Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Mike Klein #IndigenousPeoplesDay Truth-telling about the past Relationship-building now Justice-doing as we walk forward together 020 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 22/09/2025If there’s one think in my life that’s missing… #sailinglife 000 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 10/09/2025moon abeam a silver trail from waxing crescent to moonlit sail 000 0
Reposted by Mike KleinMPR News @mprnews.org · 06/09/2025“The Capitol Mall area gets visited by people from all around the world, and it's a good way to remind them of the land they're standing on and the people who have been here for a thousand years,” said Bruce Savage, chairman of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.mprnews.orgTribal nations’ flags raised in historic moment at Minnesota State CapitolFlags of the 11 federally recognized tribes in the state were raised for the first time Friday morning at the new Tribal Flag Plaza. Some tribal leaders say the plaza will serve as a reminder that tri... 17757127 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Hate when they mess with original #StarWars films like putting this USA hat on Emperor Palpatine #Darkside 000 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 19/07/2025More appropriate in our current politics than the US flag… 040 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 06/04/2025#HandsOff protest in St Paul Mayor Melvin Carter We the People 110 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Third term talk + speculative fiction = Christian nationalists (Vance) and techno-fascists (Musk) team up to sustain tRump on Ai-based life support beyond Constitutional limitations and natural life expectancy (singularity). I hope it is and will be fiction 000 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 26/03/2025US ethical standards in 2025: Can we get away with it? 000 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Checked my Signal account just to see if I was invited into any high security war planning group chats www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...theatlantic.comThe Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War PlansU.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling. 110 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 16/03/2025A picture from nature to interrupt your doomscrolling and my own justifiably alarmist political posts about our retrograde democracy and rising authoritarian corporate fascism… damn. Did it again 000 0
Reposted by Mike KleinJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11/03/2025UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.) 29127512691 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Sometimes I draw my own little world to escape this brutal plane for a moment, and I remember that we must envision the world we want even as we resist the degradations of this time. What creative practice do you cultivate to fight the darkness? 000 0
Reposted by Mike KleinAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 08/03/2025A few days ago, I posted about how authoritarian leaders fear student activism. I wrote a new article dives much deeper into this pattern – and why Trump's recent threats are so revealing. It's a global, historical phenomenon. (Short 🧵⬇️)data4democracy.substack.comThe Power of Student Protests in the Fight for Democracy: Why Trump and Authoritarians Worldwide Fear Campus ActivismTrump's Threat to Universities and the Global History of Student-Led Democratic Change 11296142 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 06/03/2025From the Declaration of Independence: "Governments are instituted among Men [sic], deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed" DO YOU CONSENT? #Resist 010 0
Reposted by Mike KleinKyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 04/03/2025Third in my series of mini-zines responding to questions I come across in my work/life: This one highlights about a dozen resources each sharing specific, concrete actions people can take, especially if they're new to activism and still looking for their political home: guante.info/actionzine 17591245 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 24/02/2025How will you spend Boycott Day, 2/28? Go to the library? Visit a State Park? Share a meal with neighbors? Protest oligarchs and billionaires? Take a walk to a public park? Provide mutual aid in your community? Spend at a local small businesses? Call your elected representatives? Plan(t) a garden? 010 0
Reposted by Mike KleinResist List @resistlist.bsky.social · 20/02/2025They want us to think we’re alone. We are not. The Resistance is Everywhere. Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States. 221099336 0
Reposted by Mike KleinErica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Lots of folks are asking what they can do to be helpful in this moment. I like the short list of action items that @choosedemocracy.bsky.social lists on their site. Democratic civil society is about being stronger together. Any effective strategy flows from that. choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/choosedemocracy.usWhat can I do to fight this coup?If you look, there are people resisting at every level. Blockades of freeways. American Bar Association urging an end to... 212360 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Voting happens every day with your dollar. Plan ahead to buy essentials. Redirect support to small, local businesses. Use cash to avoid small business credit card fees. Align purchasing power with your values. Send a message on 2/28: The power of acting together is greater than the people in power. 000 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Analysis of 3 competing factions and their less-than-strategic actions: MAGA, Project 2025, and the “broligarchy”thinkbigpicture.substack.comStrategery: Did the Trump Team Think This Through?Trump’s blitzkrieg assault on our federal government has revealed big vulnerabilities 000 0
Reposted by Mike KleinErica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Join this online conversation between me and my colleagues @stevelevitsky.bsky.social, @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social, and Marshall Ganz about organizing and mobilization during democratic backsliding. Next Thurs, Feb 20, 4-5pm ET. ash.harvard.edu/events/organ...ash.harvard.eduOrganizing and Mobilization during Democratic Backsliding – Ash CenterIn this webinar, panelists will draw upon lessons from around the world about how civil society groups can protect and promote democracy and the rule of law during episodes of democratic backsliding. 19548 0
Reposted by Mike KleinMark Engler @markengler.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Paul & I just sent out a dispatch about how the right is using its own version of mass training to build breadth + depth for the MAGA movement. We need to do it better to fight back. Read more & sign up for a free subscription to the newsletter at: whirlwinddispatches.substack.com/p/more-thoug...whirlwinddispatches.substack.comMore Thoughts On Mass Training During the Trump EmergencyThe right is building breadth and depth for the MAGA movement. We need to do it better to fight back. 042 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 11/02/2025"As always, art isn’t the only thing we need. As always, we do need art. Writing can help frame issues, shift narratives, and just bring people together. It won’t just happen inevitably, though; let these prompts be invitations for us all to be proactive and intentional." guante.info/2025/02/10/p...guante.infoLet Every Word Be A Wrench In Their Machine: Writing PromptsA resource sharing some of my favorite writing prompts: for poets of course, but also for songwriters, emcees, and writers of all kinds. 000 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Here’s your 2025 scorecard, courtesy of Umberto Eco, philosopher/novelist who lived through Italian fascism 000 0
Reposted by Mike KleinAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program. 878188818115 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 03/02/2025To replaced by the Department of Indoctrination, Ignorance and Obedience? 000 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 28/01/2025“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism 110 0
Reposted by Mike KleinSkye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Hi 💙 Friends — Help boost these new blue peeps under 5k! 🤘🏼 #NoDemUnder5k 🦋 #StrongerTogether ♻️ @onefish.bsky.social @sloopydeb.bsky.social @shepersistedera.bsky.social @machtnichts.bsky.social @jackie445.bsky.social @mnjamesj.bsky.social @deegirl.bsky.social @chipapa0.bsky.social 1381443338 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 18/12/2024small white dog emerges from a warm plaid blanket to bravely face the cruel reality of a meteorological and political winter 000 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 11/12/2024“Bdote Forest Eye” witness to the sacred, the settler-colonial, the call to repair. A step on my journey, coming to terms with an ancestor’s participation in the genocide of Dakota people and the responsibility of redress in relationship and solidarity #art 020 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 02/12/2024"Witness" 2022, carved long gun stocks #art #sculpture #gunviolence 140 0
Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 02/12/2024If I were a sculptor, But then again…yes “Grounded on Submerged History” 2022 140 0