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Running As Resistance 🇵🇸❤️

Gaza 5K! Ben Cohen! Arian Moayed! Rebecca Solnit!

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September 2025

Aja Monet on School Shootings in America

The other day, I took one of my pipes, a gorgeous Peterson tobacco, and Aja Monet’s newest book, Florida Water, to one of my favorite benches on Central…

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August 2025

❤️ Rule Breaking Love

Mon Rovîa! Gabor Maté! Sally Rooney! Mosab Abu Toha!

Aug 29 • 

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July 2025

What Are You Doing On This God-Awful Day?

My good friend Rod posed the following question to a group of our friends a few hours ago: “How are you boycotting this holiday?” Here was my response…

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April 2025

🕊️ Pope Francis (1936-2025)

Hours before his death, Pope Francis — “the Pope of the peripheries” — gave a final Easter address which included these words:

Apr 21 • 

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The Warplanes Must Be Silent

In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political, I must listen to the birds, and in order to hear the birds, the warplanes must be silent. — Marwan…

Apr 15 • 

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March 2025

Weapons of Mass Destruction or Beautiful Paintings?

Ed Begley Jr! Makoto Fujimura! Brad Montague! Aurora! James Baldwin!

Mar 7 • 

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January 2025

TEND TO YOUR OWN PEACE

Mara Kronenfeld! David Gate! Fr. Richard Rohr! JP Saxe!

Jan 27 • 

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December 2024

ART MAKES US MOVE

Lauren Paul! Molly Thompson! Pádraig Ó Tuama! Imani Perry! Ossie Davis!

Dec 13, 2024 • 

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November 2024

Don’t hesitate. Give in to it.

Munther Isaac! Mary Oliver! Fred Joseph! Cole Arthur Riley!

Nov 25, 2024 • 

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Moral Apathy—the Death of the Heart

Motaz Azaiza! Ta-Nehisi Coates! James Baldwin! Jess Natale!

Nov 1, 2024 • 

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August 2024

Silence Is Complicity

Aaron Maté! Daniel Maté! Pastor Munther Isaac! Audre Lorde!

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