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De La Soul: Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

Meanwhile, in the rest of the world:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AVY...

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

Steps on the way to impeachment:

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Steps on the way to impeachment:

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

[file under "New Research into why people make good choices"]

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

WATCH: Sen. Tillis calls for Noem's resignation in full questioning at oversight hearing YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

Steps on the way to impeachment:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys-0...

Tony Benn in the House of Commons Iraq Bombing Speech YouTube video by Alex Mc

What folks have done. What's your strategy for resisting fascism?

[Tony Benn, Labour Party politician, from 1988]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXm...

Losing the War on Truth Iran and what to make of it

Steps on the way to impeachment:

Losing the War on Truth open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Don't fuck with the poetry. The Ongoingness: Against the EndTimes narrative.

today too
out of this urge to cry
I went to the city
and out of this urge to cry
came home from the city

-Kitahara Hakushū

Don't fuck with the poetry.
open.substack.com/pub/heartblo...

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on Loving Our Country & Your Country Loving You Back YouTube video by C-SPAN

News Feed Cleanse

[Here's the proposition: choose a politician you admire. Find interesting clips to share, one a day. Don't bother posting about politicians you don't admire and stupid things they do.]

[on love and the state of the union]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyD1...

A little meme:

[from Barry Blitt in the New Yorker]

The Other Red Hat (You'll like this one better)

What folks are doing. What's your strategy for resisting fascism? What are you fighting for?

The Other Red Hat
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

What folks are doing. What's your strategy for resisting fascism? What are you fighting for?

Meanwhile, in the rest of the world:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTF6...

Empty desks at MN Capitol represent children killed by gun violence Parents of students at Annunciation Catholic Church and School installed 60 empty desks outside the Minnesota State Capitol on Tuesday to represent the children killed by gun violence and call for act...

What folks are doing. What are you fighting for?

www.fox9.com/news/empty-d...

The Context You Need to Understand The Supreme Court's Tariffs Decision Thanks for being here and for reading Civil Discourse.

Both with the drawdown in Minneapolis and the Supreme Court's tariffs decision we're in a strange, "Sure, we'll claim the win, but have no faith in the sonsovitches, to move into total glee of victory."

open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Opinion | They Don’t Tell You How Fun the Resistance Can Be

What folks are doing. What's your strategy for resisting fascism? What are you fighting for?

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Did someone recently have a poor performance and lose a bit of favor with the White House?

Whirlwind YouTube video by Jesse Welles

Sing down the fools!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm8T...

Meanwhile, in the rest of the world.

Micro Machines TV Commercial: Super Van City Playset 1992 YouTube video by Micro Machines | Micro but Many

Oddly enough, there are now two known households on our block with this toy and whose kids have a penchant for screaming out, "Fold It On Down!"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-No...

What folks are doing. What's your strategy for resisting fascism? What are you fighting for?

Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:

The Happiest Government Building In The World YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office

News Feed Cleanse

[Here's the proposition: choose a politician you admire. Find interesting clips to share, one a day. Don't bother posting about politicians you don't admire and stupid things they do.]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUp0...

Journalism Is Dead. Long Live Journalism In some respects, this is a golden age of journalism. Right now, a host of brilliant, dedicated souls do fantastic work reporting and interpreting the news in independent newsletters, podcasts, magazi...

Thoughts on the post-47th world:

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

www.meditationsinanemergency.com/journalism-i...

Opinion | We Have to Look Right in the Face of What We Have Become

Thoughts on the post-47th world:

'Or as Thomas Jefferson remarked in 1824, “In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.”'

Gift article from The New York Times:

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...

'Trauma inflicted' Gov. Tim Walz responds to federal immigration enforcement drawdown in Minnesota YouTube video by KARE 11

[I will truly miss Gov. Walz. He'll probably have my write in vote for many election cycles to come.]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uAp...

Dear Pam Bondi, (A Letter From A Father) Dear Ms Bondi,

Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:

"I wonder how an apparently intelligent human being finds themselves sitting in that chair ... so completely bereft of empathy ..."

Dear Pam Bondi, (A Letter From A Father)
open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...

[step one. Now the hard work begins to seek justice.]

www.minneapolismn.gov/.../february...

Weyes Blood, Orville Peck, & Chelsea Cutler Leave Wasserman When millions of new pages of the Epstein Files were recently released, the world learned some disturbing new things about Casey Wasserman, founder of the Wasserman Group, a massive talent agency. Was...

What folks are doing. What's your strategy for resisting fascism? What are you fighting for?

Weyes Blood, Orville Peck, & Chelsea Cutler Join Exodus From Wasserman Over Epstein Files - stereogum.com/2488939/weye...

WATCH: Raskin makes opening statement in Bondi oversight hearing YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

Steps on the way to impeachment sliding into Thoughts on the post-47th world:

[As Maga world spirals down, it is worth considering who will be the players to rebuild and seek justice. Raskin is definitely on the team for the latter.]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHz0...