Susan Kristol

Greek and Latin literature, Biblical Hebrew, music, art, nature, and politics

[Andrew Egger @EggerDC]

I try to steer clear of too much writerly self-indulgence but I did write about Marco's shoes:

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Grotesque.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Could also be Germany 1930s, Soviet Union 1950s. Could be many places, but shouldn't be America.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Shameful—but in a way useful. No one should any longer pretend we have a “Department of Justice.” We have a Department of Trump.

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

NBC News is out with a very strong report into the apparent use of excessive force by ICE and other DHS officers, beyond the most notorious shootings.

It also features this photo, which I couldn’t get past.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

The people who need their own halftime show are the same people who needed their own water fountains.

Never forget.

[Susan Kristol @SusanKristol]

Shameful. This picture says it all.
The Height of Close-Combat Weaponry Is on This Woman’s Doorstep https://t.co/01U0A4nbba via @NYTimes

[US_did_ 911 @US_did_911]

@WalshFreedom

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

ICE pointed semi-automatic weapons at a retired American couple in a church parking lot. No warrant. No rights read. Just terror.

This is not law enforcement. This is unconstitutional intimidation.
Under the Fourth Amendment, ICE cannot detain or search without a judicial warrant. "We don’t need one," is a lie.

PAXIS is here to hold that line:
— Lawful speech, not escalation.
— Shared truth, not fear.
— Human dignity, always.

🛑 If ICE appears at your place of worship: You have the right to remain silent. You have the right to see a judicial warrant. You have the right to not open the door.

📚 Learn more, stand firm and help develop: https://t.co/I9Jo0cjo4J
PAXIS holds. The Constitution holds. We do not run. We respond.

[Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok]

An incredible interview. The quiet dignity.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

I would offer that Alex Pretti putting his body—with his hands up—between a woman and the BP agent who had just violently shoved her into the snow, offer stark competing visions of manhood. Pretti, a nurse caring for veterans, who took a face full of pepper spray to shield that woman, is a much better masculine ideal that the masked coward shoving the woman and executing a man on his knees. MAGA may venerate the latter, but most people in a healthy society want the former.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

Look, if DHS and ICE legitimately felt that these killings were justified, then they wouldn't be doing everything in their power to stop normal-course investigations into them. But that's precisely what's happening.

[Jonny G 🇺🇦 @dontforgetchaos]

I make no apology for posting this photo. I think it’s a photo that will haunt America in the years to come.

This is what you have become. If you defend this, have a word with yourself.

[Mike Murphy @murphymike]

Showing far more courage and integrity than 98% of the Republicans currently serving in Congress who watch this administration running wild with malice, corruption and mayhem and just sit inert, in cowardly silence.

[Amanda Litman @amandalitman]

At nearly every crisis point over the last year - and there have been so so many 🫠 - totally ordinary people have been exponentially braver than the billionaires and elite. Turns out, you can’t buy courage!

[Susan Kristol @SusanKristol]

The abhorrent power of the photograph of a 5-year-old held by ICE https://t.co/ja9bysIeIO

[Susan Kristol @SusanKristol]

@HavicanWatson @BillKristol Ellen—I’m with you on this.

[Susan Kristol @SusanKristol]

Earth Dragon Run https://t.co/e1SfwWR6HM
Can’t wait to read David Pinault’s latest novel!

[Hakeem Jeffries @RepJeffries]

Senator Alex Padilla is a good man and principled public servant.

The brazen and aggressive manhandling of Senator Padilla by the Trump administration is a sickening disgrace.

Anyone who assaulted the Senator should be held accountable.

No one is above the law.

[Mike Murphy @murphymike]

I’ve have a new Substack up: a goodbye note to the GOP on this Memorial Day weekend. Check it out: https://t.co/WoPYfSn9NX