God bless you, Senator Booker.

Make like the South Koreans. And the Israelis.

Show the world that we can stand up for ourselves.

April 5, everywhere:

handsoff2025.com

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

You could resign

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien

I guess I’m old, but didn’t President Carter pardon his brother Billy? Each president seems to have a black sheep in the family. Hunter Biden was targeted because of his father. Some of the outrage is not about the sanctity of laws, but because a club to use against Biden has been removed. I call BS

Today, in 1959, 12 nations signed The Antarctic Treaty that demilitarized the continent and encouraged using the continent for scientific research.

HAPPY ANTARCTICA DAY!!

(Penguins rule, especially emperors, but Weddell seals are also pretty cool.)

When I was little, my mother it was in bad taste to discuss religion or politics at the table.

Given today’s contentious issues, maybe also include a $10 fine for each infraction. You can then give any money collected to a charity.

I have to hope that Laurence Tribe was correct when he said this weekend that there still are SOME guardrails. The Constitution still grants considerable power to the individual states and Democratic Governors are going to legislate resistance.

Hope for the best. Plan for the worse.

I believe in peer-reviewed science.

I believe in vaccines & wearing N95 masks in crowded places.

I believe in water fluoridation.

I believe in democracy (big D & little d).

Dogs have people; cats have staff. Love both.

I learned that sooner or later all storms must end. Courage.

Cape Washington