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Donald Trump is out of the White House. COVID-19 is fading, at least in
wealthier nations. The world, they say, is returning to "normal." That's
the narrative that the corporate media is selling.

But there's a problem: "normal" is destroying our planet, threatening
our democracies, concentrating massive wealth in a tiny elite group, and
leaving billions of people without access to life-saving vaccines amid a
deadly pandemic.

"Normal" is now a world with deadly, triple-digit heat waves and drought
across the western U.S. that began before summer even started. It means
massive hoarding by the super-rich, who have seen their median wealth
increase 2484% since 1983, while in some cases paying $0 in taxes. And
it's forcing 7 in 10 college students to go into debt, saddling tens of
millions of people with $1.8 trillion in federal student loans.

Here at Common Dreams, we refuse to accept any of this "normal" as
acceptable.

But in the face of these existential emergencies, Common Dreams is
facing two potentially fatal threats to our funding model.

First, donations to progressive organizations have fallen sharply since
Trump left office. It's understandable that after four years of cruelty
and absurdity, people need a break from politics, but it's a huge
problem for a nonprofit news organization such as Common Dreams that
relies on reader donations to fund our journalism.

Second, traffic to our website from Facebook and Google has crashed
through the floor in recent months, not only reducing our readership but
cutting off donations.

In this moment of dual crisis, we're launching our Mid-Year Campaign
with a goal of raising $75,000 by the end of this month. Will you donate
right now to help keep progressive, independent journalism alive?

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Kim Monaghan

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