"Three policy areas offer immediate, bipartisan opportunities for impact: 1. Ending subminimum wage under Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act 2. Modernizing ABLE accounts, 3. Raising the asset limits for Supplemental Security Income (SSI)"

A giant.

Our essay on redefining words of government: substack.com/@johnfdicker...

The American Dream sounds sweeping but it is accomplished through the small acts of its good, attentive citizens ... and training our attention toward generous acts and toward seeing those for whom the American Dream is so distant that even small acts of generosity are out of reach.

"Let’s just stand here, silently. Isn’t it nice here? So quiet. Just stand here and savor the freedom."

Our essay on Ben Franklin's final words at the Constitutional Convention and what they tell us about public debate: substack.com/profile/5411...

Powerful essay by @philipkennicott.bsky.social on the "five-alarm" possibility that this iconic photo, a historic driver of moral outrage against slavery, could be censored by the Trump administration. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4nDMgcA

Don’t wish murder on anyone because then you wish it on everyone. Don’t minimize a murder cuz you didn’t like the murder victim It’s not funny. It’s not edgy. It’s not justice. It’s murder. Each murder is the death of us all in very real ways. I know, I’ve died far too much for one life.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." Martin Luther King, Jr. Strength to Love 1963.

Political violence is meant to scare and silence -- it is absolutely never acceptable. We don't have to agree with someone to affirm they have a right to speak their mind without fearing for their life or safety.

RIP Irish poet Seamus Heaney, died this day 2013. "History says, don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme."

"The children pay the price for the national failure to address this reality."

What Trump’s criticism of the Smithsonian African American museum misses - The Washington Post

Have you ever wanted to walk through a historic city filled with armed soldiers who look bored? Are you fascinated with how the Reichstag fire allowed the Nazi Party to consolidate control in Germany? Do you like seeing guns, guns, guns?!? Vacation in DC! www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

People are not criminals or dangerous, by virtue of their unhoused status. People are struggling to afford rent and food in an expensive city. We should not have homelessness in our nation’s capital. But the path to ending homelessness is housing, not displacement.

“Trump’s team has declared war on free minds and free education in order to erase more than a half-century of scholarship and replace it with...triumphal narratives rooted in a brand of pickled patriotism designed to force the past to serve the present."--David Blight newrepublic.com/article/1983...

"From viewers like us, thank you."

Well done.

Shameful.

"The only antidote to a politics of fear is a politics of courage.'

When the Supreme Court decided the president was not above the law. substack.com/profile/5411...

Shameful. Good for her.

If you think trans people are a danger to anyone and not fascists and patriarchs and billionaires and bullies and zealots, or think universities don’t have power to resist, you are being manipulated by the bad guys or you are choosing the wrong side of history, that’s it.

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

From The Bulwark: Why Is Trump Trying to Fire This Museum Director?

I laughed too hard.

Our essay on the new moral test. You can find it on the tennis court! substack.com/profile/5411...

John Dickerson, as always, both eloquent and powerful. Thank you, @jdickerson.bsky.social, for continuing to speak truth with clarity and compassion.

Our essay tonight on the liberation of Dachau and the “violin of hope.” substack.com/@johnfdicker...

I'm in.

The slope isn't slippery; the frog isn't gradually getting boiled. Within its first hundred days the Trump administration has openly asserted the right/ power to seize and imprison anyone— including political dissidents, including citizens— and deprive them of any legal recourse at all. 5/

“I would say now, to people in positions of power, ‘What… are… you… doing?’”

"Slavery and Treason buried in the same grave!" Happy Appomattox Day! Source: Albany (NY) Journal, April 10, 1865

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

"You cannot love America without hating it a little bit. But you cannot hate it without loving it so, so much. Wanting it to be better. Wanting it to be what we all deserve." Excellent, thoughtful essay on a place I love, and the country I love. wapo.st/4jzexz5

"In the end, this Executive Order is nothing more than another cowardly attempt to politicize American history and divide Americans even further. It comes from a place of deep fear and a commitment to use history and historical memory to maintain political power. Don’t fall for it."

Mar 24th 1984 - #TheBreakfastClub had detention. 📽️📅 The Breakfast Club (1985)

More of this, please, 60 Minutes: www.cbsnews.com/news/concert...

Shout out to whomever @marketplace.org chose Portugal. The Man's "Feel It Still" as the segue out of this nice story. Brilliant. (Also, would be nice if your site let users share stories directly here instead of to the bad place.)

I have flyers re: Dept of Ed and Section 504 lawsuit here too! www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/12/t...

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

Hoosiers fun fact: The actor who played Merle (Kent Poole) was a basketball legend at my high school, which in '88 made it to the football state championship game, its 1st in any sport. Kent gave his Hoosiers locker room speech at the pre-game pep rally. (We won.) #HATM