Talk about Flock on Substack Live at noon, get visit from Flock drones when I pull in my driveway. 👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼 hi fellas! 🙄 #fuckflock

Two detainees were brought on board a US Navy vessel... Shipboard personnel followed standing protocol and code to capture video and photo documentation of the onboarding of these individuals, and then were given the dubious order to delete that footage.

Now THAT’S a Project I can support!! 👊

Democrats win when they connect their values to lived experience. When they show up for working people, mock cruelty without mocking voters, and expose Trump’s incompetence as a clown act—but not “he’s stupid,” though it’s hard not to say that sometimes.

Required reading for today:

Those of us with privilege bear a grave responsibility, and morality demands that we meet it in this moment. If you are white, middle-class, straight… let it be known who you are and what your beliefs are. People need to see white people making their stance abundantly clear, right out front. ~m

I WAS NOT PAID TO PARTICIPATE IN THE APRIL 5, 2025 “HANDS OFF” DEMONSTRATION IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

I'm a writer. I text my friends like this sometimes. What's life without a little whimsy?

This is incredibly alarming.

We will have no kings in America. 😡

Protest today… let’s go!

New episode: rss.com/podcasts/the...

I have included, on my site, a readable copy of the current issue of The New Papers, as well as the downloadable PDF so you can print and drop them in coffeeshops, libraries, bookstores, anywhere people gather. (There is a pw to access the paper within this piece.) open.substack.com/pub/counters...

Today’s prescription: weeding out the garden beds, meeting a new tiny friend, and being delighted in finding a pot full o’clover this St Pats weekend.

I had a few of you ask for the recording of my live storytelling when it came out… here’s the video version. Zoom to 16:25 for my set, or turn on the whole thing and just listen. There are some great storytellers in here! youtu.be/ixhgqFTb2QU?...

Pick any (or all!) of these postcard designs to write your elected representative! Order here: flood-their-mailboxes.printify.me

Funny, how "I will fix things on day one" quickly became "Please, please give me NINE MONTHS to show any signs of progress!!!"

“To have contracted the flu (and potentially Covid) during this time has made for the most out-of-body experience, and the constant stream of news was [by design] insane and unrelenting. It felt like our nation was every bit as sick as I was.”

“The people want a faith and temporarily respond to the dynastic implications of the President’s name. "Our Father, which art in the White House…”” counterstorymedia.substack.com/p/our-father...

Happy post-blackout Saturday

Governor Walz has it right. I miss hearing his plain, common sense talk.

We will never be a monarchy. Know that. To quote the LOTR trilogy: Gondor has no king. Gondor needs no king.

Absolutely humiliating day for America. For the record, Trump does not speak for us. The majority of Americans are as horrified and disgusted as the rest of the world. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

New special podcast episode. Catch it on all major platforms under “The Light at the Other Side”, or on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/counters...

A fake billionaire is letting a fake genius destroy America because a bunch of fake patriots are too stupid, too entitled and too hateful to understand the difference between what is fake news and what is fact.

In the ‘land of the free’ where we aren’t permitted to live honestly. What’s wrong here…

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

Government workers when DOGE shows up.

An examination of his Executive Order on Education… who is indoctrinating whom?! open.substack.com/pub/counters...

Crockett: I am tired of the white tears. When you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so, so much harder

Wait, didn’t we all just get a newsletter from Substack heralding Elon’s dedication to free speech? See, we knew y’all were chumps when you wrote it. Maybe don’t hitch your wagon to every jackass?

Part 1. Carter G. Woodson. Without him, there is likely no Black History Month. Founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and Journal of Negro History, then of Black History Week! Much respect. ✊🏾🇺🇸🇺🇦

I’m calling it “The Billionaire Coup: Rise of the Golden Reich”. ‘It’ being…* gestures wildly at everything.*

When you’re an oligarch, they let you do it. You can do anything…. grab ‘em by the Treasury. You can do anything.

I don't care what those soulless bastards say, today is the beginning of #BlackHistoryMonth We have to celebrate our diversity, because that is where we all draw our strength. Art by American artist Michael Rosato

Some advice, as well as several links to others on Substack doing great things. Pass it on. open.substack.com/pub/counters...

ICE just adopted new policies making it harder for Congress to prevent deportations, per memo leaked to me:

From the ashes of a deadly pandemic made worse by Trump's first term, Americans had begun to reclaim a sense of safety and progress in the Biden years—until the return of Trump to office plunged the nation instantly back into chaos, unease, and danger. Does anyone feel safe in Trump’s America?

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era

Parents, the onus is on YOU to educate your kids with *real* history. I wrote a piece: “White Parents, Make Your Kids Uncomfortable”… link in comments. We owe our kids the dignity of TRUTH.

i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve

🦋 THERE IS A WORD FOR THAT 🦋

JD Vance and Pete Hegseth flapping their gums about who is and isn’t qualified for a complex job is pretty wild