Words That Cut Through the Noise
A curated wall of quotes paired with images—offering insight, wit, and perspective from thinkers, activists, and voices that matter.
Michael Lutting
Michael Lutting is a former Federal judge, a Reagan-Bush era legal conservative
Legal WF and Medias+
7/4/25
“We are not just in a constitutional crisis. America itself is in an existential crisis.”
Michael Podhorzer
Weekend Reading
5/21/25
“Otherwise-disaffected voters have turned out in unusually high numbers to defeat MAGA candidates since 2017. That they did not do so in 2024 in sufficient numbers signaled not a shift in their basic values that had caused them to see MAGA as a threat, but a reduced belief in the credibility and seriousness of that threat (the “credulity chasm”), combined with greater disappointment in a Democratic Party that they correctly saw as merely defending broken institutions. This is not a sustainable trajectory for Democrats, or more importantly, for what’s left of American democracy”
Thom Hartmann
The Hartmann Report
7/4/25
“James Carville is Right to Panic — Because Trump’s Next Power Grab doesn’t need a Mob before you even cast a vote, millions of names may already be scrubbed from voter rolls. If you're Black, Latino, a student, a woman who changed her name at marriage, a military service member or simply someone who moved apartments you're already a target… lf that wasn't enough, Republicans have introduced the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would forece every newly registered or updated voter to present proof of citizenship in person. And if the name on your birth certificate is different from your passport or driver's license you can't register to vote.”
This Will Hold
6/11/25
“Billionaires and Tech Giants Pulled Off the Crime of the Century.
The data makes no statistical sense. A clean sweep in all seven swing states. The fall of the Blue Wall. Eighty-eight counties flipped red—not one flipped blue. Every victory landed just under the threshold that would trigger an automatic recount. Donald Trump outperformed expectations in down-ballot races with margins never before seen—while Kamala Harris simultaneously underperformed in those exact same areas.
If one were to accept these results at face value—Donald Trump, a 34-count convicted felon, supposedly outperformed Ronald Reagan. According to the co-founder of the Election Truth Alliance:
These anomalies didn’t happen nationwide. They didn’t even happen across all voting methods—this just doesn’t reflect human voting behavior.”
They were concentrated. Targeted. Specific to swing states and Texas—and specific to Election Day voting.
In Dominion’s Democracy Suite 5.17 the drivers for these UPS units are listed as “optional,” meaning they can be updated remotely without triggering certification requirements or oversight.. Optional means unregulated. Unregulated means invisible. And invisible means perfect for ionfiltration.”
Author of Brave New World (1932) and Island (1962)
“Patriotism is not enough. But neither is anything else. Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything will really do.”
Adolph Hitler
Sometime before 1945
“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty creator. It is not truth that matters, but victory.”