The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy. My advice, take the first step, start with something small and see what works for you. Here are ten things all of us can do. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...

A 15-year-old opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School. A month later, a 17-year-old killed a classmate at Antioch High School. According to researchers, both were active in the same online networks that glorify mass shooters. By @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social, w/ @wisconsinwatch.bsky.social

300 Holocaust survivors and their descendants have bought a NYT ad to condemn the genocide in Gaza.

"The defense of innocent civilians on all sides is not an obstructive legal doctrine or battlefield annoyance but the entire purpose of a just war against an enemy that set itself against humanity. Contempt for civilian life is the hallmark of terrorist regimes and actors, not liberal democracies."

this is very good from @emilyctamkin.bsky.social https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/israel-hamas-war-palestine-stand-with-israel-netanyahu.html

"We're all going to die here." My friend, Haaretz journalist Amir Tibon, spent a harrowing 10 hours barricaded in his home's safe room with his wife and daughters, as men with guns hunted them, before an extraordinary rescue. He told me his story. Please read it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Things simultaneously true: 1. Hamas is violently attacking/murdering Israeli civilians 2. The IDF refuses to stop settlers from terrorizing Palestinians and stealing their land 3. IDF targeting civilians in retaliation today is a war crime 4. Bibi et al provoking violence by appearing at Al Aqua

🚨 At 2:20 p.m. Eastern today, most Americans will hear their phones make a loud sound and see a push alert pop up on their screens. There is no national emergency, no reason to panic and nothing you need to do about the alerts. It is, as the text will say, just a test.

I wrote about Elizabeth Warren co-sponsoring KOSA even AFTER Marsha Blackburn said KOSA was necessary to "protect minor children from the transgender in our culture." There's simply no excuse for Warren not to understand what KOSA will do. www.techdirt.com/2023/10/03/s...

The girlies will be fighting over this one!! www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...