The most important battles for democracy aren't happening in the legacy media. They're happening in courtrooms across America. Democracy Docket covers every one of them. Join 400,000 Americans by subscribing now to support independent pro-democracy media. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

TERRIBLE TIMING: When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran.

Aaaand I wrote about it: Under The Banner of Trump -- The Pyongyangification of American civic space echoes Nazi era banner politics out5p0ken.substack.com/p/under-the-... 👇

Anthropic’s Pentagon Showdown Is About More Than AI Guardrails www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Young men supported Trump because they thought he'd fix the economy. Now he's designing a ballroom (via Bloomberg Opinion)

"So the FCC won't let me be Or let me be me, so let me see..." This is the interview they don't want us to see, so let's spread it far and wide! Thank you, @stephencolbert.bsky.social and @jamestalarico.bsky.social!

The map for No Kings Day just went live with nearly 600 peaceful protests planned across all 50 states (including our flagship event in the Twin Cities). Find your local protest or start a new No Kings event if there’s currently nothing planned near you: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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This Presidents’ Day, we recommit to upholding the democratic promise our Founding Fathers made and defending these foundational truths to protect our rights, our people, and our future.

#Trump #Politics #FreedomIsDying #US #StarTrek #Picard #Quotes

Democrats should propose amendments to the SAVE act that require the government to furnish free IDs to all eligible voters before requiring them, automatically register all people to vote, expand mail-in voting, and create a national voting holiday. Then watch republicans block them.

“.. The fundamental problem is that corporations are institutionally ill-equipped to take center stage in policy debates. They are inherently self-interested economic actors with goals that often conflict with those of society.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Commentary by Linea Johnson on Bad Bunny’s halftime show

Commentary by Linea Johnson on Bad Bunny’s halftime show

…in a political landscape where nativism is dressed up as logic and fear is marketed as patriotism. #superbowl #badbunny #puertorico

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

ICE and CBP agents seem to enjoy gratuitously breaking glass—from car windows to store fronts to homes. It’s an expression of unchecked power and dominance: “We’re in charge. We break and shatter what we want.” And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.

This is what continuing to fund ICE actually looks like. "...The 23 proposed sites would range in size from 500 to 9,500 beds. If completed as planned, the larger facilities would be some of the biggest detention centers of any kind in the country."

New Springsteen song! On Apple Music and YouTube Enjoy and share 🙂

More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.

The paradox of the current moment is that while none of this is normal, it is also not extraordinary. It is the country in which we live, and we are not going back to a previous era. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-c...

Rachel @maddow.bsky.social tells the story of one of the most shocking decisions in American history in her new podcast, “Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order.” LISTEN to all six episodes now: podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...

The US’s influence in the world has derived from treating others as part of a community of democratic nations and strategic partners. In less than a year, US and Russian oligarchs (via their GOP functionaries) have destroyed it. OLIGARCHS—WE’RE WATCHING YOU!

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

20 January 1878 | A Czech Jewish woman, Adéla Skutecká, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 May 1944. She did not survive. --- Women at Auschwitz: 📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/ 🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO

The White Supremacists in the White House and GOP didn’t even mention MLK yesterday. They are no longer even trying to hide it. @apnews.com

The Trump administration has launched a social media campaign invoking Nazi and white nationalist slogans, songs, and memes. This should send shockwaves across the Jewish American community. Read more in @haliesoifer.bsky.social's weekly analysis:

Good for China and Canada, not good for the US. In fact, China has been making the same trade deal in every region across the globe since Trump’s first “America First” term

DAVE MATTHEWS: “I don’t want my taxes to pay for masked thugs to roam our streets & terrorize our communities... She was trying to get away. He shot her 3x in the head. Murdered in cold blood. They’re trying to tell us not to believe what we see. FUCK ICE.” (H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )

Maddow calls out real reason Trump Admin invaded Venezuela. Listen on your next commute or walk podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history. Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

On the 5th Anniversary of the failed January 6th insurrection attempt, we’re reminded how fragile democracy can be. We must remember the darkness of that day so it’s never repeated. As history is rewritten by some, we choose to speak the truth of what happened.

📷 The “Arbeit macht frei” gate of the Auschwitz I camp. The inscription over the gate, which meant “work makes one free”, was a cynical promise and a lie given to all the prisoners who entered the camp. --- Photo: instagram.com/nikki_reporter_photo

On this day in 1920, an Austrian Jewish man was born. Stateless and living in Prague, on the 7 May 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt & on the 9 May to the Sobibor extermination camp. He perished in Majdanek on 4 Sep 1942. His name was Jan Grossmann Support @sobibor.org

The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech. If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.

“…The architects of this machinery understand perfectly that rights vindicated after destruction provide the same relief as rights never possessed at all.”

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.

It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love. youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng

"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup

Gmail user? How to opt out of them training their AI on your inbox: #privacy #AI #futureama

#nokings Edmonds, WA USA @indivisible.org @ricksteves.bsky.social

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day. Jews and Palestinians are both indigenous to the region.

Illuminating backstory of the Declaration of Independence and American Revolution in relation to #IndigenousPeoplesDay Access via your The Atlantic or Apple News subscription #LegitJournalism

Living during this post-fact age, actually, not a bad time to, you know, look at the data 🤔

The award-winning novelist and veteran tech activist Cory Doctorow has written millions of words in his nearly four-decade career. Now he's best known for a single one: "Enshittification." How did he get here? My profile: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

Nazi interrupts psych 210 class gets predictable response This is truly remarkable.