Chapter 8 of my novel “Evergreen is now up. Scottnygaard.substack.com

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

here is the thing about the “argument” that democrats should have run roughshod over the law when they had the chance: it is much easier to break the law to destroy a program than break the law to create one.

This.

Chapter 2 of my unpublished novel “Evergreen” is up on Scottnygaard.substack.com

This !!

The only immigrant trying to destroy the country.

The Lakota People's Law Project's 2025 Decolonized Reading List. There is so much to choose from here. lakotalaw.org/news/2025-01...

Also it's kind of a distraction from this emergency but the way newspaper are making a shocking emergency sound boring and bureaucratic, which they've been doing since last Monday's attempt to stop all federal funding, is really something. Make sure your fire alarm sounds like crickets.

This may not sound shocking, but it is one of the most shocking parts of this coup: why would you shut down all the federal offices unless you're nihilists who've decided we don't need a government? apnews.com/article/trum...

Perfectly captured.

Some AI’s version of the circle of fifths. Yikes! 😬

HAPPENING NOW: members of Get Free are blocking traffic in front of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the main agency where the Trump Administration and its billionaire backers like Elon Musk have been spearheading efforts to implement MAGA’s Project 2025 agenda.

Worth remembering that it was a coup attempt--an attempt to steal Congress's powers and turn the presidency into a dictatorship--and that pushing back mattered. Thanks to everyone who raised a ruckus....

Halting spending approved by Congress. Firing independent inspectors general from federal agencies. Replacing civil servants with loyalists. All plans pulled from Project 2025. Remember when Trump denied knowing about the playbook and the media gave him a pass?

Tim Kaine details how Trump's funding freeze is already hurting people in Virginia

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