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Thoughts on the post-47th world:

[Or: sometimes in all the craziness, it's nice to just sit back and listen to reasonable people discuss reasonable things.]

@hcrichardson.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L...
American Conversations: Zohran Mamdani
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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December 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Steps on the way to impeachment:

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December 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Steps on the way to impeachment:

The Moment to Pick a Side Has Come open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The Moment to Pick a Side Has Come
“You must refuse illegal orders.” That’s what was said in the video made by six Democratic members of Congress.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:

Weekend Update #161: Not A Bad Week For Ukraine
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Weekend Update #161: Not A Bad Week For Ukraine
Truth, Democracy and Corruption, Possible High Command Changes, Are European Gloves Coming Off?
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Steps on the way to impeachment:

The Autocrat’s Accusation: The Deadly Politics of Calling Americans Traitors open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr...
The Autocrat’s Accusation: The Deadly Politics of Calling Americans Traitors
How Trump’s expanding use of the word traitor reveals a governing strategy, erodes democratic norms, and exposes Americans to rising political danger.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Thoughts on the post-47th world:

[or things to be thankful for]
thejenniwren.teamlh.social Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 10d
Even in a hard season, gratitude keeps rising.

I’m thankful for the resilience we build together, the kindness we pass forward, and the community growing here.

If you need a little light today, I wrote this for you.

open.substack.com/pub/thejenni...
Gratitude as Hope and Resistance
For Thanksgiving: On resilience, chosen family, and the community we are building together🫶🏻
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November 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Thoughts on the post-47th world:

[or things to be thankful for]
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10d
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12d
People looking for signs of change often assume the change that matters most, the watershed, the rubicon, the turning point will be a dramatic event. But a case can be made that the changes that matter most happen in minds and hearts, and the events follow from that.
Revolutionary Weather (and the Baboon in the Ruins)
Everything changed in the last few weeks. The Republicans, assumed by themselves and too many others, to be unstoppable got stopped again and again. Public opinion manifested in many ways: as an elect...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Steps on the way to impeachment:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuhT...
Ranking Member Jamie Raskin delivers opening remarks
YouTube video by House Committee on the Judiciary
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November 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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⭐ Why We Should ‘Keep Doing the Work’ of DEI, Even as it’s Under Threat, According to a DEI Professional

A recent broadcast with Denver and Boulder, Colorado’s KGNU Community Radio shares a conversation with Quinn Slaughter, an established DEI professional.

Listen here: kgnu.org/why-we-shoul...
Why We Should “Keep Doing the Work” of DEI, Even as it’s Under Threat, According to a DEI Professional
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November 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Reposted by Rob
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Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Steps on the way to impeachment:
slotkin.senate.gov Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 19d
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.

The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.

Don’t give up the ship.
November 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Make art, not content.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...
Opinion | I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain
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November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 19d
Here is the federal district court's 2–1 ruling, authored by a very conservative Trump appointee, striking down Texas' new Republican gerrymander on the grounds that it unlawfully discriminates against racial minorities. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics. To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map. Here’s why. Earlier this year, President Trump began urging Texas to redraw its U.S. House map to create five additional Republican seats. Lawmakers reportedly met that request to redistrict on purely partisan grounds with apprehension. When the Governor announced his intent to call a special legislative session, he didn’t even place redistricting on the legislative agenda. But when the Trump Administration reframed its request as a demand to redistrict congressional seats based on their racial makeup, Texas lawmakers immediately jumped on board. On July 7, Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), sent a letter (“the DOJ Letter”) to the Governor and Attorney General of Texas making the legally incorrect assertion that four congressional districts in Texas were “unconstitutional” because they were “coalition districts”—majority-non-White districts in which no single racial group constituted a 50% majority. In the letter, DOJ threatened legal action if Texas didn’t immediately dismantle and redraw these districts—a threat based entirely on their racial makeup. Notably, the DOJ Letter targeted only majority-non-White districts. Any mention of majorityWhite Democrat districts—which DOJ presumably would have also targeted if its aims were partisan rather than racial—was conspicuously absent.
November 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Thoughts on the post-47th world:
November 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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The jury weighs in on the question of nomenclature, it appears to be a Hero.

[or if this is “an example of the Deep State we have been up against.” perhaps the entire administration rests on a heaping pile of BS.]

Jurors Find Sandwich Hurler Not Guilty of Assault www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Jurors Find Sandwich Hurler Not Guilty of Assault
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November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:
November 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Steps on the way to impeachment:

As much as I appreciate Mamdani et al., I'm glad to see some of these less followed races getting the love they deserve. Bucks County kicking/keeping anti-LGBTQ+ folks off their school boards may just be as much a bellwether of where people feel MAGA policies are.
jbendery.bsky.social Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · Nov 6
Democrats chalked up massive wins on Tuesday night in governor's races, with the CA ballot initiative, in the NYC mayor's race -- but some of their most astounding victories played out down lower on ballots www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
The Wildest Democratic Wins You May Not Have Heard About
Elections for school boards and public service commissions aren’t as sexy as a governor’s race, but they matter — and Democrats swept them everywhere.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Last night changed the odds on a question that's haunted me from November 2024: which will be Trump's next failed "business":

1. America
2. The Republican Party
3. Donald Trump

Explore this gift article from The New York Times with a subscription.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...
Opinion | Make No Mistake: Trump Is an Albatross
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November 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:
neguse.house.gov Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · Oct 31
The Trump administration’s lawlessness cannot be ignored.

Period.
November 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Song of the Day, 10/31/25.

[may your only monsters be as pleasant as a Buck Owens tune]

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Buck Owens: It's a Monster's Holiday, 1974
YouTube video by I Like Buck Owens
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October 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Song of the Day, 10/30/25.

[getting ready to spend a dark night outside]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CoY...
Walking My Gargoyle
YouTube video by The Gothic Archies - Topic
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October 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:

When the Storm Speaks and the State Goes Silent
open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr...
When the Storm Speaks and the State Goes Silent
Rising seas, silenced science, and the political economy of denial
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October 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM