Trish Stumpf Garcia 🫘 ❌️👑
@stumpfgarcia.bsky.social
temp profile pics=a recent favorite (re)read 🦏 & books for a democracy vs. fascism, et al. display
libguides.riohondo.edu/DemocracyVs
#genealogy enthusiast, #librarian. life-long learner. leguminati free-loader.
https://Stumpf-in-the-Banat.blogspot.com
libguides.riohondo.edu/DemocracyVs
#genealogy enthusiast, #librarian. life-long learner. leguminati free-loader.
https://Stumpf-in-the-Banat.blogspot.com
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That's great!
Here's the link to Senator Merkley's YouTube channel and the live feed happening now:
www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...
Here's the link to Senator Merkley's YouTube channel and the live feed happening now:
www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...
October 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
That's great!
Here's the link to Senator Merkley's YouTube channel and the live feed happening now:
www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...
Here's the link to Senator Merkley's YouTube channel and the live feed happening now:
www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...
Professor Nelson's analysis of presidential power that I want to read later:
Special Feature: Must Administrative Officers Serve at the President’s Pleasure?
democracyproject.org/posts/must-a...
Special Feature: Must Administrative Officers Serve at the President’s Pleasure?
democracyproject.org/posts/must-a...
Special Feature: Must Administrative Officers Serve at the President’s Pleasure?
A broad range of views on democracy to help break the stalemate caused by partisan conflict.
democracyproject.org
October 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Professor Nelson's analysis of presidential power that I want to read later:
Special Feature: Must Administrative Officers Serve at the President’s Pleasure?
democracyproject.org/posts/must-a...
Special Feature: Must Administrative Officers Serve at the President’s Pleasure?
democracyproject.org/posts/must-a...
This is a great update to where we are in the US today.
Welcome to a Competitive Authoritarian System.
RIP American Democracy?
1776-2025?
I hope not. A lot of these instigators are old. I'm already looking forward to a new reconstruction. I hope we do a better job this time.
Welcome to a Competitive Authoritarian System.
RIP American Democracy?
1776-2025?
I hope not. A lot of these instigators are old. I'm already looking forward to a new reconstruction. I hope we do a better job this time.
New, from me:
America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism.
This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism.
This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
The authoritarian checklist
It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy
donmoynihan.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is a great update to where we are in the US today.
Welcome to a Competitive Authoritarian System.
RIP American Democracy?
1776-2025?
I hope not. A lot of these instigators are old. I'm already looking forward to a new reconstruction. I hope we do a better job this time.
Welcome to a Competitive Authoritarian System.
RIP American Democracy?
1776-2025?
I hope not. A lot of these instigators are old. I'm already looking forward to a new reconstruction. I hope we do a better job this time.
Years ago, with a toddler in the stroller, walking my son home from preschool on a sunny SoCal day, he needed his shoelace tied. I rebuffed his demand for immediate attention telling him we'd stop a bit further up in the shade of the next tree ...
I'm in the September issue of @newrepublic reviewing a new book on shade - ft. America's addiction to AC, Los Angeles's absurd urban policy priorities, Mike Davis (who else), the La Sombrita debacle, sun as hostile architecture, & a little gratuitous Boston hate
newrepublic.com/article/1983...
newrepublic.com/article/1983...
How America Became Hostile to Shade
A roving history makes the case for shade’s centrality to public health, climate adaptation, and even a more robust and inclusive public sphere.
newrepublic.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Years ago, with a toddler in the stroller, walking my son home from preschool on a sunny SoCal day, he needed his shoelace tied. I rebuffed his demand for immediate attention telling him we'd stop a bit further up in the shade of the next tree ...
Looking forward to these No Kings's events, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
www.mobilize.us
July 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Looking forward to these No Kings's events, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
"Submit or get brutalized and/or prosecuted."
We've gone too far down the authoritarian path if these are our choices.
Submitting is an easy baby step toward worse things.
We all must push back where we can, when we can safely, while we can. ✊️
"Be as courageous as you can" (Snyder)
We've gone too far down the authoritarian path if these are our choices.
Submitting is an easy baby step toward worse things.
We all must push back where we can, when we can safely, while we can. ✊️
"Be as courageous as you can" (Snyder)
/2 The hidden premise of the question seems to be there is some hidden cheat code that lawyers know that will solve this. But there’s no cheat code for fascism. You submit to the masked armed thugs or you get brutalized and/or prosecuted. There’s no win scenario…
June 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
"Submit or get brutalized and/or prosecuted."
