We see how well that with the cars in the US.

“Forced adoption” by industries can only happen as a result of authoritarian government, which protects the monopolies of these companies, deregulates business, and uses the power of the state for its crony’s desires. This follows decades of cowing to business in the US. Business is King.

"The danger is not in practicing revisionist history—it’s in constructing individual and collective lives around historical frameworks too shaky to be looked at again."

When I was researching Peter Thiel for a class, I saw so many of his quotes about ending competition, & how big tech all wanted to control their monopolies, & that was why Trump was so important. With Apple & Amazon CEOs we see the problem. We need more competition.

There was a time in this country when it would have been embarrassing for anyone to say this - when involvement and understanding of politics was considered an important civic duty and a God-given right.

Kalshi is an unethical monster with ties to the Trump family - we can’t let our democracy be destroyed by these type of prediction corporations who make money off of future political events. This is dangerous territory.

Another example of how private lobbyists undermine democracy. We need to get rid of all congressional lobbies. They can enact their agendas thru voting, like regular citizens.

BREAKING: The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Demands Resignation or Termination of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller for Smearing Slain AFGE Member Alex Pretti as “Domestic Terrorist” www.afge.org/publication/...

I appreciate those out there protesting at great risk to their lives however i think the nation needs to grind this economy to a dead stop. It's something everyone can do safely. No spending on ANYTHING but absolute necessities. I understand some shut ins can not do this but very many of us can.

It’s my birthday and I have one wish: understand this critical distinction. Protests matter. They shape memory. But they do not deliver relief within the timeframe we need. That comes from a concurrent form of protest: ***sustained nationwide economic non-participation*** A 🎂 thread. /1

Damn!

"This is a criminal president and a criminal administration. This is straight-out fascism. This is about ending democracy. These people are destroying the Constitution. And if we say it in words that are any less blunt, we are not telling the truth." www.ms.now/the-weekend-...

It’s time for the NRA don’t tread on me crowd to wake up.

ARTE

The prevailing consensus over the last year was that anyone calling for a general strike was ridiculous and ignorant and it would never work here, and maybe that’s true nationally, I dunno, but I bet those people wouldn’t have seen tomorrow in MN coming either

They can take it down. They can take away science and history and health. They can remove DEI words and name whatever. They can even take Greenland. We’ll just put it all back. Because this won’t last and they’re just wasting their own damn time and money. Just utter idiots.

Jack Smith testifies there was "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" that Trump committed crimes

I'm not some highly paid pundit, nor a historian, and hell, I only have a communications degree from a state universtiy, but I have to think that the thing that is most troubling for the rest of the world is not the president — but that neither our Congress nor our SCOTUS are stopping him.

Were early Americans better at pressuring US government leaders about foreign policy they didn’t like? As a historian of foreign policy and diplomacy of the 1790s: Yes.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

I remember how I was asked, live on German television, a mere 48 hours after No Kings II: “Why are there no protests?” And three months later, as the people of Minneapolis are standing in solidarity against the outrageous occupation of their city, I’m still getting that question in most interviews.

The president is acting insane & we are destroying our international goodwill while life in the US becomes expensive & unbearable. But we all just sit here & take it. Where are the mass demonstrations, national strike, demands that the fing GOP do something. We need to take it to them.

We can all, no matter where we are, do this. Take a sick day or vacation day, don’t buy anything.

It’s almost as though tech companies should have allowed AI to naturally grow into something useful that gradually is invited into general use rather than cramming it prematurely down our throats thru the power of the state. Huh.

@housedemocrats.bsky.social we need limits on presidential pardon powers.

"Trump is putting America’s money in Qatar, where courts can’t touch it. Kind of like a drug dealer stashing his funds in the Caymans."

We need a general strike organized on a nationwide scale. A massive demonstration is the only thing that may make GOP Congress take notice.

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Just SUPER interesting that there are NO gunshots in the front windshield.

We need less research framing the problem facing our country as "polarization" and more research framing the problem as "anti-democratic radicalization".

My latest. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

This is why, after 7 years spent in Japan and Germany, I cannot reconcile myself to living in America for the rest of my life.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

“probabilities on polymarket” polymarket and online gamblification of every aspect of our lives is the worst new development of the world in 2025

POWELL: “The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President.” youtu.be/KckGHaBLSn4

Trump is going to use DOJ/FBI to try to steal the 2026 election. My legal team and I will fight back in court but we all have a role to play. Tomorrow, I will offer my thoughts on what Trump is up to and what we need to do now. Subscribe to Democracy Docket for free to find out. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

In North Carolina, GOP-led election boards have shut down early voting sites across the state and sent personal voter data to the Trump administration, which is running the information through a federal database to find non-citizens who shouldn’t be voting. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/new-...

I firmly believe we would be out in the streets in millions & organizing general strikes if not for our lazy-ass addiction to ease and luxury and being on our phones all the damn time. Trump definitely takes advantage of this - he knows Americans are too coddled to do anything. He has us pegged.

I pray to God for free and fair elections this autumn, and at the same time I’m so sick of red states failing the rest of us. My state consistently votes to protect the rights of everyone in this country and for what when too many other states keep putting red hat traitors in office?

2 scenarios terrify me about Renee’s murder - 1 - nothing will be done to prosecute and we will have to sit in the eyes of the world with this unbearable shame. Or 2 - we’ll have the mass protests we need and Trump will cancel elections

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

“You better vote like we say or else we’ll vote like we say.”

My folk’s church does this too. Nothing says freedom like fearing your government will break the law.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe. @reuters.com

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

Can Scandinavia come liberate us now, please?

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

But how many will they cause?

It’s time to organize a nationwide general strike.