Some years I do this thread, other years not. 2025 was such a serious year, I'm tempted not to.
Maybe that's when you should.
I'm going to start of with a minor one.
Heather Cox Richardson, for goodness sakes pay some attention to the production values of your Vlog. It's absolutely horrific and yes, it does matter. Sitting in front of a coast map may be something you can get away with as a professor to your students, but frankly everyone else just wonders on to Erza Klein.
The ones with Joanne B. Freeman are the absolutely worst, not because you both don't have things that are serious to say, but because it comes across like two elderly professors in the faculty lounge who are annoyed with undergraduates.
You have good content. Improve the production values.
Okay, now that we have that out of the way. . .
Cabinet members, invoke the 25h Amendment.
You know that Donald Trump is getting increasingly bat shit crazy and he's making everything worse. The point at which he serves as razzle dazzle is over. It's no longer safe. Remove him.
And once he's removed, do a serious investigation into what his thing with Putin is. It's weird, bare minimum, but is there more there?
Some will note, and indeed people already are, that if Trump goes Vance is in. This is true.Vance has his own dangers, but he's not likely to nuke Denmark.
Regarding Vance, Vance probably is who he always was, or so it seems to me, but his philosophical underpinnings have developed enormously, whether you like them or not. It occurs to me that people who were charmed by Hillbilly Elegy were charmed by it as they didn't regard it as a call for action for a hillbilly class, but rather as a fun thing to lament over while sipping some weird tea based drink and watching Heather Cox Richardson. Nope, it was a call to arms.
Vance, or whatever your name is, its time for you to be open about your beliefs. Either the American public accepts them, which they probably do not, or they'll reject them and you can try to convince them.
Also, reconsider their harshness. It's easier to be Kevin Roberts if you are an academic. In the real world, Pope Leo XIV makes a lot more sense.
Wyoming Freedom Caucus. Go back to your homes and leave Wyoming alone.
John Barrasso. Grow a spine and start backing Wyoming.
Chuck Gray. See item on Freedom Caucus.
Wyoming Democrats. Be like what you once were, moderate Republicans. You're never getting anywhere running as the French Socialist Party.
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Wyoming voters, quit screwing yourself. I swear, the things you keep voting to support are so darned dumb it defines description. Voting for politicians who will grab Federal lands would sell them in a heartbeat. Coal is not coming back. Climate change is real and needs to be addressed.
And, if you are a new Freedom Caucus type voter, go home. We'll even buy you a box set of the Dukes of Hazzard if you leave.
Members of the Evangelical Protestant right wing community (and maybe Evangelical Protestants in general). Read some history. You guys are carrying out a historically discredited effort that's contrary to the Church.
Also, knock off the divorce doesn't matter thing. It does.
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