No. 89-5, October 2025

Index

• 'HELL NO, YOU CAN'T DO THAT'. (SMOKING GUN) (Donald Trump's executive orders)
• 'Helped' Against Your Will. (involuntary psychiatric treatment)
• A Flash of the Possible. (BLAST FROM THE PAST) (non-violent strikes)
• A Voice for Public Schools and Educational Equity: An interview with Diane Ravitch.
• A Water-Saving Grain Grows in the Desert: Despite its lack of market share, a group of family farmers in Colorado bet on rye to help combat the region's water shortage.
• All Rise. (NO COMMENT) (water level of Ohio river during a family kayaking by J.D. Vance)
• Bygones. (NO COMMENT) (DOJ on Jared Wise's charges)
• Deciding to Pause.
• DONALD TRUMP'S WAR ON CULTURE. (FIRST THINGS FIRST)
• E. JEAN CARROLL AND TRUMP'S ASSAULT ON AMERICA. (MIDDLE AMERICA)
• Fun with Fascism. (NO COMMENT)
• General Thoughts and Comments.
• Hope as an Active Stance. (BOOK EXCERPT) (It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World)
• ICED OUT: Communities across the United States are shutting down detention facilities and refusing to cooperate with immigration enforcement. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
• IN DEFENSE OF HOME AND COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES. (SMART ASS CRIPPLE).
• IS AG SECRETARY BROOKE ROLLINS BRILLIANT ... OR WHAT?(VOX POPULIST) (Department of Agriculture Secretary)
• Just Checking. (NO COMMENT)
• Learning from Our Past.
• Look Who's Talking. (NO COMMENT)
• Oh Well, Maybe Next Planet. (NO COMMENT) (climate change)
• PERFECTING THE ART OF CORRUPTION. (HEMMING AND HAWING)
• PROJECT 2025--A ROAD MAP AND A WARNING. (COMMENT)
• Recognizing the Value in All Humanity. (Silent No Longer: Advancing the Fight for Disability Rights)
• Saying 'No' to War. (LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)
• STAND UP FOR DIVERSITY IN SCIENCE: If we believe that science must be by and for everyone, now is the time to fight for the world we want our science to exist in. (PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVES)
• STANDING UP TO ICE IS A MORAL IMPERATIVE: We can resist by disrupting the agency's dependence on local law enforcement. Every sheriff who refuses to cooperate weakens Trump's machine. (PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVES) (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
• TAKING ACTION AGAINST OCCUPATION. (ON THE LINE) (National Guard)
• Testing the BOUNDARY WATERS: With the federally protected Minnesota wilderness under mining threat, Indigenous and grassroots activists take their fight across borders.
• The Fight to Save Community Radio: The death of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting threatens a critical piece of U.S. civic infrastructure.
• The Formation of Queen Mother Moore. (Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore)
• THE MARCH TOWARD MARTIAL LAW. (ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA)
• THE POLITICS OF RESISTANCE. (FURTHER COMMENT)
• The Progressive Since 1909: Celebrating 116 years of publication.
• THE SUMMER OF SECESSION. (DITOR'S NOTE)
• The Whole Thing!
• WE MUST FIGHT FOR OUR NATIONAL PARKS. (FIRST-PERSON SINGULAR)
• Wes Jackson Considers the Deep Roots of Our American Crisis: In a new film, the prairie prophet's lifelong search for sustainability offers solutions straightfrom the soil. ("Hogs Are Up: Stories of the Land, with Digressions," "The Restless and Relentless Mind of Wes Jackson: Searching for Sustainability," and movie review of "Prairie Prophecy" documentary)
• WHAT IT MEANS TO SURVIVE. (WORK WON'T LOVE YOU BACK) (Hurricane Katrina)
• When History Repeats Itself. (Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation)
• While digging for worms. (Poem)
• Who Would Jesus Refuse to Treat?(NO COMMENT)
• ZOHRAN MAMDANI AND 'TRUMP-PROOFING' OUR CITIES: The New York City mayoral candidate has a plan for assuring that his city and others do 'more than simply survive.'.