Memes of the Times

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:

MINNESOTAN RESISTANCE TO THE TRUMP REGIME’S FASCIST OCCUPATION
• Why Minnesota?
• Susie Hayward on What’s Happening in Minneapolis
• “This Is What Fascism Looks Like”
• “It Was Murder”: 12 Powerful Responses to the Death of Renée Nicole Good
• Omar Fateh: “Folks Are Waking Up”
• A Good Faith Appeal and a Grim Response
• Chris Hedges on ICE: “I Have Seen These Masked Goons Before”
• Steven Donziger: “Let’s Get Real . . . ICE Is a Domestic Terrorist Organization”
• Dispatches from Occupied Minnesota
• “It Was Never About Keeping America Safe”
• “ICE Out!”: The Minnesota General Strike – 1/23/26
• “This Was a Flat Out Execution”
• Honoring Alex Pretti
• In the Face of Fascist Lies, MN Governor Tim Walz Sets the Record Straight
• Adam Serwer on How “Every Social Theory Undergirding Trumpism Has Been Broken on the Steel of Minnesotan Resolve”
• “They Were Alive. Then They Were Not”
• Bruce Springsteen and the Streets of Minneapolis in the Winter of ’26


THE RISE OF FASCISM IN THE U.S.
• Derek Johnson on the “Courage to Call Fascism by Its Name”
• James Greenberg: “I Am in Mourning for America”
• “If a Praying Minister Isn’t Safe, None of Us Are”
• Historian John Lestrange on the Meaning and Manifestations of Fascism, Past and Present
• James Greenberg on Trump’s “Larger Design” – the Construction of a Military Dictatorship
• “A Power Grab the Likes of Which This Country Has Never Seen”


THE FAILURES OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
• Authoritarianism With a Blue Sticker
• David Norton: “The Democratic Party Serves Capital, Not You”
• Mike Figueredo: “Elected Democrats Have No Real Interest in Doing What the Base Wants”
• Tony Pentimalli on the Fallacy of the “Safe Political Center”
• Progressive Perspectives on Kamala Harris’s Book, 107 Days
• Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism


ISRAEL AND GAZA
• Two Years of “Indescribable Horror”
• The Only Difference
• No Justice, No Peace
• Progressive Perspectives on Hillary Clinton’s Comments on Pro-Palestine “Propaganda” and TikTok
• Qasim Rashid: Quote of the Day
• “It Is Up to Us”


THE DEPRAVITY OF THE EPSTEIN CLASS
• Anand Giridharadas: “The Epstein Class Is Defined by Amorality”
• Lee Camp: “The Epstein Scandal Has Revealed the Revolting Depravity of the Ruling Elite”
• Anand Giridharadas on the “Elite Network” Around Jeffrey Epstein


BUTCH WARE
• Introducing California’s Gubernatorial Candidate Butch Ware
• What Will Be Enough?
• “People Really Want New Options in Politics”
• “Organized Sustained Systemic Resistance and Self-Defense Are Our Only Options”
• “We Have the Power to Stop the Flow of Money and the False Legitimacy Upon Which Empire Depends”
• Meet Some of the “People-Powered” Green Party Candidates for 2026
• Butch Ware on “Red & Blue vs Green Politics”
• Butch Ware: Quote of the Day
• Butch Ware on His Run for California Governor and the Wider Goal of Disrupting the Duopoly
• “The Moment Is Ripe”: Butch Ware on Building a “True Oppositional Alternative” to the Duopoly


ZACK POLANSKI
• The Rational National’s Take on U.K. Green Party’s “Brilliant” New Ad
• Zack Polanski’s Christmas Message
• Zack Polanski’s Message of Hope
• “The Answer, Actually, Is Hope”


BAD BUNNY AND THE SUPER BOWL
• Michael Jochum on Bad Bunny and the “Great American Meltdown”
• John Pavlovitz: Quote of the Day


SIGNS OF HOPE
• The Path Ahead
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day
• Matthew Cooke: “MAGA Just Lost Everything . . . Now It’s Only a Matter of Time – and Each of Us Doing Our Part”
• Chris Hedges: “Most Revolutions Succeed Not Through Violence But Through National Strikes”
• Joyce Rupp: Seeking and Trusting the “Why” of Your Life
• Meet Some of the “People-Powered” Green Party Candidates for 2026
• A Socialist Agenda for 2026


See also:
• Memes of the Times – November 23, 2025
• Memes of the Times – September 21, 2025
• 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)