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Volunteer During Earth Month

It is also a great opportunity volunteer a few hours of your time and effort to assist in the community. Even though we are almost halfway…

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Trump at the last supper eating a hamburger

Shooting from the Lipp - DJT as Jesus v. the Pope

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Is DJT God, or just Jesus? Don’t ask the Pope. In either case, it hasn’t helped his Iran fiasco, which is opposed by a majority,…

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Bob, Dan, Steve Caruso

Everybody Knows features Steve Caruso

Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan interview friend and musician Steve Caruso, a local activist who is known to have worked behind the scenes at the Philadelphia Folk Festival.

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Blockades and the Logic of Collective Punishment

The naval blockade around Iran exposes something modern war talk tries to hide: coercion no longer needs to look like war to function as war. It only needs to control the systems people…

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Action Alerts

Free Them All rally on Friday

Join us Friday, April 17 at 6:30 p.m. at the Goodale Park Gazebo in Columbus.

Palestinians know what it means to live with the fear that someone you love can be taken in the middle of the night. Across Palestine, Israeli soldiers regularly enter homes around 2 a.m., wake entire families, and take people away without explanation. Across the United States, ICE agents raid homes and workplaces, separate families, and detain people for months in abusive conditions. These systems are not identical, but they rely on the same logic: that certain people can be disappeared…

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Mr. Colbert, I’m not laughing anymore

Dear Mr. Colbert, your take-down of Trump’s #2 at FEMA, Gregg Phillips, who claims he was tele-transported to a Waffle House was so hilarious I spit my milk out through my nose.

But I’m not laughing anymore. Mr. Colbert, Phillips may choose…

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Link the SAVE Act to the History of Republican Voter Suppression

Donald Trump asked Republicans to pass the SAVE Act “for Jesus.” He’d have been better calling out George Wallace and Strom Thurmond. The debate has focused on the bill’s many dangerous aspects, and the next steps to trying to pass it are unclear…

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The Collapse is Real – Lebanon Ceasefire Marks a Historic Strategic Defeat

A ceasefire in Lebanon was announced on Thursday by US President Donald Trump, but its reality tells a very different story. The ceasefire was not the product of American diplomacy, nor Israeli strategic calculation. It was imposed—…

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Harvey, Morgan, Nathan Myla in zoom

April 13, 2026 Greep Zoom W/Harvey - Leaving MAGA, Orban, Ohio, Voting Algorithmic Behaviors, Finding Earth Day Solartopia

We start GREEP Zoom #263 with the wonderful MAGA refugee JENNIE GAGE reporting from Arizona and her brave new post-Trump/Mormon life.

Amidst the aftermath of the now-iconic AI image of Donald Trump as Jesus, we hear from star Raw Story…

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