Laurie Jordan
@chapjordan79.bsky.social
Retired college chaplain, spouse, mom, and grandma. Vermonter. Previously lived in upstate NY, CT, MD, and IN. Gardening for butterfly and hummingbird habitat. #BuildtheEra
If you are interested in a relaxing de-stressing game consider Wanderstop. My daughter in law, @kimberlywoods voices the main character. Here is a review from the Guardian and I’ll put a New York Times review in following link. www.theguardian.com/games/2025/m...
Wanderstop review – a wonderful break from the pressure to win
A fallen warrior trades in fighting for putting the kettle on, wandering round gardens and watering plants. Much more than cosy – it’s healing
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
If you are interested in a relaxing de-stressing game consider Wanderstop. My daughter in law, @kimberlywoods voices the main character. Here is a review from the Guardian and I’ll put a New York Times review in following link. www.theguardian.com/games/2025/m...
While our eyes are on the welfare state’s destruction, Trump is building a police state
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While our eyes are on the welfare state’s destruction, Trump is building a police state | Judith Levine
Republicans aren’t simply shrinking the government. They’re investing billions in defense, border control and prisons
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
While our eyes are on the welfare state’s destruction, Trump is building a police state
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett Graff is worth reading, sharing, and bookmarking.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...
Musk, Trump Establish New Era of Kleptocracy in America
A third dispatch comparing how the US media would cover this moment if it was happening overseas
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
@vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett Graff is worth reading, sharing, and bookmarking.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...
Reposted by Laurie Jordan
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
Reposted by Laurie Jordan
This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.
It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
IT IS A COUP
This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.
It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
1/
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
1/
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
198 Methods of Nonviolent Action — AEI/ Empowering Humankind
www.aeinstein.org
February 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Reposted by Laurie Jordan
It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break.
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
February 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break.
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
“Imagine if it had gone like this.
Ten Tesla cybertrucks, painted in camouflage colors with a giant X on each roof, drive noisily through Washington DC. Tires screech.Out jump a couple of dozen young men dressed in red and black Devil’s Champion armored costumes…
snyder.substack.com/p/of-course-...
Ten Tesla cybertrucks, painted in camouflage colors with a giant X on each roof, drive noisily through Washington DC. Tires screech.Out jump a couple of dozen young men dressed in red and black Devil’s Champion armored costumes…
snyder.substack.com/p/of-course-...
Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
snyder.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“Imagine if it had gone like this.
Ten Tesla cybertrucks, painted in camouflage colors with a giant X on each roof, drive noisily through Washington DC. Tires screech.Out jump a couple of dozen young men dressed in red and black Devil’s Champion armored costumes…
snyder.substack.com/p/of-course-...
Ten Tesla cybertrucks, painted in camouflage colors with a giant X on each roof, drive noisily through Washington DC. Tires screech.Out jump a couple of dozen young men dressed in red and black Devil’s Champion armored costumes…
snyder.substack.com/p/of-course-...
News outlets doing their jobs deserve our support and attention. Article below is excellent. In my experience The Guardian is doing the Lord’s work right now and if you are financially in a position to support or subscribe please consider. Pro Publica and Vox and many others. Watchdogs are needed!
Great piece from @newsjennifer.bsky.social on the best of times and the worst of times for American media
The Trump approved, Musk executed take over of the non-military operations of the government is a 5-alarm fire, shout it from the rooftops moment. Here's my look at news outlets like @wired.com that get how big this story is & the ones that need to catch up.
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
February 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
News outlets doing their jobs deserve our support and attention. Article below is excellent. In my experience The Guardian is doing the Lord’s work right now and if you are financially in a position to support or subscribe please consider. Pro Publica and Vox and many others. Watchdogs are needed!
Why am I getting so many Democratic fundraising texts right now?? I don’t want any texts. Read the room. Go deal with the constitutional crisis. Solve it and maybe I’ll get out my credit it cards.
February 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Why am I getting so many Democratic fundraising texts right now?? I don’t want any texts. Read the room. Go deal with the constitutional crisis. Solve it and maybe I’ll get out my credit it cards.
Dave Troy is a very valuable follow. I admit that some of the stuff on Crypto and Russian philosophers is a challenge to even understand. But his analysis has been very predictive and thoughtful. He understands what the tech bros want to do.
On December 19, I wrote: "Over the next six weeks, we will learn which path we are on." And now, we know: American democracy is being terminated and we are under assault. Everything I wrote then is now underway.
america2.news/the-american...
america2.news/the-american...
The American Meltdown Begins
Elon Musk is now running our government and is executing an agenda that is against our national interests. But many people, especially Republicans, have not yet awakened to that fact, or to the realit...
america2.news
February 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Dave Troy is a very valuable follow. I admit that some of the stuff on Crypto and Russian philosophers is a challenge to even understand. But his analysis has been very predictive and thoughtful. He understands what the tech bros want to do.
This is a helpful article as we try to find our way through this perilous time for democracy.
I've reached a dire conclusion: The commercial news industry is incapable of fulfilling its constitutional duties presswatchers.org/2024/12/the-...
December 11, 2024 at 6:01 PM
This is a helpful article as we try to find our way through this perilous time for democracy.