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‘Beyond the Wire’: A grassroots perspective on Baltimore

“…if Baltimore don’t tell its story, we’ve seen time and time again, people will come and tell the story and the story will be told in a way that gets them more and more dollars. And people love crime and violence and sensationalism.”

This Republican’s evasiveness about ICE funding reveals something sinister—a deep MAGA desire to punish us all

Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are preparing for the transition to autocracy. Part of that plan includes billions in ICE funding.

by Taya Graham and Stephen Janis June 23, 2026June 23, 2026

Alan Greenspan, longtime Fed chair and Ayn Rand disciple, meets ultimate ‘invisible hand’

“For decades, he preached that the self-interest of the predator was the invisible hand of the common good,” Yanis Varoufakis said after the man who led the US central bank under four presidents died aged 100.

by Brett Wilkins June 23, 2026June 23, 2026

Black cops, Latino ICE agents, and the ‘overseer class’

We speak with Dr. Steven Thrasher about how today’s police state evolved from yesterday’s slave plantations, and about why he has been blacklisted from academia for defending his students during the 2024 Palestine encampment movement.