#NoKings #NoKingsPhoenix Little Mikey Johnson looked so small trying to brand today #hateamerica. It was a multiculti extravaganza. Seat Andelita Grijalva!

Arizona State Capitol #nokimgs

Normalizing cruelty is a strategy

@transjournalists.org Please do a deep dive into “red shirting,” in which tens of thousands of students must compete in sports against older kids in their grade who were deliberately held back by agreeable parents so their children could excel in sports and get that scholarship. That’s unfair.

Hey Real America’s Voice, you and your schoolyard bully reporter Brian Glenn don’t speak for me. President Zelensky dressed like the war fighter he is. Did you ask Musk the same question? I will: Hey Elon! Why do you dress like a 10 year old in the Oval Office?

From a family member and VA research specialist in San Francisco: “They fired many SFVA employees yesterday... They did not even notify their supervisors or the medical center director of the firings. They just directly fired people.” more here:

DOGE is pronounced with a hard “G” - as in “government”; as in the government it’s trying to destroy.

American politics 2025: “Spectacle without any well-defined specialty other than scandals.”— Guy Debord, 1953

(Sunrise not fire) The air smells of wildfire and the morning’s low clouds are dark and yellowed with smoke. Flakes of whitened ash are falling in our back yard but we are many miles from danger. A bird still sings. The wind is still blowing. So much heartbreak for such a young year. #lafires

Two books that capture the times, from two book critics. Wise and unlikely choices. The one about wrongful convictions is so revealing, and suggests just another way Dems were intellectually trapped into defending problematic institutions in this election. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...

Dear Congresswoman Sarah McBride. I wish every elementary school student (and everyone else) could hear this conversation. Your grace, wisdom, and capacity for comity is really quite astounding podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Astra Taylor has ground-game strategies adopted from close observation of what the right has done so successfully. It makes imminent sense and if the left’s consulting class doesn’t get it perhaps its members should sit it out starting now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Solidarity, says Astra Taylor, deserves to be in the pantheon of democratic ideals (connection across difference; the debts we owe past, present to each other, and future). open.spotify.com/episode/1l6M...

Fintan O’Toole nails this political post-mortem on the election. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Lydia Polgreen is spot on. “Trump’s victory feels like a diagnosis, though Americans disagree profoundly on whether he is the disease, symptom or cure…If 2016 felt like a fluke, a bolt of lightning akin to a freak accident, this feels systemic…” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/o...

Lebanese-American poet Etel Adnan said, “the day is not made of light but of will.” Remember that and take courage as we Americans and the world face a man whose will is contorted by grievance and greed.