Earlier today, an angry and physically deteriorating Donald Trump sat slumped forward at the head of the Cabinet Room table, his shoulders sagging and his eyes so swollen they struggled to stay open as live cameras aired his twelfth Cabinet meeting. Marco Rubio sat stiffly to his right while Pete Hegseth watched from his left, both men wearing the tense, uneasy expression of people realizing that the president was once again slipping off course in front of the world. Several times, they tried to pull him back from another one of his rambling spirals, and each time they failed. Because even with reminders and redirections, Donald Trump seemed unable to fully follow what was happening around him. The entire time, he appeared far more interested in reliving imaginary victories, talking about how much people supposedly love him, and obsessing over Barack Obama than addressing the reality facing the country.
The government should be indicted as a criminal syndicate. They have institutionalized corruption. Start to disbar Supreme Court justices like Robert’s. Hungary did it, we can do it.
I would think Alito ahead of Roberts, my opinion from afar. But, yes those three. And Gorsuch and Coney Barrett are both illegitimate having been installed under Obama and Biden by Mitch - so those two as well. And then there’s Kavanaugh - also illegitimate because he was credibly accused of sexual assault, lied to Congress about and republicans stopped the FBI investigation into him. That’s all 6 of the horror show “justices.” 🇨🇦
Please America - make it so! Make it so he doesn't get away with this. Make it so his cabinet doesn't get away with this. Make it so his family and billionaire and millionaire friends don't get away with this. Make it so WW3 doesn't start (because I feel we're close...). Please, fight this as hard as you can, and as hard as necessary to stop this utter unadulterated and obvious corruption. Please.
I am an atheist, so I am anti-christian. I am a social democrat, so I am anti-capitalism. I am a childless cat lady, so I am anti-family values. Dammit, they have me coming and going! But if I am on one of their lists, then I am proud of it. I will be unapologetically what I am if it kills me.
In our new world, it seems it will take courage to be who we are. We should all be who we are in the America I want to live in. Our founders didn't believe in any of what this regime is attending to change our country into. Stand up and speak out, it seems our existence depends on it. They are attempting to make "Big Brother", once a fictional character a reality.
What rang alarm bells for me in tonight's customarily excellent Heather's piece was the notice of an apparent alliance growing between Trump's insane would-be tyranny and the rampant, increasingly autonomous, AI industrial complex. This is truly, profoundly, even existentially, dangerous for our Constitutional democracy. We need to keep an eye on this one—forewarned needs to become forearmed.
We can’t wait until November. Every time I hear this or read this my stomach turns. Does anyone here really believe this level of power grab is just going to sit back and watch democracy do what it can? No way. We must wake up and have a plan B ASAP.
YES NK- we keep shouting that…NOVEMBER is NOW! They are not planning on an election…that’s why he said he isn’t worried. And even if it occurs, that’s where his A.I. technofascists supporters come in.
Nazi, fascist trump, his family of criminal squatters and Nazi fascist loyalists have NO intentions of leaving our White House…BUNKER- fully militarized, fortified, complete with hospital, etc.
Project 2025-26 has been accelerated. Jim Crow 2.0, gerrymandering, ICE Gestapo EXECUTIONS-Rene Good, Alex Pretti, Keith Porter,Jr, etc., kidnappings, Concentration Camps, illegal mass Deportations, labeled “Domestic Terrorists,” Musk-DOGE stole all our private information, controlled media-no free speech, loyalists throughout, payment and pre-payment for the last and next Jan.6-Insurrectionist, Civil war, armed ICE Gestapo everywhere and especially at election sites like NK said, etc.
Like Lance Rosen said…are they planning another Jan.6? Most likely…fully pardoned, payments, most all already armed ICE Gestapo are J6’ers.
BIG BROTHER is watching and has been watching…phones, cars, computers, home cameras, street cameras, businesses, anything hooked to the internet, bird apps., gaming apps., Amazon and shopping sites, “hey Siri,” “”hey Alexa,” which is already listening.
