Memes of the Times

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:

ISRAEL AND GAZA
“The Moral Issue of Our Generation”
Genevieve Fraser: Quote of the Day – March 3, 2026
• Chris Hedges: “The Genocide in Gaza Is the Beginning. Welcome to the New World Order”
• The Architecture of Settler Colonialism
• Omid Safi: Quote of the Day – March 7, 2026
• Thomas Fazi on How Western Hegemony Has Entered a Phase of Irreversible Decline
• Kym Staton: Quote of the Day – March 3, 2026
• The Lamentable Legacy of the Biden Administration


THE RISE OF FASCISM IN THE U.S.
• George Conway: The Trump Administration Is a “Criminal Organization”
• Reich-Wing Watch: Quote of the Day – July 17, 2026
• Tommy J. Housman on Reactions to the “Defining Image” of Trump’s America
• James Greenberg: “I Am in Mourning for America”
• Will Potter on Trump’s War on Dissent: “This Is What Fascists Do”
• Derek Johnson on the “Courage to Call Fascism by Its Name”
• Jason Duchin: Quote of the Day – September 24, 2025
• Staying Strong in Trump’s Fascist America
• James Greenberg on the Identity Politics of MAGA
• “This Is What Fascism Looks Like in Practice”
• Garrett Graff: “America Tips Into Fascism”
• Marianne Williamson: “We’re Moving Into Totalitarianism”
• “It’s Here, and We Are Sleepwalking Through It”
• Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Donald Trump’s Militarization of Law Enforcement
• Historian Kyle Dekker: “It’s Not Nazi Ideology We Are Fighting. It’s American”


THE EPSTEIN CLASS
• Something to Think About – February 28, 2026
• Anand Giridharadas: “The Epstein Class Is Defined by Amorality”


ICE
• Mark Greene on How ICE Is a Weapon of the Epstein Class
• “The World Is Watching”: Salazar Felicita on the Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
• On July 4th, Two Very Different Marches
• The “Power, Peril and Importance” of What’s Happening in Minnesota
• Only the Beginning
• The North Remembers
• “It’s All Lies and Propaganda”
• Quote of the Day – February 23, 2026
• Dispatches from Occupied Minnesota
• More Dispatches from Occupied Minnesota
• Renée Good and Alex Pretty: “They Were Alive. Then They Were Not”
• Bruce Springsteen and the Streets of Minneapolis in the Winter of ’26
• Chris Hedges on ICE: “I Have Seen These Masked Goons Before”


THE FAILURES OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
• The Time for Illusions Is Over: Henry Giroux on the Democratic Party
• Ashley Stevens: Quote of the Day – August 18, 2026
• Four Political Commentaries Worth Viewing
• “Woke 1.0” as Revisionist History
• Adam Bates: Quote of the Day – June 9, 2026
• When the “Blue Wave” Is a “Blue Crackdown”
• Carlos LeMar Dixon: Without Revolutionary Action, We’re Just “Entertaining the Kings”
• “Our Country Right Now Is At a Crossroads”
• Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t


BEYOND THE DUOPOLY
• Third Parties and the Historical Record
• Hey, Liberals! We Need to Talk
• Jill Stein on What the Green Party Is All About
• Jill Stein on the Importance of the Green Party
• “We Give Reasons for People to Come Out and Vote”
• Butch Ware on Why Third Parties Are Crucial
• Campaigning With the Green Party of Minnesota
• With the Green Party at Twin Cities Pride


DOLLY PARTON
• “Rest in Peace, Dear Prophet Dolly”
• Remembering the Dolly Parton and Dionne Warwick Duet . . . and Celebrating Dolly as a “Kind of American Folk Saint”


SIGNS OF HOPE
• Spider-Man in Minneapolis
• Choosing to Awaken
• Abdul El-Sayed: The Disruptor Michigan (and the Country) Needs
• Chris Smalls: The Working-Class Revolution Is Coming
• “The Fascist Fist Is Tightening Because It Knows That It Is Losing Its Grasp on Us”
• “A Very Insightful and Constructive Discussion”
• Pope Leo XIV: Quote of the Day – June 11, 2026
• Aligning With the Divine
• Kadeem
• A Message in Dance That Challenges, Inspires and Liberates
• Kadeem En Pointe: Finding Freedom in Dance • A Mesmerizing Performance
• Awakenings


See also:
• Memes of the Times – June 25, 2026
• Memes of the Times – May 15, 2026
• Memes of the Times – February 11, 2026
• 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)