“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Sometimes, when he fails badly enough, Trump can be forced to do the thing he says he never does: back down.

Today is just one more turn on the roller coaster - but it is more evidence of why we can't give up or let up.

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.

Don’t give into despair this Christmas. We can always choose to be better people:
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

here's today's post: "Charles Kushner and Kash Patel join Donny’s Confederacy of Sewer Clowns" — a kakistocracy the likes of which no one has ever seen.
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Who else here concurs?