November 26, 2025

“They’ve forgotten something critical: tax breaks don’t matter when sales collapse. And we control the sales.” Boycott Oligarchs & GOP funders. Use your own economic power to support local & small business this holiday season. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

“Enlisted personnel obey lawful orders; officers ensure the orders that reach them are lawful. The real constitutional failsafe is not a general broadcast to every rank. It is the officer corps, obligated by oath to the Constitution alone.”

“The system isn’t broken because people stopped caring; it’s broken because people stopped trusting. Rebuilding that trust starts with leaders who listen.” YES! Interesting insights in this recent report.

Calling all frogs in the pot of earth’s climate. We are simmering. Jump out of the pot! Take action locally & vote accordingly. Humanity’s future depends on us changing & adapting much more quickly than we have!

No respect for our shared history & heritage. Only support for heartless lying GOP authoritarian propaganda.

Ask him why so many air traffic controllers are retiring at once. Ask him if it has anything to do with Reagan firing 11K union strikers in 1981 and having to replace them all at once. Ask him how the mass firings this year will impact us the same way 40 years from now. Ask him, Jake.

True dat!

This is our truth. We need to name it, claim it & reconcile it.

All to protect pedophiles from the Epstein release (not swearing in & seating Rep. Grijalva D-NM who will be the winning vote to publicly release). Meanwhile, people go hungry, unpaid, & services disrupted to appease the sick, twisted powerful men who sexually abused young girls. Despicable!

The President wants to use the military to crack down on Americans who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights to oppose him. I can’t think of a better reason to insist on exercising those rights.

Massive criminal grift.

"There is a clear mental health crisis going on in the Oval Office right now. He is detached from reality. Every politician and pundit, every journalist...knows this. It should be the biggest story in our media. But, shamefully, it isn’t." Me for 'First Draft':

We all need to fight Trump's plan for voter suppression and election subversion. We need to recognize that it has multiple dimensions. We need to educate ourselves and our communities and then take action.

The GOP is so desperate to find a way to eliminate political opposition that he wants to officially label them as a non-existent “organization” and then declare us international terrorists (like Al Qaeda) and preclude our constitutional rights.

Prescient. Not really, they simply printed what he said “he” would do when campaigning. His goons did the rest. He just scribbled sharpie marks on the papers they gave him to paste a thin veneer of supposed legality on the fascist crap.

“The boat strikes constitute murder,” Eugene R. Fidell told me. He used to be a JAG in the Coast Guard and is now at Yale Law School. The entire operation amounts to “treating the world as a free-fire zone,” he said.

“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.” www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...

👇👇👇THIS If companies paid a living wage & benefits instead of limiting employees to part-time to avoid benefits (Amazon, WalMart, most retail, etc) they wouldn’t need SNAP, Medicaid, WIC, FHA housing assistance, etc. Taxpayers fund billionaire’s employees while they avoid taxes. Change is needed.

Resist!

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Vote In Every Election! Vote against any GOP policy-touting candidates. School Board, City & County Gov., Sheriff, Judges, etc., are as critical to democracy as national races & ballot initiatives. Support Teacher Union endorsed folks for school board to protect public education.

Krugman is spot on. And the “musical coda” is apropos! open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

THIS is the kind investigative journalism we need. Take that $ from supporting oligarchs & support accurate, insightful journalism!

Can’t even pass an open book test, can’t pass the physical fitness test. Yet they rant about “unqualified” people “taking their jobs.” So much racism & so little brains. Dangerous entitlement combo when armed & lacking emotional control.

GOP “eats its own” with the cuts to programs from the BBB. Check out the story & map of where gov payments are more than 25% of income. substack.com/redirect/6d9...

"But Trump never had a mandate to federalize, much less militarize, urban law enforcement. And twice in the last week, he essentially admitted it. Trump never told voters he would send troops into cities. And if he had, they wouldn’t have supported it." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-admi...

we are at nearly at peak inflation level numbers on people seeing the economy as "getting worse"

Exceptional piece, even by her usual high standards.

Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders: newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Omission of news is propaganda too.

“Typing jobs, on the other hand, were “female-coded” and dispersed around the country. So there are no country music songs about being a typist’s daughter.” Today-Teachers (female-coded jobs) being replaced w/AI. Same. Same. Female coded work is always undervalued.😔 substack.com/@paulkrugman...

This is the statement of governing values, for leading the people of the U.S. Say it loud, say it proud. We stand for the majority of people against control, cruelty & corruption.

Lawless & unjustifiable authoritarian admin.

This is the coalition of the future. Fight the billionaires, not the immigrants. “Maybe we try to become skeptical of the idea that the least powerful people are the most responsible for our problems. Maybe we punch up instead of punching the neighbor.”

He’s an apologist for the most vile behaviors. Just call him “Say Anything.” Desperate for $$, relevance & power he’ll say anything for any hateful idea. Smarmy, malevolent, demeaning, racist, fascist, sexist, oligarch, techbro & “Christian” ideologies…you name it & for a $ he’ll shill for you!

Sunday reading: I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves. This week’s piece:

@governorwalz.mn.gov Can you get MN to be a part of this data tracking & health guidance please? Solidarity is power. Signed a MN voter.

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As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end. In the meantime: • Figure out a small way to help someone • Figure out a small way to fight back • Figure out a small place to find joy • Figure out a small way to grow and thrive And do it often.

DSCC needs to support the dem already polling ahead of Collin’s & strongly resonating with ME voters! People need representation, not DSCC consultants & the somewhat milquetoast dem leadership.

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples? HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

If you have EVER benefitted from free public or institutional libraries…read this & support the professionals who enhanced your life & nurtured your curiosity & growth.

Be on the lookout. These behemoths raise energy, water & local tax costs, but provide little return to the community. Billionaires profit, communities suffer for what? A quick answer to a question you could research yourself.

Here’s how tariffs work. Your costs go up, and that money gets transferred to the wealthy. Whether you’re progressive, liberal, leftist, libertarian, communist, socialist, moderate, democrat, conservative, Christian, atheist, Gen Z, Boomer… we have the same enemy. It’s the oligarchs. No Kings