“Going high is a long-term strategy” ~ Michelle Obama’s words feel more relevant now than ever before. Listen as she reflects on why leading with fear or bitterness never creates real wins.

“This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from ‘The Lion King,’” Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.”

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

Great question.

Yay!

And then there’s Twatzi for Noem.

Back when I was in Congress, if Obama said just 1 of the sentences below, we Republicans would’ve screamed, Republican voters would be out marching with their “don’t tread on me” flags, Fox News would declare a national emergency, and Hannity would get so worked up he’d have a heart attack on air.👇

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Immigration attorney Eric Lee said he was at the Dilley facility for a confidential visit with clients when guards began shouting for everyone in the waiting area to leave, citing what they described as “an incident.” Read More👉 ebx.sh/9NSK40

This is very intriguing.

This is Un-American! ICE needs to be held accountable. #StopICE

Your final straw can’t be when it’s too late to do something to stop it. Speak up. Stand up. #iceout

It may not have the hot clang of the Book of Revelation, but when the Danes are selling your bonds it has not been a good day.

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Just as everyone predicted with the exception of Donald Trump, Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, and Kevin Hassett. The last 3 knew they’ve been lying, not sure with Orange Caligula because he’s a moron and a liar so in his case it could be either one or both.

It’s not an immigration crackdown. It’s an assault on civil society and the rule of law.

Watching Nicolle Wallace, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks the Hollywood stars who had the opportunity to speak out loud and clear to millions of people...but didn't... were massively disappointing.

Here's the map after 24 hours of launch. Find your event or get one up here: www.mobilize.us/map/?tag_ids...

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

#ResistanceRoots Evelyn Bryan Johnson was born on this day in 1909 in Corbin, Ky. Affectionately known as “Mama Bird,” Johnson was a record-setting American aviator and the world’s oldest flight instructor, holding the Guinness World Record for the most flight hours of any woman pilot. /1

I well remember the song!

Thought I gift linked to it. Here you go. READ it. Your welcome. GIFT. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

Stop what you're doing and listen to this warning from @marcelias.bsky.social about the real reason for Trump's National Guard deployment in DC.

Sixty years ago today, the first federal examiners went to work in the first nine counties covered by the Voting Rights Act. Here's my account of the first day in Selma from the first draft of The Division manuscript.

Hard agree.

Worth reading: #july4th #IndependenceDay charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/what-mr-ra...

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

And there’s the added perception that LA and Chicago are full of radical woke leftists deserving of our scorn.

WTF?

David Brooks, a conservative columnist speaks about the amount of people who have died directly as a result of cuts to USAID by Doge. Over 55,000 adults, 6,000 children just from AIDS. That’s a total of 300,000 who have died due to Doge’s cuts. It’s only been four months.

I hope you'll listen to Rachel as she shares her son’s story.   Nate is a disabled adult who relies on Medicaid. Medicaid makes Nate's life & dreams possible—it means freedom. Cuts to Medicaid eliminate those freedoms.   Help share Nate's story & join me in saying: NO CUTS TO MEDICAID.

I visited Delaney Hall this morning and I want to tell you about where we stand, why this moment is so dangerous, and why I’m so strongly opposed to private, for-profit prisons and detention centers. 1/

COURAGE. STRENGTH. INSPIRATION. Joseph Peters has autism and lives independently in Hackensack, New Jersey. He lives in his own apartment, assisted by an aide. Medicaid is absolutely vital to Joseph. Cuts of any kind would be utterly devastating to Joseph’s quality of life, and to the…

There was so much music going on, I had to hop on the set 🥁

Learning isn’t helped by sanding the rough edges off the truth. Students must grapple with material that challenges their worldviews. Perfectly stated. 💙

And what violence and vandalism?

We've been here before so many times. Woodie Guthrie: "The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon, A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills, Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves? The radio says, 'They are just deportees'" www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Plane...

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Looks like we are deporting innocent men to the Salvadoran gulag for having tattoos in Spanish that say things like "strong like my mom" www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Exactly. Find someone that’s controversial to test the waters.

The Supreme Court decision should have been 9-0. The fact it was 5-4 reveals how utterly compromised the bench is in favor of right-wing authoritarianism.

I so love this!

Long, but good, article.

Poland's democracy hero Lech Wałęsa and dozens of other former political prisoners in Poland have written a letter to President Donald Trump, telling him his treatment of Ukraine's president at Oval Office last week filled them “with horror and distaste.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...