This might be something someone running for governor of Virginia, who is an alumna of The University, should say something about

Celebrities defending the First Amendment 👏 🇺🇸 #Constitution #FreeSpeech www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...

Ryder Cup fan jerkdom signals "a cultural shift, one in which men feel emboldened to attack women in public, without shame or consequence. In which a woman is being judged not by her own merits, but by her perceived value as a “good-enough” wife to a powerful man." www.glamour.com/story/the-mi...

"you don't 9/11 your friends" 👏 🇺🇸 Some entertainers take an ethical stand against performing for the Saudis. It's disappointing that so many American comedians sell out to the torturing, censoring, 9/11 plotting regime. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

For anyone trying to understand how government shutdowns work, I will post a couple pieces I've done on them in the reply. But first I'd read @joshchafetz.bsky.social on "Congress's Constitution." yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

they really think wars are gonna be won by which side can do the most pushups and not which side can convince the other to eat itself from within

To fight presidential overreach, let's move democracy home! Legislatures are adapting technology & information capacities to include local civic voice. Here's how to collect public witness testimony & create a "Congressional Record" of Civic Voice. link: bit.ly/4mLBNLp.

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A series of attempts by Trump’s DOJ to access voter info is prompting increasing alarm from election administrators, who warn that the federal gov't may be laying the groundwork to try to strongarm states over how they conduct their elections. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doj-kee...

It’s both depressing and darkly hilarious how Lawfare posting has gone from “we got him on an Article 33, Clause 8, Subsection Alpha infraction, baby cannon time!” to *slams whisky bottle down* “the law is fake and I challenge John Roberts to a fistfight at the Walmart parking lot.”

Join us Oct. 1st at the Massachusetts State House (Great Hall) for Civic Tech in Action: Empowering Engagement Through Innovation! Come explore how digital tools can strengthen democratic engagement and see new MAPLE features in action. For more information and to RSVP:

I worked in the East European democracy movements that brought down the Berlin Wall & the dictatorial regimes of the Soviet bloc. We can thank George Soros for that. His support for freedom was a constant source of solidarity & hope 💪🏻🇺🇸👏🏻@alexsoros.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Rep @morelle.house.gov convenes with his community and @civicgenius.bsky.social to discuss the need for reform--including the US Constitution. 👏 andhttps://www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2025-09-26/morelle-raises-prospect-of-a-constitutional-convention-in-tightly-controlled-town-hall

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Community resilience hub! www.thelocaleconomy.com

The Senate nuclear option in 2025: a backgrounder. open.substack.com/pub/stevesno...

What might Federalism 2.0 look like? open.substack.com/pub/compound...

At long last! A plan to develop and support a downballot ecosystem of progressive, problem solving moderates. Gift. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

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🤓 start your engines! 🏎️. Here is the legislative branch data map on Github github.com/LibraryOfCon...

This scenario was an entire scandal in the George W. Bush administration that lasted for months, with hearings and the eventual resignation of the AG.

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: • 404 Media • Defector • The Flytrap • Flaming Hydra • The Appeal • Aftermath • Racket • Hell Gate • The 51st • The Colorado Sun • Range Media • Discourse Blog • Pop Heist

Here’s a good list of the right wing chorus longing for a unitary executive. www.ccagw.org/legislative-...

Private equity brings down another hospital system. www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

Rather than disputing Ted Cruz' claim that the engravings on the bullets were trans, Kash says "we're still developing that."

This week the House will vote on four bills attacking DC. Nine more are in the works. No one in DC wants these measures. They will not support our safety. We want every Democrat to VOTE NO on all of these bills. Make calls today and tomorrow to 30 priority reps: freedcproject.org/news/make-ca...

An event that will make you ❤️ the US Congress. The annual Congressional Hackathon is September 17th. These are my excellent colleagues--working to build a more informed, responsive and effective democracy. I hope you can join! Sign up at the link: www.house.gov/Hackathon

Dont let up or believe the right wing word salad on 2028 elections. Be eternally vigilant! See below to reinforce and prepare open.substack.com/pub/compound...

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Wooo hooo! #indivisible of rural New Mexico at their Saturday demonstration near Abiquiu.

This idea of producing short primers, to quote Zaphod Beeblebrox, "is truly amazing. That is so amazingly amazing I think I'd like to steal it."

Last month, HHS announced that it was re-allocating $500 million from research on COVID-19 vaccines to a single vaccine project--even though: (1) it was led by someone who up until this year was “a relatively little-known flu researcher running a small lab" & ...

Since 2022 Congressional Republicans have started to say "lunatic" in their official e-newsletters more frequently than before, and Democrats rarely ever use this word.

Moon over garage.

👀! studentsforabundance.org

👹 in details: "new" FinCen website obscures the fact that the Trump admin has expanded the space for illicit money laundering & also retreated from closing loopholes that allow corruption. Perfectly in line with a protection racket, meme-coin self enrichment regime. www.fincen.gov

💪 California doesn’t wait for Washington anymore. Neither does New York. Or Illinois. They’re building functioning governmental systems that operate independently of federal authority. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/its-time-f...

👀 Democracy vs. the Constitution @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/dem...

What could go wrong?

An event that will make you ❤️ the US Congress. The annual Congressional Hackathon is September 17th. These are my excellent colleagues--working to build a more informed, responsive and effective democracy. I hope you can join! Sign up at the link: www.house.gov/Hackathon

True conservatives love and protect institutions. Interested in strengthening our democratic republic? Foundation for American Innovation has a great newsletter. HT @sorendayton.bsky.social Sign up here: www.thefai.org

Interested in some background on why Congress is struggling so hard to stand up for itself? Project 2025 started long ago and practiced its depredations on the First Branch of Government. Here's Congress' Wicked Problem--from 2012-- @newamerica.org www.newamerica.org/oti/policy-p...

They’ll probably be putting the statue of traitor Albert Pike back up soon. Maybe they’ll let the guys from West Virginia do it to make it completely absurd

Let the Marxist name-calling commence. This is what communist dictators do to private industry. It is so, so wrong. The way to share prosperity is through regulation and taxation. I look forward to the capitalist/MAGA/free market voices of dissent. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...

😱 Israeli strikes kill more journalists in Gaza. Gift. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/w...

Barn kittens!

Biden saying this to Elon about Tesla would've been the end of his Presidency

I think its cool we are all just accepting this as normal and okay