A dual British & American citizen who misses the UK, public school history teacher in the US, postgrad student, lifelong learner and lover of democracy.
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Surviving Jeffery Epstein: This week we hear from Jess Michaels, a survivor of Epstein's abuse, who exposes both the monster himself and the wider system that affected so many. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFqeOt_rNFM
Here in the US, “two weeks” actually means never.
Speak Truth....
POS trump allowed this pack of crooks to leap frog over the USA. Remember that!
September 3rd Epstein survivors will be Heard!! Tell everyone!
August 31, 2025
DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
August 29, 2025
There is no party platform anymore. Just the whims of a madman and the agenda of his handlers.
Turns out when you treat teachers well, invest in students, and focus on improving schools, you get real results. Illinois now ranks third in the nation for our education system for a reason.
New in PN: Alert the media — the WH is lying about Trump's health "Something's clearly up & the official explanations don’t make sense. That’s not a shock given that Trump is a liar surrounded by toadies who surrendered their shame long ago. But it’s past time for reporters to ask some questions."
The media needs to stop calling this an “immigration crackdown.” That’s not what Trump’s doing. He’s using the military and ICE to invade cities and occupy them. Trump is itching for a fight, and he wants it with blue-city mayors and blue-state governors. The good news: they’re not backing down.
Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede. Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.” (Published May 2025)
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
Because destroying the US is not enough, Trump is using tariffs, visa restrictions, and trade deals to pressure other countries to abandon climate goals and increase fossil fuel use, further destroying the world and the future.
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
Share If You Care.
"Of one thing, I am certain: The search of Bolton’s house was designed to send a message. I know because I was there." NEW exclusive from @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org: www.thebulwark.com/p/john-bolto...
this is delightful slate.com/culture/2025...
FEMA’s own employees are sounding the alarm. I was on the ground after Katrina. I know the cost of failure. It's currently hurricane season and FEMA staff are warning we’re headed there again...
Americans love their national parks. There’s a reason why they were once described as “America’s best idea.” So why are Trump and Republicans taking an axe to the National Park Service’s budget? Follow the money. youtu.be/HS7IJaB5NDc?...
This guy is the vice president, a venture capitalist, and a Yale Law grad. And completely ignorant about the basics of World War 2. Sheesh.
What Trump/Texas just did will lead to the death of representative democracy. They’ve opened the door to gerrymandering every 2yrs, b4 any election. And when that happens, Americans will no longer believe their representation is legitimate. And representative democracy will die.
Don't get too close to the screen; the stink from this guy is outrageous
RP w alt
"Hours into her detention, [Nicole] Collier filed a habeas corpus petition with a court in Travis County, requesting a judge to declare her restraint illegal. In the filing, she argues that the House seargent-at-arms has the authority to compel the attendance of absent member. 1/
President of the United States has an especially pernicious personality disorder He’s also a serial rapist of children & adults He’s also a felon He also led an insurrection against… the United States He’s also a Russian asset He’s also chronically bankrupt He’s also demented #RemoveTrump
If you need to steal, cheat or cancel elections to stay in power, it’s because you know how much everyone hates your guts.
Showing the endangered leader of an invaded country my hats
Whatever AOC Says, Is Worth Repeating, Correct Mr. Chump.......
Here outside the House chamber with folks chanting “LET HER OUT!”
A new UC Riverside report sounds the alarm: brutal immigration enforcement is fueling a public health crisis for kids in mixed-status families. Detention, deportation & raids are leaving children, immigrant and US-born, traumatized w/anxiety, disrupted development, and fear of losing their parents.
Trump reportedly paused the meeting with Zelensky and European leaders to call Putin. Needed a refresher on his talking points?
And states regulate elections, not the federal government.
Imagine that? Didn’t Putin just tell Trump mail in ballots can be fraudulent?
Terrible name and terrible logo. I only watch Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell.
Okay, seeing a lot of posts about the terrible new name. Can we talk about the terrible new logo?
As Ukrainian and European leaders travel to Washington for discussions in the White House this Monday about ending Russia’s illegal war of aggression, Americans would do well to remember these ten principles of negotiation. snyder.substack.com/p/common-sen...
Rubio repeatedly won't name a single specific concession that Russia will have to give up as part of a peace deal, then pivots to talking about land that Ukraine will have to give up
When @hcrichardson.bsky.social tells me something is important, I read it. She's right. If you are struggling to understand how and why legacy media have been reacting (or underreacting) over the last 18 months, here are some basics.
Chris Murphy: "The meeting was a disaster, it was an embarrassment for the United States ... Putin walks away with a photo op, with zero commitments made, and zero consequences. What a great day for Russia."
Zelenskyy will not fly to Trump alone. European leaders will join him:
Important.
Aside from everything else, they’re pissing our tax dollars away on dragging National Guard troops away from their lives to participate in a stunt while they’re defunding food programs for kids and cancer research.
