Chris Kade
@ckade.bsky.social
Retired journalist/IT professional. Midwestern liberal. Paterfamilias of a multiracial, LBGTQ-allied family.
Millions of I-told-you-so’s being spoken this morning. www.axios.com/2025/07/05/c...
CIA admits shadowy officer monitored Oswald before JFK assassination, new records reveal
The disclosure indicates the CIA lied for decades about an officer's role in the case before and after the JFK was assassinated, experts say.
www.axios.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Millions of I-told-you-so’s being spoken this morning. www.axios.com/2025/07/05/c...
Excellent column by Tom Friedman www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/o...
www.nytimes.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Excellent column by Tom Friedman www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/o...
Big discussion on Morning Joe this morning that Biden has most assuredly had prostate cancer for several years, given how advanced it now is. All the more scandalous and, for the country, ruinous that he ran for re-election and delivered the country to Trump. I am fucking angry.
May 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Big discussion on Morning Joe this morning that Biden has most assuredly had prostate cancer for several years, given how advanced it now is. All the more scandalous and, for the country, ruinous that he ran for re-election and delivered the country to Trump. I am fucking angry.
If it were up to Alito and Thomas, we would already be neck-deep in a dictatorship
May 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
If it were up to Alito and Thomas, we would already be neck-deep in a dictatorship
Coming from the WSJ, this is a devastating editorial.
www.wsj.com/opinion/xi-j...
www.wsj.com/opinion/xi-j...
Opinion | U.S. Tariffs Make Xi Jinping’s Day
Trump’s global trade war is a strategic gift to the Chinese President.
www.wsj.com
April 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Coming from the WSJ, this is a devastating editorial.
www.wsj.com/opinion/xi-j...
www.wsj.com/opinion/xi-j...
I'm such a history nerd, but I can't help thinking about Hitler, at his peak of power and hubris, choosing to invade Russia. Obviously not a proportionate analogy to what Trump is doing, but just an observation that arrogance tends to bring on its own destruction.
April 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I'm such a history nerd, but I can't help thinking about Hitler, at his peak of power and hubris, choosing to invade Russia. Obviously not a proportionate analogy to what Trump is doing, but just an observation that arrogance tends to bring on its own destruction.
We can overlook a lot, apparently: people dragged off the streets and deported without due process; government departments decimated at a billionaire's whim; universities and law firms being strong-armed. But this will break through. People don't like their savings and livelihoods being fucked with.
April 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
We can overlook a lot, apparently: people dragged off the streets and deported without due process; government departments decimated at a billionaire's whim; universities and law firms being strong-armed. But this will break through. People don't like their savings and livelihoods being fucked with.
Let’s stop paying Social Security for one month and see who screams. Those are the fraudsters.
Hard as it is to believe, that really seems to be what our government is about to attempt.
Hard as it is to believe, that really seems to be what our government is about to attempt.
March 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Let’s stop paying Social Security for one month and see who screams. Those are the fraudsters.
Hard as it is to believe, that really seems to be what our government is about to attempt.
Hard as it is to believe, that really seems to be what our government is about to attempt.
"We need to start by recognizing that this isn’t 'merely' a constitutional crisis. This is a constitutional crash." - author Garrett Graff
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...
America's "Constitutional Crash"
This isn't "just" a crisis.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
March 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"We need to start by recognizing that this isn’t 'merely' a constitutional crisis. This is a constitutional crash." - author Garrett Graff
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...
Outstanding assessment of where we are at, from James Fallows.
Where Do We Stand: A ‘Correlation of Forces’ Assessment. open.substack.com/pub/fallows/...
Where Do We Stand: A ‘Correlation of Forces’ Assessment. open.substack.com/pub/fallows/...
Where Do We Stand: A ‘Correlation of Forces’ Assessment.
What might actually stop Trump? Let's go through some possibilities—which finally come down to each of us.
open.substack.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Outstanding assessment of where we are at, from James Fallows.
