Democracy matters. The US is backsliding dramatically—from liberal democracy to electoral democracy. www.democracywithoutborders.org/41651/v-dem-...

I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.

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...

In the face of disinformation, we need independent journalism. This is important to watch: open.substack.com/pub/narativ/...

Note Homan’s role in policies connected to legal observers, including Alex Pretti: newrepublic.com/post/205769/...

Head on over to show MN your support: www.facebook.com/share/p/1C2i...

Watch this. Then share it to confront the disinformation that McLaughlin and DHS are spreading. Kudos to @ahylton26.bsky.social for stellar reporting. Arnoldo and his family need their dad. All human beings deserve decent and humane treatment.

SEEING IS BELIEVING DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite. 📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported. DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.

Nonpartisanship becomes/seems complicated when one party engages in disinformation, going far beyond campaigning, and also in opposition to democracy and to internationally recognized human rights. We are nonpartisan. We stand for human rights & democracy & against disinformation & bigotry.

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

We all need to keep educating ourselves in many ways, including examples of resistance & the history that we haven’t yet learned. Most of us don’t know enough about BIPOC history. A great place to start is open.substack.com/pub/rozellak...

At this point, we have to use counterspeech against state-sponsored disinformation as well as against the misinformation that it causes. There’s lots of dis/misinformation about the murder of Renee Nicole Good. ICE killed her for no reason and lied to cover up the murder. Join our counterspeech work

Accuracy matters. In the face of state disinformation, we respond with facts and fact-based, strategic counterspeech.

X just unveiled a new feature, letting users know which country an account is being managed from. Unsurprisingly, many large accounts (MAGA or otherwise) don't appear to match their self-description 🤔

The WH FB page has a post about the new vaccine recommendations supposedly intended to “align” us with the “developed” world—meaning the global north. Lots of disinformation in the post, lots of misinformation in the feed. We’re there with counterspeech, offering facts instead. Wanna join us?

1/🧵To say that there’s misinformation in public feeds about the attack on Venezuela is a gross understatement. One might even conclude that many people have no clue about international law, the UN Charter, or the US Constitution. We’re out there talking on the misinformation. Please join us! 👇

Insider trading on war crimes seems like peak criminality.

Disinformation both in the public sphere and directed at Congress. Not okay.

Important:

We also stand with trans youth, and with trans adults as well. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

These attacks against the trans community have nothing to do with proven medicine or science—and everything to do with cruelty and control. We will fight relentlessly to stop these rules from taking effect.

A l'heure du Digital Services Act, il est absurde que les grandes plateformes ne disent même pas quels sont leurs posts les plus viraux. Une pétition de @mozilla.org et @algorithmwatch.org demande plus de transparence. www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns...

This is the first segment of the documentary about CECOT that the administration and Bari Weiss don’t want you to see. The only appropriate response is to watch and share widely. Let’s make sure this goes viral. substack.com/@ninak268483...

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Freedom of the press matters. CBS pulled this, so we all need to share this segment of the documentary about CECOT. open.substack.com/pub/muellers...

Disinformation is a significant part of what she’s responding to.

The administration isn’t so fond of opposition to disinformation or to misinformation, nor to criticism of xitter. Let’s respond by working even harder to oppose dis/misinfo. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

Just wow. The depravity is boundless.

Facts and stats matter. In an age of massive disinformation, they matter even more.

BREAKING: At one point, the Pentagon considered sending boat strike survivors to CECOT torture prison in El Salvador to avoid discovery in US courts. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

If you oppose disinformation, read this to begin to understand one of the biggest disinformation campaigns ever:

We see bigotry and misinformation in social media feeds every day. Join us in our counterspeech campaigns. Be sure to answer the questions when you do.

Read this article. NSPM-7 is exceptionally dangerous to pro-democracy advocates, activists, and NGOs.

Democracy vs authoritarian surveillance: www.salon.com/2025/11/21/h... Standing for democracy and opposing fascism is both essential and non-partisan. So is standing up to neo-McCarthyism.

WaPo: “…Trump on Tuesday defended Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the killing of Washington Post opinion columnist Jamal Khashoggi, saying things happen’ and that he did not hold the Saudi leader responsible for the 2018 murder despite a U.S. intelligence report assessing the opposite.”

Yay!!!!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

In a feed about a curriculum teaching accurately about the insurrection on 1/6, we see a ton of misinformation, echoing organized disinformation seeking to shift blame away from the instigator-in-chief and the actual participants themselves. We took it on. Want to join us against bigotry & misinfo?

How disinformation works—and how some people are countering it. We counter it mostly on FB. Join us there. When you do, be sure to answer the questions.

ProPublica identified 20 segregation academies in Mississippi that received almost $10 million over six years through a state-funded program. At least eight opened with an early boost from state-funded vouchers in the 1960s. (Published Nov. 2024)

Kristi Noem has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask. (Published September)

Insurance companies aren’t just players in the fight with doctors over money; they’re also the referees. They produce their own guidelines on when to pay claims. If a doctor appeals a denial, insurers make all the initial decisions. (Published April) By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social

Urging everyone to follow this. It concerns the US as well as Russia and the rest of the world: open.substack.com/pub/olgalaut...

Today’s exhibit A for why independent journalism is essential:

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Illinois deputy found guilty of murder in the shooting of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 asking for help.