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  Brecher: Social Self-Defense Against the Impending Trump Coup

  It is a threat to all of us as members of society. Overcoming a Trump Coup is Social Self-Defense
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  Cohn: Trump Needs Accomplices at Every Level of Government to Pull Off a Coup

  Voting is absolutely critical for democracy. But at the end of the day, stopping a coup attempt will depend on far more than the ballot, and will require creative and courageous acts of civic and political engagement from all of us
• Wertheim: Two guises of racism, disdain as well as envy

  I predict that the shift from exploitation racism to competition racism will continue with the further emancipation of minorities – who are recognizable in the public space – therefore increasing the chance of mass violence
• Hogness: Defeating Trump: Grassroots Organizations Can Tip the Scales

  We don’t know what the last weeks of the campaign will bring, but one thing is clear. Defeating Donald Trump is too important to leave up to the Biden campaign.
• Mackey: Infected Trump Returns to White House, Risking Lives to Record Video on Behalf of Virus

  The infected president removed his mask, endangering White House staff to record a video downplaying Covid-19.
• Millhiser: The Supreme Court Will Hear a Case That Could Destroy What Remains of the Voting Rights Act

  And Republicans are poised to gain a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court.
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  Baroud: In Lieu of a Liberation Strategy: Palestinian Elections Are Designed to Buy Time

  It is abundantly clear that Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, has underestimated the seriousness of the challenges facing Palestine and the Palestinians.
• Reynolds: ‘Round Midnight

  These years are precious. Let’s ourselves exemplify the tremendous courage and compassion demanded of so many in the nations our government targets overseas, of the Plowshares activists now awaiting sentence
• Nathan: First She Was Separated From Her Family, Now She’s Separated From School

  A refugee child, once separated from her mother at the border by Trump, now struggles with online school.
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  Glass: The Unprecedented and Illegal Campaign to Eliminate Julian Assange

  Assange would never receive a fair trial in the U.S., but he’s not receiving one in Britain either.
• Horn: After Dakota Access CEO gave $10M, Trump pushed secret pipeline permits

  “It wouldn’t be the first time he’s given Trump cash shortly before getting lucky with his pipelines”
• and Imani Countess: Overhauling U.S Foreign Policy: Bitter Fights Ahead

  As progressives, we can educate ourselves now to advance a global perspective and help pave the way for lobbying campaigns by progressive organizations seeking to influence a new administration.
• Wallace: The Last Empire (Hopefully)

  Just looking around at the crumbling infrastructure, the raging homelessness, the everyday low level panic that the average American has knowing there is no viable safety net. One misstep and….well, things will go badly
• Karlis: Uber-funded ballot measure in California would create ‘permanent underclass of workers’

  "From an abstract perspective, the idea that some of the richest companies in the world are passing a ballot initiative that would exempt their workers from basic labor protections is just, I think beyond the pale."
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  Albert: Dearest Donald

  And then I would weep for your soul, but you don’t have one. I would bemoan the loss of your intelligence, but you don’t have any. I would lament the loss of your sly and slippery feel for self preservation, but the end of that would be a blessing. 
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  Engelhardt: Murder, He Said: America’s Maestro of Death and Destruction

  His urge is visibly not just to be an autocrat, but to commit mass murder nationwide and on a planetary scale deep into the future
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  Solomon: The Man Who Would Be President: Mike Pence, Corporate Theocrat

  If President Trump dies from the coronavirus that has killed more than 200,000 Americans largely due to his deliberate negligence, the man replacing him will be no less dangerous
• Sembrar: The future of pandemic solidarity

  The pandemic has channelled our collective rage and constructed new visions of what is possible
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  Grim: Panic Over Mail-in Voting Only Feeds Trump’s Chaos, Says Top Pennsylvania Democrat

  Voters in the Keystone State who request an absentee ballot but decide to vote in person are playing into Trump’s hands, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman warns.
• Peterson: The Pathology of Privilege: Trump as Once or Future King

  The arrogance of many of the rich: How class privilege operates
• Ritscher: Hospital Workers Fight Job Cuts at Duluth’s Biggest Employer

  We spent the summer fighting back—including holding our local’s first-ever pickets