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New Post on Loneliness and what it means that the loneliest people in the world are in charge of the world's largest social media websites. #deleteFacebook #The13Stripes the13stripes.substack.com/p/poor-old-z...

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New Post on the Value of Courage and what Senator Van Hollen's trip to El Salvador means. #The13Stripes #NewPatriotism the13stripes.substack.com/p/the-value-...

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DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

submitted 29 days ago • 565 comments

New post! On the Kilmar Abrego Garcia saga and the White House's embrace of the Silicon Valley ethos to "move fast and break stuff." #The13Stripes #NewPatriotism #Kilmar the13stripes.substack.com/p/move-fast-...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

submitted 41 days ago • 430 comments

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

submitted 41 days ago • 229 comments

“But while we are still capable of looking, we have to say what we see: The United States has become a secret-police state. Trust me, I’ve seen it before.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

submitted 42 days ago • 7 comments

In a Q to Booker, Maria Cantwell appears to say that her constituent (who I assume is Ned Johnson) STILL hasn't gotten his Social Security straightened out. (Social Security told him he was dead.) abcnews.go.com/US/man-false...

submitted 42 days ago • 17 comments

New post on the scifi nightmare DOGE is building: an automated, AI-supported surveillance program to crush dissent. #The13Stripes #NewPatriotism #NewElectionsNow the13stripes.substack.com/p/what-doge-...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone needs to understand what Elon and DOGE are building, an AI driven panopticon that will know everything about you and will be used to ensure compliance with their fascist agenda. They are creating a unified database of everything the federal government has on every single American. 🧵1/

submitted 43 days ago • 153 comments

Being evil enough to post social media threats to send people to a gulag if they try to seek a better life in the country that used to pride itself as "The Land of Opportunity", should not only disqualify someone from public life but also the whole of society. #NewElectionsNow. They all gotta go.

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New post on The Value of Character. The Trump-Musk Administration clowns cannot be trusted, they can only be fought. #NewPatriotism #The13Stripes the13stripes.substack.com/p/the-enemy-...

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In a normal world, proposals to replace immigrant workers with child labor would lead to immediate backlash against the politicians proposing such terrible policy. Unfortunately, Florida is not the normal world. Get your families out of Florida ASAP. The weather ain't worth it.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

In normal times, this is grounds for both immediate resignation as well as criminal charges

submitted 50 days ago • 70 comments

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

submitted 52 days ago • 1558 comments

New in PN: Trump's hostile takeover of big law "Paul, Weiss is now in the same boat as Columbia, constantly needing Trump's approval to stave off new shakedowns. But the administration, like any bully, will keep attacking & no acquiescence will be enough. That’s why bending the knee is a bad idea."

submitted 51 days ago • 82 comments

New Post! As the Trump-Musk rhetoric becomes more aggressive and dangerous, a recommitment to nonviolent resistance is necessary for what could be a long struggle to restore American democracy. the13stripes.substack.com/p/the-necess... #The13Stripes #NewPatriotism

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.

submitted 54 days ago • 548 comments

‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped

submitted 54 days ago • 215 comments

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

submitted 54 days ago • 1069 comments

A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.

submitted 55 days ago • 166 comments

Teen Vogue: remains braver than almost any other news outlet at this time.

submitted 55 days ago • 164 comments

New Post - The "Value" of Opportunity, one of our 13 Values at The 13 Stripes. Opportunity is Hope. How will we restore both when all is said and done? the13stripes.substack.com/p/the-value-...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

There are so many examples of this that you really have to conclude their very clear intent is to not ever be out of power again.

submitted 55 days ago • 348 comments

⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️ STARTING TOMORROW. Nevada. Arizona. Colorado. You, me, and Bernie. Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙 See you there 💪🏽🌞

submitted 56 days ago • 2674 comments

Here’s everything you need to know about the Trump administration’s attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil — and what it may mean for other people too:

submitted 61 days ago • 4 comments

UPDATE: From the original poster of the letter on FB:

submitted 63 days ago • 458 comments

New post up on the value, and Value, of Loyalty. #The13Stripes #NewPatriotism substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Good. More of this. Fight fire with fire. If Republicans want a rude and nasty and disrespectful Congress, they should understand that sword cuts both ways.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

submitted 64 days ago • 227 comments

First they came for the socialists and I did not speak out, because it would have made me look like a socialist sympathizer Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out, because what if the businesses stopped giving me money?

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

The 10 Democrats who voted to censure Rep. Al Green are misreading the moment. “Democrats are working backward trying to fight the last war instead of pivoting to the political reality of the here and now,” writes @chrislhayes.bsky.social. READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

submitted 65 days ago • 30 comments

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 65 days ago • 247 comments

A lot of contrarians have claimed that modern progressives are acting like it’s the Cultural Revolution but I think the past 50 days have revealed the real American Maoists. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-real-a...

submitted 65 days ago • 34 comments

New Post! If Democrats are serious about solving America's economic problems, they need to start with those suffering the most. #The13Stripes #NewPatriotism substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

1. Today, powerful speeches from trans representatives in Montana SJ Howell and Zooey Zephyr flipped 29 Republicans, killing anti-trans bills. While some Dems like Newsom abandon trans people, these reps show the power of representation. Watch their speech. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 68 days ago • 121 comments

Yes, my economic plan will cause short term pain. But after that you won't feel the pain anymore because you'll be dead

submitted 68 days ago • 169 comments

New Post - We need a foreign policy based on shared values. What does that mean? How do we get there after Trump's drastic turn toward Russia? #The13Stripes #NewPatriotism substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

perfect example of people who refuse to deal with the facts on the ground and instead retreat to abstraction and discourse in order to prove themselves right

submitted 72 days ago • 172 comments

No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”

submitted 73 days ago • 160 comments

remember when this guy covered up a brutal police killing? i do!

submitted 73 days ago • 424 comments

Here are 45 people within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a group formed by Elon Musk that has radically upended federal agencies. nyti.ms/4br8OIv

submitted 74 days ago • 70 comments

yeah if anyone is active military/national guard or friends with and in a position to have the conversation, now's the time to start thinking about what to do when the illegal orders are given. have that mental script in place, practiced, so it's not a judgement call in the moment

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

It's like a Russian nesting doll of illegality: Musk holds no office running DOGE, DOGE has no lawful authority to direct OPM, and OPM has no legal power to insert itself in the chain of command from agency heads to their employees.

submitted 75 days ago • 38 comments

New @aoc.bsky.social letter to AG Pam Bondi about Tom Homan:

submitted 75 days ago • 126 comments