Definitely Dan Rather. He is a voice of Democracy. I have been a subscriber to “Steady” for several years now.
How about D. Earl Stephenson and Scott Dworkin? I also subscribe to their Substacks. Scott is working hard in the resistance and he has gotten a great many people involved.
It seems to me that us Boomers are the majority here on Substack. We got fed up with social media and found our way here...in my case, following those we met on Facebook, like Robert Reich, and were glad to have a new way to hear from them after abandoning the places overrun with MAGA. I was thrilled to discover all the 'wicked smaht' authors here, and less of the 'popularity contest'.
Ever since I got my own PC at my age of 24 in 2000 on I've subscribed to all Democratic mailing lists and have been an online Democratic Activist 'cause as a refugee and Legal Permanent Resident that was the only single way I could act. Before that I started in the local libraries in Pittsburgh, PA. As a result, I'm really exhausted of this never-ending pernicious feedback loop of Democrats keep co-depending on and dreading tRumputinist-cult of death. Yet I STILL must fight together with You.... Would so much want all genuinely NONtRumputinist and better yet ANTItRumputinist Americans and such people of the world would be much, much more powerful 'cause this is an extremely heavy burden dumped on our ailing shoulders. My spirit is youthful like of a teenager but my organism is already so ailing like I'm 100 years old.
So I can only keep repeating - I can only keep repeating infinitely - ALL NONTRUMPUTINIST AND BETTER YET ANTITRUMPUTINIST, ANTIEVILONMUSK, ANTIJDVANCE MEDIA AND INFLUENCERS, FROM THE MTN, RAW STORY AND DAILY KOS TO MSNBC!! AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN AND BEYOND - MUST BE CONCRETE-STRONG UNITED AND CONVERGED IN THE ANTITRUMPUTINIST, ANTIEVILONMUSK, ANTIJDVANCE FRONT FOR DEMOCRACY AND PROGRESSIVE LIBERATION OF AMERICA AND THE WORLD!! I REPEAT - THE CONCRETE-STRONG UNITED AND CONVERGED IN THE ANTITRUMPUTINIST, ANTIEVILONMUSK, ANTIJDVANCE FRONT FOR DEMOCRACY AND PROGRESSIVE LIBERATION OF AMERICA AND THE WORLD MUST BE FORMED!!
OUR SOCIAL-LIBERAL MINDSET MUST BE UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNABASHED!!
OUR SOCIAL-LIBERAL PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES ARE - NEVER BE TOLERANT TO/OF THE INTOLERANTS!!
OUR SOCIAL-LIBERAL MOTTO IS - DO NOT TREAD ON US!! (which tRumputinist neo-nazi-fascist terrorists "teaparty-magats" had hijacked from us with their venomous snakes).
OUR SOCIAL-LIBERAL ATTITUDE IS - FIGHT BACK THE ANTIDEMOCRATS-AUTOCRATS-TOTALITARIANS-AUTHORITARIANS TARGETED WITH ALL AND EVERY MEANS UNAPOLOGETICALLY, UNABASHEDLY, UNRELENTINGLY AND UNWAVERINGLY!!
Wow. I'm impressed by your passion and energy! I am older than you, and pick my battles carefully, as I don't have any energy to squander. I didn't get a computer until I was 50, and my kids had to help me learn how to use it. The 9/11 attack had just happened, and my husband of 30 years had just died. It didn't take long for me to trade my outgoing social life to be replaced with life as a recluse on my computer/tablet. I quit all social media after tRumPutin was elected, and now I'm only on Substack. I 'participate in discussions', but mainly I'm here to learn and understand. After lunch, I switch to my Kindle - reading books is my favorite activity....and 95% of them are fiction. It's a magical escape, a daily vacation from our darkening reality. I recommend that you take breaks from it too - with your intensity, you risk wearing yourself out! 💜🤪🫠✌️
Thanks; having been born in one of the worst parts of geographical Europe i.e. region of countries of former yugoslavia where oppression of minorities is taken as "normal", I've been assaulted in many various ways by the extremely conformist-collectivist-conservative society of former yugoslavia, already even before their monstrous kgb-instigated wars they've carried out in the 1990ies when I was an underage teenager. In this horrible region, it takes only a suspicion in someone's mind that a person might be non-heterosexual, I repeat, it takes only a suspicion in someone's mind that a person might be non-heterosexual or not stereotypically "masculine" or stereotypically "feminine" (whatever that all is supposed to mean in their oppressive heads) - for the oppressor to mistreat in many various ways the selected victim. As an assigned male at birth child that was suspected by some to be a "not real male" (whatever is that supposed to be) although I'm told to be quite boyish, never girlish, I've been occasionally (but, to me still, unacceptably often) bullied and harassed, since my earliest childhood on. I