I will not call up our National Guard to further Trump’s acts of aggression against our people.

🗣️ davidgierlach (IG) “Trump Supporters: Why?” Pay attention.

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

Feeling discouraged or hopeless about the state of things? This message from @focusedoninfinity.bsky.social is one of the most true and heartening things I’ve heard in a long time. ❤️

Average cost overrun for #nuclear power plant build is a staggering 102.5% www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hi all, just sent out this free post to explain what matters (and what does not) in the Ukrainian campaign against Russian oil refineries. It discusses why the campaign now seems more successful, but also what else needs to happen to have a greater strategic effect. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

A good visit #auspol #UKPolitics ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons

So um. This is what's been up with me for the last year. I hate hate hate asking but very much appreciate your support. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if...

ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland. Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming. No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."

My mom would only take one Tylenol at a time, which explains why I’m not good at anything but have a slight fear of polyester

Things have really changed. Now I need your help.   I wrote about why I left academia, why I left America, why I left Substack - and why I need your support as I am starting over as a full-time independent writer:   Some major personal news: steady.page/en/democracy...

56 million years ago, Earth had a carbon surge called the PETM. It drove 5–8 °C of warming, acidified oceans, wiped out marine life, and took 200,000 years to recover. Today we’re dumping CO₂ 10× faster. The planet will recover again—but humanity won’t. 1/4

Hope Richard Marles is having a nice day

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

Who knew crosses had wheels?

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

At the Broadview ICE "processing facility" outside Chicago. Earlier today, federal agents unleashed chemical weapons on protesters, elected officials, a local congressional candidate, and a local mayor. Defiant anti deportation activists remain. Another protest is planned for 7pm.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

Classic

“If our job as journalists is to hold truth to power, then surely asking legitimate questions – politely – to the President of the United States should be acceptable. But in this day and age in America now, it’s not,” ABC’s Americas editor John Lyons

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

Look over there! My @smh @theage cartoon.

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

Buller's Albatross 📷 Bea Krit Description is in the comments

It'll be hilarious if they botch his special boy state funeral because they all immediately stopped giving a fuck Imagine the guy getting a Four Seasons Total Landscaping funeral because everyone involved moved onto such as being angry at a candy bar logo changing

The price of liberty

I love the little birds that don't get any attention. The Torrent Tyrannulet is a very special little flycatcher that spends its whole life hunting insects on the edges of fast-moving rivers. At first, they look like bits of foam or spray at the edge of the water. #birds #costarica

Fmr Greens cand. Hannah Thomas spks after police drop charges “It took the police 2days to charge me, but 73days later, the male police officer who punched me in the head with enough force to rip open my right eyeball has not been charged” Seems like another NSW police cover up.

Well the man in the middle of this photo is Joel Pashcow—in Epstein’s little black book— and also seen here in 1994 sitting with Epstein and… RFK, Jr. at a fundraiser.

Sad. Don’t know what coverage is like in the US but here’s the BBC.

Notice they all left their red hats at home.

Continuing on these genocidal organizations trading on Palestine while aiding other genocides, I see ANSWER coalition is in the mix. Another organizer of People's Conference for Palestine. Isn't this great! I also see the so-called "The People's Forum," with the usual suspects, Breakthrough News. 🧵

G20 countries should boycott the even World Cup countries should boycott Olympics countries should boycott The world needs to lock the US out at every opportunity. Isolate Trump. Isolate his influence. Then let the citizens tear him limb from limb.

Smile!

🚨Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal is being paid more than $1,000 a day and has appointed six taxpayer funded staffers. Investigations reveal the role is costing Australians well over $1 million a year... theklaxon.com.au/ezmq

I've a feeling Mr Farage might very much be regretting his trip... round about ... Now 👇

RFK Jr. 😂🤣 🔊🆙

ABC RN journo just now 'neo-Nazis had a minor role in the rallies' and honestly she should be taken off air for that - that is clearly untrue even if you only looked at the ABC's own reporting.

Hi All, Just sent out my free weekend update. Its been less than 3 weeks since the great Russian breakthrough at Pokrovsk (which was no breakthrough). And because it failed we have no reporting. Where are all the analyses once the Russians have failed. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names

Renown sociologist Patricia Edgar, best known for founding the Australian Children’s Television Foundation, says we need media literacy programs for children) not a ban on social media. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08...

Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”

President Donald Trump's so-called "border czar," Tom Homan, explained that federal agents are wearing masks over their faces because it's what criminals do.

I wrote about Isaac Babel, disappeared by Stalin's goons in 1939. I can't imagine what made me think of such a thing. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/babel-kafk...