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he. is. not. popular.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Trump rode to political prominence on birtherism and spent the last month of his campaign claiming that Haitians were eating cats. The rise of authoritarianism in America must be understood as a misinformation crisis.

submitted 3 days ago • 97 comments

Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

submitted 4 days ago • 116 comments

If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

submitted 7 days ago • 915 comments

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

submitted 11 days ago • 1394 comments

The people who got us here are in fact not the ones who can get us out.

submitted 11 days ago • 37 comments

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

submitted 11 days ago • 113 comments

I voted for Trump. But when he said he was going to wreck the economy, I didn’t know that he really meant that he was going to wreck the economy.

submitted 12 days ago • 150 comments

Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.” Lots of information and resources in this one. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 12 days ago • 237 comments

“Why do I need NOAA? I’ve got a weather app.” Is equivalent to asking “Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.” www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...

submitted 13 days ago • 49 comments

Amidst the chaos and the law-breaking the most important thing to remember/focus on is that they are doing these things illegally because they know they don't have the votes to do it by passing laws, even in a GOP controlled Congress.

submitted 13 days ago • 64 comments

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

submitted 18 days ago • 191 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 23 days ago • 2305 comments

The core selling point of Trumpism is that other people's suffering will be your gain. So when something awful happens--a plane crash, a mass shooting, you name it--they cannot and will not offer solutions. All they will offer is more suffering.

submitted 23 days ago • 12 comments

(former heroin addict and apparent steroid user who now looks like a boiled catcher's mitt and sounds like someone who gargles hot tar) "I just want Americans to be healthy!"

submitted 24 days ago • 631 comments

Read, share, act.

submitted 25 days ago • 38 comments

It’s unconscionable that many people who want to avoid COVID can’t afford the mitigations Respirators, tests & vaccines should be free to all Clean air should be in all public spaces & we need mandatory masks in healthcare Until then, donate to mask blocs! Hand out respirators. Give to mutual aid

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

Do one thing every day to help someone currently in harms way. Learn how to identify and protect neighbours from ICE agents. Stand up for the LGBTQ+ community. Wear a mask in solidarity with the disabled community. Learn about anti-Blackness and commit to doing better. Don’t let hate win.

submitted 29 days ago • 88 comments

remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you will do something about it

submitted 30 days ago • 203 comments

Drives me crazy. If you don’t want to fight say so. Stop trying to discourage others from doing the work you’re too jaded to do. You try 50 times and win the 51st. That’s how it works. Progress happens when you find ways to make it matter. And sometimes it’s just your persistence.

submitted 31 days ago • 91 comments

The point of the firehose of Executive Orders is to disorient and to demobilize. It's to instill maximum fear. If we know this, then that's already half the battle. This means that we have to respond with focus on those most vulnerable & targets. It means we have to refuse their attempt to scare us.

submitted 32 days ago • 80 comments

10s of millions of people DO NOT support these fascists. I think that folks really need to keep this top of mind.

submitted 32 days ago • 50 comments

I mean is it news that the Mainstream Media is supine and completely in thrall to power. I don't think so. Let's seek out and reward independent outlets with our money and our attention. Instead of reposting bullshit from WaPo or the NYT, uplift other information. That's a simple thing to do.

submitted 32 days ago • 37 comments

Monday morning we are entering a new chapter in this country's history and we are entering it together, with our friends and principles held close and our eyes wide open.

submitted 35 days ago • 47 comments

Last time I checked, nobody voted for the richest man in the world to run the federal government.

submitted 64 days ago • 308 comments

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a child cancer research center with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

submitted 65 days ago • 2671 comments

Our message to the media: We are either pushing back on the slide into authoritarianism, or we are enabling it. There is no third option. Both sides-ism is how we got here. As Christian Amanpour said: “Be truthful, not neutral.”

submitted 66 days ago • 254 comments

Dear Kristen Weller and all other press, when they say we deleted evidence, refer them to this…. It’s all the evidence: www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...

submitted 76 days ago • 485 comments

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 97 days ago • 1165 comments