Startup that turns tires into highway barriers finds new home in Aurora after lengthy search trib.al/8sfGDHv

The paperback edition of #OnFreedom is out today. It preserves a positive argument about how to build a better country and has been updated to account for what has happened in 2025. timothysnyder.org/on-freedom

Donald Trump deleted this from the government website. Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.

A year ago, I launched my book #OnFreedom in a war zone – in Kharkiv, Ukraine, 35 seconds from Russian artillery. Today, I'm launching the paperback in Portland, Oregon. Which is NOT a war zone. There is a difference in the real world between what's a war and what is not, and between truth and lies.

Thugs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

Hunter Biden was an attorney and a businessman, but the relatively small amount of money he made was automatically assumed to be corrupt and illegal, while the Trumps can sell out the entire country and it's fine. Hypocrisy is an essential part of the brand.

Starting out tonight's obvious things talk:

Which is it, Mike?

Jonathan Karl breaks news in "Retribution" — reprinting the calendar page where Mike Pence kept notes from the heated conversation he had with Trump on the morning of Jan. 6. Trump to Pence: "You'll go down as a wimp ... I made a big mistake 5 years ago." tinyurl.com/bdub2m7u

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Interestingly, one important thing about the law of defamation is that, to recover on a claim, you have to show damage to your reputation, which requires, at the very least, that you have a reputation that could somehow be damaged

He wants an insurrection so badly. He had one on January 6, 2021. Don’t give him another: Trump Says He Is Prepared to Send ‘More Than the National Guard’ Into U.S. Cities www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

Hope you'll join us live on Substack at 8 pm ET for a discussion of how an order entered today by a federal judge in Chicago provides compelling proof that We The People have enormous power and influence in this fight for democracy! open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."

What would it mean for California to "soft secede?" @clarajeffery.bsky.social explains how blue states can use their economic and cultural clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

Breaking WaPo: The White House just fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that was expected to review some of Trump's construction projects, including his planned arch in Washington. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

... just another reminder of the FELON in the White House...

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... His legacy is toast.

UK solidarity in advance of No Kings Day. George III.

Cleveland completely gets the zeitgeist! So much fun!!! Great frog puns and I love the roller blading with costumes! United we ribbit. Divided we croak. Trump is Toadly in the Epstein Files. Fascism is boo-sheet.

NO KINGS 🚫 👑 18 October. Let your voice be heard. Attendance is free.

Newsom is right. Trump is clearly in dangerous cognitive and physical decline.

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity. And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

I realize very old people fall more frequently, and I have to assume someone who had Polio as a child would likely have more issues. This is probably the nicest thing I will ever say about Mitch McConnell.

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

If you're brave, try to team up and *non-violently* demask them, and then take pictures. Let's find out who "Antifa" really is.

I can almost guarantee you that there will be right wing agitators posing as Antifa to discredit the protests. Stay safe and keep your cameras on.

And yet stupid conservatives in the Atlantic and the New York Times are going to write articles asking why young people aren’t shaking up and having kids together as if that’s a left-wing issue and not pointing to conservatives making it extremely expensive

Don't obey. Stand up to fascists. Make good trouble.

As Republicans attempt to whitewash history, it's the librarians who are defending the truth. Director Kim Snyder’s new documentary “The Librarians” is incredible. We talk about the film & why targeting the truth-tellers is just the tip of the authoritarian iceberg. youtu.be/S4HWSDjSI-A?...

Still hard to believe that Trump and Vance joking about this wasn't seen as an enormous red flag to the purporting to have full confidence about the criminality of their targets.

Men abusing women is not a "serious" issue, apparently.

I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed. Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing. Both sides!

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New in PN: Trump's flag burning executive order flames out "This is a blatant attempt to transform protected speech into criminal conduct, despite decades of SCOTUS precedent barring just that. And it was immediately challenged by a veteran who set fire to an American flag just across from the WH."

"I understand why women are afraid to come forward. I didn’t call the cops on my rapist & I’ve never named him publicly. It’s sure not because I’m protecting him. I’m protecting myself. Nobody would've believed this trailer-park girl vs that Big Man On Campus," @donnerkay.bsky.social writes.

His impulsive move underlined how far he’s willing to go to bend the entire federal bureaucracy — and reality — to his will. So yesterday marked the last time that we will see a non-Trumpified report on jobs. And this is where the stupidity comes in. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Nothing says climate policy like skipping brunch and hoping the sky notices.

Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred to a resort prison. Yeah. Tell me again that Trump isn’t the biggest pedo ever! #Pinks #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1

NEW: The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has kept in place a Los Angeles federal judge's ruling that bars immigration agents from using a person's spoken language or job, like day laborer, as the sole pretext to detain them.