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Trinity, 80 Years Later, Still Threatens A 'hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall'
July 16 marked the 80th anniversary of the first atomic bomb explosion, at what the bomb's creator, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, called the Trinity Site in New Mexico. The harsh desert terrain had been known for centuries by the name given by the Spanish conquistadors, the Jornada del Muerto, the Journey of Death. The Trinity test was ...Read more
This July 4th, Declare Your Independence From Ice Prisons
Independence Day occurs as this imperfect union, publicly declared on July 4, 1776, faces an existential threat. President Donald Trump daily amasses more authoritarian control, unchecked by the Republican majority in Congress and the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority. Mass arrests and deportations of immigrants accelerate, sweeping up ...Read more