Tim Slager
@tjslager.bsky.social
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Tim Slager
@tjslager.bsky.social
· Mar 6
I hold one share in the corporate earth and am uneasy about the management.
- E.B. White
- E.B. White
On bullies and peace plans
tjslager.substack.com/p/brutal-peace
tjslager.substack.com/p/brutal-peace
November 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
On bullies and peace plans
tjslager.substack.com/p/brutal-peace
tjslager.substack.com/p/brutal-peace
"often, what look like important pronouncements turn out to be random thoughts that have escaped the weak gravity of Trump’s attention span"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Trump Is Very Confused About Nuclear Weapons
The president says he wants to resume nuclear testing but doesn’t seem to know why.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"often, what look like important pronouncements turn out to be random thoughts that have escaped the weak gravity of Trump’s attention span"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
There's hope.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Ukraine’s Plan to Starve the Russian War Machine
Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands.
www.theatlantic.com
September 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
There's hope.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Inspired and inspiring: Solzhenitsyn and Navalny
yadontknow.blogspot.com/2025/09/diss...
yadontknow.blogspot.com/2025/09/diss...
September 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Inspired and inspiring: Solzhenitsyn and Navalny
yadontknow.blogspot.com/2025/09/diss...
yadontknow.blogspot.com/2025/09/diss...
Republicans after a classroom of children are murdered: "We must do nothing!"
Republicans after Kirk murdered: "Civil war!"
Republicans after Kirk murdered: "Civil war!"
Footage of Charlie Kirk’s death spread across the internet with a horrific ubiquity. Seeing such brutal violence up close can take a psychological toll on observers—and can corrode society, Will Gottsegen argues.
The Awful Ubiquity of Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Video
The modern parade of digital gore is corrosive for society.
bit.ly
September 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Republicans after a classroom of children are murdered: "We must do nothing!"
Republicans after Kirk murdered: "Civil war!"
Republicans after Kirk murdered: "Civil war!"
Planet insurance, anyone?
My latest: tjslager.substack.com/p/insurance
My latest: tjslager.substack.com/p/insurance
September 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Planet insurance, anyone?
My latest: tjslager.substack.com/p/insurance
My latest: tjslager.substack.com/p/insurance
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
"I'm pretty sure they’re giggling behind his back"
"I'm pretty sure they’re giggling behind his back"
Trump's Big Stick Might be...Kind of Puny
Can we actually force the rest of the world to make our energy mistake?
open.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
"I'm pretty sure they’re giggling behind his back"
"I'm pretty sure they’re giggling behind his back"
"Their tax rates were lower than the average paid by all American households"
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
How the Richest People in America Avoid Paying Taxes
A clever new paper puts concrete numbers to the taxes paid by members of the Forbes 400.
www.theatlantic.com
August 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"Their tax rates were lower than the average paid by all American households"
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
This applies, I suppose, to those at the top of our government too..
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
What Is Evil?
Explaining away even the most horrific acts of violence by saying some people are just wicked is understandable—but it won’t help us build a safer society.
www.theatlantic.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This applies, I suppose, to those at the top of our government too..
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
"It’s not impossible to imagine that an America seeking to rejoin the world, and needing to make amends for the utter stupidity of the Trump years, might not see the oil industry as a useful sacrifice to offer the rest of the planet"
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
Will they ever pay a price?
Maybe not--but there are hints of accountability in the air
open.substack.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"It’s not impossible to imagine that an America seeking to rejoin the world, and needing to make amends for the utter stupidity of the Trump years, might not see the oil industry as a useful sacrifice to offer the rest of the planet"
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
"nothing makes a privileged man angrier than criticism of his privilege"
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
July 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"nothing makes a privileged man angrier than criticism of his privilege"
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
The solution has been obvious for awhile. Fire Musk.
unionrayo.com/en/tesla-sit...
unionrayo.com/en/tesla-sit...
Goodbye Tesla - the company's situation is so dire that Elon Musk had to let go of his most influential executive, Andrew Baglino, in the midst of falling sales
Musk is going through one of his most difficult times at the helm of Tesla. No, he is not stealing the spotlight again (make a wish). But it is even worse.
unionrayo.com
July 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The solution has been obvious for awhile. Fire Musk.
unionrayo.com/en/tesla-sit...
unionrayo.com/en/tesla-sit...
"Surely, they thought, a democratic government should not so obviously favor the wealthy."
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
June 28, 2025
Last night just before midnight, Republicans released their new version of the omnibus budget reconciliation bill.
open.substack.com
June 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"Surely, they thought, a democratic government should not so obviously favor the wealthy."
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Please read. I disagree with Liz Cheney on most everything, but not this. Concrete suggestions, too.
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
A remarkable message
You need to read this.
open.substack.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Please read. I disagree with Liz Cheney on most everything, but not this. Concrete suggestions, too.
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Accept no responsibility, blame others for the results of your own mistakes.
www.juancole.com/2025/06/cont...
www.juancole.com/2025/06/cont...
Trump's contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation
By Christian Emery, UCL (The Conversation) - The US president, Donald Trump, is weighing up whether to join Israel in attacking Iran. The fact he is even contemplating such a move is, in my opinion, a...
www.juancole.com
June 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Accept no responsibility, blame others for the results of your own mistakes.
www.juancole.com/2025/06/cont...
www.juancole.com/2025/06/cont...
