Trump accepted $37 million worth of donated foreign steel for his White House ballroom from a corporation based in Luxembourg. Just days later, the Trump administration made major cuts to tariffs on steel imports that could significantly benefit that corporation. "America First."

There's a lot being shared right now about China's incredible shift towards renewable energy - and rightly so. But this, from the UK, is equally astonishing & encouraging. It's not just that change can happen. It's that it *is* happening. (Via climateactapp.substack.com/p/your-daily...)

Today seems like a good day to debunk the 12 biggest myths about taxing the rich. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnoLAMHwf2I

In its new Democracy Index 2025, the Economist Intelligence Unit says that global democracy has stopped worsening after eight consecutive years of decline. The report highlights the United States as a negative case. www.democracywithoutborders.org/42392/democr...

Remember when Trump fawned over his wealthy donors, calling them “rich as hell” while promising to give them tax cuts? That's one campaign promise he didn't break. But everyone else didn't get so lucky. [@itep.org]

Reminder this guy is still doing the worst possible stuff to our most vulnerable

The richest 0.1 percent of the global population are hiding nearly $3 trillion in offshore accounts to evade taxes — more than the wealth held by the entire bottom half of humanity. It would take about $93 billion per year to eradicate extreme hunger by 2030. Taxing the rich is a global necessity.

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

Back home in Brisbane now. Amazing to have been to No Kings III in Seattle. Sheepish about the carbon it took to fly there, but such a powerful event. Inspiring democratic push-back to increasingly authoritarian national leadership. #nokings @seattleindivisible.bsky.social @indivisible.org

It seems about right. 😂

✊ No workers. No food. In Colorado, 3800 marginalized workers are taking on the world’s biggest meat company #JBS. Fighting for safety, dignity & fair pay. “This strike is a matter of life and death.” When workers organise, power shifts. 📖 grocerynerd.substack.com/p/grocery-up...

-Trump & Kushner have billions in business with the Saudis -Eric & Don Jr. are backing a drone-manufacturing DoD contractor -Hegseth's broker tried to invest millions in defense stocks prior to US strikes Trump's inner circle profits from war while everyone else pays the price.

These billionaires pay their workers so little that many of their workers need public assistance. Meanwhile, their companies just got another round of tax cuts from a bill that gutted the public assistance their workers have to rely on to get by. Trickle-down economics is a sham.

14th Amendment (1868): “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” Seems pretty clear to me.

Breaking: The president has signed an executive order on mail voting. He has no lawful authority to write the rules that govern our elections. He tried a year ago; we sued him; we won. A year later, he has tried again. He can expect the same result. 1/2

Politico: The European Commission has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the Gulf.

Accountability brings consequences. And consequences are the only language corruption understands. Money and political power do not outrank the Constitution. They just need a wake up call and it’s coming at the midterms.👇

Really grateful for all of the positive feedback on the No Kings/No Tyrants song -- even from my very MAGA old high school buddy! A few people had asked for the lyrics to be posted. Please see below in the first linked comment. Here is the free YouTube link: youtu.be/UqEI3NZmjJ4?...

Oof.

Immigration wasn’t a “global citizenship” plot when Miller’s ancestors came here. It’s only a threat now because those seeking citizenship today don’t look like his ancestors. #holdfast

Looking forward to reading this!

The US migration rollercoaster, courtesy of Stephen Miller

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

¡Me encanta españa!

BREAKING: Stunning new polling reveals that Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola is leading her Senate race by 5 points. This win would put the Senate within reach for Democrats. Let’s go.

This is my favorite photo from #NoKings yesterday. I saw these women on the sidewalk and I had to stop to talk to them. They were residents of a 55+ community and felt they couldn’t get through our event but wanted to do something so they held their own. Not on the map but every bit as important.

BREAKING: After ProPublica published letters written by children at the Dilley concentration camp, ICE officers raided the dormitories and confiscated the children's letters. I'm suing ICE to get them back. I'll explain it all in 45 minutes on @meidastouch.com here: www.youtube.com/live/H-D8SzR...

