Joan Colbert
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Joan Colbert
@joanc.bsky.social
· Jan 29
Also useful from nine years ago: thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-he...
We’re heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump
Having studied authoritarian states for over a decade, I would never exaggerate the severity of the threat we now face. But an American kleptocracy is exactly where president-elect Trump and his backe...
thecorrespondent.com
"Do not accept brutality and cruelty as normal even if it is sanctioned. Protect the vulnerable and encourage the afraid. If you are brave, stand up for others. If you cannot be brave – and it is often hard to be brave – be kind." Sarah Kendzior
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"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...
The Transformative Power of the White ‘Race Traitor’
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:16 PM
"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...
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On Trump, Epstein, and their social circle of pedophiles. From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, written in 2019, before Epstein was indicted.
"The story of Jeffrey Epstein is one that will define our era..."
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
"The story of Jeffrey Epstein is one that will define our era..."
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
February 2, 2026 at 9:05 PM
On Trump, Epstein, and their social circle of pedophiles. From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, written in 2019, before Epstein was indicted.
"The story of Jeffrey Epstein is one that will define our era..."
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
"The story of Jeffrey Epstein is one that will define our era..."
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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I like the arguments about how “you have criticisms of police but you want them to show up if you call 911” because yes you just defined an ideal point of law enforcement, why would you want multiple fire trucks on your street and at your home if you didn’t call
February 9, 2026 at 1:18 PM
I like the arguments about how “you have criticisms of police but you want them to show up if you call 911” because yes you just defined an ideal point of law enforcement, why would you want multiple fire trucks on your street and at your home if you didn’t call
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From THEY KNEW, excerpted here in 2022: "It became reasonable to believe that a critical mass of people in power were either criminals, pedophiles, or traitors, or that they were being blackmailed, bribed, or threatened by a criminal, pedophile, or traitor."
lithub.com/sarah-kendzi...
lithub.com/sarah-kendzi...
Sarah Kendzior on Trumpland’s Criminal Distortions of American Reality
It is common to hear that Americans no longer inhabit a shared reality. To a large extent this is true, especially in an era of social media manipulation, but we did not share a reality in simpler …
lithub.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:51 PM
From THEY KNEW, excerpted here in 2022: "It became reasonable to believe that a critical mass of people in power were either criminals, pedophiles, or traitors, or that they were being blackmailed, bribed, or threatened by a criminal, pedophile, or traitor."
lithub.com/sarah-kendzi...
lithub.com/sarah-kendzi...
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New article! On the Epstein files, the cruelty of the release, and the crimes that came before: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/jackhammer...
Jackhammering Into the Sewer
A look through the Epstein files.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:38 AM
New article! On the Epstein files, the cruelty of the release, and the crimes that came before: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/jackhammer...
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“You're not going to out-shoot BORTAC. You're not going to out-opsec the FBI. You're not fighting a civil war in a nation divided on stark ethnic or religious lines. You're not materially supported by a major outside power. You're not facing a civilian paramilitary”
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:06 PM
“You're not going to out-shoot BORTAC. You're not going to out-opsec the FBI. You're not fighting a civil war in a nation divided on stark ethnic or religious lines. You're not materially supported by a major outside power. You're not facing a civilian paramilitary”
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
“We confront no historical analogy, but actual twenty-first century Nazis . . . Blood Tribe, Vance and Trump appeal not to someone else’s racism in some other time and place, but to American racism, right here and now.” Timothy Snyder
“We confront no historical analogy, but actual twenty-first century Nazis . . . Blood Tribe, Vance and Trump appeal not to someone else’s racism in some other time and place, but to American racism, right here and now.” Timothy Snyder
Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio?
Nazi Lies in Vance's America
open.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:05 PM
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
“We confront no historical analogy, but actual twenty-first century Nazis . . . Blood Tribe, Vance and Trump appeal not to someone else’s racism in some other time and place, but to American racism, right here and now.” Timothy Snyder
“We confront no historical analogy, but actual twenty-first century Nazis . . . Blood Tribe, Vance and Trump appeal not to someone else’s racism in some other time and place, but to American racism, right here and now.” Timothy Snyder
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Commentary: Don’t turn our backs on our Haitian neighbors who’ve built a life in Ohio: Ending TPS will tear families apart, deepen labor shortages, and send people back to chaos and danger. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/29/d...
Don't turn our backs on our Haitian neighbors who've built a life in Ohio • Ohio Capital Journal
Don't turn our backs on our Haitian neighbors who've built a life in Ohio. Haitians are here legally under temporary protected status. Ending that will tear families apart, deepen labor shortages,…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Commentary: Don’t turn our backs on our Haitian neighbors who’ve built a life in Ohio: Ending TPS will tear families apart, deepen labor shortages, and send people back to chaos and danger. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/29/d...
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Haitians in Springfield, Ohio lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. There will very likely be a major ICE incursion the next day. Haitians in Springfield were the targets of Vance’s lying during the campaign.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/28/t...
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/28/t...
