Eric Christiansen
@erichristiansen.bsky.social
Retired HS Theatre Director; Harley Rider.
"I will not give in to the lies.
I will not give in to the fear."
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"Trumpum delenda est" - 8647
"I will not give in to the lies.
I will not give in to the fear."
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"Trumpum delenda est" - 8647
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NOTE: Sometimes I edit excerpts I am quoting from posted articles to fit BlueSky's character limit (rather than breaking quotes into separate posts, which is annoying for all). I try to preserve the sense of quotes, & always post a source link so readers can refer back. My apologies to the authors!
Reposted by Eric Christiansen
Like most of you, my first reaction to the action of the 8 senators that voted to end the shutdown was very negative. And then, I heard Lawrence O'Donnell's well-informed take and I changed my mind. Please WATCH THIS:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqe0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqe0...
Lawrence: With Trump's shutdown ending, Dems are closer than ever to forcing Epstein files release
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Like most of you, my first reaction to the action of the 8 senators that voted to end the shutdown was very negative. And then, I heard Lawrence O'Donnell's well-informed take and I changed my mind. Please WATCH THIS:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqe0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqe0...
1/2 Andy Borowitz: "I’d been pondering the mystery of MTG’s transformation, but then, on Instagram, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cleared the whole thing up. She revealed that Trump blocked Greene’s bid for the US Senate and that 'she has been on a revenge tour ever since.' ...
Who Will Replace MTG in Trump's Clown Car?
TBR Sunday Read
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
1/2 Andy Borowitz: "I’d been pondering the mystery of MTG’s transformation, but then, on Instagram, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cleared the whole thing up. She revealed that Trump blocked Greene’s bid for the US Senate and that 'she has been on a revenge tour ever since.' ...
1/2 "Trump has seemed particularly nervous that the Supreme Court might uphold the lower courts that have declared most of his tariffs illegal.... [Rep Jason Crow:] Trump has been 'using tariffs to enrich himself and his family,' ...
November 14, 2025
In a transparent attempt to distract from the many times his own name appears in the documents from the Epstein estate members of the House Oversight Committee released Wednesday, President Donald J.
open.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
1/2 "Trump has seemed particularly nervous that the Supreme Court might uphold the lower courts that have declared most of his tariffs illegal.... [Rep Jason Crow:] Trump has been 'using tariffs to enrich himself and his family,' ...
Trump & Trump administration scandals are multiplying, like flies on shit.
November 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Trump & Trump administration scandals are multiplying, like flies on shit.
1/2 "To understand Donald Trump, start with a single word:
'Hoax.' ...
When Trump says 'hoax,' he really means one thing: 'A truth I don’t like and can’t control.'
Trump’s use of 'hoax' isn’t random, it’s strategic. It does three things at once:
Reverses reality....
Conditions followers....
'Hoax.' ...
When Trump says 'hoax,' he really means one thing: 'A truth I don’t like and can’t control.'
Trump’s use of 'hoax' isn’t random, it’s strategic. It does three things at once:
Reverses reality....
Conditions followers....
The Hoax Presidency: From Russia to Epstein
A Decade of Denial, Deflection, and Deceit.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
1/2 "To understand Donald Trump, start with a single word:
'Hoax.' ...
When Trump says 'hoax,' he really means one thing: 'A truth I don’t like and can’t control.'
Trump’s use of 'hoax' isn’t random, it’s strategic. It does three things at once:
Reverses reality....
Conditions followers....
'Hoax.' ...
When Trump says 'hoax,' he really means one thing: 'A truth I don’t like and can’t control.'
Trump’s use of 'hoax' isn’t random, it’s strategic. It does three things at once:
Reverses reality....
Conditions followers....
1/2 "It’s important to get the story of Heritage correct, because it is also the story of the modern right as a whole. Heritage was never a respectable institution doing honest research. It was always in the business of telling lies on behalf of its wealthy supporters....
The Decline and Fall of the Heritage Foundation
Its descent into conspiracy-mongering and blatant bigotry was utterly predictable
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
1/2 "It’s important to get the story of Heritage correct, because it is also the story of the modern right as a whole. Heritage was never a respectable institution doing honest research. It was always in the business of telling lies on behalf of its wealthy supporters....
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"This is all about standing up to the bully. Americans didn’t sign up for rule by the rich and powerful or rule by a strongman. All of these folks who are being targeted by the administration in furtherance of that ploy deserve our support."
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Prosecuting Comey
Today, in Alexandria, Virginia, a senior federal judge from South Carolina, Cameron Currie, heard oral argument on consolidated motions filed by former FBI Director Jim Comey and New York Attorney Gen...
