🎧 🎶 Lover | Taylor Swift🩵 youtu.be/-BjZmE2gtdo?...

🎬 Film complete (Nuremberg with Russell Crowe & Rami Malek). 📖 Book open (Jack El-Hai’s The Nazi and the Psychiatrist.) The story deepens.

Philippines Sinking in Corruption — ABS-CBN exposes how politicians’ selfish greed drowns flood control projects. youtu.be/CTz8aDj5HNQ?...

🎧 🎶 🎤 🩵 Opalite | Taylor Swift youtu.be/3PJC6uPIekc?...

30 September 1928 | Elie Wiesel was born in Romania. A Jewish writer, Auschwitz & Buchenwald survivor, Peace Nobel Prize laureate. "Indifference is the epitome of evil." / „We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

Joining Alex Witt on MSNBC at 1:30 today to discuss Tuesday’s “flag meeting.”

@caltrain.com just celebrated one year of fully electrified train service in the Bay Area — with surging ridership and faster, more frequent services. California is driving our clean tech dominance forward and laying the groundwork to hook up to our @cahsra.bsky.social high-speed rail.

“In front of drowning nations, Trump dismisses climate change as ‘con job’" | New article by @apnews.com in the United News of Bangladesh: unb.com.bd/category/Env...

Finest political leadership comms in history? It’s amazing how well these hold up.

Will this level of corruption continue to go unchecked? Have we already accepted kleptocracy as normal?

As Trump completes his second state visit to the UK, a reminder of one of the many alleged corruption scandals facing his administration: As anti-corruption standards slip (or are brazenly ignored) around the world, the UK must show global leadership. newrepublic.com/article/2005...

A reminder that most Israelis, and particularly Israeli civil society, are not in line with Netanyahu's regime, just as most Americans are not in line with the Trump Regime's actions.

"When the rich rob the poor, the rich call it 'business'. When the poor fight back, the rich call it 'violence'." Mark Twain

Absurd. Trump freckin’ pardoned hundreds of violent rioters. And MAGA celebrated that.

One reason few people can wrap their head around the realization that the United States is in a full-fledged Authoritarian takeover – is that Americans, gripped by fear & materialism, cannot imagine surrendering a lifetime’s accumulation of comfort & possessions in an effort to regain their freedom.

This is Vance's rehearsal for taking over the dictatorship.

Trump/Vance/Stephen Miller are busy spreading blatant lies and glossing over violence committed by the far-right. They're establishing a justification to unleash the government against anyone who opposes MAGA. All of this must be understood against the backdrop of Trump’s declining popularity.

Vance: "There's no unity with people who fund these articles, who pay the salaries of these terrorist sympathizers...Soros' OSF and the Ford Foundation...benefit from generous tax treatment...How do they reward us? By setting fire to the house built by the American family."

Very fascist-y.

Our community guidelines have always put safety first, with a prohibition against glorifying violence or harm. This goes back to the very earliest days of the site.

The murders of Charlie Kirk and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman are part of a dangerous rise in political violence. We cannot accept this as the norm. We must do whatever we can to reduce the anger and hate that are consuming and destroying so much of the country.

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It is also a lie that you are amplifying.

I don’t advocate violence of any kind, political or otherwise, on any side. I also won’t be gaslit into believing a foul hate-monger was simply a regular guy with different views. Here is a sampling of what he was all about:

Here’s the thing. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I lower my American flag for someone who sent bus loads of insurrectionists to the Capitol.

They do know the Reichstag Fire was, um, bad…right?

The whole world believes that Trump will not honor the US's obligation to NATO's Article 5.

I know little about Charlie Kirk. Never paid attention to his dark, inane posts. But I am appalled at his death. Politics has been pushed to the point where extremist language leads to violence. In a democracy there is no justification for the murder of a man over ideas. This is a wake up call.

Europe is in a fight. A fight for our liberty and our ability to determine our destiny for ourselves. This must be Europe’s Independence Moment. A moment we can seize if we're united ↓ www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVnm...

Whether by accident or malice - and likely intentionally - the Russians are risking a wider war in Europe. The only path to reducing such a threat is for the world to force Moscow to call off its campaign of butchery in Ukraine. Unfortunately, America is AWOL: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

There is no place for violence in our democracy — against anyone.

The Trump Administration is once again failing to do its job — and California is cleaning up their mess. We're deploying state resources to protect the 2,000-year old sequoias on FEDERAL LANDS from the wildfires the federal administration are supposed to handle.

If you want to sharpen your language skills—or learn your gf's language to charm her—start by singing songs in her native tongue. It’s playful, memorable, & far more effective (& fun) than flashcards. Just hope she’s not multilingual—unless you're ready to duet in six languages & a key change. 😂

My column today looks at radicals trying to channel public anger towards political action, and the fine line between anger and fear of chaos.

Prediction markets rate it close to a coin flip as to whether the Supreme Court will rule most of Trump's tariffs as (un)constitutional. My $0.02: Don't take legal advice from an economist, but can't see a credible reading that says they're legal. polymarket.com/event/will-t...

🎧 🎶 Le temps de l'amour | Françoise Hardy 🩵 music.youtube.com/watch?v=zRk3...

PSA: Please reschedule any fishing charters and remain inland for the next 24-48 hours. The President is embroiled in another sex scandal and will be looking for something to bomb. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Donald Trump's hand-picked SCOTUS majority just became the Grand Marshal for a parade of racial terror in LA. His administration is targeting Latinos — and anyone who doesn't look or sound like Stephen Miller's idea of an American — to deliberately harm our families and economy.

So MAGA, you're STILL with him now?

Happy to share I’ve signed a book contract to publish “If I Don’t Return,” letters to my sons from Desert Storm. Book will publish in early 2026.

This is what happens when you get rid of the experts and appoint the guy who bought the most hats at your last rally.

It's getting harder to shock America, but Trump managed this weekend with a crude, fiery threat to wage war on Chicago But a massive street protest Saturday, backed by a strong governor, shows Chicago isn't having it Did Trump pick the wrong fight? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

Well said.

An October 1942 FBI leaflet asking the residents of Buffalo to report any "possible violation[s] of our national security statutes" or anything suspicious to the Buffalo Field Office. It concluded, however, with the paragraph below. Seemed relevant today somehow.

Feeling hopeless? Here are 5 things you can do this week to fight fascism. https://youtu.be/8W-lVRQQGtI?feature=shared

🩵 Michael C. Hall

🎥 Peter Dinklage as Leon Prater is a masterclass in menace. Cold, calculating, unforgettable. He doesn’t just act—he architects dread. Hollywood, take note: this is the kind of brilliance that demands more screen time.

“I Love the Smell of Deportation in the Morning” open.substack.com/pub/levremem...