At Politics and Prose Bookstore in DC: TEACH-IN ON CIVIL RIGHTS, CIVIL LIBERTIES, AND THE RULE OF LAW 

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=7d2a1840a05ccf06&hl=en-us&q=politics+and+prose&udm=7&fbs=ABzOT_CWdhQLP1FcmU5B0fn3xuWpA-dk4wpBWOGsoR7DG5zJBsxayPSIAqObp_AgjkUGqel8VwMQFMOBYskRuItxBMvLau2qr56-OrwA8M_V6KufUCg1Giu_OO__-zqGxvwCOOMxtac_I0VQGtuGOxxROMa7WB0BIWI7jl9JZbQMmFGUn1pGE4MmMQcXshtfPVT6Yg0F7pqiawXTVcIazUn_1R07KwVKTg&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjvsZDm6vuLAxXUrokEHXtmChUQtKgLegQIGRAB&biw=1128&bih=775&dpr=2#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:6c4d302e,vid:9JBe0UMJ_9w,st:0

CANADA, the NORTHERN OUTPOST OF SANITY

Justin Trudeau, in his final week as Prime Minister, tells Donald Trump to shove it. (In ‘The New Yorker’)

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/canada-the-northern-outpost-of-sanity

 Rep. Daniel Goldman of New York has sounded good against Trump. 

 CYNTHIA ERIVO. ‘Alfie’

https://youtu.be/2-he6twMEF0?si=nMCFeLi04-v7dAPi

 RHIANNON GIDDENS and JUSTIN ROBINSON

https://youtu.be/neC_9OPzOq8?si=Xr8e4UWVhSMk_ZK2

 

How Underground Schools Across the South Built the Civil Rights Movement (Amanpour and Company)

https://youtu.be/o85dvpYmyBE?si=6YiV3Te6S7QHqSBu

 SMART GUY.

 

DON LEMON’S NEW DAILY, up to the minute show. It’s on YouTube. I like his take and his delivery. This one is good. 

https://www.youtube.com/live/6eELJs3QfQ4?si=hbtYh5_UEjBEzR6Z

Why Aren’t We in the Streets?

On Trump the Almighty and his so-far quiescent capital.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/why-arent-we-in-the-streets

PBS NEWSHOUR.  Timothy Snyder.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/historian-analyzes-devolving-relations-between-u-s-and-ukraine-after-oval-office-spat

 ON THE SUBWAY WALLS

Washington Post opinion editor departs as Bezos pushes to promote ‘personal liberties and free markets’

Opinion editor leaves as Amazon executive and newspaper owner says ‘viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others’

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/feb/26/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion

 ‘YOU’RE FIRED!’ by Barry Blitt

 

‘A true free-speech emergency’: alarm over Trump’s ‘chilling’ attacks on media

Warning comes as FCC, chaired by Trump ally and Project 2025 author, orders investigations into US media groups

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/trump-free-speech-media-attack

 IN ‘THE NEW YORKER’

THIS AFTERNOON IN MANHATTAN, I happened upon a march that was protesting for things that Trump is against, like congestion pricing. ‘FUCK TRUMP’ was the loud chant of the marchers. The photo just shows part of it. I was caught unaware and just snapped a couple shots with my phone. I raised my fist to them in solidarity. 

 

IF TRUMP DISMANTLES THE DEPT of EDUCATION, who will pay the biggest price? (‘Amanpour and Company’)

https://youtu.be/Xig4HAaKyKo?si=qtzlf8MCmIEW1Xk6

 

Trump’s Poll Numbers Are Eroding and Could Collapse Over Inflation (‘NEW YORK’)

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-approval-rating-polls-inflation.html

 PAUL SIMON THE OTHER NIGHT

https://youtu.be/ScFh0zNE0aE?si=GwYcceI-ySNROFP6

 ADAM SANDLER LAST NIGHT

https://www.google.com/search?q=adam+sandler&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:150ee95d,vid:fXAbLeJyB0o,st:0

 

Trump under fire for likening himself to Napoleon amid attacks on judges

President posted ‘he who saves his country does not violate any laws’ quote attributed to French emperor

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/16/trump-napoleon-judges-government-firings

 

Trump threats to revoke status unsettle Ohio’s Ukrainians: ‘The stress is real’

