How low can trump go. Decency Died Along with Bob Mueller open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Wow, Alison Wassell. "all I can do is catalogue the things I’m not." www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/co...

"She kept her first language behind her teeth..." Wow M. M. Bailey. www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/co...

Tell Congress: No War with Iran act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...

There's hope yet. I made it on to the shortlist -- www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...

"To call this a war of choice is an insult to any definition of a normal deliberative process. It is a war of hubris. A war of distraction. A war of infantile spite." open.substack.com/pub/elliotki...

I love this flash essay by Krista Lee Hanson via @short-reads.org. www.short-reads.org/in-the-waiti...

No. Just no. Voting: A Right, Not A Privilege, For Now open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Sing it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogHw...

So many smoke screens. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Enough. Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...

One Very Long Year. Indeed. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr. -- "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

How I start my day.

Call your Republican representatives. 5 Calls should have a script. This is the now or never moment. Light up the phones! youtu.be/wu9QSeAI22I?...

Trump just kidnapped Nicholas Maduro and his wife. Hard to imagine how this doesn't end badly. Reality TV President just face planted into reality. www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...

I've never heard a Democratic country justify kidnapping the leader of another country but it's transparently thin. They claim it's for narco-terrorism. But Putin & Netanyahu have been accused of international war crimes far worse - Yet Trump brags of his relationship to both criminals. 🧵

No, no, no, a thousand times no. #venezuela

Cut loose, Santa. Make way for the new year.

Another terrible anniversary... open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

In Denver, a trace and a track. I'll take it.

Via A.Word.A.Day. "Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power." -Chelsea Manning, activist and whistleblower (b. 17 Dec 1987)

"The love of money is the root of all evil." --Mary Todd Lincoln

Happy birthday, John Jay. " "To contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused."

"Those who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness." --John Milton

From one of my favorite local bloggers -- Reasons to Love America open.substack.com/pub/patricia...

Just when you think Trump's on the ropes. December 5, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

The true of it...An Alleged Bomber, Arrested and Charged open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

You have to give Trump and MAGA credit for this. You really do.

Apologies to Joyce -- Yes, the news was right: snow was falling in Denver. It was falling on the treeless hills, falling softly on the streets and buildings. It was falling on every part of the Fairmount Cemetery. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones...

Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, my wallet's ignoring Target, Home Depot, & Amazon. I'm tired of corporations enabling this administration ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, & chase tax breaks. Join me! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/rmNpUvrG

"Any absence maps the contours of a presence." splitlipthemag.com/flash/1025/l...

Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva — because her vote could force the House to release the Epstein Files. The GOP is doing everything they can to keep Trump's Epstein cover-up going.

My mother was an anti-fascist, studied to be a nurse in America's anti-nazi army. She would have been in the front lines of Saturday's No Kings march.

It's Banned Book Week. Discover one of the Number Sixes on PEN America's list -- Crank by Ellen Hopkins. Why is it required reading in drug courts and pulled from school shelves? If you want to order a copy, bookshop.org is having its "anti-Prime" days. That means free shipping on 10/8. bookshop.org

Happy Banned Book Week. Go celebrate. Read a number one banned book like A Clockwork Orange and ask yourself why it was banned. Is it pro-violence? Or is the world we live in pro-violence?

Happy Banned Book Week. Celebrate. Buy a banned book from your favorite bookstore or from bookshop.org. Get caught reading it. bookshop.org/info/banned-...

Happy Banned Books Week. Celebrate. Read a book from PEN America's most banned list -- pen.org/banned-books...

Today is National Orange Shirt Day, National Shut Down the Government Day, National Don't-Swear-a-Loyalty-Oath-to-Pete-Hegseth Day. So much to celebrate, I think I'll need a MedBed.

Trump has dementia. Even a MedBed won't help.

Good Morning, America... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgoz...

Happy Birthday to the Bill of Rights. On this day in 1789, the First Congress of the United States approved 12 amendments to our Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. The first 10 of those amendments became known as the Bill of Rights. Time to celebrate with cake and resistance.

?Happy; National! Punctuation: Day...

What this administration doesn't realize is that autism makes you cooler. Normies are about to start snorting Tylenol.

Jimmy Kimmel's back? ABC grew a spine? It's a small world after all?

"ABC stands for Always Be Caving." -- Bill Maher

Just Politics With my lips sewn shut, my eyes witness what I can. I hurt myself. Speak.

Making the world blind...We Cannot Excuse Political Violence open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Undaunted from the Bench Sonia Sotomayor open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history act.indivisible.org/sign/smithso... As Orwell wrote, "He who controls the past controls the future." Do not let one man hold such power.