Sven Daniel Wolfe

"The collapse of American democracy is like the pandemic: Whatever you say at the beginning will sound alarmist – but likely prove inadequate by the end."

Stuart Stevens

He nailed it 20 years ago and continues doing it. It’s remarkable tbh

It’s like West Virginia was starved for representation. For someone to just come. Bernie did and my fellow West Virginians are in love.

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One of the many fabulous Tom Tomorrow anthologies that used to exist on the regular down at your local bookstore

Brilliant old cartoon from Tom Tomorrow that suffered water damage in a flood like 15 years ago

To update this classic cartoon, you’d just have to put masks on the Patriotism Police and make them ICE agents

Reading through old gold cartoons from @tomtomorrow.bsky.social and thinking:

1) how you could change only the barest few details and this could be published today (if anything tho it’s gotten worse)

2) I really miss paper books (water damage and all)

Exactly right.

They simply want the end product — whether it’s an actual production of art or music or the end result of hard work like a PhD — without doing the work.

It’s cheat codes all the way down.

A man can dream

Nixon's resignation letter.

Fifty-one years ago today.

Who made this? 😂

YOU WANT TO KNOW ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA

You get to interact with humans you'd likely not have contact with IRL/meatspace because our worlds in meatspaces are limited by time/money/distance/access.

DO YOU PEOPLE KNOW HOW FUCKING COOL IT IS HOW MANY SCIENTISTS ARE ON HERE

One of the reasons FDR was the way he was is because he had zero faith that the american ruling class was devoted enough to american democracy to be trusted to preserve it.

200 days into Trump's term, where are we?

In the race between Trump's authoritarianism and efforts to resist it, authoritarianism is ahead. And while there are hopeful signs from the public, the chance of effective resistance is, for now, being fatally undermined by the capitulation of the elites.

Avashai Margalit’s The Decent Society argues that a civilised society is one that avoids humiliating its citizens. Judith Shklar makes a similar point about cruelty. It’s as if governments around the world have chosen to take these not as warnings but as goals.

Highly recommend @mjtoma.bsky.social's latest, which tries to locate the place where the New York Times has been weak, while establishing at the outset that it has also been strong ("...the scoops division of the paper is working more or less as it should.") newrepublic.com/article/1987...

"The Munich Agreement" –history lessons

Looking at current events,of course 1938 comes to mind.At that time, Munich city became a symbol of one of the most fateful decisions in history&the greatest diplomatic failure of the 20th century⤵️

📹Chamberlain's speech after signing the agreement/ Iconic

Present mood

👇👇

A tiny bit longer than a one-minute walk in Ivano-Frankivsk,
a city in western Ukraine,
nestled at the foothills of the Carpathians.

Solidarity ♥️

What I wouldn’t give for a consequence!

Donald Trump, Master Statistician Whatever the claim, the president has the numbers to prove it, even if he has to make them up.

"He just picks the numbers he wants and rolls with them. They always back up what he says. They always will. The chances of his being right are always way more than 1,000 percent." ICYMI Bill Lueders on Donald Trump's statistical genius: www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...

New executive order puts all grants under political control All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.

It's been obvious for a while that they were headed in this direction, & this attempt almost certainly won't go unchallenged, but you need to understand that this is & has been America's Lysenkoism moment knocking on the door, & it has to be resisted every way it can.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...

President Zelenskyy:

"Ukrainians defend what's theirs. Even those who are with Russia know that Russia is doing evil. Of course, we will not reward Russia for what it has perpetrated. The #Ukrainian people deserve peace. But all partners must understand what a dignified peace is.

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

Ladies and gentlemen and everyone in between, Stephen Jay Gould:

YouTube video by Ми - Україна 💔 Майдан залили СЛЬОЗИ. Прощання з Вікторією Рощиною: ВСІ ДЕТАЛІ ЗЛОЧИНУ Росії

kyivindependent.com/kyiv-holds-f...
Heute hat Kyjiw von der Journalistin Viktoria Roshchyna Abschied genommen.
In einem Beitrag heißt es: der Maidan wurde von Tränen geflutet. /Ch
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEYL...

An innocent President would simply release the Epstein Files and demand a full FBI investigation into every Epstein client.

That’s it.

That’s the whole ballgame summed up.

Assume ownership?

That’s a thing?

Because I’ve got a list of stuff I’d like to assume ownership of.

The astonishing thing about Watergate, in contrast to today, is how the President was actually shamed into leaving office.

Imagine that: shame.