The signs….
#Baltimore
#HandOff

05.04.2025 20:24 — 👍 2555    🔁 354    💬 29    📌 10

Marchers near WI Capitol

Protest

Big crowd

What we're seeing at #handsoff protests nationwide today and what we saw at the ballot box on Tuesday are not unrelated. The public is furious. It will not be silenced. And those who side with Trump and Musk—or refuse to fight back—will be swept out of office.

05.04.2025 19:02 — 👍 11377    🔁 2244    💬 191    📌 88

Portland, Maine!

05.04.2025 20:02 — 👍 419    🔁 79    💬 2    📌 5

EVERY FUCKING TIME someone says that you are powerless, remember that Cory Booker himself has told us that this unofficial filibuster would never have happened without everyday ppl issuing a direct challenge.

The Dems were going to do nothing. Booker does this. But it's because of you.

Do more.

01.04.2025 23:02 — 👍 337    🔁 79    💬 2    📌 1

How to Save a Democracy Americans can learn from opponents of authoritarianism elsewhere.

"The problem with a delayed response is that the more power leaders with authoritarian tendencies accumulate, the harder it is to mount an effective resistance. The opposition is thus more likely to succeed if it acts early..."

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

31.03.2025 17:16 — 👍 21713    🔁 7557    💬 756    📌 429

So, it turns out federal employees take their oath, their job & their duty to serve dead serious. Retirees (like me) understand the oath doesn’t expire just because you’ve left. This whole thread is giving me life, but especially this:

29.01.2025 08:22 — 👍 6263    🔁 1360    💬 173    📌 83

Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

26.01.2025 01:26 — 👍 16389    🔁 5573    💬 858    📌 311

Disinformation helps no one but opportunists who profit off pain for their own power. #losangelesfire #losangeles
youtu.be/JG1G0P0C1_s

13.01.2025 00:15 — 👍 1055    🔁 319    💬 35    📌 37

+1

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🦋 WELCOME TO BLUESKY! I recommend exploring our custom feeds, which are a little like hashtags but more interesting. We have them for academic and professional subjects, sports, cities, hobbies (e.g., gardening, baking), and many more. Search them in the sidebar under Feeds. 🧵

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