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Too many of you still aren’t getting it…

I tell everyone I know to read Sarah’s books, especially “Hiding in Plain Sight” & “They Knew”. Well researched, informative and she provides the receipts. And frightening. She has an ability to take many threads and create a stunning tapestry to explain why we’re where we are today.

Grab some coffee and read this. I actually hate how often Sarah has to reshare this. I do appreciate though; for when I read news and people say "I can't believe this!" And I am not surprised at all, I have this reality confirmation.

New article! The first half of my reader Q & A is up. I answer questions about the midterms, the fall of the USSR vs the fall of the US, misogyny in media, and more: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/cosa-nostr...

Sarah Kendzior's *Cosa Nostradamus* reminds me why I've followed her work for so long. Reading her prose evokes memories of experiencing watercolors. Scholarship, grief, indignation, and irreverent humor flow together without losing their individual character. And “Midol Metal”? 😂 Brilliant..

I think @sarahkendzior.bsky.social would say that it's because legacy media organizations are part of an elite network, mostly comprised of nepotism recipients, who have been financially or socially coerced or blackmailed into ignoring or covering up Trump's crimes for nearly half a century.

Insanity. www.wired.com/story/cool-c...

In Brazil, Lula was behind after the first round. People refused to give up, & they won. “The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is only light if we are brave enough to see it, if only we're brave enough to be it.” ~ Amanda Gorman ~ Thread 3/5🧵

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

‘We, the people’—not we, the white people—not we, the citizens or the legal voters—not we, the privileged class, and excluding all other classes but we, the people; not we, the horses and cattle, but we the people.” —Frederick Douglass, 1857 www.americaamerica.news/p/showing-tr...

🧵Critical US history in 17 posts…

The history of elite impunity in this country goes back nearly 200 years. It's not an exaggeration to say that it's completely baked into our national political culture. It starts with not finishing Reconstruction and not punishing its saboteurs, rejecting the Ironclad Oath + disaster of Cruikshank

People love to talk about “the lessons of history” & if there is any such thing, it’s this: punish the enemies of society. Take the goods they have hoarded at our collective expense & build a livable future.

Imagine a world in which enslavers had been stripped of their assets & exiled. Where their assets & power were distributed to the people from whom they had been stolen in the first place. Where the architects of Jim Crow & lynching were opining abt “the good ole days” from some distant hovel.

NEW: Trump is a Russian asset. And the UK government is finally waking from its decade-long slumber Read this. And order a wind-up radio. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark-t...

DARVO is now in the dictionary. That’s a win for abuse survivors Essay in Salon by @sarahharsey.bsky.social, Ashley Judd, and me. www.salon.com/2026/10/26/d...

9. The White House isn’t alone. The Washington press corps is also guilty. We are often treated as if we have no authority to arbitrate reality. If the news media does not tell us something happened, it apparently did not happen. To illustrate my point, I ask you to consider this:

“We’re making a fricking fortune,” Trump said. Who’s the we? “We” is he…the Trump family…billionaire cronies profiting off of the corruption and crime…oil execs who gave him millions. This is the “we” who Trump cares about—always has, always will. www.americaamerica.news/p/showing-tr...

This is a solid point.

“I feel like this is the closest we’ve ever come to actually seeing Nathan not being a character onscreen or doing a bit,” Lance Oppenheim says about Nathan Fielder’s performance in ‘You Can See Everything.’

Students at Cornell put up these signs around campus. This is what I mean by society is who has to change the definition of justice.

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

We've been here before.

It's a time when evil knows it has to wear the cloak of populism, even as they starve millions and drone strike babies.

Doge didn’t save money or make government more efficient It invaded your privacy and gave the data to Musk

Hamilton Nolan: the greatest threat to our democracy today is huge pools of accumulated capital in private hands. People like Bernie Sanders talk about the oligarchy... but people need to understand that breaking up these enormous fortunes is critical to us maintaining a democratic government.

This thread is why I believe we should just begin imagining and building a new system in this country. The old one is broken beyond repair now, anyway. We can keep what worked from the old system and chuck what didn’t work. It’s an opportunity.

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

I've quoted Sarah on this one so many times. Incredible how many people can't accept that the corruption exists in both parties. No one is coming to save us; we have to fight for ourselves.

Three years ago, I made a good decision substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

DOGE was a coup, DOGE was a coup, DOGE was a coup. I will always weirdly be “ok” with Sean Duffy b/c he was the one Department Head, along with a roided out Scott Bessent, who pushed back at DOGE with a hearty, WTF?

A real reporter would say, But SIR, Pete Hegseths MOTHER said he was an abuser. Should we listen to HER???

Like, to have a meaningful debate, you require at least two participants who: - know a lot about the subject - have some common values about the purpose of the debate - hold conflicting positions on the subject - but do not hold those positions particularly strongly