Mitch Waldrop

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were:

Black Baptist Churches
A Mosque
A small Appalachian church

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Prime example of white privilege in plain sight.

Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.

No Kings rallygoers in Nashville are lining streets and chanting: the crowd is a mix of ages and genders.

Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland

Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.

Looks like people showed up in DC

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

I’m absolutely exhausted in the best possible way. I love us. We did it! #NoKings

This really is a GREAT sign!

This is Idaho 💙

The antifa terrorist marxists are out

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

#NoKings Miami!

Congratulations!

#NoKings comes to Fort Reno Park, DC, round 2

#NoKings comes to Fort Reno Park, DC.

Opinion | The Abundance Agenda Has Its Own Theory of Power

The Abundance Agenda Has Its Own Theory of Power
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

Follow the path of what people discard in the blue bin to the recycling facility that sorts and tries to profit from it. Recycling faces many challenges, but... Rethinking recycling

+ in our 2020 mini-documentary.
youtu.be/3zI4xXGmNPw

Row of three blue overflowing recycling cans

Photo shows a mix of plastic trash types.

Photo shows multiple types of over-the-counter drugs packaged in packs made of plastic, foil and other material.

Photo shows a bale of plastic polyethylene bottles crunched into a bale and awaiting recycling.

More: @mitchwaldrop.bsky.social's 2020 report

♻️ Recycling meets reality
knowmag.org/Recycling_bsky

♻️ Solving the growing plastics waste puzzle
knowmag.org/plastic_bsky

♻️ Design for recycling
knowmag.org/Design_bsky

♻️ One bin future
knowmag.org/OneBin_bsky

Platforms can design better algorithms. Our new guide serves as a resource for understanding how. bit.ly/3QzxVzq
The guide provides detailed explanations of how algorithms work. So much so, that it has been cited in an amicus brief to the Ninth Circuit led by @epic.org!
bit.ly/3DyBe6S

It's live for me here in DC

New research from Costello, Pennycook, and Rand. Can conversations with AI help reduce belief in conspiracy theories? Quite possibly. What’s the mechanism? Evidence production. Let me explain my little-t theory about how this might work.

Saving Democracy: 3 Urgent Steps We Must Take Now Trump and Musk are following a dangerous blueprint. If we don’t act, history will repeat itself.

open.substack.com/pub/donovanw...

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

In his email announcing he was leaving NBC, @chucktodd said something VERY important about the biggest issue facing media -- and how to fix it.

I wrote about it this morning. Read: chriscillizza.substack.com/p/chuck-todd...

Buttigieg had been laying low since Trump's inauguration, but his response to Trump's comments and attacks on him specifically after the crash -- "despicable" -- is further than any other Democratic leader has gone since Jan. 20

Thanks, Jay!