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1 week ago | 
americaamerica.news | Steven Beschloss
Every one of you who participated in Saturday's "No Kings" protests or read accounts ( including mine) of these joyful gatherings all across America could see that they were motivated by a love of country and anger toward the attacks on the values and principles for which America stands.
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1 week ago | 
americaamerica.news | Steven Beschloss
The rain was coming down in the streets of New York, but it didn't dampen the spirit of the "No Kings" demonstration. People came to protest-here and in over 2,000 locations all across the country Saturday-and they were not about to be denied by a little inclement weather.
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2 weeks ago | 
americaamerica.news | Steven Beschloss
Audio recordings of regular posts, narrated by author and journalist Steven Beschloss, focused on democracy, justice, politics and society. Audio recordings of regular posts, narrated by author and journalist Steven Beschloss, focused on democracy, justice, politics and society.
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2 weeks ago | 
americaamerica.news | Steven Beschloss
Today, June 14, is a day for mass protest all across our land under the heading of "No Kings." As the organizers describe it online, "They've defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights, and slashed our services. The corruption has gone too far. No thrones. No crowns.
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2 weeks ago | 
americaamerica.news | Steven Beschloss
I'm trying to make this Friday a quiet day-to rest up for tomorrow's " No Kings " protest and gather my thoughts. I don't want to overstate the significance of tomorrow's protests across the country-there will be more to come-but it surely does feel like we are at an inflection point after this week's alarming events. The physical assault and handcuffing of a U.S. Senator expressing his 1st Amendment rights while Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stood by.
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2 weeks ago | 
americaamerica.news | Steven Beschloss
Donald Trump federalized 4,000 National Guard troops and sent 700 U.S. Marines this week to downtown Los Angeles to pretend that this militarized show of force was necessary to overcome street protests supporting immigration rights and due process. Donald Trump ordered dozens of tanks and is spending tens of millions of dollars for a military parade, a shameful spectacle with thousands of soldiers in the streets of Washington on his birthday tomorrow.
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2 weeks ago | 
americaamerica.news | Steven Beschloss
ABC News correspondent Terry Moran tweeted that Donald Trump and his adviser Stephen Miller were "world-class haters," and the network reacted by firing Moran. Never mind that they are first-class haters, and there's tons of evidence to support that conclusion. In this short On-Target video by Mark Jacob and me, we discuss how ABC decided that a posture of objectivity was more important-and how this journalistic mindset has aided Trump's dangerous march into authoritarianism.
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2 weeks ago | 
americaamerica.news | Steven Beschloss
I want to share the recording of my Substack Live conversation with Ezra Levin, co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible, the group coordinating the "No Kings" protests this Saturday all over the country.
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2 weeks ago | 
americaamerica.news | Steven Beschloss
Donald Trump is a weak man parading as a strong man. We'll see that with appalling visuals when Army tanks roll down the streets of Washington, D.C. next weekend. We've seen it over the weekend with his efforts to escalate conflict in Los Angeles by federalizing the National Guard, just the latest transgression in his plotting to invoke the Insurrection Act in order to silence a fabricated crisis and chill dissent.
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3 weeks ago | 
americaamerica.news | Steven Beschloss
It's struck me ever since Elon Musk purchased Twitter in 2022 that if he had remained the billionaire owner of an electric vehicle company and a rocket-making company whose great dream was to go to Mars, he would still be hailed as a visionary making positive contributions to society. But obviously owning Tesla and SpaceX was not enough, and his claim after buying Twitter for $44 billion that he was dedicated to creating a true "digital town square" was a lie.