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"This is all about standing up to the bully. Americans didn’t sign up for rule by the rich and powerful or rule by a strongman. All of these folks who are being targeted by the administration in furtherance of that ploy deserve our support."
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
"We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with Trump and his cronies madly trying to convince voters to believe in their false world rather than the real one.
That spin has been hard at work in the past few days over the economy."
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
That spin has been hard at work in the past few days over the economy."
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 13, 2025
We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with Trump and his cronies madly trying to convince voters to believe in their false world rather than the real one.
That spin has been hard at work in the past few days over the economy."
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
That spin has been hard at work in the past few days over the economy."
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
"It turns out Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and House Democrats were right to call it the 'Epstein Shutdown' for the last several weeks on social media and in interviews."
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 12, 2025
It turns out Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and House Democrats were right to call it the “Epstein Shutdown” for the last several weeks on social media and in interviews.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
"It turns out Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and House Democrats were right to call it the 'Epstein Shutdown' for the last several weeks on social media and in interviews."
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
1/2 "Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, 84, has been hospitalized and is under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy, a degenerative neurological disease he has managed for years, according to the Rainbow PUSH Coalition." ...
NEWS: White House Effectively Frozen as More Bombshell Epstein Documents Come to Light
The White House is frozen as more bombshell Epstein documents come to light. I spent hours going through them all and will continue to do so throughout the day.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
1/2 "Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, 84, has been hospitalized and is under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy, a degenerative neurological disease he has managed for years, according to the Rainbow PUSH Coalition." ...
1/2 "What if I told you that Democrats actually won the shutdown war? Here’s why.
Democrats successfully used the shutdown to bring the issue of health care to the forefront
Voters now know that Democrats tried to help lower their health care costs, but were blocked from doing so ...
Democrats successfully used the shutdown to bring the issue of health care to the forefront
Voters now know that Democrats tried to help lower their health care costs, but were blocked from doing so ...
Why Democrats won the government shutdown
The government shutdown is over , and a contingent of Democrats are angry , believing that their lawmakers caved and should have held out longer to force Republicans to extend health care subsidies .....
www.dailykos.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
1/2 "What if I told you that Democrats actually won the shutdown war? Here’s why.
Democrats successfully used the shutdown to bring the issue of health care to the forefront
Voters now know that Democrats tried to help lower their health care costs, but were blocked from doing so ...
Democrats successfully used the shutdown to bring the issue of health care to the forefront
Voters now know that Democrats tried to help lower their health care costs, but were blocked from doing so ...
"Justifying his use of immigration agents, Trump accused all those who booed him of being in a Venezuelan drug cartel.
Elaborating, Trump said, 'Despite our successful air strikes off the coast of Venezuela, somehow 67,000 of these criminals got through.'"
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Elaborating, Trump said, 'Despite our successful air strikes off the coast of Venezuela, somehow 67,000 of these criminals got through.'"
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Trump Orders ICE to Arrest 67,000 NFL Fans Who Booed Him
The booing fans were "paid by Soros," he claimed.
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Justifying his use of immigration agents, Trump accused all those who booed him of being in a Venezuelan drug cartel.
Elaborating, Trump said, 'Despite our successful air strikes off the coast of Venezuela, somehow 67,000 of these criminals got through.'"
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Elaborating, Trump said, 'Despite our successful air strikes off the coast of Venezuela, somehow 67,000 of these criminals got through.'"
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Reposted by Eric Christiansen
🚨🚨🚨 DO NOT BE DISTRACTED & STAY LOUD!!! 🚨🚨🚨
TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.
TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.
November 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
🚨🚨🚨 DO NOT BE DISTRACTED & STAY LOUD!!! 🚨🚨🚨
TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.
TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.
1/2 "Democratic leverage isn’t lost forever; it is simply postponed. A new CR in late January could conceivably contain language reestablishing the subsidies if the voters are in full revolt and the Democrats are willing to go to the mat once more....
Opposition Politicians Have Two Jobs. Dems Flubbed The Second.
Understanding what went right and wrong about the shutdown first requires a clear way to measure political success
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
1/2 "Democratic leverage isn’t lost forever; it is simply postponed. A new CR in late January could conceivably contain language reestablishing the subsidies if the voters are in full revolt and the Democrats are willing to go to the mat once more....
1/2 "In her 2018 book 'Fascism: A Warning,' former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright noted that communities living under authoritarian systems often don't recognize the shift until it's well underway. The broader takeaway applies everywhere, ...
link.upnorthnewswi.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
1/2 "In her 2018 book 'Fascism: A Warning,' former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright noted that communities living under authoritarian systems often don't recognize the shift until it's well underway. The broader takeaway applies everywhere, ...
