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The online magazine & meetinghouse for democracy, human rights, and rule of law Subscribe: cylindrmag.substack.com Follow: @cylindrmag #TreatPeopleRight

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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#ruleoflaw
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump was welcoming the Chinese press into the Oval Office—the “friendliest press corp,” Trump said about reporters whose press freedoms rank 178th in the world, just above North Korea—while continuing to deny American news outlets access all morning. www.americaamerica.news/p/this-cant-...
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This Can’t Go On for Two More Years
Swooning over China’s repressive communist dictator and belligerently acting out at the United Nations. Yes, it’s a psychiatric emergency.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Control the lawyers, control the law. Scott Cummings (UCLA) breaks down the autocratic playbook on the newest episode of Rule of Law Defenders. Full episode link in bio.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
To those who observe, Happy Constitution Day. Here’s to an even better Constitution and a happier republic. #democracy #humanrights #ruleoflaw cylindrmag.substack.com/p/a-twenty-e...
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A Twenty-Eighth Amendment Has Arrived
We owe one to ourselves, our kids, and our 250 years. Before it’s too late.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW PODCAST EPISODE Scott Cummings, Professor of Legal Ethics at UCLA, on the role of lawyers in combatting — and sometimes contributing to — democratic backsliding. #democracy #humanrights #ruleoflaw #TreatPeopleRight cylindrmag.substack.com/p/lawyers-in...
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Lawyers in the Struggle
Scott Cummings, Professor of Legal Ethics at the UCLA School of Law, on the role of lawyers in fighting -- and sometimes contributing to -- democratic backsliding.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A tribute to two phenomenal women and women like them. #TreatPeopleRight substack.com/@cylindrmag/...
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Divas for the People
Gloria Steinem and Dolly Parton treated people right.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Trump’s injecting chaos into #voting is the point — not only to increase Republican chances but, more importantly to him, to be able to declare that, because of all the chaos, the results (likely to favor Dems) can’t be trusted and therefore must be discarded. #CriminalPresident #GrifterInChief
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
cylindr’s latest, by Gary Simson, as students return to campus. #democracy #humanrights #ruleoflaw #TreatPeopleRight cylindrmag.substack.com/p/history-be...
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History Beckons Again: Democracy Needs Student Leaders
The vital role of college and university students in helping rescue a nation in distress.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Trump did this. #CriminalPresident
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
On this Amendment Monday: Section VI: Right to Good-Quality Health Care, Food, Housing, and Environment All persons have the right to good-quality health care, food, housing, and a healthful environment…. See more at the link below. #democracy cylindrmag.substack.com/p/a-twenty-e...
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A Twenty-Eighth Amendment Has Arrived
We owe one to ourselves, our kids, and our 250 years. Before it’s too late.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
#MoralCowardice
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
After the 9/11 attacks, foreign government reps told Elisa Massimino it was critical that the US get back in the rule of law leadership chair before someone else seized it: “We’ll take hypocrisy over abandonment any day….” Subscribe cylindrmag.substack.com cylindrmag.substack.com/p/lessons-in...
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Lessons in Leadership
Elisa Massimino, former President and CEO of Human Rights First and now Executive Director of the Human Rights Institute at Georgetown Law, on effective advocacy.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
On this Amendment Monday: Section V: Right to Education 1. All children have the right to a good-quality public education free of religious or political indoctrination…. [read more at link below] #democracy #humanrights #ruleoflaw #TreatPeopleRight cylindrmag.substack.com/p/a-twenty-e...
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A Twenty-Eighth Amendment Has Arrived
We owe one to ourselves, our kids, and our 250 years. Before it’s too late.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
#FuckingOutrageous He Was Deported to a Country He’d Never Heard Of. He May Never Go Free. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/m...
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He Was Deported to a Country He’d Never Heard Of. He May Never Go Free.
As the Trump administration sends a growing number of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, some find themselves imprisoned with no way out.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
There are human rights and rule of law answers to the noble cause of Cuban liberation. As usual, Trump’s ain’t it. #democracy #humanrights #ruleoflaw #TreatPeopleRight substack.com/@cylindrmag/...
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There are human rights and rule of law answers to the noble cause of Cuban liberation. As usual, Trump’s ain’t it. #democracy #humanrights #ruleoflaw #TreatPeopleRight
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
On this Amendment Monday: Section IV: Voting and Elections 1. All citizens of the United States aged 18 years or older have the right to vote and shall be automatically registered for that purpose. No test or form of identification shall be required to vote…. open.substack.com/pub/cylindrm...
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A Twenty-Eighth Amendment Has Arrived
We owe one to ourselves, our kids, and our 250 years. Before it’s too late.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The US president is also the Burglar in Chief. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
As Hillary Clinton famously observed in 1995, women’s rights are human rights. And to the extent they’re not observed, the world suffers accordingly. open.substack.com/pub/cylindrm...
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Women's Leadership and Advocacy
Jill Morrison is training the next generation of women's rights advocates.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
#Facts substack.com/@lucid/note/...
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@lucid)
Trump does not care about human life, and in that regard, Trump is like every other strongman I’ve ever studied. I write more about Strongmen and why we should know how they operate at my Substack,...
