Would be nice to send this article to all the generals and admirals gathering at Quantico next week to hear from Pete Hegseth….

20 years ago, normal people avoided technology and techies would jump on the newest gadgets as soon as they could now, normal people buy smart toasters & coffee mugs while every techie I know is on the verge of retreating to the forest

Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this: “These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...

Trump and Dems are officially meeting Monday. This is after Trump cancelled his last meeting with Democrats because they were holding firm on immigrant and transgender protections. The Republican budget has dozens of anti-LGBTQ+ riders. Call your Dem senators, people, don't let them capitulate.

“All forms of gun violence are deeply tragic, but there has only been, historically, a small handful of trans shooter cases, and the overwhelming majority of shootings of this type are done by cisgender men.” www.cleveland.com/news/2025/09...

Wow, is it is as bad as taking a democratic superpower and turning it into a white nationalist backwater with secret-police capture quotas, no freedom of expression, and no rule of law?

A fitting legacy for a man whose singular contribution to public life was normalizing screaming “DEI!” at any Black person with a profession

The first rule of describing what James Comey did is never use a noun or a verb to describe what James Comey did.

But mobilizing the military during the government shutdown is right at the top as well.

Not a small part of what happened is that MAGA said, YOU MUST CHOOSE CHARLIE KIRK OVER JIMMY KIMMEL and much of America said, “Who?”

Or about how NPR manages to bothsides/"the science is unclear!" every single time, on trans care and on the causes of autism.

Meta knows its target audience - perverts and surveillance.

"Republican co-sponsors of Ohio House Bill 460, state Reps. Thad Claggett of Newark and Bernard Willis of Springfield, seem oblivious to the potential lethal ramifications of mixing explosive politics with easy access to handguns." ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/23/a...

Going out of my way to be extra civil and kind to everybody I run into because I’m not gonna let Trumpism change who I am.  Remaining compassionate and decent is a form of resistance.

Republicans on the committee took issue with the Democrats' proposed map, which gives the minority party an advantage in 45% of districts but gives Republicans a 55% edge, which is similar to the results in the last three presidential elections.  www.ideastream.org/2025-09-22/p...

"The goal is to turn arguments into conversations where both sides humanity is visible, where solutions arise not from who “wins” but from how everyone’s needs can be met." Sounds impossible in this climate, yet we need to now more than ever imo. celestemdavis.substack.com/p/nonviolent...

"No dollars for dictatorship."

If you needed more incentive to contact the advertisers on your local Sinclair station, let me remind you of this:

"Was this really worth a potential lawsuit at a time when conservatives want nothing more than to destroy local governments for not catering to Christian whims?" www.friendlyatheist.com/p/jesus-jers...

The last sentence of this article really sums it up. These strategies have been shown to work, but they're not 'tough on crime' he-man grr angry crush tactics so why would we possibly try these instead.. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/16/f...

Yup - when a Trump capo says we can do this the easy way or the hard way, the only response as we’ve seen over and over is to make ‘em try and do it the hard way.

if I were a member of the current Trump administration I would not be excited about the concept of “illegal pardons”

Democratic U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Delia Ramirez of Illinois joined advocates Wednesday outside the U.S. Capitol to blast proposed cuts to education spending.

Apparently we've reached the, Find yourself agreeing with Ted Cruz portion of the fascist takeover of our country.. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/19/t...

Thread (not on my phone so no emoji, sorry)

@jeff-merkley.bsky.social once again on the right side of history.

Russia is a vision into the future of the United States under MAGA and Trump. If you are asking yourself how Putin got so far and away with so much, just look at the United States right now.

3 tracks out this week showed Trump dropping and at his lowest point this year: Econ/YouGov 39%-57% (-18) down 5 pts from last week Civiqs 41%-55% (-14) down 2 pts from last week AP-NORC 39%-60%(-21) down 13 pts from last month This dictator shit ain't play well with voters.

"We are living through fascism, folks, and the primary way we connect with and inform and organize with each other is under lethal attack. No one is coming to protect the internet for us, and I worry that people won’t even have a clue how catastrophic this can become until it’s over."

ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground

Heads up Cleveland, if you're free tomorrow (I alas am not): patch.com/ohio/clevela...

And again, why are these agents kitted out like they are going into Mogadishu?

As well they should. I live in a heavily gerrymandered state with two far right senators and an unresponsive House rep so I don't expect words to go far. But I've written them all to demand FCC Chair Brendan Carr be censured for his unAmerican actions in this matter. www.axios.com/2025/09/18/s...

Locally, WJW (Fox 8, big surprise) and WBNX ch 55 on the Nexstar list, if you want to figure out who sponsors their 6 o'clock news.

Here’s all the ways you can take action against Disney, ABC, Sinclair, and Nexstar for silencing Jimmy Kimmel and attacking free speech. Share WIDELY. #BOYCOTTDISNEYABC

Doesn't look like theyre in the Cleveland/NE Ohio market, but Columbus, Cincy, and Toledo all appear to be on the list.

If you a so me, it already *is* a badge of honor.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Ezra Levin: Strong leaders don't bring the full might and power of the United States of America to fire comedians...He fears what we intend to produce, which is the largest peaceful protest in defense of our rights, our communities, our democracy in modern American history. #NoKingsKickOff

Them: “We know. And we don’t care that you know, because we’re getting away with it anyway!”

Cleveland could be the next city to be occupied by the National Guard. This isn’t security, it is a blatant racist attack on a city with a majority black population. Stand with oppressed communities. Stand with Cleveland. End the War on Black America! All power to the people. 👇🏼💪🇺🇸

King Charles' most recent brush with a cancer.

Remember this? Don't ever forget it.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

I've found this guy's think pieces to be pretty well reasoned and this one's no different. I'm of a mind that his fourth option might indeed be closest to the 'truth' - assuming we ever figure out just what the truth is in this case. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

I'd also like to see a whole lot more of this..

Realistically the only real thing JD Vance has going for him besides the fact that he hasn't served a term as president is that there's no way he's on the Epstein List, partly because until 2024 he wasn't influential enough to matter, but mostly because Epstein didn't have a furniture side hustle.

I realized that some people may be thinking that this Kimmel situation is “only” about comedians and humorists. No. This is 100% about the chilling effect on ALL speech, journalism, news reporting, and commentary. This will make ALL media participants afraid to criticize Trump, and that’s fascism