Brooke Harvey

I am not surprised, I knew it would eventually happen. Thank you for continuing to hold the line, your voice is one of the few antidotes to the gaslighting and despair.

Join me on April 5th

On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/tcJjrTeZ

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

This. Especially Senate Republicans.

Vance visiting Dachau and then meeting w the AfD and urging German politicians to welcome them into government is a "gotta hear both sides" for the ages.

Needed to read this today. Danielle Sassoon’s unwillingness to capitulate to political pressure should be a feature not a bug for a US Attorney, but simple integrity is extraordinary in these times. More of this please.

WEIMAR+STATEMENT FRANCE, GERMANY, POLAND, ITALY, SPAIN, UNITED KINGDOM EU HIGH REPRESENTATIVE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND SECURITY POLICY We are ready to enhance our support for Ukraine. We commit to its independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of Russia's war of aggression. We share the goal to keep supporting Ukraine until a just, comprehensive and lasting peace is reached. A peace that guarantees the interest of Ukraine and our own. We are looking forward to discussing the way ahead together with our American allies. Our shared objectives should be to put Ukraine in a position of strength. Ukraine and Europe must be part of any negotiations. Ukraine should be provided with strong security guarantees. A just and lasting peace in Ukraine is a necessary condition for a strong transatlantic security. We recall that the security of the European continent is our common responsibility. We are therefore working together to strengthen our collective defense capabilities.

BREAKING: France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks.

This is leadership.

It’s also unprecedented.

A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.

This moment is not the same as the first months of 1933 when Hitler and the Nazi Party took control of Germany's government. But stakes are the same. Hear that? The same: merely the survival of the US as a liberal democracy. We will likely need far more than resistance that follows rules.

Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

The US Government Is Not a Startup Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.

“It maps almost too neatly to his acquisition of Twitter in 2022: Get rid of most of the workforce. Install loyalists. Rip up safeguards. Remake in your own image… This is the way of the startup.” @wired.com

A Reagan Appointee Just Showed How All Judges Should Respond to Trump’s Lawless Rampage "In this courtroom, and under my watch, the rule of law is a bright beacon which I intend to follow," the judge declared.

With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on Judge Coughenour showing how every court should respond to the Trump administration’s sadistic and lawless rampage (including full audio of his extraordinary statement from the bench): slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with Political Scientist Erica Chenoweth "The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democr...

A peek into the authoritarian playbook (we’ve seen these moves before, people) and a few countermoves to remind us that organizing and resistance can work.

meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...

Addressing Egregious Actions of The Republic of South Africa By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:     Section

Of all the refugees in need of assistance, white Afrikaners are singled out in this new EO for protection and resettlement.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

These Dolores Umbridge decrees are hard to keep up with! Taken together it’s easy to see the throughline: Trump’s Great America is a Jim-Crow renaissance.

Love this from the News Literacy Project, adults need this as much as students.

American Historical Association on LinkedIn: Trump May Wish to Abolish the Past. We Historians Will Not. AHA executive director James Grossman, David W. Blight (Yale Univ. and president, Organization of American Historians), and Organization of American Historians…

www.linkedin.com/posts/americ...

Genuinely wondering how the non-voters are absorbing the news of the past 3 weeks. If you are not morally offended or materially impacted in any way maybe it’s really just no biggie? What about the folks who just couldn’t “stomach” either candidate, is this outcome worth it?

Apathetic non-voters this is your de facto vote. How’s the view from your moral high ground?

Trump's "puppet master," Russ Vought, confirmed to lead OMB "He will be the quarterback of White House policy."

The 53-47 vote to confirm Vought came after Democrats held the Senate floor in an overnight marathon to protest the nomination. One after another, they excoriated Trump’s pick to be head of OMB, perhaps more than any other controversial appointee.

I applaud Schatz for taking the podium at the treasury and calling out the hostile takeover but here is confirmation that democrats never had a plan or a resonant platform and still don’t. Time to find a coherent voice and leadership or we are truly doomed.

Do Democrats Have a Plan? Senator Brian Schatz on how the Party should be responding to Donald Trump’s breakneck assault on the government.

I applaud Schatz for taking the podium at the treasury and calling out the hostile takeover but here is confirmation that democrats never had a plan or a resonant platform and still don’t. Time to find a coherent voice and leadership or we are truly doomed.

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

I’m glad unions are taking legal action. Hopefully the courts can keep up and if we’re lucky, stand behind the law instead of Trump, BUT what specific actions are you taking today as my representative to stop the literal unraveling of democracy? What are the dems plans to counter project 2025?

And what are YOU and your democratic colleagues doing? What is your plan to deal with this onslaught? As a MA voter I’m paying attention and extremely concerned about the lack of coordinated messaging and action from Democrats.