But in 2026, Republicans have failed so dismally on the economy and, well, any other kind of governance that it's easy for voters to see that all they've got is the white Christian nationalism.
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Radicalizing my family & friends. #VoteNoOn3
Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and everyone in between agree: No matter where you stand on abortion or who we vote for, politicians don't get to overturn the voice of the people. Don't let politicians get away with dirty tricks, find an event near you: bit.ly/mogotv26
Wait'll the folks who are mad at Zuck for muzzling No Kings get wind of the Rohingya genocide.
abusers pick their targets by noticing who is the least protected.
Truthout@truthout.org · 5d agoChuck Schumer — one of the most powerful Democrats in the country — has not issued statements to the press or through his social media channels about the administration’s attack on Ilhan Omar, which critics have described as a five alarm fire for the state of democracy in the U.S.
The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.
White men hold a disproportionate share of positions of authority and in policymaking. Complaints about DEI stem from their not being allowed to be as greedy as their forefathers. youtu.be/H1gL8dwWQag?...
White Men, Power, and the Data Behind DEI Debates
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I expanded one of yesterday’s threads into a piece about the attack on Ilhan Omar’s home, fascist desperation, and fighting our way out of this mess.
What Happens When Fascists Realize They Might Lose?
The attack on Ilhan Omar’s home, the desperation of an unpopular fascist administration, and the long fight ahead.
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For the downloadable zine “What if you see ICE at the polls,” scroll down to item 3. #FuckICE #HandsOffOurVote indivisible.actionkit.com/mailings/vie...
Indivisible updates + actions: Building a Democratic Party that fights + preparing rapid response tactics for ICE surges
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I'm attending #TEAMMOGOTV's event, “Columbia Get Out The Vote, No on Amendment 3, No on Proposition A” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mogotv/event...
Columbia Get Out The Vote, No on Amendment 3, No on Proposition A · #TEAMMOGOTV
No matter who we vote for, or what region of the state we live in, when we make our voices heard at the ballot box, that should matter. But again and again, politicians, lawyers, and lobbyists think t...
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Some people, and I don't just mean Trump, have been moving through the world as though they would never face a potential consequence for any choice ever again, because they never planned on losing power. That means they think they can't afford to lose now. There are a lot of desperate moves ahead.
Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?
Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …
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driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social · 2w ago"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this
"The elite moneyed class that the media too often represents may find accountability uncomfortable or discourteous, but the American people demand it and it so we are committed to it." Or more colloquially: "bitch all you want, we're putting some motherfuckers in jail."
I strongly believe we are due for a renaissance of analog letter-writing and maybe you should try and catch that wave, gang Manufacture that excuse to start a cute washi tape/eraser collection Overcome your fear of "messing up" your "good paper" by actually using it BE FREE
Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 2w agoCHICAGO STATIONERY LOVERS!!!! Scratch Pad, a new cat-themed stationery shop, just opened today in Wrigleyville!!! It’s full of stickers, pens, washi tape, and a million of other cute kitty desk necessities. I got sooo many Heater and Dragon-themed stickers: scratchpadchicago.com
The other day, Talarico leaned hard into the case for immigration as a positive good for our country in a way you rarely hear from Dems. He has a real theory of the case: Trump's cruelty and barbarism have opened space for new moral arguments, a new consensus. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
You win by running on, not from, your values. You win by running against your opposition, not against people your opposition shames & blames. You win by energizing your base to act as choir to convert the conflicted. More importantly, doing this, you set yourself up to actually govern.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 3w agoSomething remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
One of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW.
Jesse Welles at Austin City Limits, whole show www.youtube.com/live/YbRPrZo...
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this country will not be transformed without addressing policing, prisons, surveillance and militarism. Sorry. Cannot get around it. The carceral socialists may make incremental progress but they will ALWAYS come up against state violence.
If you consider yourself liberal but lol at someone labeling the regime evil or fascist then you either spend too much time on TikTok or threads or you’re evil 🤷🏼♀️ #GenX #ReadABook
Private mercenary company now monitoring and enforcing U.S. elections. Very good sign for democracy.
USPS Hires Security Service With History of Human Rights Abuse
Almost 1,000 armed security officers have been sent to at least 55 post office facilities.
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what fucking buffoons we are for failing to offer a murderous rapist "no small indulgence of syntax" as he sends our children to the slaughter in a pointless war to abet his pedophile masters
Such a neat story 🤍💛🤍
Mongabay@mongabay.com · 2w agoHong Kong hosts, 200 yellow-crested cockatoos, roughly 10% of the critically endangered species' global population. To overcome a shortage of natural nesting spaces, researchers are installing camera-equipped artificial nest boxes to protect and study the birds. @yennikwok.bsky.social reports.
The GOP is the party of rapists and rape apologists and pedophiles and pedophile defenders. These are true statements that are not on every Dem mailer and radio and TV ad but should be.
This was only a matter of time. In a very real way, the net effect of networked license plate readers is more like putting a GPS device on a car than it is like driving past individual security cameras. And if police wanted to track you over time w/ GPS device or your phone---they'd need a warrant.
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3w agoBREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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“We are fighting for a future we can afford, clean air and water you can trust, and a meaningful say in what gets built next door. Nobody should be able to buy that.”
🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social · 3w agoDemocrats are being hammered with a deluge of amoral capital and propaganda unlike any political party has ever faced in a midterm election.