Ann Medlock

Walking Each Other Home When asked to speak at an event based on that famous quote, nonagenarian writer Ann Medlock typed up her thoughts, added some images, and sent a video, instead of…

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Tweet screenshot: SunDog @SUNDOG_TRX You never truly know who’s pulling the strings… 🤫 [AI-generated image of a corgi dog with a collar depicting the Tron logo, paws raised above the White House, with strings attached to the paws like a marionette] 2:30 AM Jul 24, 2025

Sundog, a memecoin by crypto billionaire Justin Sun, just posted a meme depicting its mascot controlling the White House. Sun has spent (or will shortly spend) a total of $213 million on Trump-connected crypto projects.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”

When tacos get serious-- this is an insane show of force from the feds, total overkill in sending agents from SIX federal entities, aided by city police, many of the agents armed as if they're in a war, to arrest people at a taco truck. Good on Minneapolis citizens for RESISTING.

the same ones? I thought these were different multi-millionaires.

Let’s not call people “strongmen,” especially when they are obviously insecure, which is why they covet power in the first place: such insecure-men take all of the unjust, antidemocratic, inhumane, and sociopathic actions that they do because they feel insecure in their positions and their largely illegitimate grips on power. @TDPowers.bsky.social True Democracy

Words matter.

"Now is the time for all good men [sic] to come to the aid of their country."
Do your job, Senators and Representatives.
Honor, duty, country—
not party, not fear of losing your damn job.
If you don't honor your oath of office, you don't deserve the office.

In a Time of Woe I want to thank my students and friends for their deep care and honesty in asking, again and again, “What are we to do now?” Out of these conversations, I was able to gather this in-depth set of refle...

The voice of a poet, giving you powerful images for the way ahead...
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I'm in.

The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired Yesterday Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals in an April Fools’ Day massacre. We’re all about to pay the ...

Chainsawing into your life...
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I love that he closed with "our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor," words that have always moved me. The Founders put it all on the line and so must we all, now. Booker rose to speak, and rose to the urgency of the moment.

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

I have given away so many copies of this book, hoping people will give it the time it deserves. Here it is in just 10 powerful minutes.
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When you're old enough to have witnessed "history"....

Unfortunately they also own Molson, a good Canadian beer. Ah well. I think I can make the sacrifice.

I hadn't thought of that. That's beyond bizarre.

So true. And then there's creating a few thousand recently fired nat sec and nat sec adjacent civil servants who weren't just fired but basically had a bucket of shit poured over their heads. Cld they be aggrieved? Maybe? So every vector of penetration is basically in smorgasbord mode.

In addition to everything else that is wrong with this, why aren't these men wearing uniforms? They're dressed like they just came from the skateboard park and half seem to be concealing their faces. These are terror tactics, meant to inspire a penumbra of fear beyond those directly victimized.

This is a guy in panic mode, and trying to falsely cry "hoax" when NSC has already confirmed it is a desperate, stupid move that seems guaranteed to backfire.

And how loud a noise he makes.

I'm 91, not a cheater, and I would call. Boy would I call. Is he trying to make people silent when stiffed? Don't complain now, or we'll know you're a fraud. Insane.

Bernie and AOC draw huge crowds in Arizona.

Balaji Srinivasan suggests giving Elon Musk “control of a huge swath of land surrounding Starbase, Texas” & designate that land as “a military base or … similar, so that [Musk] can fence it off & determine at his sole discretion who can enter.” Then replicate in other states w/ other Tech Bros. 1/

Trivia break—If you've ever baked bread or read up on how to, you've probably read about "crumb," which is the density of various types of breads, how big the air spaces are. Well, I think we found the all-time winner for air spaces. How's this for crumb?

3. Too many people who believe in government of, by, and for the people are letting the radical right set the rules.

2. Following up your action with a huge wave of accurate information about what's really happened would be your next right thing to do. Yes, that information will be denied by many and you will be hit with MAGAmenschen lies. So what?

1. Choosing what moves to make on the basis of what DT and his MAGAmenschen might say about what you do is madness.
They will lie, distort, and blame everyone but themselves, always, in every instance, no matter what you choose to do.
So you might as well do the next right thing, yes?

It wasn't even close. 62/38 I shall now spend the afternoon organizing a closet here, a place where I CAN stop chaos and make something work well.

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.

Tomorrow is the cloture vote.

KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️

Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.

Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.