Looking for a “tipping point” in support for Mr. Big is a consuming, ill-advised, and counterproductive waste of air and time. He is dispensible. Keep your powder dry. Wait for the whites of Project 2025 eyes. susanobrien.substack.com/p/living-the...

It’s time and more to admit Captain Crazy Pants is not worth the time and effort he keeps demanding. The juice ain’t worth the squeeze. susanobrien.substack.com/p/good-bye-c...

Here’s the rub. The guy is intermeddling in a regional dispute for fun, effect, and personal profit. And in violation of a long-standing international nuclear weapons non-proliferation treaty. susanobrien.substack.com/p/hang-tough...

Trump 2.0 put America to the test and under fire for ten cruel and chaotic months. November of 2025 marks another turning point in this country’s struggle for integrity, unity, and endurance. susanobrien.substack.com/p/not-normal

There is no room for despair or time for delay.Let us each continue to exercise our indivisible Power of One.Let us continue to use our persons and our purses every day everywhere in every legal way to deny, delay, disassemble, defeat, and destroy Trump 2.0. susanobrien.substack.com/p/restore-pu...

I am not alone. I am legion. A portion of my generation cannot avoid a reflexive return to the streets. We won our rights once. We will not lose them now to a bunch of authoritarian pussies. We are up for the second big fight of our collective political life. susanobrien.substack.com/p/nearly-nak...

The battle is more ancient, important, and inescapable than politics. Call it what it is—a holy war for identity, agency, and decency. Human aspirations and rights must always resist the temptation to trade down or to surrender vitality for security. susanobrien.substack.com/p/a-hollow-m...

Not one of We the People is required to go nuts in a context of prolonged and intentional chaos. Each of us retains the present freedom to recognize and resist treachery and madness. susanobrien.substack.com/p/the-great-...

Possible Third Term in High Office. Oh, wonderful!!! Bring it, baby!!! We the People unhappy with the results and consequences of Election 2024 will be running Barack Obama against you. susanobrien.substack.com/p/oh-yeah?ut...

Other than death and taxes, only two things frighten him: The Epstein files and Election 2024. Both threaten his brand and his iron grip on the power that immunizes him from prosecution and punishment for his crimes and misdemeanors. susanobrien.substack.com/p/a-weak-and...

As an architect with 50 years of practice, I shudder at the odds of avoiding disaster.A person walking a tool belt into the Ballroom Project is as serious a threat to USA security and self-confidence as any of the planes flown into our icons of power on 9/11. susanobrien.substack.com/p/transparen...

We the People dissatisfied with the results and consequences of Election 2024 may be dismayed. We are not deceived. Or dissuaded. Mr. Big is cruising toward the end of an ill-advised attack on freedom. susanobrien.substack.com/p/some-day-a...

Our Dear Leader refuses to lose. Let us do likewise. susanobrien.substack.com/p/here-come-...

The Mad King is a showman for sure. And, now, if he is to be believed—a magician. Here is the trick some good number of We the People yearn to see--Disappear yourself. susanobrien.substack.com/p/problems?u...

The callous disregard of those in present power for the will of the governed is not acceptable or sustainable. We the People will not “get over” betrayals of trust. We may rightfully be a bit weary. We are not confused. susanobrien.substack.com/p/august-fol...

The first seven months of his second term in high office are without precedent for damage done to human rights, constitutional protections, rule of law, national character, international stability, planetary health, and simple decency. susanobrien.substack.com/p/hold-fast?...

Today is dicey.Tomorrow is ours.Not one of We the People is required to go nuts in a context of prolonged and intentional chaos. Each of us retains the present freedom to recognize and resist treachery and madness. susanobrien.substack.com/p/foolish-di...

Stormy Weather. It’s more than a song. A perfect storm has hit the United States, and we are now facing a real constitutional emergency due to four factors julianzelizer.substack.com/p/why-presid...

It’s not politics. Call it what it is—a holy war for identity, agency, and decency. Human aspirations and rights always must resist the temptation to surrender themselves in whole or part to an urge to trade down or surrender vitality for security. susanobrien.substack.com/p/be-of-good...

What a pair! A performance of power politics that benefits no one other than themselves. susanobrien.substack.com/p/refuse-dis...

Our Dear Leader refuses to lose. Let us do likewise. There is no room for despair or time for delay. Let us each continue to exercise our indivisible Power of One. susanobrien.substack.com/p/refuse-def...

Concentration Camps USA 2025—It makes a bad situation worse. It is duplicitous on its face and unsustainable in any present context of detention, incarceration, or elimination of “undesirable” residents of this county. susanobrien.substack.com/p/unconscion...

The only way for We the People to lose our inalienable Power of One is to surrender it. Context is vital to understanding of the nature and actions of figures and forces that history deigns to recall, remember, and record. susanobrien.substack.com/p/context

Ignore the Softball Outside the Strike Zone Focus on the Hard Ball Across the Plate susanobrien.substack.com/p/see-the-ba...

