Tom Stock-Hendel
@tomsh.bsky.social
Husband and father; writer; equally amazed and aghast with country, world and universe; he/him; looking for writers and others trying to find ways to survive, love and grow—in spite of our lunatic government. He/him.
Are they eating the dogs and cats or bringing in the cows?
I’m so confused!
I’m so confused!
November 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Are they eating the dogs and cats or bringing in the cows?
I’m so confused!
I’m so confused!
Another 3 people killed today by American attack on a boat in international waters. Even if there were drugs involved—and has that ever been proven?—drug smuggling is not a capital crime. These are simply murders. How is this tolerable? We have a government led by a man who kills illegally.
November 17, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Another 3 people killed today by American attack on a boat in international waters. Even if there were drugs involved—and has that ever been proven?—drug smuggling is not a capital crime. These are simply murders. How is this tolerable? We have a government led by a man who kills illegally.
No, there’s no corruption here. Nothing for you to be concerned about. Just keep your eyes down and walk on. Oh, you think 230 million could pay some of your medical bills?
October 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
No, there’s no corruption here. Nothing for you to be concerned about. Just keep your eyes down and walk on. Oh, you think 230 million could pay some of your medical bills?
This is a free article. Who does Trump think he is serving as President? I mean, besides himself. And who does his supporters thinking he's serving? Them?? Do they own boats that don't leak?
In First Six Months, Cost of Weather Catastrophes Escalated at a Record Pace www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/c...
In First Six Months, Cost of Weather Catastrophes Escalated at a Record Pace www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/c...
In First Six Months, Cost of Weather Catastrophes Escalated at a Record Pace
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This is a free article. Who does Trump think he is serving as President? I mean, besides himself. And who does his supporters thinking he's serving? Them?? Do they own boats that don't leak?
In First Six Months, Cost of Weather Catastrophes Escalated at a Record Pace www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/c...
In First Six Months, Cost of Weather Catastrophes Escalated at a Record Pace www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/c...
Today's report from Heather Cox Richardson. Among other things, she talks here about the role Project 2025 author and Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought plays in the govt shutdown and how Trump plans to gut the Affordable Care Act.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
October 6, 2025
If White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is at the head of the administration’s deployment of federal agents against undocumented immigrants, it appears that Office of Management and Budget...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Today's report from Heather Cox Richardson. Among other things, she talks here about the role Project 2025 author and Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought plays in the govt shutdown and how Trump plans to gut the Affordable Care Act.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Ask yourself: Why is Trump threatening to use the Insurrection Act, a law giving the President certain emergency powers, to override judges and local officials when there is no insurrection?
Could it be….fascism??
Could it be….fascism??
October 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Ask yourself: Why is Trump threatening to use the Insurrection Act, a law giving the President certain emergency powers, to override judges and local officials when there is no insurrection?
Could it be….fascism??
Could it be….fascism??
Heather Cox Richardson’s newsletter for Oct. 2, about the military raid on families in Chicago, Trump’s slipping and more.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
October 2, 2025
At about 1:00 on Tuesday morning, federal agents from Border Patrol, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) raided an apartment b...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Heather Cox Richardson’s newsletter for Oct. 2, about the military raid on families in Chicago, Trump’s slipping and more.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Reposted by Tom Stock-Hendel
Re Portland:
Trump is declaring war on America. Really, who is the terrorist here?
Trump is declaring war on America. Really, who is the terrorist here?
September 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Re Portland:
Trump is declaring war on America. Really, who is the terrorist here?
Trump is declaring war on America. Really, who is the terrorist here?
Reposted by Tom Stock-Hendel
Every day there is a new piece (or many) of the saddest news I've ever heard, and it's especially brutal to consider that this is being done on purpose by our government.
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every day there is a new piece (or many) of the saddest news I've ever heard, and it's especially brutal to consider that this is being done on purpose by our government.
Does anyone still believe all this is about the hostages?
NYT headline:
NYT headline:
September 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Does anyone still believe all this is about the hostages?
NYT headline:
NYT headline:
IMO, this is a good overview of the various studies on the relationship between autism and vaccines and Tylenol, as well as a look into the nature of autism itself. It should be free to you.
What to Know About Painkillers, Vaccines, Genes and Autism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...
What to Know About Painkillers, Vaccines, Genes and Autism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...