'The folks are fearful.' Haitians living in Ohio may soon lose temporary protected status • Ohio Capital Journal
Thousands of Haitians living in Ohio will lose their temporary protected status next week unless a federal court blocks it.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Haitians in Springfield, Ohio lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. There will very likely be a major ICE incursion the next day. Haitians in Springfield were the targets of Vance’s lying during the campaign.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/28/t...
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/28/t...
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This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
January 27, 2026 at 10:05 PM
This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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Herblock, Washington Post (1968)
January 26, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Herblock, Washington Post (1968)
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I really enjoyed going on The Daily Blast to talk with @gregsargent.bsky.social about my latest column at @liberalcurrents.com
Here’s the piece www.liberalcurrents.com/after-trump-...
Here’s the piece www.liberalcurrents.com/after-trump-...
January 23, 2026 at 1:28 PM
I really enjoyed going on The Daily Blast to talk with @gregsargent.bsky.social about my latest column at @liberalcurrents.com
Here’s the piece www.liberalcurrents.com/after-trump-...
Here’s the piece www.liberalcurrents.com/after-trump-...
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Commentary: The small town of Springfield, Ohio awaits an invasion of unaccountable thugs who conceal their faces and identities, drive in unmarked vehicles, stomp on the Bill of Rights, and viciously brutalize human beings based on their race and accent ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/22/s...
Springfield, Ohio awaits masked thugs out to brutalize neighbors and stomp on the Bill of Rights • Ohio Capital Journal
The small town of Springfield, Ohio awaits an invasion of unaccountable thugs who conceal their faces and identities, drive in unmarked vehicles, stomp on the Bill of Rights, and viciously brutalize…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Commentary: The small town of Springfield, Ohio awaits an invasion of unaccountable thugs who conceal their faces and identities, drive in unmarked vehicles, stomp on the Bill of Rights, and viciously brutalize human beings based on their race and accent ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/22/s...
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Members of Congress had close to 100 years of historical hindsight to answer the question, ”What would you do if another madman came along and threatened the safety of the world?” And the best they could come up with is nothing.
January 20, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Members of Congress had close to 100 years of historical hindsight to answer the question, ”What would you do if another madman came along and threatened the safety of the world?” And the best they could come up with is nothing.
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New interview! On Trump, Greenland, the Lauder family who spurred the Greenland talk and their oligarch crime network, ICE raids in Minneapolis, more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyjQ...
Behind Trump’s Obsession With Greenland, Sarah Kendzior
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
www.youtube.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:24 PM
New interview! On Trump, Greenland, the Lauder family who spurred the Greenland talk and their oligarch crime network, ICE raids in Minneapolis, more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyjQ...
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Commentary: Repulsive JD Vance spectacle tells America to reject what we saw with our own eyes ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/15/r...
Repulsive JD Vance spectacle tells America to reject what we saw with our own eyes • Ohio Capital Journal
Repulsive hardly describes JD Vance’s performative spectacle last week justifying the public execution of an American citizen by state militia. The horrific killing was all over social media but…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Commentary: Repulsive JD Vance spectacle tells America to reject what we saw with our own eyes ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/15/r...
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“When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision – then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
Audre Lorde
Link to art here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/dare...
Audre Lorde
Link to art here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/dare...
January 17, 2026 at 7:02 PM
“When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision – then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
Audre Lorde
Link to art here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/dare...
Audre Lorde
Link to art here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/dare...
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The Boston Globe Test:
This satirical front page imagined a Trump presidency in 2016. Critics (including Trump himself) dismissed it as "alarmist" and "propaganda" at the time.
Do these headlines feel normal today? Even...quaint?
If so: we have grown more accepting of what was once unthinkable.
This satirical front page imagined a Trump presidency in 2016. Critics (including Trump himself) dismissed it as "alarmist" and "propaganda" at the time.
Do these headlines feel normal today? Even...quaint?
If so: we have grown more accepting of what was once unthinkable.
January 16, 2026 at 1:42 PM
The Boston Globe Test:
This satirical front page imagined a Trump presidency in 2016. Critics (including Trump himself) dismissed it as "alarmist" and "propaganda" at the time.
Do these headlines feel normal today? Even...quaint?
If so: we have grown more accepting of what was once unthinkable.
This satirical front page imagined a Trump presidency in 2016. Critics (including Trump himself) dismissed it as "alarmist" and "propaganda" at the time.
Do these headlines feel normal today? Even...quaint?
If so: we have grown more accepting of what was once unthinkable.
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Commentary: Repulsive hardly describes JD Vance’s performative spectacle last week justifying the public execution of an American citizen. The horrific killing was all over social media but Vance told us to reject what we saw with our own eyes. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/15/r...
Repulsive JD Vance spectacle tells America to reject what we saw with our own eyes • Ohio Capital Journal
Repulsive hardly describes JD Vance’s performative spectacle last week justifying the public execution of an American citizen by state militia. The horrific killing was all over social media but…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Commentary: Repulsive hardly describes JD Vance’s performative spectacle last week justifying the public execution of an American citizen. The horrific killing was all over social media but Vance told us to reject what we saw with our own eyes. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/15/r...