Before I start I want to express sympathy for the people who have died in a plane crash in Washington, and I want to condemn Trump’s disgusting proposal to kidnap people and lock them up in Guantanamo.I’m very happy to be in Cuba. I feel closer to Cuba than I do to people in the United States with red hats reading MAGA. Cuba is, in fact, closer to the continental United States

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6 天之前 · January 30, 2025

2025年1月23日 · On the one hand, there’s no sugarcoating how progressives feel as President Trump retakes office: rough. Trump and his allies in Congress are already rolling out plans to cut taxes for billionaires, slash services for the rest of us, pollute the planet, and deport people who’ve lived here their whole lives.

2025年1月20日 · Trump intended his second inaugural address to be uplifting and unifying, though it is riddled with questionable claims, downright lies, and is hardly unifying.

2025年1月15日 · I couldn’t stomach Jimmy Carter–until my view of him turned around 180 degrees just four years ago. Like most Democrats who supported Ted Kennedy’s run against him, I tagged Carter as just some grinning anti-New Deal...

Dear President Joe Biden,It’s been three months since I sent you my suggested list of Executive Actions that you could take in your last weeks in office. A “Bucket List” so-to-speak filled with legal declarations to make the lives of your fellow Americans just a little bit better. I am happy you took some of my advice. Thank you. And thank you for commuting the sentences of 37

Following every Israeli war on Gaza, numerous narratives emerge. Some claim victory for one side and defeat for the other, while others—knowingly or unknowingly—attempt to exploit the aftermath for their own purposes.The latter is not always nefarious, as the humanitarian calamities resulting from Israel's actions are undeniable—especially as Israel and its allies often use

The Ohio Legislature must not pitch billions more taxpayer dollars down the atomic rat hole. Instead—-without spending a single cent—-it can make the Buckeye State the hugely profitable world capital of wind power.

2025年1月11日 · Last week, I, as an Executive Producer of FROM GROUND ZERO: STORIES FROM GAZA, was quoted across the country as stating the following: “No filmmaker, writer or artist should ever have to tell the story of their own extermination.”And yet…As I write this, in a scattered group of cinemas across the country, movie-goers are watching this anthology of stories captured on camera by