Joan Colbert

My point - I agree with you completely! Just lamenting that among the very few Dem reps in this state not even one can pass up AIPAC funds.

Only five Dem reps here in Ohio and they all take AIPAC $$, with Shontel Brown at a whopping 4.6M. Sykes was a great state rep for my district, but incredibly disappointing in DC (and no primary challenger).

From June 2025 but still true now

It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Epstein and the Shadow World Your questions answered on Epstein, AI, my career, and other dystopian matters.

New Q & A is up! My answers to subscriber questions on Epstein, AI, the Democrats, Kushner, and much more:
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But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.

Peak Beatles were more 'Woke' than Marco Rubio could possibly imagine | LOLGOP Studios Get more from LOLGOP Studios on Patreon

The Beatles at their peak represented everything Rubio claims to hate about Europe: openness, a restless progressiveness, a genuine love for bringing the best of every culture into contact with every other to make something more vivid and more true than any single tradition could produce alone.

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

Ohio State University has received nearly 300 requests to remove Wexner name from buildings • Ohio Capital Journal Ohio State University has received nearly 300 requests to remove billionaire donor Les Wexner's name from buildings because of his association with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. However, the ...

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Fix Your Hearts or Die It's a invitation, not a threat. The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism.

"Loneliness *is* a problem. I am inviting you to contemplate how frequently it is treated as a problem for men and only for men, to be solved by everyone else, by doing work on their behalf that can only ever be considered repair if they do it themselves."

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House passes bill banning ‘leftist indoctrination’ and LGBTQ+ teaching in public schools • New Hampshire Bulletin New Hampshire House Republicans are moving forward with a new attempt to regulate teaching on race, history, and LGTBQ+ issues in public schools. On Thursday, the chamber passed a bill that would ban ...

NH state house passes "CHARLIE Act," which bans teaching, I kid you not, "critical consciousness" & "prohibited world-views," such as that queer people exist, or that slavery involved race, or, implicitly, that the Nazis murdered Jews based on identity. newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/19/h...

Rest in Peace

artwork by John Sokol: poppies, painted turtle, a dog bowl on an ochre/green background with writing: 'another day another dog bowl' and a mixed media barn owl in black and grey with a touch of gold

artwork by John Sokol: six pears in sets of two on black background labeled 3 PAIRS, colorful geometric design with lettered 'time tells on all things,' a multicolored mixed media collage, and a word portrait of August Wilson composed of black script from his play, Fences

a selection of favorites
RIP John Sokol 💔
artist ~ poet ~ friend

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

"The day of accountability will come": Rep. Delia Ramirez on abolishing and prosecuting DHS The Handbasket spoke with the congresswoman who called out ICE long before it was popular.

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The Transformative Power of the White ‘Race Traitor’

"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

Kendzior HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) four pages of text on Trump, Epstein, Michael Cohen, death threats to rape victims

Kendzior HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) four pages of text on Trump, Epstein, Michael Cohen, death threats to rape victims

Kendzior HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) four pages of text on Trump, Epstein, Michael Cohen, death threats to rape victims

Kendzior HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) four pages of text on Trump, Epstein, Michael Cohen, death threats to rape victims

On Trump, Epstein, and their social circle of pedophiles. From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, written in 2019, before Epstein was indicted.

"The story of Jeffrey Epstein is one that will define our era..."

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What we can learn from the Dayton, Ohio incident and why elections must follow the U.S. Constitution • Ohio Capital Journal A recent incident at a Dayton, Ohio, school sheds light on Trump's desire to nationalize elections. Support for the U.S. Constitution, separation of powers, checks and balances, and local control over...

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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I like the arguments about how “you have criticisms of police but you want them to show up if you call 911” because yes you just defined an ideal point of law enforcement, why would you want multiple fire trucks on your street and at your home if you didn’t call

Sarah Kendzior on Trumpland’s Criminal Distortions of American Reality It is common to hear that Americans no longer inhabit a shared reality. To a large extent this is true, especially in an era of social media manipulation, but we did not share a reality in simpler …

From THEY KNEW, excerpted here in 2022: "It became reasonable to believe that a critical mass of people in power were either criminals, pedophiles, or traitors, or that they were being blackmailed, bribed, or threatened by a criminal, pedophile, or traitor."
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Jackhammering Into the Sewer A look through the Epstein files.

New article! On the Epstein files, the cruelty of the release, and the crimes that came before: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/jackhammer...

From Powerlessness to Power We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.

“You're not going to out-shoot BORTAC. You're not going to out-opsec the FBI. You're not fighting a civil war in a nation divided on stark ethnic or religious lines. You're not materially supported by a major outside power. You're not facing a civilian paramilitary”

Agree. For me the ominous image still invokes horror and dismay - the artist perfectly captured the approach of a nightmare.

Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio? Nazi Lies in Vance's America

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“We confront no historical analogy, but actual twenty-first century Nazis . . . Blood Tribe, Vance and Trump appeal not to someone else’s racism in some other time and place, but to American racism, right here and now.” Timothy Snyder

Don't turn our backs on our Haitian neighbors who've built a life in Ohio • Ohio Capital Journal Don't turn our backs on our Haitian neighbors who've built a life in Ohio. Haitians are here legally under temporary protected status. Ending that will tear families apart, deepen labor shortages,…

Commentary: Don’t turn our backs on our Haitian neighbors who’ve built a life in Ohio: Ending TPS will tear families apart, deepen labor shortages, and send people back to chaos and danger. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/29/d...

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'The folks are fearful.' Haitians living in Ohio may soon lose temporary protected status • Ohio Capital Journal Thousands of Haitians living in Ohio will lose their temporary protected status next week unless a federal court blocks it.

Haitians in Springfield, Ohio lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. There will very likely be a major ICE incursion the next day. Haitians in Springfield were the targets of Vance’s lying during the campaign.
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restaurant table with condiments and glass enclosed soft sculptures of bedtime Ron and Nancy - patriotic, red, white, and blue flag motif slippers?

A few days ago my son, in California for work, texted this bizarre table decor - so, with yours, I've seen two too many random Nancy + Ron appearances within days. (slippers? really??)

This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.