An excellent long read on the wrongheadedness of the administration's tariff chaos.
www.molsonhart.com/blog/america...

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:

Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

The evil at your door The deportation action as regime change

The evil at your door
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

"The abuse of the word 'antisemitism' is meant to generate a sense of plausibility, confuse opposition, and create more space for the actual phenomenon of antisemitism. And this misdirection is an integral part of the effort to replace a constitutional order with an authoritarian one."

We are going to need a LOT of people to stand up this way. I’m glad people are doing it.

Of course it’s a coup Miss the obvious, lose your republic

Of course it’s a coup, by @TimothyDSnyder
substack.com/@snyder/note...

We Are Not Who They Think We Are: How Human Nature Matters In This Emergency Rebecca Solnit 04 Feb 2025 — 10 min read Welcome to the emergency--or rather Meditations in an Emergency, this newsletter, not the national emergency, which is of course very unwelcome. What's striking to me about all the things our morally and imaginatively impoverished billionaires, notably Musk and Trump, right now is: they do not expect or imagine or understand consequences. Any of them– their theory of change seems to be that they are going to do stuff and then it will be done. Like they're moving furniture around, like you and I and the trans and immigrant communities and federal workers and Canada and Mexico are just so many sofas and chairs that are going to sit where they place us. Like we're inanimate objects. Maybe everything is dead in the sad lonely worldview inside their head. Which would also explain their recalcitrance about climate and nature: if you see it as a collection of inert objects rather than an intricate living system in which what you do to any one part may affect the whole, you grant yourself more license to meddle. But today I'm here to talk about the human--and human nature, and how they misunderstand that too.

from Meditations in an Emergency, my new newsletter, day three: But I do not believe the people of this country will submit to the destruction and the attempts at dictatorship. We are not submitting now. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/we-are-not-w...

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

The Logic of Destruction, by @TimothyDSnyder
substack.com/@snyder/note...

Hate the headline though. Should have called it out as unconstitutional, not just causing confusion.

😂

Excellent perspective

This

Bezos Unable to Return Washington Post for Full Refund The Amazon chief was reportedly kept on hold with customer service for 45 minutes before a human was finally available to speak to him.

Customer service told Bezos he cannot return the Post because he bought it more than a hundred days ago and it is now in damaged condition
www.borowitzreport.com/p/bezos-unab...

Hi Shawn. Nice to be here. Still feeling my way around