The little one nestled anxiously in her safe spot reminds me of how I also feel these days. “Wake me up when the nightmare ends”—oh, wait, it’s really happening. We must do our part, no matter how small. We must stick to, live by, and support our basic values of common decency.
We glamorize the kings and queens of England, but think of this: In 1597, the Pembroke's Men, an acting company, hired a satirist, Thomas Nash and a playwright, Ben Jonson to pen a new play for the season. Theaters were HOT, and Shakespeare was down the road writing comedic masterpieces. The two wrote a play called "Isle of Dogs." Apparently, it was so inflammatory toward the crown that Queen Elizabeth immediately closed all the theaters and ordered them to be torn down (that last part did not happen). The playwrights and managers fled (although Nash was arrested, Jonson slipped out of town). All of the theaters in London stayed dark for almost a year.
How bad was the play? Did it make fun of an aging despot who needed caked on make-up to look alive? Whose opulence was a result of stealing from poor people? Who surrounded herself with sycophants who bowed and scraped before her?
We don't know what was in the play because it was destroyed, erased from history.
There was nothing of glamour or decency in English royalty before the last Elizabeth and her father. Censorship was never an anomaly. The thrust toward censorship in the current Adminstration remind me of the McCarthy era on steroids. What some folks forget is that the McCarthy era did not begin and did not end with Joseph McCarthy. What exacerbates the current authoritarian surge is not just a wholly supine GOP Congress but the power of the AI tech bro billionaires to impose their will at will and for their own benefit, public interest and Constitution be damned.
And you know, it doesn't even take a censorship law. All it takes is fear of speaking up. Stephen Colbert called a bribe a bribe and CBS caved to another call from friends of Donald. Mainstream media has buckled under the pressure of the regime and one must look at the people involved: their power, their greed, their venality, their perversion, their nihilism. Their ability to fearmonger and lie has grown with social platforms which are really sewers. And Nazi pig Leon Musk runs the biggest messaging platform in this country. Why is that?
Huge dollars buys huge control. One could always buy some access. Then big dollars bought more access. Now, want access? Just buy a platform and fire any voices that won’t heed the new ruler.
and there were issued in 1599 the Bishops' Bans, prohibiting the performance of any work of satire or English history. One reason why Shakepeare stopped writing his series about English kings and switched to Roman history.
Good morning, I don’t know how you find the energy to move and focus on your reports you are amazing!
We may need a concise list of bullet points suggesting actions we can take to address the issues. Such as which MAGA supporting companies to boycott, links to send email to Congress and volunteer options to help get out the vote.
Getting angry is not productive for me, I need to take action. Thanks for your hard work. Love the dog photos!!
I am very pleased to hear of the preparations underway by congressmen Garcia and Neguse. The majority of the actions by this administration are either stupid, corrupt, or both, tearing out the roots of this rot must be done thoroughly, aggressively and skillfully. This has to become a major element of the Democratic brand.
The next president will face a monumental task like no president has ever faced. Anyone considering running must NOW be assembling a team to organize and strategize how they will re-establish a lawful democracy that eradicates the deep roots of authoritarianism and respects the constitutional rights of all Americans.
I’m a brand new subscriber, and I appreciate your exploration of new themes with each of your posts. Three days ago was the first I read your work, you explored the miasma of depression and anxiety that has descended on us like smog in Dickensian London since Trump came down the escalator. After that, you explored the concept of loyalty. You pointed out that “loyalty“ was a quality actually unknown to Donald Trump because he doesn’t have the prerequisite ability to appreciate empathy, care, and sacrifice that true loyalty involves. And then most recently you discussed surveillance, pointing out that as with the East German Stasi, not many people have to be actually arrested. It’s the threat that is intended to keep people in line. I would contribute that a good topic is Donald Trump’s relationship with “truth.” People have spent a lot of time counting up all his lies, but in order to lie one has to understand truth and I’m not sure that DJT does. I think he only processes information as favorable to him (truth) vs unfavorable to him (fake news). I think he’s been doing it for so long that it’s a reflex and it’s automatic. He actually doesn’t understand truth. It’s why it’s so easy for foreign leaders such as Putin or Xi of China to butter him up. It’s why he surrounds himself with sycophants. Anything favorable to him is “true” and he doesn’t question it. We have long known that he’s a pathological narcissist, but this is a new dimension to explore. Thank you so much for the excellent work that you do.
