Erik Richardson

Garden of Democracy Getting Dirty as Resistance

Last week's post on my Pioneerpunk substack. One of the ways we fight back against being stuffed in a cubicle and reduced to a cog in the machine: open.substack.com/pub/erikrich...

Welcome to the Resistance Even if you have been here all along

New Pioneerpunk substack is live! Where democracy meets Blade Runner. erikrichardson.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

What's at stake if the Big "Beautiful" Abomination Bill passes.

The top 1% don't need their taxes lowered at the expense of the rest of us, who pay more taxes than billionaires. 💰😠

Mark Hamill : Bullseye with Jesse Thorn The one and only Mark Hamill joins us this week. He chats with us about his latest role in the epic, life-affirming drama The Life of Chuck. He also tells us about what inspired him to take his acting...

There was a fabulous interview with @markhamillofficial.bsky.social on Wisconsin Public Radio earlier today. Hear about Life of Chuck, Star Wars, and more!

www.npr.org/2025/06/24/1....

I hate when I go to bed early on a Saturday night and wake up Sunday morning only to discover we’ve gone to war in the Middle East without the consent of Congress. 😡

Same to you, Admiral.

Most of my fighting for democracy and blue candidates happens behind the scenes right now, but I want to give a shout out to people like @genmhayden.bsky.social and @markhamillofficial.bsky.social, because I work like hell to live up to the trust they placed in me. #challengeaccepted

Happy Star Wars-versary to all of you fans and to the still heroic @markhamillofficial.bsky.social! May 25, 1977.

Have you seen any Republicans from Congress or the exec branch speak out to condemn this or express concern for this family?

Election day! It's is almost surreal how much school board elections can spell the difference between success and failure for the whole community in rural towns and yet how small voter turnout usually is.

Trump can never be a man of substance or honor, so he does all he can to tear down and trample on those who are.

See, it's funny cuz it's true. 🤣

(also: #sad) 😞

Love seeing some of our Dems like @aoc.bsky.social, @repjasmine.bsky.social, and others fighting back like they get how many lives depend on it (and how many children's futures).

We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

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@piperformissouri.bsky.social @randimccallian.bsky.social @heskethforcongress.bsky.social @bethanymann.bsky.social

Need to highlight here, as I did on the other site, on other days of this appeal: we have amazing fighters here, including strong women running for Congress for their 2nd/3rd/4th time and a firecracker activist getting national attention! This would be a great boost for these awesome women Dems —

overlooked farm towns are worth rallying behind!

Just say the word, @aoc.bsky.social, and I'll get you set up with venue, lodging, travel, speaker's honorarium, and an avalanche of voters wanting to be heard!

that we are seen, that our voices matter, and that Democrats know we are worth spending time and effort to help lift up.

You could send a message to rural voters everywhere, light up candidates and volunteers, and prove that Dems are taking the fight to a new level, where uphill candidates and

Appeal for Day 3 to get @aoc.bsky.social to come for a MO town hall out beyond the metro areas.

We have 4 out-state reps to congress who do not care about the struggling families and business owners in their districts.

It would send a powerful a message to rural voters everywhere,

@aoc.bsky.social @frost.house.gov @petebuttigieg.bsky.social @jerilryan.bsky.social @markhamillofficial.bsky.social

We don't just need plans for clever campaigns for next year and lawsuits that will take 6 months or a year to wrap up.

We need a whole new paradigm of engagement and we need leaders with the tactical capacity to roll it out tomorrow.
5/5

• and the plagues ripping through the populace will create an advantage Cortes could only have dreamed of when he overwhelmed the Aztecs.
This is no longer a conventional political war, and the asymmetry of scale will be off the charts.
4/5

Starlink, the assimilation of NASA and the NOAA satellite networks, and so on.)
• not to mention other players stepping out of the shadows, like Ellison who funded much of Musk's rise (70,000 companies around the world run on Oracle, including 96 of the Fortune Global 100 companies).
3/5

• direct government contracts (taking over FAA, privatizing education sector, etc.)
• large-scale privatization of military/intelligence operations (Palantir alone could be more powerful than the Dutch East India Company in a year at this rate. Then add in
2/5

If we don't stop them now, the election won't matter. This one window will allow the oligarchy to multiply their wealth gap:
• $billions in tax breaks
• gutting of departments and people that could oppose them (and erasing records)
• $billions more in massive insider stock trading gains
1/5

TSLA stock has dropped $129 over the past few weeks. Hypothetically, if someone owned 410M shares as of Dec 2024, that = a loss of over $52B. [cue chainsaw sounds]

That drags a lot of elites down with it, b/c funds like Blackrock, Vanguard, etc are also major TSLA shareholders.

Analysis: Trump’s 13 biggest lies of his first month back in office | CNN Politics In speeches, interviews, exchanges with reporters and posts on social media, the president filled his public statements not only with exaggerations but outright fabrications. As he did during his firs...

It would be far less time-consuming to just document when he tells the truth.

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In troubling times, people experiencing high stress or crippling anxiety deal with it in different ways. Some have a therapist, some have a deep breathing exercise & some even have a personal mantra.

I have a Mabel.

Marc Elias out here fighting to save democracy!