“You load 16 tons and whadaya get, another day older and deeper in debt. St Peter doncha call me cuz I can’t go…” I owe my soul to the oligarch’s store.

One does not exclude the other.

Ah, exactly how the President views the world.

Wow, this is the way to respond to a tragedy. Good job, you two!

Donald Trump has lied again. They are cutting Medicare and it will affect millions of Americans who receive Medicare, who provide medical services, and who work in the health care economy.

Today’s Daily Cartoon @newyorker.com

Why We Shouldn’t Ignore Pete Hegseth’s Retweet on Women’s Voting Rights The secretary of defense reposted a video of a Christian nationalist saying women should lose the right to vote—and everyone should be paying attention.

“The idea that women should surrender their vote to male authority is an affront to every American who has fought, marched, and bled for the right to be heard." - LWV CEO Celina Stewart quoted in this latest Glamour article: www.glamour.com/story/why-we...

Also, voting rights should be given to saloons, and not individual saloon patrons.

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A family opened a town’s first bookstore. A bathroom bill is driving them away. The Phelans ran the only bookstore in Vermillion, South Dakota. They sold it and moved after a new law would’ve required their daughter to use a boy’s bathroom.

Anti-trans laws don’t only affect trans people and their families. In Vermillion, South Dakota, a bathroom ban nearly cost a town its only bookstore. Then a young trans couple stepped up. My latest for @washingtonpost.com — wapo.st/4m3PuFP

Very disappointed to see you yelling at Senator Klobuchar. Civil discourse is the proper way to disagree with strategy toward common goals. You have a point. She has a point. No need to have what appears to be a tantrum.

More states are pushing laws that would require documents to prove citizenship for voter registration, even though our laws ALREADY ensure only citizens vote.

Join us TODAY, July 23, at 3pm ET to learn how millions of Americans would be harmed, and how to fight back: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

➡️ This Independence Day, we must choose: accept the comfortable fiction that our democracy is business as usual, or acknowledge that nothing is usual about the time we are in, and respond with urgency. #4thofJuly

On this day…

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Right now, Congress is considering a budget package that would slash Medicaid funding, putting millions of American’s health care coverage at risk.

Urge your Senators not to gut Medicaid: www.lwv.org/take-action/...

It was a special honor to get to give the commencement address at my alma mater, @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social today.

I hope the message of what these incredible graduates need to do to advance our democracy and how to do it resonated.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting weighs in on President Trump's EO: "CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority."

This is our moment in history to stand.

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

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

John Dickerson on Substack Our essay on the anniversary of the 1939 Nazi rally and the man who stood up.

substack.com/@johnfdicker...

YouTube video by Enda Bracken Ian McKellen -St Thomas More's Refugee Speech by Shakespeare.

Thomas Moore vis Shakespeare. You’ll recognize the actor. youtu.be/afK_bXD7pMo?...

Introducing: The Entrenchment Agenda How Trump plans to dig in, cement power, and crush competition

One way modern autocrats hold onto power is by crushing electoral competition, making it extremely hard for the public to vote them out. @amandacarpenter.bsky.social explains how the answer relies on preserving electoral competition. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/introducin...

Why do I hear no outcry from members of congress about the removal of protections from 3 citizens who served in the former Trump administration who have credible threats from Iran? If leaders are quiet about this, they have no decency.

"Let no man pull you so low as to hate him." Martin Luther King Jr.
Working on it.