I think you should consider not capitalizing everything you write. Unless you have eyesight issues, it looks too much like Trump who puts everything in capitals so it looks like he’s shouting. That’s peoples’ take from all capital letters.
The MAGA marketing campaign is run on confusion as well as fear. A strategy that I have found that seems to be working is to to just show up in multiple arenas from fraternal orders to leagues of women voters. Don’t allow yourself to be pegged. Presence doesn’t mean endorsement.
The post made me wonder if there are any data centers in Palm Beach County. I came across an interesting report in FloridaDataCenters dot org on a proposed site known as Project Tango:
The government should be indicted as a criminal syndicate. They have institutionalized corruption. Start to disbar Supreme Court justices like Robert’s. Hungary did it, we can do it.
Impeach Roberts and Thomas first, disbar second.
I would think Alito ahead of Roberts, my opinion from afar. But, yes those three. And Gorsuch and Coney Barrett are both illegitimate having been installed under Obama and Biden by Mitch - so those two as well. And then there’s Kavanaugh - also illegitimate because he was credibly accused of sexual assault, lied to Congress about and republicans stopped the FBI investigation into him. That’s all 6 of the horror show “justices.” 🇨🇦
Amen to that!
Please America - make it so! Make it so he doesn't get away with this. Make it so his cabinet doesn't get away with this. Make it so his family and billionaire and millionaire friends don't get away with this. Make it so WW3 doesn't start (because I feel we're close...). Please, fight this as hard as you can, and as hard as necessary to stop this utter unadulterated and obvious corruption. Please.
I am an atheist, so I am anti-christian. I am a social democrat, so I am anti-capitalism. I am a childless cat lady, so I am anti-family values. Dammit, they have me coming and going! But if I am on one of their lists, then I am proud of it. I will be unapologetically what I am if it kills me.
In our new world, it seems it will take courage to be who we are. We should all be who we are in the America I want to live in. Our founders didn't believe in any of what this regime is attending to change our country into. Stand up and speak out, it seems our existence depends on it. They are attempting to make "Big Brother", once a fictional character a reality.
one of the early No Kings rallies featured a sign "Make Orwell fiction again!"
Same here except I don’t have a cat (though I do love them, and dogs too).
Well said! Ms de la Motte. Ms Reese always scares the hell out of me!
What rang alarm bells for me in tonight's customarily excellent Heather's piece was the notice of an apparent alliance growing between Trump's insane would-be tyranny and the rampant, increasingly autonomous, AI industrial complex. This is truly, profoundly, even existentially, dangerous for our Constitutional democracy. We need to keep an eye on this one—forewarned needs to become forearmed.
Your clarion call is late, the fix is in. While we little fishes swim around in the water, the water has been poisoned.
We can’t wait until November. Every time I hear this or read this my stomach turns. Does anyone here really believe this level of power grab is just going to sit back and watch democracy do what it can? No way. We must wake up and have a plan B ASAP.
YES NK- we keep shouting that…NOVEMBER is NOW! They are not planning on an election…that’s why he said he isn’t worried. And even if it occurs, that’s where his A.I. technofascists supporters come in.
Nazi, fascist trump, his family of criminal squatters and Nazi fascist loyalists have NO intentions of leaving our White House…BUNKER- fully militarized, fortified, complete with hospital, etc.
