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Excerpted from 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 October 25, 2026 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-25... Please share. ⁣ 🐾⁣ Steve⁣ ⁣ #protectdemocracy

The Pentagon is pursuing Ketamine Wafers (w/ no FDA approval) under a nonspecific national military emergency. Kicker: Sole-source thru Singapore company with an unlicensed US manufacturer... (Remember pyridostigmine bromide (PB) tablets from Desert Storm?) www.defensenews.com/news/pentago...

I am struck by how much the MAGA faithful, who serve as a backdrop for Trump's midterm rallies, resemble the crowds who cheered the racist, xenophobic, un-American rhetoric of George Wallace, Lester Maddox, and Strom Thurmond in the 1960s. History will not be kind, nor should it be...

A critical but little-understood macro component of our national decline. This trend can be reversed, but as with politics, we cannot simply stand by and watch our own demise. kerrywalters.substack.com/p/when-readi...

Just received Trump's $90 Medicare election bribe check. I did what every patriotic American senior should do with theirs - donate it to your favorite Democratic campaign! #voteblue #stopthecorruption #nokings #VOTE #fredwellman

A decade of people and media saying - “It was just a joke." "He didn't actually mean that." "What he meant to say was..." "You're overreacting." …is the real crisis in our nation. It has made the unacceptable normal.

Karl Rove on Fox arguing the WH has a ‘focus’ problem epitomizes the insanity of the GOP. “We don’t want to hear about…the great Triumphal Arch and …drones and snipers and a whole bunch of sniper ammunition. But who are those snipers going to shoot? People driving down the parkway?” #Blue #WTF

popping this up on top of your feed because it's a seriously fucking great read and call-to-action

The original post is correct in terms of Xi’s likely reaction. The gloating over such a juvenile scar on our nation tells me that Trump seeks Xi’s approval. Trump is the tough-kid wannabe trying desperately to get a nod from his idea of the tough kid on the block. #unamerican #voteblue #nokings

Trump @ the National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington, Texas: “I want for myself a Congressional Medal of Honor...I will give it to myself. I have no problem, but I’m not allowed to.” “Can you believe it? The one thing I’m not allowed to do.” Trump dishonors us all. #VoteVets #Blue

apnews.com/article/trum... He is proposing to illegally give us money to vote for 2 more years of unfettered moral, economic, and geopolitical collapse. All so he can enrich himself and the rest of the Epstein Class. This toxic brew of ‘state capture’ and public ignorance is how we collapse.

Never forget that we have the power to change our lives. VOTE

Just brushing up on my Criminal Code - any good examples out there where a politician explicitly offers to make an expenditure in exchange for a vote? Recent examples are most welcome... #NoKings #ImpeachRemoveConvict #VoteBlue #TruthMatters

Congratulations, Mr. Trump, on a near-perfect authoritarian quote.

Anymore Questions?

What could go wrong? Give someone unlimited pardon power, a presumption of immunity that would make Henry the VIII blush, and an expanded definition of executive privilege that can be used shield non-governmental co-conspirators. #VoteBlue #ReadThinkVote #NoKings

The German word for where we are is "Führungsversagen"- the direct structural collapse caused by bad leadership. A situation where a leader's inability to manage allows negative trends to compound and spiral out of control. www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-seri...

Read-Think-Vote. “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country”

The warnings have been there for decades - Borstien’s Pseudo-Events to Postman’s Entertaining Ourselves to Death, etc. As the Trump era makes clear, we are no longer an ‘educated and informed public’ but a delusional an easily manipulated one. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Strategic failure comes in many forms - among the most dangerous is a Pyrric tactical victory against a 3rd rate military power which leaves one strategically exposed to 1st rate military threats. steveschmidt.substack.com/p/iran-lost-...

History matters - especially now!

Strategic drift, an inability to rationalize strategy and resources, a Congress asleep at the Constitution, and a credulous public are the rot. Trump is the opportunistic pest. We are approaching the “gradually then all at once” moment & storms are coming. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-putini...

Conspiracy to defraud in plain sight. DoJ will rescind the recision at a later date and the so-called ‘IRS settlement’ amounts to a Presidential self-pardon. bsky.app/profile/meid...

Every damn word. Great rebuttal in both substance and tone!

Full-on North Korea. POTUS spins warmed over lies about 2020 election to a room full of people that know he is lying (again) but cheer the Dear Leader nonetheless.

I see future State and Federal legislation along the lines of the 2021 'Naming Commission.' e.g.; "remove all names, symbols, displays, monuments, and paraphernalia that honor or commemorate Donald Trump or any person who served voluntarily with his corrupt administration from all assets..."

The original No Kings day. Credit: chappatte.com

The T. Roosevelt administration fought Gilded Age govt and corporate corruption, instituted consumer protection laws, and created a merit-based civil service system...in these and so many more ways - the polar opposite of Donald the Grifter and his cabinet of vultures. bsky.app/profile/pbsn...

More news of Trump’s impeachable corruption and graft is glaring proof of a system-wide failure. This is not an Administration - it is a Wake of Vultures feeding on our Republic. In other news, have you heard about the 'threat' posed by a handful of DSA candidates?

Never underestimate the staying power of willful ignorance and bigotry.

It is more than his governing philosophy - it is him. He is a fraud and a conman - always has been. As more and more of the cheap façade falls away we will see much worse than algae come to the surface…

Great collection. Honored to have contributed a chapter.

The national humiliations just keep coming. America's Nero now has his gladiator pit...he can even deliver the pollice verso from the comfort of the WH balcony. Shame...

We are a nation at serious risk. "Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him by ours..." We are distracted by trivia; cultural life is perpetual entertainment, serious public conversation is a form of baby talk, and the public's business is a vaudeville act. (Neil Postman, 1985)

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

Sadly, Alabama is celebrating' Jefferson Davis' birthday for the 126th time (but never Juneteenth). Since the Davis political mold holds true for the current occupant of the White House, can another rebranding be in the offing - 'Trump-Davis' day? alabamareflector.com/2024/06/03/t...

State offices in Alabama are closed today in observance of Confederate president Jefferson Davis's birthday. I have some thoughts. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence." Thomas Jefferson www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Sure looks like Xi is getting exactly what he wants. And what is Trump getting? Nothing, apparently. What brilliant negotiating.

Ivan Ehlers, The New Yorker

An addendum to Trump's Anti-Weaponization Fund says the IRS is “FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED” from pursuing “examinations” of Trump, “related or affiliated individuals,” and related trusts and businesses. This is shockingly and unbelievably corrupt - even for Trump. No Kings!

When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

“The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry.” ― Robert Green Ingersoll