Susan Creighton Wrigley

How the shutdown relates to autocracy. For the tyrant Congress and Parliament are expendable. I am the only one that matters Trump tells us. We deserve good governance and leaders who care about our welfare.

“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”

November 6, 2025 “None of this is complicated,” political data specialist Tom Bonier wrote yesterday about Tuesday’s dramatic Democratic victories around the country.

November 6, 2025

There's a reason they are not letting Congress people in.

November 5, 2025 New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a member of both the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, began his victory speech last night with a nod to Eugene V.

November 5, 2025

Thursday's @theguardian.com cartoon
#zohranmamdani #mamdani #zohranfornyc #NewYork

Tintin.

It's not uncommon to label all of the rooms in a facility for dementia patients

November 4, 2025 (Tuesday) So much for obeying a court order, even if begrudgingly and with manufactured delay.

November 4, 2025

That's awful. I hope you heal quickly.

Recruit a Democrat. Every seat. Every state. Waves need someone to ride them. Call your state party, sign up to run, or volunteer. Make the GOP fight for every inch. Let’s go! No seat left empty!

November 3, 2025 At the end of her interview with President Donald J.

November 3, 2025

Read the full transcript of Norah O'Donnell's interview with President Trump here. Read the full transcript of Norah O'Donnell's interview with President Trump here.

Only about a third of the Trump interview aired on "60 Minutes." CBS has published the transcript of the complete interview here —> www.cbsnews.com/news/read-fu...

Ladies and Gentlemen: The President of the United States.

November 2, 2025 Last Monday, October 27, right-wing personality Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist Nick Fuentes for more than two hours, mainstreaming the podcaster whose praise for Hitler, vows to kill Jew...

November 2, 2025

The Living and the Dead: An Anthropology of Power and Obedience Vampires, Zombies, and the Necrostate We’re Becoming

Between Halloween and the Day of the Dead, we flirt with the border between life and death. Our fascination with vampires and zombies reveals how power feeds, obedience spreads, and the living forget what it means to be alive.

#Anthropology #Necropolitics #Authoritarianism #DayOfTheDead #Democracy

November 1, 2025 Yesterday I wrote that President Donald J.

November 1, 2025

October 31, 2025 Yesterday a reporter asked Representative Joe Neguse, a Democrat of Colorado, about the administration’s withholding of reserve funds Congress intended would fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...

October 31, 2025

Opinion | How the Supreme Court Paved the Way for Revenge Prosecutions

Must read piece by @weissmann.substack.com & Mary McCord: In the year since, rather than preventing the weaponization of prosecutions, the court has unleashed it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...

Is Justice Done? You’ve probably seen or read at least something about the story that is the subject of tonight’s post.

Prosecutors are facing discipline for telling a judge the truth in a sentencing memo. This post traces the case, its facts, the sentencing process, and helps us understand why this completes the cycle of corrupting the Justice Department Trump has set us on.

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October 30, 2025 House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to pin the upcoming catastrophic lapse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funding on the Democrats.

October 30, 2025

Alice Barton (@alice22) “Dormant since 1992, the Nevada Test Site remains the nation’s only facility capable of full-scale nuclear detonations. Its very name—security site—carries an irony: for decades, the desert has served...

Born at the dawn of the atomic age, I grew up watching mushroom clouds on TV. A lifetime later, Trump’s order to restart nuclear testing revives the old theater of annihilation—where destruction itself becomes the language of power.

#NuclearSpectacle #Authoritarianism #ClimateJustice #StatePower

Happy Thursday!

Constructing 1984: The Enemy Within and the Authoritarian Surveillance State How the “enemy within” frame is weaponizing surveillance, turning contracts and databases into tools of authoritarian control

When I first read Orwell’s 1984, it felt like science fiction. Today it reads like journalism. Big Brother isn’t fiction anymore—it’s Clearview AI, data brokers, and loyalty scoring dressed up as administration.

#Surveillance #Authoritarianism #Orwell #CivilLiberties #Democracy #PoliticalEconomy

"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

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

October 29, 2025 Today is the twenty-ninth day of the government shutdown, and the House of Representatives is still on break as House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to force the Senate to pass the House...

October 29, 2025

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...

VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage: “The previously undisclosed document does not cite any evolving science. Rather, it relies on an order that President Donald Trump issued on his first day in office” www.propublica.org/article/vete...

Wishing all my friends in the United States a happy National Cat Day. We don't have a National Cat Day in the UK, just a National Cat. Me.
(Pic @pjrfoto.bsky.social)