What to Know About Painkillers, Vaccines, Genes and Autism
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
IMO, this is a good overview of the various studies on the relationship between autism and vaccines and Tylenol, as well as a look into the nature of autism itself. It should be free to you.
What to Know About Painkillers, Vaccines, Genes and Autism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...
What to Know About Painkillers, Vaccines, Genes and Autism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...
A report from Daily Variety written Friday about Kimmel/ABC talks moving forward.
The Business of Show is exploding where art and commerce collide.
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
The Business of Show is exploding where art and commerce collide.
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Jimmy Kimmel and Disney Working to Reach Compromise to Bring His Show Back
Jimmy Kimmel and his representatives are working with Disney and ABC leaders on a compromise to allow 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' to return to ABC.
variety.com
September 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A report from Daily Variety written Friday about Kimmel/ABC talks moving forward.
The Business of Show is exploding where art and commerce collide.
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
The Business of Show is exploding where art and commerce collide.
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Reposted by Tom Stock-Hendel
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
September 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Got my updated Covid vaccine today.
One of my goals is to live long enough to dance on RFKjr’s grave.
One of my goals is to live long enough to dance on RFKjr’s grave.
September 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Got my updated Covid vaccine today.
One of my goals is to live long enough to dance on RFKjr’s grave.
One of my goals is to live long enough to dance on RFKjr’s grave.
The Supreme Court just, in essence, gave the government the right to detain anyone for no reason. And you thought you lived in the land of the free. Sucker!!
(To be clear, non-whites have lived with that understanding for centuries. So I guess you can say now we are all equal UNDER the law.)
(To be clear, non-whites have lived with that understanding for centuries. So I guess you can say now we are all equal UNDER the law.)
September 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The Supreme Court just, in essence, gave the government the right to detain anyone for no reason. And you thought you lived in the land of the free. Sucker!!
(To be clear, non-whites have lived with that understanding for centuries. So I guess you can say now we are all equal UNDER the law.)
(To be clear, non-whites have lived with that understanding for centuries. So I guess you can say now we are all equal UNDER the law.)
From the US supplied bombs dropping on Palestine to blowing up Venezuelan boats in international waters to renaming it The Department of War, Trump is trying to save his Presidency by driving us into a war. Presidents are always more popular once a war starts. For a while.
September 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM
From the US supplied bombs dropping on Palestine to blowing up Venezuelan boats in international waters to renaming it The Department of War, Trump is trying to save his Presidency by driving us into a war. Presidents are always more popular once a war starts. For a while.
Bad employment numbers again today.
Who is Trump going to fire?
Facts are stubborn things.
Who is Trump going to fire?
Facts are stubborn things.
September 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Bad employment numbers again today.
Who is Trump going to fire?
Facts are stubborn things.
Who is Trump going to fire?
Facts are stubborn things.
I’m sure Netanyahu is so-o-o sorry. He’s only been doing this for 20 months. He, and the Israeli government, are war criminals and murderers. This is genocide, and our tax dollars support it. It must stop!
August 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I’m sure Netanyahu is so-o-o sorry. He’s only been doing this for 20 months. He, and the Israeli government, are war criminals and murderers. This is genocide, and our tax dollars support it. It must stop!
Stephen Miller seems to have poked the bear with his comment about 90 year old hippies. Although I’m “only” 73, I was one of those students protesting. One thing I’ve learned: the students are always right. Even if you think they may be wrong, they’re right. They have nothing to lose but the future.
August 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Stephen Miller seems to have poked the bear with his comment about 90 year old hippies. Although I’m “only” 73, I was one of those students protesting. One thing I’ve learned: the students are always right. Even if you think they may be wrong, they’re right. They have nothing to lose but the future.
Usually I find Richardson to be too establishment Democrat for my taste, but her report on today’s events are on target. A new page of the Trump saga has been turned.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
August 11, 2025
President Donald J.
open.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Usually I find Richardson to be too establishment Democrat for my taste, but her report on today’s events are on target. A new page of the Trump saga has been turned.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
It is obvious that he is attempting a “dry run” of military take overs in our cities. He wants a military that will have already accepted the kind of request they turned down on Jan. 6. It is no exaggeration to say he is planning dictatorship.
August 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It is obvious that he is attempting a “dry run” of military take overs in our cities. He wants a military that will have already accepted the kind of request they turned down on Jan. 6. It is no exaggeration to say he is planning dictatorship.