Project 2025-26 has been accelerated. Jim Crow 2.0, gerrymandering, ICE Gestapo EXECUTIONS-Rene Good, Alex Pretti, Keith Porter,Jr, etc., kidnappings, Concentration Camps, illegal mass Deportations, labeled “Domestic Terrorists,” Musk-DOGE stole all our private information, controlled media-no free speech, loyalists throughout, payment and pre-payment for the last and next Jan.6-Insurrectionist, Civil war, armed ICE Gestapo everywhere and especially at election sites like NK said, etc.
Like Lance Rosen said…are they planning another Jan.6? Most likely…fully pardoned, payments, most all already armed ICE Gestapo are J6’ers.
https://substack.com/@lancefrosen/note/c-248115689?r=71veyx&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
BIG BROTHER is watching and has been watching…phones, cars, computers, home cameras, street cameras, businesses, anything hooked to the internet, bird apps., gaming apps., Amazon and shopping sites, “hey Siri,” “”hey Alexa,” which is already listening.
We MUST be ready and RESISTING NOW.
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
THIS IS NOW. THIS MUST NOT HAPPEN! CONGRESS MUST DO SOMETHING NOW!
THIS IS TREASON.
https://robertjrei.substack.com/p/trump-plans-to-punish-boston?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1n30w
60,000 US TROOPS ARE IN IRAN, BRING THEM HOME ASAP.
NEED THEM. ICE HAS THOUSANDS OF STORMTROOPERS READY WITH GUNS.😯😡😠
I have been saying that forever.
The little one nestled anxiously in her safe spot reminds me of how I also feel these days. “Wake me up when the nightmare ends”—oh, wait, it’s really happening. We must do our part, no matter how small. We must stick to, live by, and support our basic values of common decency.
We glamorize the kings and queens of England, but think of this: In 1597, the Pembroke's Men, an acting company, hired a satirist, Thomas Nash and a playwright, Ben Jonson to pen a new play for the season. Theaters were HOT, and Shakespeare was down the road writing comedic masterpieces. The two wrote a play called "Isle of Dogs." Apparently, it was so inflammatory toward the crown that Queen Elizabeth immediately closed all the theaters and ordered them to be torn down (that last part did not happen). The playwrights and managers fled (although Nash was arrested, Jonson slipped out of town). All of the theaters in London stayed dark for almost a year.
How bad was the play? Did it make fun of an aging despot who needed caked on make-up to look alive? Whose opulence was a result of stealing from poor people? Who surrounded herself with sycophants who bowed and scraped before her?
We don't know what was in the play because it was destroyed, erased from history.
Does this sound familiar?
There was nothing of glamour or decency in English royalty before the last Elizabeth and her father. Censorship was never an anomaly. The thrust toward censorship in the current Adminstration remind me of the McCarthy era on steroids. What some folks forget is that the McCarthy era did not begin and did not end with Joseph McCarthy. What exacerbates the current authoritarian surge is not just a wholly supine GOP Congress but the power of the AI tech bro billionaires to impose their will at will and for their own benefit, public interest and Constitution be damned.
And you know, it doesn't even take a censorship law. All it takes is fear of speaking up. Stephen Colbert called a bribe a bribe and CBS caved to another call from friends of Donald. Mainstream media has buckled under the pressure of the regime and one must look at the people involved: their power, their greed, their venality, their perversion, their nihilism. Their ability to fearmonger and lie has grown with social platforms which are really sewers. And Nazi pig Leon Musk runs the biggest messaging platform in this country. Why is that?
Huge dollars buys huge control. One could always buy some access. Then big dollars bought more access. Now, want access? Just buy a platform and fire any voices that won’t heed the new ruler.
Buy a platform here and media conglomerate there until all the news and media platforms belong, not to six corporations, but to one man: the king.
But with the illusion of “independence”…
and there were issued in 1599 the Bishops' Bans, prohibiting the performance of any work of satire or English history. One reason why Shakepeare stopped writing his series about English kings and switched to Roman history.
To our later fan's delight. Although there is some poignant, powerful writing in those English histories.
Thank u. That was very interesting, the history of censorship
Thanks Heather
Hope house move went well, it’s usually hell having everything displaced.
