Patrick Ti’aulivaa Reid

Sign the Petition Stop Trump from Opening Protected Marine Reserve in Pacific to Industrial Fishing

Hi Bluesky Family! Please Stop Trump from Opening Protected Marine Reserve in Pacific to Industrial Fishing by signing this petition! www.change.org/p/stop-trump...

Harvard Professors Steven Levitsky & Lucan Way on “The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism” scholar.harvard.edu/levitsky/fil...

Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary.

I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

Biden oped on Jan 6

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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever.

Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.

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Just 10 years ago not one of us was worried we would ever face the potential of falling under autocratic rule.

I defended my dissertation on polarization in 2015 and I would not have ever believed what is happening was possible.

Swift decline.

Wait till 2025

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.

This is what they wrote.

Ringing in the New Year hits differently this year.

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles

And the exodus continues. The Guardian is off Twitter! 😮

www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...

Buying books and reading books are 2 separate hobbies

State Parties from Alaska, American Samoa, Delaware, Hawaii, Northern Marianas, Utah, Virgin Islands, & Wyoming.

State Parties of Alaska, American Samoa, Delaware, Hawaii, Northern Marianas, Utah, Virgin Islands, & Wyoming. 🇺🇸 💙

THIS is how it’s done, folks.

Look at how many in these rooms. The guy is telling them please be patient we are trying to open the doors

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Trump ranked as worst US president in history, with Biden 14th greatest Survey of 154 scholars places 45th president behind even ‘historically calamitous chief executives’ linked to civil war

Just so we're clear about this....
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

YouTube video by Democracy Docket North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs on Her GOP Opponent's Attempt to Toss 60k Ballots

MUST WATCH: The race for the North Carolina Supreme Court isn't over. After the GOP candidate lost he requested two recounts that did not change the outcome. Now, he and the GOP are challenging the validity of over 60,000 ballots.

Justice Riggs and I discuss.
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Wow — a whole bunch of BILLIONAIRES will be part of the next Trump administration! Concerned about the working class, my ass!!

Pete Hegseth is unfit, unqualified & a threat to our military! This will never be “normal”!

Hegseth has a history of alleged sexual misconduct & misuse of alcohol. He holds “regressive” views on women’s freedoms, “joking that women shouldn’t have the right to vote”, opposes women serving in combat!

The Sound of Fear on Air It is an ominous sign that Morning Joe felt it had to apologize for something I said.

This is the most-read piece on @theatlantic.com. It should be the most-read piece. You should all read it, even though it may make you sad. Here’s a gift link so you can read it.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Michigan Bans Firearms at Polling Locations Michigan voters are no longer allowed to bring firearms to polling locations on Election Day under a new state law.

Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday signed into law House Bills 4127 and 4128. The bills, sponsored by Democrats and introduced last year, prohibit the possession of firearms at polling locations on Election Day and during early voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against. Three reports issued by the agency’s inspector general detailed personal attacks suffered by the scientists — including being called “stupid,” “piranhas” and “pot-stirrers” — and called on the EPA to…

Under Trump, EPA scientists say managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage and neurological problems, from their reports. And in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Folks, do me a HUGE favor:

Please re-post this and follow @reallyamerican.bsky.social so that we're at full strength as we enter the next critical phase in mounting our opposition to trump's cruel, oppressive agenda.

Please and thank you! 🙏💪

Pray on it…

Doctor warns about RFK Jr., citing measles deaths in Samoa | CNN Politics President-elect Donald Trump has selected Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health & Human Services Secretary. Gov. Josh Green (D-HI), a physician, explains why he believes it’s the “worst possible” choice for...

Hawaii Governor Josh Green should be called as the leading Democratic witness against confirming RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary. His first-hand knowledge of how Kennedy caused dozens of avoidable deaths in Samoa should doom his irresponsible nomination.
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In October, as a novice volunteer knocking on doors in Pennsylvania for the Kamala Harris campaign, my task was to make sure that committed Democrats voted, and to persuade undecided voters that Harris was the better choice. I was told not to spend time talking with voters who were clearly supporters of Donald Trump. But there was something about the way one man snarled at me, “She’s evil,” as he was tending his front lawn on a quiet, tree-shaded street in a suburb of Allentown, that made me stop. When I approached, he seemed to shrink back, but he recovered and told me that Harris was a moral and physical danger to children because she supported public middle schools allowing students to undergo transgender surgery without the consent of their parents. By this time, after two months of canvassing, I had heard from several Trump voters some version of this noxious innuendo. I shrugged, told him his concern was not based on any reality I was aware of, and moved on to the next door on my list.

None of this election loss was about tactics. It's about an info ecosystem that is rotten with pure disinformation. How do you even fight this when blatant lies seep so deeply into the nations consciousness?

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Not shocked at all by any of 47-elect’s Cabinet picks. But it’s even more apparent that his supporters live in a completely different reality including small remote island U.S. Territories (i.e. American Samoa). What do we all have in common? The internet & the way average residents consume “news”.

Project 2025 is trumps agenda and the fact that anyone thought otherwise is insane

Ken Martin, a Minnesotan With Deep Democratic Ties, Joins the D.N.C. Race The chairman of Minnesota Democrats, he has longstanding connections to many of the Democratic National Committee members who will choose their next leader.

We must be deliberate about understanding why voters moved away from Democrats.

And we can’t abandon our values, which are pro-worker, pro-family, and good for red and blue communities alike.

It’s time to reconnect our message to what our party stands for. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/u...