A Green Light for Authoritarianism: How the Trump Administration Fuels Global Autocracy When U.S. support retreats, autocrats escalate their attacks, leaving democratic institutions vulnerable. This creates a global environment where authoritarianism can thrive.

When U.S. support retreats, autocrats escalate their attacks, leaving democratic institutions vulnerable. This creates a global environment where authoritarianism can thrive. More from CAP's Dan Herman and @robertbenson92.bsky.social: www.americanprogress.org/article/a-gr...

Miss opportunities like these that NGA and other great DC institutions offer; may they never be cancelled/diminished/censored.

"I think 100 lines have been crossed..."

- Pete Buttigieg

Thanks for highlighting this potential #landgrab @dakotarural.bsky.social!

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Farm Aid 2025

Today is Farm Aid's official 40th birthday! 🎂🎶🥰

Saturday night in Minneapolis was an incredible celebration! Thank you to everyone who joined us in person and online and who tuned in via radio and TV.

Fraud claims backfire on ‘nepo baby’ targeting Trump foes “The entire affair is exactly as preposterously trumped up as you thought it was,” says Chris Hayes on Trump appointee Bill Pulte's crusade against Trump's political enemies going south.

The “Mortgage Fraud” Fraud.

Watch until the end.

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“Researchers Find Widespread Pesticides on Urban Butterfly Plants” A monarch butterfly feeding from a pink milkweed flower in an urban garden.

Researchers at Xerces & @unevadareno.bsky.social tested the plants butterflies use in two major cities—nearly all had pesticides, many at lethal levels. Every step to reduce pesticide use is a win.
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Find safer alternatives to pesticides ➡️ xerces.org/pesticides

There's a word for what Trump and his allies are trying to do with this gerrymandering plan...

Truthout (@truthout.org) As Elon Musk is on the cusp of becoming the first trillionaire on the planet, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Rashida Tlaib have introduced the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act with the aim of raising taxes on…

While billionaires are becoming trillionaires, Americans are struggling to pay rent, cover groceries, and pay off debts.

Legislative action against CEO pay gaps is just the start. We need bold action to create an economy that works for ALL of us.

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

When even Ben & Jerry’s can’t speak out, it’s clear: the era of corporate responsibility is over | Austin Sarat Jerry himself has left the ice-cream company, alleging its views have been silenced. He’s yet another casualty of corporate kowtowing

another casualty of corporate kowtowing

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President Trump’s Big, Ugly Bill cancels tax credits that were slated to create 100,000 jobs in the clean energy sector.

I took to the House Floor to demand that President Trump and House Republicans restore these tax credits that support these good-paying union jobs.

A CONVERSATION

“When you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit."
Banksy

"If you feel ‘burnout’ setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself."
Dalai Lama

@schiff.senate.gov is right. What we’re seeing take place across the country–families ripped apart, communities divided, racial profiling greenlit by judges–is not who we should strive to be as a nation.

Intimidating companies and demanding they pay millions of dollars to avoid government retaliation is not normal. We shouldn’t accept the office of the presidency being leveraged as a weapon against the media. @schiff.senate.gov explains:

#FamilyFarmDefenders urges @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social to reach an agreement w/Teamsters Local 320, whose custodial, maintenance & food service workers keep the institution functioning. UMN must show decency, respect & fairness to their workers who - like farmers - are often exploited & undervalued.

The Democrats should start holding "Daily Briefings" everyday like the White House does & respond to Trump immediatley. It shoud be every day at the same time in the late afternoon & update what the democrats are doing & rebut in real time what Trump says & does especially his mental decline

President Trump's plans to deploy the National Guard to Chicago aren't about safety – they're about weaponizing the federal government to intimidate our communities. This cannot – and will not – become our new reality.

Boeing is hiring scabs to avoid giving St. Louis Machinists fair wages and benefits. I continue to stand with the workers on strike and urge Boeing to come to the table and negotiate in good faith. www.stltoday.com/news/local/b...

'Sensation of Crossing the Street,' is one of a small number of works Stanley Cursiter painted in 1913 which captured the sensation of modern life: people, colours, objects, and sounds.

Deploy National Guard to Chicago? Trump Says He Has ‘The Right to Do Anything I Want to Do.’

Trump threatens & investigates his political opponents — Democrats & Republicans. He says, in violation of the Constitution, that he has “the right to do anything [he] wants.”

Is there one Republican who has the guts to stand up to this rapid movement toward authoritarianism?

My little tenants hard at work on the property.

#BeaverLife #NatureConservation #WildlifeWonder

Environmental Laws Waived to Build Border Wall in Texas Wildlife Refuge - Inside Climate News The Rio Grande Valley is home to ocelots and other endangered species. Now, the federal government will not have to follow the Endangered Species Act and more than two dozen other federal laws to buil...

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3 takeaways from Eric Schmitt’s high-profile new book | St. Louis Magazine Some memoirs by Missouri politicians—Jason Kander and Jack Danforth come to mind—exude a desire by the authors to understand themselves and what happened,

We read Eric Schmitt's new book so you don't have to. Read all about it, via @stlmag.bsky.social www.stlmag.com/news/eric-sc...

#FamilyFarmDefenders calls for #immigrationreform:

familyfarmers.org?p=2590

"Not to help the country, mass arrests and detention line the pockets of executives in the private, for-profit immigration detention complex, led by corporations like Geo Group and CoreCivic."

CALL TO ACTION: SAVE HAKORITNA FARM 🚨
In an ongoing escalation of its assault on Palestinian farmers & food sovereignty Israeli military forces have ordered destruction of Hakoritna Farm in Tulkarm occupied West Bank.

#savehakoritnafarm
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More good news out of Illinois where lawmakers have agreed that landowners should be compensated for property damaged by #carboncapture projects www.wandtv.com/news/stateho...

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it frighteningly surreal that the terrible atrocities, injustices and war crimes of faraway lands that we studied in history books when we were kids are now being committed, promoted and even celebrated by our own U.S. government, on a daily basis?

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says He’ll ‘Lead a Movement’ to Eliminate Mail-In Ballots

The president has no authority over the “manner of elections” under the Constitution, yet Trump Says He’ll ‘Lead a Movement’ to Eliminate Mail-In Ballots www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...