Fascism Doesn’t Share October 29, 2025 This is the Grand Ballroom video everyone’s talking about (90 seconds). Don’t miss it. It plays on the incredible inequality Republicans make ever worse. I’ve long linked to Nick Hanauer’s 2014 TED Talk: Beware, Fellow Plutocrats, The Pitchforks Are Coming. (Excerpted here.) But instead of heeding Nick’s warning, many of his fellow plutocrats pressed for a 10-year tax cut, which Trump gave them; and then pressed Trump to extend it, which he just did. And here we are. Ordinary people, struggling to get by, are angry on the right and the left. But oh how sweet it is at the top! I once spent two nights as the only passenger on Charles Revson’s 252-foot yacht, Ultima II, with a crew of 22 to serve me. It’s fun writing about really rich people! My guess is that Evan Osnos had a blast writing The Haves and the Have-Yachts. I certainly had a blast reading it. It’s at once delectable and horrifying. And, I think, important. When I was writing about Revson half a century ago, Ultima II was (if memory serves) the third largest yacht in the world. Today, it is a few feet shorter than one of the auxiliary yachts Mark Zuckerberg keeps beside his main one. You know — for the helicopters, submarine and basketball court. According to this clip, maintaining his yachts — forget the cost to acquire them — runs $136,504 a day. Nick Hanauer’s talk is worth the listen, even as the demagogue, backed by millions of followers with metaphorical pitchforks, leads us ever deeper into fascism. If you oppose fascism, you’re anti-fascist — “antifa,” for short — and Trump considers you a terrorist. Think about that for a second. If you oppose fascism, you’re a terrorist. NPR reports what happens if Antifa does get officially labeled a foreign terrorist organization (7 minutes): It could have enormous consequences, including making it illegal to provide something as meager as a bottle of water to what the Trump administration deems to be Antifa. BONUS “Fascism doesn’t share” — 70 seconds worth your time. So . . . Join Indivisible. Support “my” 26th annual DNC LGBT Leadership Council dinner even if you’re not L, G, B, or T and even if you can’t come. An adequately funded opposition party is absolutely necessary for democracy to prevail. Next year: give to candidates. This year: give to infrastructure. Though some of the damage is irreversible, we can save democracy — and (based on everything I was taught growing up) we must. BOREF Yesterday’s broken link was to an article in the October/November issue of the trade journal LARA (Low-Fare & Regional Airlines), surveying potential improvements in airport ground operations with a nice little write-up of WheelTug and a photo. Nothing in it you don’t already know; I just wanted to show you that, yes, they’re still at it, 25 years and counting. Another small example popped up even as I was trying to figure out (unsuccessfully) how to make the LARA link work: WheelTug and Aipron Consulting join forces to boost airline and airport operational efficiency.