We can do this too!!! www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

"You lose your country with multiple small acts of complicity!"

"Bullshit is the glue that binds this country together." Never missed George Carlin more than right now!

These people were making decisions about grant cancellations!!! www.instagram.com/reel/DVtUHcN... A grant to study Jewish women's slave labor during the Holocaust is "inherently discriminatory" bc it's gender-based & about "Jewish culture." Ignorance + power= evil. #NEH #doge #justinfoxdeposition

How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u... Thank you @nytimes.com for openly calling out the overt and brazen racism of this administration. We need more media to do this!

If They Call Me A Domestic Terrorist open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

In the meantime, US is experiencing demographic changes that undermine its future: historically low fertility rates (1.6 per woman, well below the 2.1 replacement rate) and net negative migration. Shooting itself in the foot. www.census.gov/newsroom/pre...

State Terror Has Arrived www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o... M. Gessen knows what she’s talking about.

‘Like a Military Occupation’: Clashes Rise With Federal Agents in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u... these photos are from an American city!!! We need to stop this now! Where is our democratic leadership?!

Includes a great quote from Chekhov: the work of art doesn't have to solve a problem, it just has to formulate it correctly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGWC.... Applying to futures work: foresight doesn't have to provide predictions, it has to formulate good insights.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/o... “True attention cannot be measured by a machine. The fullness of our authentic human attention, shared with others, is the power with which we make the world.”

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... neo-royalist order centers on an international system structured by a small group of hyper elites (cliques). Such cliques seek to legitimize their authority through appeals to their exceptionalism in order to generate durable status hierarchy #backtothefuture

www.kyivpost.com/post/67441 Are we really back to the Monroe doctrine?! Welcome to 1826!

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

This must be watched!

From @humanrightswatch — This is what CBS News(Max) chief @bariweiss just yanked an @60Minutes segment about to please Trump. www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

Testifying during Army-McCarthy hearings, Joseph Nye Welch chief counsel for the US Army, asked McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?" This was a turning in media and public opinion of McCarthyism. Will attack on Mark Kelly and other democrats be such a moment?

How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o... “Shaming the public as rubes for succumbing to conspiracy theories misses what people are trying to tell us: They no longer feel included in the work of choosing their future.” Spot on!

As if the right-wing manosphere weren't enough, we now see the rise of the "mainstream manosphere." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... Ross Douhat of course has the answer: it's extreme feminism 🥲

“Among intellectuals,” Hannah Arendt observed of the early days of Nazi rule, “Gleichschaltung was the rule” — in other words, the intellectual form of anticipatory compliance. 1/3

Some people still have integrity and conscience. We need more like them!

About 1 million people watched Jimmy Kimmel last night on TV. As of this morning more than 9 million watched it on YouTube. Clearest proof of traditional media dying.

Another prominent Black woman loses her job joining the ranks of almost 320,000 Black women who’ve lost their jobs so far this year. The constitute the only female demographic to experience significant job losses during the period.

This story broke my heart. “Why would one of the richest men in the world commit such an act of injustice?”Halimi asked. “Sometimes I think that if Elon Musk himself were fully informed about this matter, he would likely be deeply ashamed.” Don't think Musk or Cavanaugh are capable of feeling shame

We've known about social determinants of health. This study shows there are political determinants also: healthy ageing is strongly tied to living in democracies and feeling represented by politicians and parties apple.news/A8EzwdJvQQCe... Maybe stop searching for magic elixirs & focus on democracy

Couldn't have said it better. We are trapped in a cycle of short-termism, delivering short-term "wins" for some but incurring huge losses in the near future in terms of climate, democracy, innovation, better/more equitable economy. "This is the time of monsters," indeed.

How high does the extortion demand have to be for a university or a law firm to not fold? Is $1 bln close?! Seems the sum is going up as more institutions fold. The prisoner’s dilemma working in real time.

"our socioeconomic system concentrates nation-state level wealth and power in the hands of a few individuals, with virtually no checks on what they can choose to do with it." So if Larry Ellison wants to turn CBS News into Free Press TV what institutions of power will be left to disagree?

"The conscientious path forward is to create educational structures that minimize the temptation to outsource thinking." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

“I was born in one dying empire and am now living in another.” Me too.

Thank you @governor.ca.gov. Enough is enough!!! Proud to be a Californian!

@tedgioia.bsky.social on the Collapse of Our Knowledge System www.honest-broker.com?utm_source=n... "The biggest changes often happen long before they even get a name...If the New York Times notices the Buddha, the enlightened one has already left town." 🔥

It's happening here! Sinclair Lewis wrote in 1935 about a populist demagogue who strips Congress of its authority, creates a bloodthirsty militia, imprisons political enemies, restricts rights of women and minorities, and throttles the press in order to “make America a proud, rich land again.”

Just finished reading this www.newyorker.com/magazine/202.... The simple-mindedness, misreading of history, anti-humanness (and many other unflattering descriptions) fueling so much of our tech and current political elite is truly frightening!!! Explains so much of what is happening in the US.

I learned this from my investigative journalist friends: documenting crime and corruption is critically important even if the perpetrators are not brought to justice right away. Eventually the are. Thank you @warren.senate.gov

Arrested development? Search for meaning and validation? Ancient Rome before the fall? Something is not right with our tech elite www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/t...

NATO for higher education--a mutual defense pact to save our universities. Need more such mutual support pacts across domains--science, nonprofits, philanthropy, etc. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So proud of the brave & essential work of @occrp.org. Much deserved recognition for decades of not only uncovering crime and corruption but also building infrastructure for global investigative journalism. Kudos to visionary co-founders @drewoccrp.bsky.social @paulradu.bsky.social and the team!!!

v-dem.net/publications... the third wave of autocratization is accelerating. "it seems clear that the actions the Trump administration is taking domestically amount to an ongoing attempt steering towards democratic breakdown." And this is before we started arresting judges!

“We were once indispensable. Now we’re just unpredictable. Economic power runs on trust. Trump has burned trust in America to the ground. Brexit slashed Britain’s growth. Trumpxit is now doing the same over here.” open.substack.com/pub/braddelo...

"Today, the wealthiest middle-aged and older adults in the U.S. have roughly the same likelihood of dying over a 12-year period as the poorest adults in northern and western Europe" Wealth inequality is a deterrent to health. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o... The United States has become a secret-police state.

NEW: A cool investigation we did with iStories, Paper Trail Media and Der Standard about how RT is paying English and German influencers to produce pro-Russia content. It looks at how the Kremlin engineers conservative Westerners to move to Russia for its "traditional values." Please share!

this is a must watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5hl... (unless you have a high BP bc it will make your blood boil). US is quickly becoming a full scale kleptocracy and the center of global corruption.

"In just a few minutes, the behavior of Donald Trump and J. D. Vance created a brand-new stereotype for America: not the quiet American, not the ugly American, but the brutal American."

www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/06/s... "SV's staggering income divide has widened twice as fast as the state and national average over the past decade, reflecting a tech-driven economy failing to deliver a living wage for almost a third of families while also producing 56 billionaires."

Thank you @slotkin.senate.gov, you made me proud!!!