www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... What an extraordinarily consequential career! Speaks volumes that she was so hated by Trump and the MAGA extremists. Thank you for you service, Ms Pelosi! 💙💙💙

Mamdani Blazes Trail as New York’s First Muslim and South Asian Mayor-Elect www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... I 💙 NY

Today is only the beginning. Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.

Are We Losing Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/interactive/... An important editorial from the NYTimes. A bit ironic that the headline is posed as a question though given item no. 8

It's time to vote for the first book of #BlueskyBookclub! This thread includes each suggested book. The book with the most likes wins. Like the post *from this account* to vote. You can vote as many times as you want. And please repost, let's get as many people on board as we can! #boosky 💙📚

Read The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa between episodes of the Netflix adaptation. Highly recommend both. Sicily, 1860. The unification of Italy has begun. A time of major political and social change. “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” 🇮🇹 #BookSky 📚

An afternoon hike up Ma On Shan to Sai Kung, Hong Kong #hiking 🥾 #HongKong

open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/... “Principled personalities who communicate in creative and emotionally resonant ways can build new constituencies and coalitions, reach the detached and the disaffected, and reroute passions for the cause of democracy. That is what Mamdani is doing.” —R. Ben-Ghiat

open.substack.com/pub/robertre... This is an excellent rebuttal to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s recent appeal on CNN’s State of the Union to vote No. I’ve lost all respect for State of the Union since they chose to give a platform to George Santos. The State of the Union is… Red Alert‼️ Vote Blue 💙

substack.com/@reallyameri... I hear Ontario will stop airing the ad featuring former US President Reagan’s talk on tariffs after Trump slapped another 10% tariff on Canadian imports. I was never a fan of Reagan, but I’m keeping this pinned for a while.

libro.fm/referral?rf_... This looks like a great way to purchase audiobooks and support local bookstores at the same time. Will give it a try. #BookSky

It looks even worse by video 😢

October 18, 2025

White House and Government Agencies Join Bluesky, Then Attack Democrats www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u... Don’t engage. BlueSky has a useful function to block scam accounts. #NoKings 💙

open.substack.com/pub/anneappl... “The very existence of American democracy inspired people in every corner of the planet, and the decline of American democracy will have a similarly profound impact, on the world and on Americans.” —Anne Applebaum

Why is CNN interviewing George Santos on State of the Union? He should be in prison. Shameful.

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... “Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to American democracy…” #NoKings 🇺🇸

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Very good to catch up on the news on this fine Sunday morning as an American living abroad. #NoKings

The U.S. Denounces Her. Multinationals Threaten Her. She Likes Her Odds. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o... “This is the first in a series of columns on new and emerging attempts to deliver on the promise of international justice. For me, this promise is not abstract. It’s personal…” —M. Gessen

podcasts.apple.com/hk/podcast/t... This one is good. Trump’s favorite dictator in Egypt; a $20 billion bailout of Argentina as the US gov shuts down; Portland’s peaceful protesters in inflatable cartoon suits blowing bubbles at ICE while others cycle in various states of undress. Keeping it real.

But tens of millions are buying the Administrations line on antifa. Who was Who in Weimar Germany (video) open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Live Updates: María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10... Machado was praised for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.” 🕊️

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... “I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment, trust me… But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel … continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide…, attempting to erase an entire population...” GT

substack.com/@borowitzrep... 🚀

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall — a UN Messenger of Peace — sat down for a deeply reflective conversation about her legacy and to immortalize her final words with the understanding that it would only be shared with the world after she passed.

“Outnumbered and outgunned by the rightwing supermajority, she and her two other liberal colleagues have had to watch from the sidelines as critical constitutional laws that have been settled for half a century have been torn up by the very court on which they sit.” Excellent article from on KBJ.

On my reading list RIP Jane Goodall. We need your message of hope more now than ever. 🕊️ #BookSky 📚💙

These 6 Charts Explain Why Democrats Shut Down the Government www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o... This NYTimes article is very helpful in understanding why the Democrats stood firm and allowed the Republicans to shut down the government. I’m assuming Mr Ratner did not write the misleading headline.

Your contribution is needed ASAP to fuel this existential fight and save science in America. Donate now for today, tomorrow, and the years to come. act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

blog.ucs.org/jules-barbat... “Between January 20th and August 31st 2025, there have been 479 attacks on science. These are 479 actions, decisions, or policies that undermine, co-opt, or blatantly ignore science in the federal government.”

open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/... Some practical calls to action in this piece by Ruth Ben-Ghiat if you care about the future of US Science and Medicine.

open.substack.com/pub/messageb... The Dems have the moral high ground. I trust Chuck and Hakeem will hold firm this time. If they’re blamed for causing the shutdown and then punished in the 2026 midterms as a result, there’s something fundamentally wrong with the US electorate. That’s my take.

open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... Lest we forget. Thank you, Dan Rather. Steady on.

What’s wild about You Dreamed of Empires is how Enrigue inserts himself and the reader into the narrative through the hallucinations of Moctezuma and Cortes, speculating on a counterfactual history of Mexico City starting with their consequential meeting at Tenochtitlan in 1519. 🌵 🍄 🐴 #BookSky 📚

Air Jimmy Kimmel now.. act.commoncause.org/petitions/ki...

We need your help. Fed, state, local gov employees AND the citizens we serve: please sign in support. There are anonymous options if you feel that need. Help us help each other.

A pop up box on Tylenol dot com

open.substack.com/pub/robertre... Good news. Jimmy Kimmel’s back. What a mess! I think I need a Tylenol.

The Perils of Getting Too Personal in Foreign Policy www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o... Voices of experience and reason.

open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/... Look forward to reading Randi Weingarten’s Why Fascists Fear Teachers #BookSky 📚

Jerry of Ben & Jerry’s Resigns, Saying Company Has Been ‘Silenced’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b... Very sad

Kimmel wasn’t fired for his remarks on Kirk—he was fired for using his platform to expose and critique our government. Enough! We especially need large corporations, with the money and influence they have, to fight back. sign.moveon.org/petitions/ki...

Finished reading 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson. Published in 2012 and set 300 years in the future, human “spacers” have harnessed technology and colonized the solar system, terraforming planets, moons and asteroids, while leaving an overpopulated, climate-ravaged Earth behind. Far out! 🚀 #BookSky

Kathy Hochul: Why I Am Endorsing Zohran Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o... “Mr. Mamdani and I will both be fearless in confronting the president’s extreme agenda — with urgency, conviction and the defiance that defines New York.“ Thank you, Governor Hochul! Now where are Hakeem and Chuck?? 😬

open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc... If it walks like a fascist duck, and it talks like a fascist duck, it must be a dascist… 🤔