Steps on the way to impeachment:
JUST IN: Reps. Massie and Khanna say "DOJ cannot be trusted" to release all of the Epstein files, urge a federal judge to appoint an independent overseer to make it happen. khanna.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
January 8, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Steps on the way to impeachment:
Steps on the way to impeachment:
[but isn't his lack of morality the freakin' problem?]
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
[but isn't his lack of morality the freakin' problem?]
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Steps on the way to impeachment:
[but isn't his lack of morality the freakin' problem?]
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
[but isn't his lack of morality the freakin' problem?]
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
It is hard to reconcile the joy of how sweet & silly a 6 year old can be with the chaos this vicious, incompetent, and corrupt federal administration brings us.
Or, to put it more bluntly, if your politics is not about bringing joy, care, & meeting the daily needs of people, your politics is shit.
Or, to put it more bluntly, if your politics is not about bringing joy, care, & meeting the daily needs of people, your politics is shit.
January 7, 2026 at 10:45 PM
It is hard to reconcile the joy of how sweet & silly a 6 year old can be with the chaos this vicious, incompetent, and corrupt federal administration brings us.
Or, to put it more bluntly, if your politics is not about bringing joy, care, & meeting the daily needs of people, your politics is shit.
Or, to put it more bluntly, if your politics is not about bringing joy, care, & meeting the daily needs of people, your politics is shit.
Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=31gZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=31gZ...
BREAKING: Minneapolis mayor tells ICE to "get the f*** out" of city after agent kills woman
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=31gZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=31gZ...
Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsv3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsv3...
WATCH: Rep. Jamie Raskin makes opening statement in hearing to mark 5th anniversary of Jan. 6 attack
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsv3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsv3...
Thoughts on the post-47th world:
@jessicavalenti.bsky.social
Breaking: Wyoming Supreme Court Rules Abortion is Healthcare
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
@jessicavalenti.bsky.social
Breaking: Wyoming Supreme Court Rules Abortion is Healthcare
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
Breaking: Wyoming Supreme Court Rules Abortion is Healthcare
The court struck down two state bans
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Thoughts on the post-47th world:
@jessicavalenti.bsky.social
Breaking: Wyoming Supreme Court Rules Abortion is Healthcare
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
@jessicavalenti.bsky.social
Breaking: Wyoming Supreme Court Rules Abortion is Healthcare
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
Steps on the way to impeachment:
[in case you missed it during all the foreign affairs]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGtl...
[in case you missed it during all the foreign affairs]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGtl...
WATCH: Jack Smith's full House Judiciary deposition on investigating and indicting Trump
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Steps on the way to impeachment:
[in case you missed it during all the foreign affairs]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGtl...
[in case you missed it during all the foreign affairs]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGtl...
Steps on the way to impeachment:
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Venezuela: The Precedents
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Venezuela: The Precedents
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Venezuela: The Precedents
And America: The Future
open.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Steps on the way to impeachment:
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Venezuela: The Precedents
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Venezuela: The Precedents
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:
[short, sweet, and to the point]
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-1...
[short, sweet, and to the point]
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-1...
December 15, 2025
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:
[short, sweet, and to the point]
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-1...
[short, sweet, and to the point]
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-1...
Thoughts on the post-47th world:
Yeah…as someone who extensively covered his Big Lie in Georgia and the “parental rights”/ anti-everything movement in the U.S., I’ve written, spoken about and warned against the MSM’s normalization of this man and everything connected to him. From Nov. 9, 2024:
theemancipator.org/2024/11/09/t...
theemancipator.org/2024/11/09/t...
December 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Thoughts on the post-47th world:
Steps on the way to impeachment:
[Catching up on holiday reading and a link (to a link) to the pulled 60 Minutes CECOT segment if you haven't had a chance to watch it yet.]
A Conviction, Two Orders, and A Lawsuit
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
[Catching up on holiday reading and a link (to a link) to the pulled 60 Minutes CECOT segment if you haven't had a chance to watch it yet.]
A Conviction, Two Orders, and A Lawsuit
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
A Conviction, Two Orders, and A Lawsuit
Also announcing a very special Substack Live in the morning
open.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Steps on the way to impeachment:
[Catching up on holiday reading and a link (to a link) to the pulled 60 Minutes CECOT segment if you haven't had a chance to watch it yet.]
A Conviction, Two Orders, and A Lawsuit
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
[Catching up on holiday reading and a link (to a link) to the pulled 60 Minutes CECOT segment if you haven't had a chance to watch it yet.]
A Conviction, Two Orders, and A Lawsuit
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
This may be the genesis of a project.
“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller)
more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living”
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living”
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
Criticism Is Literature. Why Is It Vanishing?, by Adam Morgan
What do the best book reviews do? What is the current state of the critical ecosystem? Chicago Review of Books founder Adam Morgan takes stock of book reviewing in the US.
worldliteraturetoday.org
December 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This may be the genesis of a project.
Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:
"...putting this installation out is not adding politics, it's removing the filters that maybe made the story feel safe in the first place, because it never was.” Pastor Griffin-Allison
www.keranews.org/news/2025-12...
"...putting this installation out is not adding politics, it's removing the filters that maybe made the story feel safe in the first place, because it never was.” Pastor Griffin-Allison
www.keranews.org/news/2025-12...
Dallas church’s nativity evokes immigration detention centers, homelessness
“If telling the Christmas story honestly feels political, that says more about our moment than it does about the gospel,” Rev. Rachel Griffin-Allison, senior pastor at Oak Lawn United Methodist Church...
www.keranews.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:
"...putting this installation out is not adding politics, it's removing the filters that maybe made the story feel safe in the first place, because it never was.” Pastor Griffin-Allison
www.keranews.org/news/2025-12...
"...putting this installation out is not adding politics, it's removing the filters that maybe made the story feel safe in the first place, because it never was.” Pastor Griffin-Allison
www.keranews.org/news/2025-12...
What a terrible thing it is
Mass shootings as regime change
open.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
December 9, 2025
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
open.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Thoughts on the post-47th world:
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Thoughts on the post-47th world:
Steps on the way to impeachment:
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
Indiana Lawmakers Reject Trump’s New Political Map
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Steps on the way to impeachment:
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
Mind Maps (Redux)
From street medicine to AI slop and why I can't be a positive force for good
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:
[with 25 seat flips someone's gonna have to start to think hard about their policies]
Georgia Democrats flip conservative seat in yet another upset
open.substack.com/pub/thedownb...
[with 25 seat flips someone's gonna have to start to think hard about their policies]
Georgia Democrats flip conservative seat in yet another upset
open.substack.com/pub/thedownb...
Georgia Democrats flip conservative seat in yet another upset
That's 25 pickups for Democrats nationwide this year—and zero for Republicans
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:
[with 25 seat flips someone's gonna have to start to think hard about their policies]
Georgia Democrats flip conservative seat in yet another upset
open.substack.com/pub/thedownb...
[with 25 seat flips someone's gonna have to start to think hard about their policies]
Georgia Democrats flip conservative seat in yet another upset
open.substack.com/pub/thedownb...
Thoughts on the post-47th world:
[Or: sometimes in all the craziness, it's nice to just sit back and listen to reasonable people discuss reasonable things.]
@hcrichardson.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L...
[Or: sometimes in all the craziness, it's nice to just sit back and listen to reasonable people discuss reasonable things.]
@hcrichardson.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L...
American Conversations: Zohran Mamdani
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Thoughts on the post-47th world:
[Or: sometimes in all the craziness, it's nice to just sit back and listen to reasonable people discuss reasonable things.]
@hcrichardson.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L...
[Or: sometimes in all the craziness, it's nice to just sit back and listen to reasonable people discuss reasonable things.]
@hcrichardson.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L...
December 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Steps on the way to impeachment:
The Moment to Pick a Side Has Come open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The Moment to Pick a Side Has Come open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The Moment to Pick a Side Has Come
“You must refuse illegal orders.” That’s what was said in the video made by six Democratic members of Congress.
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Steps on the way to impeachment:
The Moment to Pick a Side Has Come open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The Moment to Pick a Side Has Come open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:
Weekend Update #161: Not A Bad Week For Ukraine
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Weekend Update #161: Not A Bad Week For Ukraine
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Weekend Update #161: Not A Bad Week For Ukraine
Truth, Democracy and Corruption, Possible High Command Changes, Are European Gloves Coming Off?
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:
Weekend Update #161: Not A Bad Week For Ukraine
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Weekend Update #161: Not A Bad Week For Ukraine
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Steps on the way to impeachment:
The Autocrat’s Accusation: The Deadly Politics of Calling Americans Traitors open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr...
The Autocrat’s Accusation: The Deadly Politics of Calling Americans Traitors open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr...
The Autocrat’s Accusation: The Deadly Politics of Calling Americans Traitors
How Trump’s expanding use of the word traitor reveals a governing strategy, erodes democratic norms, and exposes Americans to rising political danger.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Steps on the way to impeachment:
The Autocrat’s Accusation: The Deadly Politics of Calling Americans Traitors open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr...
The Autocrat’s Accusation: The Deadly Politics of Calling Americans Traitors open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr...
Thoughts on the post-47th world:
[or things to be thankful for]
[or things to be thankful for]
Even in a hard season, gratitude keeps rising.
I’m thankful for the resilience we build together, the kindness we pass forward, and the community growing here.
If you need a little light today, I wrote this for you.
open.substack.com/pub/thejenni...
I’m thankful for the resilience we build together, the kindness we pass forward, and the community growing here.
If you need a little light today, I wrote this for you.
open.substack.com/pub/thejenni...
Gratitude as Hope and Resistance
For Thanksgiving: On resilience, chosen family, and the community we are building together🫶🏻
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Thoughts on the post-47th world:
[or things to be thankful for]
[or things to be thankful for]