The history behind Veteran's Day and "a rules-based international order" generally. See LINK, below.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 11, 2025
In 1918, at the end of four years of World War I’s devastation, leaders negotiated for the guns in Europe to fall silent once and for all on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month...
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The history behind Veteran's Day and "a rules-based international order" generally. See LINK, below.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
"We need to distinguish Democrats who understand we are in an existential fight for democracy from those who think 'getting along in the Senate' is a worthwhile goal."
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Words & Phrases We Could Do Without
Forget ‘moderates.’ There are ‘fighters’ and there are ‘defeatists’
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"We need to distinguish Democrats who understand we are in an existential fight for democracy from those who think 'getting along in the Senate' is a worthwhile goal."
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
"News of the terms of the deal to end the shutdown hit the country rather like a cue ball hitting a rack: lots of balls started to move in wildly different directions."
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 10, 2025
Last night, the Senate advanced a measure to end the government shutdown, which at 41 days today is the longest in U.S.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"News of the terms of the deal to end the shutdown hit the country rather like a cue ball hitting a rack: lots of balls started to move in wildly different directions."
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
"MAGA Republicans have done more than any political movement to undermine public respect for and confidence in law enforcement."
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Lawless Enforcement
The feds are out of control
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
"MAGA Republicans have done more than any political movement to undermine public respect for and confidence in law enforcement."
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
1/2 "The people voted for fighters. The unpopularity of the Democratic Party has been tied to its lack of fight, its capitulation, and its failure to stand up unapologetically for the ideals and principles of the party....
Our Response to the COWARDLY 8!!!
By Ben Meiselas
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
1/2 "The people voted for fighters. The unpopularity of the Democratic Party has been tied to its lack of fight, its capitulation, and its failure to stand up unapologetically for the ideals and principles of the party....
1/2 "We are not living in normal times. This is not a moment for half-measures or bipartisan niceties. When the govt uses ICE agents as political enforcers, when it starves families by halting SNAP benefits, when it rewards the rich and corrupt while punishing workers, you don’t bend the knee...
Monday Afternoon Breaking News Updates - 11/10/25
As Trump lashes out at air traffic controllers and coddles the convicted elite, it’s clearer than ever that his regime rewards cruelty and punishes integrity.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
1/2 "We are not living in normal times. This is not a moment for half-measures or bipartisan niceties. When the govt uses ICE agents as political enforcers, when it starves families by halting SNAP benefits, when it rewards the rich and corrupt while punishing workers, you don’t bend the knee...
1/2 "it is important to remember that the majority of the Senate Democratic caucus is furious about this deal. So as much as we feel like blaming Democrats writ large, it’s important that we focus blame where it belongs. That is those eight Senators, Minority Leader Schumer, ...
Chop Wood, Carry Water 11/10
A short but important one.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
1/2 "it is important to remember that the majority of the Senate Democratic caucus is furious about this deal. So as much as we feel like blaming Democrats writ large, it’s important that we focus blame where it belongs. That is those eight Senators, Minority Leader Schumer, ...
1/2 "Yikes,” economic editor at The Bulwark Catherine Rampell wrote. “Astonishing how hard this administration is working to keep people hungry. It’s clear they are trying [to] maximize public suffering, in hopes of getting people to blame Dem[ocrat]s for that suffering....
November 9, 2025
In order to pressure the Democrats to cave to Trump’s demands that they sign on to the House Republicans’ continuing resolution to fund the government, the administration has been refusing to fund the...
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
1/2 "Yikes,” economic editor at The Bulwark Catherine Rampell wrote. “Astonishing how hard this administration is working to keep people hungry. It’s clear they are trying [to] maximize public suffering, in hopes of getting people to blame Dem[ocrat]s for that suffering....
"It’s far too early to declare victory. We can be sure that worse is to come from Trump and his lapdogs.
But Americans are becoming aware of what we’re losing. And we are starting to demand it back.
That’s Tuesday’s real victory."
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
But Americans are becoming aware of what we’re losing. And we are starting to demand it back.
That’s Tuesday’s real victory."
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Sunday thought: A beginning
Friends,
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"It’s far too early to declare victory. We can be sure that worse is to come from Trump and his lapdogs.
But Americans are becoming aware of what we’re losing. And we are starting to demand it back.
That’s Tuesday’s real victory."
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
But Americans are becoming aware of what we’re losing. And we are starting to demand it back.
That’s Tuesday’s real victory."
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...