One of the most brutal days in American history, on the brink of 17M losing Medicaid, 3.2M losing SNAP, massive wealth transfer to billionaires, 20x expansion of ICE. But the National Apartment Association (landlord lobby) celebrates this cruel bill as a "95% win for the housing industry."

“It takes more muscular forms of protest and noncooperation, like walkouts, labor strikes, and economic boycotts, to stop autocrats in their tracks…. Coordinating mass action, including organized noncooperation across different sectors and pillars, takes a commitment to big-tent organizing.”

Via "One First," my quick write-up of President Trump's "Presidential Memorandum" purporting to federalize 2000 California National Guard troops; the relevant legal authorities for doing so; and how the move is both a modest *and* dangerous escalation of what's going on in and around Los Angeles:

On this day in 1920, the Ku Klux Klan hired publicists to grow membership for the white supremacist organization. Within 16 months, nearly 100,000 new members had joined, and by 1924, there were three million active members nationwide.

The pro-democracy establishment talks about threats and norms, but rarely about the material conditions people are living in. This piece isn’t an attack. It’s a structural critique of a system managing decline while blaming the public for noticing. www.compactmag.com/article/why-...

Learning how to practice democracy at a small scale can teach us how to rebuild it at a large scale Yesterday, over 30 people in Menomonie WI gathered to discuss, plan & commit to win tenant protections in our town This is what it looks like to build an independent political home in your backyard

That means we must recalibrate what we expect going forward. The political conflict isn’t over, nor is the outcome determined, or democracy destined to be extinguished for good. But let’s finally discard whatever residual notion of “It cannot happen here” is still floating around.

This is our local food pantry here in Dunn County, WI. Last year, 5,000 people used the food pantry’s services. More than 10% of the 45,000 people who live here. Don’t tell me this isn’t class war.

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

The ruling class wants us hopeless. Because hopeless people don’t fight back. At GROWW, we organize working-class people in small towns & rural areas to win real fights in western WI. Hope is a skill. We build it through action. That’s why I stood with Bernie Sanders yesterday in Altoona, WI

Make no mistake that corporate media is a mouthpiece for the billionaire class. When they say "personal liberties and free markets" what they really mean is "an ideology that rationalizes the suffocation of working people for the benefit of the super-rich"

Wisconsin is the Dairy State. Today, that means corporate “farms” extract wealth and leave behind poisoned wells while big dairy lobbyists & their politician friends gut regulations that keep our communities safe. If the DNR won’t do its job, then we’ll do ours. We’ll organize to protect our homes

You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

A first excerpt from @chrislhayes.bsky.social terrific new book, published this morning: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I can think of no other way to properly eulogize Garth Hudson’s passing than to put on Chest Fever, turn the volume up, and allow the full-throated power of his organ intro to wash over me in waves

MLK was a great man, but he was just one man. Today, I’m reflecting on the entire movement of people who struggled, strategized, took risks, faced violence, all while keeping a laser focus on human dignity, justice, forgiveness, and truth. Let’s take a moment to let their examples sink in.

The notion of there “being good billionaires who share our values” is an excellent example of why the Democratic Party is currently a failed political institution

The family of David Lynch announced that a worldwide meditation is set for Monday, January 20th, to celebrate the legendary filmmaker's life. Here's what you need to know... / #DavidLynch

Costco workers affiliated with the Teamsters have voted in favor of going on strike if no deal is made ahead of a January 31 contract deadline.