Quiet Man
@jkayman.bsky.social
Philosopher knight ... one who has lived all over the US in his life and has witnessed first hand the cultural, social and philosophical differences that define and separate us.
You know what this also means… Portillo‘s Italian beef sandwiches will now count as a sacrament.
you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
May 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
You know what this also means… Portillo‘s Italian beef sandwiches will now count as a sacrament.
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Dictators of all stripes hate solidarity. They’d prefer that we cower alone. They want us to feel powerless.
This is why I encourage you to participate in the peaceful demonstrations planned for today across America. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/april-5-hands-off-our-healthcare
This is why I encourage you to participate in the peaceful demonstrations planned for today across America. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/april-5-hands-off-our-healthcare
April 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Dictators of all stripes hate solidarity. They’d prefer that we cower alone. They want us to feel powerless.
This is why I encourage you to participate in the peaceful demonstrations planned for today across America. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/april-5-hands-off-our-healthcare
This is why I encourage you to participate in the peaceful demonstrations planned for today across America. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/april-5-hands-off-our-healthcare
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Trump TRIED TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT, and our solution was, literally, “let him off the hook and hope he simply goes away of his own accord.” And then we were shocked when he came back and… showed no respect for the law or government. He’d already committed the worst treason in US history!
March 31, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Trump TRIED TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT, and our solution was, literally, “let him off the hook and hope he simply goes away of his own accord.” And then we were shocked when he came back and… showed no respect for the law or government. He’d already committed the worst treason in US history!
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If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you.
If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you.
If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you.
We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.
If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you.
If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you.
We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.
March 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you.
If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you.
If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you.
We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.
If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you.
If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you.
We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.
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Millions of you, around the world, have put the lessons I wrote in #OnTyranny in late 2016 to good use. It has been humbling to learn how from courageous and creative dissenters, protestors, and oppositionists. I was honored when John Lithgow volunteered to read them aloud.
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Millions of you, around the world, have put the lessons I wrote in #OnTyranny in late 2016 to good use. It has been humbling to learn how from courageous and creative dissenters, protestors, and oppositionists. I was honored when John Lithgow volunteered to read them aloud.
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"5. Remember professional ethics.
March 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"5. Remember professional ethics.
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Tonight in Denver.
A sea of humanity.
A sea of humanity.
March 22, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Tonight in Denver.
A sea of humanity.
A sea of humanity.
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The Trump regime is threatening to shut down the Social Security Administration in response to a court ruling blocking DOGE from further infiltrating the agency.
If your Social Security check is late or doesn't arrive at all, remember who is to blame.
If your Social Security check is late or doesn't arrive at all, remember who is to blame.
Social Security Says DOGE Ruling Could Force Agency to Shut Down
The Trump administration is threatening to all but shut down the Social Security Administration in response to a judge’s ruling blocking activities by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency — an action that could delay payments to millions of beneficiaries caught in the middle of the legal battle.
www.bloomberg.com
March 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The Trump regime is threatening to shut down the Social Security Administration in response to a court ruling blocking DOGE from further infiltrating the agency.
If your Social Security check is late or doesn't arrive at all, remember who is to blame.
If your Social Security check is late or doesn't arrive at all, remember who is to blame.
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Remember: The fundamental issue isn’t the size of the government or how to make government more “efficient.”
It’s who our government is for.
Should it work mainly for big corporations and billionaires, including the richest person in the world — or for the rest of us?
It’s who our government is for.
Should it work mainly for big corporations and billionaires, including the richest person in the world — or for the rest of us?
March 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Remember: The fundamental issue isn’t the size of the government or how to make government more “efficient.”
It’s who our government is for.
Should it work mainly for big corporations and billionaires, including the richest person in the world — or for the rest of us?
It’s who our government is for.
Should it work mainly for big corporations and billionaires, including the richest person in the world — or for the rest of us?
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Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny. That’s what’s really driving Trump’s attack on education and public knowledge.
The One Tool Every Dictator Uses
YouTube video by Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
March 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny. That’s what’s really driving Trump’s attack on education and public knowledge.
This is how we keep our democracy. Power to the people.
Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
March 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
This is how we keep our democracy. Power to the people.
Thanks for being there and posting this. This is how we keep our democracy. Power to the people.
March 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Thanks for being there and posting this. This is how we keep our democracy. Power to the people.
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Like most bullies, Trump can be constrained only if everyone stands up to his bullying. Go to town halls. Tell your local media to report on DOGE cuts in your community. Keep speaking out. The fight against authoritarianism will take all of us — and we can't relent.
