More favorite URLs for us to chew on
Additions March 2nd through May 25th, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B69BnE6syMI
Midas Touch, May 24th, 2025 Podcast video sharing the demonic dementia stew between his ears as he makes an astonishing “speech” to a West Point audience on this date. 12:55 Extensive clips of the loonieset crap we’ve probably heard from him yet, generally kept hidden from the public.
Nicholas Kristoff, May 24th, 2025 NYT Gift Article (good through June 24th or so) “Trump Is Immensely Vulnerable” A follow-on to his May 21st article. The Emperor has no clothes. And a fat ass to boot.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-need-to-share-about-the
Robert Reich May 22nd, 2025 “What you need to share about the ‘one big beautiful’ ugly horrible bill”
It’s actually much worse than Bob’s ten points make out.
Nicholas Kristof, May 21st, 2025 NYT Gift Article (good through June 21st or so) “Three Well-Tested Ways to Undermine an Autocrat”, i.e. lessons from the handbook for defeating dictators — get your copy now!
of this book: “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation” by Gene Sharp, 1993-2012, 160 pages
NYT subscribers can use the part of the URL ahead of the question mark indefinitely.
https://substack.com/inbox/post/163639888
Bill Southworth, May 16th, 2025 Look! A Squirrel!
How the bastard keeps avoiding media scrutiny via the art of continuous distraction
https://hartmannreport.com/p/red-state-hell-the-gop-plan-to-keep-ad7
Thom Hartman May 15th, 2025 The GOP in a nutshell: Why Republicans love to create poverty, pain, and desperation — it keeps wages low and the billionaires happy…
For example, Republican-controlled Red states, almost across the board, have higher rates of:
— Spousal abuse
— Obesity
— Smoking
— Teen pregnancy
— Sexually transmitted diseases
— Abortion (at least before Dobbs; now it would be “forced births”)
— Bankruptcies and poverty
— Homicide and suicide
— Infant mortality
— Maternal mortality
— Forcible rape
— Robbery and aggravated assault
— Dropouts from high school
— Divorce
— Contaminated air and water
— Opiate addiction and deaths
— Unskilled workers
— Parasitic infections
— Income and wealth inequality
— Covid deaths and unvaccinated people
— Federal subsidies to states (“Red State Welfare”)
— People on welfare
— Child poverty
— Homelessness
— Spousal murder
— Unemployment
— Deaths from auto accidents
— People living on disability
— Gun deaths
and shorter life expectancy, of course.
https://katiephang.substack.com/p/will-the-supreme-court-support-the
Katie Phang and The Left Hook with Wahahat Ali, May 15th, 2025 video 44:37
Hear critical insights into Katie’s life and experience. She is and has been for nine years one of the nation’s top legal experts in the media and is helping to defend democracy from the nazis trying to destroy it in order to steal America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbF0EKVduNc&t=15s
Senator Chris Murphy, April 30th, 2025 on the Senate floor: The Biggest Crime Wave in History: Trump’s First 100 Days 26:22 Best exposition yet
Note May 10th, 2025: Night before last I saw the film Fury for the first time. It was made in 2014.
This now ranks, for me, as the most... what? important, honest, hard-hitting, revealing, best? war movie of all time. It does many groundbreaking things. The story is of tank warfare in the European Theater. I could list about a dozen ways in which this movie does things that advance the genre beyond Saving Private Ryan, and I have to consider it deserving the title of best despite the magnificence of The Great Escape, Bridge on the River Kwai, Run Silent Run Deep, and so many others.
Brad Pitt should have gotten a best actor nomination at least. I had never heard of the film until three days ago. Fury (the name of their tank...)
What it means to be compelled to fight a Hitler. How Hitler was Trump. How Trump is Hitler, specifically here being all-in on sacrificing everyone in service of his mad quest for world domination, including Germany's children. They are one and the same person. This has been plain as day forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HTDpKht9s0
Nato Green “What do politics have to do with me?” 2019 65-second video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmDxy_RDrQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov4IQ5D8ysM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZydcNDRTsUI
Rachel Maddow on Stephen Colbert, May 6th, 2025. In three parts, excellent.
https://open.substack.com/pub/criticalread/p/we-need-a-way-to-aggregate-what-donald
A way to help: a “Trump” wiki project to document all his damage to help with reconstruction after WW T has ended. Dan Froomkin, May 5th, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrJPfGOTjd0&t=129s
Two minutes with Al Gore April 23rd, 2025 YouTube It's so good to hear his voice again.