Where Do We Stand: A ‘Correlation of Forces’ Assessment. open.substack.com/pub/fallows/...
Where Do We Stand: A ‘Correlation of Forces’ Assessment. open.substack.com/pub/fallows/...
We now have the definitive image of the Musk Purge (from CPAC yesterday). World’s richest man gleefully taking a chainsaw to thousands of jobs of “probationary” employees, many of whom are young people just getting their start in science, in health, in the forest service, in their “dream jobs.”
February 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We now have the definitive image of the Musk Purge (from CPAC yesterday). World’s richest man gleefully taking a chainsaw to thousands of jobs of “probationary” employees, many of whom are young people just getting their start in science, in health, in the forest service, in their “dream jobs.”
Headspinning isn't an adequate word. More like a modern version of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
U.S.-Russia Talks in Saudi Arabia Set to Go Beyond Ukraine (Gift Article)
The two sides met in Saudi Arabia for their most extensive discussions in years. In addition to Ukraine, business ties were on the table.
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Headspinning isn't an adequate word. More like a modern version of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
Trump and Putin are planning to dump Ukraine, in an epochal shattering of the post-WWII order. Sheer criminal madness.
February 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Trump and Putin are planning to dump Ukraine, in an epochal shattering of the post-WWII order. Sheer criminal madness.
Canary in the coal mine statement for sure
February 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Canary in the coal mine statement for sure
Trump Administration Live Updates: Nearly All USAID Jobs Are Said to Be Cut (Gift Article)
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Okay, I will admit to being excited about this, though decades of disappointment make me very cautious in my enthusiasm. The final documents in the JFK case have been withheld for 60+ years because they are either very embarrassing or very damning (or both).
Trump Vows to Release Records on Kennedy and King Killings (Gift Article)
President Trump told security agencies to develop plans to make public all documents related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Okay, I will admit to being excited about this, though decades of disappointment make me very cautious in my enthusiasm. The final documents in the JFK case have been withheld for 60+ years because they are either very embarrassing or very damning (or both).
This bishop is my hero.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
Bishop Tells Trump to ‘Have Mercy’ on Immigrants and Gay Children
The direct appeal to President Trump at the start of the first full day of his presidency was a remarkable moment at a National Cathedral event that has not historically been political.
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This bishop is my hero.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
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Anything can happen and it usually does.
My least favorite tradition has arrived: I’m disgusted to present the official 2025 Batshittery Bingo Card.
If anyone gets bingo, we all die.
If anyone gets bingo, we all die.
January 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Anything can happen and it usually does.
The eternal shame of the oligarchs. As someone said, what's the point of having fuck you money if you're afraid to say fuck you to the powerful?
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
open.substack.com
January 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The eternal shame of the oligarchs. As someone said, what's the point of having fuck you money if you're afraid to say fuck you to the powerful?
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Every day the rhyme of history seems clearer and clearer.
January 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Every day the rhyme of history seems clearer and clearer.
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Of the tributes that will be etched in my memory over the next week: Morehouse Glee Club singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic at the Carter Center's remembrance of Jimmy Carter
#ThankYouJimmyCarter
#ThankYouJimmyCarter
January 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Of the tributes that will be etched in my memory over the next week: Morehouse Glee Club singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic at the Carter Center's remembrance of Jimmy Carter
#ThankYouJimmyCarter
#ThankYouJimmyCarter
I'll confess that the orderly transition of government over the next two weeks feels just a bit galling. Not because I want it to be otherwise, but because the contrast with what happened four years ago will not be acknowledged by a single Republican member of Congress nor by the incoming president.
January 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I'll confess that the orderly transition of government over the next two weeks feels just a bit galling. Not because I want it to be otherwise, but because the contrast with what happened four years ago will not be acknowledged by a single Republican member of Congress nor by the incoming president.
It just blows me away that this guy was Trump's first nominee for AG. What the hell.
December 23, 2024 at 9:13 PM
It just blows me away that this guy was Trump's first nominee for AG. What the hell.