one of the most hopeful and inspiring conversations i've heard in months.
07.05.2025 17:40
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one of the most hopeful and inspiring conversations i've heard in months.
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
#NationalLibraryWeek
#LiteracyMatters
The Guardian view on Trump’s trade war: no one will win, but China is taking the long view | Editorial
Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates
Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Good morning.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
11/ The tariffs aren’t economic policy. They are political weapons.
But as long as we see this clearly, we can stop him. Public mobilization is working. Today, a few Republicans joined Democrats to vote against one set of tariffs.
The people still have the power.
10/ And once Trump has the lawyers, colleges and industry under his thumb, it becomes very hard for the opposition to have any viable space to maneuver.
Trump didn’t invent this strategy. It’s the playbook for democratically elected leaders who want to stay in power forever.
9/ The tariffs are DESIGNED to create economic hardship. Why? So that Trump has a straight face rationale for releasing them, business by business or industry by industry.
As he adjusts or grants relief, it’s a win-win: the economy improves and dissent disappears.
8/ What could Trump demand as part of a quiet loyalty pledge?
Public shows of support from executives for all his economic policy. Contributions to his political efforts. Promises to police employees’ support for his political opposition.
6/ Healthy democracies rely on an independent legal profession to maintain the rule of law, independent universities to guard objective truth and provide forums for dissent to authority, and independent state/local government to counterbalance a powerful federal government.
5/ Trump knows that he can weaken (and maybe destroy) democracy by using spending and taxation in the same way.
He is using access to government funds to bully universities, law firms and state and local governments into loyalty pledges.
3/ You see, our founders created a President with limited and checked powers. They specifically put the power of spending and taxation in the hands of the legislature.
Why? Because they watched how kings and despots used spending and taxes to control their subjects.
2/ This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won’t understand how the tariffs make economic sense.
That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.
Crawford: Today, Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections, and our Supreme Court.. Wisconsin stood up and said that justice does not have a price, our courts are not for sale
Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏
Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said that the US had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized US President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like ‘a Roman emperor’ reut.rs/4iRDMfK
After getting some rest, I am in awe of everyone who continues to lift their voice and speak out. This is a moment for our country, and we must make a choice about the America we want to be.
"This time of despair and darkness doesn't demand more darkness, we don't need to demean and degrade those who don't agree with us, this is a time to do something bigger than that."
Cory Booker explains how people are looking for leadership from the Democratic Party and other citizens.
This Friday!
To join, register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The intense crackdown on students’ free speech “really does just seem to be an expansion in law enforcement power that maybe didn’t exist 20, 25 years ago,” EFF’s Saira Hussain told @nytimes.com.
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
Roberta Flack's first single was the remarkable protest song 'Compared to What"
An absolutely definitive voice and soul
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDUk...
And the world watches on as #israelviolatesceasefire yet again
It's time we stopped
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down
youtu.be/gp5JCrSXkJY?...
While U.S. showed its worst side in Vietnam and other Cold War excesses, we also betrayed Central/Eastern Europe immediately after WWII, by letting nation after nation be absorbed into Stalin's empire
That makes Trump's betrayal of Ukraine--after inducing it to give up its nukes--even more vile
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Young voters really don't like Elon Musk.
His unfavorability is 54% with all voters. 67% with voters under 30.
Feels important for a party that needs to win a much bigger share of young voters.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
