Choose Brains, Courage, and Decency

These substacks will keep you saner and informed preparing you to fight the good fight for saving the US from becoming another theocratic oligarchy where white nationalists rule.

Jan 15, 2025

Watching Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth demonstrate his appalling lack of credentials, knowledge, and character for the job for which he was nominated I am compelled to ask: Is the Trump administration running a DEI program for incompetent, unqualified, and/or ethically compromised Whites…

25 days ago · 1704 likes · 186 comments · Jennifer Rubin

Letters from an American

January 14, 2025

Shortly after midnight last night, the Justice Department released special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on former president Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The 137-page report concludes that “substantial evidence demonstrates that Mr. Trump…engaged in an unprecedented criminal effort to overturn the…

25 days ago · 3205 likes · 565 comments · Heather Cox Richardson

Thinking about...

Why Greenland?

In one way, Trump is utterly predictable. He wants to die in bed rather than in prison, and he wants that bed to be in the White House. That's what they all want, all of these supposedly strong men with their ostensibly national feeling: the eternal clean sheets…

25 days ago · 432 likes · 39 comments · Timothy Snyder

Talking Feds Substack

One For The Books: Jack Smith’s Report, Volume 1

There will be no shortage of detailed discussions diving into the various angles of this historic document over the next couple of days. Here, I want chiefly to sketch out a summary of some of the most important takeaways and my main personal observations…

a month ago · 654 likes · 84 comments · Harry Litman

The Capitol Hill Reader

Simon Rosenberg

Judd Legum

You may subscribe to many big names already, but so far what I’m seeing is all the big media names re-hashing the same issue with a different title. I do read them for balance. We are on overload. Keep your life simple but productive. Democrats and anti-TrumpMagits must unite and be smarter than in 2024. I’m clinging to the smartest, but cannot list them all to overwhelm you new subscribers. When I vet followers and subscribers to curate my feed, I check their reading list first. If I see Republican sites, I block them. Keep your sanity!

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