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Think of the very best person you know. The person you admire most and who in your view is moving the world in the best direction. Now contemplate the fact no one will remember that person 200 years from now but most will know the name Donald Trump. I’m strangely at peace with it.

Jimmy hit every right note and I see it as something that could potentially be in history books one day. This is an immediate take with little thought.

Nixon never came close to this. None of this is normal in a democracy. All of this is normal in a dictatorship.

When does the regime come after the Internet? Independent media will soon be all that’s left. They depend on a free Internet. If the regime can find a way to regulate Internet speech we’re toast. And I don’t know why that just now occurred to me. Convince me I’m being too alarmist.

In the wake of ABC’s disgusting pulling of Kimmel, something you can do right now is buy paid subscriptions to as many independent media outlets as you can. Traditional media is gone. Some suggestions: thebulwark.com lincolnsquare.media terrymoran.substack.com mediasplus.com contrarian.substack.com

Maybe this will wake some previously-asleep people up to what’s really going on here? Things are speeding up y’all. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

If you haven’t spent much time thinking about this or researching it, don’t go to sleep on the fact that Trump murdered people on the high seas against all laws. These were summary executions ordered by an authoritarian dictator. Our government is blowing up little boats to kill people for sport.

JD Vance is an unlikable dork, and so I took solace in that. Thinking the evil would end with Trump because nobody likes Vance. While listening to segments of him hosting the Charlie Kirk podcast today, I felt a deep chill and sense of foreboding. He’s a smoother-talking Stephen Miller.

From “On Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder. Good night friends.

One of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower. Another of my ancestors is a Choctaw. Despite that Native American fouling of my genes, I am to all the world a very properly white guy. Where does this rank me on the new blood and soil crowd’s system? Just trying to get prepared.

Trump bombed a little boat and killed 11 people. Why not stop the boat or disable it, board it, and interview those folks to gather intel? Are we trying to stop drugs or are we just killing people because it’s cool and f them they’re brown? I think I know. This is some criminally evil shit.

Ladies and gentlemen, meet your modern day Woody Guthrie. youtu.be/OjGHf7OvglM?...

Today the Supreme Court said Trump could cancel $783 million in contracts from NIH. This decision essentially says there is no separation of powers. Congress said spend the money and Trump said no. Impoundment. Period. That’s it. I asked ChatGPT how an AI Supreme Court would have ruled.

It would be amazing to time travel and live the history we’ve read about in history books. Back in time to points where America was teetering like the Civil War. Witness it firsthand and even play a role in it. You don’t need a time machine. This is it. This is history. Embrace it and engage.

I took this photo on a trip to Seattle in May 2024. It really hits different now. This is the way. We’ll get there. And then we work with what we have left.

Every now and then I feel I must repeat to myself “none of this is normal.” It’s such a firehose of dystopia and outrage that I can sense my mind wants me to move the goalpost to save my own sanity. I will not. None of this is normal none of this is normal none of this is normal none of t…

This is a good one from Terry Moran. He’s clearly completely unshackled now from his former corporate news manacles. open.substack.com/pub/terrymor...

Texas Republicans have locked a democratic state rep in the Capitol building for refusing to sign a form agreeing to 24/7 police escort. She is not free to leave. She has less freedom of movement than Ghislaine Maxwell right now. This kind of shit is why we fight. www.youtube.com/live/eqDl84r...

Essentially fixing homelessness would cost $20-30 billion a year. The BBB Republicans just enacted gives $117 billion in tax cuts to the top 1% in 2026. Federal agents are now destroying DC homeless camps and even criminalizing homelessness. Yachts over human lives. These sick fucks.

I think this new genre of mocking Trump’s bleats is the way to go and it should be much more widely practiced by Dems. If it caught fire, Trump’s actual bleats might finally be met with the full measure of ridicule they so richly deserve but haven’t received enough of. What a fucking cartoon he is.

Re: Trump’s meeting with Putin today, let’s all remember he’s in the Epstein files, he’s covering them up, he was close pals with a child rapist, and he moved Maxwell (also a child rapist) to a minimum security prison camp where she has a designation that lets her take day trips to the community.

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I have this impulse to be like Josh in West Wing Season 1 Episode 6 and say “How’s everybody doin’?”

DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black. Do you understand?

Declaring a state of emergency when there isn't an actual emergency is authoritarianism 101.

