Americans selected for grand or trial juries can also, as they have done in D.C., refuse to enable groundless, vindictive prosecutions. Jury nullification has a long and noble tradition. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Courts should treat any indictment of Trump’s enemies with grave skepticism and due consideration should be given to dismissal for prosecutorial misconduct and/or selective prosecution. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

With unabashed authoritarianism on full display, public may have also reached an inflection point. Politically disengaged Americans may not follow details of court fights but maneuvers like firing a comedian at behest of the president just might rouse ordinary folks who know this is un-American.

This is no longer a question of losing our democracy. The question has become whether we are prepared to fight to get it back. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

"Since 2002, right-wing ideologies have fueled more than 70% of all extremist attacks and domestic terrorism plots in the United States, according to the Anti-Defamation League." -- so call them out as liars when they say otherwise www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus... all pretext, all crazed vengeance

It is not about an effing meeting!! You sound like whiny fools. Stop

Well at least my job isn’t having Jeff Bezos’ opinions

Culture Recs: Robert Redford's Cinematic Legacy--- wonderful and exhastive list!! open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

What Trump is doing and saying are un-American. That’s why we must all stand up and speak out. Be loud, for America. He may attack the people of Illinois—but then what comes next? This is bigger than one state. Every day, I am hellbent on letting people know what is at stake.

Be Loud — For America... we are delighted to bring you JD Prtizker's words: open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

exactly open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

contrarian.substack.com/p/public-edu... a wonderful conversation with the stellar @rweingarten.bsky.social

my conversation with @gregsargent.bsky.social about censorship, 1st A and cowardly legacy media: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

"You are the least qualified FBI director in the history of the FBI" open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Speak up for Free Speech--- a list of concrete actions with phone numbers! open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Hollywood unions and guilds can take collective action vs Disney/ABC for folding; Americans can call local TV affiliate stations to return Kimmel; Disney shareholders can reject quisling management; and House and Senate D leaders can also vow to impeach Carr if he is still around when they get majs

ABC, which already caved to Trump in delivering a $15M tribute in the form of a “settlement” of a frivolous case, should learn that you can never appease a dictator. Capitulation is just an invitation to further extortion.

Dictators always fear comedians. (no coincidence Zelensky was a comic before he was a political leader.) Autocrats, notoriously thin-skinned, cannot stand to be mocked. They demand obedience. .. now we see worst 1stA offense in years open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

David Letterman Says Kimmel’s Suspension Is ‘Just Not How This Works’ .. it IS how it works right now... but makes the excellent point what a little pouty boy is Trump who cannot weather a late night comic www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/a...

As we’ve seen in the eight interminable months since Trump took office, the media tycoons and tech oligarchs who now control the vast majority of the American entertainment industry will do virtually anything to appease the president open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

A willfully ignorant dictator. I hope ABC, WaPost and CBS are proud of bowing down.

Senate Dems COULD intro a resolution condemning the notion a TV station should lose license for criticizing POTUS. Let GOP vote it down.

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says Broadcasters Should Lose Licenses for Criticizing Him .. that is fascism folks www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Iger spoke out when it was about speech in FLA: accusing DeSantis of threatening to "punish a company for its exercise of a constitutional right. And that just seems really wrong to me – against any company or individual” ... now? a sniveling coward?

oh good: www.newsweek.com/kathy-hochul...

@schumer.senate.gov needs to stop whining about Rs not having a meeting. We are shutting down because Rs insist on taking health care away from millions.

Neera Tanden explains how Dem prevail in GOP shutodwn open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Like children playing with matches, this crew will burn our economy and government to the ground if not replaced by competent, experienced adults who respect democracy and good governance. It cannot happen soon enough.

Trump’s economic “policy” rests on tariffs (tax on consumers and businesses), big tax cuts for the super-rich, huge deficits, etc. but his chaotic, ever-shifting tariff rates make it worse. even has a name: TACO. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Just because the authoritarian Trump regime is incompetent does not mean it is any less dangerous. To the contrary, Trump minions’ carelessness, inexperience, and ignorance often make them more destructive open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Colbert-Kimmel 2028: You can’t shut us up

A one day strike by all employees would be fun

Punish the Mouse. Don’t watch their channels

Take the pledge (easy to do since they have nothing worth watching) .. never, ever watch ABC or CBS. These companies have no value if very few people watch. Do not watch those who enable totalitarianism.

this is good... maybe one day House and Senate "leadership" will say something too... well, a gal can hope...

his authoritarian overreach is making him less popular thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Adolescence, Charlie Kirk, and the Rush for Easy Answers in the Wake of Brutality ... a brilliant piece on the frantic search for simple but wrong answers open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Neither Ben nor his kite are included, but stock up!!

journalistic malpractice to repeat MAGA lie that most violence is from the left. Most is from the right. Here are all the stats (we fact check so you don't have to) open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

good for him. now GWB needs to do the same. But he won't.

not since the McCarthy era or the Red Scare has the government launched such a mammoth campaign of oppression and censorship. This un-American, anti-democratic crusade is fundamental at odds with our Constitutional system. As formidable as it may be, the response must be just as formidable.

The response to Trump’s dictatorial crusade to crush political opponents cannot be defensive or timid. The imbalance between micro-responses liberals too often confuse for effective political action and the enormity of the threat is deeply disturbing. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

If you needed an okapi to cheer you up..

I am very sad about Robert Redford. He entertained and moved people. He tried to save the planet. What a legacy. We should all aspire to do that much good in the world.

new low: www.economist.com/interactive/...

The Trump regime has dropped a nuke on the First Amendment and we have yet to hear a united response from @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov ... well forget them. This is going to have to come from leaders without leadership titles and the grassroots

contrarian.substack.com/p/cancel-can... they are engaging in something far worse than cancel culture. They are censoring and trying to suppress people and ideas they do not like. The word for that is authoritarianism. Doing so in the guise of honoring Charlie Kirk breaks the hypocrisy meter

the right’s cancel culture amounts to “thou shall not speak ill of Charlie Kirk,” a surprising position for someone they lauded for debating critics. (Some of his critics question whether Kirk practiced good faith debate requiring a shared set of facts or merely standard issue demagoguery.)

open.substack.com/pub/contrari... Two aspects of censorship stand out: the sheer hypocrisy of conflating “glorifying” killing with criticizing Kirk’s own words; and the breathless indignation. The group that used to deplore canceling is now canceling whomever it deems insufficiently mournful.