Trump has entered into a new and wilder stage of authoritarian neofascism. No holds barred. Nothing out of bounds. But tyrants cannot succeed where people refuse to submit to them. And we must not submit.
OBAMA TO TEXAS DEMS: "We became complacent... This precious democracy is not a given. It requires us to fight for it." 🇺🇸
Kara-Murza sees Putin for what he is: a monster who despoiled his nation, savaged its constitution, murdered his critics, launched an unprovoked genocidal attack against a democratic neighbor, and who today is a wanted war criminal. charliesykes.substack.com/p/an-infamou...
I hate it when weak-minded media such as the Washington Post say that DC crime is dramatically down but "many residents still do not feel safe." They're talking about an *information problem* more than a crime problem. Right-wing propagandists don't want anyone to feel safe.
This former model, with no background in history, has been put in charge of curating what is "appropriate" at the National Museum of African American History.
For sure tue worst. Poor troops, having to listen to him.
The Trump administration is now seeking to replace PBS with “Prager University,” a far-right propaganda organization that isn’t actually a university. One of their “kids videos” has Christopher Columbus telling them that slavery was “no big deal” and “better than being killed.”
It’s a utter disgrace that no reporters asked Kegseth about this.
New Analysis Finds Trump Family Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the Presidency www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The independence of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is vital. If politicized, it can't be trusted as a source of information. Who did Trump just put in charge of the agency? E.J. Antoni — chief economist at the Heritage Foundation and contributor to Project 2025.
Governor Newsom is an inferno.....
Multitasking matters. Yes, the news cycle is chaos, but don’t let this week’s distractions bury the Epstein story and Donald Trump’s role in it. He’s counting on you to look away. Don’t.
Missouri adopted a law that ends St. Louis’ ability to run its own police, transferring control to the GOP-run state government. The law also requires St. Louis to commit 25% of its budget to policing. boltsmag.org/missour...
Fun Fact: Donald Trump is responsible for 21.4% of the national debt.
JD Vance says U.S. citizens are tired of funding the defense of Ukraine. Speak for yourself you pathetic loser. I would rather my tax dollars go to defend Ukraine than to your vacations or the tax cuts of the oligarchs. HE DOES NOT REPRESENT THE MAJORITY OF US! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
President Miller in action.
Seven EU leaders warn Trump against Ukraine territorial concessions before Putin summit France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Britain, EU officials warned the US they will maintain military support for Ukraine regardless of any Trump-Putin agreements euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/10/s...
He honestly believes we are all as ignorant as MAGA voters. Most of us are not...we actually remember Russia started war. Twisting truth to suit their wants.
Trump: "The crime numbers [in D.C.] get worse." Official statistics: Violent crime in D.C. is at a 30-year low. The Trump regime is inventing lies to justify military control over our cities. It's what dictators do.
People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it! 8/8/25
The six reliably pro-Trump justices are "racking up a rap sheet of constitutional abuses of staggering import."
Speak Truth.....
A reminder: Pu didn't stop the war when he got de facto control of Crimea and some of Donbas in 2014. He invaded further in 2022.
“The one thing they did promise was to release this file.”
Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution—which limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpus—have disappeared from Congress’s website. They claim a coding error is to blame.
America in 2025.
BREAKING: The US government has just removed sections 9 and 10 of Article I of the US Constitution from their website. Note that sections 9 and 10 deal with: - Writ of Habeas Corpus - Congresses ability to control tariffs. See screenshot below: Notice that 9 and 10 are gone.
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
“In just 15 months, Mehdi Hasan has transformed Zeteo from a risky post-MSNBC gamble into a thriving, independent media company.” - read @oliverdarcy.bsky.social on ‘The Zeteo Zoom’ - featuring quotes and stats from yours truly.
Records show the Tesla chief executive was the single largest donor to committees supporting Republicans in congressional races. https://on.ft.com/4lZhNoW
This is moving. Kamala Harris feels the pain we feel. Not just from her loss, but from the trauma and abuse our country is living through. What could have been…
Starting right now......
Norfolk Southern & Union Pacific announced a merger yesterday. If approved, the combined railway giant would control 40% of rail freight in the US. In 75% of US industries, fewer companies control more of the business than 20 years ago. The monopolization of America continues.
'The Justice Department has already accused Maxwell of being a pervasive liar. The prosecutors who brought charges against Maxwell repeatedly told the judge overseeing her 2021 trial that she was willing to “brazenly lie under oath about her conduct.”' www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...
Tonight’s episode of South Park is going to make Trump lose his f*cking mind
This means she's been allowed to do so, I presume. They're allowed three no votes.
Breaking from the Office of Pres. Obama: "Our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.
Right-wing cancel culture run wild! They’re not only canceling Colbert, global relief, the federal work force and their promise to release the Epstein File. Now they’re canceling Congress!
"In the letter, the signatories warned that National Science Foundation grants now underwent a 'covert and ideologically driven secondary review process'...” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...
Let that sink in for a sec.
