We’re Missing the Point on the Epstein Scandal
We are spending our time talking about the wrong people.
My latest for @lincolnsquare.media is a reminder why we can't let the Epstein scandal die, based on personal experience. Please consider giving it a read and a share. ❤️
open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
03.08.2025 15:41 — 👍 323 🔁 113 💬 9 📌 8
One thing that made America great: we didn’t cook the books.
The Day They Fired the Economist for Telling the Truth
One Thing That Made America Great
For all our flaws, one of the things that truly made America exceptional — and made us trusted — was this:
We didn’t cook the books.
open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
03.08.2025 08:17 — 👍 124 🔁 38 💬 3 📌 1
What is the title of the new Maxwell show? How about:
"Pedo is the New MAGA"
Thoughts? Suggestions?
01.08.2025 22:05 — 👍 367 🔁 107 💬 26 📌 3
John Fugelsang: How RWers Weaponize Religion & Hilarious Trump/Epstein Line
YouTube video by CLIFF'S EDGE
www.youtube.com/live/ksg_m8p... Great show with @johnfugelsang.bsky.social & David Shuster! Check it out, and get John's great new book, "Separation of Church and Hate"(!!)
(Epstein Lindsey Graham)
27.07.2025 19:10 — 👍 138 🔁 69 💬 3 📌 3
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Ozzy Osbourne, ‘Prince of Darkness’ Turned Reality TV Star, Dies at 76
RIP Ozzy. Apparently there can be only one Prince of Darkness at a time and it seems Stephen Miller has locked up the title.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/a...
22.07.2025 18:53 — 👍 180 🔁 22 💬 7 📌 5
The Complicity of the Gutless, Self-Gelding Beltway Barnacles
There is no Trump 2.0 without these Vichy collaborators.
Spot on @jefftimmer.bsky.social ! You nailed it!!
“This piece isn’t about the true believers. It’s about the Quisling converts. The ones who once winced when Trump called the press “enemies of the people,” and would now cheer if he arrests them.”
open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...?
20.07.2025 11:14 — 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
“…They checked the wind, saw the authoritarian weather forecast, and chose to sell umbrellas…”
Gold.
Incredible piece by @jefftimmer.bsky.social
Wake up America.
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20.07.2025 18:07 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
The Complicity of the Gutless, Self-Gelding Beltway Barnacles
There is no Trump 2.0 without these Vichy collaborators.
The Complicity of the Gutless, Self-Gelding Beltway Barnacles: Read the latest from @thelincolnprojects.bsky.social COO @jefftimmer.bsky.social for Lincoln Square:
www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-compli...
20.07.2025 18:13 — 👍 61 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 3
A sneak preview from our forthcoming podcast: Guest @perrybaconjr.bsky.social gives his take on better ways to bring new parties into our democracy than just a party in Elon Musk's image.
14.07.2025 13:03 — 👍 13 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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21.07.2025 16:21 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My daughter's Life was Never Lived, and Today she would have Turned Nineteen.
For Vilte — And For Anyone Who’s Lost a Child Before They Were Born
Stillbirth is a different kind of loss.
You’re not just grieving a child — you’re grieving the future you imagined.
The milestones never come.
There’s no timeline to anchor the pain.
It’s a life unlived, and a version of yourself that disappears with it.
open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
21.07.2025 16:02 — 👍 502 🔁 53 💬 23 📌 4
The Complicity of the Gutless, Self-Gelding Beltway Barnacles
There is no Trump 2.0 without these Vichy collaborators.
My latest column is at @lincolnsquare.media. Read and subscribe. Now would be good. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
'The Complicity of the Gutless, Self-Gelding Beltway Barnacles'
www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-compli...
20.07.2025 13:56 — 👍 371 🔁 121 💬 14 📌 18
Ted Cruz is a dick
09.07.2025 14:44 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
It's officially day 90 of Trump's '90 deals in 90 days' bullshit tariff policy.
He has 0 deals implemented.
09.07.2025 14:41 — 👍 3059 🔁 742 💬 169 📌 49
AI vs. Autocracy: Seven Lessons in the New Battle for Democracy
Introduction + Lesson 1
What This Series Is
This isn’t a primer on AI.
It’s a field manual for people trying to protect democracy from the systems that now threaten it, digitally and psychologically.
open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
07.07.2025 20:54 — 👍 136 🔁 52 💬 5 📌 4
The Chimes of Freedom Grow Faint
We’re not teetering on the edge. We’re in the abyss.
Our freedoms and liberty are receding. It isn't too late. Yet.
My latest column.
The Chimes of Freedom Grow Faint www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-chimes...
04.07.2025 14:06 — 👍 96 🔁 27 💬 7 📌 1
$4 trillion in new debt spending. On top of $8.4 trillion in first term. Thats a whole lotta trillions. Fiscal responsibility. Huzzah!
All while closing 90 trade deals in 90 days and ending the war in Ukraine.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
03.07.2025 22:07 — 👍 267 🔁 61 💬 10 📌 1
Build Alligator Alcatraz: A Modest Proposal
Come for the cruelty...stay for the...well, you'll see.
Alligator Alcatraz is more than a prison. It’s a demonstration project.
