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Trump would like everyone to forget about the Epstein files but his claim that Jeffery "stole" young women from Mar-a-Lago is not helping that effort – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org comments on 'Living in the USA' @kpfk.bsky.social bit.ly/4lkz1vM

How we got here and what's next: "The long game has got to protect our democracy, and to actually get it back, to revive and rebuild democratic institutions." – Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4fu5COr

"Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are. And people are never as weak as they think they are" & other prescient ideas in "From Dictatorship to Democracy" by Gene Sharp – Alan Minsky @pdamerica.bsky.social comments – on 'Living in the USA' @kpfk.bsky.social bit.ly/4lkz1vM

The Nation @thenation.com "showed that news was a cog in a corporate structure, which had regulatory business in Washington DC – we’re seeing that revealed painfully crystal clear in the Trump years" – @katrinanation.bsky.social – on the podcast "Start Making Sense" bit.ly/4fu5COr

Trump's scheme to maintain control of the House? Eliminate Democratic seats in Texas by redistricting. Texas Dems have fled to block a quorum and the FBI might arrest them – but, "for what crime?" Harold Meyerson @prospect.org on 'Living in the USA' @kpfk.bsky.social bit.ly/4lkz1vM

Today at 4pm Pacific on 'Living in the USA': Trump and Texas go after Dem. House seats: Harold Meyerson @prospect.org comments – on @kpfk.bsky.social Radio 90.7 FM and online kpfk.org

"Donald Trump as not being the cause of our present problems, but the consequence, the culmination of decades of neglect" – specifically of the working class and of the labor movement –
@rbreich.bsky.social in "Coming Up Short" – and on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4fu5COr

"Gore Vidal used to describe The Nation as ‘an early alert warning system’ to what’s coming over the transom" –
@katrinanation.bsky.social discusses where we're going – and her return to the editor’s desk – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4fu5COr

"The question is not more or less government. The question is, who is government for?" — @rbreich.bsky.social on "Coming Up Short" – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4fu5COr

The submission of #WaPo #ABC & #CBS to Trump, and the defunding of @npr.org & @pbs.org mean that "It’s up to The Nation and independent media... to expose the truth” – @katrinanation.bsky.social on her return to the editor’s desk @thenation.com – on "Start Making Sense" bit.ly/4fu5COr

Barak Obama in 2004: "There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America. There’s a United States of America.” Really? Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social on what he was trying to say – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4fu5COr

Katrina vanden Heuvel @katrinanation.bsky.social on how to face how bad things are now, while also understanding the reasons for hope – and the opportunities for action – "because we can’t all live on doom and gloom, and doom scrolling all day" – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4fu5COr

Q: What is the long game for us right now?
A: "I think the long game has got to protect our democracy, and to actually get it back, to revive and rebuild democratic institutions."– Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4fu5COr

In 1996, The Nation Magazine "showed that news was a cog in a corporate structure, which had regulatory business in Washington DC – we’re seeing that revealed painfully crystal clear in the Trump years" – @katrinanation.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4fu5COr

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

Good morning. Illustrating this piece's points, a thread: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The origin of our troubles with Trump & MAGA: Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social says they started with 1960s movements, which created “a giant political void that would eventually be filled by Donald Trump’s angry, bigoted cultural populism” – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4fu5COr

Katrina vanden Heuvel on "how the corporate media has capitulated, and opened the sluice gates for more peril to the media remaining" – and her return to the editor’s desk
@thenation.com – @katrinanation.bsky.social on the podcast "Start Making Sense" bit.ly/4fu5COr

72% of 2024's non-voter Dems "felt that the problems in our country come from having an economic system where the richest 1% have taken 50 trillion in wealth from the 90% of Americans who work for a living." – @celindalake.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/41ecjhA @waytowinus.bsky.social

Trump & Mussolini Parallels: In 1920s Italy, "the strength of fascism was always that Mussolini was going to send his Blackshirts to take over Rome" – John Powers @nprfreshair.bsky.social discusses "M: Son of a Century" – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/41ecjhA @harpercollins.bsky.social

Understanding 2024's non-voter Dems: They were quite knowledgable and "discouraged about whether the Democrats were ever going to offer a real economic alternative to the Trump economy." – @celindalake.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/41ecjhA @waytowinus.bsky.social

3 conventional wisdoms about 2024's non-voters that are completely WRONG:
1) They were toying with Trump.
2) They weren't paying attention.
3) They are more moderate, less liberal.
– @celindalake.bsky.social explains on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/41ecjhA @waytowinus.bsky.social

Who are the people who voted for Biden in 2020 & then didn't vote at all in 2024?
"They were very Democratic... and they did not want to vote for the lesser of two evils" – @celindalake.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/41ecjhA @waytowinus.bsky.social

How @waytowinus.bsky.social developed ways to poll the Dems who didn't vote in 2024 – and "turn these findings into action" – @celindalake.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/41ecjhA

"We have to say, if you elect me, I will do X, Y, and Z, and I will fight to get that done" – legendary Democratic pollster and strategist @celindalake.bsky.social – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/41ecjhA @waytowinus.bsky.social

The Dems who did not vote in the last presidential election "can't be treated like they have no choice. They've already proved to us they have a choice." – @celindalake.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/41ecjhA @waytowinus.bsky.social

What Mussolini's Italy and Trump's America share – "an anti-establishment fervor" – John Powers @nprfreshair.bsky.social discusses "M: Son of a Century" – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/41ecjhA @harpercollins.bsky.social

How to Engage the 6 Million Dems Who Did NOT Vote in 2024: "We have to run a new generation of candidates who stand for something, and then we have to lay out an agenda." – @celindalake.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/41ecjhA @waytowinus.bsky.social

Dems Who Didn't Vote: Who are they? What were they thinking – and what should the Democrats do to engage them in 2026 & 2028? Leading pollster @celindalake.bsky.social has answers – on 'Living in the USA' @kpfk.bsky.social bit.ly/44WOkG6 @waytowinus.bsky.social

On Dems who did not vote in 2024: "72% felt that the problems in our country come from having an economic system where the richest 1% have taken 50 trillion in wealth from the 90% of Americans who work for a living." – @celindalake.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/41ecjhA

"They despise MAGA Republicans and despise Donald Trump and despise Elon Musk and DOGE – but they want to hear from our side" – @celindalake.bsky.social on the 6 million Dems who didn't vote in 2024 – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/41ecjhA