Reposted by @mayababaanne.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/06/2025As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs. 18487262897
mayababaanne.bsky.social @mayababaanne.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Pretty much always right on target, this time the New York Times Pitchbot got an actual LOL from me. 000
Reposted by @mayababaanne.bsky.socialAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/04/2025The turnout in small towns across the country has been incredible drawing crowds of thousands. We’re already seeing over one million in attendance nationwide, and events are still underway. Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Ohio all had especially surprising showings. 12045265611497
Reposted by @mayababaanne.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/04/2025"Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement."thedailybeast.comPope Sends Deputy to Lecture Vance on Compassion at VaticanVance had an “an exchange of opinions” with Cardinal Pietro Parolin that touched on migration, the Vatican said. 972170163779
Reposted by @mayababaanne.bsky.socialJoan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 01/04/2025The rise in local, distributed protests, from #TeslaTakedowns to GOP town halls, is encouraging, writes @joanwalsh.bsky.social, but participants also need tools, ideas, inspiration and the sense that “you don’t need to do anything alone," as Erica Chenoweth put it. bit.ly/42oQjS5bit.lyMy Weekend of Anti-Trump, Anti-Musk “Defiance”I went to a #TeslaTakedown in New York and signed on to a Zoom “Resistance Lab” training. Here’s what I saw. 1624952
Reposted by @mayababaanne.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 31/03/2025"use creative tactics, stay active for long periods of time, and retain public support by eschewing violence even when facing government repression..." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...foreignaffairs.comHow to Save a DemocracyAmericans can learn from opponents of authoritarianism elsewhere. 22479582615
Reposted by @mayababaanne.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Here 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...snyder.substack.comTwenty Lessons, read by John LithgowKey selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing 26691494383
mayababaanne.bsky.social @mayababaanne.bsky.social · 10/03/2025About 90 people yesterday at Tesla Corte Madera. Similar number on Saturday. @teslatakedown.com #teslatakedown 020
mayababaanne.bsky.social @mayababaanne.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Had about 80 people protesting today at Tesla Marin. Not as many as last week, BUT there was another protest there yesterday so that feels good to me! @teslatakedown.com #teslatakedown 140
mayababaanne.bsky.social @mayababaanne.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Well over 120 peaceful protesters outside the Tesla dealership in Marin County today. #TeslaTakedown 36213