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lauriewainberg.bsky.social
democracy, media and anthropomorphizing cats
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I asked an international human rights lawyer recently what red lines to watch for - he said, “when people start to disappear.” Well…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

submitted 55 days ago • 41 comments

There's mass confusion or willful revision of how to amass broad enough coalition to defeat fascist threat. Aka "big tent" or strange bedfellows strategy and what has actually worked in the past & in other places. Salivating centrist, shocker, say it's - moderate & sell out "controversial" issues.🧵

submitted 58 days ago • 3 comments

The wealthiest man in the world has fully purchased the federal government of the United States. This is one of the most extraordinary crises in the history of this country and you need to ask whether your elected representatives are acting like it.

submitted 61 days ago • 509 comments

GOPers have a remedy that they alone can use any day to right the ship of state and, not incidentally, massively enlarge their own individual power(s): impeach him.

submitted 61 days ago • 30 comments

Note to Dem leaders: If you consider how much the political landscape has changed in two months and you’re calculating your political tactics because you think you know what the world will look like in fall 2026, much less 2028, you’re deluding yourself.

submitted 68 days ago • 15 comments

the tesla protest might objectively be among the most successful in history already just in terms of immediate response, if you consider they forced the world’s most powerful person & its most wealthy to fully degrade themselves like used car salesmen on live TV while the whole world watched agog.

submitted 69 days ago • 266 comments

we're in legit first they came for territory and a lot of people have been failing at this test they cite all the time

submitted 72 days ago • 18 comments

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 77 days ago • 1737 comments

This is not about cleaning up after last year’s protests; this is about getting out ahead of what is coming.

submitted 78 days ago • 98 comments

Essential reading by @popovaprof.bsky.social on the parallels between 1944-46 and the current moment, and the danger that is inherent in not acknowledging the realities of Russia's continued imperialist drive (which unfortunately is now echoed by the US government, denying Ukrainian sovereignty).

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt

submitted 84 days ago • 2655 comments