Bullies

Read it: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Book by Timothy D. Snyder

Grateful for military poise as the clowns prance on the stage. It is a reminder of their consummate professionalism.

“America, you are being represented by the worst of you…”

Elections have consequences. Sicker, poorer, less safe, less free. Trump’s America.

One way to put it

Fear is the tool of a tyrant…Vote like your country depends on it, because it does.”

Our truth sayers are comics.

Sicker, poorer, less safe, and LESS FREE!

Important Covid is rampant. Get your booster.

Sicker, poorer, and less safe. Trump’s America.

Sicker, poorer, less safe. Trump’s America.

America is led by a Trump dinosaur. And he too will be extinct. Question is, will he take us with him? Offshore wind power is the future. Trump wants to kill it. www.npr.org/2025/08/31/n...

What the H— is wrong with America? Another school shooting that kills children at Catholic Mass and the victims having to fund their recovery with GoFundMe pages. #schoolshooting #minnesota #healthcareUSA

Who will take the Americans when they are sick or poor or hungry? Where will they go? #SaveAmerica #SavetheCDC

“What Trump is doing is really very, very clear. There is not an agenda to reform anything. There's an agenda to destroy everything.” Senator Peter Welch VT #cdc #PublicHealth

Tie a yellow-and-blue ribbon—let the world see your support for Ukraine and the fight for freedom. 💛💙 #StandWithUkraine #YellowAndBlue

Danger at the U.S. Capitol!

Is the President’s assault on DC—using FBI, DEA, DHS, IRS &Park Police, MPD to snatch & grab homeless and Black & Brown people —a distraction from Alaska? A cover for applauding a murderous dictator on a red carpet? Or is Alaska the distraction from his aggressive assault on DC? #DC #NoKings

I enjoyed chatting with Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show." My thoughts on how we save our democracy are the same today as when we last spoke on "The Colbert Report" in 2010. We must get big money out of politics.

"more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist." Uhhh... this is catastrophic for democracy. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/new-...

New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time "American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."

Using polygraphs to test loyalty typically signals: • Fear over trust • Control over collaboration • Authoritarianism over transparency In democratic or healthy organizational cultures, trust is built, not machine tested

"The Trump administration is firing and pushing out employees across the Justice Department and FBI, often with no explanation or warning, creating rampant speculation and fear within the workforce over who might be terminated next..." {gift link} wapo.st/3InfKMA

A newly completed investigation by Wyoming’s largest county found no evidence of noncitizen voting in the 2024 elections, undercutting claims used to justify the state’s controversial proof of citizenship law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I like my popcorn with salt and butter.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con... May they rot in hell and be haunted by all those that die as a result of this bill.

Shame on you, Senator Murkowski. You sold out the country for generations. Alaska is ashamed. #Murkowski #BigbeautifulBill #USSenate

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."  -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

My God. What has become of us?

Our whole lives the right-wingers have warned that the lefties would use the federal government to come get us. Somehow it is not surprising that it is the right-wingers all along that were the danger.

That's what I was thinking when Drumpf was jabbering at Zelenskyy about WWIII.

Danger!

"We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it (229)." #PopeFrancis #LaudatoSi #WeAreFrancis

Fiona Hill: "The United States is on a path toward full-on state repression."

If you use Telegram now’s probably a good time to stop. Musk has just signed a one-year partnership with Telegram to integrate his AI Grok into the message app. xAI will invest $300 million, cash and equity, and share 50% of Grok subscription revenue.

This is impeachable, but then again, what isn’t these days?

You’ve always said?? You knew Putin wanted it all… Placating dictators has never worked. America has to solidly support Ukraine and it’s true allies and push the bully back to his own land. #PushBackBullies

Elections have consequences

$25-45MILLION of Defense Dept money on trumps military birthday parade— while he’s firing national security officials. #LessSafe

#FightBack #DoSomething

The Hungarian government is about to pass a law that will allow it to destroy the tiny online outlets that represent the last vestiges of independent Hungarian press 444.hu/2025/05/22/v...

As trump fires national security staff… open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

This is why you do things in the middle of the night when no one is watching

Overnight markups in every major committee, numerous back room deals, a 1 AM rules committee hearing a full day before text was released, no official score, and now midnight floor debate two hours after they released the final text of an 1,100-page bill, with final passage coming at 4 am. My God

Every time I hear the headline news I want to vomit. The only thing that helps is action. I’m disgusted by the new US position on Ukraine, so I am volunteering to teach English to displaced Ukrainians. #DoSomething

A baby girl dies of malnutrition and dehydration in Gaza City after two months of Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.