It usually feels like an uphill climb to write. Sometimes the hill you climb is steep, and sometimes it isn't.

I wonder what Hitchens would have said about the current state of affairs. www.youtube.com/shorts/-Ixlp...

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

New Yorkers always knew exactly who he was.

The difference between them and me is that I think safeguarding the integrity of elections means protecting and expanding voting rights, whereas they think it means oppressing voting rights.

Trumpus Erroneous : The mad king goes full FUBAR 1hundredsixty8.substack.com/p/trumpus-er...

People who believe many vote illegally should volunteer to work at a polling place. If you do that even once, you see what care is taken to make sure people who are voting are citizens, they are registered properly & they vote only once. There's check on top of check. Rs & Ds can send observers.

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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

It is not a question of polls. It is not a question of politics. It is a question of morality and legality and constitutional obligation. Every member of the Congress of the United States takes an oath of office to uphold the laws and Constitution of the United States of America.

I’ve felt that way since he crept into Florida in the 80s. He has always been this guy. Ask Atlantic City, NYC or anywhere he’s pillaged.

As the comedian Ron White says, "You can't fix stupid."

We can throw another $500,000,000,000 at the Pentagon this year and spend $1,000,000,000/day on a wholly useless war, but we can't afford to hire doctors and nurses to take care of our veterans? The United States is such an irresponsible, messed up country right now.

And the party that was opposed to masks in COVID now defends masks for ICE. Wow, that is a little bit funny, what an incisive and smart observation you've made about the foibles of mankind

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Exactly. Blindly hooting for the Buffoon-in-Chief as he unlawfully orders airstrikes without a coherent plan isn't a foreign policy, and isn't patriotic; it's just stupid, and dangerous.

Whether it's a refusal or it's an inability, not grasping the complexity of the world around us leads people to either disparage expertise, or believe they know more than they do (Dunnimg-Kruger). Seems we humans find thought & reason so difficult that many of us opt for simple belief (e.g.religion)

The search is ongoing.

How about stopping the corruption in the president

"You can't fix stupid. -Ron White, comedian

Bait-and-switch, one of the oldest plays in the con game.

Legislator wants to legislate, while Mike Johnson is determined to play every game possible to prevent the House from interfering with the imperial presidency he serves.

Tsk tsk. Fascism is all fun and games until you're ordered to sit through dictator-spouse propaganda films. 👇🏼 www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...

Finally finished writing something. open.substack.com/pub/1hundred...

not to mention doing it while out of town at pre-Super Bowl festivities

The nation already owes you a great deal, Marc.

The man who told reporters it’s time to move on from the Epstein files won’t shut up about the 2020 election.

It's obvious but still striking to consider that we have a United States government driven solely by one man's emotional dysregulation and dysfunction.

Trump reposting a video of the Obamas as "apes" during Black History Month and no Republican officials as of yet condemning him is another reason why every one of them needs to be defeated at the ballot box and shunned in public.

Knowing right from wrong does not require an interlocutor.

We are all immigrants. Unless you came over on the Mayflower. I am an immigrant to Canada having grown up in the US. America was built by immigrants. Some people have forgotten that.

Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers. Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024. And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary. The system is rigged.

Unfortunately, there are no charismatic leaders currently available in the political class.

Across America and the world, people are realizing it’s not possible to appease America’s dictator. The only way to deal with him is to stand up to him — and the only way to stand up to him is by joining together against him. It's time for a massive general strike across the country.

Bernice King has it absolutely right. We are facing a moral crisis in this country. And we must all act together to end it.

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing

Hey, as we all watch the dementia-addled psychotic president of the United States ramble incoherently on a global stage, I'd just like to say on behalf of all Americans: Our bad.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

Best phone I've ever owned. Glitch-free OS, very secure messaging & email.

An important fact about Trump is that he hates to fight. He loves to bully and dominate, but in a situation where he is facing someone who can hurt him back he bluffs, bargains, and then runs away.