Shared at CPAC this year

I keep trying to tell y'all: you can frustrate and delay these authoritarian kleptocrats by multiple means, and every single second of delay, every instant where they look ridiculous in public, is a space to wedge in a crowbar for more breathing space.

You work the problem from all sides.

a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history

This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...

NEW: Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins.

By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

“Designed to Break You:” Two Incarcerated Writers on the Heavy Toll of Solitary Confinement - Bolts Isolating people inside a small, closet-like cell for weeks, months, and even years on end remains common inside this country’s prisons and jails, even though the United Nations defines the... Read Mo...

Trump commutes George Santos’ prison, saying he was moved by Santos’ account of being in solitary confinement.

A reminder: many people are left in solitary confinement all over the county, sometimes *for years*, without a direct connection to the president.

Some of their voices:

We're very close now to this execution—take the time to read @laurengill.bsky.social's important story:

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Chris Murphy is one of the only Dems who gets that there is no budget “deal” to make. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

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The American people are smart. They know Trump and Republicans control government and Democrats do not.

LAST MONTH SENATE REPUBLICANS CHANGED THEIR DUMB RULES TO ALLOW A MAJORITY VOTE. Then can do so again.

GOP Senate can pass their bad funding bill today if they felt like it.

Last year, when @propublica.org published 14 hours of Project 2025 training videos, Trump was still denying any connection to PJ2025.

But we pointed out that 29 of the 36 speakers in these clips had already worked for Trump in some capacity:

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so much else... Read M...

Check out the new @boltsmag.org cheat sheet to the 2025 US general elections: There's a lot happening, including—among many things:
—Big mayoral races in NYC, Seattle, Minneapolis
—Transport funding in Charlotte
—Housing funding in Knoxville
—Infrastructure packages in Denver, OK City, Columbus

russ vought saying "no, its a three year term" when Biden asks for his resignation on the naval academy visitors board

Your occasional reminder that Russ Vought, who is claiming the right to fire civil servants for whatever reason he sees it, once refused to quit a political appointment position even after Trump had lost.

In Klamath Falls, Oregon, victory declared over antifa, which never showed up Towns from Washington state to Indiana have seen armed groups begin patrolling the streets after rumors spread on social media about an antifa invasion.

Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland.

Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming.

No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."

The national security threat is in the White House, not in Portland.

The suggestion that chemical agents like tear gas or pepper spray could be used indiscriminately against peaceful demonstrators, or even first responders, is unacceptable and not normal.

Trump posting an AI video of himself promising something that doesn’t exist should get the full failing Biden front page treatment but we know it won’t.

As you think about how to respond to Portland news, maybe think about dif between rhetoric of Newsom & Pritzker. Newsom mirrored; Pritzker spoke clearly about just how dangerous the moment it is. Do you want to be glib? My argument is that the main agency we have now is precision of language. 1/

The Right is nakedly trying to make it illegal to call them fascists which is about the most obviously fascist thing you could come up with.

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon

The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions

It starts with local, states, and then federal. Start connecting locally

ICE is terrorizing immigrant communities across America, which include tens of thousands of men and women who have served the nation in war but lack citizenship.

Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“The larger pattern, researchers say, points in the opposite direction: White supremacist, anti-government, and misogynist beliefs account for the lion’s share of ideologically motivated gun violence.”

Many people and institutions that fight back are winning.

This is a large part of the reason to scorn the people and institutions that have caved. When this is over their lives should be made miserable. More, I mean.

The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the Constitution to Give Trump Terrifying New Powers The conservative supermajority's lawless shadow docket decision let the president unilaterally cancel $4 billion in foreign aid.

Today’s shameful shadow docket decision from the Supreme Court—allowing Trump to unilaterally cancel $4 billion in aid—is not behavior that any healthy democracy tolerates of its judiciary. It is a sign of constitutional rot that precedes the rule of law’s collapse. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I’m telling you, there’s just not enough outrage about the craven actions of Speaker Mike Johnson.

This is a great analysis of the value of moral standards and the power of shame as a deterent to uphold them. We need those norms and the social pressure to adhere to them. The alternative is violence and repression.

Thousands of laid-off federal workers in DMV struggle to get enough food, report shows

wjla.com/news/local/s...

"Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24"

lol. LOL. LMAO. LMFAO. OMGWTFBBQ.