The Democrats' victories on Tuesday are proof of a "new political space... where it is possible to say 'No' to Trump" – John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oY1KsD

Big Blue Wave 2025: How Tuesday's elections show us that while "candidate Trump is good for Republican turnout, President Trump is good for Democratic turnout" – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org – 'Living in the USA' bit.ly/47IFTye

Tuesday was "a great day for Democrats, a great day for America" – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org on 'Living in the USA' @kpfk.bsky.social bit.ly/47IFTye

Today at 4pm Pacific on 'Living in the USA': The Blue Wave: Harold Meyerson @prospect.org comments – on @kpfk.bsky.social Radio 90.7 FM and online kpfk.org

Lessons from Tuesday's elections: "there's a much broader base to be built around concepts of the No Kings protests" – John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oY1KsD @leahgreenberg.bsky.social @indivisible.org #NoKings

"Not since Obama has there been such a massive outpouring of volunteers who want to work for a candidate" – John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social on Mamdani's big win – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oY1KsD @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Democratic candidates won everywhere they ran on Tuesday—Trump didn’t even campaign against any them. John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social has our analysis – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oY1KsD

“An opening up of hope” for Democrats – John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social on the Democrats big wins leading into the midterms – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oY1KsD

How Springsteen's 'Nebraska' album "was the most powerful, the most detailed, the most felt rejection of Ronald Reagan’s America" – and how "Deliver Me From Nowhere" misses that part – Greil Marcus – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oY1KsD

"Not since Obama has there been such a massive outpouring of volunteers who want to work for a candidate" – John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social on Mamdani's big win – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oY1KsD @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Springsteen’s characters on ‘Nebraska' “speak with the bleakest acceptance, with a refusal that does not know itself,” wrote Greil Marcus in 1982 – he explains what’s missing in "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere" – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oY1KsD

John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social on Democrats' victories on Tuesday – and the "new political space... where it is possible to say 'No' to Trump" – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oY1KsD

How Tuesday's elections show us "that there's a much broader base to be built around concepts of the No Kings protests" – John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oY1KsD

"Turn the volume up" Mamdani to Trump in his victory speech – John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social comments on Mamdani's "smart politics" – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oY1KsD

Tuesday’s election: “An opening up of hope” for Democrats – John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oY1KsD

CA Proposition 50 is a response to Texas creating 5 new Republican seats and Californians are voting on it TOMORROW: Harold Meyerson @prospect.org on its chances – and it challenges – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4qzk50D

How decommissioned confederate "MONUMENTS" at LA's #MOCA —"is a show that meets the moment. It’s exactly what we need now" – Christopher Knight @knightlat.bsky.social – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4qzk50D

"Republicans will remain thoroughly cowed & indulge Trump in this fantasy because how many fantasies have they indulged Trump in thus far... how many big lies? – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org on Trump's 3rd term talk – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4qzk50D

"The monuments that were produced to honor the Confederacy really do need to be taken seriously, especially now, with the return of white supremacy into the halls of power" – @knightlat.bsky.social on #MOCA's "MONUMENTS" – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4qzk50D

Redistricting on the Ballot: TOMORROW: Voters in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California & NYC can take a stand against Trump’s candidates – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org explains – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4qzk50D

Decommissioned Confederate "MONUMENTS" at the #MOCA in LA "is a show that meets the moment. It’s exactly what we need now" – Christopher Knight @knightlat.bsky.social – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4qzk50D

Trump's election monitoring efforts in California this week could be a dress rehearsal for his plans in the midterms – warns @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov – Harold Meyerson comments – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4qzk50D

"People have the assumption that if a sculpture or a painting is brought into the context of a museum, that that sculpture or painting is being honored—when in fact... it’s being treated seriously"— @knightlat.bsky.social on #MOCA's "MONUMENTS"—on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4qzk50D

Trump's 3rd Term? "Republicans will remain thoroughly cowed & indulge Trump in this fantasy because how many fantasies have they indulged Trump in thus far... how many big lies? The answer is a lot." – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4qzk50D

Happy Halloween!