It was a gorgeous, inspiring day in Seattle (bit of a late post, but I am so glad I flew out from Brisbane for this. Worth every penny.) Song attached also -- free stream. youtu.be/UqEI3NZmjJ4?...

All eyes are on the midterms as Trump uses the gov's full force to supercharge election lies in case he doesn't like the results. NEW: We just published a roadmap for journalists, advocates, and voters outlining what we can do about it. Join us, start here: 🔗 https://protdem.org/executive-override

Trump says that he will not approve TSA funding unless it's tied to passage of his voter suppression law, also known as the SAVE Act — or the SAVE Trump's Ass Act. He knows that he and Republicans are doomed in the midterms, and the only way to combat that is to make it harder for people to vote.

Research across 33 countries shows that short online civic education videos can boost support for democracy, improve knowledge, and reduce openness to authoritarian alternatives. www.democracywithoutborders.org/41702/

Thanks, Hans!

Here is the YouTube Music link (free full listen) to this new song, inspired by the incredible No Kings movement. Please consider streaming and sharing with friends. Thanks!

Thanks, Jamie! Musical try-hard, but we all have to try hard in these times, yes? Can't wait for Saturday.

"I've known you for 10 years. I don't think I've ever seen a smile on your face."

"It's talking point: 'You didn’t pass the legislation that would have solved this fake problem, and therefore the election results are not valid.'" Alexandra Chandler told @theatlantic.com about what's really behind the White House's pressure to pass the SAVE Act, even if it's doomed.

Huge crowds today in Budapest, Hungary. They are calling for a new government under Peter Magyar and an end of Orban's rampant corruption. Source: P. Magyar

A bipartisan coalition is raising the alarm on the Trump administration's threats to penalize Anthropic for declining to remove safeguards against mass domestic surveillance, and points to the public’s wide support for such safeguards. We're proud to support the coalition:

The civil service has changed significantly since Trump took office. We built a tool to understand those changes and how they fit together, so that we can advocate for the civil service today, and rebuild and revitalize it tomorrow. https://civilservicearchive.org/

We’ve seen this before. The FCC’s maneuvers to try to censor individuals and outlets are following in the footsteps of Trump's favorite autocrat, Viktor Orbán. Read about the administration’s attempts at an Orbán-style media takeover ⬇️

We need more people to know about this simple solution to gerrymandering ⬇️ Here's how proportional representation could make map manipulation impossible, and it’s actually achievable. Watch and share to spread the word: https://youtu.be/xN5V0au9Xms

My glowing book review of Mathias Koenig-Archibugi's The Universal Republic: A Realistic Utopia? (OUP 2024) "Advocates of global democracy have long made a case for its feasibility, but an empirically thin one. This book fills that gap admirably...." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NEW RESOURCE: The CivilServiceArchive.org is an online searchable database that captures Trump-era changes to policies governing the federal workforce and makes them accessible to the policymakers, journalists & advocates. Learn more about it, threaded below ⬇️ 🧵

Here’s a useful reminder of what our federal courts SHOULD be doing to uphold our constitutional traditions:

States can prosecute ICE and CBP officers and, under the right circumstances, achieve convictions. Read our latest explainer on why and how: https://protectdemocracy.org/work/federal-officers-absolute-immunity/

Here is a collection of sworn testimonies from detainees being held in ICE custody. Until reading these testimonies, I wasn't fully aware of what is happening. Please read them yourself. We need to know this. We need to understand the consequences of ICE/CBP arrests. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...

In the wake of Renee Good’s killing, the White House has insisted that ICE and CBP officers have “absolute immunity” for their violent attacks on the people of Minneapolis and other American cities. ⚠️ Wrong ⚠️ Get the details here: https://protdem.org/4qqwXpp

A number of important legislative proposals moved forward recently, including the NOPE Act on Capitol Hill and several states have advanced Universal Constitutional Remedies Acts. @raders.bsky.social explains their significance: https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/a-grand-unified-strategy-to-uphold

"Iron laws of the world"? Some of America's most important national accomplishments are about leading humanity away from this kind of bullshit. If we let ideologues like Stephen Miller drag us back into a world where brute force is all that matters, all of us will be less safe.