March 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Like most bullies, Trump can be constrained only if everyone stands up to his bullying. Go to town halls. Tell your local media to report on DOGE cuts in your community. Keep speaking out. The fight against authoritarianism will take all of us — and we can't relent.
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The populist message of Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Fighting Oligarchy" tour has resonated with voters frustrated by President Trump's agenda — and the Democratic Party's muddled response.
Bernie Sanders is drawing record crowds as he pushes Democrats to 'fight oligarchy'
The populist message of Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Fighting Oligarchy" tour has resonated with voters frustrated by President Trump's agenda — and the Democratic Party's muddled response.
www.npr.org
March 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The populist message of Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Fighting Oligarchy" tour has resonated with voters frustrated by President Trump's agenda — and the Democratic Party's muddled response.
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So proud of my former hometown 👍
The crowds that AOC & Bernie Sanders are getting are MASSIVE.
Here’s the current scenes in Denver. Thousands.
#FightOligarchy
(🎥: Bastian Brauns)
Here’s the current scenes in Denver. Thousands.
#FightOligarchy
(🎥: Bastian Brauns)
March 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
So proud of my former hometown 👍
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Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
March 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
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Facts
This Repub CR, that they claim will keep the government open, is a perfect example of why you must read bills.
Inside the text, you’ll find cuts everywhere, and so much money taken from vets you wouldn’t believe it. These guys are frauds.
Nice try! Hard NO! Throw it in the 🗑️
Inside the text, you’ll find cuts everywhere, and so much money taken from vets you wouldn’t believe it. These guys are frauds.
Nice try! Hard NO! Throw it in the 🗑️
March 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Facts
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Trump’s Pentagon purge has included the top military lawyers. Nobody should be surprised. Dictators politicize the military. Trump wants those with the biggest guns loyal to him, not the Constitution He says he’s demilitarizing it. I call BS. Orwellian to the core.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Flurry of Dismissals at Pentagon
The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot, upends a tradition in which the Joint Chiefs chairman traditionally remains in place as administrations change.
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Trump’s Pentagon purge has included the top military lawyers. Nobody should be surprised. Dictators politicize the military. Trump wants those with the biggest guns loyal to him, not the Constitution He says he’s demilitarizing it. I call BS. Orwellian to the core.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
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And yet somehow:
1) most Democratic politicians are in wait and see mode.
2) major journo funders are, again, undergoing internal realignments
3)major donors to NGOs & democracy groups are sulking or scared.
We can’t wait on a blueprint for what comes next. We need to fight for the country now.
1) most Democratic politicians are in wait and see mode.
2) major journo funders are, again, undergoing internal realignments
3)major donors to NGOs & democracy groups are sulking or scared.
We can’t wait on a blueprint for what comes next. We need to fight for the country now.
February 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
And yet somehow:
1) most Democratic politicians are in wait and see mode.
2) major journo funders are, again, undergoing internal realignments
3)major donors to NGOs & democracy groups are sulking or scared.
We can’t wait on a blueprint for what comes next. We need to fight for the country now.
1) most Democratic politicians are in wait and see mode.
2) major journo funders are, again, undergoing internal realignments
3)major donors to NGOs & democracy groups are sulking or scared.
We can’t wait on a blueprint for what comes next. We need to fight for the country now.
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U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was peppered with boos and catcalls throughout a town hall meeting in Roswell late Thursday, as hundreds of critics jeered the Republican for backing President Donald Trump’s agenda during his first month in office. #gapol ajc.com/politics/mcc...
Georgia congressman confronted by angry crowd over support for Trump’s agenda
U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was met with boos and jeers at a town hall in a north Atlanta suburb Thursday.
ajc.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:40 AM
U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was peppered with boos and catcalls throughout a town hall meeting in Roswell late Thursday, as hundreds of critics jeered the Republican for backing President Donald Trump’s agenda during his first month in office. #gapol ajc.com/politics/mcc...
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This IS THE BEST thing I have listend to. Its long, 25 minutes. I PROMISE worth every second. Please folks, listen and share! Please.
Hey everyone! I did an emergency live over on Substack, reminding us all that we will win this thing! Take a look!
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...
Emergency live: let’s be loud!
A recording from Adam Kinzinger's live video
adamkinzinger.substack.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:07 AM
This IS THE BEST thing I have listend to. Its long, 25 minutes. I PROMISE worth every second. Please folks, listen and share! Please.