 at 12:37 PM