#Firstview: Lucy Right, Jeremy Springman & Erik Wibbels on what happens when foreign governments restrict NGO activity. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... They find that donors most committed to democracy promotion back down in the face of restrictive NGO laws.

Wonderful to see this excellent piece out! Congrats @jrspringman.bsky.social!

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

It’s still hard to grasp that there aren’t 4 GOP Reps (who will otherwise be forgotten forever after retiring & likely defeated next year anyway) aren’t interested in going down in history as all-time 🇺🇸 heroes by caucusing with the Dems & giving them the majority to impeach Trump & save the Republic

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Shorter JVL: The courts realize that regular order has broken down. The media and private enterprise ought to realize it, too. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

The governors are really making the Democrats in Congress look even more feckless than usual.

The rejection of national unity post-Trump is right on the mark. I study conflict in Africa, and the failure to hold perpetrators of violence accountable is a major factor in renewed conflict. We ourselves are still suffering from our failure to hold the South accountable after the Civil War.

the people who did this should be afraid.

I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

What you would do when authoritarianism comes to America is what you are doing right now www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.

Federal Reserve Bank of Avignon incoming at Mach 5

This emergency food aid, enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week, will be incinerated tomorrow rather than distributed in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Another in a long list of Trump's crimes against humanity.

it gets more complicated than this, but the really short version is that the price of money is how much money you have to commit to paying in the future to get money today--which is to say, the interest rate bsky.app/profile/nerv...

Personalist autocracies underperform, whereas institutionalised autocracies perform similar to democracies (in terms of economic growth)

I would like Trump's letter to Brazil to live on as one of the important primary source documents of the Trump era, linking trade restrictions in historical memory to impunity for criminal behavior, right-wing nationalist authoritarian politics, coups, domestic illegality, and simple illiteracy.

We must all do our patriotic duty of clicking every link and watching every clip CNN uploads to YouTube about Trump's Epstein cover-up. 🫡 Go login to Facebook for the first time in 7 years and share it with your weirdest family members and most credulous long-forgotten high school acquaintances.

I'm doing my patriotic duty by watching every single YouTube clip CNN posts about the Epstein coverup.

Today's stage of the Tour de France took place in Normandy, and TV coverage featured footage from Omaha Beach and the American Cemetery. After all their sacrifice, I can't believe Nazis are back.

Given the evidence my investigators have seen, this reeks of a coverup.

This is the kind of insinuation it is your patriotic duty to spread. The Republican Party has poisoned our water forever, and we can’t undo it but we can return the favor. Keep going until we create woke Pizzagate, except this time, it’ll be true.

It's become pretty clear over the past 3 weeks and/or 3 years that the "Democrats need to expand the Supreme Court right now" enthusiasts were correct in 2021, and that if and when Democrats regain power, they cannot get caught flat-footed again slate.com/news-and-pol...

I’m uncertain if we are over-policed or have overly militarized police in America. But we don’t have to resolve this now. We just have to say that, with an authoritarian administration in power, we should oppose all efforts to give them now more instruments of force and coercion.

Among the wrongs that were claimed to justify a decision to alter or abolish a form of government: "transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences." It doesn't get better if there's *not even a trial* on the far end.

Neoconservatism in 2025 means reimporting liberal democracy in the USA. We will greet ourselves as liberators.

The NYT put together a comprehensive inforgraphic on lost federal funding for research at Harvard I leanrned a lot about what my colleagues are doing! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It’s true we don’t have a “vaccine” for HIV, but we *do* have an injectable long-lasting HIV prevention drug that was supported by NIH research dollars and approved by the FDA literally days ago. So stupid to back off on vaccine research when we’ve made so many promising breakthroughs recently.

“The old playbook will not yield the gains that we need to fight off this very, very serious threat to our democracy,” says @adambonica.bsky.social. wapo.st/3G1MNVy

Writing to Pennsylvania: Cassidy Pitts went from the Bucks County Science Fair to a scientist turning skin cells into neurons for organ transplants. Cutting science has severe consequences. “We’ll feel them directly in Bucks County.” 🧪🏠

This list works wonders

Nice... went to block, and it was already in place.

That's my city!

We're in a post-constitutional moment. All the institutional checks on Trump's power have broken down. That means the only thing which can stop Trump's push to become a king is us, the American people. Being part of a resistance movement isn't futile--it's the only thing that can work.

If you're marching tomorrow show us your signs! And if you want to march but aren't sure where, find a protest near you here. There are a LOT. www.nokings.org

pretty strong argument for multi-agents www.anthropic.com/engineering/...

I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Delco!” - sign up now! www.mobilize.us/aft/event/78...

hahah it's 6 am and i'm already furious

This is what Trump's government thugs are willing to do in broad daylight, to a US Senator, with cameras on. They are sending the message that anyone who disagrees with Trump isn't safe in America. This is authoritarianism.

So, what's everybody wearing to the protest? www.nokings.org

If they'll do this to a Senator, what will they do to you? The authoritarian moment has arrived in the US.

Senator Alex Padilla is one of the most decent people I know. This is outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful. Trump and his shock troops are out of control. This must end now.

(5) "State Repression and Opposition Survival in Pinochet’s Chile" by Consuelo Amat @consueloamat.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The Bullwark just posted this from Padilla's staff, that's Senator Padilla on the ground.