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“Do not obey in advance” — Timothy Snyder
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Trump is abusing his power to punish truth-tellers like Chris Krebs & Miles Taylor—issuing executive orders calling for DOJ investigations against them. This is authoritarian retribution, plain & simple. I warned this would happen & that he would falsely claim “treason.” This is deranged.

“Money is pouring in like no one has ever seen before,” he said today. Just for the record, the tariffs haven’t started yet.

Elections have consequences

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...

Reminder: All People Had To Do Was Fill In A Little Oval Next To The Smart Black Lady’s Name.

Welcome !

This is what you call two different readouts of the same meeting. Go Denmark, Go Greenland!

BREAKING: A federal judge just reinstated the head of the Inter-American Foundation, booted Pete Marocco and voided all his decisions. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

When billionaires are telling you to go hoard necessities...

It's not a bad idea to go to the local Walmart or big box retailer and buy lots of consumables now. From toothpaste to soap, anything you can find storage space for, buy before they have to replenish inventory. Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.

The same people in DC who got us into this mess are not going to be the ones to get us out of it. Today I'm announcing my campaign for U.S. Senate. Because we don't have a minute to wait.

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

Today, we celebrate and uplift our transgender family, friends, and neighbors, and stand strong in our commitment to making our city a home for everyone. 🏳️‍⚧️ #TransDayofVisibility

Je Suis Marine

"Vance, who never left the base, and has never before visited Greenland, was quite sure how Greenlanders should live. He made a political appeal to Greenlanders, none of whom was present, or anywhere near him."

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

"5. Remember professional ethics.

This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.

This is very smart www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...

If Trumpty-Dumpty is working with the Russians to screw up America, he's doing a great job. Eggs, $11 a dozen. Health & Human Services down the dumper, ditto VA. If you call Social Security, they tell you to call back later. Guys 'n gals, this is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.

The administration is trying to destroy free speech and freedom of the press. The White House Correspondents Association does not want to offend them while they're doing it. Sad days when journalists are the ones greasing the slippery slope to fascism.

Rumeysa Ozturk must not be deported. You can't kidnap someone off the street for their political views — this isn't Moscow. She has every right to speak her mind. I've contacted the Administration. I want answers.

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

In other countries, we recognize this immediately for what it is.

This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.

On the ground here in Milwaukee for GOTV!!! Vote Susan Crawford April 1st! Wisconsin State Supreme Court race. Lets send a message to Elon, you can't buy this election!

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now Thanks for your service to our country

Them: “no ‘war plans’ were discussed” The chat:

Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed. He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.

Yale professor Jason Stanley, leading expert on authoritarianism and fascism, along with Timothy Snyder are leaving the U.S. for University of Toronto. Are we paying attention, yet?

There's no gaslighting your way out of this.

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

JUST IN: American Oversight is suing Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe et al, saying their messaging via Signal is a violation of the Federal Records Act. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

I'm no lawyer, but it seems like discussing war plans in Signal outside a SCIF is maybe just a little bit worse than using a private server to send emails that weren't even marked as classified. But what do I know.

Astonishing to watch. He is just allowed to spew what ever comes out of his mouth with no care to wether it’s fact or not.

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

Timeline cleanse 🌞

NEW: Erdogan has banned protests in Turkey. He has threatened to arrest anyone attending one. This is the people’s response. Fighting for their democracy with another vast gathering in Istanbul tonight. #Turkey 🇹🇷 (🎥 Credit: Özgür Özel - Chairman, Republican People’s Party)

I am asking Canadians for a strong, positive mandate to deal with President Trump and build a stronger economy here at home.

The whole point is not just the state disappearing whoever they want, it's you being in the habit of accepting the state choosing whom to disappear, without question. It's submission to the state. Same as with Gitmo after 9/11. The state's judgment must not be questioned.