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  Dispatches of alarm and hope, on politics and society, democracy and justice. Because silence is not an option. We may read and write alone, but we drive change together. Pam Bondi's Utter Contempt for Justice This so-called attorney general only cares about protecting Donald J. Trump Steven Beschloss Feb 13 Pam Bondi never turned around and looked Epstein’s victims in the eye. (Photo by Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images) It’s hard to imagine someone more overtly hostile  to justice and more utterly incapable of basic human compassion than the contemptuous Pamela Jo Bondi. This person is paid by us. This person is responsible for serving the people. This person’s duty is to enforce the law. But when asked for the most basic show of humanity, she couldn’t bring herself to do it. Not even to turn around and acknowledge more than a dozen victims of rapist Jeffrey Epstein and other rich and powerful participants in his sex trafficking operation. What Pam Bondi displayed on We...

  Dispatches of alarm and hope, on politics and society, democracy and justice. Because silence is not an option. We may read and write alone, but we drive change together. The Goal Was (And Is) Dictatorship This was clear years ago: Trump hungered for total power and retribution, while extremist Republicans mocked liberal government and right-wing groups plotted a fascist takeover. Steven Beschloss Jan 20 (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images) Note:  What follows is an essay I wrote on July 23, 2023 entitled “ Aiming for Dictatorship .” I urge you to read the analysis now, as we gather our strength to confront another year of the Trump nightmare. It’s a reminder that the reckless abandon of a second term—one based on death, destruction and vengeance—was oh so predictable. The plotting of an extremist takeover was well underway then—and the underlying commitment by a hateful right-wing to dismantle modern liberal government and its values was decades in the making....

  Dispatches of alarm and hope, on politics and society, democracy and justice. Because silence is not an option. We may read and write alone, but we drive change together. Snapshot: An ICE Killing in Minneapolis A young mother is dead, while the regime lies once again to justify their lawless agenda Steven Beschloss Jan 8 At a memorial for Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Her name was Renee Nicole Good.   She was 37 years old with a six-year-old child. In an Instagram account, she described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado; experiencing Minneapolis, MN.” Good’s mother described her  like this : “Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known. She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” Renee Nicole Good was murdered yesterday by a federal ICE agent, one of some 2,000 tha...

  Dispatches of alarm and hope, on politics and society, democracy and justice. Because silence is not an option. We may read and write alone, but we drive change together. Must Pete Hegseth Be Investigated Now? A Saturday Prompt Steven Beschloss Nov 29 Pete Hegseth telling military leaders how to behave in September. (Photo by Andrew Harnik via Getty Images) It’s hard not to become desensitized   to the near-constant violent extremism of Donald Trump and his sycophants. But after six lawmakers (all veterans) shot a video reminding members of the military of their duty to refuse illegal orders, the response from Trump and his belligerent “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth was unusually over-the-top, even by their cruel, deranged standards. These elected officials’ speaking out was “punishable by death,” Trump said, even by hanging. One of their number, Mark Kelly, the decorated Navy veteran, NASA astronaut and Arizona senator, must be investigated and possibly court-martialed, He...

THIS IS NOT NEW, BUT IT'S TIME TO ADDRESS RACISM & BLACK POVERTY IN  THE U.S. WE HAVE JUST PASSED THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD.  WHAT'S CHANGED?  TRUMP ET AL ARE ILLEGALLY DEPORTING DARK COMPLECTED 'IMMIGRANTS' & WELCOMING WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS....  SOUTH AFRICA SUPPORTED HILTER.  APARTHEID PROMOTED THE EXPLOITATION & OPPRESSION OF BLACKS  NAZI MUSK BROUGHT THAT LEGACY WITH HIM...HIS $$$ ORIGINATED FROM THE  EXPLOITATION OF NATIVE BLACKS.....    Plundering Black America An excerpt from an important new book chronicling the history of the racial wealth gap Steven Beschloss Mar 31, 2025  Fighting for equality in 1963 in the March on Washington. (Photo by Leffler/Library of Congress via Getty Images) We’ve been confronted in recent years  with a ridiculous amount of lies that there is no such thing as structural or systemic racism in America. This fallacious flood of misinformation has helped fuel the hosti...