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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

@nitafarahany.bsky.social heard you on podcast with @djrothkopf.bsky.social - Fascinating, yet existential. Sounds like Surveillance Capitalism 2.0 - Now following. Good luck with your book!

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

There’s nothing like Andrea Bocelli singing, “Do you see what I see?” During his Christmas special.

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I don’t know if I just figured this out, but I did figure out, that Maga = “Revenge of the Nerds” but instead of revenge of the nerds, the scientists, this is revenge of the nothing’s. They are angry that they have been left behind and the only pleasure they can get is through revenge & damage.

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

This is probably the most heartfelt podcast I’ve ever heard w/ @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and @jysexton.bsky.social - A much needed therapy session of human connection, trying to make sense & create space for the sad & confusing national degradation we currently feel: 🙏👇 youtube.com/watch?v=miqw...

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Is America Emotionally Malnourished?!: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

From now on, if I meet a maga, I’m going to literally tell them to “eat a bag of dicks” - I have zero tolerance for domestic terrorists. As Rage Against the Machine says, “there be no shelter here! (the frontline is everywhere)” youtu.be/-s3Y3WMGuYc?...

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Rage Against the Machine - No Shelter (Lyrics)

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Great show from Chauncey DeVega (where is he on Bluesky? 🤷‍♂️) with guest, @normansolomon.bsky.social - nourishment and knowledge for the soul against American empire and fascism. Please listen and share: 👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Trump's 100 Days, America's Empire is Rotting From Within

Podcast Episode · The Chauncey DeVega Show · 05/01/2025 · 59m

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I’ve been listening to @petedominick.bsky.social since the beginning of time, & I don’t think I’ve ever heard him sound this fierce-liberal. I think he’s at the end of his rope with the ridiculousness of the Trump side: youtube.com/watch?v=pP-o...

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1343 Yale History Professor Greg Grandin + News & Clips

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Let me describe the narcissist. People are scared of narcissists, but we realize they’re just babies, so we say don’t be afraid of a baby…but then give that baby a handgun. 😳 Now what if that narc baby is in the White House, affecting worldwide markets w/ tariffs and holds nukes. 😱

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 31/03/2025

Hungary shows us the endgame of autocratic populism: poverty and corruption www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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The Hungarian Model

MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

This particular episode of @gaslitnation.bsky.social with host, @andreachalupa.bsky.social is so important! @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social explains the past & present state of our Democracy & the very real chances of us entering a Great Depression. This is a MUST LISTEN 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=67jI...

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"We Are Becoming an Apartheid State."

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I thought this episode of Democracy-ish was well put together and highly important in particular with @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and @wajali.bsky.social so I hope you will join me in giving this a listen 🙏 youtube.com/live/AdpfsjI...

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The King is HERE | democracyish LIVE

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The eventual fate of the GOP

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

New data on the reaction to Gavin Newsom’s new podcast: Full Story: bit.ly/3FwfuJz

New data on the reaction to Gavin Newsom’s new podcast:

- Favorability amongst Liberals has declined from 46% to 30%.

- While some Republicans agreed with his stances, they overwhelmingly viewed him as insincere, calling him “fake” and “pandering”

- His net favorability dropped from +4 to -6, a 10-point swing in the wrong direction.

- Only 13% of voters had an improved perception of him, and only 1 in 5 said the podcast made them want to tune in for more.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The U.S. has been suffering from a bad--potentially fatal--case of "it can't happen here." And now that we know it can, there are still plenty of folks whose eyes have yet to open to just how dangerous this situation is.

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Knowingly or useful-idiotically, Schumer is complicit.

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Latest from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social with @wajali.bsky.social who reminds us that our representation on the Democrat side (& MSNBC) has been “no bueno” too, and that we need to come together as united Americans to help resist our current Authoritarian “tech bro” rule. 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=_wTR...

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How The Broligarchy Conquered America: An Interview With Sarah Kendzior

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A conversation between @petedominick.bsky.social and @djrothkopf.bsky.social is always a refreshing voice of reason in a crazy world. 👇https://youtube.com/watch?v=e4JGNPSe4e4

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1314 David Rothkopf & News + Clips

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

@gilduran.com explains Trump’s recently announced Jonestown-cult-like tech “Freedom Cities” with Host @andreachalupa.bsky.social on #GaslitNation 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=Jiju...

