Californian, Dem, angry about the state of the US & its descent. Exhausted by it all, but determined to resist. 4 mental health, there’s the Warriors, SF Giants, gardening, quilting, reading, baking & staying curious. & pugs.
Norm has been doing terrific work for many years.
Norm EisenTrump’s corruption scandals are piling up faster than ever From the DOJ slush fund to crypto payoffs to foreign business deals, the pattern is clear: Trump is using the presidency to serve himself & his allies I break down the top 10 scandals in my publisher's note 👇 -TN
Even if you aren’t a fan of football (soccer), you need to read this. Bless you, UEFA. And the quote below should be a mantra for those of us in the US who oppose the widespread corruption we see in selling or giving away to private interests everything we’ve held dear since our founding.
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫“No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation.” Bars.
Extortion never ends. You’d think these business folks would know that.
@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)The president is a mob boss extracting bribes from corporate America. Shock of shocks, corporate America is happy to write the checks.... Shameful. Read this story (gift link below) because as bad as you think it is, it's even worse.
Dr Fauci, Dr Peter Hotez, & all the emergency & medical personnel who cared for the ill, the dying and the dead during the Covid crisis (which is still ongoing for many) are heroes of my lifetime. They will have my respect and gratitude until my dying breath. Bless the families who supported them.
GroovyShellyEpstein files aren't worth seeing or discussing, but Fauci's personal diary...? THERE's our new distraction. I'd listen to this remarkable woman.
I know it’s hard to keep reading rebuttals of craven disinformation being spewed widely for political advantage (and even harder to read anything about these execrable Tate creatures), but this is an important rebuttal to the latest lies.
emptywheelA simple Google search says Jamie Raskin, Richard Blumenthal, & Gary Peters all took oversight actions last year re treatment of Tate brothers. Then Yassamin Ansari wrote a letter on July 23--again more oversight. None of those efforts made Moira Donegan's July 27 column claiming Dems were "silent."
Not good news, but important.
Daniel SwainRemarkable amount of fire on the ground, and smoke in the air, this evening. In this satellite snapshot, numerous large fires (red thermal detections) and smoke plumes stretch from Great Basin northward into British Columbia; fire weather conditions will worsen this weekend.
Utterly unspeakable things being done in our name. 🤭
Gillian BrockellThe imminent flight that I mentioned at the end of this story has taken off. Sounds like it’s going to go Senegal - Ghana - Central African Republic, with the latter two being third-country removals. At least one of the immigrants being sent to CAR is from Nepal.
This is absolutely masterful. Watch the video. You won’t regret it. And you might, like me, find it uplifting. Hope and determination - the response to MAGA hate.
Radical ReportsBigot Jake Lang crashes Abdul El-Sayed event and watches his stunt backfire
A must read and eminently entertaining, to boot.
Anna BowerEarlier this month, a New York Times journalist was watching “The Sheep Detectives” when FBI agents showed up at his door with a subpoena. Last week, a judge had some questions. It didn’t go well for the Justice Department. My dispatch from the NYT hearing: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
I found this fascinating and it’s well worth a read. Aside from the obvious disaffection the respondents have with the milquetoast Dem establishment (& affection for visionaries, truthsayers and fighters), it raises the question of “labels”, esp “Socialist”. For me, this is an issue which /1
Lincoln SquareWe surveyed 1,400 subscribers and voters. The data completely upends the mainstream narrative. If we continue to ignore the fastest-growing segment of the Democratic Party, democracy will lose. open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
Accurate information and valuable insight are key, especially in this time. This makes it easier to find some of these voices.
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Great opportunity to see something important and interesting.
Timothy SnyderToday I'm sharing the 2nd lecture of my course "Hitler and Stalin Today," titled “A World of Empire.” Totalitarianism did not emerge from nowhere. It was a response particularly to the empires that Europeans had created. This course was hosted by the Munk School @utoronto.ca youtu.be/PDOGV5Gl6SE?...