The best story, ever. open.substack.com/pub/russellc...

No limits to stupid, it seems. Trump 2.0—To choke off a new and willing labor supply is worse than foolish. It is economically suicidal. 2. To deny aspiration the chance to innovate is antithetical to capitalistic imperatives. susanobrien.substack.com/p/serious

Here are the four camps into which we have divided ourselves. And the pouty partisan attitudes that keep us deaf to each other. susanobrien.substack.com/p/beware?utm...

Our Country ’Tis of We Good is good. Wrong is wrong. Refusing to be discouraged or distracted is a potent form of effective resistance. susanobrien.substack.com/p/our-countr...

Hang tight to, and operate guided by the immortal principle of The Golden Rule. He who has the gold gets to rule. We the People have the gold. susanobrien.substack.com/p/kill-the-m...

Who won Election 2024? Neither party. The race was America’s to lose. And it did. susanobrien.substack.com/p/remember?u...

CONGRESS: Not Doing the Work of the People. THE SUPREME COURT: The Law of the Brand. UNITARY EXECUTIVE BRANCH: All Hail the Conquering Bully susanobrien.substack.com/p/infamous-c...

Make them tell the Idiot in Charge to take his pouty little finger off the pretty red bomb button susanobrien.substack.com/p/this-wont-do

We the People must awake. Sleepwalking toward a totalitarian abyss is a lost luxury. It is time to put up or shut up. It will take a long time and directed effort to mend the badly battered body of our betrayed and abused ship of state. susanobrien.substack.com/p/stand-up?u...

To reclaim awe is not to return to superstition or sentimentality. It is to return to the real. To defend the fragile places where mystery still dwells. To sit with the unanswerable—and allow it to undo you. johnhamilton.substack.com/p/you-have-t...

Here is the nub of the present dilemma—character. It is essential to the proper operation of our form of government that persons of sound character and good purpose occupy positions of power and action within it. susanobrien.substack.com/p/accept-no-...

Army officials insist there is no connection between its anniversary parade and the birth date of any government official. This is a stunning lack of situational awareness. Or a naked insult to any commitment this nation might require of its military. susanobrien.substack.com/p/refuse?utm...

Military academy grads: Trump speeches instruct incoming leaders of armed forces to respond to the commands of the executive branch in preference to their historic institutional purpose, and even if in conflict with oaths of conduct under the Constitution. susanobrien.substack.com/p/good-peopl...

Resistance to cruelty,chaos, and corruption of Trump 2.0 is a deeply personal matter.It involves risk and sacrifice.It transcends convenient labels of party lines,gender,race, age, and/or religious background. Ignoring or demeaning human dignity is not right. susanobrien.substack.com/p/where-we-a...

Exactly how much of your money is going out of your family and business—right now, to the personal accounts of the Trump family? Here are the facts, with pictures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=000y...

Is it time for a Supreme Court Conclave? We can learn from 1.4 billion Catholics how to get the job done. susanobrien.substack.com/p/atypical-t...

Our statue of liberty has broken chains at her feet. susanobrien.substack.com/p/pay-attent...

"They are now exploiting a fundamental flaw in the Constitution: Congress and the Courts have no enforcers.” susanobrien.substack.com/p/a-song/com...

Partisan and bombastic campaign rhetoric does not equate to or support sound public policy. It is a short putt between alternative facts and propaganda. susanobrien.substack.com/p/challenge?...

Being gifted and sensitive isn’t something to overcome. It’s something to embody. And the world doesn’t need you to shrink.It needs you to sharpen.To sense. To speak. Let everyone else stay comfortable.You already know how the world works. Now it’s time to change it. www.callosom.com/p/why-the-wo...

We the People dissatisfied with the results and consequences of Election 2024 have a responsibility to resist his Time of Terror and Tour of Revenge in every instance of illegal overreach and constitutional abuse. susanobrien.substack.com/p/some-thing...

Chimera describes any mythical or fictional creature comprised of parts taken from various animals to create a mean predator. The Project 2025 Playbook is our American chimera. Our monster enjoys a full banquet table of vulnerable victims. susanobrien.substack.com/p/our-danger...

Trump has a problem. He has become boring. He is losing the interest and eyeballs of those who paid him any attention in the first or second place. Even in terms of a 24-hour news cycle or a 3-minute tweet. susanobrien.substack.com/p/stay-faith...

Trump 2.0 is just another coup. It is equally self-serving, just better organized. It has a 100-day playbook entitled Project 2025. susanobrien.substack.com/p/strike-three

The sad, unacceptable irony is tax dollars are affording every aspect of this pageant of willful and gleeful abuse of power. This is taxation without representation, invented by the executive branch, allowed by the legislative, and enforced by the judicial. susanobrien.substack.com/p/tales-of-t...

Fantastic presentation of history, reality, and where we are now. susanobrien.substack.com/p/untouchable