have, thankfully, NEVER EVER been sexually abused (yet!) but - only 'cause I knew I had to self-protect myself even at the cost of isolating myself, being reclusive and, literally, physically hiding myself throughout my childhood and youth until my immigration to USA in 1997. Therefore, from the earliest age of mine, I learned to distrust most of the world around me the more I experienced the disgusting injustices and perversions of compulsory heterosexISM and homohatred of the surrounding environment, first in the region of former yugoslavia, then, to my utter shock, in USA, western Pennsylvania, too!! What dismayed me the most in the region of former yugoslavia - has been the lack of finding a similar soul (not that I even dared to look for him/her much) and then when the kgb-instigated yugoslav wars started in early 1990ies, everything went from bad to much worse and I was 15-16 years old civilian in the most important years of my life - facing the death any moment. My condemnation of the greater-serbianist aggression on Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina was fully categorical, unambiguous and genuine which meant I was bombarded by the greater-serbianist aggressors exactly the same way as all other Nonserb civilians were, regardless of my never-chosen, socially constructed "ethnicity" that I never frankly felt as mine - which means had I been in Srebrenica, I would've been slaughtered by the greater-serbianist terrorists as if I was a Bosniak Muslim - EVEN THOUGH I AM NOT a Bosniak Muslim. The reason I was loyal to Bosnia-Herzegovina was the MULTIETHNIC, MULTINATIONAL, MULTICULTURAL nature of Bosnia-Herzegovina - the only single nice thing that Bosnia-Herzegovina had - yet THAT WAS PRECISELY THAT THAT WAS ATTACKED BY the greater-serbianist aggressors-to-whom-soon-tragically-the greater-croatianist-aggressors-joined! So similar to the way terrorists putin of russia and terrorist tRump of usa are joining their evil forces now against Ukraine, Poland and the rest of Europe!!!
Having immigrated to USA, Pittsburgh, PA, USA ALL BY MYSELF ALONE AT LONG LAST AT MY AGE OF 21 WITH MY EXCELLENT AMERICAN ENGLISH through International Organization for Migration and an immigrant agency assigned to me (as I had NO any choice where exactly in USA) - it was western Pennsylvania that was assigned to me and I had to obey as I obeyed all the Americans have told me to. Very soon, paying only a fleeting attention to the socio-political situation in USA, I noticed that politicians of so-called "republican party of USA", to my utter shock, reminded me, in their hatred of multiracial, democratic, liberal America, very much of the kgb-instigated-joined-greater-serbianist-greater-croatianist war criminals - already even before the year of Y2K i.e. year of 2000 and g.w. bush's regime. After g.w. bush's regime purposely allowed the alqaida terrorists to perpetrate the 9.11.2001 so to instrumentalize it against the Democratic, Civil and Human rights America (the mixing-pot America that I like) so similar to the criminal b. netanyahu of Israel purposely allowing the hamas terrorists to perpetrate the Oct. 7th 2023 so to instrumentalize it against all civic, civilian human rights of Palestinians and Israelis - the patterns of deeply and widely monstrously calculated evil on part of all antidemocratic, corrupt ideologies and practices are so obvious that only those who refuse to see the obvious - pretend that they still don't see the obvious. With years and decades relative to the bushism and his regime of 2001-2009 USA (the only hope for an improvement in USA showed up briefly during President Obama's years of 2009-2015) - so, that antidemocratic, anticivic monstrously evil pattern only got confirmed to the point that the antidemocrats and authoritarians don't even care anymore if/whether all of us who are different and opposite from them can see them for who they are or no. That screams that the self-defensive mechanisms of us who value and practice the Liberal-Democracy have been neutered instead of fostered and that is what is hurting me beyond description.
Ones of the sources from which to draw the energy for AntitRumputinist Resistance and Democratic Liberation of America need to be the Feminist and Social-Liberationist Movements and ALL CIVIC, CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENTS FROM AFRICAN-AMERICAN MOVEMENTS TO LGBTIQA MOVEMENTS! BUT THIS TIME - WITH SELF-DEFENSIVE MECHANISMS!!! THAT MEANS - LET'S FIND THE WISE, EFFECTIVE AND SELF-DEFENSIVE WAYS TO STRIKE BACK AT THE TRUMPUTINIST TERRORISTS AND NEUTER THEM!!!
Dan Rather!
Definitely Dan Rather. He is a voice of Democracy. I have been a subscriber to “Steady” for several years now.
