What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days from the Hartmann Report
Is the Most Powerful Message in America Now "Obey or Die"?
Kristi Noem, Donald Trump, Greg Bovino, and even whiskey Pete Hegseth are all out there trying to tell us that Alex Pretti was a domestic terrorist who came to a protest with the intention to “massacre” ICE agents.
Once Again, Under the Shadow of Authoritarian Power, Americans Must Decide What Kind of Nation We Will Become
There is something deeply unsettling about Lincoln’s famous phrase “four score,” meaning eighty years. It’s roughly the length of a human life, but is also the interval at which the United States repeatedly collides with crisis and is forced to decide, again and again, what kind of nation we will be.
The Most Dangerous Moment Is When Authoritarians Seem to Compromise
Over on Threads last night, sierracascadia posted:
When Future Historians Write About the Fall of American Economic Power, Will Trump Be the Turning Point?
America’s economic system has never been fair or perfect, but for more than a century it rested on basic guardrails that kept instability in check and allowed us to fight for progress and win. Those guardrails are now being stripped away by policies that favor wealth and power over accountability and long-term stability.
When Democracy Learns to Speak the Language of War, Children Become Collateral Damage
“The curse of empathy is to see yourself in every death,
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Saturday Report 1/31/26 — Trump's New Grift: A $10 Billion Demand for “Reputational Harm” After his Income Tax Avoidance Was Exposed
— Is this how a free press dies in America, with Don Lemon in handcuffs? What’s left of American democracy just hit another crisis with the arrest of independent journalist Don Lemon by federal agents yesterday in Los Angeles. This was for reporting on a protest at a Minnesota church, and it isn’t just a legal spat:
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I hate to say, I've seen it coming since the pandemic. Maybe that's the nurse in me, considering the worst case scenario. Been listening to protest song over time. I like the one that asks "What side our you on?" It's time to get serious.
Thank you for being there Thom
I was watching "They Live" earlier today. It was an eighties movie about aliens taking over. The subliminal message of "obey" seems to fit with the messaging from Miller and the regime.