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Qasim Rashid, Esq.: 13 Rules to Protect Yourself While Protesting At No Kings
This week the “No Kings” Protest is projected to be one of the largest protests in American history. The right to protest is enshrined in the Bill of Rights. Americans have exercised this right throughout our nation’s history to protest government overreach, tyranny, and injustice. Today, that right is once again being tested.
Across the country, working people are mobilizing to protest ICE raids, mass arrests, and the targeting of immigrants, Muslims, Indigenous, and Black and brown communities. Meanwhile, the Trump regime has made clear it does not respect the right to peaceful protest.
That reality means preparation matters. Whether you are protesting this week, next week, or supporting loved ones who are, the goal is the same: protect yourself, protect each other, and remain rooted in principle. Below are key rules I urge you to read, share, and keep with you as we continue to show up for our communities.
(Qasim Rashid, Esq. more…)
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Jon Letman @ Truthout: The US-Israeli War on Iran Is Incentivizing Nuclear Proliferation
Speaking before a Friends of Ireland luncheon while wearing a lucky green tie for St. Patrick’s Day, President Donald Trump announced, “the war is proceeding very, very strongly. We’re doing very, very well in Iran, knocking the hell out of ‘em and you have to do that. We can’t let them have a nuclear weapon. They were two weeks away in my opinion, two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.”
But members of Trump’s own administration, nuclear experts, and scientists have disputed Trump’s claim, suggesting the president’s timeline was based on misinterpreted information from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). …
(Jon Letman @ Truthout more…)
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Ilan Goldenberg @ Foreign Affairs: America Has No Good Options in Iran
Trump Needs an Off-Ramp
Three weeks into the joint U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, the outlines of a familiar and dangerous pattern are emerging. The current conflict may for now be significantly different than American wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Vietnam—it has not yet drawn in U.S. ground forces in great numbers. But the Iran war shares a deeper strategic reality with these predecessors. Washington is once again fighting a weaker regional power without having clear objectives, a defined theory of victory, and a viable exit strategy.
The result is a different kind of quagmire, but a quagmire nonetheless. …
(Ilan Goldenberg @ Foreign Affairs more…)
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – March 26, 2026
In an interview with Reuters on Monday, Singapore’s minister for foreign affairs, Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, put in bald language the change in the world order instigated by President Donald J. Trump.
“For 80 years,” Balakrishnan explained, “the US was the underwriter for a system of globalisation based on UN Charter principles, multilateralism, territorial integrity, sovereign equality.” That system “heralded an unprecedented and unique period of global prosperity and peace. …
“But now, whether you like it or not, objectively, this period has ended…. Basically, the underwriter of this world order has now become a revisionist power, and some people would even say a disruptor. But the larger point is that the erosion of norms, processes, and institutions that underpinned a remarkable period of peace and prosperity; that foundation has gone.”
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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Mary Geddry: The Sharpie, the Sizzle Reel, and the War
Trump’s cabinet meeting was supposed to project strength. It looked like a presidency running on propaganda, grievance, and a man who may be losing the ability to hide what’s happening in plain sight.
(Mary Geddry more…)
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Joyce Vance: Pentagon vs. Principle: Can the Government Punish Anthropic for Refusing to Cross Its Ethical Boundaries?
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James Eagle: YouTube’s rise redraws the media hierarchy
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Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker
ICE Accountability Project
ICE deaths 2026 – They deserve remembrance and justice.
- March 16: Royer Perez-Jimenez
- March 14: Naseer Paktiawil
- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam
- January 24: Alex Pretti
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz
- January 9: Parady La
- January 7: Renée Good
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter
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NACDL Criminal Case Tracker
Texas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks’ journey to Washington
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Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive
Accountability Initiative ICE List
GriftMatrix
Trump Action Tracker
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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