The thing about Trump sending the National Guard to the National Mall in DC, is that he's a rapist and pedophile who is trying to distract us from the Epstein files.

This whole thing hits in waves psychologically doesn’t it? I was just watching this interview and at a certain point it washed over me just how Orwellian this whole thing is. And that we are absolutely now already living in an autocracy. I knew that. But I just really felt it. Deeply.

I beg you to watch this interview with the gay hairdresser our fascist government sent to CECOT, Andry Romero. What a beautiful bright light of a human being this thoughtful man is. Listen to him and compare him to the malignant monsters in our government. I cried. youtu.be/-ySsBj3OOg0?...

Please educate yourself about this. SCOTUS may be looking to invalidate the Voting Rights Act in a way that could lock in minority rule by Republicans and destroy democracy. The Texas gerrymandering could end up looking like small potatoes. All’s fair in this war dems. youtu.be/jM1UHD1e0uA?...

“Both of them.”

You know who I haven’t heard anything about in a while? Rudy Frickin’ Giuliani. May I be able to say the same about all these evil bastards as soon as possible. Accountability would be a plus. But I’d settle for them going the way of Giuliani. Absent from the national consciousness or ridiculed.

George Orwell really knew his stuff man. This is shocking but yet of course not shocking at all. The darkest evil and the most fragile ego packaged in a shitty brittle old orange container and enabled by disgusting weak men devoid of any character or principles. Now sanitized for history.

Read every word. Trump, Noem, Homan, Rubio and the whole soulless lot of them should land in prison one day for this. Preferably this one and under the same conditions.

Holy shit. Authoritarian level 39 unlocked. From today’s Today in Politics bulletin from @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Also: Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epst…

Let’s never take our eyes off the ball with ICE. This story is horrifying. We may not be able to stop ICE immediately but we can’t let them slip out of the viewfinder. I don’t have the magic answer but put some of your energy into considering how to fight this evil. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

I feel this very much right now youtu.be/aFQFB5YpDZE?...

It’s remarkable to me that these people don’t consider or care about how they’ll be viewed by history. That the one life they have to live will be summed up by the evil it caused. I guess the other option is they’re truly delusional about what their report card will say.

"Ms. Farmer said she recalled feeling scared as Mr. Trump stared at her bare legs. Then Mr. Epstein entered the room, and she recalled him saying to Mr. Trump: “No, no. She’s not here for you.”" Trump thought she was 16. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/u...

This is a stark recitation by @theanthonydavis.bsky.social of what the Trump regime has done to transform America into an authoritarian state. I knew all of this but hearing it laid down in one go was clarifying about where we are. Don’t lose your fight. youtu.be/-WG2cIMMyKY?...

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We’ve got Epstein and tariffs and ICE brutality and all manner of things. I just don’t want us to forget there is a gay makeup artist from Venezuela that our government sent to a torture prison in El Salvador. He’s still there. Suffering God only knows what. We can’t let that go.

This will definitely get worse. Our fight against the secret police force of an autocrat seems to me the most important fight among so many important fights. youtu.be/QWh42UuETno?...

If this facility held POWs, the conditions described would violate the Third Geneva Convention. This is only the beginning. These stories are going to become both more frequent and more horrifying as if this isn’t bad enough. Fight and enlist others to fight. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/a...

The government is making war on the people. I hope everyone on here understands that. Please go explain it to people who don’t.

Jack-booted masked thugs in LA today with their big guns and tiny penises. CBP official re: the LA mayor’s outrage: "I don't work for Karen Bass. Better get used to us now, cause this is going to be normal very soon. We will go anywhere, anytime we want in Los Angeles." patch.com/california/l...

ICE agents urinated on school property when they arrived to kidnap kids. Look up the Stanford Prison Experiment. This is the SPE in real life. Deindividuation, dehumanization, and institutional permission among other factors led to sick behavior. We must fight this evil ktla.com/news/local-n...

As we sit down to dinner with delicious food from our local Indian restaurant, I’m grateful this July 4th for the immigrants who come here to share their culture, talents, and love of America. Our country would be much diminished if they chose to stay away.

I’m spending some of this July 4th reflecting on our nation’s founding and the principles that undergirded it. My 1925 edition of The Life and Works of Thomas Paine has been lonely on the shelf but today, 100 years after this volume was printed, I’m treasuring it more than I ever have.

2025 feels like being awake during surgery