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And it's not just congressional staffers. As Matthew Sitman points out, many legal clerks are much farther right than our current Federalist Society-picked judges.

the way he uses the bike lane for the escape 💘

Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization Section 1.  Antifa as a Terrorist Threat.  Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States

Trump signs an EO declaring Antifa (not a real organization) a domestic terrorist organization (not a real legal category).

This also puts leftists in an awkward position of defending liberal institutions that we're accustomed to critiquing (e.g. the Ford Foundation), but nothing less than a united front of solidarity is needed right now.

In Gaza, Famine is the Weapon — and So Is Aid Amid Israel’s blockade on Gaza, death can come from the lack of food — or from trying to find food.

Amid Israel's blockade on Gaza, death can come from the lack of food -- or from trying to find food.

Trump Signs Directive Targeting Democrats’ ActBlue Platform President Donald Trump signed a memorandum targeting ActBlue, accusing Democrats’ online campaign donation platform of violating federal election laws and calling on the US attorney general to take ac...

Trump just signed a memorandum targeting ActBlue.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Quest to retake $20B in climate money puts Trump agencies at ‘significant’ risk, attorney warned The Trump administration's effort to regain control of $20 billion in already-distributed funding could expose the agency to billions in damages, a career lawyer wrote in an internal message obtained ...

Reading this is wild; the level of ineptitude of these people is jarring. Trump's EPA knew the significant legal risks of freezing $20B in environmental justice funding.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

This is it, folks. Far larger than Harvard itself, as large as Harvard is. Every nonprofit from the center leftward is on notice for potential destruction.

Canary Mission’s Newest Funders Two Jewish American philanthropists supported the group in 2023, including the foundation of a board member of the Washington Institute for Near East…

great reporting from @jewishcurrents.bsky.social on the doxxing industrial complex.

jewishcurrents.org/canary-missi...

for real though: a lot of strategies the left needs to win *are* cringe (e.g. people's assemblies, knocking on doors, literal relational organizing, etc).

“Fascism thrives on disorder, forcing those who resist to waste energy on chasing clarity instead of building power... But engineered chaos does not have to define how we move through it. Refusing to be trapped in this spiral will be crucial.”

-Nadine Naber

liberateyourresearch.com/refusing-eng...

Eight Legal Experts on Trump’s Assault on Higher Education Recent executive orders have targeted federal grant funding, trans students, non-citizen students, DEI efforts, and pro-Palestinian activism. Eight legal experts explain what these orders purport to…

"Where do we go from here? ...democratizing higher education institutions, and finding solidarity with other pro-democracy movements, will be central to the long and hard fight before us."

- @jpygold.bsky.social @veenadubal.bsky.social @sbagen.bsky.social @sshermanstokes.bsky.social & more

Give @us-neweconomy.bsky.social a follow!

All of the myths and fantasies we’re hearing about protesters being terrorists, immigrants invading & fentanyl being a WMD should be understood in the context of a pending report from the DOD & DHS (due April 20) about whether Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act. These people want martial law.

Greenpeace ordered to pay Dakota Access Pipeline operator hundreds of millions in defamation suit A North Dakota jury awarded damages to Energy Transfer, the company that runs the Dakota Access Pipeline, after finding Greenpeace liable in a high-stakes defamation case.

The decision regarding Energy Transfer v Greenpeace about the activism against the Dakota Access Pipeline is out. Not only will the decision likely bankrupt Greenpeace US, but it will set a precedent that could limit free speech by climate groups & other NGOs.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Gutting. @julianakilrose.bsky.social & I covered this case back in 2023, citing how Energy Transfer Partners CEO Kelcy Warren said the quiet part out loud in an interview where he declared he was “absolutely” trying to stop Greenpeace from receiving funding as rationale for their case.

Most organizing (aside from labor) is "astroturfed" at this point.

Welcome to the game of building social movements in an age of hyper-capitalist accumulation: we must align movements that work within, without, and against philanthropy.

Money Power - Dissent Magazine If we want to move toward a world that meets everyone's needs, we will need to get serious about the role of money on the left.

The biggest crime of left philanthropy is that it hasn't organized as effectively as the right, as Nina Luo & many others have written. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Hearing Scott Walter lament the "playthings of megadonors" while being president of a group by the same class of billionaires is such rich projection. 2/

This is such disingenuous and unserious reporting from @gabekaminsky.bsky.social

Nearly every social movement in the U.S. (left & right) is propped up by big funders: the question is how to use money power strategically. 1/

Why Local Officials Need to Embrace a Movement-Centric Ethos In attempting to fill the policy voids created by recent federal retreat, local governments face a significant constraint: the increasing use of state and federal preemption.

"local elected officials and municipal attorneys need to adopt a movement-oriented approach to governing and municipal law" - @ajpeddakotla.bsky.social

what could go wrong!

"Aligning climate action with military armament risks fomenting nativism in an era of increasing climate-driven migration and far-right ascendency." - @70sbachchan.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social

Europe Enters Its Metal Era | Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay What kind of Europe survives a fractured transatlantic military alliance?

was really hoping for a future where Europe just takes the L and fades into an agrarian hinterland of cafés & public squares, but it looks like we're in for revanchist rearmament.

@katemac.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social an.bsky.social

curious where the gutting of IRS staffing (possibly to the tune of 20%) intersects with such grave assessments around 501c3 restructuring? like, will they have the capacity to do this?

This is some sick shit. Heritage Foundation lays out their case that slashing higher ed and gutting public K-12 will increase fertility (for certain desirable populations, of course).

The only scientific research fascists want pursued is work they control, that serves their interests, and reinforces their narratives. Everything else, they seek to destroy. Knowledge that doesn't serve them is a threat, just as the truth is a threat.

Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.

The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration.

newrepublic.com/post/192660/... via @newrepublic.com

Mahmoud Khalil’s Abduction Is a Red Alert for Universities Schools across America have a choice: Defend their students against Trump or be complicit in his crimes.

"Palestine Legal has received an avalanche of over 3,500 requests for legal support since October 2023, many from students facing censorship of events, and absurd accusations and sanctions for protests typical of student activism".

We saw the same broad pushback against the nonprofit killer bill. This is the pro-democracy coalition that can provide a sturdy bulwark against fascism if we don’t give in, don’t comply in advance, stay united & principled even across disagreements

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