This is very good.
Psychiatrist Dr. @geoffreygrammer.bsky.social breaks down the scary psychology behind Trump's very disturbing birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein, including the drawing of a naked underage girl -- and the placement of his signature.

Just finished Chris Hayes' phenomenal book "The Sirens' Call" on the Attention Age and how social media made us miserable by sucking up our most valuable resource. Would highly recommend

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

What an excellent piece by Jamelle Bouie @jamellebouie.net -- here's a gift link so you can read it without the paywall:

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

Sign of the day…Chicago

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde will be @maddow.msnbc.com 's guest tonight at 9pm ET on MSNBC!

“I had a feeling that there were people watching what was happening and wondering, Was anyone going to say anything?” Bishop Mariann Budde explained. “Was anyone going to say anything about the turn the country’s taking?”

So, she took a breath, and spoke.

When we survive this dark chapter and there are sane people back in charge, can we agree that education and specifically civics education to ensure an informed, educated citizenry will be a high priority?

After X owner Elon Musk helped Donald Trump successfully run for office, some X users are jumping ship for the decentralized Twitter clone Bluesky.