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My latest: With one possible exception, there have never been this many coordinated protests on a single day in the U.S. before. I explore why the omnipresence of these peaceful demonstrations matters so deeply, in the face of authoritarian overreach: lakauffman.substack.com/p/when-peace...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

We should have a memorial day for COVID. It is horrific that we as a society have done virtually nothing to remember the millions who have died. Rushing to forget what happened also makes it much more likely that we will continue to repeat our deadly mistakes.

submitted 27 days ago • 86 comments

House Republicans just passed Trump’s Tax Scam (the GOP’s Medicaid-slashing, billionaire-enriching megabill) in a 215-214 vote. The bill got even worse overnight, but the most important thing to know right now is this: This fight isn’t over, and this bill can still be stopped. 🧵

submitted 31 days ago • 53 comments

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

submitted 33 days ago • 559 comments

President Trump just fired almost the entire staff of the CFPB, who protect you from getting scammed by Wall Street. This is another assault on consumers and our democracy by Trump's lawless Administration. We will fight back with everything we've got.

submitted 66 days ago • 266 comments

I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of detainees being removed from the United States to foreign prisons until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.

submitted 69 days ago • 523 comments

Please ignore tired pieces in publications like the Atlantic that are still trying to stigmatize mask wearing. Wearing a mask to prevent sickness from airborne viruses is a science-informed position, and it has been that way for over 100 years.

submitted 80 days ago • 135 comments

All anti-mask laws—even those with so called “medical exceptions”—stigmatize mask-wearing. Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases. No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.

submitted 85 days ago • 185 comments

ARIZONA — Bernie on the Oligarchy: “From the bottom of my heart, I am convinced they can be defeated.”

submitted 94 days ago • 430 comments

Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

submitted 95 days ago • 955 comments

Please like this post if you're as tired of "winning" as I am. #IncompetentKrasnov

submitted 102 days ago • 1727 comments

"We don’t need more detached, ironic spectators. We need people who actually give a shit. People who are willing to stand up, speak out, get knocked down, and come back swinging." - www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for...

submitted 105 days ago • 5 comments

The pickets are spreading. #TeslaTakeDown

submitted 106 days ago • 35 comments

They adopted a posture of total submission and it bought them precisely nothing. A lesson for the Trump era www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

submitted 107 days ago • 113 comments

A team of archivists has recreated the pre-Trump CDC website as a live, easy-to-navigate website that should be indexed by Google. The team is hosting it in Europe. Cool project that is sadly necessary: www.404media.co/archivists-r...

submitted 109 days ago • 30 comments

STOP DOING TRUMP'S WORK FOR HIM. STOP CONCEDING HE CAN DO ILLEGAL SHIT VIA EO. STOP SAYING THE EQUIVALENT OF, "OH WELL, NO ONE WILL STOP HIM, WE MIGHT AS WELL GIVE UP." STOP IT. DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION AND THE RULE OF LAW. ALWAYS.

submitted 110 days ago • 16 comments

Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."

submitted 114 days ago • 398 comments

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

submitted 114 days ago • 491 comments

It's as important right now to affirm the positive as it is to sanction the negative. If someone or a group or an organization refuse to comply, let them know you appreciate them.

submitted 117 days ago • 20 comments

he. is. not. popular.

submitted 123 days ago • 30 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 123 days ago • 93 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 124 days ago • 114 comments