Linda Tropp

(between images of a map showing the nearly 2,000 No Kings Day events planned for March 28) NO THRONES. NO CROWNS.

There are nearly 2,000 events on the No Kings Day map in all 50 states (and 10 countries). March 28 will be the largest protest in American history. Find your local event or plan a protest in your area: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

one after another in my feed, this is what cross-party solidarity can look like🙏🏻

@warnock.senate.gov
@lincolnproject.us

Warnock: "We heard tonight the rumblings of a desperate man who's trying to present case he can for the midterms. It was half lies, half grievances. He knows he is quickly losing power."

I’ve gone to every State of the Union since I was elected to Congress—including during Trump’s first term. I’d rather stick needles in my eyes than listen to his manifesto of mistruths.

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

check out this hugely important and informative thread about protest activities across the US by @chenoweth.bsky.social and colleagues

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

This is a pogrom

“what we’re witnessing is…on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, & Chinese labor camps…The admin is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political & cultural prefs for generations”

"Together, we are America"

Defund Science, Distort Culture, Mock Education It’s not just about cuts to research. It’s about power.

Those cuts to science, culture, medicine? They aren't just about research, they are about power.
Episode Three of Autocracy in America:
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

@nytimes.com editorial board tracks 12 markers of democratic erosion, and where we currently stand in the U.S.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Nine Solutions for Political Corruption A new era of anticorruption reform is long overdue.

Americans face a fusion of public power and private wealth to a degree not seen in the past century, if ever. Our latest report outlines nine solutions to combat corruption. Far-reaching reforms are long-overdue.
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@drzilwhite.bsky.social @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social thanks for your interest - I've been informed by co-authors on the paper that it's in the "copyediting" stage - hope to be able to share soon, once copyediting complete and the paper becomes available online!

Will do!

@drzilwhite.bsky.social @ericdknowles.bsky.social you (and @pbump.com) might also be interested in a new paper recently accepted for publication, showing that greater consumption of Fox news corresponds with stronger endorsement of "great replacement theory" beliefs (can email if interested)

Rapid Response Call: ICE Killing and Lawlessness in Minneapolis · Indivisible Join us tomorrow, Thursday, January 8th, at 8:00 pm ET / 5:00 pm PT to discuss the killing and lawlessness by ICE in Minneapolis. We will talk with leaders and provide concrete next steps on how you...

We’re hosting a national rapid response call tomorrow night to go over concrete next steps. Please circulate - we need a national response. More details to come. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

and just like that, indeed..

@michellegoldberg.bsky.social pretty much sums up my views on AI: as with the emergence of many new technologies lauded as transformational for humankind, once released, they are no longer values-driven and become money-driven mechanisms targeting and reinforcing humankind's most base instincts

He is turning everything he touches into one of his tacky casinos—at taxpayer expense—while the American people can’t afford rent, healthcare, or groceries. Utterly insane.

(next to a photo of Trump at a campaign event) HOW IT STARTED “I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One.” August, 2024 (next to a photo of Trump covering his face with his hand at the White House) HOW IT’S GOING “I don’t want to hear about the affordability.” November,

"social science has to answer questions that people beyond academia care about..academia can['t] just be self-referential as it grows infinitely. I think there are challenges to understand what’s going on in the United States and the world and to talk about it to broad audiences in plain language.."

“Action absorbs anxiety!” indeed!

Are we teaching information or developing understanding? Why we need students to understand concepts rather than simply learn facts – and what pedagogical approaches can help

Why we need students to understand concepts rather than simply learn facts – and what pedagogical approaches can help: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/are-we-teaching-information-or-developing-understanding #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky

Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse. Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

not gonna lie, he seemed to rush through his set list and had no banter or eye contact with the audience, but something about his presence gave me the sense that he was glad to be alive and to be able to play music

agreed. gin blossoms are the knockoff, not the original. just saw Lemonheads in concert (Amherst MA) during Thanksgiving week!

Trump is threatening to attack a country with more oil than Iraq | CNN Business The United States appears ready for war with Venezuela, a prospect that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro this weekend attributed to America’s desire to control the country’s vast oil reserves.

How quickly we forget the BS excuses Republicans make up for military invasions. Does anyone remember weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?!?!

It’s almost always about oil. Another GOP president wants to use U.S. soldiers as pawns for big oil in his sick pursuit for money & power.

This Thanksgiving, You Should Absolutely Talk About Politics Here we go again.  Another Thanksgiving. Another round of national advice columns telling you to avoid politics at all costs. Keep the peace. Stick to pie. Pretend your uncle’s Facebook posts about im...

"This moment matters... because they demonstrated something American families and neighborhoods desperately need: the ability to talk to someone you disagree with without treating them like an archenemy"

www.interfaithamerica.org/article/this...