Happy to have a piece (co-authored with Clyde Wilcox) in this volume.

Not long before #NoKings 3. Here’s a crossword to mark the occasion: crosshare.org/crosswords/W...

Anyone fond of portmanteau words? Try “My Staycation Blog,” a new puzzle from me. crosshare.org/crosswords/D...

It seems that Trumpworld doesn’t understand acronyms. SAVE Act stands for Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. It makes no sense to call it the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility America Act.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

Arendt said that truth and politics are inherently at odds because power requires the suppression of inconvenient facts. All governments lie, and this one does it all the time. Not only does this regime lie about everything, it has been caught doing so repeatedly. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

FORT WAYNE AREA This coming Tuesday, current students and recent grads will talk about today's college experience including issues such as academics, campus life, finances, job prospects and the political climate. ALLEN CO. PUBLIC LIBRARY 6:30PM

My latest post - “Ruptural Transformations” open.substack.com/pub/crosspol...

This is a loss for social science because a time series of data comes to an end. It’s a loss for US politics because the approval rating has been a metric that people relied on. It’s a loss for the democratic spirit as another institution obeys in advance. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Students Speak Out! 2/24 Higher education is one of the "Pillars of Democracy" that fascists try to undermine. Come out to our free event to learn more about how you can support and protect area higher education institutions! Organizers are still looking for students to give testimony.

America desperately needs a functioning and independent House as a check on Trump’s chaos and mania. It will never have that as long as Mike Johnson is Speaker. Every vote for a House Republican is a vote to give Trump unchecked power for two more years.

Voter fraud is yet another "issue" that isn't an issue at all. Through countless studies, systematic voter fraud has never been found to exist. Voter suppression is real, though, and there are libraries full of data.

Coming in two weeks …

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

As Stanley notes, “the response to fascism must include the dismantling of the pre-existing structures that enabled and justified its rise.” Those structures? Racism, colonialism, militarism, presidentialism, and the national security state. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Before Trump 2.0, this was one of my biggest fears. With everything that's happened in the last year, it may seem like small news -- just another stream in the constant firehose of institutional destruction. But it's not. Effectively losing the professional federal civil service is a very bad thing.

And the Klansman of the Year Award goes to … www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

It is time we wake up and take Trump’s threats seriously and literally. Based on past behavior, if anything, what he said is almost certainly an understatement of how far he is actually willing to go. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

Amazon has cut a combined 28,000 jobs since October. Its CEO made $40M+ in 2024 UPS has announced 78,000 job cuts since last year. Its CEO made $24M. HP announced up to 6,000 layoffs in November. Its CEO made $21M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Texas Tech Cancels Abortion Rights Advocate’s Speech After TPUSA Pressure https://bit.ly/4k6QZTn

Intriguing comment from this story: “Protesting is standing off to the side and not interfering." Such a view erases the entire history of protest, its roots in refusal and confrontation — picket lines, sit-ins, blockades, disruptions of business-as-usual, etc. www.npr.org/2026/01/29/g...

WH strategy seems to be to blame everyone but the perpetrators.

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Sen. Young caved, saying that he had received a “commitment that if President Trump were to determine American forces are needed in major military operations in Venezuela, the Administration will come to Congress in advance to ask for an authorization of force.”

Iranian government: protesters are terrorists. U.S. government: protesters are terrorists. Notice the difference?

Grateful for the opportunity to chat with Graham Culbertson again. I hope you might find our conversation useful. www.everydayanarchism.com/177-year-one...

The most rational thing Trump ever said? “You gotta win the midterms. Because if we don’t win the midterms, they’ll find a reason to impeach me. I’ll get impeached.”

On 5 January, Stephen Miller said on CNN: “We live in a world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” One could not craft a clearer, more explicit statement of fascist ideology.

Obviously, the Republican President is thoroughly committed to lowering the rhetorical temperature … so much so that he regularly delivers such racist, bigoted, hateful, and, yes, deplorable rants at one set of targets or another.

This piece definitely speaks to my condition. open.substack.com/pub/bmstudeb...

Save Higher Education — my latest for Cross-pollination. crosspollination.substack.com/p/save-highe...

Question: Is the act of voting for a bill that you denounced as a political stunt itself just a political stunt?

MTG now stands for Makes Trump Grouse.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

I keep thinking about Charlie Brown, Lucy van Pelt, and a football … not sure why. It’s beginning to bother me.

initially thought that this was a shadow being projected on his face. didn’t realize he was in blackface

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Message to Democrats: Don’t fall into the media frame of progressives vs. centrists, moderates vs. leftists. Focus on how candidates win by speaking to people’s deep, real concerns. Focus on how candidates win with a clear message and a compelling narrative.

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Instead of asking the Speaker of the House if he has a view on <critical separation-of-powers QOTD>, maybe reporters should start asking him if he reads any newspapers or otherwise informs himself on those matters to which we might think the Speaker of the House ought to be paying attention?

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Plans are being made to squelch free speech, dissent, and protest. We will be seeing more scenes of violent repression reminiscent of past workers’ strikes, civil rights demonstrations, antiwar protests, and the like. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The SCOTUS decision on presidential immunity destroyed the Madisonian system of checks and balances.

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage. The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn. No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

"When electoral gains from moderation have been exhausted—when Democrats are running moderates in every competitive district and still losing—the task isn’t to moderate harder. It’s to give voters reason to believe politics can deliver real change." data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...

Thoughts about the AI fighter jet video that Trump shared … Not only is it juvenile (his basic emotional state), it also shows that he pretends to be what he is not (regal, skilled, smart). It further provides a revealing and apt metaphor for what he is doing to the country (enshittification).

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

Seems bad. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...