Protestors demonstrating against unjust rate increases and fossil-fuel expansion outside of We Energies' headquarters in Milwaukee, WI in 2024 “Memory is what the mad king and the architects of anthropomorphic rivers want you to forget. Because if you don’t remember the smell or feel of the land, then you will believe anything they tell you about it, including that it is just another body to exploit. But if you remember…” — from Ben Weaver’s Considering Leaves Thursday, June

Letter from the Director May 1st, 2026 There is a particular kind of clarity that emerges when systems stop pretending. Not collapse — not yet. But a shedding of euphemism. A moment when the language used to describe power can no longer keep pace with how that power is being exercised. This week’s stories, taken together, suggest we are in such a moment. Immigration enforcement is no longer framed primarily as labor management or border control, but increasingly as demographi

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