Lori Ann

THANK YOU!!!!!

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.

I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

Zelensky is OG. If our leadership had a small fraction of his grit and courage then we’d be okay.

GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.

ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

It is and always has been a class war the broligarchs have waged on us. I want payback.

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last.

Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

“The Democrats didn’t do enough on Gaza, so I withheld my vote to make a statement.”

“Well, Trump won and now he’s gonna destroy Gaza.”

“Yep. We’re paying the price for the Democrats’ incompetence.”

“‘We?’ The Gazans are paying the price, not us”

Pause.

“I needed to make a statement.”

Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road drug marketplace Ulbricht, sentenced to life in prison in 2015, given ‘full and unconditional’ pardon by president

But he said he was cracking down on drug dealers, and labeling cartels terrorists. I wonder what makes this guy so special. It’s a real head scratcher 🙄

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Congratulations!!!!

Doing my part to make sure everyone sees.

It's tricky to absorb 2 contradictory facts about Trump:

1) It's a bad omen for U.S. democracy that Trump won fair and square.

2) Trump's victory was narrow and his party has razor-thin margins in Congress.

#1 doesn't change #2. He's still a weak president with a weak coalition.

Nah, it’s both more nuanced and simpler than that.

The FOP represents a reconstituted Confederate army, and the Capitol Police are Union soldiers, at least in the context of 1/6.

That we call both of them “police” is misleading and unhelpful in terms of clarifying reality.