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THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

The name of New Mexico is funny because it's one of those things that you'd think is really simple (oh, it's it used to be part of old Mexico, so we'll call it New Mexico!), but it's much more complex New Mexico as the name for the area predates Mexico by several hundred years!

"Anticipating progressive victories in swing areas next month, the center-left is already trying to diminish them ...Electability, once broadly understood as winning in swing states, is being redefined on the fly." newrepublic.com/article/2165....

This corruption must be investigated.

A historic milestone for New York’s youngest learners: Universal 2-K is here. Our two-year-olds are ready to learn, explore and build a strong foundation from day one. This is what it looks like when we invest in our kids.

great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...

Can anyone identify this moth? Seen in my yard in Ventura County California. #lepidoptera

5 years of writing, research, and reporting. 4 continents traveled to. 12 drafts. 18 months of revision. New subtitle. Finally finished. Can’t wait for you all to read it. More coming very soon.

Why does the Zelda remake look like that? | #legendofzelda #tbshorts

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I have a piece in the Atlantic about SCOTUS’s ballroom order - and how the Court has a very wrongheaded and destructive account of the separation of powers www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Rep. @aoc.bsky.social calls out Byron Donalds, Ron DeSantis, & the entire Republican Party for their silence on Trump ally Laura Loomer calling Black women — including Angie Nixon, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar & Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson — "ghetto…black BITCHES.” 🔗 zeteo.com/subscribe

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...

Really enjoyed this podcast from a few years ago #dollyparton www.podbean.com/pa/dir-sbjjy...

every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸

You know that thing Trump does where he drains an idea of its potential to generate mass, spontaneous blowback by playing footsie with it for weeks or months before acting? We need that but for oversight, accountability, democracy reform. www.offmessage.net/p/reclaiming...

Jared Leto and Hollywood’s Open Secrets www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

Okay, but that's because you cannot evaluate the efficacy of activism in the near term, and anyone who insists that you do wants you to fail.

I'm in The Atlantic on the Supreme Court's cases from this past week - which allow corporations to enforce their rights but ... almost no one else? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

On behalf of parents of special needs children everywhere, I would like to invite Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to go fuck himself.

I agree with this, all except the ballroom part.

What's this? An S in Spelling Bee?

Three weeks into the growing Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo and Uganda, I take stock of what’s working well, and what still worries me. All that and more, and all for free, on my Substack 👇 open.substack.com/pub/craigasp...

Jean Smart's late-career revival -- brilliant turns on Fargo, Legion, and Watchmen and then absolutely crushing it on her own showcase in Hacks, all after the age of 65 -- has been nothing short of incredible.

What Exactly Should a Project 2029 Be? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...

Values. Villain. Vision. First, say what you are for & believe creating a big WE that rejects hate baiting & division. Next, make clear who true villains are - give people accurate origin story for their pain. Finally, close with what you will deliver for all. /2

Otis's salad followed by dessert

It is, in fact, necessary. www.offmessage.net/p/impeach-ja...

It would be a claim to immortality if you had been a backup singer for Joni Mitchell going oooh, bop bop bop bop. I wonder where they are now.

Why not both? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VJv...

This is a meaty, well-reported story that should be read twice — once to admire the influencers (a teacher and a lawyer) who fought for these women, and once to behold all the examples of moral, professional and political failure by lawmakers and media. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing. These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted. Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

as we continue to celebrate 40 years of Zelda i’d like to say that i sincerely love the existence of the official timeline. Nintendo got backed into a corner by forum nerds and said “oh you want a real timeline? here’s some shit that’s way more stupid than you expected”

from the perspective of someone who might want to be president, the best time to run for the white house is now, not later. so if AOC is thinking about it — if the white house is her ambition — then her best bet is to throw her hat in the ring

His attacks on the midterms are real and dangerous… and aren’t going to work. Running down the case for an optimistic threat assessment @theunpopulist.net :

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

I wrote about this moment. You can skip to the end if you just want a list of ways to help. If you want, you can also read about the time I almost died, was in ICU, and a nurse was my light in the darkness www.moryan.com/the-crack-in... 💚

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Lucinda Williams told me about co-writing with Big Thief, telling Bob Dylan she's been called "the female Bob Dylan," and imagining getting dragged offstage by the FBI due to her anti-Trump material. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...