Adam Tompkins

A Fool and a Tool: Trump Is Spreading Russian Disinformation Three years after the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Trump is not just siding with Putin, he’s circulating Putin’s lies.

After years of yelling that the “Russia hoax” was a witch hunt, Trump is now openly colluding with Vladimir Putin in both narrative and action.

America is standing up. Let’s keep the momentum going—more protests are planned for next week. Together, we can stop this coup.

Remember, the resistance won’t be televised.

Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

Special Vermont Resistance edition Lucy Welch, a hero for the moment.

Move over Ethan Allen, here comes Lucy Welch

billmckibben.substack.com/p/special-ve...

Even though Trump has exempted DOGE from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by placing it under the Presidential Records Act, its records are shielded from public disclosure until at least 2034.

February 3, 2025 I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.

February 3, 2025

This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Langston Hughes, “I, Too” (1926)

Don’t be the “Good German.” Resist. Pay attention. Find ways to oppose unjust actions (educate others, protest, write letters, provide support to orgs challenging wrongful actions, be an ally of targeted people). Don’t let hate and complacency still your heart. Persevere. Midterms are coming.

YouTube video by Michael Price The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein and Alfonso Cuaron

If you have not read the Shock Doctrine, this short 6:30 minute video sums up the argument. Know what Trump and the broligarchs are doing. The cruelty is the point. Knowledge builds shock resistance.

youtu.be/h7fWRoHLf6Q

Flip the script on democracy's destroyers. It's Day One of the new phase of the fight for our democracy.

Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.

January 22, 2025 Marc Caputo of Axios reported today that Trump’s decision to pardon or commute the sentences of all the January 6 rioters convicted of crimes for that day’s events, including those who attacked police...

January 22, 2025

Because most of the coastline of this gulf is, yes, Mexico. There is no Gulf of America. But there is a gulf between their stupidity and the reality. 17th & 18th c. maps.

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

If/when Trump reinstates military service members (with back pay) who were discharged for refusing the order to get the Covid vaccine, he has another large faction (over 8000) of people who will potentially/likely side with him if a constitutional crisis arises.

Mix Musk’s Nazi salute with Trump’s pardon of violent January 6th insurrectionists, many with ties to the White Power Movement.

Trump has now a network of racist paramilitary groups who are ever more loyal to him and have a long history of staging (leaderless resistance) “lone wolf” attacks.

Today we inaugurate our courage as power hopes to inaugurate our cowardice. Courage is not the absence of danger but the strength to do what’s right in the face of it, as has been said. We can begin amassing the strength to be antiracist in dangerously racist times. 1/2

I can only imagine the potential for White Power Movement violence in support of Trump has exponentially increased given Musk’s Nazi salute and Trump’s pardon of Jan 6 insurrectionists (who include WPM members who now know they can get away with it.) Read these books.

A piece about how it's much harder to do "shock and awe" than some might suspect. Enjoy!

*Every* post-WWII prez, except Trump, has started out w net positive approval when sworn in

Truman 87% positive
Ike 68%
JFK 72%
LBJ 78%
Nixon 59%
Ford 71%
Carter 66%
Reagan 51% (!)
GHWB 51%
Clinton 58%
GWB 57%
Obama 64%
Biden 57%

Trump-I 45%
Trump-II 44%

Mandate?

news.gallup.com/poll/116677/...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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