Karen Wickersham
@kwickers.bsky.social
Blue dot in red state Montana. Defender of democracy. Retired US Forest Service. Mom, Wife, Gramma. Nonprofit ED. We aren’t helpless. We must sing the truth and name the liars.
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First it was "we have to blow up dozens of people on boats because of fetnanyl." But obviously it wasn't fentanyl being trafficked so then: narco terrorists are shipping cocaine! But then Wiles tells a reporter it's all about regime change and today it's bc US oil companies got kicked out in 2007?
December 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
First it was "we have to blow up dozens of people on boats because of fetnanyl." But obviously it wasn't fentanyl being trafficked so then: narco terrorists are shipping cocaine! But then Wiles tells a reporter it's all about regime change and today it's bc US oil companies got kicked out in 2007?
He is a pig. No compassion. No empathy. Who are we, America, that this narcissistic felon holds the highest office in our country?
December 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
He is a pig. No compassion. No empathy. Who are we, America, that this narcissistic felon holds the highest office in our country?
Wow!! Check out this rising young journalist! His voice needs to be spread far and wide. Are you listening Democrats? #youthvote
open.substack.com/pub/thornagi...
open.substack.com/pub/thornagi...
Teenage Riot and The Time for a Youth Movement
"You come runnin' in on platform shoes With Marshall stacks to at least just give us a clue" (Sonic Youth)
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Wow!! Check out this rising young journalist! His voice needs to be spread far and wide. Are you listening Democrats? #youthvote
open.substack.com/pub/thornagi...
open.substack.com/pub/thornagi...
This is a great new young writer on Substack. Hope you follow - I am! The younger generation is giving me HOPE!
December 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
This is a great new young writer on Substack. Hope you follow - I am! The younger generation is giving me HOPE!
December 12, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Schumer needs to go! Now. The 8 Dem Defectors didn’t read the mood of the Country. We won on Tuesday. Even the orange felon said Repubs were getting blamed for the shutdown. Why cave now!?!?!
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Schumer needs to go! Now. The 8 Dem Defectors didn’t read the mood of the Country. We won on Tuesday. Even the orange felon said Repubs were getting blamed for the shutdown. Why cave now!?!?!
Yes it did. Hear us roar!!!
Americans are speaking up — loudly and clearly.
The sleeping giant of America is up and roaring. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-sleeping-giant-awakens
The sleeping giant of America is up and roaring. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-sleeping-giant-awakens
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Yes it did. Hear us roar!!!
He gives me hope.
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:50 AM
He gives me hope.
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
😂😂😂😂😂. All new numbers. The best numbers. Nobody’s ever seen anything like my numbers.
Really - how can anyone actually believe anything this guy says?
Really - how can anyone actually believe anything this guy says?
Trump: "This one chart really says it better than anything, if you look at this. This is great. But this chart is pretty amazing. Right here. All new numbers."
August 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
😂😂😂😂😂. All new numbers. The best numbers. Nobody’s ever seen anything like my numbers.
Really - how can anyone actually believe anything this guy says?
Really - how can anyone actually believe anything this guy says?
Those Epstein files - it ain’t going away…I want to find this tent full of fun people, wherever it is - and just sing along!
August 6, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Those Epstein files - it ain’t going away…I want to find this tent full of fun people, wherever it is - and just sing along!
F yeah. Thank you NY and CA! When they go low —— so do we!
from today's post, on New York's and California's governors promising to redraw their electoral maps if Texas goes ahead and redraws theirs.
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/4fwqlkM
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/4fwqlkM
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
August 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
F yeah. Thank you NY and CA! When they go low —— so do we!
Thank you Gov Pritzker! When they go low - so do we! 💪
ILLINOIS GOV. J.B. PRITZKER (D): "If they're gonna cheat, then all of us have to take a hard look at what the effect of that cheating is on democracy . And that means we've all got to stand up and do the right thing. So as far as I'm concerned, everything is on the table."
August 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Thank you Gov Pritzker! When they go low - so do we! 💪
Texas Democrats aren’t running away from anything. They’re fighting, with every tool they have, to save democracy. Kudos to them for taking this stand. We should be inspired by their courage and reminded that tyranny is only possible if we submit to it.
August 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Texas Democrats aren’t running away from anything. They’re fighting, with every tool they have, to save democracy. Kudos to them for taking this stand. We should be inspired by their courage and reminded that tyranny is only possible if we submit to it.
