In Protest, He Turned the Camera on China’s Surveillance State

In Protest, He Turned the Camera on China’s Surveillance State www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...

The long history behind Trump’s war against blue states and cities States and cities have been resisting federal incursions for centuries

As President Trump threatens to expand his takeover of American cities to Chicago, local leaders there — and around the country — should look to the country’s long history of local resistance to federal overreach. https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-long-history-behind-trumps-war

This guy keeps walking the walk

Checked the Worldcon site and there's an apology and retraction, and a new theme for the convention.

www.lacon.org/2025/08/21/s...

Join us this Wednesday for a discussion about how legal practitioners from around the world have upheld the rule of law in the context of rising authoritarianism and democratic backsliding. @horizonsprjt.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org @americanbar.org

Trump Admin to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food for Children The amount of food would be enough to feed every child in Gaza for a week.

DOGE’s cuts essentially halted any food and emergency aid from being distributed by USAID. Instead of distributing the food that was left and helping as many people as possible, they’re incinerating it.

DOGE was never about helping people.

Chardon, Ohio, population 5242 in 2020 census, had approximately 400 people show up in the rain. #nokings

BREAKING: Judge’s emergency order enjoins federal deployment of California National Guard. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"Trump Always Wanted To Use the Military To Attack Opponents. Now He’s Doing It"

In this short explainer video, with receipts!, I unpack the president's autocratic love for violence against protesters as he escalates in LA, including his praise for China after Tiananmen Square.

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Every elected Democrat - not just in California but nationwide - should be on TV and radio today telling this story to the American people and condemning Trump’s DHS agents for trying to round up first graders in elementary school.

Know Your Rights Training: Get Ready for June 14 Take action with ACLU People Power!

TONIGHT: at 7 PM ET: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS training for the upcoming NO KINGS events this Saturday: act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...

How You Can Protect Democracy 29 concrete actions you can take right now to protect democracy.

When autocratic policies threaten our communities directly, we have an opportunity to act. Building community is just one way you can help protect our democracy. Details on how and other concrete actions here: protectdemocracy.org/how-to-prote...

When we first wrote about the Authoritarian Playbook, we got some pushback over the inclusion of disinformation as a tactic. "Don't all politicians lie?"

But @noupside.bsky.social is spot-on — what's happening now in LA is a power-grab over the truth itself. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

Immigration One in five workers in America wasn’t born here. Immigrants are America’s workers, vital to the fabric of our communities, our economy and our labor movement.

Immigrants are America’s workers. They’re vital to the fabric of our communities and economies.

Stoking fear about immigrants and mass deporting people whose labor makes our country prosper is a betrayal of our values and a recipe for economic disaster.

This is the spirit of Los Angeles.

This is California.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

#FreeDavidEndRaids

The entire modern conservative movement’s existence and future depends upon the base being kept inside a hermetically-sealed cable and social media bubble, so that they can tell them demonstrable lies about the real world. Tell them up is down, hot is cold, black is white, and be *believed*.

The Insurrection Act and National Guard authorities, explained An overview of critical reforms concerning the domestic deployment of the U.S. National Guard.

We’re seeing an unprecedented militarization of civilian society. With tanks in DC for a parade on the president’s birthday, and the National Guard deployed in Los Angeles, read more about when these actions become an abuse of power:
protectdemocracy.org/work/domesti...

Give them reason to write how America was awakened My advice to Wesleyan’s Class of 2025 (and all of us)

In this moment when the academy — and the very idea of knowledge and enlightenment — is under profound attack, read (or watch) this commencement speech from @ianbassin.bsky.social, ED of @protectdemocracy.org.

Whether democracy endures is up to all of us:
www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/you-will-d...

“I’ve studied McCarthyism’s impact on higher education for 50 years. What’s happening now is worse.” -Ellen Schrecker, historian

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

The politicization of NIH funding is not only illegal — it’s a threat to real research and real people. Learn about the life-saving research that's on the line from scientists in the field, and the lawsuit we're arguing on their behalf to reverse the cuts. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-faces-...

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.

We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

"I think it should be controversial to NOT say anything" about Gaza

I spoke to YouTube star and children's educator Ms. Rachel about her outspoken support for Palestinian kids in Gaza - and the bad-faith attacks on her in response.

Full interview here:
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NEW INVESTIGATION: A private equity-fueled for-profit chain slashed patient care for years while its executives got rich. So we scraped every malpractice, personal injury, and wrongful death case tied to Steward hospitals.

And we found how mothers, newborns, and others paid the ultimate price.

Proposed changes to civil service regulations would create a new category of civil servant without safeguards protecting against politicized firings/demotions/abuse. Current or former fed employees can submit a comment on the proposed Schedule P/C rule.

Resources for submitting are threaded ⬇️

Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped. Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah.

But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com

We’re proud to represent members of the public health and science community in suing NIH over its illegal, unscientific, and undemocratic cancellation of research on now-forbidden topics like gender identity and DEI. Here are 5 things you can do to #KilltheCuts & #SaveOurScience ⬇️ @apha.org

This is a really really really really really really really really big deal. One of the most important acts of courage so far.

In related news, I just made my first-ever alumni donation. Just a token, I know, but I'd encourage others to do the same. Every act of courage makes the next more likely.