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· Feb 4
Familiar
In December 2015 I flew home to Seattle the day before my father had surgery to remove a malignant tumor, an operation that would prove unsuccessful, ending in his death six weeks later.
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I just added my very first (and maybe last!) post on Substack. It's about my dad (who is not in the picture though it kind of looks like him...)
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Looking at you, Jake Tapper
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Looking at you, Jake Tapper
We need to break Stacey Abrams out of Georgia and unleash her on the rest of the country, let her work her magic getting people, non voters especially, to the polls. She is fearless.
There are cracks in Trump’s power. We have to lean in.
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Takeaways From Election 2025
Keep Fighting
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November 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We need to break Stacey Abrams out of Georgia and unleash her on the rest of the country, let her work her magic getting people, non voters especially, to the polls. She is fearless.
This is only the shit we're seeing in the light of day. God only knows what's happening in the shadows.
November 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This is only the shit we're seeing in the light of day. God only knows what's happening in the shadows.
In what universe are these the good guys?
November 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
In what universe are these the good guys?
As a result, Trump's going to sign an executive order banning reality.
Trump is met with utter silence from the troops in Japan as he lies that "grocery prices are way down"
October 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
As a result, Trump's going to sign an executive order banning reality.
It's the permanence of this that gets me. A lot of the stuff he's done can be undone but you can't replace something that was built centuries ago. It's gone forever. I wish Trump were too.
“.. Trump is doing more than elevating bad taste by building a monument to himself. He’s .. taking a wrecking ball to the quaint notion that the White House’s occupant should have goals and values that transcend grifts ..”
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October 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
It's the permanence of this that gets me. A lot of the stuff he's done can be undone but you can't replace something that was built centuries ago. It's gone forever. I wish Trump were too.
Hey GOP, we're the only ones who should be allowed to carry the flag. You throw away that right every day you enable your would-be king to stay in power. You'd just love to toss aside that pesky democracy and take a short cut to oligarchy, elections be damned. You are no longer worthy of my flag.
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Hey GOP, we're the only ones who should be allowed to carry the flag. You throw away that right every day you enable your would-be king to stay in power. You'd just love to toss aside that pesky democracy and take a short cut to oligarchy, elections be damned. You are no longer worthy of my flag.
Does anyone else still harbor the hope that all of this could change on a dime, maybe by way of a leaked Epstein revelation or some unforgivable gaffe? It all seems so fragile, built on lies, one hot-mic moment away from disaster. Could come any day. Please, God, make it so.
October 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Does anyone else still harbor the hope that all of this could change on a dime, maybe by way of a leaked Epstein revelation or some unforgivable gaffe? It all seems so fragile, built on lies, one hot-mic moment away from disaster. Could come any day. Please, God, make it so.
The quiet part is getting awfully loud
Bessent: "The government is standing in the way. We've tried to get it out of the way. The Democrats have not been able to shut President Trump down in the courts. They've tried to shut him down in the media ... we need to get the government out of the way."
October 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The quiet part is getting awfully loud
I'm learning that all my life I've given people way too much credit.
October 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I'm learning that all my life I've given people way too much credit.
Seriously, Peter? History will be baffled by the media coverage during this time. American democracy was being dismantled in front of their eyes, the biggest story of their lifetimes, and journalists cowered in the corner or spent time on idiocy. Failed themselves, their readers and their republic.
While his father was vice president, Hunter Biden began developing relationships that led to an audacious proposal to sell the land around the US Embassy building in Romania to a group that included a Chinese company. @kenvogel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...
Hunter Biden Pursued a Deal to Sell Land Around the U.S. Embassy in Romania
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October 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Seriously, Peter? History will be baffled by the media coverage during this time. American democracy was being dismantled in front of their eyes, the biggest story of their lifetimes, and journalists cowered in the corner or spent time on idiocy. Failed themselves, their readers and their republic.
I replaced Trump for Hitler in this AI generated piece and learned that I could predict the future:
September 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I replaced Trump for Hitler in this AI generated piece and learned that I could predict the future:
They probably invited him back purely for entertainment purposes, an entire country laughing at him behind his back.
The ad-libbing is so embarrassing.
Trump shouts out George Orwell
September 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
They probably invited him back purely for entertainment purposes, an entire country laughing at him behind his back.