Scott Dworkin’s handy list of Contact Congress Campaign links to express your concerns on each of a dozen issues April 26th, 2025
https://hartmannreport.com/p/roberts-owns-it-all-from-citizens-d80
Thom Hartmann April 22nd, 2025 — Roberts Owns It All: From Citizens United to Trump’s Coup. A must-read on America’s strategic position. Fascist oligarchy here we go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r366jCea82M
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on the Senate floor April 5th, 2025 "This Whole Thing is a Con:" Whitehouse Roasts Republican Budget Lies. One large piece of how the damned lying GOP and the fossil fuel industries are stealing America's future in plain sight. 29:40 Superb work
WaPo - Aziz Huq April 9th, 2025 — Trump has left himself open to a powerful constitutional counterpunch — Animus as a basis for government action has long been held to be unconstitutional and just as much if not more so by conservative and libertarian judges. Gift article, likely to expire on about May 13th, 2025 (thus the insanely long URL)
David Brooks, NYT, April 10th, 2025 “Producing Something This Stupid Is the Achievement of a Lifetime” (referring to the idiotic tariffs, and the mind of the idiot that created them) But of course the real reason he wanted them was to perpetrate the biggest mobster protection racket in the history of the world. Call it his evil, infantile experiment in mega-crime. But along the way, check out the assessment of the state of America’s failing education system, producing tens of millions of idiotic citizens, incapable of doing what it takes to be a citizen of Earth these days. “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
Gift article, will expire on about May 10th, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/04/photos-nationwide-protests-against-trump-and-musk/682320/
The Atlantic, April 6th, 2025 — Massive crowd photos from across the country taken Saturday April 5th, 2025 of the nation’s first mass protest of the pissant fascists stealing America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEle3pZRqmI
SNL April 5th, 2025 — Trump Tariff Cold Open Possibly the best one ever
New York Times April 4th, 2025 — Your Life Will Never Be The Same After These Tariffs
This gift link will expire on May 5th, 2025.
New York Times April 4th, 2025 — The Failed Ideas That Drive Elon Musk
This gift link will expire on May 4th, 2025.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/its-bad-bad-news-for-trump-but-dont
Joe Trippi April 4th, 2025 Lincoln Square Media 20:47
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-3-2025
Heather Cox Richardson April 3rd, 2025 — World War T is proceeding apace. Trump and his fellow gangsters are moving to enslave all powerful entities so as to own your ass.
https://weissmann.substack.com/p/a-win-for-the-rule-of-law-why-judge
Andrew Weissmann April 3rd, 2025 — A Win for the Rule of Law: Why Judge Ho’s Decision Matters (to dismiss the case against Eric Adams with prejudice) The details matter, a lot. 17:45
https://open.substack.com/pub/thecycle/p/stat-of-the-week-902
Rachel Bitecofer March 30th, 2025 — Analysis: Voters Have No Idea What Democrats Stand For
https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow
Timothy Snyder with John Lithgow March 30th, 2025 — On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, 10:27 in the video form.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/signalgate-violating-national-security
Timothy Snyder March 26th, 2025 Signalgate - Violating National Security In Order to Violate Our Rights
https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/live-with-malcolm-nance
Malcolm Nance and Harry Litman explain why this Signal crap is THE BIGGEST INTELLIGENCE FAILURE IN AMERICAN HISTORY!!! March 26, 2025 29 minutes long
https://www.theindex.media/the-new-world-order-is-here-and-america-isnt-part-of-it/
The Index March 22nd, 2025 — The New World Order Is Here, And America Isn't Part Of It: The age of American centrality in Asian affairs is over. Trump has destroyed it. In Europe too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAqYNFQdZ4
Don’t Be A Sucker - U.S. National Archives 1945 - Fantastic and timely film to explain to Americans how a good country can be fooled into becoming a Nazi hell by believing wicked men. 22:48
https://substack.com/home/post/p-159514528
Thom Hartmann March 22nd, 2025 — The Dark Enlightenment
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trump-day-mare
Robert Reich March 22nd, 2025 — The Trump Daymare
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/robert-hubbell-saturday-morning-live
Robert Hubble — Today's Edition Newsletter video 32:09 March 22nd, 2025
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/trump-control-elections-plan/
Democracy Docket March 17th, 2025 — Trump’s Plan to Control Elections Is Coming Into Focus. Think we’re going to have meaningful elections in 2026? Not if the enemy has its way. Russia has “elections” too...