How about D. Earl Stephenson and Scott Dworkin? I also subscribe to their Substacks. Scott is working hard in the resistance and he has gotten a great many people involved.
Must be an old person. Me too. One of the finest newsmen in our history, railroaded out by Bush, Jr.
Yeah, I am a Boomer.
I prefer Boomer to “old person.”
It seems to me that us Boomers are the majority here on Substack. We got fed up with social media and found our way here...in my case, following those we met on Facebook, like Robert Reich, and were glad to have a new way to hear from them after abandoning the places overrun with MAGA. I was thrilled to discover all the 'wicked smaht' authors here, and less of the 'popularity contest'.
Ever since I got my own PC at my age of 24 in 2000 on I've subscribed to all Democratic mailing lists and have been an online Democratic Activist 'cause as a refugee and Legal Permanent Resident that was the only single way I could act. Before that I started in the local libraries in Pittsburgh, PA. As a result, I'm really exhausted of this never-ending pernicious feedback loop of Democrats keep co-depending on and dreading tRumputinist-cult of death. Yet I STILL must fight together with You.... Would so much want all genuinely NONtRumputinist and better yet ANTItRumputinist Americans and such people of the world would be much, much more powerful 'cause this is an extremely heavy burden dumped on our ailing shoulders. My spirit is youthful like of a teenager but my organism is already so ailing like I'm 100 years old.
So I can only keep repeating - I can only keep repeating infinitely - ALL NONTRUMPUTINIST AND BETTER YET ANTITRUMPUTINIST, ANTIEVILONMUSK, ANTIJDVANCE MEDIA AND INFLUENCERS, FROM THE MTN, RAW STORY AND DAILY KOS TO MSNBC!! AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN AND BEYOND - MUST BE CONCRETE-STRONG UNITED AND CONVERGED IN THE ANTITRUMPUTINIST, ANTIEVILONMUSK, ANTIJDVANCE FRONT FOR DEMOCRACY AND PROGRESSIVE LIBERATION OF AMERICA AND THE WORLD!! I REPEAT - THE CONCRETE-STRONG UNITED AND CONVERGED IN THE ANTITRUMPUTINIST, ANTIEVILONMUSK, ANTIJDVANCE FRONT FOR DEMOCRACY AND PROGRESSIVE LIBERATION OF AMERICA AND THE WORLD MUST BE FORMED!!
OUR SOCIAL-LIBERAL MINDSET MUST BE UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNABASHED!!
OUR SOCIAL-LIBERAL PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES ARE - NEVER BE TOLERANT TO/OF THE INTOLERANTS!!
OUR SOCIAL-LIBERAL MOTTO IS - DO NOT TREAD ON US!! (which tRumputinist neo-nazi-fascist terrorists "teaparty-magats" had hijacked from us with their venomous snakes).
OUR SOCIAL-LIBERAL ATTITUDE IS - FIGHT BACK THE ANTIDEMOCRATS-AUTOCRATS-TOTALITARIANS-AUTHORITARIANS TARGETED WITH ALL AND EVERY MEANS UNAPOLOGETICALLY, UNABASHEDLY, UNRELENTINGLY AND UNWAVERINGLY!!
Wow. I'm impressed by your passion and energy! I am older than you, and pick my battles carefully, as I don't have any energy to squander. I didn't get a computer until I was 50, and my kids had to help me learn how to use it. The 9/11 attack had just happened, and my husband of 30 years had just died. It didn't take long for me to trade my outgoing social life to be replaced with life as a recluse on my computer/tablet. I quit all social media after tRumPutin was elected, and now I'm only on Substack. I 'participate in discussions', but mainly I'm here to learn and understand. After lunch, I switch to my Kindle - reading books is my favorite activity....and 95% of them are fiction. It's a magical escape, a daily vacation from our darkening reality. I recommend that you take breaks from it too - with your intensity, you risk wearing yourself out! 💜🤪🫠✌️
Thanks; having been born in one of the worst parts of geographical Europe i.e. region of countries of former yugoslavia where oppression of minorities is taken as "normal", I've been assaulted in many various ways by the extremely conformist-collectivist-conservative society of former yugoslavia, already even before their monstrous kgb-instigated wars they've carried out in the 1990ies when I was an underage teenager. In this horrible region, it takes only a suspicion in someone's mind that a person might be non-heterosexual, I repeat, it takes only a suspicion in someone's mind that a person might be non-heterosexual or not stereotypically "masculine" or stereotypically "feminine" (whatever that all is supposed to mean in their oppressive heads) - for the oppressor to mistreat in many various ways the selected victim. As an assigned male at birth child that was suspected by some to be a "not real male" (whatever is that supposed to be) although I'm told to be quite boyish, never girlish, I've been occasionally (but, to me still, unacceptably