it is really bad how many people across the political spectrum on social media seem to discuss things in terms of discredited genetic pseudoscience when it comes to identity
I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders.
I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward
THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...
Nurul Amin Shah Alam was a blind refugee, unable to speak English. DHS improperly detained-but finally released him
Instead of bringing him home, they dropped him miles away-without regard to his disability or notifying his family
Unable to find his way, he died on the streets of Buffalo
Alone
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents. “There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me. If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.
One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Simply lying has worked for them for so long—they’ll double down until it doesn’t.
It's time for a truly massive general strike. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-enough
We can actually predict polar vortex events now by monitoring Ted Cruz flight patterns
This man is talking about stealing a country at gunpoint from nations the US is allied with. Of course Europeans hate us. You would feel the same way if you were in their place. American voters put this man in power, he didn’t seize it this time.
When the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson asked why “we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes,” he was identifying no mere contradiction, but liberty as it was imagined by men who owned other human beings as property. Slaveholders such as John Calhoun saw slavery as inseparable from their own freedom, and they worried that the false doctrine of abolitionism would eliminate that freedom away. “Already it has taken possession of the pulpit, of the schools, and, to a considerable extent, of the press; those great instruments by which the mind of the rising generation will be formed,” Calhoun said. (It seems the “woke mind virus” was telling lies about the great and benevolent institution of American slavery as far back as two centuries ago.) Defending slavery, however, required invasive uses of power, such as banning antislavery literature and returning escaped Black people to bondage. Many white Americans in the 19th century began to understand that the “Slave Power” curtailed their freedoms as well. And this is what many people forget: Systems of domination rarely spread their blessings widely. The Redemption-era revocation of Black freedoms didn’t result in prosperity for white people writ large, but a Gilded Age in which the upper classes gained unfathomable wealth and economic crises left millions destitute. The nation may have held on to white supremacy, but it also got low wages, a threadbare welfare state, and a society dominated by the rich. Everyone else was too divided by race and class to challenge them.
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The entire conservative legal movement and philosophy of “originalism” is premised on the illegitimacy of any SCOTUS decision that doesn’t fit the GOP party platform
Oh look, more of the same from the New York Times playing down renewables/decarbonization and playing up nuclear and natural gas (w/ mythical "capture). This time via David Victor, whom I identified as a problematic actor in the climate space in "The #NewClimateWar" (bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)
I could pick 20 from #andor
Notre Dame fans: channel your rage into fighting for justice and democracy :)
#whatwouldyoufightfor #notredame @notredame.bsky.social
When tech types pretend to be Christian, remember: nothing is more Anti-Christ than Silicon Valley.
A Lancet-published study estimates USAID cuts will kill over 14 million people by 2030.
“Whatever you did for the least of my brothers and sisters...”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0P...
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
Cyril Karn from Andor admitting that he had his uniform lightly tailored 
"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
In the wake of destructive floods, Wisconsin youth sue state utility regulator over failure to consider climate change.
The case is part of a growing movement to force climate action through the courts, led in part by Indigenous youth.
grist.org/justice/in-t...
#Wisconsin #Youth #Climate #Courts
Rachel Carson in 1943. Photo credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
#ResistanceRoots
“Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies ... ? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962
It's their go-to play: www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/c...
“The good news is that the data proves that the most effective message is love."
Last week, public relations expert @dfenton.bsky.social joined us for a conversation about the importance of crafting a compelling narrative to promote social change.
Visit thirdact.org/resources to watch more.
Israel’s food points are not just death traps – they’re an alibi for the starvation of Gaza - by @Alex de Waal
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“La CIJ ouvre la voie à des «réparations» climatiques par les États pollueurs (ICJ opens way for climate 'reparations' by polluting states)” | Article by Richard Carter for @ledevoir.com:
www.ledevoir.com/environnemen...
I’ve been kind of a broken record on this, but: no, you can’t hand it to them. You can’t work with them to get anything you want to do, done. If you do, they will take what you do and use it to hurt people. I realize that this sucks because you want to do things, but that is the way it has to be.
"Climate Change Is Making Extreme Rain Events Like Texas' More Common — And More Intense" by Li Zhou for @huffpost.com: www.huffpost.com/entry/extrem...
From the 1970s into the 2010s, a statement like this would not have coded as particularly partisan or leftist. The fact that virtually no Republican public figure could have said this today is a sign of how much that party has radicalized away from what used to be the center of US politics.
