We've never seen an economy so bad for workers — and so good for the super rich. It’s only going to get worse with AI. How should we respond?

"Ken Martin has made sure that the DNC remains mum about the genocide that took hold in Gaza, enabled by the Biden administration’s massive shipments of arms to Israel," writes @normansolomon.bsky.social.

America's chief Middle East negotiator - Jared Kushner - is almost completely dependent on Middle East government investment in his chief business. It's probably the biggest conflict of interest in American diplomatic history and we should be talking about this way more.

This is the outcome of a 50-year effort to overturn the Voting Rights Act, led by Justice Roberts. See David Daley's Antidemocratic.

Rest in peace to John Ketwig, Vietnam veteran and author of ...And a Hard Rain Fell. It was an honor to get to know John. He talked with my students at VT, reviewed my book, and participated in my NEH Summer Institute, where he talked about the war, memorialization, why he joined the VVAW.

"Improper...conduct"...including offering the FBI directorship to Judge Byrne as well as the Plumbers break-in of Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office, illegal wiretapping, CIA profile.

Chris Appy is here! @chrisappy.bsky.social Follow him and keep up with his work on the Ellsberg Institute for Peace and Democracy. www.eipad.org

The deep background to this most recent evisceration of the Voting Rights Act is provided by @davedaley in his great book Antidemocratic. And, yes, Roberts was all in from the beginning.

Please follow our work at the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and democracy: eipad.org We'll be up on Bluesky soon.

“At least 62 people were arrested, including elderly and disabled [veterans and] activists. The protest was organized by a coalition that included About Face, Veterans for Peace, Common Defense, and Military Families Speak Out.” www.democracynow.org/2026/4/21/he...

"Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence." Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government" (1849) better known as an essay on Civil Disobedience. This essay had an enormous impact on Daniel Ellsberg.

Happy finally to join Bluesky, months after my X account was cancelled without my consent.

"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example." Justice Louis Brandeis (1928)