My letter in today's Sunday Record.

Pete says it very well.

My letter in the New York Times. (Scroll down - it's the 3rd letter on the page.) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/o...

Who does this? Who stacks human beings like lumber? The villains of dystopian scifi, that’s who. But this being done on the orders of our president, with our tax dollars. And most of these men haven’t been convicted of a crime. It’s a show of brute force—and it's monstrous. @vanhollen.senate.gov

Nice juxtaposition here.

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"You'll never have to vote again," Trump said last July. Are most Americans okay with this? I don't think so. Time to take this threat seriously. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Couldn't sleep. Nightmarish visions. Maybe this will help.

Written 4 years ago, but painfully apt right now: "Rhinoceros" meets the Trump era. medium.com/@michaellase...

Is there room over here for the sort of infantile/hilarious memes that were so common at the Other Place? It's the one thing I miss. I hope some of that nonsense will show up here soon.

What I've wished for ever since... a month and a half ago.

"Musk is now threatening to financially back a primary challenge to any Republican senator who opposes Trump’s nominees." Memo To: Supreme Court Do we still think money is speech, and the richest man in the world gets to shape Congress to his liking? www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Philosophical question: Can 2 opposite things both be true?

If you’re seeing this, there’s a good chance you already know 90% of what’s in this essay. But I needed to set it down anyway, for the record.

This is excellent. theliberaltomwatson.substack.com/p/goodbye-re...

An alarming little nugget from today's Washington Post: An architect of Project 2025, Vought says he will force federal agencies entrusted with producing reliable, nonpartisan, independent statistics to bow to the president’s will. [cont'd in comments below] www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

a practical guide to resisting, for those in a position to slow down the slide to tyranny. thecycle.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

If you haven’t figured out a holiday gift for someone in your life who loves words, may I recommend... www.amazon.com/Word-Lovers-...

In Colum McCann’s novel Apeirogon, two fathers (one Israeli, one Palestinian) have lost their young daughters to violence: one killed by a suicide bomber, the other by a soldier’s rubber bullet. A passage in the center of the book deserves to be more widely read. See the thread of excerpts below.

Replace innocent dinosaur with our next Secretary of the Interior.

Marty Baron on Fresh Air, listing the ways Trump may threaten a free press. (A long list! See comments below for excerpts.) www.npr.org/transcripts/...