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/the-shame-of-columbia-university
Robert Reich March 22nd, 2025 — The Shame of Columbia University. Remember what one of our Founders said, usually attributed to Ben Franklin, “We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” Similar situation we’re in again. Do the American people value their freedom or not? Or have a clue how it works? And how much of our world depends on it?
https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/this-is-how-tesla-will-die
Will Lockett March 6th, 2025 This Is How Tesla Will Die — The vultures are circling the tech giant.
https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/even-without-musk-tesla-is-finished
Will Lockett March 21, 2025 Even Without Musk, Tesla Is Finished
https://open.substack.com/pub/therickwilson/p/kill-tesla-save-the-country
Rick Wilson March 19th, 2025 — Kill Tesla, Save The Country
https://open.substack.com/pub/thecycle/p/what-is-the-overton-window-and-why
Rachel Bitecofer - The Cycle March 21, 2025 What is the Overton Window and Why is Elon Musk Breaking It?
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/michael-wolffs-new-trump-book-scares
Meidas+ March 16th, 2025 Michael Wolff’s New Trump Book Scares Corporate Media—Not Us
Even MSNBC has now been kowtowed into keeping Michael Wolff, NYTimes best-selling biographer, off the air. The dictator’s war on Real News is squeezing the corporate media, illustrating the importance of the public relying on a newfound dependence on independent media.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-159029084
Thom Hartmann March 16th, 2025 Trump’s Imperial Fantasy — The examples from history that illustrate in detail his plan for dismantling and stealing our country and with it our lives
https://substack.com/home/post/p-159091182
D. Earl Stephens “Enough Already” March 15th, 2025 Schumer Must Go — Stephens finished his career in journalism as the Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes
https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/urgent-warning-trump-is-planning
Malcolm Nance March 8th, 2025 — A sober and thorough intelligence analysis concludes that the Orange Turd is actually planning to invade Canada and Greenland. Don’t laugh. Could the treason get any worse we ask? You bet it could. This lunacy would be a declaration of war on NATO. Check it out. Malcolm leaves out that making Canada the 51st state would mean that Elon would be eligible to run for President because his mother was born in Canada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtqRAddRPbY
Heather Cox Richardson: Politics Chat for March 11, 2025 A superb overall description of what’s happening, in the very first installment of her new video-based effort. Perhaps the best among the many brilliant pieces we’ve ever seen from her. 54 minutes long. Worth it!
https://dearlstephens.substack.com/p/we-told-you
Dr. Earl Stevens “Enough Already” March 10th, 2025 We Told You “In just seven, short weeks, the traitor, Donald Trump, has crashed the economy, taken us to the brink of recession, wrecked the government, lost the respect of our friends and neighbors around the world, and surrendered to the murderous Vladimir Putin.
It is EXACTLY what was expected from the proven America-attacker by anybody capable of thinking about anything but themselves heading into November’s disastrous elections.”
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-724
Meidas+ March 9th, 2025 “Janis Kluge with the German Institute for International and Security Affairs says that American defense contractors are about to lose billions in business from Europe after the US disabled jamming equipment in F-16s and is withholding maintenance and parts for systems already purchased: “US weapons have become toxic, just as Europeans are making plans to spend hundreds of billions on arms procurement. You'd think that this would never happen, because it is against US interests on so many levels. But for Trump, the end of US supremacy just can't come soon enough.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/192464/donald-trump-tariffs-flip-flop-economic-idiot
Every Republican President trashes the economy and every Democratic President fixes it. For the last 100 years plus, this has been the pattern, with Eisenhower being an exception. It’s been especially true over the last 40 years or so. They pillage, we fix. They steal, we protect. And of all, “Trump” is by far the worst.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-is-planning-the-biggest-heist
Paul Krugman March 6th, 2025 — Trump is Planning the Biggest Heist in History
which includes the bonus happy thought, apropos of the topic: Mark Knopfler with special guest Eric Clapton (in place of Sting), doing Money for Nothing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zOjRlVpAOQ
https://newrepublic.com/article/192292/trump-shell-company-registry-kleptocrats
TNR March 5th, 2025 — The New Crime Wave hits a peak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s74Sr0JLUE4
Adam Schiff March 5th, 2025 — Shredding last night’s river of B.S. from the Big Asshole
https://hartmannreport.com/p/we-crushed-fascists-before-its-time
Thom Hartmann March 5th, 2025 — Learn what fascism is! FDR’s great Vice President, Henry Wallace explained it beautifully.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24ehFJ-fXmM
Stephen Colbert March 3rd, 2025 The Late Show open - what happened Friday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReJM3mqDSfw
Jimmy Kimmel Live March 3rd, 2025 - what happened Friday
https://bsky.app/profile/ekomovement.bsky.social/post/3ljb75i5zjc2d
Ekō Feb 28th, 2025 - Trump just orchestrated one of the most shameful moments in U.S. history. Help by signing our petition to world leaders.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LVTuFLj_L1U
Politics Girl March 2nd, 2025 - About the Oval Office Disgrace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpOMSJ1MdU
SNL Cold Open March 1st, 2025 The Oval Office event
Meidas Touch Feb 28th, 2025 - Today in Politics, Bulletin 81 - Right after the Oval Office farce
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-81-2282
Then:
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-360
Meidas Touch March 2nd, 2025 - This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 82
… YouGov did a poll [of U.S. voters] after the Oval Office meeting: "Who do you sympathize with more?"
