The disappearance of America’s leadership class at a time like this means that the rest of us have to be leaders. We can no longer wait to be led by those with the power and authority to lead. You must lead, I must lead, all of us must lead. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.

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Americans still don't realize how bad it has gotten and how much worse it is going to get. Immense destruction, pain and suffering, and we're not even at the tip of it.

It’s too late … it’s gone …

We are in the throws of a battle over who is going to survive the future. A future marked by scarcity and disaster. A future these people are accelerating. That is what is driving the attacks on civil rights and basic equality. Supremacist beliefs are the tool needed to justify human culling.

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Any media outlets that don’t address this video of Trump wearing a crown dumping shit on Americans is normalizing it. As with everything else this authoritarian regime does, you’re either calling it out or normalizing it. There is no third option.

A friend in Corvallis, Oregon sent me this one 🤣 #NoKings

We’re taking to the streets today to defend: ✔️ Immigrants' rights ✔️ Free speech ✔️ Racial justice ✔️ LGBTQ rights ✔️ Trans justice ✔️ Democracy And more. We are not backing down.

If you're taking to the streets to protest today, know your rights.

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Moon greets Sun in Asheville

Clean energy is moving fast ⚡ Even if leaders like Donald Trump and Mike Johnson want to kill it out of spite 🙃

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

No one is OK right now. At least, no one with working empathy and a knowledge of History who’s paying attention. It is an emotional impossibility to be living in days like the ones we’re in and to be fully unaffected. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/no-one-is-...

Moon over Asheville

They’ve turned everyone in Chicago into extras in Stephen Miller’s villainous, unconstitutional, authoritarian fantasy

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This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Gateway Church founder Robert Morris, a former adviser to Donald Trump and supporter of Gov. Greg Abbott’s bathroom bill initiative, faces five felony counts of child sex abuse in Oklahoma. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/once-trump...

What she said …

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

KIMMEL: “That sonofabitch… I never imagined we’d have a president like this, and I hope we never have another president like this again… celebrating hundreds of Americans losing their jobs - he took pleasure in that. The opposite of what a leader is supposed to be.”

Let’s open our eyes. This isn’t a functioning democracy any longer when - in the middle of a high stakes funding fight - the President illegally suspends federal projects in states run by Democrats as a way to punish the political opposition.

Joni Ernst’s lifelong legacy for women serving in the military from her time in the Senate is Pete Hegseth. Every woman denied promotion, denied a job specialty, sexually harassed, or forced out for bs reasons, owes it all to Ernst and the Republican Party.

She told America. We told America. Now, it's here.

Can't we just get healthcare

79. American citizen.

Yep

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move. 1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year. Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

We like big butts and we cannot lie. This is our new water butt which will be installed out front so that we can collect rainwater to water the flowers of our new Interactive Flora Trail. orkneylibrary.org.uk/interactive-...

KIMMEL: “Trump will not release the Epstein files — but we will be doing a thorough and complete investigation into who stopped his escalator.”

KIMMEL: “He’s gunning for our journalists too — they want to pick and choose what the news is… it’s so important to have a free press, and it’s nuts we aren’t paying more attention to it.”

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Good morning from Asheville

Oklahoma is 50th in education because Walters uses kids’ education as his play toy to score his next hit on Fox. He couldn’t care less about kids.

September 17, 2025 "A republic, if you can keep it."

It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents. But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.

Have you heard about the Roadless Rule? It protects forestland across the country, but Trump wants to REPEAL IT! Nothing is final yet, so it's time to speak out. You can submit public comment to protect our public lands—just do it BEFORE 11:59pm EST on FRIDAY, September 19!

CROCKETT: When I say that you are the least qualified FBI director in the history of the FBI, that is real, because you are the only one that never even served with the FBI PATEL: That's false CROCKETT: I didn't ask you a question

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI