Stop talking about Epstein! Dude’s gonna bomb Iran again if we don’t shut up.
Stop talking about Epstein! Dude’s gonna bomb Iran again if we don’t shut up.
Reminds me of the time I read a student essay about how Obama let 9/11 happen.
Threatening universities. Attacking judges. Bullying law firms. Clamping down on free speech.
If it looks like it, talks like it, and acts like it, it is moving toward authoritarianism.
Graphic that reads "Press Freedom is a Human Rights" with black bars and the blue square Human Rights Watch logo
May 3rd is #WorldPressFreedomDay! Freedom of expression, including media freedom, is a human right. #WPFD2025
Madness in great ones must not unwatch’d go.
Love you, Wisconsin! ❤️🤍💙
Would you believe I still have this 45? One of my favorites.
Kristi Noem in tight athleisure—white top, drawstring grey pants—in front of a prison cell packed with mostly shirtless men. Noem’s hair cascades out of her navy DHS cap. The men appear to be wearing loose white patient pants. Norm wears a heavy gold-and-silver watch. The men’s arms are at their sides or clasped in front, as if they’ve been told to stand at attention. Noem’s cap is pulled low, so we can’t really see her eyes; instead, her face appears comprised mainly of lips. The men’s heads have been shaved; there’s lighting on Noem but they’re in the murk, hard to distinguish from one another.
I showed my wife, a historian, the Kristi Noem video. She said “holy shit!” It’s a lot. A brief thread on bodies. It begins in the alt text below… 1/
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
How can we as writers move from the feeling of powerlessness to power? How can we keep working through the hopelessness we feel as we watch our country/world burn?
I’m sure Republican voters will be FURIOUS when they hear this, right? . . . Right?
Just stumbled on this brutal gutpunch of a video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSq6...
I've trained The Algorithm to show me stuff like this— randos working on projects and showing them to you? I've never seen this channel but I've seen a dozen like it. Dude fixes radios. The video is not about radios.
Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador
Right? I was so ready to be a revolutionary in the 1980s, but now?
My fellow Americans, we officially hit a new low today.
Thanks to felon Trump’s all out assault on democracy, we are now on a civil rights loss warning list with the Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan & Serbia.
Nonviolent civil resistance is a must!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Excited to announce that my novel, THE EVOLUTION OF THE GOSPELETTES, is a Foreword
INDIES Book of the Year Awards FINALIST! 🎉
#indiepress #indiesaward #awards #kentuckywriter #debutnovel
My favorite French phrase is «bouffon sous kétamine»—what’s yours?
What dreams, societal or personal, have you deferred? For how long?
For how much longer?
Large amounts of ketamine can make anyone feel like they rule the world. When should Americans start worrying about Elon Musk’s regular use? Shayla Love reports:
How is it that so few veterans and military personnel see the Russia connections in the GOP as a danger? How can this be better communicated?
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
It really is reasonable to ask how we could possibly ever forgive our fellow Americans for voting for what is happening to us right now and what is going to continue to happen for years and years.
I mean the simple answer would be... we just don't, right? Ever? Because some things are unforgivable?
Lead the way, Mark!
Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.