It’s really telling that media continually platforms former Republicans and the Right Wing actors who laid the foundation for this moment as spokespeople for the “liberal position.” Kind of gives the game away.

love when someone is fed up at some new thing that happend and it's like "quick hand them the Kendzior Matryoshka Doll so they can get caught up that none of this is new" and you can only hope they open up the links and notice it goes 2024 > 2023 > 2019 >2017 > 2016 > 2014 because it's all the same

I have to quote post these because I've already reposted them, who knows when or how many times

Let’s read up!

I read these articles as they emerged in print. I know how hard it is to write with a broken heart from the broken heart of America, and @sarahkendzior.bsky.social has more courage than most of us to keep writing anyway.

L'autrice américaine @sarahkendzior.bsky.social l'explique très bien, le mot liberté est pour eux synonyme d'impunité. Quand on traduit comme ça leurs discours, ça fait sens.

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social has said and written many wonderful things. This is a top distillation of much of her work IMHO.

Corruption is THE issue. As @sarahkendzior.bsky.social points out in “They Knew” (everyone should read). Dems should grab this issue and shake it like a dog with a bone. Forget everything else. Continue to push Epstein but also all the other scandals.

This moment is disturbing even in the mundane: I’ve started taking screenshots of historical sources I’m using in research from the national park service, the smithsonian, and the national archives, just in case they get taken down. It’s now a part of my process and takes time I have to plan for.

Highly recommended for this particular moment in time. Also, icymi, #TheyKnew

BREAKING: At least 71 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 56 people in Gaza City, hospital sources in the besieged enclave told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/nu10uv

OK, as someone who actually covered the Missouri Legislature when there were a lot of anti-abortion rights Democrats, this strategy does not work. First of all, the last prominent Missouri Democrat who opposed abortion rights and won a statewide race was Thomas Eagleton. ... In 1980.

🎯 In the house that Sarah built.

Seriously, just look at Missouri, where an abortion rights ballot measure outperformed Democrats in 2024, because abortion rights are popular, and now their Republican legislature wants to override voters to put a repeal on the ballot next election, an attack on democracy.

Failing to defend our rights never leads to keeping those rights. Every single human and civil right has to be fought for against erosion, even when you think those rights are guaranteed. Our institutions keep refusing to understand this.

It never works. Ever..

Sarah speaks the truth

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social has expressed this as well (see chapter title from THEY KNEW), and quite possibly also @piperformissouri.bsky.social agrees with this.

A picture worth a thousand words. “None of us have ever done this before. All of this is new, and I just wanted to stand up as American and be seen and make my presence felt.” - 65-year-old Evanston resident Curtis Evans, holding an American flag.

The Last American Road Trip by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social I think would be useful reading for Klein and others. I’m in Utah, but related to what she wrote about Missouri and think it applies to other “red” states.

They should have never discontinued ipods and I refuse to stop using mine!

Book event! On October 1 at 6 PM CST, I will be talking to Chris La Tray about his memoir, BECOMING LITTLE SHELL. The event is at Left Bank Books in St Louis -- details here: www.left-bank.com/event/chris-...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Return of the Jedi was the first movie I sat all the way through (got kicked out of ET) and I did so only because my dad said he’d take me to Burger King after and get me one of these glasses

Looks like some Dem voters woke up to the fact that the party has long betraying Americans and enabling Trump. Here are some articles on why: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/ten-articl...

OMG people catch on already: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/bad-weather

Seriously, what happened to Jamie Raskin? Ferociously against impeachment and now honoring Charlie Kirk? He used to be the moral center of the House Democrats and now he's actively pushing the party more fascist.

good list. To add: @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

"It never does any good to suck up to an autocrat. He will screw you over anyway. You should preserve your integrity and your dignity if he's going to try to steal everything else." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaI...

An article on that from March 2016: thediplomat.com/2016/03/trum...

Unrelated, but my favorite German word is "vorauseilender Gehorsam" or anticipatory compliance. When you take action in expectation of orders that haven't even been given to you or even if you're not in the line of command, to avoid trouble or even opportunistically. For examples see German history.

To all of the haters out there. Sarah has been right repeatedly. For years. Go back and read “Hiding in Plain Sight.” Or listen to old @gaslitnation.bsky.social episodes. lt’s all there. As are the warnings about what today would look like.

"AI wins not when it becomes more human, but when humans become more like AI: disengaged and devoid of original thought. What began as a threat to creativity and critical inquiry has moved into tragic terrain...

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been one of the most fearless in exposing the link between organized crime & the corrupt (capture/abuse of power) Multiple books & online essays exposing how corrupt authorities, institutions, & pols keep protecting blatant villains (eg Trump & Epstein)

"You live in a mafia state in a mafia world headed for the mother of all mergers." -- THEY KNEW (2022)

"Conspiracies depend on obfuscation and insularity. Conspiracy theories, on the other hand, are morally neutral and easily accessible. They can be weaponized as propaganda by conspirators, or they can be sincere expressions of the search for truth." ~ Sarah Kendzior, They Knew

oh god Tears in my eyes... When your daughter leaves home to pursue her dreams, and as her mother you are left behind. It happened to me, when my daughter left for art school. I was so proud and I missed her so much, melancholic empty nest syndrome. Written as only @sarahkendzior.bsky.social can

From January "Many in the "opposition" prefer to profit off the threat rather than prevent it. The Vichy Dems' heel turn is not new. You couldn't see the heel because it was stepping on your face."

Remembering for no particular reason the moment a Democratic ward leader called me to an urgent coffee table to chew me out because the Proud Boys had contacted the city party office and complained that I was being mean to them

Never underestimate the value of a kind gesture. 🥺

Finally finding a moment to read this in its entirety. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social is a staggering writer and this is an incredible piece of work.

As Sarah Kendzior described it a while back, Biden was a "placeholder" president until Trump returned. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/behold-a-p...

Little blue herons in St Louis. The first pic is the only one to do the color justice. So pretty!

We have to face some things .

Sarah Kendzior "Every Halloween I reread Ray Bradbury's 'Something Wicked This Way Comes." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/bearing-wi...