Julie Bayer Donaldson
@2bjules.bsky.social
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Why Trump Always Wants a Crisis www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...
Opinion | Why Trump Always Wants a Crisis
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August 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Why Trump Always Wants a Crisis www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...
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“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.”
--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater
--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater
June 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.”
--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater
--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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May 31, 2025
May 31, 2025
“I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition,” Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine told her colleagues on June 1, 1950.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 6:13 AM
May 31, 2025
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The inside of the nutshell summed up by @hcrichardson.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The inside of the nutshell summed up by @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Couldn’t be more proud of my good Senator from New Jersey today.
April 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Couldn’t be more proud of my good Senator from New Jersey today.
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These are their names.
You may not agree with every action these people have ever made. But please recognize that this is ideological persecution, likely aided by digital surveillance evidence, and with no due process.
1/ Mahmoud Khalil (Columbia) (still detained)
www.aclu.org/.../a-letter....
You may not agree with every action these people have ever made. But please recognize that this is ideological persecution, likely aided by digital surveillance evidence, and with no due process.
1/ Mahmoud Khalil (Columbia) (still detained)
www.aclu.org/.../a-letter....
www.aclu.org
March 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
These are their names.
You may not agree with every action these people have ever made. But please recognize that this is ideological persecution, likely aided by digital surveillance evidence, and with no due process.
1/ Mahmoud Khalil (Columbia) (still detained)
www.aclu.org/.../a-letter....
You may not agree with every action these people have ever made. But please recognize that this is ideological persecution, likely aided by digital surveillance evidence, and with no due process.
1/ Mahmoud Khalil (Columbia) (still detained)
www.aclu.org/.../a-letter....
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March 27, 2025
March 27, 2025
Today, Wired reported that it had found four more Venmo accounts associated with the Trump administration officials who participated in the now-infamous Signal chat about a planned military attack on ...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
March 27, 2025
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That press conference was the most disgraceful act of betrayal I’ve ever seen.
February 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
That press conference was the most disgraceful act of betrayal I’ve ever seen.
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What’s the opposite of a Nobel Peace Prize?
I think we have a winner.
I think we have a winner.
February 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
What’s the opposite of a Nobel Peace Prize?
I think we have a winner.
I think we have a winner.
What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good.”
A good time to revisit Hannah Arendt's classic on the slippery normalization of evil and our only effective antidote to it
The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt on the Normalization of Human Wickedness and Our Only Effective Antidote to It
“Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not… No more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human h…
www.themarginalian.org
February 27, 2025 at 11:40 AM
What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good.”
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The moment in the cabinet meeting where RFK Jr, acting as the actual head of HHS was asked to respond to a deadly measles outbreak caused by vaccine refusal was one of those out-of-body, waking nightmare moments of the Trump era.
February 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The moment in the cabinet meeting where RFK Jr, acting as the actual head of HHS was asked to respond to a deadly measles outbreak caused by vaccine refusal was one of those out-of-body, waking nightmare moments of the Trump era.
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Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."
February 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."
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I was proud to be part of the United States team that rallied the world to support Ukraine. Now, I’m horrified by what we’ve become. A tragic day for democracy and an indelible stain on America’s history.
February 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I was proud to be part of the United States team that rallied the world to support Ukraine. Now, I’m horrified by what we’ve become. A tragic day for democracy and an indelible stain on America’s history.
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I can and should hate this malevolence.
All decent, loving, compassionate people should.
Every person claiming to care about what Jesus cared about should hate it.
Good people should unapologetically hate atrocities against humanity.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/its-ok-to-...
All decent, loving, compassionate people should.
Every person claiming to care about what Jesus cared about should hate it.
Good people should unapologetically hate atrocities against humanity.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/its-ok-to-...
It's Okay to Hate Him
Will Rogers was famously quoted as once saying, "I never met a man I didn't like."
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I can and should hate this malevolence.
All decent, loving, compassionate people should.
Every person claiming to care about what Jesus cared about should hate it.
Good people should unapologetically hate atrocities against humanity.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/its-ok-to-...
All decent, loving, compassionate people should.
Every person claiming to care about what Jesus cared about should hate it.
Good people should unapologetically hate atrocities against humanity.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/its-ok-to-...
February 13, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/
February 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/
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Conflict of interest? The State Department’s procurement forecast lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to purchase $400 million worth of “Armored Tesla” vehicles.
February 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Conflict of interest? The State Department’s procurement forecast lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to purchase $400 million worth of “Armored Tesla” vehicles.
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This is murder.
Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
February 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM
This is murder.