Yes. We must be post-Hitler Germany, not post-Mussolini Italy.

Trump's Year of Havoc, Greed, and Ego (Part 1 of 2) open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Join us on January 6 for our first episode of the Steady State Sentinel Podcast! #stillStandingWatch www.thesteadystate.org/podcast

“War of the entire people”: Venezuela's Grassroots Rise to Resist Trump's Naval Blockade open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

It’s a perfect storm of denial. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

In complaining about gag order, DHS likely violates gag order www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Taken together—the racial homogeneity, the Cold War religious framing, the idealized citizens—the aesthetic here aligns closely with white Christian nationalism as a default civic identity. #holdfast

Weekly Mind Dump: Trump's Subjugation of News Media Leads Us to Dictatorship open.substack.com/pub/jameslbr...

Russia chose to grant Snowden protection and citizenship, and his continued presence there has served Russia's interests. A U.S. pardon would retroactively legitimize those decisions at America’s expense.#holdfast

Epstein and Leviathan: How the Financier Opened Doors to Netanyahu and Ehud Barak Amid Israel's Offshore Gas Fight open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

Egads. It wasn’t possible to “fill the shortfall.” Trump eliminated the USAID infrastructure and recalled its staff.

This is straight-up censorship. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Only the best will do for the world’s worst FBI director. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Cartoon ✍️: The nice list By Tim Campbell More here 👉 www.dailykos.com/blog/Comics

Call of Duty open.substack.com/pub/edsev/p/...

How to keep your weight under control

Grenell claims the arts are supposed to be for everyone but reps the admin that ended funds for PBS, which actually did make the arts accessible to everyone. He works for the guy who wants CBS to cut ties with left leaning entertainers. Seems — gasp — hypocritical.

What America Might Look Like With Zero Immigration www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...

We Are Not Negotiating a Ukrainian Peace: Repeated Failures of Emissaries are not Attempts to Reach a Respectable End to War but a Dishonorable Effort to Wear Zelensky Down open.substack.com/pub/steadyst... Clarity and Candor. A Must Read.

We Are Not Negotiating a Ukrainian Peace: Repeated Failures of Emissaries are not Attempts to Reach a Respectable End to War but a Dishonorable Effort to Wear Zelensky Down open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...

Yes. They lack the expertise of, say, billionaires.

Does Manufacturing Matter? open.substack.com/pub/chrismil...

The Mass Recall of Experienced U.S. Ambassadors Endangers American Security open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...

The Steady State Sentinel Podcast: Sneak-Peek at the January 6, 2026 Line-Up open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...

Not only does the fascist regime insist on deciding what we can hear (pressuring media and reporters), learn (making colleges stop teaching history, science, and anything “DEI”), and read (censorship, yanking books from libraries), it unironically demands the right to decide where artists perform.

You don’t have to agree with the targets of this policy to see the problem: once certain speech becomes “foreign policy threats,” there is no principled limiting line. www.state.gov/releases/off...

FREDONIA PROJECT - SITREP 21: US DOMESTIC AND NATIONAL SECURITY - 27 DECEMBER 2025 open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...

Just follow orders or obey the law? What US troops told us about refusing illegal commands theconversation.com/just-follow-...

Join us January 6 for the Steady State Sentinel Podcast! #StillStandingWatch

If I were innocent, I would want everything released to prove my innocence.

Proof that there is more than one way to prostitute yourself. Too bad.

Putinism, like Trumpism, is a cult. In fact, Trumpism is actually based on Putinism

How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

No nation that allowed blacks to be enslaved and then spend 100 years after emancipation trying to deny them full citizenship, or that allowed native Americans to be massacred is a Christian nation. 1/3

Cartoon ✍️: Happy election year By Clay Bennett More here 👉 www.dailykos.com/blog/Comics

If evolution is real, then why isn’t it happening now? An anthropologist explains that humans actually are still evolving theconversation.com/if-evolution...

Cartoon ✍️: A GOP Christmas story By Drew Sheneman More here 👉 www.dailykos.com/blog/Comics

substack.com/@steadystate... “This ‘show of force’...to put pressure on Maduro...--part of the administration’s effort to oust him from power... it’s... likely that it will only turn the people of Venezuela against the ‘imperial’ Americans.”

America Officially Has The Oldest Government on Earth open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

The America Stephen Miller romanticizes existed because of mass immigration just decades earlier. Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra weren’t symbols of a closed America — they were proof of assimilation after it tried to exclude people like them. #holdfast

The long shadow cast by a tiny man open.substack.com/pub/luciantr...

Shattered Trust open.substack.com/pub/steadyst... "It’s true...that Trump has achieved a historic national security turnaround, and oh-so-quickly. The problem...is that the factual record shows that Trump has shattered, not restored, the world’s trust in America’s essential decency."

Brigitte Bardot, Movie Icon Who Renounced Stardom, Dies at 91 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/m...