Resistance is Everywhere
Hundreds of stories, one message: resistance is everywhere you look.
Resistance is standing up for your rights
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Karen Attiah Fought the Washington Post and Won
In the aftermath of Kirk’s killing, “we saw a coordinated effort to chill any speech critical of his legacy,” Viktoya Vilk, senior director for digital safety and free expression at PEN America, wrote in a statement to Mother Jones. More…
Resistance is speaking out
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A New Tree-Sit Movement to Block Trump’s Border Wall
For nearly a month, the key force standing in the way of Trump’s border wall project in southeast Arizona has been a person sitting in a 200-year-old tree. More precisely, at every moment since late July, one person — although not always…
Resistance is public pressure
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Inola hits pause on smelter after weighing resident pushback, Trump support
Many Inola residents said they were disillusioned with the Trump administration’s characterization of the smelter. It doesn’t match what the company behind the smelter put in its February application for an air quality permit from the…
Resistance is standing up for your rights
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Judge says Pentagon's measures against Anthropic were 'illegal and baseless'
A federal judge has ruled in favor of artificial intelligence company Anthropic in its legal battle against the Pentagon after the government labeled the company as a supply chain risk earlier this year. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued…
Resistance is protests
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Bay Area Nurses Protest Use of Palantir’s AI Tech at Hospitals
More than a hundred registered nurses in red union T-shirts blocked traffic and chanted outside Palantir’s former headquarters in Palo Alto on Thursday, calling on hospital executives and elected officials to cut ties with the artificial…
Resistance is states taking action
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New Jersey Awards 16 Dual-Use Solar Projects Totaling 52.06 MW in Its First Agrivoltaics Solicitation
Agrivoltaics places panels above or among crops and grazing land rather than taking the field out of production. That distinction is the whole point of the program. New Jersey is dense and its farmland is under development pressure, so a…
Resistance is in the courts
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Mike Lindell recount bid in GOP governor primary loss denied by Minnesota's highest court
In a six-page ruling signed by Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, the Supreme Court denied Lindell's attempt to broaden the scope of a recount beyond what the secretary of state’s office laid out. Lindell missed a Monday deadline to formally…
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"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." — Edith Wharton
There are so many people who are doing so much to make things better in our country and our world.
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I'm building this site to highlight the things I want to share with my friends about all the good things people are doing - and some of the things we can do to make things better for ourselves, our families and friends, and our neighbors.
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