Sattie Clark

If you read only one thing this week, READ THIS! Another deep, articulate and soul stirring essay from Rebecca Solnit.

This Cold Winter, Love Is a Superpower There are great days and terrible days in history, days a nation or world changed, that you remember forever. For me that's the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the Zapatistas, 9/11, Hurricane Kat...

Rebecca Solnit nails it again (with love). www.meditationsinanemergency.com/this-cold-wi...

Rising inequality is turning US into an autocratic state, billionaire warns Ray Dalio says business leaders scared to criticise Donald Trump as he warns of debt-induced crisis for the economy

This www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Word!

Rebecca Solnit is an amazing writer and thinker. Read this.

‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian

I have been saying for years Trump is a Russian asset. Here’s the backstory. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

This this this--read this now and all the way through!

Dark Pence is back.

This is bad. Really bad.

@craig-elliott.bsky.social Reminds me of your adventures. Do you have any otter friends?

Across All Ages & Demographics, Test Results Show Americans Are Getting Dumber Aldeman: In the last decade, achievement scores have been falling — and gaps have been widening. Why is a huge unanswered question

It's official. Americans are getting dumber. www.the74million.org/article/acro...

Does he live in Michigan? Has he ever lived in Michigan?

"Post it on your social media." Thank you, Mr. Acosta.

Praise the Broken Promise of America Friends,

Praise for poet Alison Luterman. robertreich.substack.com/p/praise-the...

The foreign policy of an American kleptocracy President Trump's Middle East policy took a dark turn on Saturday when he announced on Air Force One that he favored the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza. "You’re talking about a million and...

Disgusting. Despicable. Immoral. popular.info/p/the-foreig...

Jan. 6 Defendant Shuns Trump’s Pardon, Likening ‘Stop the Steal’ to a ‘Cult’ Pamela Hemphill, 71, of Boise, Idaho, who served 60 days in prison, said it would be “an insult to the Capitol Police” if she accepted the pardon.

“I lost my critical thinking,” she said on Wednesday, reflecting on her involvement in the riot and the “Stop the Steal” movement. “Now I know it was a cult, and I was in a cult.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...

Experts alarmed by Trumps’ crypto meme coins: ‘America voted for corruption’ President and first lady’s business ventures show ‘shameful conflicts of interest’, says ex-government ethics official

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This is your mission. We take our power back now at the local and state level. Stop waiting for a national hero. It’s you. Get to work.

A republic, if you can keep it. - Benjamin Franklin

We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is. - Kurt Vonnegut

Ketamine is a hell of a drug.

I would hate for this picture of Mark Zuckerberg staring down the shirt of Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sanchez during Donald Trump’s inauguration to go viral.

Would be such a shame for Zuck.

Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as

When Trump won the presidency the first time, it was pretty apparent he was shocked and didn’t have a plan. This time is different. He has a well-oiled machine behind him and they’ve got a plan called Project 2025. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Damn, this is just what I needed to get me through this sad day.

With everything so seemingly terrible these days & no sign of anything remotely hopeful in the near future, I thought you might need this photo of a baby giraffe.

This is amazing, Adam. Thank you for being so brave. And I never noticed but it makes me think about other people I know. 💗

How mega-polluters take advantage of billions in green loans Some of the world’s biggest polluters are reaping billions of dollars through a lax form of green finance, a new investigation by The Examination has found.

No accountability = no future. apnews.com/article/shel...

It is clear that the Supreme Court's conservative majority betrayed the American people with their immunity ruling. The SCOTUS has in effect staged the overthrow of our democracy. I honestly don't know if America as we have known it will survive.

This is an amazing story!

The Greatest DEI Disaster Ever Democratic Senators--especially the women--shed a glaring light on a sketchy, uninformed nominee who has no business lording over the Pentagon

Watching Hegseth demonstrate his appalling lack of credentials, knowledge, and character for the job for which he was nominated I am compelled to ask: Is Trump administration running a DEI program for incompetent, unqualified, and/or ethically compromised Whites?
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