Of which… one of these most powerful Air Forces is funded by 20% USA taxpayers. The other one… 100%.

Take note: this is a symptom of voter apathy or insufficient civic engagement in judicial races. We need to do better!

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Consider independent media such as @marisakabas.bsky.social for focused national issues @marcelias.bsky.social elections/ voting rights @onestpress.onestnetwork.com international @lawdorknews.bsky.social supreme court analysis @propublica.org deep dives @atrupar.com reporting what politicians said

A freedom-loving, democracy-embracing alternative to the MAGA-adoring TPUSA is out there, and it’s beginning to grow. It’s called @Dreamforamerica.bsky.social. Follow them, support them.👇

Slava Ukraini!

The chaos isn’t a bug of Trumpism, it’s the business model. The more people believe nothing is true, about elections, law, history, the easier it is for Trump to claim only he is trustworthy and rule indefinitely.

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

Trump told the FCC to “get that deal done.” Now one company could control local TV stations reaching most of the country. Here’s why that should worry you. ⬇️ youtube.com/shorts/8fC59...

open.substack.com/pub/steadyst... Now is the time.

reminder that a small handful of Republicans in the House and Senate could end this madness today

He's not wrong.

From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020):

Once again, marginal income, capital gains, & wealth tax rates are too low & this poses an existential threat to the Republic

The long cycle view of NATO, from @markhertling.bsky.social. I think he's right. I hope he's right. But we're going to have a hell of lot of work to do, for many, many years, once we're past the authoritarianism here at home, to rebuild ties & credibility with our alliance partners as best we can.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world

📄 NEW: American and European democracy share common fates, and Europe must take the lead now in pushing back against corporatist assaults if democracy is to survive on either continent. america2.news/we-must-stan...

For the next time you hear Trump say he inherited an inflation mess. @mikezaccardi.bsky.social #CPI

A reminder to a nation with way too many people untethered to facts and truth: There’s no such thing as “The Department of War.” It doesn’t exist. Only Congress has the power to create and name executive departments & agencies. So it’s still The Department of Defense. Thanks

Why do I feel that “reconstruction” of Ukraine means stealing minerals and building concentrations camps in occupied territories.

The time to ask this was in 2016, & again in 2020, & again in 2024. But Hillary Clinton wrote emails, & Joe Biden was old, & Kamala Harris wasn't answering enough detailed policy questions from the press, so here we are.

So while we give thanks today, let’s also hold space for the people spending this holiday separated from their families. Let’s refuse to look away from what our government—at every level—is doing in our name. And let’s commit to fighting for systems rooted in dignity, safety, and freedom.

Artists in more than 40 states are spending Friday and Saturday participating in the "Fall of Freedom" – which they say represents a creative resistance to authoritarianism.

When a President calls for the death of lawmakers protecting the oath military members take to the Constitution (NOT the President), you are watching a full-blown Constitutional Crisis. This is the ultimate test of our democracy. We cannot look away.

Today I hope everybody call both of their senators and insist that they pass the house Epstein bill exactly as it is, with no revisions. We need this to get through clean. If you have Republican senators, even better, we should all call them now.

Look, I know we're all sick of hearing "if this had happened with any other president ..." but it's absolutely true and absolutely can't be forgotten. For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

Q: “.. You've said, ‘AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike unemployment to 10% to 20% in the next one to five years.’” @60minutes.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/anthrop...

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

*As many, many others have argued over the years, the right-wing media ecosystem functions as a pretty effective machine for developing, vetting, and sharpening propaganda. X-Twitter exposes a larger audience to multiple stages of that process, including those journalists who remain there. [end]

They’re all just looting the treasury now

Oh

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

I was suspended right before the Epstein emails were released. If the BlueSky search engine works, you will find a wealth of posts from me about the people in those emails, who I wrote about in my books HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT and THEY KNEW. This is the work I feared would be erased on Twitter.

"Authoritarians worldwide have discovered how to exploit a weakness in democratic opposition: they weaponize our compassion against our principles." This is the stuff, from @adambonica.bsky.social. All of it. "Normal politics" is wildly inadequate in the face of the far right authoritarianism.

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. Don't. Host. Lying. Liars. On. The. Teevee. Shows. If you've screwed up & done that, immediately end the interview when they performative lie in public on your teevee shows. Congrats again to everyone who told us this guy was a credible Treasury Secretary.

This is potentially ok news: we MIGHT be able to pressure the Senate enough, IF we press the 8 Dems who voted with the Republikkkans HARD. PLEASE keep calling and leaving messages, find the numbers in my pinned post! As many times as you can, as many Republikkkan as you can, and the 8 Dems!

Fuck that. Demand that people complaining about politics and who vote learn basic civics and stfu until they do. pll.harvard.edu/series/us-go...

Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him And they should, given this is his fault.

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congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

Quit Amazon and all of their affiliates now! They have already started replacing workers with robots. Their goal is to replace half a million workers with robots. Their reason? Humans are inefficient and cutting into their bottom line. But they need humans to buy their products so stop buying them!

I don't think this is anything more than Democrats being crushed in the information wars.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

ASL interpreters are a bizarre obsession with far-right Republicans. This isn't the first time they've been banished.

The billionaires can afford more than that. #TaxTheRich