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Upgrade Your Activism: The Evidence-Based Path from Protest to Power I know activists who have protested every American military action since the Korean War.

“The data is unambiguous that isolated demonstrations, regardless of size, rarely achieve their stated political goals when confronting entrenched power backed by unlimited money.”

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The Struggle Has Just Begun: Update on the Ibrahim Family Salem, Nourhan, and Elias in Gaza.

I help a family in Gaza. I recently wrote about them on my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/cryn/p/t...

WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."

The Struggle Has Just Begun: Update on the Ibrahim Family Salem, Nourhan, and Elias in Gaza.

I just wrote a piece on how to support a family in Gaza open.substack.com/pub/cryn/p/t...

Do you support funding Israel?

This isn't hypothetical.

The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

at the risk of sound like bill bennett, where exactly are the men in these boy’s lives? the fathers? coaches? anyone genuinely concerned with their lives?

Day 21. 🇺🇸

love to make america great again by essentially expelling the people that enrich our children’s lives

US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.

they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...

so he's drunk right?

love this for us

JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)

Follow Philip Bump: The first battle of the Revolution is newly relevant, 250 years later

It was too long for my column, but the historian with whom I spoke had some interesting observations about why some colonists remained loyal to the Crown — observations that are themselves relevant to the moment. In my (free to read) follower newsletter:

Marco Rubio: censorship of Americans ends today

Brendan Carr: report what we tell you or we’ll pull your license

Hi, I’m autistic and I’m the mayor of my city.

Sean Duffy on Fox & Friends: "We don't care about the green, we don't care about the social justice."

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

The Trump Administration can lie all they want, but the Court said they failed to show he was part of MS-13. This is about bringing home a man they ADMIT should never have been abducted. I won't rest until then.

I am autistic. I pay taxes, I have a job. I dated. I get the desire to push this narrative autistic people DO accomplish these to rebut Kennedy. But there was a time when I DID NOT have a job. And non-speaking autistic people or thise with intellectual disabilities don't. They have worth as well.

I've been saying I'm my own worst enemy but some other motherfuckers are now in the running.

my offer to america: we bring woke back

Chinese 🇺🇸 embassy shares the anti-tariffs Reagan clip mwe have shared multiple times…

#AmericaAlone 💔

So proud to be a resident of Salem!

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#HandsOff San Clemente, California

APOLLO: “Weekly bankruptcy filings are moving higher.” [Slok]

FT: “.. pressure from households, business, markets and Republicans on Trump will mount even faster now ..

“.. even if Trump doesn’t bow .., it’s hard to see how any subsequent administration could then justify keeping his levies in place.”

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