"I do not plan to watch his speech

"It’s for Democrats to convey something about themselves and how they will respond in general to being pushed around."

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott #Democrats
/10

"In Donald Trump’s tenure, the SOTU has become something much more loathsome. Invariably, he uses his time to deliver poisonous harangues dripping with lies and anti-immigrant venom. Surely, we can do without Trump’s in-person SOTU. ...

No self-respecting justice on the Supreme Court should appear at a partisan hate fest, especially just days after an egregious attack on judicial independence."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott #SupremeCourt
/11

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/words-and-phrases-cfb

"Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, trying to prevent another shouting match, has suggested Democratic members either sit silently or not attend. No one should take the 'sit silently' option."

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott #Democrats
/12

"I’m not going to watch the State of the Union address on Tuesday night. I urge you not to, either.

I hope Neilsen (or whoever makes such estimates these days) will find that far fewer Americans watched Donald Trump’s State of the Union than have watched any other State of the Union in recent memory. It will drive Trump crazy."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott
/5

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/24/trump-state-of-the-union-boycott

"Democrats by now must recognize that treating a lawless, authoritarian leader as an ordinary president (e.g., referring to him by the honorary 'Mr. President,' approving any nomination, or attending functions, including the State of the Union) makes them appear morally obtuse and politically tone deaf."

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott #Democrats
/13

"All nine justices should decline to attend the State of the Union address tonight. No law requires their attendance. Nor does any norm; it’s common for justices to skip the event, and some do so as a matter of course."

~ Amit Agarwal

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott #SupremeCourt
/14

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/supreme-court-scotus-justices-should-skip-trump-state-of-the-union-address-sotu-rule-of-law-tariffs

"Not attending, on the other hand, would quietly evince the Court’s institutional self-respect and dignity; and it would avoid the intolerable spectacle of the justices being subjected to abuse or used as props during a tirade directed against their colleagues."

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott #SupremeCourt
/15

"The Trump regime does not deserve normalization. It does not deserve applause. It does not deserve the trappings of democratic ceremony while it attacks democracy itself.

This is the same regime covering up the Epstein files.

The same regime pushing unlawful tariffs after being rebuked.

The same regime attacking judges, immigrants, journalists, and political opponents."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott
/16

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/important-message-from-meidastouch-0ce

"This is the same regime sending masked agents to torture and terrorize and kill people accross the United States.

The same regime that treats the Constitution like a piece of trash.

So we are not playing along."

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott
/17

"How can we endure the constitutional equivalent of a WrestleMania extravaganza?

First, don’t watch. No guilt. You have better things to do than watch a speech designed to insult and upset you. Any activity that does not involve voluntary exposure to someone emotionally assaulting you will be a more productive use of your time. There will be plenty of commentary to fill in the details worth knowing."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott
/18

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/how-to-watch-the-state-of-the-union

"Second, participate in counterprogramming. ... Third, watch the speech with confidence and professional distance, knowing that Trump will further injure the prospects of the Republican Party heading into the midterms."

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott
/19

"Tonight is President Epstein Files’s State of the Union. You won’t be watching it, neither will we."

~ Evan Hurst

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott #Epstein
/20

https://www.wonkette.com/p/us-womens-hockey-those-other-scumbags

Joyce Vance invites readers to join her for the SOTU at Notes:

"Notes is rapidly becoming my favorite social media platform, and I’m looking forward to finding you all and following you. … I’ll be posting hot takes, serious takes, and maybe even a little snark on Notes, and I hope you’ll join in and respond so we can gnash our teeth in the comments and get through this together."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott
/21

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/how-to-watch-the-state-of-the-union

"Fox: 'Speaker Mike Johnson says he expects both the men’s and women’s gold medal winning hockey teams to attend State of the Union tomorrow night.'

… But the women’s team politely declined. A spokesperson for the US women's hockey team said the players are unable to attend 'due to the timing and previously scheduled academic and professional commitments.'"

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott #WomensHockey #MensHockey
/22

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-314-22326

"… Expect the men’s team to be there. Also expect Trump to take credit for their win while using them as political props. Many of them appear to be Trump supporters, so they probably won’t care."

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott #WomensHockey #MensHockey
/23

"The difficulty with State of the Union in particular is that the audience in the chamber is captive. If Democrats commit to maintaining a 'dignified presence' while Trump speaks, as Jeffries requested last year, they will sit there unresponsively absorbing abuse and lies.

That leaves them in an inherently weak posture."

~ Brian Beutler

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott #Democrats
/8

https://www.offmessage.net/p/why-the-state-of-the-union-boycotters

"The women politely alerted the White House they would not be accepting any invitations to the State of the Union, because apparently they have a firm grip of what the state of our union really is right now.

And that important statement resonates far more loudly than any meaningless 'U-S-A ... U-S-A' chant ever will."

~ D. Earl Stephens

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott #WomensHockey #MensHockey
/24

https://dearlstephens.substack.com/p/u-s-a-u-s-a

"Look back at the Epstein files and you can see the future," says Kate Manne. Specifically, you can see the future of what patriarchy has morphed into at this point in history, with the Epstein Class illustrating the shift:

"Girls and women are being treated as human and sexual property, yes, but of the form that may be rented out and traded rather than jealously safeguarded."

#Epstein #patriarchy #misogyny #abuse #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #women #girls
/1

https://katemanne.substack.com/p/the-prescience-of-epstein

"It is a particular kind of capital that is a basis for male bonding and camaraderie, rather than strenuous competition—and it is easily disposed of rather than hoarded as something precious. …

But what one finds in the Epstein files is a kind of preview of what was to come, and what we are now seeing unfolding."

#Epstein #patriarchy #misogyny #abuse #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #women #girls
/2

"Men bond in deep—and deeply disgusting—ways over their sharing of girls and women and their enabling of each others’ sexual abuse of them. hey share the kind of intimacy and friendship that those hand-wringing about male loneliness (which my brilliant student Ryan Bollier has in his crosshairs) can currently only dream of."

#Epstein #patriarchy #misogyny #abuse #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #women #girls
/3