Mel Soderling
@melsoderling.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary artist
"Another historical lesson: the day before you win, you don't know you're about to win.... you have to keep doing it." We mustn't accept the darkness of this timeline––– a better world is possible when we become FINISHED with this Imperial corruption–– Forever–– for all of us stuck to this globe.
In 2026, we can’t take the easy path by giving in to despair. We have to keep doing something to be ready for the moment the right combination of events align and we can see a better future.
January 3, 2026 at 10:48 PM
"Another historical lesson: the day before you win, you don't know you're about to win.... you have to keep doing it." We mustn't accept the darkness of this timeline––– a better world is possible when we become FINISHED with this Imperial corruption–– Forever–– for all of us stuck to this globe.
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'...You often find out at trial that people dispute things, that you never thought would be disputed during the investigation...'
I hear you #JackSmith When defendants have their backs up against the proverbial wall, they might dispute anything & of course, lie
I hear you #JackSmith When defendants have their backs up against the proverbial wall, they might dispute anything & of course, lie
January 2, 2026 at 6:10 PM
'...You often find out at trial that people dispute things, that you never thought would be disputed during the investigation...'
I hear you #JackSmith When defendants have their backs up against the proverbial wall, they might dispute anything & of course, lie
I hear you #JackSmith When defendants have their backs up against the proverbial wall, they might dispute anything & of course, lie
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I'm losing track of how many countries a man livid he wasn't given the Nobel Peace Prize has illegally bombed.
Iran. Venezuela. Nigeria. Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. Pakistan. Somalia. Syria. Yemen.
Not to mention threatening to annex Greenland and Canada and invade Panama.
Iran. Venezuela. Nigeria. Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. Pakistan. Somalia. Syria. Yemen.
Not to mention threatening to annex Greenland and Canada and invade Panama.
January 3, 2026 at 1:53 PM
I'm losing track of how many countries a man livid he wasn't given the Nobel Peace Prize has illegally bombed.
Iran. Venezuela. Nigeria. Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. Pakistan. Somalia. Syria. Yemen.
Not to mention threatening to annex Greenland and Canada and invade Panama.
Iran. Venezuela. Nigeria. Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. Pakistan. Somalia. Syria. Yemen.
Not to mention threatening to annex Greenland and Canada and invade Panama.
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try to make sense of it
So fmr Honduran President Hernandez voluntarily surrendered, and was duly extradited, tried and convicted for drug trafficking, and Trump pardoned him 6w ago.
And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.
And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.
January 3, 2026 at 12:46 PM
try to make sense of it
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January 2, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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BREAKING on MS NOW:
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
December 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
BREAKING on MS NOW:
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
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This is exactly what you do
With presidents who coup
With presidents who coup
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro must begin serving his 27-year prison sentence for plotting an attempted coup, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has ruled. https://cnn.it/4p1dgDV
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This is exactly what you do
With presidents who coup
With presidents who coup
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Can't make this up.
A Trump tell that he's connected to the scheme: "that's too bad" or "I wish them well."
A Trump tell that he's connected to the scheme: "that's too bad" or "I wish them well."
Bolsonaro arrest: Trump appears to blurt out secret plan, not knowing it's already a bust www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBrV...
Trump appears to blurt out secret plan, not knowing it's already a bust
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Can't make this up.
A Trump tell that he's connected to the scheme: "that's too bad" or "I wish them well."
A Trump tell that he's connected to the scheme: "that's too bad" or "I wish them well."
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"If your country opens a Department of War and closes the Department of Education then you live in a shithole."
-𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%
-𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
"If your country opens a Department of War and closes the Department of Education then you live in a shithole."
-𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%
-𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
They tell so many lies they actually start believing them.
Take a moment to listen
This is the Republican Mantra
All they do is LIE
THIS is also about Epstein
O'Reilly caught in lies and watch his face
Faux news has done this for years
And the gullible believe their lies
LIES, CORRUPTION, AND GREED
Please watch
This is the Republican Mantra
All they do is LIE
THIS is also about Epstein
O'Reilly caught in lies and watch his face
Faux news has done this for years
And the gullible believe their lies
LIES, CORRUPTION, AND GREED
Please watch
November 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
They tell so many lies they actually start believing them.
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We could spend years demanding a list be released, or we could just believe women…
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
We could spend years demanding a list be released, or we could just believe women…
gotta love that it's shaped like a sperm
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
gotta love that it's shaped like a sperm
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A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment.
The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.
It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.
Until then, they're all to blame.
The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.
It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.
Until then, they're all to blame.
October 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment.
The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.
It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.
Until then, they're all to blame.
The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.
It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.
Until then, they're all to blame.
He is enormously embarrassing
Trump: "They cheated on a commercial. Ronald Reagan loved tariffs and they said he didn't. And I guess it was AI or something. They cheated badly. Canada got caught cheating on a commercial. Can you believe it?"
October 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
He is enormously embarrassing
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My comments on what President Tr*mp's AI video tells us about autocrat psychology: youtu.be/JNt8YoqQzWE
Autocrat Psychology captions MOV
YouTube video by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
youtu.be
October 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
My comments on what President Tr*mp's AI video tells us about autocrat psychology: youtu.be/JNt8YoqQzWE
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I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org.
Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...
Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...
October 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org.
Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...
Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...
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Protesters formed a human banner Saturday morning at S.F.'s Ocean Beach, spelling out “NO KINGS” and “YES ON 50,” encouraging the passage of a measure on the November ballot to redraw California’s congressional districts in response to Texas’ GOP-focused remapping.
📸: Laure Andrillon / AFP
📸: Laure Andrillon / AFP
October 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Protesters formed a human banner Saturday morning at S.F.'s Ocean Beach, spelling out “NO KINGS” and “YES ON 50,” encouraging the passage of a measure on the November ballot to redraw California’s congressional districts in response to Texas’ GOP-focused remapping.
📸: Laure Andrillon / AFP
📸: Laure Andrillon / AFP
Some things never change...
George Wallace on the 1963 civil rights March on Washington: It’s all a bunch of communists trying to destroy America.
Mike Johnson on the 2025 No Kings rally: It’s all a bunch of marxists/socialists/Antifa trying to destroy America.
The GOP playbook: Same as it ever was
Mike Johnson on the 2025 No Kings rally: It’s all a bunch of marxists/socialists/Antifa trying to destroy America.
The GOP playbook: Same as it ever was
October 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Some things never change...
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🚨Portugal, a founding NATO nation, just delivered a shock: its president says Donald Trump “functions as a Russian asset.” At a historic rupture, allies fear America’s leader is tilting the West’s security and NATO itself toward Moscow.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
October 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🚨Portugal, a founding NATO nation, just delivered a shock: its president says Donald Trump “functions as a Russian asset.” At a historic rupture, allies fear America’s leader is tilting the West’s security and NATO itself toward Moscow.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
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Buried inside the Big Beautiful Bill is a time bomb...one that detonates the balance of power. You weren’t supposed to read this clause. That’s why I did.
A single section hidden deep in the bill quietly neuters the courts. It’s that serious.🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
A single section hidden deep in the bill quietly neuters the courts. It’s that serious.🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Buried inside the Big Beautiful Bill is a time bomb...one that detonates the balance of power. You weren’t supposed to read this clause. That’s why I did.
A single section hidden deep in the bill quietly neuters the courts. It’s that serious.🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
A single section hidden deep in the bill quietly neuters the courts. It’s that serious.🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Billionaires and religion
October 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Billionaires and religion
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This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical
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Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.
Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."
October 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.