If you’d just serve the people instead of the donor class, you wouldn’t need the donor class. A million $20 donors beats one $10M donor every time.

Silent anti-fascism vigil in Port Townsend yesterday. The signs say it all

Could Texas get even more fabulous news on top of the redistricting suit getting tossed? YES, YES IT CAN! ⚖️🪅

There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely. *If all goes by the regular schedule

There’s still time to call senators. Let me explain. Sorry not sorry about the cat. He’s also really upset about this deal.

Well, we got six nice days.

Guess these folks really don’t understand that we’re fighting a fascist regime.

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

Mamdani: “We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves… So, Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have 4 words for you: turn the volume up.” *Crowd roars*

Mamdani: “We won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do.”

At his final rally on Monday, New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani vowed to resist US President Donald Trump’s threat to withhold federal funds if he wins, framing the vote as a stand against intimidation and political bullying.

I'm directing $2.2 million per week to provide support to Washington's food banks in the wake of the Congressional Republicans’ shutdown. Our state will keep looking for innovative solutions while SNAP is suspended. President Trump needs to tell his party to do their jobs.

Washington state is suing the Trump Administration for illegally suspending SNAP benefits. Political games from President Trump and Congressional Republicans are harming the most vulnerable Washingtonians. We're fighting to protect the people of our state.

There are many good science fiction novels. Not a single one that I have read delivers a happy vision of the future in which aged right-wing billionaires control the media.

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Priorities.

"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed" Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...

October 23, 2025

Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?” @aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

I hear from informed sources that these #NoKings rallies are more than twice as big as last time, making them easily the largest protests in US history. Thanks to everyone and especially organizers.

October 16, 2025

“What can we do?” - Share Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline with Congress Tell them: Read it. Act on it. Call, write, email—then send this link ⤵️ steadystate1.substack.com/p/accelerating-authoritarian-dynamics, or a pdf of the report (available online)

Make your plans for #NoKings. This Saturday, October 18th. Free speech is action. Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country. I'll be there. Please join in. www.nokings.org

Mr. President. Stop breaking the law.  The shutdown does not give you the right to fire thousands of hard working federal employees. Instead of giving huge tax breaks to your billionaire friends, show some respect for the struggling working families of our country.

October 9, 2025

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

Trump wants to invoke the Insurrection Act to punish anyone who opposes him, and he’s following a four point plan to do it. Here’s what you need to know about it — and some thoughts on how to respond. www.youtube.com/shorts/31X8v...

No Kings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. www.nokings.org

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny": Listen for dangerous words.

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

My book "On Freedom," the case for the value of freedom and a proposal for a better future, with a new foreword accounting for where we are today, will be out in paperback October 28th. timothysnyder.org/on-freedom

This is what actual freedom of speech looks like — join in www.nokings.org

Disney: capitulating right away when the core idea of your major franchises is creative resistance.

“The law doesn’t matter anymore” is obeying in advance.

This administration is responsible for the most blatant attacks on the free press in American history. What will be left of the First Amendment when he’s done?

Gun violence is a public health crisis.

Keeping the U.S. government funded now is to participate in the most atrocious misuse of the power of the United States in modern times. So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole f*cking thing down. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/should-democrats-shut-the-government

The president is threatening to wage war against an American city. Day by day, Trump drags us closer to authoritarianism. We will not be intimidated. We will stand up for our values, the rule of law and our Constitution.

This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

Hey Silverdale & Kitsap County! WALK AGAINST ICE Sat. Sept. 13, 10a-2pm Meet at Silverdale Waterfront Park 7 groups from around the county are coming together to rally & march with signs supporting immigrants and other at-risk neighbors. There will be speakers! www.mobilize.us/northkitsapi...

Join us in welcoming Hawaii to the West Coast Alliance!

Dangerously, President Trump and HHS Sec. Kennedy are wreaking havoc on our already broken and dysfunctional healthcare system. You don’t make America healthy again by throwing 15 million people off of their health care and undermining science. Secretary Kennedy must resign.

Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.

BREAKING: The Pentagon has authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges. This is a blatant expansion of military power into a civilian judicial process, a dangerous erosion of the separation between the two. Every day, we inch closer to fascism.

Remember that we can always find power, solidarity, and hope in the labor movement. [Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales]