Please help spread the word Robert Reich on Substack - Dec 02, 2025 Friends, The most dangerous corporation in America is one you may not have heard of. Itโs called Palantir Technologies, a Silicon Valley tech company that may put your most basic freedoms at risk. Palantir gets its name from a device used in... Continue Reading →
The Rot at the Top
More wisdom from Robert Reich on Substack Friends, Ten months of this shit. Enough to make one scream, run stark naked in the streets, mount a revolution. But we have to play the long game. In that long game, America learns from this catastrophe โ and turns those lessons into laws, rules, and norms that... Continue Reading →
Miss Piggy, DJT, and the apocalypse
Reposted from Sylvia Olsenโs blog here Dr. Sylvia Olsen is an author, story-teller, knitting designer, housing specialist and teacher, Sylvia Olsen is an eclectic mix of her creative and academic pursuits. Her books have received numerous awards and nominations and many are Canadian best sellers. Her knitting designs have received attention across Canada and the... Continue Reading →
How to lead prayers in the US Senate — Clergy-craft 101
With thanks to Curtis M Wong writing in the Huffington Post So hereโs a clergy gig I have never held, and never will โ Chaplain to the United States Senate. What does one say? What can one say? In an effort to surface divine love, before many who are interested more in loyalty to a... Continue Reading →
What do Donald Trump and Dr. Strangelove have in common? They both want to play with nuclear weapons
If the US resumes nuclear weapons testing, this would be extremely dangerous for humanity Published: October 30, 2025 at The Conversation Tilman Ruff, Honorary Principal Fellow, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne Disclosure statement: Tilman Ruff is affiliated with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the International Campaign to... Continue Reading →
Marjorie Taylor Greene โ Conversion, or coercion OR Confessions of a Grade-A grifter
I can't believe it either, but Marjorie Taylor Greene is starting to make sense, Rex Huppke in USA today Greene bucked the president and her own party in an interview and advocated for health care subsidies and the release of the Epstein files, while accurately stating that Trump has not lowered prices. President Donald Trump... Continue Reading →
Whoโs on first โ Certainly not Donald Trump
The Power Map of the Trump RegimeWho really works for whom? Robert Reich on Substack, Oct 17, 2025 Friends, A formal organization chart of the Trump regime would show Trump on top, his Cabinet officers arrayed underneath him, the White House staff below them, and an assortment of lower-level appointees at the bottom. The reality... Continue Reading →
So who really cares about the Epstein files?
There is tremendous pressure on GOP congressional legislators to release the Epstein files, mostly from democrats and from a smattering of Republicans along with almost every justice-seeking organization worldwide. Some innocuous sections of the files have been released but to date there is still no timetable to release the full oeuvre, and certainly no promise... Continue Reading →
Setting the record straight โ Maria Corina Machado is a poor choice for the Nobel Peace Prize
Most North American political watchers applauded the award of this yearโs Nobel Peace Prize to the Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado. With many others, I originally sighed with relief that Donald Trump was unsuccessful in his brazen attempt to add the Nobel trophy to his glittering oval office junk shop. Advised by friend and... Continue Reading →
Robert Reich hopes Trump’s Plan to invoke the Insurrection Act will not come to pass โ I donโt share his optimism
Robert Reich on Substack, Oct 06, 2025 Friends, The direction weโre going is either martial law or civil war. Americans from so-called โredโ states, with the backing of their Republican governors and legislatures, are on the brink of using lethal force against Americans in so-called โblueโ states, whose Democratic governors and legislatures strongly oppose the... Continue Reading →