Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

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I’ve watched Gavin Newsom’s career for 20+ years. It’s a buffet of big lies & failed hopes Like Trump, he breaks promises, serves billionaire interests & mistakes social media theatrics for leadership. Is that what we need in 2028? via @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

violence against women and misogyny are the glue that holds the conservatives and the fascists together

The White House is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an architect of the government overhaul that has cut thousands of federal jobs. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

Dems have spent decades making their electoral task harder, helping make voters more right wing by either being silent on or actually feeding xenophobic, racist, sexist, etc views - purportedly in service of...getting elected. Elected in order to what? newrepublic.com/article/2058...

Our Immigration page tracks lawsuits and institutional pushback, but the community resistance we see all over the US is hard to pin to a timeline. This week’s briefing is about those things—extraordinary acts of bravery and decency by ordinary people, everywhere: unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...

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The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect

come on

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My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Get ready to have your life changed: Goldfish crackers as an ice cream topping

Saying Trumpism hasn't accomplished much is likeBoston fans saying Yankees suck. It might feel good, but more often than not it's not true. That's just a game; this is countless lives damaged, ruined, ended. It's not doomerism to count the costs; it's remembering what, & who, you're fighting for.

Our Data Security team added a handful of new (bad) things to our timeline: unbreaking.org/issues/data-...

This @michellegoldberg.bsky.social piece is a must read on how angry the Democratic electorate is and how badly some moderates are still misreading it (gift link)

so i talked to one of the bushes at the super bowl www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

People need to realize that, along with citizens swept up in immigration raids, they have also detained citizens for being involved in activism.

Across our activation research, we've found it's not how much you dislike MAGA but rather whether you see their actions as rupture that indicate if you're willing to step up and change your own actions in response. Some positive movement:

Update: not parody. At least, not intended as parody. If the people parodying the event outnumber the earnest attendees, does it become a parody?

If you see this, post a character that starts with J

The thing about heroin, so I am told, is that you keep having to take bigger hits to get high. MAGA understands the attention economy demands ever and always upping the ante. And for them that means ever greater revelation of how vile they actually are.

Our newest timeline tracks actions that hamper our ability to control the spread of infectious diseases, making the US and the rest of the world more susceptible to disease outbreaks, including global pandemics: unbreaking.org/issues/infec...

People comparing this to abolishing police are underestimating the number of people capable, with the right leadership and message, of understanding that abolishing ICE does not get rid of responsible immigration laws and enforcement anymore than getting rid of a certain administration would…

We can have government of, by and for the people, with leaders who respect and protect us.

Please do this.

The election denial movement relies on propaganda and urging their believers into action based on genuine belief that they are in the right. People saying "there aren't enough ICE agents" are kinda missing the point. The point is to get people to distrust the results of the election.

@sydmt.blacksky.app became a journalist to be part of the solution. Journalism had other plans. She's given us an essay on what it means to choose empathy and ethics as both are under attack, and to tell the truth outside the media institutions that are failing us. unbreaking.org/blog/Unbreak...

I say this as a victim and as a lawyer and as a journalist and as a woman in public, no one, literally no one in power, cares about victims of sexual violence. This is why they promise women more police and prisons (allegedly to help them) while fancy men who are friends with Epstein go free.

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You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

On general strikes 🧊 lithub.com/kim-kelly-on... @lithub.com.web.brid.gy

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You’re hysterical if you think the trump Vance administration wants to criminalize free speech they only want to legalize the speech they like and speech that makes the president feel good, idk what you’re talking about

From the killing of Alex Pretti to the detention of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos thousands of miles from home, Minnesota continues to suffer violence at the hands of federal agents. We’ve added more than 30 events to our timeline just this week: unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

apnews.com/article/alba... Galapagos albatross' 3,000-mile detour to California puzzles scientists

Here's a copy of one of the deleted files, that contains the most damning accusations against Trump (and others). #Streisand bsky.app/profile/coco...

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

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Our weekly briefing is coming tomorrow, but we just released a BIG update with 30+ new timeline entries from our Immigration team, a dozen from Data Security, and several from the Medical Research Funding and Federal Workforce crews. You can see them all at unbreaking.org

It’s so heavy when you are going to get groceries and you find a car sitting with its windows broken out and it’s empty but still running and someone’s stuffed animals or pictures or papers are just laying all over the road. I have personally seen at least five of these in the last three days alone

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The "ban whistles" stuff is how you know whistles are working incredibly well

Filming the police is not only a constitutional right, it’s a societal obligation. Signed, a police officer.

This is us. The people. Activists. Everyone who has fought all year to change public opinion and push Jeffries and House leadership to act. If you have been part of that, take a bow now. 🙇 The fight is not over, but celebrate this one. /1

Everything I've seen supporting MN "communicanizers" for last 9 years (their word for communicators & organizers across labor, faith, & community groups) affirms what Adam writes. This is what brought about the "MN Miracle" w one vote majority & it's why MN is leading now.

Imagine the courage it takes to demand your dignity in the brutality of this concentration camp? The #BraveOfUS are showing the way - people who have moved heaven and earth to make a new life are continuing to demonstrate that same bravery.