This news is like a breath of fresh air to me as someone who was born there and lived there until age 18.

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One of the amazing things about Tom Homan taking 50k is that Trump has made 3 billion off the presidency. Kushner made 100s of millions. Stephen Miller is invested in Palantir. JD is a made man in the PayPal mafia. But their top dog ICE man is bribing for 50k.

September 3, 2025 [Please note that this post talks about sexual assault in the last four paragraphs.]

September 3, 2025

Amen!

The One Single, Proven Constraint on Oligarchy and Autocracy By Michael Podhorzer

From Poland to South Africa to the United States, unions have been the most effective check on oligarchs and autocrats. If we want to save democracy, we start by rebuilding them. Michael Podhorzer explains.

Fascinating and troubling - but it was funnier when I read the second paragraph as starting with "Comer..."

I've used em-dashes in my serious writing since late high school, I think.

Since what they regularly did to Jim Wright (and not only him) - steal material without attribution - I don’t click on Occupy Democrats at all.

Hooray! Everybody get out there and buy (and read) this!

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Weekend Update #146: A Deal To Destroy Ukraine Europe Will Have To Choose Soon; The Pokrovsk "Collapse" Was Nothing Of The Sort

open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

The Organization of American Historians has issued this statement condemning Trumps efforts to whitewash US history by illegally controlling what the Smithsonian Institution puts in its museums.
www.oah.org/2025/08/14/s...

Who could possibly have predicted this?

It was eloquent!

Republicans complain about Texas Democrats “fleeing”—yet just days ago, they themselves fled D.C. to avoid voting on the Epstein files.

Why? To protect a convicted felon sitting in the Oval Office.

One side dodges accountability.
The other fights for democracy.

Repost @djmelodie

July 22, 2025 First thing this morning, Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X a statement from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying that under Bondi’s direction, he had talked to the lawyers for Ghislaine M...

July 22, 2025

“An Egalitarian Pressure”: Australia Has Been Requiring People to Vote for 100 Years As Australia compels voters to show up at the polls this weekend, a scholar lays out the genesis of

An Australian scholar explains the idea that drove Australia to adopt compulsory voting: "You would know that the government that was elected had the support of the majority of voters in the electorate—not just the majority of the people who turned up." boltsmag.org/compuls...

"I Know It When I See It”: Prof. Omer Bartov Says Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza We speak with leading Israeli American historian Omer Bartov about his latest essay for The New York Times, headlined “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.” Bartov cites the United…

Genocide "doesn’t mean that you have to kill everyone," says historian and renowned Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov. "It means that the group will be destroyed and that it will not be able to reconstitute itself as a group. And to my mind, this is precisely what Israel is trying to do."

Trump’s National Guard Troops Are Questioning Their Mission in L.A.

“The moral injuries of this operation, I think, will be enduring,” one of the two Guard officials said. “This is not what the military of our country was designed to do, at all.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...

Why We Don't Politicize the Military When I started working on this piece, it was in the context of Trump‘s announced decision to bring the National Guard and the Marines into Los Angeles to quell protests against ICE.

This is one of the most important pieces I've written and I hope you'll read it. Politicizing the military is dangerously destabilizing for democracy-learn more from the vantage point of people who have served. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

We grew up (1950s-60s) listening to a record of Pete Seeger singing various protests songs, and the “Song of the 15th Brigade” was right up there.

Fighting fascists in Spain: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Thousands left their homes in the United States to stand against Spanish General Franco and fascism. This is episode 58 of Stories of Resistance.

In 1936 & 1937, 35,000 people came from around the world to defend the democratically elected Spanish gov't against fascism. 3,000 volunteered from the U.S. They would found the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. #StoriesOfResistance @undertheshadow.bsky.social @globalexchange.bsky.social

The more ridicule that can be heaped on him, the better.

The 14th Amendment was ratified today in 1868—guaranteeing equal protection under the law.

157 years later, Trump’s trying to erase it like it was a typo.

No birthright citizenship. No due process. Just Trump doing what he does best—breaking the law.

No notes.

Russia’s frozen assets must be used to rebuild Ukraine, says Zelenskyy, as he hits out at ‘terrorism’ of daily attacks – Europe live Kyiv said Russia launched around 400 drones and 18 missiles against Ukraine overnight Zelenskyy also repeatedly thanks partners for their help so far, saying it is thanks to their help it was able to start building a modern air force. “We’ve done it in record time. No other country has switched from Soviet aircraft to F-16 and Mirages this quickly,” he says. I urge all our partners: increase your investments when Russia increases its attacks. Continue reading...

Russia’s frozen assets must be used to rebuild Ukraine, says Zelenskyy, as he hits out at ‘terrorism’ of daily attacks – Europe live

This looks fascinating! Thanks for the tip.