Michael D. Rabin
@mdrabin.bsky.social
Psychologist, humanist, designer, inventor, life coach, collector of beautiful things, dog lover.
Judge Luttig is correct about what Mousse Olini intends.
"With his every word and deed, Trump has given Americans reason to believe that he will seek a third term, in defiance of the Constitution. It seems abundantly clear that he will hold on to the office at any cost, including America’s ruin."
"With his every word and deed, Trump has given Americans reason to believe that he will seek a third term, in defiance of the Constitution. It seems abundantly clear that he will hold on to the office at any cost, including America’s ruin."
President for Life
Donald Trump is trying to amass the powers of a king.
www.theatlantic.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Judge Luttig is correct about what Mousse Olini intends.
"With his every word and deed, Trump has given Americans reason to believe that he will seek a third term, in defiance of the Constitution. It seems abundantly clear that he will hold on to the office at any cost, including America’s ruin."
"With his every word and deed, Trump has given Americans reason to believe that he will seek a third term, in defiance of the Constitution. It seems abundantly clear that he will hold on to the office at any cost, including America’s ruin."
"Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants themselves. One by one American leaders supposedly committed to principles of free speech, due process, democracy, and equality have abandoned those ideals."
Lower Than Cowards
The surrender of America’s elites
www.theatlantic.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants themselves. One by one American leaders supposedly committed to principles of free speech, due process, democracy, and equality have abandoned those ideals."
“In the 160 years since the end of the Civil War,
“Harvard’s massive concession to Trump is a sign that the long era of American academic independence is drawing to a close.”
“Harvard’s massive concession to Trump is a sign that the long era of American academic independence is drawing to a close.”
Harvard’s $500 million surrender to Trump heralds an end to US academic freedoms — The Hill
Harvard’s elite administrators may think it’s easier to simply pay off the strongman at their gates, but giving the bully your lunch money only invites him to demand more.
apple.news
July 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
“In the 160 years since the end of the Civil War,
“Harvard’s massive concession to Trump is a sign that the long era of American academic independence is drawing to a close.”
“Harvard’s massive concession to Trump is a sign that the long era of American academic independence is drawing to a close.”
I recommend the recent Frontline on Mousse Olini’s abuse of power. A good chronicle of the precarious state of our constitutional order. One thing I noticed while watching, though, is that even through the TV screen you can smell Bannon’s BO.
July 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I recommend the recent Frontline on Mousse Olini’s abuse of power. A good chronicle of the precarious state of our constitutional order. One thing I noticed while watching, though, is that even through the TV screen you can smell Bannon’s BO.
"Trump 2.0 is just getting started, yet it already represents the high-water mark of American kleptocracy. There are good reasons to think it will get much worse."
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
America Has Never Seen Corruption Like This
Trump’s Qatari jet was just the beginning.
www.theatlantic.com
July 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"Trump 2.0 is just getting started, yet it already represents the high-water mark of American kleptocracy. There are good reasons to think it will get much worse."
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Every day on my mind:
"What in Gods name has happened to the Jewish community, that we can sit idly by and watch a minority population being targeted in this way: dehumanized, lied about, harassed, arrested, and shipped off to “facilities” around the country? Do we not see the obvious similarities?"
"What in Gods name has happened to the Jewish community, that we can sit idly by and watch a minority population being targeted in this way: dehumanized, lied about, harassed, arrested, and shipped off to “facilities” around the country? Do we not see the obvious similarities?"
Have we become the 'ordinary Germans' now?
How can American Jews stand by while thousands of innocent people are illegally arrested, imprisoned and tortured?
forward.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Every day on my mind:
"What in Gods name has happened to the Jewish community, that we can sit idly by and watch a minority population being targeted in this way: dehumanized, lied about, harassed, arrested, and shipped off to “facilities” around the country? Do we not see the obvious similarities?"
"What in Gods name has happened to the Jewish community, that we can sit idly by and watch a minority population being targeted in this way: dehumanized, lied about, harassed, arrested, and shipped off to “facilities” around the country? Do we not see the obvious similarities?"
Greeting from sleepy Torrington, CT. Mundus Sine Caesaribus.
June 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Greeting from sleepy Torrington, CT. Mundus Sine Caesaribus.
