Pushback 114

Andrea Dooley

31 Oct 2025 — 2 min read

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Pushback 116

Pushback 116

It's a real fish-in-a-barrel kind of day because there are a lot of people working hard to oppose the administration's authoritarianism. I have a small hope that the height of Trump's power was November 3, and we are already see the speedy decline of

Pushback 115

Pushback 115

I've been in such a fog the last couple of weeks that I didn't even realize it's been nearly two weeks since I sent a Pushback/Rebuild newsletter. It helped that there was, for a short moment last week, a lot of really good

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