Decency Died Along with Bob Mueller Former Marine, U.S.Attorney, FBI Director and Special Counsel Robert Mueller passed away Friday evening.

How low can trump go. Decency Died Along with Bob Mueller open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

2026 Microfiction Competition Results 2026 Microfiction Results The 2026 National Flash Fiction Day Microfiction Competition was judged by: Joanna Campbell Debra A. Daniel Emily Devane David Swann You can read more about them here. The…

Wow, Alison Wassell. "all I can do is catalogue the things I’m not." www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/co...

2026 Microfiction Competition Results 2026 Microfiction Results The 2026 National Flash Fiction Day Microfiction Competition was judged by: Joanna Campbell Debra A. Daniel Emily Devane David Swann You can read more about them here. The…

"She kept her first language behind her teeth..." Wow M. M. Bailey. www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/co...

Tell Congress: No War with Iran Trump has launched unauthorized military strikes on Iran, dragging the United States into yet another war without approval from Congress. This reckless escalation is putting U.S. servicemembers, Ameri...

Tell Congress: No War with Iran act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...

National Flash Fiction Day Save the Date: we're celebrating the next National Flash Fiction Day on 13 June 2026!

There's hope yet. I made it on to the shortlist -- www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...

War And just like that, we are at war.

"To call this a war of choice is an insult to any definition of a normal deliberative process. It is a war of hubris. A war of distraction. A war of infantile spite." open.substack.com/pub/elliotki...

In the Waiting Room Outside Immigration Court - June 2025 by Krista Lee Hanson | Watching.

I love this flash essay by Krista Lee Hanson via @short-reads.org.

www.short-reads.org/in-the-waiti...

Voting: A Right, Not A Privilege, For Now Republicans want to change that with the SAVE Act

No. Just no. Voting: A Right, Not A Privilege, For Now open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

ICE hotel 2 in Minneapolis with 1,600+ Minnesotans sing in the ICE agents to quit their jobs YouTube video by Vote Common Good

Sing it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogHw...

Why Indict Don Lemon? Don Lemon was taken into custody Thursday night by federal agents in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy Awards.

So many smoke screens. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW On Wednesday, January 7, Renee Good was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then, on January 24, Border Patrol killed Alex Pretti. These deaths were a direct...

Enough. Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...

Well, get out the hook. Get 'I'm offstage.

One Very Long Year We are one year into the second Trump administration.

One Very Long Year. Indeed. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr. --
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

How I start my day.

Understanding the U.S. Strike on Venezuela | Explainer YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

Call your Republican representatives. 5 Calls should have a script. This is the now or never moment. Light up the phones!
youtu.be/wu9QSeAI22I?...

Venezuela latest: Trump says US has 'captured' President Maduro in strikes on country - latest The US president says Maduro and his wife have been

Trump just kidnapped Nicholas Maduro and his wife. Hard to imagine how this doesn't end badly. Reality TV President just face planted into reality. www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...

Maduro, Trump said, "has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country. This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement Details to follow." He set a news conference for later Saturday morning. The legal implications of the strike under U.S. law were not immediatelv clear. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, posted on X that he had spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who briefed him on the strike. Rubio told Lee that Maduro "has been arrested by U.S. personnel to stand trial on criminal charges in the United States." The White House did not immediately respond to queries on where Maduro and his wife were being flown to. Maduro was indicted in March 2020 on "narco-terrorism" conspiracy charges in the Southern District of New York

I've never heard a Democratic country justify kidnapping the leader of another country but it's transparently thin.

They claim it's for narco-terrorism. But Putin & Netanyahu have been accused of international war crimes far worse -

Yet Trump brags of his relationship to both criminals. 🧵

No, no, no, a thousand times no. #venezuela

Cut loose, Santa. Make way for the new year.

December 28, 2025 On the clear, cold morning of December 29, 1890, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, three U.S.

Another terrible anniversary... open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

In Denver, a trace and a track. I'll take it.

Via A.Word.A.Day. "Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power."
-Chelsea Manning, activist and whistleblower (b. 17 Dec 1987)

Grrrr.

"The love of money is the root of all evil." --Mary Todd Lincoln

Happy birthday, John Jay. " "To contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused."

"Those who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness." --John Milton

Reasons to Love America Two Quotes for Your Monday

From one of my favorite local bloggers -- Reasons to Love America open.substack.com/pub/patricia...

December 5, 2025 Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.

Just when you think Trump's on the ropes. December 5, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

An Alleged Bomber, Arrested and Charged In an essay posted on the Hannah Arendt Center website at Bard College, Arendt scholar Roger Berkowitz writes, “Hannah Arendt argues that the distinction between truth and lie can be eroded, over time...

The true of it...An Alleged Bomber, Arrested and Charged open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...