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Over 70,000 People Detained in 225 Concentration Camps, With Plans to Double Them: Why Isn’t This a National Emergency?

ICE’s nationwide detention system continues to expand under plans that would double its size while shielding it from meaningful accountability…

February 4, 2026 at 3:26 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

Is Trump Rebuilding the Confederacy, Starting With the Slave Patrols?

A warning from history about oligarchy, terror policing, and the death of democracy…

February 3, 2026 at 3:15 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

The Untimely Death of Civil Rights in America

And what can be done to resurrect them.

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January 30, 2026 at 2:36 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

As Millions Lose Health Insurance, the Washington Post Misleads About Medicare for All

The Post editorial board also didn’t mention owner Jeff Bezos has a major stake in the US healthcare debate.

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December 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

Trump’s Carnival of Corruption Threatens Our Democracy

Donald Trump’s second term has been marked by personal graft, rampant abuse of power, and subversion of the rule of law and the Constitution.

zeteo.com

December 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

The clearest symptom yet of Trump’s mental decline

His brain is turning into sh*t

The Great Secession of the Morbidly Rich Marks a Breaking Point for Democracy’s Survival

December 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

The Supra-rich are living in their own private world.

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What elite isolation reveals about the fragility of modern democracy and the cost of unchecked billionaire power…

open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

December 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

The Two-State Solution Has Long Been Dead. Here's How to Bring Peace to Israel-Palestine Instead

In their new book, Dawn's Sarah Leah Whitson and Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man lay out a blueprint to end the occupation and transform an undemocratic one-state reality into a democratic one.

Trump's Lies Echo a Dark Era, But One We Survived and Reformed — and Can Do Again

November 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

In this article, Thom Hartmann focuses on political battle between John Adams, our second President and Thomas Jefferson, our third President.

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From Jefferson’s era to today, history proves democracy’s defenders can still win…

November 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

If Threatening to Hang Members of Congress Isn’t Impeachable, What Is?

If Trump wants veterans in Congress killed for affirming U.S. law, doesn’t that make him the very danger the Founders warned would destroy the republic, the kind impeachment was designed for?

November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

Sunday thought

The rot at the top

November 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

The Brutality Is the Message: Why America’s Violence Against Immigrants Isn’t About Immigration

Every raid, every body slammed to the pavement, is a public ritual meant to teach us obedience. The goal isn’t enforcement — it’s submission...

October 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

Twelve Steps to National Collapse: A Blueprint for How Democracies Die

A historian’s alarm: when these twelve familiar steps appear in a nation, the result is often irreversible—unless citizens rise up and demand otherwise…

October 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

“America's Comeback” Is Nothing but a Con Job

The recycled lies of trickle-down economics, designed to crush workers, women, and minorities alike…

Death of the Holocaust Industry

September 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

From the article, “Genocide is coded in the DNA of Western imperialism.”

open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

The genocide in Gaza has exposed the weaponization of the Holocaust as a vehicle not to prevent genocide, but to perpetuate it, not to examine the past, but to manipulate the present.

September 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

Is Trump’s Weakness the Fatal Blow That Will Destroy America?

Trump’s fear of exposure, his criminal past, and the GOP’s refusal to stand up to him are unraveling 249 years of hard-won democratic progress…

September 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

How to respond to Trump's lies about a "crime wave"

Friends,

August 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

Welcome to the "Chilling Stage" of Tyranny—Where the Tyrant Tightens His Grip

The last moments to resist are slipping away, and history shows once fascism’s grip tightens, it rarely loosens…

‘A graveyard’: Israel kills an average 28 children daily in Gaza

August 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

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Israel has killed more than 18,000 children since the start of its genocidal war on Gaza.

aje.io

August 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

What If This is the Last Generation that Gets to Ask "What If"?

The Iroquois planned for seven generations. Our leaders can’t plan past the next corporate quarterly report — and we’re paying the ultimate price...

July 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

An ode to a disappearing America

What Patriotism Requires

July 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

Trump’s Tax Cuts Come with a Body Count — Starting with Grandma

Trump’s “Big Ugly Bill” isn’t just cruel: it’s the latest salvo in the war against democracy and the “We” society…

open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

July 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM

Dan Kurtti

@dankurtti.bsky.social

Gaza’s Hunger Games

Israel is weaponizing starvation. The objective is to dismantle all remnants of civil society and reduce Palestinians to herds of desperate scavengers who can be driven from historic Palestine.