Thousands of Ukrainians who call Cleveland home are in limbo as fate of temporary protected status remains murky

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/trump-administration-tps-ukraine-cleveland

 

Stars pull out of shows and positions at Kennedy Center after Trump takeover (from ‘The Guardian’)

Issa Rae, Ben Folds and Shonda Rhimes among those who chose not to associate with the institution and president

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/feb/13/kennedy-center-trump-issa-rae-shonda-rhimes

Danielle Sassoon’s American Bravery (in ‘The New Yorker’)

 

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/danielle-sassoons-american-bravery

 ‘MAYBE YOU SHOULD JUST LET HIM DIE’ 

PART OF AN ARTICLE IN ‘THE NEW YORKER’ about Linda McMahon and the Department of Education:  

‘The future of the Department of Education—and of the students with disabilities who depend on it—will likely hinge less on the person appointed to lead it than on the world views of two billionaires who abhor what they perceive as weakness and waste. Children, alas, are weak and wasteful by nature, to say nothing of a child who needs a wheelchair, a hearing aid, or a paraprofessional. Trump and Musk’s public statements are instructive here. In 2023, Musk fired a longtime employee of his who has muscular dystrophy and then ridiculed him on Twitter, falsely claiming that he “did no actual work.” (Musk later apologized and indicated that the employee could remain at Twitter; he did not.) As for Trump, according to a memoir written by his nephew, the disability advocate Fred Trump III, the President once commented that some disabled people “should just die,” and said, of Fred’s own son, who is nonverbal and uses a wheelchair owing to a rare genetic disorder, “Maybe you should just let him die.’

 

 'I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.'

-James Baldwin

Resist Authoritarianism by Refusing to Obey in Advance

Timothy Snyder Take Us From Nazism in Austria to the Milgram Experiment

https://lithub.com/resist-authoritarianism-by-refusing-to-obey-in-advance/

 

‘Chaos’, ‘fear’ and ‘uncertainty’: US representative on Trump’s threats to civil service (in ‘The Guardian’)

Eugene Vindman of Virginia has taken steps to aid federal workers in wake of ‘dangerous’ recent Trump policies

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/eugene-vindman-trump-administration-civil-service

 

 

Israeli Police Raid Palestinian Bookshops in East Jerusalem

The police said the stores were selling books that supported terrorism and that two members of the family who owned the business had been arrested. A lawyer said their detention was “political” rather than legal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/world/middleeast/israel-east-jerusalem-bookstore.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

https://youtu.be/CwPEPne-qzU?si=-J7OgrU6DI1mba4U

M. GESSEN

The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/opinion/trump-power-surrender.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

A SHORT NYT VIDEO ABOUT ELON MUSK AND WHAT HE DID WITH TWITTER. 

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000009973981/elon-musk-brings-his-playbook-from-twitter-to-the-government.html?smid=url-share

 

‘In a real sense, US democracy has died’: how Trump is emulating Hungary’s Orbán (‘The Guardian’)

Trump has moved to gut the federal government, fire critics and reward allies – a path similar to ‘would-be dictators’ like Orbán, experts say

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/07/trump-viktor-orban-electoral-autocracy

 

By Samantha Power

Ms. Power was the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development in the Biden administration.

I Ran U.S.A.I.D. Killing It Is a Win for Autocrats Everywhere.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/opinion/usaid-trump-samantha-power.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

Brian Schatz On How Democrats Can ‘Start Kicking Ass Again’

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/brian-schatz-trump-musk-us-aid.html

 

The Week ‘Democrats Must Work With Trump’ Died

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/democrats-must-work-with-trump-dead.html

 huh?

 

Trump is willing to wreck the world economy. The global fightback must start now. (in ‘The Guardian’)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/03/donald-trump-world-economy-britain-us-tariffs

 

NEW EXHIBITION on Anne Frank’s experiences opened at the Center for Jewish History in New York

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/new-exhibition-on-anne-franks-experiences-opened-at-the-center-for-jewish-history-in-new-york/

 

Bill Gates and the New Trumpian Tech Oligarchs

The Microsoft founder discusses vaccine skepticism, his fellow-billionaires’ political pivots, and his own dinner with the President at Mar-a-Lago.

https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/bill-gates-on-his-new-memoir-and-dining-with-donald-trump-at-mar-a-lago