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Interests: democracy—is it crumbling beyond repair at home🇺🇸& where I live🇩🇪,history, ethics, science, foreign policy, education, communication, art, leadership, food… Big fan of 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments My dog’s name is Ginsburg

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Taking Action 4 US🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇨🇦🇩🇪📚📗 @takingaction4us.bsky.social · 4h
@philipkennicott.bsky.social is one of the most incisive observer writers of this era someone to heed “…artworks that function as celebrities within the larger world of visual culture …stuffed with American works that would be hard to distinguish from sugary genre scenes of Germany in the 1930s“
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back
The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Unbelievable. Except totally believable. We utterly fail at elite accountability in 🇺🇸, & elite universities have been at the forefront of that since Iran-Contra, repeatedly offering sinecures to the authoritarians. It's why all the things keep happening time & again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 03/10/2026
Trump II is about many things, but one of the major recurring themes is that Donald Trump is intent on using his office--a public trust--to enrich himself and his allies Rank corruption beneath the office of the presidency and clear grounds for impeachment, conviction, and removal
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 03/10/2026
To learn more, check out We Charge Genocide www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we...
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Dec. 17, 1951: “We Charge Genocide” Petition Submitted to United Nations
Paul Robeson and William Patterson submitted a petition from the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) to the United Nations, signed by almost 100 U.S. intellectuals and activists.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Okay guys our Governor candidates need money. Bottoms, Hinojosa, Jolly are putting out good ads but they don’t have money to air them. These races are all tossups and we need to act like it At this point you gotta wind down your donations to the Senate candidates
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“Artists urged Americans to remember that they have the power to throw the Trump administration out of office &, together, to build a better nation.” … “This is still America,” Springsteen told the audience of the administration’s tyranny, “and this will not stand.”
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
October 3, 2026
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October 3, 2026
On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweathe...
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“It never ceases to be breathtaking, how Roger Köppel transforms a once respectable newspaper into a propaganda outlet for the Kremlin.”
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Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 23h
Immer wieder atemberaubend, wie Roger Köppel eine einstmals respektable Zeitung zu einem Propaganda-Outlet des Kreml macht.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As Trump and Republicans strip health coverage from millions (for tax cuts for the rich), Dems plan to expand Medicare. #MedicareForAllNOW www.newsweek.com/medicare-upd...
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Alon Pinkas @alonpinkas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you exclude criminals, crime rates are very low
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Something big may be happening: Trump's world-historical misrule may be creating the conditions for the emergence of a coalition similar to the one that ousted Viktor Orban earlier this year: Anti-corruption, anti-authoritarian, pro-democracy. I made this case here: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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chriscesq @chriscesq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The problem is when you constantly act unilaterally, there's no one else to credibly blame. Your idiot cultists may believe it but clearly no one else is.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My father worked in construction all his life, sometimes in physically demanding jobs, and he was explicit that the point of me going to college was so that I wouldn't have to do that. People who work in these trades want better for their children, and that never seems to be part of this discourse
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026
"The good news? Power, strategy, and organizing capability can be used for good as much as it can be used for evil. The task is, as it has always been, is to build power to build a better world." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-world-th...
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The World That Woke 2.0 Seeks to Build
We can learn from the Civil Rights Movement, but we can also learn from its opposition.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump with a powerful closing rallying cry: “Everyone thinks the prices are high because of me, but they’re not.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/b...
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Trump Says Economy Has ‘Public Relations’ Problem Amid High Prices and Slow Hiring
The president, who had hoped to tout a growing economy on the campaign trail, has found it hard to break through as workers’ wages fail to keep up.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hassett puts forward a strong entry for the “with notably rare exceptions” competition.
Mr. Hassett said the nation’s gross domestic product…would be growing by 4 percent, excluding “disruptions from the outside world.”
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Roy Cooper @roycoopernc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Great morning in Cabarrus County with Justice @anitaearls.bsky.social It’ll take all of us to get across the finish line so let's show up for her and each other at the polls. Make sure you’re registered to vote by Friday, October 9th. Check your status at iwillvote.com.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
👀 Justice Samuel Alito told CBS he "thought about" retiring this year, and it's something he thinks about "every term" because "somebody at my age" has to think about it. He also said he "has to" think about retiring every year. (He's 76.) www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
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Justice Alito Addresses His Possible Retirement Timeline
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Eugenicists want people in wheelchairs, except Greg Abbott, killed — even if the eugenicists spread the polio and measles that cripples people.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A senator‘s years of service lying for a criminal don‘t protect the senator from being victimized by the criminal.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I find it hard to believe that after a year of non-stop mistakes that sent the CBS audience fleeing not one but THREE marquee programs, David Ellison is now worried about whether Bari Weiss should be running CBS News. Come on. nypost.com/2026/10/02/m...
