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“Deaths Will Continue to Mount,” Scientist Warns After August and Summer 2026 Set U.S. Heat Records – Jessica Corbett (Common Dreams, September 9, 2026).
U.S. Imperialism Is Burning the Planet: An Interview with Matt Huber – Jacobin (September 17, 2026).
“A Wake-Up Call”: Scientists Behind Study on Climate Feedback Loops Demand Global Action – Jessica Corbett (Common Dreams, September 10, 2026).
The U.S. Had a Choice After 9/11. It Chose Wrong – Elie Mystal (The Nation, September 11, 2026).
Empire as a Way of Life: 25 Years Since 9/11 – Tariq Ali (Tariq Ali, September 11. 2026).
Three Major Revelations About the Gaza Holocaust in the Israeli Press – Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter, September 9, 2026).
“Israel Has Turned Into a Nazi Society”: Son of Holocaust Survivors Deplores the Rot in Israeli Society – Salwa Amor (The New Arab, May 9, 2024).
Comparing Israel to Nazi Regime Is Not a Criminal Offense, German Court Rules – Middle East Monitor (August 2, 2026).
How Israel and Its Allies Weaponize Antisemitism – AJ+ (February 15, 2024).
Why So Many American Jews Are Turning Away from Israel – Matthew Cassel (The Guardian, July 28, 2026).
“Imagine Being Threatened by Peace”: Singer Pink Lambasted for Criticising Macklemore’s Pro-Palestine Stance – The New Arab (September 12, 2026).
Macklemore’s Tour Cancellation Shows Why Celebrities Don’t Criticize Israel – Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter, September 14, 2026).
Debunking the Claim That Macklemore Has a “History Of Antisemitism” – Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter, September 16, 2026).
Hey, Ed Sheeran, Palestine Is Dying in White Silence Like Yours – John Pavlovitz (The Beautiful Mess, September 15, 2026).
Ed Sheeran Wants to Stay Out of Politics. By Quitting His Tour, His Support Acts Have Exposed the Hollowness of Neutrality – Laura Snapes (The Guardian, September 16, 2026).
Ms. Rachel Calls Out Ed Sheeran for Being Politically Spineless . . . In the Nicest Way Possible – Elyse Wanshel (The Huffington Post, September 15, 2026).
How Andor Mirrored Israel’s Genocide – Jessie Gender After Dark (June 17, 2025).
The End Times Fascists Are Plotting Their Escape from Our World. Our Mission Is Clear – Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor (The Guardian, September 13, 2026).
Jill Stein Demands Jury Trial in St. Louis Assault Case – Rejecting Deal from Prosecutors – Ryan Krull (St. Louis Magazine, September 14, 2026).
Both Parties Are Failing Working People: An Interview with Dan Osborn – Alex Skopic (Current Affairs, August 25, 2026).
Republicans Try to Shame Hasan Piker with a Near-Naked Pic During Messy Midterm Convention – Kelby Vera (The Huffington Post, September 9, 2026).
Gay Hookup App Grindr Experiences Dallas Outages During Republicans’ Trump-a-Palooza – Sanford Nowlin (San Antonio Current, September 10, 2026).
Colin Kaepernick Continues the “Perilous Fight” 10 Years After Taking a Knee – The Daily Show (September 16, 2026).
“They Will Come For You”: Colin Kaepernick Says NFL Owner Robert Kraft’s Concert Ban of Macklemore Is Evidence NFL Colluded to End His Career After Kneeling Protests – Jordan James (The Shadow League, September 16, 2026).
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• “The Moral Issue of Our Generation”
• 25 Years of the “Exact Wrong Response to 9/11”
• Caitlin Johnstone on the Need to Cultivate Integrity – As Both an Individual and a Society
• What Integrity Looks Like
• Ed Sheeran Chooses the Side of the Oppressor
• Exposing the Apocalyptic Thinking of Today’s U.S. Far Right
• Andor’s Depiction of the Rise of Fascism: Not Predictive But Reflective
• Andor: “A Magnum Opus of Anti-Imperialist Art”
• Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism
• “Our Country Right Now Is At a Crossroads”
• Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t
• Welcome to the Rebellion
• Third Parties and the Historical Record
• Hey, Liberals! We Need to Talk
• Jill Stein on What the Green Party Is All About
• “Rest in Peace, Dear Prophet Dolly”
• Remembering the Dolly Parton and Dionne Warwick Duet . . . and Celebrating Dolly as a “Kind of American Folk Saint”
• Progressive Perspectives on Colin Kaepernick and the “Take a Knee” Movement
• Marianne Williamson: “We’re Living at a Time of Spiritual Evolution”
See also:
• Memes of the Times – August 29, 2026
• 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)
Glacier Collapse: 2,000 Dead or Missing in Nepal-Tibet Flood Is “Glaring Example of Climate Injustice” – Democracy Now! (August 28, 2026).
U.S. Diplomat Who Resigned Over Gaza Condemns Biden Officials Who Defended Genocide – and Now Claim to Regret It – Julia Conley (Common Dreams, August 28, 2026).
Through Bipartisan Effort, Democrats and Republicans Have Destroyed World Trust in the U.S.A. – James Zogby (Common Dreams, September 1, 2026).
Both Parties Are Failing Working People: An Interview with Dan Osborn – Alex Skopic (Current Affairs, August 25, 2026).
Decades of Growing Inequality Powered MAGA’s Rise – Thomas Ferguson, Servaas Storm and Jie Chen (Jacobin, September 3, 2026).
Answer Me This, Hakeem Jeffries: What Do Democrats Stand For? – Ralph Nader (Common Dreams, September 1, 2026).
David Sirota: How to Get Obscenely Rich While Losing to Trump – The Democrats’ Failures Explained – The Real News Network (August 26, 2026).
Arrest Warrant Issued Against Jill Stein – The Great Lakes Perspective (August 18, 2026).
Dolly Parton Used Her Voice to Tell Working-Class Stories – Jarek Paul Ervin (Jacobin, August 26, 2026).
In a Trumpian World, Be Like Dolly – Melissa Dimondstein (Common Dreams, September 4, 2026).
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)