Voters can take a stand against Trump’s candidates in next Tuesday’s elections in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California & NYC—& move toward redistricting that favors Democrats – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org explains on 'Living in the USA' @kpfk.bsky.social bit.ly/4hCDBFe

Today at 4pm Pacific on 'Living in the USA': Voters and Redistricting: Harold Meyerson @prospect.org comments – on @kpfk.bsky.social Radio 90.7 FM and online kpfk.org

"This is a show that meets the moment. It’s exactly what we need now. It’s also the kind of show that needs to be seen, I think, several times" – Christopher Knight @knightlat.bsky.social on "MONUMENTS" at LA's #MOCA – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4qzk50D

Prop. 50, California's redistricting referendum, has a good chance or passing – unless "there are enough Trump judges who take the word ‘Trump’ more seriously than they take the word ‘judge,’" – Harold Meyerson – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4qzk50D

The exhibition "MONUMENTS" at the #MOCA displays 10 decommissioned Confederate monuments alongside the work of 19 artists responding or relating to them – Christopher Knight @knightlat.bsky.social comments – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4qzk50D

Californians are voting this week on Prop. 50 – a redistricting referendum that would create 5 new Democratic seats in Congress – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org on why the electorate is hugely "in favor" – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4qzk50D

"We refer to them as confederate monuments, but they aren’t really, the subjects are Confederate, but as monuments, they’re Jim Crow monuments" – Christopher Knight @knightlat.bsky.social on the "MONUMENTS" exhibition at the #MOCA – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4qzk50D

How Trump's election monitoring efforts in California this week could be a dress rehearsal for his plans in the midterms – @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov thinks so – Harold Meyerson comments – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4qzk50D

Christopher Knight @knightlat.bsky.social on the "thrilling" new exhibition at the #MOCA "MONUMENTS" – 10 decommissioned Confederate monuments alongside the work of 19 artists responding or relating to them – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4qzk50D

CA Proposition 50 is a response to Texas creating 5 new Republican seats and Californians are voting on it this week: Harold Meyerson @prospect.org on its good chances – and its challenges – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4qzk50D

How the narrative of a recent surge in "left-wing terrorism" is a fabrication based on a handful of isolated violent acts by individuals who were not representative of any organized leftist movement – @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social reports – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/48CM3SF

How effective and lasting social change has historically been, and continues to be, the product of sustained, collective, and nonviolent organizing, not violence: @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social comments – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/48CM3SF

"One of the beauties of something like #NoKings is people feel a sense of belonging, of membership. ‘I’m not alone. People share my beliefs and my commitments.’" @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/48CM3SF

"The Trump administration hides its atrocities behind its atrocities, its obscenities behind its obscenities, its corruptions behind its corruptions. The ones this week distract us from the ones last week." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/48CM3SF

How the Trump administration's lies are "a sign of their own political weakness and inability to tell the truth about their failures" – @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/48CM3SF

On leveraging public opinion: "None of it at the point of a gun. All of it from the often tedious, at times exhilarating work of nonviolent activism and organizing." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on the myth of the violent Left – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/48CM3SF

Q: Why is Trump working so hard to portray the left as violent weirdos who hate America? A: "An authoritarian is nothing without a marginalized, outsider, othered enemy that poses a terrible threat" – @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/48CM3SF

Republicans spent weeks leading up to No Kings coordinating scurrilous, obvious falsehoods. "Lies are kind of a show, they’re kind of dominance behavior in a baboon sense. They’re showing us their rumps" – @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/48CM3SF

On "the hermetically-sealed political universe that the MAGA far-right lives in"– such as where the DOJ owes Trump $230 million of taxpayer funds in damages – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org on the podcast 'Living in the USA' @kpfk.bsky.social bit.ly/4otF1nK

"The truth is, we're much better People who want a much better future than the mainstream media will ever tell us" – @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on the historic No Kings Day of Peaceful Protest – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/48CM3SF

Trump's $230 million demand from the DOJ for investigating him: Q: Has any other president used his power as president to award himself damages? Short Answer: "No." – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org on the podcast 'Living in the USA' @kpfk.bsky.social bit.ly/4otF1nK

From the biggest single day of protest in US history – 7 million demonstrating against Trump – to his worst major poll since taking office – it hasn't been a good week for Trump – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org comments on 'Living in the USA' @kpfk.bsky.social bit.ly/4otF1nK

Today at 4pm Pacific on 'Living in the USA': Trump's bad week: Harold Meyerson @prospect.org comments – on @kpfk.bsky.social Radio 90.7 FM and online kpfk.org

"An authoritarian is nothing without a marginalized, outsider, othered enemy that poses a terrible threat — because that’s always the justification for a crackdown." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on fascism, frogs, and #NoKings – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/48CM3SF

"The Trump administration hides its atrocities behind its atrocities, its obscenities behind its obscenities, its corruptions behind its corruptions" — all while calling peaceful protest "terrorism" – @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/48CM3SF #NoKings