'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.” Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer. In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.

Spraying pepper spray directly into the eyes of a detained person who’s already fully subdued

Trump at Davos, shifted between talking about Greenland and Iceland. Does he know that they are not the same? Regardless, the world got an unvarnished display of racist mendacity merging with ignorance and narcissism. Or as the @nytimes.com would say, "Trump delivered some remarks"

Tell Congress to rein in ICE NOW act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...

I am trying to wrap my head around the fact that this is a Target store ... in the USA.

NBC News webpage: Apparently acquisition of Greenland has been accepted, the debate is now only about the means.

A special session of the Organization of American States is ongoing. So far, Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil have been most direct in their criticisms of U.S. abduction of Maduro.

If one of your resolutions for 2026 is becoming more engaged in your community and doing more to save democracy, now is the time to connect with your local organizers. 👇

Giving Trump whatever he wants but shaking my head so people know I'm not happy about it bsky.app/profile/atru...

Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"

#NoKings in Porto PT. Our biggest turnout of expats and Americans on holiday!

If you are in Porto on 18 October, come out and join us in saying no to tyrants! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Hello from Missouri! #NoKingsKickoff

#nokingskickoff It’s 1am in the morning in Porto, but I am here!

No Kings! Rally beginning in Porto Portugal!

It looks like the State Department is going full ‘Clash of Civilizations.” statedept.substack.com/p/the-need-f...

While Trump wastes millions on a military parade in DC, we're mobilizing everywhere else to show that organized people power is stronger than his authoritarian aspirations. app.sosha.ai/s/ENmrezWk If you are in Porto on 14 June, join us on Aliados at 1400.

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

@pkrugman.bsky.social asks, "what the hell was the Treasury secretary doing giving a closed-door briefing [to J.P. Morgan Chase] on a significant policy change that hadn’t yet been officially announced?" Excellent Question! paulkrugman.substack.com/p/cronyism-c...

I'll say it again, the tariff system is being put in place by very rich men at the top of the U.S. power system and they'll be fine whatever happens. It's worth keeping that in mind when you see something like this from the president.

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

The NYT use of the word 'overhaul' is a purposeful editorial choice to gloss over the wanton destruction of American diplomatic capability and expertise. A fire in the employee cafeteria at Foggy Bottom might garner a stronger headline.

@indivisible.org Porto Portugal #handsoff

A strong #Handsoff message from Porto!

Remove trained scholars from the classroom + content from the curriculum and libraries = dumbing down the American military

Living as an expat in Portugal and watching what is going on back in the U.S., it is bit like sitting in a lifeboat and watching the Titanic founder ... and realizing that a cable still connects the two.

They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.

Rereading Foucault's Discipline&Punish. Foucault's critique of the personal power of the sovereign to punish is exemplified in Trump's approach to the pardons and the DOJ. Taking us back to the 17th Century!

I am watching veterans' services disappearing in real time. Here are two screenshots of the menu on the VA.gov homepage, 2 Feb and today. Services for LGBTQ are apparently gone. Watching to see if Women and Minority services will disappear as well.

My historical context may be off, but this recent U.S. bid for UKR mineral resources in the face Russia aggression has me thinking about the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

Coming from Munich Security Conference are many references to Melian Dialogue about “the strong doing what they will” for explaining U.S. behavior. Thucydides is not presenting a principle for success. Athens lost the Peloponnesian War.

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

The Washington Post's framing of the attack on USAID has clearly missed the central point.

Rubio's state dept appointee is a white supremacist and a misogynist. I remember not too long ago when a Republican who said this would be disqualified from high profile federal jobs forever.

Watching the VA website and hoping that patient care service centers remain in place despite the obligatory DEI notice.

Prepping my first overseas ballot. Minor deviations from elaborate delivery instructions will disqualify my vote. I realize this is the smallest of challenges that so many have historically faced and still face to get their vote counted. So I'll double check my envelopes in a spirit of solidarity.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,426,946! Not being in that first 1 percent, we 2-percenters had to forge our own path.

God bless the Philadelphia Inquirer for going there with its headline.

Watching Trump speech at Econ Club of NY. The desultory clapping on the most egregious lines reveals an apathetic acceptance of the lies on which authoritarian govt is based. But that's all Trump is seeking, a spineless indifference. I would have been embarassed to have even been in that room.

The cause of Sisyphus' boulder rolling down the hill is underappreciated. Our "democratic" boulder sits on the crest with a group eager to send it crashing back down. Camus imagines Sisyphus happy as he trudges back down that hill when he should yelling at Sisyphus to hold the damm boulder on top.