CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Sign in DC. Seems about right.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The Irish government has released a report on the benefits of the pilot for a Basic Income for the Arts, and in a total shocker, it seems like it was good for the country as well as the artists. Nobody could have seen this coming. #SpeirGorm #UBI www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

🚨 NOW: NYPD Arresting Demonstrators Near UN Assembly: “Trump does not speak for us!” A coalition of orgs, in addition to @50501newyork.bsky.social, formed a blockade (restricting traffic) to gain attention from the International community during the UN assembly. Their message: SHUTDOWN TRUMP.

Many people never knew this or have forgotten.

Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler. Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”. Well sod that. Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4

📣 Nonviolent Civil Disobedience 🪧 Shutdown Trump's Procession to the UN 📆 Sept 23 ⏰ 7:30AM 📍 NYPL, 476 5th Ave, NYC Trump speaks at UN Sept 23. Let's give him the welcome he deserves. This will be a non-violent civil disobedience action. RISK OF ARREST. Bring your I.D. More info on site.

Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

“But in the past few weeks, a series of developments have revealed a disturbingly credible policy pathway to power consolidation. We can now see how American Orbánism could take full root before the 2028 elections. We now know how we would get there from here.”

It was a privilege to participate in the action at the EPA in DC this week.

CANCEL TIME

grrrrrrrr

Revisiting this piece I wrote in April 2025. "State Terror: A brief guide for Americans" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

No one is coming to save us, so we will have to be the resistance we need. Thankfully, we have the numbers. History shows us that nonviolent peoples movements WORK. Boycott, strike, protest, refuse to cooperate. Start building your local community support systems NOW.

“Disney is run by human beings. Some of those human beings are cowards. Those cowards don’t want to be named and shamed, and if you do that effectively, they will shift their behavior.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social Cancel fascism and reinstate Kimmel: indivisible.org/government-c...

WaPo - Trump administration unveils a new crackdown on Pentagon journalists, requiring them to pledge they won't gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn't been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke press credentials of those who don't obey. www.washingtonpost.com/busine...

This is who is advising the president of the United States

How I spent Thursday in DC www.indybay.org/newsitems/20...

Holy shit - shoutout to these brave pilots who are doing what every single one of us need to be

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

Join the San Francisco International Arts Festival at Civic Center on Sept 20th 10am to 1pm for The People vs Project 2025. Take part in a flash dance and view other performance pieces by over 25 artists. Art is a key tool to fight fascism.

Did you know that Wells Fargo is supporting fossil fuels and authoritarianism? We need your help to build enough power to stop this. Learn how to talk to WF workers about the union on our training call tonight! 👉 stmp.link/WFWUtraining2 #DropWellsFargo #OilyWells #FareWellsFargo

join us in the streets!

The US Justice Department appears to have removed from its website a study into political violence in America by the National Institute of Justice, the Justice Department’s research agency, which concluded that far-right extremism outpaced “all other types of domestic violent extremism”.

London UK: JD Vance balloons spotted at the anti-Trump rally.

Not too late to sign up for the Sept. 19 Petrostate Tour in DC! Read all about it in this update from Linda thirdact.org/actions-lab/...

NYT - Trump administration officials on Monday responded to the activist Charlie Kirk's assassination by threatening to bring the weight of the federal government down on what they alleged was a left-wing network that funds and incites violence.

On Monday, Peter Thiel begins a secret four-part Antichrist lecture series in San Francisco. What the hell is going on? Why all this bible doom talk? I talked to an Antichrist historian & a theologian about this outbreak of tech apocalypse hype: www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...

Report: The U.S. Government subsidizes the fossil fuel industry to the tune of 34.8 BILLION dollars per year. #ActOnClimate oilchange.org/publications...

Mourning the EPA: Procession and Die-In, Sept 18, 2pm, Madison Street NW and 12th St. NW Lee Zeldin has ripped out the heart of the Environmental Protection Agency, endangering health and environment while firing thousands of dedicated workers. Join us to mourn: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The ECCA is holding a funeral at the EPA to mourn its premature demise-Come dressed appropriately, to the Reagan Building on Washington, DC on Thursday, September 18th @ 2PM

If you don't want California to drill thousands of new oil & gas wells a year then call your rep and make sure they are fighting against SB 237. Vote will happen in the next 48 hours. Toolkit with talking points and links to find your rep: tinyurl.com/nodrillbaby #ClimateSky

You know what’s a really big news story? That Trump and the far right declared war on the left last night. presswatchers.org/2025/09/top-...

Must be nice to live in a country where people are held accountable for plotting a coup.

This!

Awesome piece to help you counter the AI rah-rah...

Excellent www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

Fantastic and useful explanation from a great communicator (so rare for an economist)

How the role of carbon storage (#CCS) has been hugely overestimated www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...

I now hear this post read out loud in my head every time I hear a mention of AI 😂

Follow the money

Did you know that Wells Fargo is supporting fossil fuels and authoritarianism? We need your help to build enough power to stop this. Join our training to learn how to talk to WF workers about the union on Sept 18th! ➡️ stmp.link/WFWUtraining2

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

Chicago - Naval Base in Great Lakes: A truck reading “Do not come to Chicago” and “Fascists are not welcome here” has been seen circling around the base.

Without this promised emergency loan from the state, millions of people in the Bay Area will suffer due to the steep cuts to transit service, the worsening traffic, and the rise in pollution. We need to turn out in big numbers Monday morning & get loud actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

Happening now: smelled a chemical smell wafting from the parking lot, went to check it out. It's Chicago ICE agents unwrapping and assembling a stack of fresh riot shields.

Thousands march to the White House united in our demand. We want federal forces out of DC Now!! Free DC! Free DC! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.