Trump is so obviously really not capable and his weird and dangerous team are fencing him in to keep him in place. Extremely dangerous.
Good morning, I don’t know how you find the energy to move and focus on your reports you are amazing!
We may need a concise list of bullet points suggesting actions we can take to address the issues. Such as which MAGA supporting companies to boycott, links to send email to Congress and volunteer options to help get out the vote.
Getting angry is not productive for me, I need to take action. Thanks for your hard work. Love the dog photos!!
I am very pleased to hear of the preparations underway by congressmen Garcia and Neguse. The majority of the actions by this administration are either stupid, corrupt, or both, tearing out the roots of this rot must be done thoroughly, aggressively and skillfully. This has to become a major element of the Democratic brand.
The next president will face a monumental task like no president has ever faced. Anyone considering running must NOW be assembling a team to organize and strategize how they will re-establish a lawful democracy that eradicates the deep roots of authoritarianism and respects the constitutional rights of all Americans.
I admire your optimism Mr Calabro
Jenna , the Democrats have to win the House and Senate, that’s a tall order. If that happens then maybe I’ll be optimistic.
It is von trump techbros billionaires who elected him. And he is protecting them in return for their hundred millions support.
Well said. Now let’s all do our part in November!
I’m a brand new subscriber, and I appreciate your exploration of new themes with each of your posts. Three days ago was the first I read your work, you explored the miasma of depression and anxiety that has descended on us like smog in Dickensian London since Trump came down the escalator. After that, you explored the concept of loyalty. You pointed out that “loyalty“ was a quality actually unknown to Donald Trump because he doesn’t have the prerequisite ability to appreciate empathy, care, and sacrifice that true loyalty involves. And then most recently you discussed surveillance, pointing out that as with the East German Stasi, not many people have to be actually arrested. It’s the threat that is intended to keep people in line. I would contribute that a good topic is Donald Trump’s relationship with “truth.” People have spent a lot of time counting up all his lies, but in order to lie one has to understand truth and I’m not sure that DJT does. I think he only processes information as favorable to him (truth) vs unfavorable to him (fake news). I think he’s been doing it for so long that it’s a reflex and it’s automatic. He actually doesn’t understand truth. It’s why it’s so easy for foreign leaders such as Putin or Xi of China to butter him up. It’s why he surrounds himself with sycophants. Anything favorable to him is “true” and he doesn’t question it. We have long known that he’s a pathological narcissist, but this is a new dimension to explore. Thank you so much for the excellent work that you do.
Very thoughtful
ALL PERFECTLY TRUE. BUT THERE IS MORE...
https://robertjrei.substack.com/p/trump-plans-to-punish-boston?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1n30w
An IMMEDIATE THREAT TO AMERICA. IT IS NOW, AND IT MUST NOT HAPPEN.
CONGRESS HAS ABANDONED US.
IT MUST ACT NOW. CONGRESS HAS LET ALL OF THIS HAPPEN.
60,000 US TROOPS ARE IN IRAN, NOT HERE PROTECTING US FROM THOUSANDS OF ICE STORMTROOPERS. RETURN THE TROOPS ASAP.
I think you should consider not capitalizing everything you write. Unless you have eyesight issues, it looks too much like Trump who puts everything in capitals so it looks like he’s shouting. That’s peoples’ take from all capital letters.
The MAGA marketing campaign is run on confusion as well as fear. A strategy that I have found that seems to be working is to to just show up in multiple arenas from fraternal orders to leagues of women voters. Don’t allow yourself to be pegged. Presence doesn’t mean endorsement.
Everything is information.
Regarding AI
The post made me wonder if there are any data centers in Palm Beach County. I came across an interesting report in FloridaDataCenters dot org on a proposed site known as Project Tango:
Palm Beach County: Project Tango AI Data Center
https://floridadatacenters.org/palm-beach-county
Drey Dossier on Substack has some chilling reporting about this and the nefariousness of the Ellisons and she called it Lyin Country Safari
Thank you, Naomi