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Part 1: The Short-Term Trap: The Structural Failure of 3-to-5-Year Funding Cycles Most organizations operate under a hidden, systemic constraint: the standard 2-to-5-year funding ncycle. While this timeframe is widely accepted as industry best practice, it frequently acts as a structural chokehold on progress. It forces progressive, advocacy, and justice-oriented movements into a state of perpetual reactivity, trapping them in short-term habits and leaving them vulnerable to long-term systemic challenges Philly's Chris Rabb Will Be Great New Progressive "Squad" Member Progressive Philadelphian Chris Rabb has won his primary, in what Politico describes as The Bluest District in the country. He'll make a great addition to the "Squad." No Kings: The Largest Protest in American History -- And What Has to Come Next No Kings has extraordinary mobilization capacity. What it still needs is the connective tissue that makes mobilization cumulative: shared intelligence, coordination infrastructure, and a movement memory that survives individual leadership transitions. That Actors, writers and other celebrities should boycott the Ellison media Empire Conservatives have almost no A-list talent to fill these rosters -- their cultural bench is thin. If progressive actors, writers, directors, and showrunners publicly commit to not working with Paramount Skydance or Warner Bros. under Ellison control, it would gut the pipeline of prestige content these companies depend on. 1 Operation Dump: First Noem, Then Bondi, Then Miller A Strategic Framework to get Trump to dump Pam Bondi and Stephen Miller Miller 4 Trump: The Weakest President in 50 Years -- His Own People Just Proved It Secretary of State Marco Rubio and House Speaker Mike Johnson have now handed the American left the most damning indictment of Donald Trump's leadership imaginable -- and they don't even seem to realize it. 2 Why I Switched from ChatGPT to Claude -- and Why You Should Too Anthropic, the maker of Claude AI refused Pentagon demands to remove AI safeguards against autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. Trump banned them for it. Now, with an illegal war on Iran launched without Congressional approval, the question of who controls AI in wartime has never been more urgent. 2 Trump Has Trashed/Damaged Trillions in Soft Power Assets Donald Trump, as a malignant narcissist, is unable to trust or feel real empathy. He is a transactional man. That makes him see soft power as weakness and a waste of resources. It has led to him destroying trillions of dollars in soft power assets built over decades. 2 How Will AI Treat Humanity When It Surpasses Us In 20-40 years Thoughts about the future of AI and the relationship between ai and humans as AI becomes more powerful and better at doing things than humans. 4 Crowdsourcing a. 50-year Progressive vision A group of us have been working on envisioning a left-wing version of the Lewis Powell memo, with a goal goal of building a left-wing, Progressive infrastructure that can stand up to and beat withthe right wing has created in the 54 years since the Powell memo. An essential element of such a project requires long-term vision. What are the goals for 5, 10 years? 20, 25, 30 and 50 years out. What would the left like?

OpEdNews Political Articles

Part 1: The Short-Term Trap: The Structural Failure of 3-to-5-Year Funding Cycles

Most organizations operate under a hidden, systemic constraint: the standard 2-to-5-year funding ncycle. While this timeframe is widely accepted as industry best practice, it frequently acts as a structural chokehold on progress. It forces progressive, advocacy, and justice-oriented movements into a state of perpetual reactivity, trapping them in short-term habits and leaving them vulnerable to long-term systemic challenges

Philly's Chris Rabb Will Be Great New Progressive "Squad" Member

Progressive Philadelphian Chris Rabb has won his primary, in what Politico describes as The Bluest District in the country. He'll make a great addition to the "Squad."

No Kings: The Largest Protest in American History -- And What Has to Come Next

No Kings has extraordinary mobilization capacity. What it still needs is the connective tissue that makes mobilization cumulative: shared intelligence, coordination infrastructure, and a movement memory that survives individual leadership transitions. That

Actors, writers and other celebrities should boycott the Ellison media Empire

Conservatives have almost no A-list talent to fill these rosters -- their cultural bench is thin. If progressive actors, writers, directors, and showrunners publicly commit to not working with Paramount Skydance or Warner Bros. under Ellison control, it would gut the pipeline of prestige content these companies depend on.

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Operation Dump: First Noem, Then Bondi, Then Miller

A Strategic Framework to get Trump to dump Pam Bondi and Stephen Miller Miller

4
Trump: The Weakest President in 50 Years -- His Own People Just Proved It

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and House Speaker Mike Johnson have now handed the American left the most damning indictment of Donald Trump's leadership imaginable -- and they don't even seem to realize it.

2
Why I Switched from ChatGPT to Claude -- and Why You Should Too

Anthropic, the maker of Claude AI refused Pentagon demands to remove AI safeguards against autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. Trump banned them for it. Now, with an illegal war on Iran launched without Congressional approval, the question of who controls AI in wartime has never been more urgent.

2
Trump Has Trashed/Damaged Trillions in Soft Power Assets

Donald Trump, as a malignant narcissist, is unable to trust or feel real empathy. He is a transactional man. That makes him see soft power as weakness and a waste of resources. It has led to him destroying trillions of dollars in soft power assets built over decades.

2
How Will AI Treat Humanity When It Surpasses Us In 20-40 years

Thoughts about the future of AI and the relationship between ai and humans as AI becomes more powerful and better at doing things than humans.

4
Crowdsourcing a. 50-year Progressive vision

A group of us have been working on envisioning a left-wing version of the Lewis Powell memo, with a goal goal of building a left-wing, Progressive infrastructure that can stand up to and beat withthe right wing has created in the 54 years since the Powell memo. An essential element of such a project requires long-term vision. What are the goals for 5, 10 years? 20, 25, 30 and 50 years out. What would the left like?