Great to talk with UNC law prof & anti-poverty advocate Gene Nichol about his new book, the growing assault on democratic norms in NC and beyond, why hope matters in crisis, and how everyday people can push back to build a more progressive future. www.facingsouth.org/2025/11/we-w...

Acton: I’m running against a guy, Vivek Ramaswamy, who has said that people are struggling in Ohio because they’re lazy, they’re mediocre, they’re not working hard enough. And I can absolutely tell you that is not the Ohioans I know or see. I think he’s completely out of touch.

Starbucks’ CEO makes 6,666x what the average @sbworkersunited.org barista does. It would take less than one day of sales to finalize a fair contract. Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve.

Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people. Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.

In the 2 weeks after Mamdani won in June, 10k ppl signed up with @runforsomething.net to consider a run for local office - our biggest surge *ever*. Like it or not (& I do!!) he's shaping the future of the Democratic Party. If you want something different, get other people to run.

"The new billboards are designed to inform troops of legal resources … 'The [Southern Command] strikes … represent the most blatantly illegal act that this administration has had the military carry out.'" taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-group-billboards-caribbean-strikes/

Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

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this is exactly what's happening

Pastor David Black was shot in the head with pepper balls while attempting to pray for and comfort ICE detainees in Chicago. I asked him why he feels called in this dark hour to stand up for immigrants. Please listen to his response. Especially you, Speaker Johnson.

“We have a wretched history of racial discrimination in voting in this country,” which the Voting Rights Act was intended to rectify, says ACLU attorney Megan Keenan. But the Supreme Court now seems poised to gut the landmark law.

Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could gut the Voting Rights Act by barring states from considering race when drawing district lines — an outcome that stands to upend next year's midterms.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny": Listen for dangerous words.

Keep taking videos of what ICE is doing. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is right, document what’s happening. This is why they hate journalists so much.

🗳️Democracy is strongest when everyone has a voice. Last month we released the Blueprint for a Stronger Democracy — a bold plan to defend and expand democracy in NC. 40+ bipartisan policies to protect voting rights & ensure every voice counts. Learn more: www.southernstudies.org/2025Blueprint

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life? #TwentyfiveFortyseven

the Trump admin just deported an award-winning journalist known for his reporting on ICE and got Apple to block ICE-spotter apps — all while churning out highly-produced social media content from violent ICE raids in Chicago. it’s their media or no media. www.techpolicy.press/amidst-viole...

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

BREAKING: We're suing ICE for refusing to comply with our FOIA request for information about the agency's plans for expanding immigration detention in the D.C. region. We have a right to know how our taxpayer dollars are being used to fund ICE's abusive detention machine.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

"Trump wanted this shutdown. This isn’t speculation — it’s strategy... Russ Vought, has openly embraced using a shutdown to permanently fire tens if not hundreds of thousands of public servants". Read @joetrippi.bsky.social on why this shutdown is different: www.lincolnsquare.media/p/no-dollars...

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

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Lawsuits against the media + ICE agent assaults = Journalism under attack. And much more in this month’s Tracker newsletter from Managing Editor @kamccudden.bsky.social:

Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was detained Friday by federal agents. The reason for his detention was not clear, according to the school district. Roberts’ whereabouts are also, alarmingly, unclear. trib.al/ifiCl4B

Broad swaths of the American workforce may no longer have the spending power to meaningfully affect the economic statistics. That has far-reaching consequences (via Bloomberg Opinion)

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Glad to have contributed to the Blueprint for a Stronger Democracy report, which offers bold, practical steps to ensure North Carolina’s democratic system can be inclusive and sustainable.

So thrilled to be back in Durham to help strategize and build people power, so that our wealthiest local institutions truly lean into community responsibility beyond symbolic gestures...let's go ✊🏿!!!

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📽️VIDEO: Marc Elias breaks down everything you need to know about how Trump and the Republicans plan to interfere with the 2026 midterm and 2028 presidential election. What can YOU do to stop it? Watch our latest to learn more👇

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie told the House Judiciary Committee that the FBI has the names of at least 20 people tied to Jeffrey Epstein, including prominent figures in the music industry, finance, politics and banking.

Democracy depends on a fearless and free press. Corporations or ultra-wealthy individuals with many other business interests should not be allowed to control our media. They cannot be trusted to prioritize the public’s right to know over their own financial interests.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Cancel your Disney subscription.

If Democrats ever get power again there needs to be a proper reckoning. Criminals need to be indicted, prosecuted and convicted for trying to subvert our democracy and rights for Trump. There is no room for Merrick Garlands and milquetoast centrists anymore. You need accountability.

You can never appease a tyrant.

We need to call it what it is: a president using government coercion to silence voices he doesn't agree with is authoritarianism, plain and simple. It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.

So the studio behind all those "do the right thing in the face of injustice, oppression, and tyranny" stories - Marvel, Star Wars, etc. - is cowed by a deranged, sociopathic, narcissistic, convicted felon from Queens because its share price and executive bonuses are more important than anything

This isn’t just! It’s unconstitutional! It’s hypocritical! It’s immoral! It’s illegal! It’s wrong! It’s unprecedented! They don’t care about any of those things. They laugh at handwringing. It’s about acquiring & wielding power. You can’t shame them, you have to defeat them.

Due to demand, Democracy Docket has dropped the paywall on my latest. To say that the media is bending a knee, falsely assumes there are still hardened bones and a joint in place in their operations. Their mission now is to report the news fearfully and to seek Trump’s favor.

now is the time for every media personality to stand up and speak out, because what this shows is that nothing will save you they’re coming for all of you, unless you’re a true believer your days are numbered and your bosses are eager to comply do something you can be proud of on your way out

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Good reminder that public/private censorship of mass media was common in the 20th century. The Hays Code, the Comics Code, blacklisting; we have been here before and arguably more oppressive in the past. It took 75 years of 1A jurisprudence to make us all believe It Can’t Happen Here. But it did.