Morning! Happy Saturday 🦋 In prep for the Super Bowl #BadBunny 🫶

The plain and powerful truth, in the words of Robert Hubbell: This all stops when enough of us say, “No.”

Cory Doctorow: "America is not great. It has been gutted by the Epstein class, who robbed us blind, raped our kids, and are now selling us shitcoins and chatbots and the spectacle of protesters being shot in the streets." (This is the ugly, unadorned truth. BUT...we're not giving up!)

This. Having legitimate journalists continue to rely upon platforms such as Twitter/X and Substack is a fools errand. It's Lucy pulling the football from Linus every time. Just don't.

The president of the United States had his DOJ raid the Fulton County election office and seized ballots. This is clearly a dry run for 2026. Yet, this is treated by too many in legacy media as normal. I founded Democracy Docket in 2020 because you deserve better. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Smith: Again, and I think all of us, if we're reasonable, know that there's going to be more crimes committed by these people in the future. I do not understand why you would mass pardon people who assaulted police officers. I don't get it. I never will.

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

Resistance to this regime can take many forms. Kudos to these volunteers who are stepping up to help their community in Minnesota. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

Never letting this go. Thank you, Stephen Colbert!

Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come

I grew up in Washington DC and it has never felt safer or cleaner. Trump's "emergency" is fake, straight out of the authoritarian playbook

Here's a gift link to the piece about how the world's richest man decided to kill the world's poorest children. wapo.st/3GjK8qn

As Scott Schapiro of Yale Law School commented, “I’ll say it again. It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.”

We have to stop talking about him as if he is he is a man who has the ability to understand diplomacy or military tactics….or anything else for that matter. He is a pathological narcissist with limited cognitive functioning. No one should discuss him with any other lens.

Tomorrow is a very good day to impeach a president and his entire cabinet. Today would be good too, but tomorrow will work for me.

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

For a lot of relatively comfortable Americans, electing an emotionally incontinent imbecile was a bit of entertainment. A game. Good sport, owning those libs. I hope they’re duly entertained.

Trump said D-Day was "not a great day" for Germany, to which Germany's chancellor replied that it was "the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship."

These two psychos have access to all your personal data, by the way.

Rebecca Solnit nails it: “When it comes to illness, cure begins with accurate diagnosis. Justice begins with calling things by their true names, and so: we are under attack. We are at war.”

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

In Santa Barbara, as in cities and towns all over the US, thousands gathered to march in protest, filling the street as far as the eye could see. Now let’s hope the media gives it the coverage it warrants! This was not a 1-day spectacle. It’s a serious, unstoppable movement to take back our country.

A few of the signs from today…

“If America hasn’t broken your heart, then you don’t love her enough.” (Cory Booker) May the light shine brightly through the broken places now, and may the gleaming shards be tools to shape a better world. Our love is stronger than their malice and cruelty. If we stand and fight, we WILL prevail.

Respect and gratitude to Senator Corey Booker for standing up and speaking out with eloquence and remarkable stamina in defense of our democracy and everything we value. (God, we need this, and more!)

The president does not have the constitutional authority to close a department created by Congress. I don’t understand why he is treated as though he does.

I wrote about how particularly ridiculous it is that Senate Democrats, led by Dick Durbin, think the priority should be repealing Section 230 and undermining the very open internet we need more than ever right now. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

every single republican in office is a fucking oathbreaker who is selling out the constitution and our democratic birthright

Why are they so impotent? Time for Dem reps to stand and fight for us! Here’s the non-response from CA Sen Padilla to my urgent request that he fulfill his oath to uphold the Constitution while Trump and the unelected Musk are ripping our democracy to shreds for personal power and monetary gain.

“They do not understand people, and this may be their downfall. It's a bit staggering to see their incomprehension of the systems they're breaking…and their ignorance of human nature itself.” Rebecca Solnit

This is so well said. There is no way to reason with those who have swallowed it. Perhaps in time their outrage will find its proper target, but who can say what harm will have been done? We must stay strong, live our truth, do what we know is right and good, and cultivate hope real ways.

Please share this list FAR & WIDE! I will update as needed.

100 HOUR IGNOREGURATION. Starts 0800 Jan 20. DO NOT PARTICIPATE, DISCUSS OR WATCH CABLE TV/ OTHER SPCIAL MEDIA.

Biden's farewell speech to the military: "Let me close with a final request. I say it not as your president or commander in chief. I say it as a man who spent 50 years of his life serving his country in a different way. Remember your oath."

In a world full of, well, lots of shitty people, be a Taylor Swift. 🫶💜

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

Ringing in the New Year hits differently this year.

Good advice from Bernice King.

I don't know why being a criminal is normalized these days. It's clear that the line between right & wrong is being blurred, and it’s up to us to demand accountability. Because, silence only fuels their evil agenda. I wonder how much more of this shit can we let slip by, before it’s too late?🤔

If you voted for this guy, you were played.