That's ok by me. My educated son will be their boss someday.
September 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
That's ok by me. My educated son will be their boss someday.
So unAmerican. There's a Ram truck commercial narrated by Dana White that ends with 'Never stop being American'. My question is what happens when America stops being American?
NEW: Chutkan called the Trump administration 'cavalier' about the fact that it may have sent five men to be persecuted and killed and said it may have been the Trump administration's goal.
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September 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
So unAmerican. There's a Ram truck commercial narrated by Dana White that ends with 'Never stop being American'. My question is what happens when America stops being American?
I think of the Trump regime as a last ditch effort to stop an inevitable tide of liberalism. Looking at ads on TV I see plenty of multiracial and LGBTQ+ families. Also, any job seeker will find that DEI is alive and well.
They can try to smother it but good will win out in the end.
They can try to smother it but good will win out in the end.
September 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I think of the Trump regime as a last ditch effort to stop an inevitable tide of liberalism. Looking at ads on TV I see plenty of multiracial and LGBTQ+ families. Also, any job seeker will find that DEI is alive and well.
They can try to smother it but good will win out in the end.
They can try to smother it but good will win out in the end.
Can we stop legitimizing this farce by calling it a 'summit'? It was bullshit from the start and an insult to Zalenskyy. And then there's Lavrov's tee shirt....
August 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Can we stop legitimizing this farce by calling it a 'summit'? It was bullshit from the start and an insult to Zalenskyy. And then there's Lavrov's tee shirt....
I'm sure it'll be available to commoners for free for weddings and such
August 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I'm sure it'll be available to commoners for free for weddings and such
The judicial branch telling the executive branch it can't override the legislative branch. Love to see my democracy at work. Now if only they'd stay in their own lane. Looking at you, SCOTUS.
JUDGE TIMOTHY DYK: “It’s just hard for me to see that Congress intended to give the president .. the wholesale authority to throw out the tariff schedule that Congress had adopted after years of careful work, and revise every one of these tariff rates.”
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August 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The judicial branch telling the executive branch it can't override the legislative branch. Love to see my democracy at work. Now if only they'd stay in their own lane. Looking at you, SCOTUS.
Yes, please give us the list, we'll just ignore the name between S and U that's crossed out with a black sharpie
Trump on Epstein: "You should focus on Clinton. You should focus on the president of Harvard. The former president of Harvard. You should focus on some of the hedge fund guys. I'll give you a list. These guys lived with Jeffrey Epstein. I sure as hell didn't."
July 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Yes, please give us the list, we'll just ignore the name between S and U that's crossed out with a black sharpie
Ok, I'll bite. I concede that Obama wrote every word of the Epstein files. NOW can I see them?
July 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Ok, I'll bite. I concede that Obama wrote every word of the Epstein files. NOW can I see them?
I feel like I'm going through the stages of death watching the slow motion downfall of democracy. I think I'm finally getting over my denial and careening fast into anger.
July 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I feel like I'm going through the stages of death watching the slow motion downfall of democracy. I think I'm finally getting over my denial and careening fast into anger.
MAGA uses Christianity to do unchristian things. I'm thinking God will have the final word on that come judgment day.
July 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
MAGA uses Christianity to do unchristian things. I'm thinking God will have the final word on that come judgment day.
Tarnishing the reputations of good men to distract us from the actions of awful ones.
As a candidate, Trump vowed to take "retribution" against his enemies. Now his appointees are targeting for possible prosecution Comey and Brennan who were involved in investigating Russia's support for Trump in 2016 @glennthrush.bsky.social @julianbarnes.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...
Administration Takes Steps to Target 2 Officials Who Investigated Trump
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July 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Tarnishing the reputations of good men to distract us from the actions of awful ones.
He said they 'hate' our country, but the thing is Trump's the one who hates our country and wants to dispense with all our democratic norms and institutions that make America America.
DOOCY: Booker and Padilla have a bill to require CBP and ICE officers to have legible IDs and then don't want them covering their faces. Would you sign that?
TRUMP: They wouldn't be saying that if they didn't have our country, and they obviously do.
TRUMP: They wouldn't be saying that if they didn't have our country, and they obviously do.
July 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
He said they 'hate' our country, but the thing is Trump's the one who hates our country and wants to dispense with all our democratic norms and institutions that make America America.