Americans are rejecting Donald Trump’s mass deportation assault on America. Americans don’t want to see students who are good enough and safe enough to perform at the U.S. Capitol and Carnegie Hall deported. Americans don’t want a five-year locked up at a trailer prison.
In 2020, when he finally figured out how hard Xi had played him, he raged at China. Wonder if he’s even capable of, or allowed to do that, with Netanyahu.
I was honored to attend the homegoing service of one of my heroes: Rev. Jesse Jackson.
As a pastor, he preached unity and love. As a candidate, he built a multi-racial working-class coalition.
Thank you to the Jackson Family for inviting me to celebrate his incredible life.
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@pkrugman.bsky.social I haven’t seen any Texas based outlets saying anything like this.
Thank you, Texas! I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for Governor of our beautiful state. Together, we’re going to take on corruption and it’s going to be a new day in TX.
You have put your faith in me, and I promise to put my all into fighting for you and your families. On to November!
The results are in from our recent readers’ poll. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets high marks. Kamala Harris, not so much.
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Functioning democracies place anti-corruption regulation and enforcement as a high priority.
Not enforcing against corruption allows malign opportunists to garner outsized wealth and influence that helps steer policy and choose leaders. Corruption exacerbates democratic decline.
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
The reason they spew some much disinformation about kids transitioning is because, in reality, trans people existing doesn't impact your life at all. Not. At. All.
So they lie, as Trump did in his State of the Union, to make you scared and angry.
Just leave trans people the fuck alone.
I think one of the best things about Bluesky and one of the things that is going to keep it from ever becoming as big as other sites is that everyone here has a real internal mistrust and dislike of people selling us something, either literally for money or for some sort of other gain
slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur
Guy Whose Political Knowledge Is Exclusively From System of a Down Lyrics Better Informed Than 99% of People He Interacts With
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The Texas Observer debut of @alexbirnel.bsky.social: www.texasobserver.org/let-a-hundre...
I wrote about my time in Minneapolis last week, about what is involved in creating bottom-up, decentralized networks of care.
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Incredible work by @radleybalko.bsky.social
Anyone dooming about there not being elections this fall please go register to work the polls.
Here in Texas you have to swear an oath to the US and Texas Constitution to be a poll worker.
We just published our full analysis of the ICE killing of Alex Pretti on Bellingcat
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The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.
We need to get out good, verified information to the public as rapidly as possible, so counteract populist, conspiratorial, and authoritarian narratives that are produced by systems that work well in our modern information environment.
Part of what strikes me about Trump, Noem, Bovino, Miller, et al and their willingness to lie in the face of overwhelming video evidence, is their absolute certainty in the tribal stupidity and cynicism of their supporters—especially on here—who will blindly repeat their lies.
When these events happen and I check my local community fb pages, it’s like people are just reposting the same stuff you see in these tweets.
How are we ever going to build a better future when this poison is out there??
I live in a red area. How the hell am I supposed to “persuade” people who eat this shit up that it’s wrong?
Damn I thought facebook was bad.
this is a small thing but it would be nice to feel good about paying taxes. i would like to write a check to the government and think about kids going to school and freshly paved roads not all the death squads my income helps fund.
Tentative schedule for the April Cambridge Disinformation Summit is now available.
Speaker names will be announced closer to the events to enhance security.
In-person attendance is by invitation only.
Questions: CFRA@jbs.cam.ac.uk
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The Governors of the free States of America, particularly Democratic states, need to hold a summit to create a deliberative body and as a framework for collective action against those who would wage war against those states
In one year, Trump has poisoned our information environment and broken a lot of institutions that mistakenly believed they were powerful.
Also true: the future is unwritten, in our hands, and anyone who says that we're doomed is effectively an enemy.
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