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Bari Weiss’ fate up in the air as Paramount prepares to close Warner Bros merger: sources
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison is mulling changing Bari Weiss’ role as CBS News editor-in-chief as his company is set to finalize its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery next week, The P…
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
1) Alito revealing this now is an attempt to rally Republicans in Trump states where Dems lead for Senate. 2) He’s the most partisan R on the court—highly likely he steps down in the lame duck if Dems take the Senate. 3) Doing number 2) makes court expansion even more likely if Dems win in 2028
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Agree with all of the below, with this distinction: -Alito is the most *predictably* partisan-R member of the court. -Roberts is the most *consequentially* partisan-R member.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At least five GOP senators have criticized Trump on the propaganda adds which is both pathetically few and maybe a second-term record. thehill.com/homenews/sen...
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GOP senators push back on Trump’s taxpayer-funded ad
President Trump’s new government-funded ads pledging to “cast out the communists, Marxists and fascists” are getting strong pushback from Senate Republicans who are warning the president not …
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is an indirect measure of how much hypocrisy is baked into partisan politics now, at least for the GOP. They assume that they can accuse future Dem Presidents of engaging in authoritarian actions, regardless of whether if it is true or not, while dismissing any questioning of their integrity.
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Jack Rakove @jrakove.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My thoughts on the spurious constitutional theory that is eroding our polity: washingtonmonthly.com/2026/09/24/u...
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The Unitary Executive Theory in All of Its Historical Perversity
The unitary executive theory rests on a misinformed reading of the Constitution and the Founders’ understanding of presidential power.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NOT Too Scared To Voter The US has a LONG history of voter intimidation. Know the signs. Know your rights. Join us. Friday 10AM ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CNE...
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NOT Too Scared To Vote
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
OMG NYC is having a scavenger hunt. The theme? The History of Organizing in NYC. OMG THIS IS THE WAY
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
Records obtained by ProPublica show Georgia is spending far more on lethal injections than it was in the past. “You wouldn’t have to pay this much money if the lethal injection process was an acceptable one,” a legal expert said.
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This State Is Spending More on Lethal Injections. A Law Tries to Keep the Details Secret.
As Georgia plans for its first execution in two years, a trove of records provides us with new information — and raises new questions — about the state’s lethal injection process.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is plain old thievery and election rigging by the convicted felon in the White House.
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Lawmakers call for action on ‘plainly illegal’ taxpayer-funded ads to promote Trump
House Democrats say officials may have illegally misused public funds to pay for president’s ‘narcissistic ego trips’
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One must wonder if this American.Gov chatbot will remember these things tomorrow or in November or in 2028 or on Jan 20, 2029.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
Weeks after Russell Vought told Congress that Bilt had fixed its problems without the need of CFPB enforcement, nearly 1,900 Bilt customers received mistaken debt collection notices saying they owed hundreds or even thousands of dollars on their cards.
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The Trump Administration’s Plan for Protecting Consumers? Politely Ask Companies to Behave.
Rather than investigate a buzzy fintech startup for throwing users’ accounts into chaos, the Russell Vought-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau trusted that the company was “back on track.” Custo...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you wonder whether might Trump might cheat to keep the Rs in power consider that this ad campaign he is running, with our tax dollars, is brazenly illegal. He's already cheating in the election, and we should expect far more in the days ahead.
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Joshua Wattles @joshdsw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What happened to the hundreds of millions he raised off of MAGA AFTER he won the election for the DT PAC? Why isn't he spending that instead of grifting a mere $20 million out of DHS funds? Ans: he's a simple pedestrian thief.
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May I recommend these 2 books “How Fascism Works” by Jason Stanley & Robert Paxton’s “The Anatomy of Fascism” & a gift 🎁 link Paxton, foremost US scholar on fascism, on Jan 11, 2021 : “The [fascist] label now seems not just acceptable but necessary” www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/m...
Book cover 
"No single book is as relevant to the present moment."
-CLAUDIA RANKINE, author of CITIZEN
HOW
FASCISM WORKS
THE POLITICS of
US AND THEM
JASON STANLEY
WITH A NEW PREFACEBook cover 
Robert 0. Paxton
THE ANATOMY OF
FASCISM
'Masterly... with great skill and incisive analysis, Robert 0. Paxton has achieved the near impossible: breathing fresh air into often stale debates and bringing new insights into the exhaustively researched phenomenon of Fascism' lan Kershaw
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We need to take our country back from the fascists and make it a civilized place to live.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s spelled “fascist,” and fascism arrives in stages.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Terrifying to the Evil people currently in charge….
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is gut wrenching and so wrong.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And one more time, prescient JP Stevens dissent: “Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year’s presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation’s confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law”
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some personal news: I'm going to be leaving Vox after 12 years (!!) to start not one, but two new projects! The details are still under wraps, but I can tell you that I'll still be writing about the crisis of democracy, the far-right, and liberalism's future. Looking forward to sharing more soon!
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There used to be a theory - broadly associated with Marcuse I think - that it was better a tactic for authoritarian states to tolerate liberal positions rather than ban and draw attention to them. We will see. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says, "bring back shame."
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Shame should reflect the social costs of one’s nefarious actions. It should not be up to Schmitt to determine whether he can “brush off his viral mix-up.” bsky.app/profile/wash...
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