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
An economy belongs to everyone who’s in it. It’s a human invention meant to serve human needs, not the other way around — people don’t exist to serve economies. Therefore, everyone in it should have their basic needs met by it. #TreatPeopleRight open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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August 5, 2026
On August 5, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law a new tax to help fund the United States government during the Civil War.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This week’s installment of Amendment Monday: Section III: Citizenship and Immigration 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof…. Read the full amendment: open.substack.com/pub/cylindrm...
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A Twenty-Eighth Amendment Has Arrived
We owe one to ourselves, our kids, and our 250 years. Before it’s too late.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The title — and subtitle — say it all. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Anthony Fauci Is Not the Villain in This Story
The doctor was thrust into his pandemic-leadership role because of Trump’s deadly dereliction of duty.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
#ArrogantIgnorance struck again.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Excoriating Dr. Anthony Fauci, a genuine hero who spent a career saving millions worldwide, as Trump and his merry band of idiot grifters kill untold numbers. See the true Dr. Fauci here: 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt Prize for Global Human Rights Advancement www.americanbar.org/groups/human...
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Dr. Anthony Fauci
The Center is pleased to honor Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, for his work in advancing the human right to health in the United States and ar...
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
On this week’s Amendment Monday: Section II: Equal Rights Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, or gender identity. open.substack.com/pub/cylindrm...
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A Twenty-Eighth Amendment Has Arrived
We owe one to ourselves, our kids, and our 250 years. Before it’s too late.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
New from cylindr: a look at Hannah Arendt's idea of "the banality of evil" — the idea that history's worst outcomes are often enabled not by true believers, but by people who simply go along. Full article by Executive Editor Michael Pates — link in bio. #TreatPeopleRight
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Roger that. At some point (which Trump has uniquely driven us to) you gotta deal with him on the basic human terms to which he has reduced the interaction.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
#GoldenAge war strategy.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
#Yep “Rather than combatting waste, it appears Trump and his cronies are trying to take control of the United States government, using the power of the American people for their own ends….” substack.com/@hrichardson...
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July 24, 2026
Tony Romm and Brad Plumer of the New York Times reported this afternoon that the Trump administration’s claim last October that it was cutting programs in order to protect taxpayers against waste was,...
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
#TreatPeopleRight
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Section I: Human Dignity 1. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, and shall enjoy the full protections and benefits of the law on that basis. 2. The foreign policy of the United States shall reflect this principle [….] Read more at: open.substack.com/pub/cylindrm...
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A Twenty-Eighth Amendment Has Arrived
We owe one to ourselves, our kids, and our 250 years. Before it’s too late.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
With Trump now officially threatening American elections again, we gotta look ahead to the Next Reconstruction as we also fight back. open.substack.com/pub/cylindrm...
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A Twenty-Eighth Amendment Has Arrived
We owe one to ourselves, our kids, and our 250 years. Before it’s too late.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
To be borne in mind as Trump spews more election bullshittery tonight. #CriminalPresident #GriftCult That Banality of Evil Again open.substack.com/pub/cylindrm...
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That Banality of Evil Again
For every Trump and Miller and Blanche and ilk, there's a Lindsey. And the rest of us.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
More breaking down the #ruleoflaw to free up the reign of dictators and autocrats and wannabes. substack.com/@cylindrmag/...
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Rubio Launches Campaign to Dismantle International Criminal Court [The Guardian]
Trump’s secretary of state claims the global tribunal is interfering with US military and law enforcement operations.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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cylindr (@cylindrmag)
Comprehensive Supreme Court reform is long overdue. This 28th amendment — the Next Reconstruction Amendment — provides it. (See Section X, paras. 5-9.) #scotus #ruleoflaw https://cylindrmag.subst...
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Now’s the time. open.substack.com/pub/cylindrm...
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A Twenty-Eighth Amendment Has Arrived
We owe one to ourselves, our kids, and our 250 years. Before it’s too late.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
#GriftCult
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
#ruleoflaw
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
#Leadership
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
#GriftCult
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
America's not exceptional because we're better than anyone else—it's because we've never stopped wrestling with the gap between what we said we believe and how we actually live. Read cylindr Executive Editor Micheal Pates’s newest publication now!
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
#Balls
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
See “Trump Foundation,” now deceased. In Trump world, it’s screw or be screwed, plain and simple and unrelenting. #GrifterInChief #GriftCult #CriminalPresident
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Lincoln’s “a new birth of freedom” now has a proper definition. #TreatPeopleRight substack.com/@sclcommunit...
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Freedom-With: We’ve Been Doing Freedom Wrong for Nearly 250 Years
It is time to finally practice freedom the right way
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
#GrifterInChief #GriftCult
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
No, CONGRESS acts that way. #GriftCult
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Check out Unruled Masses @unruledmasses.bsky.social and its force-multiplying resources serving a just rule of law and its advocates. unruledmasses.org/intelligence...
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Unruled Masses and cylindr Partner to Combat Institutional Corruption and Unify Rule of Law Advocates | Unruled Masses
Unruled Masses and cylindr have partnered to combat institutional corruption and protect the rule of law by combining civic action infrastructure with digital publishing platforms.
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
#UtterlyPredictable #GrifterInChief
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
#GriftCult
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cylindr magazine @cylindrmag.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
#pretext
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