This is a really good podcast, worth checking out for anyone interested in what really went on during the war in Vietnam

As usual Trump leads the news & as usual reporters take him at his words -- as batshit deranged as they are. Here's an idea: Let's not! Or at least let's not cover his #IranWar‌ the usual way presidents & their wars are reported. Some alternatives‌ in my latest at
tomdispatch.com/trumps-game-...

Good for you, Anthropic. Please keep it up.

We were founded as Iraq Veterans Against the War over the devastation we saw with our own eyes when Bush claimed we were going to liberate the people of Iraq and protect Americans. That war is now referred to as a blunder but it was a crime just like this War on Iran is now. /1

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With apologies to Harry Belafonte:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnB8...
Once again now! 🎶🎶🎶
Donald Trump, Donald Trump,
Donald,
He take de money and run Venezuela🎶🎶🎶

Legal Schmegal Doin’-the-right-thing rag. Who’s responsible when a military order is illegal? (Don't ask Trump!)

Fa la la la la and all that jazz. 'Tis the season (isn't it always?) for Doin' the Right Thing Rag laprogressive.com/defense/lega...
-- my latest at #tomdispatch

He's always such a class act, Donald J.

Teaching at Donald Trump's Version of Columbia University
by Helen Benedict
tomdispatch.com/capi...

In an encrypted group chat, National Guard members question Trump deployments As President Trump's call for National Guard deployments rings out across the U.S., a small contingent of Ohio guard members is quietly expressing concern in an encrypted group chat.

“This is just not what any of us signed up for, and it's so out of the scope of normal operations,” says J, a member of the Ohio National Guard.

#RightToRefuse #VetsSayNo
#NoICE #NoCuts #NoOccupation www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...

Years ago when I called a NYT reporter to urge him to cover a large gathering of veterans testifying about their experiences in Iraq & Afghanistan, he replied with withering scorn, "If you read the New York Times, you would know that it doesn't cover protests." Well, that certainly informed me!

Does this remind anyone else of "Spinal Tap"?

October 18 is a day to stand tall against tyranny. No Crowns. No Thrones. #NoKings. Join the movement—find a No Kings Day protest near you and make your voice heard. nokings.org

Hundreds of celebrities relaunch a McCarthy-era committee to defend free speech The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.

Yes! to www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n... And let's get it growing quickly and widely beyond the #celebs .

Alliance, Defiance, Noncompliance On July 17th, I joined a group of Vermonters for a Good Trouble Lives On action in a village near where we were staying that month. Over the past 161 straight days, a small but

How to rein in all the unacceptable policies and actions coming out of the #WhiteHouse? How about an #epidemic of massive passive aggression? (Peaceful, of course.) tomdispatch.com/alliance-def...

How Trump Strikes Radically Different Tones in Public and Private

I'm not sure what to make of reports that #Trump is apparently less bombastic and antagonistic in person than when performing www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...
Is there an opposite of #VirtueSignalling?

So long Only Murders in the Building, alas. Just cancelled my subscription to Hulu to protest the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. Hulu's owned by cowardly Disney & enough is ... more than enough. A small gesture but small acts add up & grow. Join me?

Or worse, when they're called "deals," reinforcing the idea that's the only kind of transaction there is.

What if the news media agreed to stop calling these Ivy League deals “settlements” and just said, you know, “Cornell has agreed to pay $100 million in extortion money.”

To bomb Iran the US deployed 7 B2 bombers, each of which cost $2.1B to build. They used 14 huge “bunker busters,” a model that cost $500 million to develop.

The US invested ~ $15 billion in this attack—almost 50% more than it invested in affordable housing construction this year.

Seven-and-a-Half Propositions for Journalism in the Age of Trump It’s not a good time to be an American journalist. Or a consumer of American journalism. Or, for that matter, even a skimmer of the headlines crawling across American phones. Donald Trump is suing med...

#Trump acts as if his #ExeccutiveOrders are unassailable edicts from on high. The news media shouldn't. As I quote legal scholar Alan #Rozenshtein in my latest piece tomdispatch.com/seven-and-a-... they're "just press releases with nicer stationery."

Seven-and-a-Half Propositions for Journalism in the Age of Trump It’s not a good time to be an American journalist. Or a consumer of American journalism. Or, for that matter, even a skimmer of the headlines crawling across American phones. Donald Trump is suing med...

#Trump's pulling funding from #Harvard is as much about curbing #antisemitism as Covid was about clearing our sinuses -- and other truths in my latest at tomdispatch.com/seven-and-a-....

Smart researchers ought to be able to find out people behind #CanaryMission, no? Several years ago, a journalism student I know did a long story on them & I vaguely recall that they got in touch with someone there.

Old man Donald saw a swarm
E-I-E-I-O
With a radical here
And a leftist there
Here a rad
There a left
Under every rock
Find a radical leftist
Old man Donald sounds the alarm
E-I-E-I-O,
Uh oh!

Join us at 5:30 tonight at Powder House Square Park as we stand up for Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD Tufts grad worker and Fulbright scholar, who was ambushed by ICE agents on her way to an Iftar dinner with friends after leaving her apartment.

What's with the #NYTimes making readers "request" opening comments on many stories?

It is happening here right now and we must find an effective way to stop the #cabal of #bootlickers, #incompetents & black-hearted #liars Following #GeneSharp, we can withdraw our cooperation and mount a general #strike.

How to Resist This Fresh Hell Not even two months since Inauguration Day and it’s already been quite a trip. Ping-ponging between vindictive pettiness and unconstitutional overreach while using everything in his power (and much that isn't), Donald Trump has served

It Can't Happen Here (or Can It?)
by Nan Levinson
tomdispatch.com/how-...

We can #resist the lickspittles, incompetents, and blowhards #Trump by withdrawing our #consent. Who's up for a #generalstrike of millions?