Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
For followers who are readers, the best books you can read to understand how we got here are @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's Hiding In Plain Sight (the reason Trump File exists) and They Knew. The best for understanding why we're doomed: How Democracies Die. amzn.to/45Xw1B4
"We have a much better chance of combatting autocracy if people are creative instead of reactive....Do not let Donald Trump be the most important person in your life."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
The Lancet details how the US govt is retroactively changing federal health datasets upon which scientific and public health understanding is built. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Scott MacFarlane © @MacFarlaneNews Washington D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Dept is now referring media inquiries to the White House Press Office. That is..... quite a change ... for a major American police force 7:17 AM • 8/15/25 • 81K Views
DC police now referring press inquiries to the White House:
One thing that our own Jim-Crow history of domestic fascism reminds us is that in order to maintain a fear-based order, agents of repression must respond to minor provocations with overwhelming, disproportionate force.
Mark Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution
Someone forgot to take down this webpage:
www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
Sickening. Every journalist in America should think deeply about the fact that most American politicians are willing to accept and indeed facilitate the murder of our colleagues.
Last week for women/identifying writers with a connection to Baltimore to submit poetry and CNF to Yellow Arrow Publishing Vignette BLAZE! Deadline is 6/15. yellowarrowpublishing.com/vignette
Last week to submit!
What are your values? How do you know? Yellow Arrow is seeking poetry & CNF by Baltimore writers & artists who identify as women for YA Vignette BLAZE.
yellowarrowpublishing.com/vignette
#poetry #CNF #womenwriters #smallpress #baltimorewriters #literaryjournal
trump saying economic collapse is good, on fox news , feb 2014
I've quoted this passage from Trump -- where he states his intent to cause riots and US economic collapse -- so many times. He flat-out announced it on Fox News in February 2014. In my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT I quote my own 2016 essay warning of his plan:
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
In 2016, I worried that the US would soon be destroyed. So for the next eight years, I took my kids everywhere I could so they'd know their country firsthand. We drove in every direction to see things from all sides.
Our story is a book, and I hope you'll preorder: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
I wrote about my new book, THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP, and the state of publishing in an autocratic America: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/someday-th...
If Watergate happened today, it would just be Saturday and forgotten the next week.
![[“The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreig3dcwrzxtvuj2hkgj2mg3rgwactm77awp4ygvxjuje5q67yact7m)
[“The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”]
Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate
The moon lies awake in a bed in a darkened room saturated with deep reds and blues. Nearby there is a grandfather clock, an oriental rug, and framed family pictures hung on the walls.
The dreamlike Moon Room by OSGEMEOS at the Hirshhorn. 🌙 #hirshhorn #smithsonian #immersiveart
I’m not saying I was ready for this. But I can’t say I’m surprised by any of this.
People like me who write about race, global affairs, colonialism are often labeled race-baiters, activists, etc.
When all this time we’ve been warning of the harm, the authoritarianism America is capable of.
So the FBI could surveil & then assassinate a 21 year old Civil Rights leader in 1969, but is powerless to take any steps to stop--checks notes--a 19 year old who goes by the name Big Balls from defunding and defrauding a $6 Trillion economy? Do I have that right?
“Fail fast” with the entire $6T treasury? I am sick to my stomach knowing how very cavalier and grandiose a 20-something developer can be.
OK, "Reclaim the Treasury Payment System" isn't a great rallying cry for getting the masses out in the streets. But if you're in the media and not writing about Musk's ongoing coup and not screaming, "Fire!," then you are doing it wrong
Here's my howl. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
It’s a COUP. Call your reps every single day. It takes 10 seconds. This app has scripts. Phone calls are better than emails. Calls get tallied by staffers as evidence of citizens’ sentiment. Enough sentiment gets a rep to do things like what Van Hollen did yesterday.
5calls.org/issue/elon-m...
Save snapshots of important web pages at the Internet archive known as the Wayback Machine at web.archive.org. Remember, theocrats cannot stop themselves. They must be stopped.
Remember that time the USA was under a cyber attack from the White House? And people rushed to save crucial scientific, educational, historical, arts, public health, and disaster preparedness information in multiple languages on the Wayback Machine web archive? That time is now. Go! web.archive.org
Another day, another chance for me to muse that @sarahkendzior.bsky.social hasn’t been wrong on this—not once.
Musk has access to loot the treasury. www.reuters.com/world/us/sen...
Just once I’d like to see journalism investigate the relationship of trauma and learning loss, instead of focusing on public health measures. 1M+ people died, including kids’ parents, siblings, grandparents, teachers, and neighbors. And the US wants to memory hole it. That’s traumatic.
Yes, I don’t quite understand how it happened. We received a gift email in December—far ahead of online orders opening. She must have gone there in person.
Purple, yellow, and green Goldbelly delivery box of a Mardi Gras cake from Dong Phuong Bakery.
When your friend lives in New Orleans and you live in Baltimore. #mardigras #dongphuong
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
