BREAKING: New Year’s Eve concerts at the Kennedy Center are canceled. Jazz drummer Billy Hart said the decision was connected to Trump’s name being added to the arts center. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...

50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person. This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle. Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities. This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist

A small number of people whose extreme wealth exerts a political gravitational force that distorts the entire political system is bad, actually. It has been recognized as a threat to free liberal republican government since the first time it emerged in the Gilded Age.

Is it bad that nobody justifiably believes anything Putin says while the President of the United States believes everything he says?

I guess one thing this year has shown is that when you appoint social media trolls to senior government positions because of their social media trolling you are inevitably going to end up with senior government officials trolling social media.

Same way Kushner got one, I imagine. It was just approved by Trump. He can do that. Background checks are for the client to do with as they wish. The client here is Trump.

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I’d watch Nuremberg immediately. I saw it last night, and it’s the same thing, point by point, of what’s happening today.

open.substack.com/pub/thejackh... I suggest this material be a survival guide for the times we are in! "Battle Stations".

Another great post, Jack ..."No one looks back and says: “I spoke up too early against authoritarianism.”" OK, to all of us Radical Left Scum...keep on speaking out...

Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️ www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

America's Sleeping Giant roared when police attacked civil rights marchers. And after tens of thousands of young Americans were killed in Vietnam. And when Nixon tried to cover up Watergate. Today it roars once more — at the tyrant in the Oval Office.

The biggest untold story about how we pay for government involves a big switcheroo by America’s wealthy. Watch. youtube.com/watch?v=IjiLaLj1ZZE&feature=youtu.be

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.

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Pelosi: “The President incited an insurrection. We begged him to send the National Guard, they never sent them. This President is trying to re-write history… it was an assault on the constitution of 🇺🇸.”

Democrats in Iowa tomorrow are seeking to defend a seat in the state Senate to keep the GOP from regaining a supermajority. Without that supermajority, the Senate can no longer confirm the governor's nominees on party-line votes.

Visible from nearby streets to miles beyond, excerpts from President Obama’s remarks during the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, started going up at sunrise today on the exterior of the Museum at the Obama Presidential Center. They are a reminder: “You Are America.”

This Is 👇True, Chumpster........

The American people deserve to know the details and the legal justification when their military blows up things in foreign countries. But that transparency isn't happening because the dictator Trump sees the military as his, not ours.

If we learned that the Obama or Biden DOJ was casually monitoring the comings and goings of a reporter for any reason, much less b/c she was the lead reporter on all things Epstein, it would be a Watergate-level scandal but of course since it's Trump, one day (at best) and we move right along 🙃

The grasshopper gets it — divide and conquer. Today’s robber barons use the same playbook. But together, we have all the power. Watch.

I’d like to believe that the horrific darkness of this past year is a necessary prelude to a brighter and saner future. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-a-year-of-reckoning

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Thank you; my husband and I are Latvian, we definitely celebrated this day.

This message hits hard.

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

Adam Kinzinger said it very clearly in another post: "If Ukraine ceases fighting, they’re over. If Russia ceases fighting, the war is over." The fact is, Ukraine was succeeding quite well before they were distracted with a Russian invasion. It's Putin's Russia that is failing.

It’s not “patriotic” to bail out Argentina while Americans are struggling, to build a ballroom while cutting SNAP benefits, or to pad your own pockets while claiming “affordability” is a hoax.

Dr. Colleen Shogan is an outstanding public servant and was the first woman to serve as Archivist of the United States. She hired me as Director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library. Her removal was a travesty.

Basic stuff here. If Ukraine ceases fighting, they’re over. If Russia ceases fighting, the war is over

Trump and Republicans’ slashing of Medicaid and refusal to extend ACA subsidies makes our broken health care system even worse. As millions of American families struggle to afford basic care, Republicans have no plan or answer. I’m fighting for Medicare for All. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

When Republicans passed their Big Bad Betrayal Bill, they kicked millions of Americans off of their health care and slashed SNAP funding for hungry families — meaning millions will get poorer and sicker. This should not be how we live in the richest country in the world.

MSNOW reported the pipe bomber was a trump supporter. Marcy Wheeler pointed out the 22-day gap missing from the arrest affidavit. Now DoJ wants you to believe this guy has no political affiliation?

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I understand that kitchen table issues are big factors in voters' perceptions. And the Epstein files are significant, as they should be. But - I have to tell you - IMO - listening to Trump speak to and paraphrase Putin - there's nothing else that shouts his unfitness as loudly.

Bernie gets it. We are at an inflection point. We either redouble our efforts make America work for all or resign ourselves to a full fledged oligarchy, where the rich and powerful reside above the law and rest are beholden to them for their survival.

We have less than 5% of the world’s population but almost 33% of its billionaires. Meanwhile, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. 40% cannot cover any emergency expenses. Our systems have failed the majority of Americans…and that disparity is being accelerated by this administration.

Here’s why I’ve been quiet... youtu.be/Hg4GP_g1dWI

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Miller and Trump want to fuel bigotry. Like dictators before him, Trump’s road to tyranny is paved with stones hurled at “them.” His entire project depends on hate. But America is better than Trump and his chief bigot. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/stephen-millers-latest-bigoted-bullshit

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Our jacquemontia, AKA “skyblue clustervine” is putting on a modest winter display. Will take it every time. 🙏🏽🌈🧘🏾

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few. Democrats must remember this — and act on it.