My friend @kimbakerwv.bsky.social took this pic of her father-in-law at the #Nokings protest in Huntington WV. Trump won 60% of Cabell Co in 2024.

Wonder how many tardigrades live here…

It's simply demoralizing sharing a country with people who think Donald Trump is someone worth emulating: to be surrounded by that kind of moral inversion every single day, to be continually encountering such cruelty. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-grief-...

I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy. Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I’ve not mastered the art of stacking stove wood. I’ve gotten quite a bit of practice though.

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) The wisdom of Timothy Snyder. This is his first ever substack video and his demeanor calmly looks yesterday's fubar in the face. It's short so I hope y'all will take the time to watch. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

Did y’all just see our toddler president and vice president? Zelenskyy was the only adult on camera. It was nuts.

EXCLUSIVE: NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., about how Democrats are addressing President Trump's agenda.

NEW: Days before West Virginia’s latest devastating storm, Morrisey budgeted no money for the state’s flood protection fund

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

This is the most important story in the United States right now. www.wired.com/story/treasu...

Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out. This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Revisiting January 6th: The Truth in Motion (Videos Of Pardoned Criminals) substack.com/@adamkinzing...

NEW: Senator Jim Justice was sworn in on Tuesday. The next day, he skipped his first two floor votes.

Mingo County can't pump water to homes because it's snowing. Once water is back on, it will be unsafe to drink unless boiled. Just one example of the deplorable state of our infrastructure. But officials just sent $5 million in water development funds to a right-wing Catholic school in Ohio.