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In recent months, I have focused on reexamining Lakota texts and influential figures who have significantly impacted my perspective. A recent podcast interview with Palestinian author Susan Abulhawa prompted me to revisit one of the most mythologized and often misunderstood leaders of Lakota resistance, Tasunka Witko—commonly referred to as “His Horse Is Crazy” or simply “Crazy Horse.” More

It is fascinating to witness Donald Trump’s ability to project onto his opponents pretty much what he himself is doing or intends to do. For instance, he is asserting that revision (based on historical evidence) of an idealized, self-glorifying U.S. history is creating a “distorted  narrative.” When, in his opinion, someone else is allegedly “replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative” it is a monstrous fault, maybe even a crime. When Trump himself does this same thing, it is heroically redemptive. Читать дальше...

On January 29th, newly installed Pres. Donald Trump issued the following Executive Order: “I hereby direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to take all appropriate actions to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully More

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are making corruption and graft the main business of the US government. They have fired all the cops who might try to rein them in and attacked any of the judges, politicians, or reporters who object to them stealing everything in sight. In this vein, it was entertaining to see reports that More

What is the mission of the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation? Even a quick review of the Tax Foundation’s output makes it perfectly plain: to help make average Americans see the richest among us as terribly overtaxed. Hardly a Tax Foundation report goes by without one iteration or another of this overtaxed claim. Just last fall, More

Mohsen Mahdawi, dictated this statement from ICE detention to his lawyers: I don’t want people to lose hope. Stay positive and believe in the inevitability of justice. This is hearing is part of the democratic system, as it prevents a tyrant from having unchecked power. I am in prison, but am not prisoned. A system More

In 2003, the Macedonian police arrested Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen vacationing in their country. They handed the unfortunate man over to the CIA, who shipped him off to one of their “black sites.” For those too young to remember (or who have quite understandably chosen to forget), “black sites” was the name given to More

Easter, recently passed, is not a holiday I have ever celebrated in any way beyond the long-ago dyeing of eggs and covert disposal of sub-par milk chocolate rabbits. My mother had a mystical streak and, it being the early ‘60s in the US, she found camaraderie at the local Friends’ Meeting. She took us kids More

In 2024, Project Censored introduced Beyond Fact-Checking: A Teaching Guide to the Power of News Frames to critically analyze narrative strategies media outlets use to present news stories. Framing shapes how we understand these stories by emphasizing certain aspects and downplaying others, ultimately promoting a particular interpretation of events. The point of framing is that More

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of more than 1,000 foreign university students since January 2025. Many of the individual cases that have made headlines center on foreign-born university students who participated in Palestinian rights protests. In early March, the federal government arrested, detained and began deportation proceedings against Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful permanent More

Who would have thought that the humble lentil flour (revalenta arabica) would, in the mid-19th century, be advertised as a food of extraordinary restorative power for invalids and sold at many times its cost for this purpose? And this is not even the first documented example of quackery in historical records. Pietro Longhi’s painting The More