Memes of the Times

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:

ISRAEL’S GAZA GENOCIDE
• Israel’s Actions in Gaza: “A Clear and Present Moral Collapse”
• Protesting Israel’s “Starvation Campaign” in Gaza
• A Call to Divest from Israel
• Idrees Ahmad: Quote of the Day – August 25, 2025
• A Poem That Remains Painfully Relevant


THE RISE OF FASCISM IN THE U.S.
• “It’s Here, and We Are Sleepwalking Through It”
• Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Donald Trump’s Militarization of Law Enforcement
• Garrett Graff: “America Tips Into Fascism”
• Brent Molnar on the MAGA Cult and Its Intentions
• James Greenberg on the Identity Politics of MAGA
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 20, 2025
• Staying Strong in Trump’s Fascist America


THE FAILURES OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
• Mike Figueredo on the “Political Malpractice” of the Democratic Party
• Ted Rall: Democrats Are Not “the Left”
• Exposing the Dark Money Network Secretly Funding Establishment Democratic Influencers
• The Longstanding Fault Lines Within the Democratic Party Have Surfaced Again in Minnesota
• Jeff Cohen on How Obama’s “Corporate Liberalism” Led to the Rise of Trump
• Progressive Perspectives on Bernie Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” Tour
• Eric Fernández: Quote of the Day – May 14, 2025
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – July 26, 2025
• How Democrats Can Start Winning Again


THE ASSASSINATION OF CHARLIE KIRK AND ITS AFTERMATH
• “Bullets Are Replacing Ballots and Political Arguments Are Being Answered with Gunfire”
• A Simple and Brutal Truth
• Calvin Michaels: “I Really Don’t Want to Hear What Charlie Kirk’s Supporters Have to Say When It Comes to Morality”
• Domestic Extremist-Related Killings in the U.S. by Perpetrator Political Affiliation (2015-2024)
• Taylor Lorenz on the Real “Political Violence” in the U.S.
• Bowing to an Idol
• Brent Molnar on the the Silencing of Jimmy Kimmel: “This Is What Fascism Looks Like in Practice”


SIGNS OF HOPE
• “No Kings”? Absolutely. But Also “No Oligarchy”
• Chris Smalls: We Need to Escape the “Two-Party Plantation”
• Kshama Sawant: Independent Working-class Campaigns Can Succeed
• The Rational National’s Take on Zohran Mamdani
• Omar Fateh: “We Need to Meet the Needs of Working People”
• Something to Think About – July 25, 2025
• In His Efforts to “Build a City That Works for All,” Omar Fateh Secures a Key Endorsement
• Butch Ware on His Run for California Governor and the Wider Goal of Disrupting the Duopoly
• Marianne Williamson on the Need for “Radical Love” in Responding to Trump’s Dismantling of Democracy
• “Protesting Is What Patriotism Looks Like in Public”


See also:
• Memes of the Times – July 27, 2024
• Memes of the Times – May 21, 2020
• Signs of the Times – April 25, 2017
• At the Minnesota Capitol, Signs of the Times (May 16, 2011)