History lesson...
"Using disorder he had helped manufacture, the chancellor seized control of Bavaria."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
"Using disorder he had helped manufacture, the chancellor seized control of Bavaria."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator
Using disorder he had helped manufacture, the chancellor seized control of Bavaria.
www.theatlantic.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
History lesson...
"Using disorder he had helped manufacture, the chancellor seized control of Bavaria."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
"Using disorder he had helped manufacture, the chancellor seized control of Bavaria."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Torrington” - sign up now to join me! #freedomoverfascism www.mobilize.us/freedomoverf...
NO KINGS Torrington · Freedom Over Fascism
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.**
NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...
www.mobilize.us
June 8, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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The ONLY surprise is that the shitshow lasted this long (I predicted the romance would end in March). They should be placed in adjacent padded cells, with a small open window between them, and spend the rest of their disreputable lives berating each other. That would be justice.
June 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The ONLY surprise is that the shitshow lasted this long (I predicted the romance would end in March). They should be placed in adjacent padded cells, with a small open window between them, and spend the rest of their disreputable lives berating each other. That would be justice.
The more people open their hearts to us, the less we will have to fight for our rights.
Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk
June 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The more people open their hearts to us, the less we will have to fight for our rights.
Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!
Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk
June 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!
Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk
All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.
Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk
June 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.
Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk
Hope is never silent.
Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk
June 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Hope is never silent.
Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk
Join me at Hartford,CT Kick Out the Clowns: End The Greatest Shit Show on Earth. I'm hoping to serve up some crushed taco shells. action.womensmarch.com/events/hartf...
Hartford,CT Kick Out the Clowns: End The Greatest Shit Show on Earth
When you elect clowns, they don’t become leaders. The country becomes a circus. 🤡
On June 14, Donald Trump will honor himself with a four-mile military parade in our nation’s capitol. Trump’s tacky p...
action.womensmarch.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Join me at Hartford,CT Kick Out the Clowns: End The Greatest Shit Show on Earth. I'm hoping to serve up some crushed taco shells. action.womensmarch.com/events/hartf...
We must rally around institutions willing to pay a price for standing up to the rising fascism and the onslaught against the values we have strived to enshrine since the enlightenment. There is no longer time for trying to dance between the rain drops. Unified resistance is the only way through.
The New Dark Age
The Trump administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself.
www.theatlantic.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
We must rally around institutions willing to pay a price for standing up to the rising fascism and the onslaught against the values we have strived to enshrine since the enlightenment. There is no longer time for trying to dance between the rain drops. Unified resistance is the only way through.
“What you are feeling is the disconnect between seeing that systems are failing, that things aren’t working … and yet the institutions and the people in power just are, like, ignoring it and pretending everything is going to go on the way that it has.”
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Systems are crumbling - but daily life continues. The dissonance is real — Guardian US
If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help
apple.news
May 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“What you are feeling is the disconnect between seeing that systems are failing, that things aren’t working … and yet the institutions and the people in power just are, like, ignoring it and pretending everything is going to go on the way that it has.”
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apple.news/AzWK5A-BBQYq...
"This epic clash between a despotic madman and a feisty little newspaper run by socialists began playing itself out a century ago... The newspaper’s fearlessness is a symbol of how a free press can challenge authoritarianism."
forward.com/opinion/7213...
forward.com/opinion/7213...
A century ago, Hitler declared war on the 'lying press' and targeted a feisty little newspaper — sound familiar?
In the 1920s and ’30s, Germans failed to heed the warnings of a feisty little newspaper called the Münchener Post.
forward.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
"This epic clash between a despotic madman and a feisty little newspaper run by socialists began playing itself out a century ago... The newspaper’s fearlessness is a symbol of how a free press can challenge authoritarianism."
forward.com/opinion/7213...
forward.com/opinion/7213...
There may not be as much humanity in the world as one would like to see. But there is some. There's more than one would think.
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
May 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
There may not be as much humanity in the world as one would like to see. But there is some. There's more than one would think.
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
May 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
May 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
James A. Baldwin
James A. Baldwin
May 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
James A. Baldwin
James A. Baldwin
We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.
James A. Baldwin
James A. Baldwin
May 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.
James A. Baldwin
James A. Baldwin