Bob Mccollister

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov on Kushner & Ivanka: “Now Albania's anti-corruption police are getting involved… do you think Jared Kushner would get special island-buying privileges if he weren't the President's son-in-law? And isn't he supposed to be doing diplomacy, not shady land deals?”

Barack Obama pays tribute to Robert Mueller, calling him one of the finest FBI directors in history and honoring his unwavering commitment to the rule of law

Today’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune. 👀

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Combine this story with the layoffs at CBS this week and you see the pattern. Trump and his ally Larry Ellison now control CBS, and soon Tik Tok. CNN may soon follow. This is the Orban model brought to America.

Take it from an old coach. You can't win if you don't go on offense. So much of the Trump assault on democracy (ie. Texas), and Project 2025 is being channeled through Statehouses. Thanks David Pepper. It's time to go on offense! open.substack.com/pub/davidpep...

The Ohio legislature once again following the Viktor Orban model of how to destroy democracy. Or is it Orban following the Ohio model? open.substack.com/pub/davidpep...

My wife and I are retired teachers. Every retired and currently serving teacher should watch and share this video. Ohio's corrupt government, dominated by its gerrymandered legislature has seized control of STRS! Infuriating!, but there is still hope if we act together!

No Kings Day protest in little Ironton, Ohio. 175 people at its peak!

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

Reminder: Joni Ernst is up for reelection

The renewable revolution will be a powerful driver of economic growth in this century. Repealing the IRA would be a historic mistake.

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Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged nearly 430 ppm in April 2025 (new record high) 10 years ago April averaged about 404 ppm. Preliminary data from gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/... This isn't going away. The longer we wait to address climate change, the greater the impacts and the harder it becomes to solve

Tensions mount in South Asia as a terrorist attack could ignite a fifth war between India and Pakistan. open.substack.com/pub/joecirin...

Some times you just get lucky. On that night in October 2017 I did. David Pepper and the entire Ohio Dem. Party gave me tremendous support, but most of all I made a great friend. The message is absolutely true. We need to build a team with a great bench. Take it from me, I know about team building!

Read the fine print. Turning State into fully Nationalist dept. So much fascism.. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

"No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Please watch, and call your Representative and Senators. The SAVE Act is a 21st Century Poll tax. Its is an attempt to rig elections, just as was done in the Jim Crow era.

Sadly evergreen.

This of course mirrors a standard Putin talking point. From The #NewClimateWar (www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...)

DOGE advisor & tech billionaire Marc Andreessen funds New Founding (per Forbes) & QT’d this post by Logan Clark Hall, who was employed by New Founding as of 2022. Andreessen spoke to the Rockbridge Network—backed by Thiel & Mercer—last year. 1/ #FollowTheMoney

Remember the date May 10, 1933. This was the day Goebbels staged his first big book burning in Berlin. "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes." (attributed to Mark Twain)

And…that’s the point.

Over a century of friendship, history, and cooperation shattered in months by an inept, narrow-minded fool. Meanwhile, Carney is absolutely correct to protect his country from the US, which is no longer a reliable partner and should be regarded with extreme suspicion.

During today's hearing, Senator Warner can't get an answer out of Tulsi Gabbard about who was on the chat thread when National Intelligence was compromised by Pete Hegseth, et al., sending out war plans.

The Trump WH is treating classified war planning like group chat gossip. NSA Mike Waltz ran a Cabinet mtg on Signal. Pete Hegseth shared strike plans. A journalist was accidentally added. Then came the emojis.👊🙏 This isn’t just sloppy—it’s dangerous.

The Signal leak is a prime moment for Democrats to get caught trying. Call for resignations or impeachment hearings or both. Be omnipresent in the media demanding and explaining accountability measures. Don’t let this fade away. Treat this the way the GOP treated Hillary’s emails. Make it a thing.

Hey, he among you who's never drunk-texted classified military strikes to a journalist in an unclassified Signal group chat can cast the first stone.

Please read this thread, and the full substack, and share it. This is the nature of the struggle we are in. Orban is the model. The good news is that if we we organize we can save our democracy.

Keep sharing this because it is vital to understanding this moment. The timing of his entry into politics after this trip, the one position he’s held firm on (at odds with past presidents of both political parties) and the unraveling of the post-WW II world order. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

USIP serves the causes of the promoting a law based international order, of peace, justice and of knowledge. No wonder Musk’s storm troopers are illegally targeting it. If you worry the US might become a police state, you’re behind the curve. Were there.

They say this is “unheard of” but it’s not. This is Viktor Orbán of Hungary’s playbook to the T—take control of the press, and universities, and strangle opposition through control of federal funding. Better shut this down now. apnews.com/article/colu...

The libertarian critique of democracy didn’t just fail—it became the blueprint for the next authoritarian state. Musk. Thiel. Yarvin. Srinivasan. They’re not debating democracy. They’re replacing it.

In the Trump administration's effort to destroy the renewable energy industry they have trashed the rule of law.

So much has been done to weaken the United States diplomatically and militarily in the last few weeks. These cuts to USAID weaken us morally, and that hurts even more.

“This is going to be a massive loss of life overall,” a surgeon who formerly led USAID’s global health initiatives tells TNR. “Children are likely already dying, and will clearly be dying in large numbers.”

@joycewhitevance.bsky.social: "I continue to think that we are in the middle of a soft coup. The military is not out on the streets...But what we are seeing is someone who is attacking all of the norms and institutions of government." Watch the full interview: youtu.be/wL04uJ9W5kM

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2016: GOP dilutes party platform regarding aid to Ukraine under Trump 2019: Trump tries to withhold military aid until Zelensky “announces” an investigation into the Bidens 2025: Trump and Vance openly side with Putin It’s been the play the whole time, now it’s just out in the open