We’ve been robbed of our freedom. Who will stand with us? I am wicked grateful right from the (hard)core of my busted punk rock heart. Thank you @dropkickmurphys.com for this well-timed album. Thank you for holding on to the ethics and the fight. Buy it, humans, and listen.

Bill Moyers leaves us a legacy well worth trying to do justice.

Our Kids Poetry Studio in Odesa is in second year and kids, many of whom are refugees of war, are writing poems. If you read Ukrainian, here is the article: vo.od.ua/rubrics/kult... If you read English, here is a link: poemsnotbombs.org. Please consider support this work.

Headline from The New York Times in 2020. "US deaths near 100,000, an incalculable loss." #covid As of today, that "incalculable loss" is 1.2 million Americans. And RFK Jr is taking away our vaccines.

This is how you do it. The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact". The moral imperative may be to fight... but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone: www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...

What if tech bros had held their nerve? What if ABC had told Trump they’d see him in court? What if Ivy League Universities had defended Columbia? What if big law firms had sued Trump? Cowardice is contagious. Welcome to the Great Grovel www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...

Portrait of Louise Bourgeois, 1997 by photographer Annie Leibovitz #womensart

Take heart. There is no shortage of courage.

Shock Doctrine. I paced in my living room reading the book by @naomiaklein.bsky.social And not long after I quit the newspaper where I worked because they installed a political operative on the editorial board and flipped out when asked about it. Now that guy is one of the authors of Project 2025.

Great point listening to a talk by @timothysnyder.bsky.social: U.S. is making itself and its allies less powerful, which increases Russia’s relative power and influence, and brings about the multipolar world that it wants

There is new interest in Missouri as a bellwether of American decline -- a model of what the regime wants. I wrote and warned on this extensively in my 2020 book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. Some excerpts:

scoop: Eugene Robinson is leaving The Washington Post, per an email he sent to the staff this morning

Damn, that's a fantastic video for a campaign launch.

The Angelus bells O’er the Liffey swells youtu.be/keWnPZOd2cw?...

Absolutely fantastic conversation between my friend @rushkoff.com and writer/artist @mollycrabapple.bsky.social. We have reasons to be frustrated and angry, but must remember to find fun, happiness, and purpose in some aspect in our life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Md...

In Hungary. In Tel Aviv. In Gaza. In Georgia. In Turkey. In Serbia. And growing around the US. Mass movements are happening around the world as people are demanding their freedoms back. As people begin to reclaim what these authoritarians have taken from us. Something’s growing worldwide.

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

From HCR’s letter this morning: “As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls,” Crawford said in her victory speech, “I never could have imagined that I’d be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.”

"Denmark has given four times as much aid per capita to Ukraine as the US....In Greenland, what we saw was American imperialism with no clothes. Naked and vain." Must read by @timothysnyder.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm watching the Cory Booker speech on the Senate Floor right now. #BigMessyAmerica www.npr.org/2025/04/01/n...

Right now, Booker is still at it. And you can watch: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

It’s as if Rome had elected the Vandals

Hello, Bluesky!! We are a collective of academics who are standing up for higher education. Join us: www.wearehighered.org

Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.

The Montague Reporter published in Montague, Mass. An excellent small local newspaper.

A tiny, easy thing you can do: wherever you’re traveling, buy the local paper and boost the news of how fascism is trickling down and how everyday people are pushing back. From today’s Caledonian-Record of St. Johnsbury, VT.

Yes, protest Musk. But what about kidnapping people off our streets for simply saying and writing things critical of Trump, the GOP, and the illegal unethical actions of this government? Stand up for the First Amendment.

Our public health infrastructure — meaning: made up of many people — was already underfunded and the current administration has just slashed it. Now measles. www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...

Thousands held a rally to demand the release and safe return of Rumeysa Ozturk, who was disappeared by the Trump regime, one of many people that have been kidnapped nationwide. #3E

Weather tool taken down has been recreated by The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"The same names and countries appear again and again: the US, the UK, the former USSR, Israel, Saudi Arabia. We see the same disturbing patterns. We are left with a narrative about rape, espionage, and threats; a narrative of missing pieces." --HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

The destruction of the Dept. of Education is about red states being able to rewrite history, and right-wing religious zealots pretending that the country was founded as a Christian nation. To control history is to control the narrative. To control the narrative is to control the minds of the nation.

If you are in/near Western Mass., come to the screening of Join or Die Monday, March 24 at Greenfield Garden Cinemas. It’s free. There’s a discussion with one of the directors immediately after. @joinordiefilm.bsky.social You can RSVP and find more info here: www.gcc.mass.edu/events/join-...

We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.

“…never in the history of the world has a Nation lost its democracy by a successful struggle to defend its democracy. We must not be defeated by the fear of the very danger which we are preparing to resist…The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -FDR, 1941

I tried to warn our profession four years ago. And now here we are. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/o...

I was interviewed this week for a major US news show. My interviewer asked me why so few of my colleagues are willing to talk. It’s not just fear of losing funding, but of being singled out by a regime that wants to purge scientists from society. That’s why I do speak out. I wish more people would

Lots of local organizing.

“Boston was born standing up to bullies.” You go, Mayor Wu! #BigMessyAmerica youtu.be/5sFuF7eF67Q?...

Do I like hawking my new book during a political apocalypse? No! Did I like spending a decade of my life warning of the political apocalypse, identifying the key players and plots, and getting threatened as a result? No, but I did it anyway! Buy the book! ❤️ www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com

NEW: In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term. It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.

Former FBI agent John Buma, a whistleblower who accused the bureau of suppressing his investigative work on topics including Rudy Guiliani's ties to suspected Russian agents, was arrested yesterday in New York and charged with disclosure of confidential information, per an FBI spokesperson.

This is insane. The plan appears to be to weaken and isolate the United States as much as possible and as fast as possible.

Jeffrey Klein a founder of @motherjones.com and a wonderful editor of the magazine, died last week. He leaves behind an impressive body of work. More important, he provided inspiration and encouragement ot many journalists, including me. Thank, you Jeffrey. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Trying to figure out how to defend science in present moment? We did this podcast a few months ago, but it is just out, and more relevant than ever. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Precisely.