"extremely sensitive weathervanes" 🤮

🌍🌎🌏 "There’s no plan. He throws his weight about, makes impetuous misjudgments, stokes fear of foreigners and bases policy on whether he 'likes' other leaders."

This is beautiful! 🥲

👁👁 "Babis joined forces with his friend Orbán to create a new alliance in the European Parliament, the “Patriots for Europe”, to represent hard-right groups... united by anti-migrant rhetoric, a critical stance toward EU policies tackling climate change, and the protection of national sovereignty."

📢 "If we don’t change the way we do things, the way we develop economically, then it will be too late" 📢 www.vox.com/climate/4634...

"association, in which the party is a participatory organization with purpose and structure beyond electing a handful of ambitious people to office" 🔥 (bouie)

This storytelling about secularists who feel inspired by prophetic voices

I went long on James Talarico's Christian populism: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

ICYMI, this series is one of my favorite things I've ever done

Even before the admin went after higher ed, public colleges faced 50 years of decline—hollowed out by privatization, financialization, and disinvestment. @lookheron.bsky.social’s new report traces that history & shows how we can build a more equitable education system today: https://bit.ly/3WlV9vv

There is an overwhelming social, if not personal, decision of what level of “bad” is acceptable. The suffering of Black folks, poor folks, and brown immigrants have always been an acceptable sacrifice for bad policy.

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This is Gus.

Just learning about Elly Schlein of Italy who i see in guardian story with pedro sanchez and major european progressives

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...

👁👁 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sharing this excerpt from my foreword to Alaa Abd el-Fattah's extraordinary collection of prison writings, "You Have Not Yet Been Defeated." Stay tuned... lithub.com/naomi-klein-...

representative democracy can be good democracy, but it has to be participatory representative democracy. representation on autopilot becomes corruption however noble the intentions of the representatives.

"The gorilla study illustrates two important facts about our minds: we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness." THIS. It's so hard to know what you don't know.

we're not trying to win a college debate or get an "a" on an essay here. we're trying to show regular americans that to be patriotic americans it means everyone has rights and not a single sliver behind.

Multireligious multiracial democracy apnews.com/article/char...

"Under the pretext of flexibility and entrepreneurship, the global web of the platform economy and its deregulation model cements precarity as an essential feature of labour."

"He told reporters, was 'very guilty of something'"

Just Mercy "We have to reform a system of criminal justice that continues to treat people better if they are rich and guilty than if they are poor and innocent. A system that denies the poor the legal help they need, that makes wealth and status more important than culpability, must be changed."

Oligarchy behind cbs news meltdown

"This technology promises to lay off more workers, more rapidly, than any innovation in recent memory"

Financial grifter political propaganda is faithless

This weekend, at the 2025 Four Freedom Awards, we honored five people & organizations advancing democracy, dignity & justice: @teenvogue.com, @revdrjacquilewis.bsky.social, @middlechurch.bsky.social, @wck.org, @cvt.org. ICYMI: 📽️ Watch the ceremony & learn more ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ-S...

❤️"Optimism"

🔥"It will also put her at odds with many of her own donors in real estate and finance"🔥

Don't avoid the story in nyt (by dias and graham) about religious nationalists and new martyr

🙏 "At its heart, a system for containing political violence: a system for resolving the inevitable deep disagreements between citizens without anyone resorting to bloodshed." 🙏

🌐What public man was I discussing today👇 www.pih.org/paul-farmers...

I'm sick of living in a world where reality for normies conforms to whatever right wing rich people say it is at any given moment.

Bouie today nyt

🌎🌍🌏 "A criminal organisation made up of a political group doesn’t know how to lose elections"

📢📢📢 This research, this tipping point

Cool job opening💥community-owned real estate www.transformfinance.org/careers

"The spectacle that falsifies reality is nevertheless a real product of that reality, while lived reality is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle and ends up absorbing it and aligning itself with it."

Here's the conclusion. On Intel, Trump is taking an equity stake and facilitating the Apple-TSMC chip cartel simultaneously, weakening the very investment he just acquired. None of this has any strategic sense behind it. prospect.org/economy/2025...

Investigative journalism about investors www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

💡Robert Reich about incompetent sycophants in the guardian today

Wow 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Spent the day writing about the American Revolution for my big lecture class with David Blight and Beverly Gage. Suffice it to say that writing about colonial protest against tyranny right now is…. Innnnnnnterrsting.

💡💡💡 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

“From what I can tell, the Republican-controlled Pennsylvania State Senate seems to be motivated by pure cultural animus toward urban life.” humantransit.org/2025/08/the-...

👁👁 "The government will not take a board seat or have other governance rights at Intel."