Another fantastic message being shared today on I-78 in Hunterdon County NJ @rbhubbell.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @onenj7.bsky.social @indivisiblelnh.bsky.social @nj50501.bsky.social @chiefrq.bsky.social @pegrace.bsky.social @maureenpanzera.bsky.social @njgram.bsky.social @atnj.org

@schumer.senate.gov This is the way.

“Democrats are negotiating about policy when they should be negotiating about power. The only compromises Democrats should accept in exchange for bailing out the GOP Congress are ones that would either rebalance the government, or put limits on executive power.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Leave behind your sorrows Let this day be the last Tomorrow there'll be sunshine And all this darkness past Big wheels roll through fields Where sunlight streams Meet me in a land of hope and dreams So says The Boss, and who am I to say I can't?

A childhood memory, as the autumn chill starts to settle in. open.substack.com/pub/brokenha... #WriteSky #Writingcommunity

Old year, new year. May you be inscribed for another year in the book of life, and may you have the chance to clear away dead wood and make room for new growth.

Wednesday doggo.

Preening, self-satisfied jackasses lecture experts in every field about how much smarter they are, and legions of the competent say nothing while the world crumbles around them, because aggrieved yahoos will screech and throw feces if they speak the truth.

Historians will pore over records and artifacts, trying to answer the question, "Was he evil, or stupid, or insane?" And we ghosts will whisper in their ears, "Yes."

Sunday. Book. Coffee. Comfy chair. Dog (not pictured).

God Emperor Trump has decreed, and God Emperor Trump has every right to make decisions about every aspect of our lives, just as our Founders intended.

Cut their wealth in half and you'd have a shocking amount of money to spend on making the country stronger and healthier. And every one of those individuals would remain a multi-billionaire. But a wealth tax of even a single percent is impossible to consider.

Do we measure the things that matter most in school and in business? Or only the things that are easiest to measure? open.substack.com/pub/brokenha... #edusky #blueskyeducationpeeps

"Dear God, we pray that you will help us through this difficult time that is 100% of our own making and that we have absolutely no interest in fixing or undoing." Right.

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers: “It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”

O you captains of industry, when will you realize you have the power to say No and Go Fuck Yourself to the big-baby-in-chief with little or no consequence? When will you decide that the next merger and your next billion are less important than the republic?

A right isn't a right if only my friends and I get to enjoy it. A law isn't a law if only the people I hate are bound by it.

Some thoughts on metaphor and allusion, and what we lose when we lose connection with them. open.substack.com/pub/brokenha... #edusky #writingcommunity #blueskyeducationpeeps

When you don't believe in your country, your principles, or your soul, you sell what you've got to the highest bidet. Sorry: bidder. youtu.be/uElUok0lLnQ?...

Party of liberty Party of state's rights Party of personal responsibility Party of family values Party of constitutional originalusm Party of prudence and conservatism Party of traditional American hoohah and whatnot All lies

Dear every single broadcaster: make him shut you down. Dare him to shut you down. Call him every name in the book. Make him show his supporters, finally, what he is.

Right is right, no matter who says or does it.

You're supposed to elect people better than you, to inspire you to be better, yourself. You're not supposed to elect the shittiest, pettiest, most narcissistic and spiteful wannabe mobsters in the country, just so you can get a pass on your own behavior.

Nothing says strength like an old man who wears makeup, styles his hair in a comb-over, and can't stand being laughed at.

Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT. I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.

Cui Bono? Not you.

Motto In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times. Bertolt Brecht

Fun fact: If you threaten to declare an emergency because someone isn't doing what you want, that's not an emergency. It's just a tantrum.

No notes

districtadministration.com/opinion/diag... #edusky

If we want learning to be transformative, we have to stop treating it like a chore. brokenhand.substack.com/p/2025-re-po... #edusky

Statesmanship

Right is right, even if your opponents are doing it. Wrong is wrong, even if your friends are doing it. This isn't complicated.

#GOP, how much more evidence do you need that Trump is the worst this country has to offer--that he is a taker and an abuser--that he has poisoned and broken everything he has touched--and that his need to cheaper and corrupt everyone around him to make himself feel bigger will drag us all to hell?

Donald Trump is a thing that takes.

He is a con artist and a moral monster, and some of his supporters are too weak-brained to know it, and the rest are too weak-souled to care as long as they personally benefit from it.

Republicans used to claim they were the serious party when it came to the Constitution. "It doesn’t matter what you want; what matters is what it says." Those days are gone. It no longer matters what it says. They want what they want and they're going to take it.

Declaring war on your own city? Impeachment Now

Deeply thought and important to watch, whether or not you can handle it all in a single sitting. Thank you @lindsayellis.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwpa...

Some wistful thoughts while standing at a railing and staring out at the city. open.substack.com/pub/brokenha...

Labor Day labor

Change is possible even in the breakfast times

Wrote this in March but felt it needed repeating. brokenhand.substack.com/p/re-post-th...

“Be satisfied with even the smallest progress," Marcus Aurelius said. You’re never going to be perfect—there is no such thing. You’re human. So instead, aim for progress, even the smallest amount.

The Trump administration succeeded in convincing this lifelong liberal that the conservatives were right about the importance of severely limiting and restricting the power of the federal government. So...congratulations?