often) bullied and harassed, since my earliest childhood on. I have, thankfully, NEVER EVER been sexually abused (yet!) but - only 'cause I knew I had to self-protect myself even at the cost of isolating myself, being reclusive and, literally, physically hiding myself throughout my childhood and youth until my immigration to USA in 1997. Therefore, from the earliest age of mine, I learned to distrust most of the world around me the more I experienced the disgusting injustices and perversions of compulsory heterosexISM and homohatred of the surrounding environment, first in the region of former yugoslavia, then, to my utter shock, in USA, western Pennsylvania, too!! What dismayed me the most in the region of former yugoslavia - has been the lack of finding a similar soul (not that I even dared to look for him/her much) and then when the kgb-instigated yugoslav wars started in early 1990ies, everything went from bad to much worse and I was 15-16 years old civilian in the most important years of my life - facing the death any moment. My condemnation of the greater-serbianist aggression on Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina was fully categorical, unambiguous and genuine which meant I was bombarded by the greater-serbianist aggressors exactly the same way as all other Nonserb civilians were, regardless of my never-chosen, socially constructed "ethnicity" that I never frankly felt as mine - which means had I been in Srebrenica, I would've been slaughtered by the greater-serbianist terrorists as if I was a Bosniak Muslim - EVEN THOUGH I AM NOT a Bosniak Muslim. The reason I was loyal to Bosnia-Herzegovina was the MULTIETHNIC, MULTINATIONAL, MULTICULTURAL nature of Bosnia-Herzegovina - the only single nice thing that Bosnia-Herzegovina had - yet THAT WAS PRECISELY THAT THAT WAS ATTACKED BY the greater-serbianist aggressors-to-whom-soon-tragically-the greater-croatianist-aggressors-joined! So similar to the way terrorists putin of russia and terrorist tRump of usa are joining their evil forces now against Ukraine, Poland and the rest of Europe!!!
Having immigrated to USA, Pittsburgh, PA, USA ALL BY MYSELF ALONE AT LONG LAST AT MY AGE OF 21 WITH MY EXCELLENT AMERICAN ENGLISH through International Organization for Migration and an immigrant agency assigned to me (as I had NO any choice where exactly in USA) - it was western Pennsylvania that was assigned to me and I had to obey as I obeyed all the Americans have told me to. Very soon, paying only a fleeting attention to the socio-political situation in USA, I noticed that politicians of so-called "republican party of USA", to my utter shock, reminded me, in their hatred of multiracial, democratic, liberal America, very much of the kgb-instigated-joined-greater-serbianist-greater-croatianist war criminals - already even before the year of Y2K i.e. year of 2000 and g.w. bush's regime. After g.w. bush's regime purposely allowed the alqaida terrorists to perpetrate the 9.11.2001 so to instrumentalize it against the Democratic, Civil and Human rights America (the mixing-pot America that I like) so similar to the criminal b. netanyahu of Israel purposely allowing the hamas terrorists to perpetrate the Oct. 7th 2023 so to instrumentalize it against all civic, civilian human rights of Palestinians and Israelis - the patterns of deeply and widely monstrously calculated evil on part of all antidemocratic, corrupt ideologies and practices are so obvious that only those who refuse to see the obvious - pretend that they still don't see the obvious. With years and decades relative to the bushism and his regime of 2001-2009 USA (the only hope for an improvement in USA showed up briefly during President Obama's years of 2009-2015) - so, that antidemocratic, anticivic monstrously evil pattern only got confirmed to the point that the antidemocrats and authoritarians don't even care anymore if/whether all of us who are different and opposite from them can see them for who they are or no. That screams that the self-defensive mechanisms of us who value and practice the Liberal-Democracy have been neutered instead of fostered and that is what is hurting me beyond description.
Ones of the sources from which to draw the energy for AntitRumputinist Resistance and Democratic Liberation of America need to be the Feminist and Social-Liberationist Movements and ALL CIVIC, CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENTS FROM AFRICAN-AMERICAN MOVEMENTS TO LGBTIQA MOVEMENTS! BUT THIS TIME - WITH SELF-DEFENSIVE MECHANISMS!!! THAT MEANS - LET'S FIND THE WISE, EFFECTIVE AND SELF-DEFENSIVE WAYS TO STRIKE BACK AT THE TRUMPUTINIST TERRORISTS AND NEUTER THEM!!!
I agree. I like it much better here.