I’ll be watching Reiner’s The American President while CBS airs Kennedy Center Honors. Feels right.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov Would you order flags to be flown at half staff in mourning for the desecration of the White House?

Vance and DiSantis should be denied communion for their support of the inhumane treatment of people at Alligator Alcatraz.

Without due process, this could be you. It could be me. It could be any or all of us.

It doesn’t matter who you voted for. Or the color of your skin.

You must understand what is truly at stake here.

All tyranny needs to thrive is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

open.substack.com/pub/contrari... #FREEKILMAR

Wow. So the new free market WaPo is going to excoriate Trump on tariffs, abortion, cronyism and attacks on lgbtq+ Americans. Tough, tough, tough. Next time they should endorse a candidate like Kamala Harris who was on the right side of all those issues

Pope Francis’ letter to U.S. Bishops is incedibly powerful. This stands out to me especially. Every purported Christian faith leader who has endorsed or stood silent before Trump’s ugly immigration policies needs to be confronted with this statement.

www.vatican.va/content/fran...

I kind of trust the Germans to know a Hitlergruß when they see one

President Trump speaks in his inaugural address once more about renaming the Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America. A Spanish friend sent me this note on that subject.

One of these things is not like the others.

It’s not his nationality that's the issue. It’s his exploitative psychopathology. His “developmental disorder” is narcissistic psychopathy. These exploiters and predators are pathological liars who come up with all types of manipulative excuses for their aberrant behavior.