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Nerd Reich

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Say the word “women” everyday! Women will fight. Women will lead the way. Women will not go away. Women are our future. Women will not stand for this! Women are taking power back.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Truth is the enemy of injustice. The only reason leaders or a movement actively oppose truth—whether in the form of words, ideas, free speech, history, or education—it is because they seek to promote and institutionalize injustice—whether in economic, political, or social form.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Anti science. Anti history. Anti math (anti economic and statistical truth). Anti civics. Anti fact. Anti education. As much as it is pro greed or pro power or pro racism or pro misogyny or pro Russia, this administration is the most openly pro ignorance, anti knowledge in our history.

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

@mariaressa.bsky.social on @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social is a gem/hero. As a journalist in the Philippines, she was a “first to deal” w/ Facebook misinfo & authoritarian dictator, Duterte who said, “Shoot & kill drug addicts…these 👉 journalists are drug addicts!” Get it? youtube.com/watch?v=jsHo...

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Jon Stewart & Maria Ressa On the US’s Authoritarian Slide | The Weekly Show

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

When Trump gets backed into a corner, his narcissistic survival defense mechanism kicks-in. He sprays like a skunk or he inks like an octopus. He pulls the rip cord of maximizing “unreality” to confuse the masses: “They’re eating the cats they’re eating the dogs!” or “You’re causing WW3!!!”

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

God spoke to me. He said Trump is a piece of shit.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

A lot of people are going to die from this

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Here’s performance of “Mississippi Goddam!” by Nina Simone, as referenced in @daniellemoodie.bsky.social Podcast below. 👇 Lyrics at 3:15 - “My country is full of lies, we’re all gonna die, and die like flies. I don’t trust nobody anymore, they keep on saying go slow.” youtu.be/LJ25-U3jNWM?...

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Nina Simone: Mississippi Goddam

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Remember the quote: “It happens slowly until it happens fast.” We’re in the fast part now.

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

For the record, the world is round, vaccines are safe and effective, climate change is real, and they are not eating the cats, they are not eating the dogs!

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

You know how we hear a song, and it brings back happy feelings of a road trip, a first love, or a day at the beach? Yeah, Trump & Elon don’t have those feelings.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

By any reasonable metric, the administration’s signature initiatives, from DOGE to the immigration crackdown to making progress reducing the deficit, have been disastrous failures and show no signs of better results in the foreseeable future.

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Joel Mendelson @jpmendelson.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

He will go down as one of history’s great villains.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

NEW. Anne Applebaum. “That you take control of state institutions and make them work for you personally...every illiberal leader does...But [what's happening in the US] is more radical than anything any [contemporary] European far-right party has done.” youtu.be/WsBKxgOFSLg?...

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Anne Applebaum on Ukraine, Europe, and the US

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Good time to follow Julia Davis

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Republicans and Musk are gloating over firing federal employees. Well, about 20,000 people are losing their jobs. They rely on those jobs for income. They have bills to pay and families. They are now unemployed. How do you think this will impact the local and national economy? MAGA.

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Words fail to express the extent of my loathing for this hair-plugged, limp-dicked, Putin-fluffing, Hitler-heiling incarnation of evil at its most banal. I hope I outlive him so I can go outside and dance when he is gone.

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Pete Dominick @petedominick.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

If you are lonely and scared, then you should join us on Monday and Thursday nights at 8 PM for our happy hour hangout we have a great conversation and always lots of laughs. Patreon.com/petedominick

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Anyone who watched knew @katiephang.bsky.social was one of the very best and smartest anchors and commentators to be found anywhere on TV. Her show will be missed but I will follow her closely wherever she is.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I love @petedominick.bsky.social, but skip ahead to 30min, for a quick Euro-perspective, then my favorite dude: @djrothkopf.bsky.social - He gives such a simple & coherent rundown on where we are at this moment. This gets a MUST LISTEN 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=Pof-...

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

This is what I said to my kid: “Last night I dreamed you were smart, then I woke-up disappointed.”

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The South has taken over. Where is Lincoln and the Union Army?

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I think @katherinestewart.bsky.social says something very profound on #PrevailPodcast w/ @gregolear.bsky.social - “There’s No Accountability (red) on one side vs Purity Politics (blue) on the other” and that Democrats need to come together b/c we’re 80% friends. 👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

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Money, Lies, God, and the Taxonomy of Reactionary Nihilism (with Katherine Stewart)

Podcast Episode · Prevail with Greg Olear · 02/21/2025 · 1h 7m

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

“Let Them Fight, We Unite” is the slogan from @wajali.bsky.social on today’s episode of Democracy-ish with @daniellemoodie.bsky.social 👇 (also go to indivisible.org) Great show! 👏 youtube.com/live/vyLTZrN...

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The MAGA KING is HERE, Now What?! | democracyish LIVE

YouTube video by Danielle Moodie

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Democracy First! @prodemocracy1st.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Someone just asked if the first cars ran on coal 😔

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This:

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