DOGE cuts were supposed to save taxpayers money. Max Stier says it didn’t even manage to do that: “It's really easy to save money if what you're doing is just not paying bills that you actually owe or that are necessary to do the work that you want to have done.”

Show Post

Timothy Snyder says Democrats have a “once-in-a-lifetime chance to make big transformative changes,” echoing the recent, major victories against autocrats overseas in places like Serbia and Hungary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffP4...

Show Post

“This isn’t just our personal story,” the journalists said in their statement. “It’s the story of a country and a society that are being finished off in exactly the same way.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/w...

Show Post

your tax dollars (illegally) at work: "Days before consequential midterm elections, the head of the Social Security Administration blasted out an email to the public praising President Donald Trump..." www.washingtonpost.com/elections/20...

Show Post

Last April, when this audiobook came out, I was an avid proselytizer for Patrick Stewart's reading of the complete sonnets. He loved them so much & performed them so well--& sprinkled throughout are his reflections on a life of doing Shakespeare onstage. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Patric...

Show Post