My weekly must-reads list and my thoughts on witnessing care and courage amid clouds of tear gas Friday night. "Almost 550 people across Chicagoland have been arrested by ICE during Operation Midway Blitz. It is a campaign of terror focused on a city that our president feels profound contempt for."

My wife and I spent $12,000 USD in the #USA last year on two separate vacations. NO MORE We will NOT spend a cent in the 🇺🇸 anymore We just spent $9,000 USD in both Morocco 🇲🇦 and Egypt 🇪🇬 #ElbowsUp #CANADA 🇨🇦

Solar’s land use is a myth.🌞 To power the world takes <0.5% of land—less than cities, a fraction of livestock grazing, and smaller than golf courses. Agriculture & fossil fuels are the real land hogs. Solar is a rounding error in the global land pie. evcurvefuturist.com/2025/09/the-...

More than 60 ambassadorships don’t even have a nominee, while diplomats are told they’re being evaluated on their “fidelity.” www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

I have never seen a festival of hate like what is happening in Arizona today Every speaker sounds like they want to genocide more than half of America

Bye, Disney! (And I have 3 kids, but they'll be OK)

Holy shit. The administration might be evacuating the ICE facility we've been protesting for weeks. If this ends up happening, it's a huge deal. Protests matter. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...

Kneeling quietly for racial justice is “too political,” but building a shrine to Charlie Kirk at the 50-yard line is totally fine? Hypocrisy doing backflips in cleats. 🏈🙃 - @jpe1974.bsky.social #DoubleStandards #SportsArePolitical

Palantir sponsors Charlie Kirk’s memorial. JD Vance was groomed into VP by Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel is a founding shareholder in Palantir with Epstein as an investor. This is not just about Charlie Kirk. They’re livestreaming their invention

This article ( belib.org/wessel-kirk?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Being+Liberal&utm_campaign=publer&utm_term=beingliberal.substack.com ) was published literally hours after Charlie Kirk's death. The martyrdom of Horst Wessel is a playbook they follow to a tee... Dr. Goebbels would be proud.

We are officially #Idiocracy. UFC CEO Dana White revealed what the UFC White House event might look like in June 2026.

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UK, Canada and Australia announce formal recognition of Palestine, with wave of Israel’s allies to follow Partly symbolic move by up to 10 states comes amid fears Israel could respond by annexing parts of West Bank www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Go Canada!

As you probably know by now, state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD, wants to make Florida the first U.S. state to cancel all of its school vaccine mandates for kids. "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in your body? www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Networks—especially ABC, Disney, Hulu, and CBS—need to hear this: you’re standing on the wrong side of history, bending the knee to authoritarianism before the fight even begins, even though the law’s on your side. You’re losing viewers. We’re not going to stand w/you when you’re not standing w/us!

YES, we can.

A young college student outplayed Charlie Kirk on his own stage. www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com/p/20-year-ol...

What does “decline to prosecute” mean? It means that for one of a number of reasons, prosecutors who’ve looked at the case don’t think there is sufficient admissible evidence to obtain and sustain a conviction. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

April Ajoy: " I used to be a Christian Nationalist (but didn't know it). I thought i was just being a good Christian but really my religious beliefs had conflated w/ Republicanism. I traveled in an America Say Jesus bus. I campaigned for the GOP Then it all unraveled." MORE:

⚡️US senators introduce bill to send frozen Russian assets to Ukraine. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Sept. 19 introduced a bill that aims to send a portion of frozen Russian assets under Washington's control to Ukraine.

That's my 2025 Big Tent coalition - Stop fascism. Stop Trump. Punish GOP for treason to American values. #VoteThemAllOut

I don’t know how ICE agents sleep at night, but this right here is absolutely heartless! They detained two parents and their 22-year-old son outside Chicago while the family was on their way to celebrate their 10-year-old’s birthday.

Because Republicans know that voters overwhelmingly support abortion rights, they’re trying to trick Missourians about what their ballot measure would actually do. First, they called it Amendment 3. That’s right, GOP’ abortion ban has the same name as the pro-choice measure that voters passed in Nov

30 years later... "Public urination is so strongly coded as a male behaviour that when women do it, even in relatively permissive contexts like Glastonbury Festival, which is where the idea first came to me, it feels unsettling and provocative..."

Vote with your money! That's the only language corporate America understands. #boycottDisney open.substack.com/pub/beinglib...

👉 Cancel Disney+ belib.org/cancel_disney?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Being+Liberal&utm_campaign=publer&utm_term=beingliberal.substack.com 👉 Cancel Hulu belib.org/cancel_hulu?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Being+Liberal&utm_campaign=publer&utm_term=beingliberal.substack.com Every unsubscribe cou

Toxic masculinity is a global phenomenon, but nowhere is it more virulent than in the hypermodern, connected South Korean society. What can other countries learn from this ‘ground zero’ of misogyny?

2025

Did this idiot just post his text to Pam Bondi?

Since he took office in 2017, President Donald J. Trump has worked hard to convince Americans that they are divided into two partisan camps: Republicans, whom he defines as those people loyal to him, and Democrats, a group made up of everyone else. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think." Pete Buttigieg

Remember the time @jamestalarico.bsky.social was on FOX and they tried to shut him down? It didn't work out so well for them. Jame would be a great addition to the Senate representing Texas. #DemsUnited

Fight for the 1st Amendment with the conviction of 2A ammosexuals...

Right on point. Their goal is to silence those who disagree, those who tell the truth, those who believe in kindness, empathy, and equality. Don’t stop speaking out. Make your voice heard. You are in good company. Let’s throw the bullshit aside, get ourselves united and do this together.

Vote with your money! That's the only language corporate America understands. #boycottDisney open.substack.com/pub/beinglib...

BREAKING: In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Vote with your dollars. That's the only language corporations understand

⚡️NATO 'must respond accordingly, including militarily' to Russian provocations, Czech president says. NATO must remain united and respond decisively to Russian provocations, Czech President Petr Pavel said on Sept. 20 amid increased Russian violations of NATO airspace.

In the last 5 years, 81 people have been killed by political violence in the US. Right-wing terrorists account for over half of those murders, some 54%, according to research by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. Islamists account for 21%, and left-wingers for 22%.

We literally predicted that yesterday while commenting the US military nonjudiciary killing of the people on a 3rd boat in the international waters. Shame on US military.

Trump wiped out $1.3 Billion owed by fraudsters... but remember forgiving the student loans is bad socialism. Liz Oyer (@lizoyer) is a former Pardon Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice and a former Federal Public Defender, fired by Trump six moths ago. Follow her here:

Let’s be honest: if you’ve ever found yourself banging your head against the wall after a family dinner debate with your Fox News–addled uncle, you’ve probably wondered, “How can anyone actually believe this stuff?”

Brigitte Macron, the wife of French president, is going to court in Delaware to prove that she is a woman. This is where the mind-boggling world of conspiracy theories has led us and it has consequences for us all, hopefully it will bankrupt Candace Owen. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/b...

Absolutely plausible scenario.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

A scientist tried to discredit the theory that ultra-processed foods are killing us. Instead, he overturned his own understanding of obesity. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Free speech is messy. Obama says it’s also how we win. www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com/p/obamas-urg...

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."