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Another merry medley of madness.
Welcome to Saturday Hashtag, a weekly place for broader context.
With everything going on, we might forget the individuals being impacted in the fray. Keep your sights on them. They matter the most.
When we stop thinking, we enable harm. Elizabeth Minnich warns that systemic evils don’t need monsters — “it takes all of us” through everyday compliance.
You will never have more power than you do right now.
Welcome to Saturday Hashtag, a weekly place for broader context.
The Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf states understand better than anyone else the power of a gift.
A covert alliance of wealth, faith, and fear is quietly dismantling American democracy — one lie, one spectacle, and one grievance at a time.
Facing record-breaking fires and floods, and now attacks from the Trump administration, the state is suing oil companies to make them pay for a “decades-long campaign of deception.”
Drug overdose deaths, especially those related to fentanyl, plunged in 2024, which is something every American should keep in mind before Donald Trump tries to take credit for the successes of others.