All Voters: Ukraine 62%. Neither: 26%. Russia: 4%
Trump Voters: Ukraine: 45%. Neither: 40%. Russia: 7%
[This means non-Trump voters were Ukraine ~80%, Russia 1%.]
https://substack.com/inbox/post/158209641
Andrew Weissman - What Can I Do? March 2nd, 2025
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-1-2025
Heather Cox Richardson March 1, 2025 Includes global reaction to the Oval Office shitshow and prior interview with Secretary Of State Antony Blinken
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/10/trumps-disgrace
David Remnick March 1st, 2025 Trump's Disgrace (requires an account, unfortunately)
"While F.D.R. set a modern standard for the revitalization of a society, Trump seems determined to prove how quickly he can spark its undoing."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/five-failures-in-the-oval-office
Timothy Snyder Feb 28, 2025 After the Oval Office Catastrophe, with multiple ways to help Ukraine — four are shown in the paragraph just below the “Upgrade to paid” blue button
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVp0XS1ZanI
Andrew Weissman - The Wolf Is At The Door Feb 28th, 2025 (prior to the Oval Office disgrace)
https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/fuck-trump-black-man-spy-has-reached
Malcolm Nance Feb 25th, 2025 Righteous and proper outrage at the vile war being waged against the U.S.A.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/could-russia-win-a-war-against-america
Thom Hartman March 4th, 2025 Could Russia Win a War Against America Without Ever Firing a Shot? Thanks to Traitor Trump, Putin has free run of most of America’s computer systems and vital infrastructure.
SCOTUS Republicans Legalized Election Rigging—Why Aren’t Democrats Playing the Game?
Thom Hartmann Feb 25th, 2025 Advice to Dems to stop failing to fight fire with fire
https://hartmannreport.com/p/how-trump-and-the-gop-fixed-the-2026-c8a
Greg Palast Feb 25th, 2025 Explaining how the GOP already has the fix in for the 2026 elections. Beware the “SAVE Act”, which would strip voting rights from additional tens of millions of women. And recognize that nearly five million votes were suppressed in the 2024 election, flipping it to "Trump" — massive electoral fraud courtesy of America's phony conservatives. The votes cast were counted accurately, as usual, but millions were prevented from voting via a wide array of voter suppression methods, including grossly fraudulent campaigning, among many others.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f
Greg Palast Jan 24th, 2025 Explaining how the GOP stole the 2024 election, how the election was anything but "free and fair". It's one thing to count the ballots that were cast accurately, but quite another to have a free and fair election.
https://gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/the-voting-trickery-that-elected
Greg Palast Feb 10th, 2025 Video detailing with extreme precision, based on government voter purge data, the theft of the 2024 Presidential election
https://gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/lord-save-us-from-the-save-act
Greg Palast Feb 28th, 2025 Video - The Save Act, voter suppression on steroids
https://www.newsletter.peoplepowerunited.org/p/power-to-the-people-we-support-ukraine
People Power United, March 1, 2025 An introduction to this huge group (200,000) with a list of actions to help our great Ukrainian friends, all content is fre
https://substack.com/home/post/p-157965133
People Power United, Feb 25th, 2025 - We Are Now at War in the United States
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/introducing-tbrs-traitor-of-the-week
Traitor of the Week feature! Borowitz Report, Feb 22nd, 2025 New regular accounting for individuals who should be singled out for future prosecution for seditious conspiracy, treason, and so on.
The Hill, Feb 26, 2025: “Trump” was recruited by the KGB in 1987, so have said long-retired KGB operatives in far-flung locations over a period of years. One obvious explanation for an obvious truth. But the long story made short is simply that Little Vladimir is T-Poo’s most treasured person, after he provided T-Poo with nearly all of his income (close to $1 Billion) over the 16 or so years prior to running for President in 2016, and provided him with the extra push in the election that put him over the top in 2016. Admiring Putin’s approach to life is another major element of the orange prick’s love of the #1 enemy of the entire world (unless that is now “Trump” himself, hard to say — how do you choose between two demons?).
Remember: Every single public utterance DJT makes in public is 100% pure bullshit — no exceptions. Think for a moment about what that means. Threads of truth woven through a tapestry of lies do not an honest man make.