We've gone too far down the authoritarian path if these are our choices.
Submitting is an easy baby step toward worse things.
We all must push back where we can, when we can safely, while we can. ✊️
"Be as courageous as you can" (Snyder)
We've gone too far down the authoritarian path if these are our choices.
Submitting is an easy baby step toward worse things.
We all must push back where we can, when we can safely, while we can. ✊️
"Be as courageous as you can" (Snyder)
NO KINGS!
My 5x-great-grandfather did not serve with the Virginia Militia, including the Battle of Guilford Court House in North Carolina and at the surrender of the British forces under Cornwallis at Yorktown, in order to have, 250ish years later, a wealthy criminal land baron reality-TV...
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My 5x-great-grandfather did not serve with the Virginia Militia, including the Battle of Guilford Court House in North Carolina and at the surrender of the British forces under Cornwallis at Yorktown, in order to have, 250ish years later, a wealthy criminal land baron reality-TV...
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June 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
NO KINGS!
My 5x-great-grandfather did not serve with the Virginia Militia, including the Battle of Guilford Court House in North Carolina and at the surrender of the British forces under Cornwallis at Yorktown, in order to have, 250ish years later, a wealthy criminal land baron reality-TV...
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My 5x-great-grandfather did not serve with the Virginia Militia, including the Battle of Guilford Court House in North Carolina and at the surrender of the British forces under Cornwallis at Yorktown, in order to have, 250ish years later, a wealthy criminal land baron reality-TV...
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NO KINGS!
My 5x-great-grandfather did not serve with the Virginia Militia, including the Battle of Guilford Court House in North Carolina and at the surrender of the British forces under Cornwallis at Yorktown, in order to have, 250ish years later, a wealthy criminal land baron reality-TV
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My 5x-great-grandfather did not serve with the Virginia Militia, including the Battle of Guilford Court House in North Carolina and at the surrender of the British forces under Cornwallis at Yorktown, in order to have, 250ish years later, a wealthy criminal land baron reality-TV
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April 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
NO KINGS!
My 5x-great-grandfather did not serve with the Virginia Militia, including the Battle of Guilford Court House in North Carolina and at the surrender of the British forces under Cornwallis at Yorktown, in order to have, 250ish years later, a wealthy criminal land baron reality-TV
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My 5x-great-grandfather did not serve with the Virginia Militia, including the Battle of Guilford Court House in North Carolina and at the surrender of the British forces under Cornwallis at Yorktown, in order to have, 250ish years later, a wealthy criminal land baron reality-TV
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April 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I have been thinking that El Salvador's CECOT was the U.S.'s Dachau. I hadn't considered that it's more akin to the USSR's Siberian camps.
What have we come to?
What have we come to?
April 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I have been thinking that El Salvador's CECOT was the U.S.'s Dachau. I hadn't considered that it's more akin to the USSR's Siberian camps.
What have we come to?
What have we come to?
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Libraries continued to provide critical services and develop innovative programs and services, despite the challenges they faced in 2024. Learn more and see which books face the most censorship challenges in this year's State of America's Libraries Report:
www.ala.org/news/state-a...
www.ala.org/news/state-a...
April 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Libraries continued to provide critical services and develop innovative programs and services, despite the challenges they faced in 2024. Learn more and see which books face the most censorship challenges in this year's State of America's Libraries Report:
www.ala.org/news/state-a...
www.ala.org/news/state-a...
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Reposted by Trish Stumpf Garcia 🫘 ❌️👑
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 2:39 PM
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...
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🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
"We will not be bullied by little men with great insecurities."
I'm trying to figure out how to effectively "be loud."
I'm trying to figure out how to effectively "be loud."
Good people feel it. They know we're not well because of this illness that has invaded. And it is the good people who need to be loud right now.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/defeating-...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/defeating-...
Defeating the Cancer of Trumpism
Some things live solely at the expense of others.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
February 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
"We will not be bullied by little men with great insecurities."
I'm trying to figure out how to effectively "be loud."
I'm trying to figure out how to effectively "be loud."
Why hadn't I considered this was an option?:
"Those considering impeachment should also include Vance."
Please read the full essay. That's just one of my takeaways.
"Those considering impeachment should also include Vance."
Please read the full essay. That's just one of my takeaways.
Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Why hadn't I considered this was an option?:
"Those considering impeachment should also include Vance."
Please read the full essay. That's just one of my takeaways.
"Those considering impeachment should also include Vance."
Please read the full essay. That's just one of my takeaways.
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There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.
February 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.