Read the latest from @therickwilson.bsky.social :
03.07.2025 02:17 — 👍 2067 🔁 562 💬 287 📌 37
Lesson 6: Values Are the Bridge. Use Them.
Ten Lessons for the Resistance in a Fear-Based System
Authoritarians erode democracy by isolating people from their values — and by mocking the idea that we still share any.
They win when people say, “We’re too divided.”
They lose when we demonstrate that shared values still exist—and still matter.
open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
01.07.2025 15:24 — 👍 303 🔁 89 💬 9 📌 4
Lesson 4: The Goal Must Be Shared — and Clear
Ten Lessons for the Resistance in a Fear-Based System
Three Things You Can Do Today
1. Get brutally honest about your own purpose.
Ask yourself: What are you actually trying to do? Are you trying to feel good? Be right? Or win power for democracy again? Reframe your work around that.
open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
29.06.2025 11:36 — 👍 310 🔁 109 💬 10 📌 6
Lesson 3: “Trump Sucks” Is Not a Winning Platform
Ten Lessons for the Resistance in a Fear-Based System
Lesson #3 Trump Sucks IS Not A Winning Platform
Democratic opposition groups all agree ‘(Insert Dictator’s Name) sucks.’ Unfortunately, I can’t think of how to turn that into a winning campaign motto in any country
open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
28.06.2025 16:24 — 👍 272 🔁 45 💬 36 📌 9
Lesson 2: Survival Isn’t Strategy. Unity Is.
Ten Lessons for the Resistance in a Fear-Based System
Survival is not a strategy.
Unity is.
If fear isolates, unity is the antidote.
If chaos fragments, unity gives form.
If the regime wants you to fight each other, your first move is to stop handing them the win.
open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
27.06.2025 15:49 — 👍 284 🔁 76 💬 12 📌 4
See the hypocrisy here?
They wear masks and no identification so they don’t get doxxed …
So that people wearing masks and without identification don’t show up at their doors, beat them, and drag them away from their families.
This circular logic is what happens when #RuleOfLaw dies.
24.06.2025 22:43 — 👍 670 🔁 183 💬 30 📌 4
Trump doesn't know what the fuck he's doing. He's old, weak, and out of his depth.
24.06.2025 11:14 — 👍 5044 🔁 815 💬 271 📌 42
Why I Finally Went to my First Protest
It took 58 years, but I showed up — because the bastards are counting on us not to.
I didn’t show up on June 14 because I discovered a late-in-life love for pithy signs or patchouli. I’m not suffering from adult-onset hippie syndrome. I showed up because the stakes have changed. This isn’t politics as usual — it hasn’t been for a decade.
open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
21.06.2025 12:18 — 👍 243 🔁 48 💬 13 📌 3
Hospitals stunned by Senate GOP’s Medicaid plan
Republicans want to curtail taxes states have imposed to increase payments to hospitals.
Let's be clear: this is a red state healthcare executive telling people that rural red states will be gutted.
“The further the cuts that are made, the more devastating it is,” said Shantel Krebs, president and CEO of Avera St. Mary’s, a hospital in South Dakota.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
18.06.2025 02:58 — 👍 1345 🔁 491 💬 42 📌 21
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15.06.2025 17:21 — 👍 38 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
We the People will have #NoKings
@lincolnproject.us
14.06.2025 17:23 — 👍 2042 🔁 246 💬 19 📌 12
Retired Twin Cities (Minnesota) lawyer, politics writer at Left.MN, photography enthusiast, and last but not least, cat lover
Democracy Expert trained 1000's worldwide to fight for it. Sr Advisor @projectlincoln & @LDIDemocracy. Weekly on @allbaughshow. WI boy, Girl Dad, Packer Fan.
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Too sarcastic for my own good.
Wife, mama, sister, friend, suburban woman fighting for democracy. NOT a national security/geopolitical expert but I have a guy for that.
I believe all of us are all interconnected and together we can make this world a better place
Forever Teacher, NC State
Now Political Independent #NeverTrump
Past Business Insider, Lincoln Project, John Kasich
Former GOP Nominee Virginia House of Delegates (2015, 74th District)
Former Republican
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W.E. create opportunities for listening & understanding, bridging divides across all beliefs.
Skeptic and Secular Humanist who believes Democratic Socialism is the only way to ever have a healthy and thriving society for all. I'm a bad musician and singer. A bad artist and writer. A bad angler and gamer. But... those are the things I want to do.
Writer. Former Capitol Hill staffer. Oregon-based. Often in the woods with my dogs. Views my own.
I write about the current political moment. Check it out: https://quartzevelyn.substack.com
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Senior Advisor @centerforballotfreedom.org. Here for multiparty democracy, election reform, and government that works.
Reviving #FusionVoting 🗳 former @workingfamilies.org
Historian. Politico Magazine contributing writer. NYT best-selling author, including Building the Great Society and Lincoln’s Boys. Twitter refugee. This place is nicer, but I still block antisemites.
Where facts, experts, fearless media, and the ferocious opposition meet. We're fighting back against the American autocratic movement and fighting forward to create the America we all deserve. Join us. https://lincolnsquare.media
Lifelong liberal Dem eager to join hands with principled conservatives to save this republic from Trump’s authoritarian threat. Proud Central Michigan University and Wayne State Law alum. Go Detroit Tigers!
