A culture marinated in lies doesn’t just lose facts, it loses memory, trust, and moral bearings. Rebuilding truth isn’t a press release; it’s generational work: independent media, civic courage, real accountability. Democracy survives only where honesty is defended daily.

“As tech giants force-feed AI inevitability marketing and trumpet the technology’s supposed benefits to society, a robust AI-resistance movement has emerged in response.”

Come, Sir Andrew, there’s no remedy

but the tl;dr will be if you are willing to trade almost anything you have in your sphere of influence, eventually you will trade too much for nothing

The forest is the system: Not the individual trees. Most people try to build resilience by making themselves bigger, stronger, more independent. They stockpile resources, they build higher walls, they go it alone. HOWEVER, We The People are stronger together. Unite! #sheshed

Current Congress is a lost cause. They’re bought and paid for. Until Dems regain the majority and the right dems assume leadership, these oligarchs will remain unchallenged.

Let's encourage them!

Halftime Show 🫶

a half dozen articles about Botstein now, still wanting someone to look into this

Help Democrats Get Out The Vote 2026. Check your Voter Registration every month. The future of our Democracy is in the balance. www.vote.org/am-i-registe...

This Epstein drop is HUGE and utterly disgusting. I don’t see how this man is allowed to remain in office. Where are the evangelical leaders, the soccer moms, the folks stocking up on eggs, the farmers, the small business owners. Decide. Who are you?

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I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

Yf Christopher Nolan were trulye serious about makinge a filme of *The Odyssey* he wolde chaunge the L yn hys last name to M

While it made it as far as dress rehearsal, Tommy Brennan's Weekend Update desk bit on Trump's ICE deployments in his home state of Minnesota did not make it to SNL broadcast. But they've made it available anyway. And you should watch it.

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

Important perspective from Greenland.

NATO Members own $1.5 Trillion in US Debt. They are the largest trading bloc on the planet. If they block They can cripple the US economy. They would seize US Bases and end 🇺🇸 ability to project power in Europe, Middle East and Africa. They have 100s of Nuclear Missiles. This is a very bad idea

I encourage people to take sanity breaks. Stay engaged, but don’t let it consume you. Go on walks. Read a book. Intentionally do *something* that makes you happy and unplug from the shitshow for a day or two - it’ll still be here when you get back.

Make it viral.

The dust from the bombings has begun to settle but the tRvmp Regime’s plan to “run” #Venezuela is still a great big ❓ No clear plans for democratic elections, nation building or regime change have been presented. Timothy Snyder presents 4 historic precedents… open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors www.politico.com/news/magazin...

"We're losing because there are always moments when we lose" is a lesson that Ta-Nahisi Coates understands intuitively, and that Ezra Klein has never had to, and that difference speaks volumes about American history.

Listening to this, it also feels like more evidence of how far some white people will go to defend white innocence, will invent space for themselves outside history. And when someone they say they respect patiently walks them through this, for all their valorization of “listening,” they won’t.

Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

AI, ‘Populism’ and the Centibillionaire Shangri-La talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ai-po...

Keep speaking up, Bernie! 💙

“When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write.“

This quote from the Atlantic is right & true! One odd thing is how these points, which have been obvious for several years to anyone who spent five minutes considering how LLMs work & what education is, are finally coalescing into the standard take from the center of middlebrow opinion—why only now?

Yup.

Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor. Some changes that they can look forward to:

Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…

Biden thought he could “heal the soul of the nation” and bring us all together. As optimistic as that idea was, it was wrong. We won’t move forward by unifying. We’ll move forward by trying the corrupt fascists and showing the law *will* be enforced.

I don't want to read another puff piece asking if AI is sentient (it's not). I want to read pieces, many of them, explaining to everyone why they should divest from AI like today (emotionally, professionally, financially). Lots more.

Here’s our next opportunity.

BUY NOTHING this Friday from Amazon, Target and Home Depot (at least!). #WeaintBuyingIt

We know it's difficult to commit to a shopping blackout from Nov 25 - Dec 2, but it’s worth considering no or minimal shopping during this time. Let Amazon, Home Depot, Starbucks, Target, Walmart, and others know there are costs to capitulation to the Trump regime.

“Keep your head up” is a piece of advice from Yale historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social on how to resist autocratic leaders. His #CupOfJoe is important to steer us towards saving democracy. Take it all in. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Well well well. THIRTY DAY CLOCK STARTS (checks watch) NOW.

Are you one of the people who is under the faulty impression that Pam Bondi can withhold all of the Epstein files pursuant to a sham investigation? If so, you’re not going to want to miss today’s ResistanceLive. youtube.com/live/xEB1mOJ...

Commentators who are telling you that Bondi can just classify the files or withhold everything due to an investigation haven’t read the bill. Begging people to watch my line by line breakdown of the bill so people understand the limitations. bsky.app/profile/ecmc...

www.youtube.com/live/xEB1mOJ... I learned so much. Expertise is so important! And so welcome! @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Whoa, this is wild. Either Thune played Johnson or Johnson tried to play us and failed. Either way, Johnson looks like a fool and Trump has lost his grip on Congress. @lawrenceodonnelljr.bsky.social just blew it open 🔥

The Epstein files are a distraction in the same sense that the Watergate investigation was a distraction www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-eps...