Megan Shahi

The Dangers of Obeying: 4 Risks for Organizations Bowing to the Trump Administration The Trump administration is demanding unprecedented power and punishing those who refuse to comply, but civil society acting peacefully with collective courage can build a stronger democracy.

MUST-READ: My CAP colleague Alice Lillydahl has a terrific new column out today on why appeasement of Trump's illegal demands may be far more dangerous to organizations than compliance is.

Gov. Tim Walz on Pushing Back and Moving Forward Podcast Episode · The Tent · 06/13/2025 · 15m

New Pod

@governorwalz.mn.gov discusses the rising authoritarian threat from the Trump administration & the president’s politicization of the military. Gov. Walz also talks about his record of delivering for Minnesotans & how Americans can push back in this moment.

The Senate Republican Budget Bill Adds Broadband Funding That Favors Musk’s Starlink and Bans State AI Laws An additional $500 million of broadband funding provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes a national freeze on AI regulation by states, weaponizing public infrastructure against state actio...

While the dramatic public feud between Trump and Musk plays out, Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill hands Starlink a potential multimillion-dollar payday. My new piece: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Due process. Due process. Due process.

From @vanhollen.senate.gov:

CAP @americanprogress.bsky.social supports the bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act, which boosts protections for victims of non-consensual sharing of intimate images, including AI-generated. We strongly urge the House to pass it and take a crucial step in safeguarding online spaces from this damaging harm.

Negotiations for the Stargate $500B AI infrastructure investment from OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle started during the Biden Administration, despite Trump's clear attempt to take credit where it is not due.

Salient analysis from the tech team ⬇️

Musk fired me from Twitter within 12 hours of assuming ownership of the company, so watching DOGE cuts has been especially gut wrenching. That was a private company, this is government. Running the Twitter playbook will wreak havoc and endanger Americans.

Trump did not "bring back free speech" nor stop censorship. Private companies walked back crucial policies that mitigate harm to users and make the internet safer.

All righty. The pizza has been deployed here at CAP HQ, and we're ready for the President's address to a joint session of Congress.

I'll be posting about democracy issues and other things that catch my attention. Catch the full range of CAP expertise with this starter pack: go.bsky.app/3TC1naE

👋🏼🎙️ this thing on? Thrilled to be in the good company of policy experts on @americanprogress.bsky.social's starter pack ahead of Trump's Congressional Address tomorrow. Follow along for our reactions and takes (of all temps!) bsky.app/starter-pack...

I’ve spent about 2-3 hours each day on calls or chats with my US gov friends. Here’s an anonymized recap of what’s going on.

First, I am so very sorry that they are living our last year at Twitter. I never wanted to think about that time again, and I hope my advice is helpful. 1/

Zuck goes full Musk, dumps Facebook fact-checking program Meta will replace it with so-called community notes like on the X platform. The content moderation changes won’t be rolled out in the EU for now.

Meta has "no plans to end fact-checking in the EU", the company clarified and "will review its EU content moderation obligations before making changes" www.politico.eu/article/mark...

I’m not a doomer about crowd-sourced moderation (particularly in tandem with other approaches), but the news today is so blatantly politically motivated, & Facebook’s biggest overmoderation problem stems from automated filters, which have become impossible (even for reputable orgs) to push back on!

Major, yes. Precedent setting, absolutely. But not at all surprising. Clearest sign of Meta bending to the new admin. $ incentives and political capital drive the business, always have.

This aged well.