Sorry Michelle - When they go low - so do we!! We no longer have the luxury of claiming the high ground and playing by the rules. They burned the rule book. Dems - gerrymander the holy heck out of your blue states!
Every blue state should gerrymander their maps immediately.
August 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Sorry Michelle - When they go low - so do we!! We no longer have the luxury of claiming the high ground and playing by the rules. They burned the rule book. Dems - gerrymander the holy heck out of your blue states!
Every single day - every hour - is a new bonkers crazy bad thing in these awful times under this mad king. This is the latest -
August 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Every single day - every hour - is a new bonkers crazy bad thing in these awful times under this mad king. This is the latest -
This is coming to a head very fast. Hold tight, Texas Dems!
JUST IN: Abbott says he may treat fleeing lawmakers as having “forfeited” their offices and move to replace them. He also suggests they could be subject to felony charges if they accept payments to cover impending fines gov.texas.gov/uploads/file...
August 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
This is coming to a head very fast. Hold tight, Texas Dems!
She tells it like it is!! A must watch! 💪
Crockett: Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of shit—we know that. But in a functioning democracy, he still wouldn’t be able to get away with this. He’s been able to get away with it because Republicans are complicit and—most importantly—the Supreme Court is complicit.
August 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
She tells it like it is!! A must watch! 💪
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Crockett: My former colleagues from the Texas House—decided to get the hell out of Texas… breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselves—they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. This fight is going to take all of us.
August 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Crockett: My former colleagues from the Texas House—decided to get the hell out of Texas… breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselves—they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. This fight is going to take all of us.
We need to fight hard, smart and gerrymander the holy hell out of the Blue states.
August 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
We need to fight hard, smart and gerrymander the holy hell out of the Blue states.
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Trump is now eyeing a loyalist to fill the role, because nothing says “trust the data” like hand-picking someone who already agrees with you. Starting next month, expect to see “tons of new jobs” magically appear… and then another… and another. At this rate, we’ll all be employed twice.
August 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Trump is now eyeing a loyalist to fill the role, because nothing says “trust the data” like hand-picking someone who already agrees with you. Starting next month, expect to see “tons of new jobs” magically appear… and then another… and another. At this rate, we’ll all be employed twice.
Anybody remember George Orwell's novel 1984? "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command" highlighting the dangers of government control over truth and perception. WE ARE HERE. 🎯
They didn’t shutter the BLS—they just fired the woman who told the truth. This isn’t just authoritarianism. It’s a totalitarian campaign to control what reality is. And it’s accelerating. #Totalitarianism #Trump2025 #DefendTruth #Authoritarianism #PublicInstitutions
A Politics That Won’t Stop at Power
How Trump’s is building a totalitarian system—not just through power grabs, but by dismantling the very conditions that make truth, dissent, and public life possible.
jamesbgreenberg.substack.com
August 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Anybody remember George Orwell's novel 1984? "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command" highlighting the dangers of government control over truth and perception. WE ARE HERE. 🎯
Reposted by Karen Wickersham
They didn’t shutter the BLS—they just fired the woman who told the truth. This isn’t just authoritarianism. It’s a totalitarian campaign to control what reality is. And it’s accelerating. #Totalitarianism #Trump2025 #DefendTruth #Authoritarianism #PublicInstitutions
A Politics That Won’t Stop at Power
How Trump’s is building a totalitarian system—not just through power grabs, but by dismantling the very conditions that make truth, dissent, and public life possible.
jamesbgreenberg.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
They didn’t shutter the BLS—they just fired the woman who told the truth. This isn’t just authoritarianism. It’s a totalitarian campaign to control what reality is. And it’s accelerating. #Totalitarianism #Trump2025 #DefendTruth #Authoritarianism #PublicInstitutions
It is all about the chaos - not a bug, it’s a feature designed to make the billionaire class get even richer. Where is the money coming from? You and me and they are laughing at all of us as they line their pockets.
Trump’s second-term economy isn’t about revival—it’s about extraction. What looks like chaos is a strategy of control, profit, and dispossession. Crisis becomes a tool, not a failure. #AuthoritarianCapitalism #PoliticalEconomy #TrumpEconomy #RegulatoryCapture #Neoliberalism
The Trump Economy: Extraction Disguised as Policy
How authoritarian economics works in practice—not by building something new, but by hollowing out what remains and turning it to private gain.
jamesbgreenberg.substack.com
August 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It is all about the chaos - not a bug, it’s a feature designed to make the billionaire class get even richer. Where is the money coming from? You and me and they are laughing at all of us as they line their pockets.