Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

This. 👇👇

Everyone should listen to this. It’s easy to blame Rogan for understanding the situation far too late, but the important thing is that he’s using his platform-with his millions of listeners-to talk about it now. This one show will reach more normal GOP folks than we ever could.

This is dedicated to all the great people who will be protesting tomorrow. Tonight's song selection is from Woody Guthrie - All You Fascists, 1942. "I'm gonna tell all you fascists you may be surprised The people in this world are getting organized.". Stay safe, have fun! Goodnight Bluesky! 💙

Washington DC. #NoKings

What a pity. The unwashed masses will again have to learn the lesson of how bad socialism is by us telling them how bad it is, violently preventing them from getting it, and blaming current problems on it anyway.

Sen. Schiff to NBC: "He's described me as the enemy within. He's described other Democratic elected officials as the enemy within. He is using the Justice Dept. to go after his political enemies, and he's using the Justice Dept. to protect his political friends … This should concern every American."

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMhdRAno/ This could be the reason.🤔🤬

Even if you support massive deportation operations, under no circumstances should ANYONE be ok with US citizens being forcibly removed from their homes and detained without explanation. This is a clear violation of their constitutional rights and should universally condemned.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

ADP numbers for September were -32,000 on a projection of +51,000. August was revised to -3,000, marking the first consecutive negative months since the heights of Covid. This is bad.

In all the chaos, I would urge folks to remember that a lot of folks now don’t know when their next check will come. The vast majority are good people who love this nation deeply, and many of them are still working despite not knowing when they’ll be paid Have compassion.

Did you know that your healthcare premiums are about to double because the GOP is intentionally sabotaging the Affordable Care Act and pretending that Democrats are trying to give undocumented immigrants free insurance?

The #TrumpShutdown in 36 seconds 👏🏼

Gov. Pritzker: "ICE is running around harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago that was illegal in the United States. Now, ICE is making it commonplace. That’s not making America great."

Still thinking about this by the way paragraph in the Sun Times piece on the apartment building raid. Full story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Thank you Jane Goodall, for making the world a better place. May we learn by your example.

The Trump administration is canceling an annual government effort to gather data on how many Americans struggle to get enough food, per WSJ

JUST IN: Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key inflation data report

Havel’s insight must never be forgotten. Tim Snyder kept it alive. Asha Rangappa has reinvigorated it

And remember: it’s not just corporations, it’s wealth however packaged that drives politics — — unless effectively constrained by law as made by and for ordinary people, not just the wealthy or the elite

Agreed! In today’s Supreme Court, Jimmy Kimmel would have an extremely strong First Amendment claim against Trump’s FCC for pressuring Disney and ABC to censor fully protected commentary by firing Kimmel. Either 8-1 or 9-0. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Free Speech and Me Speech: “Me speech” is free speech for me but not for thee. True free speech is for everyone, even those with whom I disagree. A helpful distinction. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

I’m tired of being pitted against my neighbor. I’m tired of being told to hate my neighbor. People across the political spectrum are hungry for a new kind of politics.

Words can damage people and nations. Words can be DELIBERATELY CRAFTED to undermine and hurt an adversary in wars that run hot or cold. Militaries know that. Propagandists know it. Can we please not pretend that all rhetoric is the same? Some words are not harmless. wwnorton.com/books/978039...

For those who dont follow right wing media, they have January 6th'd the Charlie Kirk murder. They all believe it was transgender or radical leftist etc and refuse to talk about Groypers. It's a cult. Lost. Concentrate on informing and organizing the majority.

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show Oh, so not mortgage fraud? www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

The real issue isn’t left vs right. It’s not white vs black. It’s not citizen vs immigrant. It’s not gay vs straight. The real issue is that a lot of powerful people have a vested interest — and a lot of money invested — in dividing us, and it’s working.

Other developed nations start from a different premise: employment creates an inherent power imbalance requiring legal correction. The rights that flow from this recognition reveal just how far America has drifted from the developed world's consensus on human dignity at work.

“it is a statement of statistical fact: disorganized street protests, the default mode of American resistance, demonstrably do not topple regimes or force systemic change.”

Google AI made an error on a very obvious query and it went viral. You may have seen screenshots. I checked it today and it’s no longer making the error - and it knows about the viral error. But it still can’t handle very minor variations.

Aside from how Obama is remembered, it's striking that Obamacare is basically the last serious presidential legislative agenda that wasn't just trying to contort an annual budget bill to fit in everything you can crowbar into it.

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.

Now we know who's in charge of our foreign policy.

I’m old enough to remember when he advocated a cease fire last week.

Sorry..."continues to maintain"? You mean the view he held the OPPOSITE of JUST ONE WEEK AGO, and which you folks at the Post have now MEMORY-HOLED in an effort to (1) make him seem consistent and determined, and (2) hide the fact that he did a 180 on a ceasefire only after meeting Putin in private?

Anyone who fails to see that we are careening toward fascism is not paying attention.

The cruelty is the point.

“The evidence of Donald Trump’s desperation and failure is mounting. The question for each of us and each of our leaders is: Which side of history will I be on?” www.americaamerica.news/p/which-side...

Three active-duty Marines who were part of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were retained. But the Air Force will not allow transgender servicemembers to have hearings before it discharges them. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.