Perhaps “child rapist” would be a technically accurate and therefore acceptable term.

And all of them will disappoint you at some point.

A purple block with the headline: How to Defend Each Other. The subhead reads: What I am learning from the invaded cities. The link is: kcflodin.substack.com.

LInk in bio!

From Ezra Klein:
“More than anything else, this is what led some Senate Democrats to cut a deal: Trump’s willingness to hurt people exceeds their willingness to see people get hurt.”
That is a more charitable interpretation than I’m willing to make.

A purple box that says: What Mamdani's Win Means to Me...as a Christian mother of Muslim daughters. kcflodin.substack.com

There will be a lot takes this morning. Here's mine (link in bio).

Image of a wide mountain valley with a river running through it

This is the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, which was just opened to drilling.

Superimposed over a photo of a welcome mat, the headline: Dust Off Your Welcome Mat. Subhead: A message to my friends on the further left. At the bottom, the link: kcflodin.substack.com.

Link in bio!

Photo of a young couple at their wedding during their first kiss with me (silver-haired lady in the background, officiating). Title and subtitle says: This Week, Joy: Family, friends and a new beginning for a young couple

New note, peeps. Link in bio. Follow me and you'll get 'em right in your email. More email, right? Yay!

Photo of a couple protesting holding up signs that say: "Stop the coup!" and "Zelenski is no dictator, Putin is!" The title on the photo says: Protesting in MAGA Country: When the location seems tricky at first glance" On the bottom it reads: KCFLODIN.SUBSTACK.COM.

Meet Jenny and John! Link in bio!

Ain’t gonna play Sun City no more

Get (More) Unruly There is a window of time to affect change because I am writing this and I am not being arrested.

Hey y'all, I did a thing. Follow me on Substack! My newsletter is called Turns Out, I Have Notes. open.substack.com/pub/kcflodin....

In Washington DC we’re not using food delivery because ICE is pulling the drivers right off their bikes.

Trump's Big Stick Might be...Kind of Puny Can we actually force the rest of the world to make our energy mistake?

Bill Mckibben correctly calls @jael.bsky.social “invaluable “ in this piece:

open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Don't listen to centrist Democrats about crime They're wrong on the policy and wrong on the politics.

open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

From the Resistance Museum in Oslo, Norway

D.C. bar owners say Trump’s federal law enforcement crackdown is killing their business “This is not sustainable,” Dave Peruzza, a gay business owner in D.C., told The Advocate.

www.advocate.com/news/dc-busi...

Opinion | Mamdani, Trump and the End of the Old Politics

Very interesting 84 minute conversation about Mamdani and why he trounced Cuomo. Absolutely astounding to me they NEVER mentioned Cuomo is a sexual predator and that might be a bright line for some people. “Scandal” is as close as they got.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/o...

I liked it, but I don’t really agree it was briskly paced.

I think what establishment democrats need to understand is that most of us hate them all very much for being so persistently useless and shitty in our time of desperation and it fills our hearts with hope and joy when someone who might not be those things beats them.

Huge mass of people waiting with luggage

This sucks- big backup for buses to take us from remote terminals at IAD after a long day Flying V

Americans know scapegoating when we see it.

Authoritarians target, vilify and demonize small minority groups to whip up negative emotions and mask their own programs.

It's up to the people to reject sinister efforts to dehumanize and stigmatize transgender Americans.

Whatever happened to institutions? Policy positions? Votes? How can “Donny broke up with Elon” be the most important news of the day?

Screenshot of NYTimes front page, 6/6/25, with several screaming headlines about Trump and Musk arguing.

This strike me as a parody of a front page, something you might see in Oz or a pretend kingdom, or high school: Our Ruler is arguing with His Favorite! What does that mean for us!

Thanks to all of you who attended the first Liberation Weekend, and the help of all our amazing sponsors, we were able to raise more than $30K for GLM. We’re still crunching the numbers though and the total may be more than $35K.

We look forward to next year, because there’s no way we’re letting this momentum slow down. And we hope this event and its non-profit model inspires more festivals like it in other parts of our fracturing nation. Grateful, beaming and eternally yours, the Liberation Weekend team.

More than $30K for trans rights. Can we get a W in the chat

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight

Shame, shame NYT.

Full disclosure: I was up at the wee hours past midnight helping my very good friend Eric through this bill after he flagged the language for me.

If you want to support the only journalist who was up late last night asking lawmakers about trans Americans,

PLEASE share this story.

Stand strong!

Spotlight. Catholic horror movie.