1942 and things looked pretty grim. And then the will was summoned, somehow, collectively, toward an outcome none could have predicted at the time. clip.cafe/the-thin-red...
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1942 and things looked pretty grim. And then the will was summoned, somehow, collectively, toward an outcome none could have predicted at the time. clip.cafe/the-thin-red...
Good to see. More like that here - "...the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women’s rights, racial equality — were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance." www.zinnedproject.org/materials/pe...
Riffing on my earlier question to you, this statement extends that promise of the sun to perhaps somehow moderating the downshift to a far less robust economy than one based on oil and the dollar to an economy far less damaging to people and the planet. That ideal feels like manna to me. 100%
Mr McKibben - the promise of the sun, of renewables, is stymied, isn't it? - by the economic downstream of oil, 103m barrels a day of it, I think? - most of it traded in dollars, sustaining the dollar's strength, and all of it transported and refined into a sort of lifeblood for the global economy?
From Right Path Forward, Jessica Millan Patterson, CEO and Chair of the CA Rep Party. So Jessica, is it wrong to rig elections no matter who does it? Yes? The President declared war on fair elections. Protect Fair Elections? Yes, we will in California by fighting back. www.protectfairelections.org
I'd love to see what is being tried in the case, and the quotes you cite posted with them.
"When this all finally ends..." May this all end swiftly.
You can win this, Mr. Platner. www.grahamforsenate.com
Power to the People. I've heard it said and yet you make it more real to me. This administration is so broadly injurious to not just us but moreover to the people of the world, the tide actually seems to be shifting toward an even more broadly unified resistance.
No income from the book deal? Barrett got $2million - news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar...
Saw no mention of this in my feed today and it's sensational. Newsom's new merch store includes this gem:
Yeah, Mr. Elias, you requested comments and mine is to say how great it is having you speak the entire time. Nothing at all against your co-host, and it does add a freshness when the two of you riff on points. Still it's your enthusiasm uninterrupted that kept me glued to this most recent edition.
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True, and so much more.
I told our CA-41 Republican Rep to save himself from Newsom's redistricting plans by co-sponsoring the Freedom to Vote Act, make it a fair fight to unseat him. Short of the Act's mandate for independently drawn districts nationwide, we'll fight fire with fire. www.brennancenter.org/freedom-vote...
Hey, thanks for checking, I'd wondered.
Thanks for the link. Done. Now... let's go get this win.
Join Newsom live today, 7:30 Eastern, 4:30 Pacific: www.youtube.com/live/MK2y13i...
# 1. Check # 2. Check # 3. Check # 4. Check # 5. Check ...and yes, we will win.
The boot licking is so very disgusting.
Bondi's intimidation "embarrasses the office of the Attorney General of the United States" ...at every turn.
Aw this is heartening, so good you amplify this news.
I'm thinking yeah, with Fox News to amplify their point of view to about 32million of us, they may well have grounds to assume they have the power and no one else (that Fox News berates) does.
hahaha... double entendre much?!
Yeah, recruiting ads showing uniformed troops lolling about city streets may not be the enticement our military services rely upon for filling the ranks.
The outrage. Condoned intimidation. Purposed for violence. And what - about 32 million of us endorse it, applaud it. Put an instigator in charge and the pent-up discontent among us gets provoked and this happens. Someone tell us how to bring out the goodness again.
Mass non-cooperation... It has occurred to me that if we stopped using credit cards, and I mean all of us, with a unified demand - the Freedom to Vote Act, for example, to end partisan gerrymandering nationwide - the aching banks might apply the pressure that gets it done. One issue at a time.
From your essay: "Will the cynics be proven right in the end?" And it seems likely this fight for democracy may never end, not when, as you say, so many of the ones undermining it do not act in good faith.
Why... Refusal to call out Israel's crimes has persisted among western nations since the early 1950's. Why? Why does Israel get a pass on its treatment of Palestinians, its illegal settlements, its terrorizing of regional neighbors? Are the fortunes of nations risked by levying just criticisms?
Day after day and multiple times each day the onslaught of outrages slip by us largely unnoticed by anyone - as far as I know - but Zeteo. The bile rises with each fresh entry.
We do have agency. We're not bystanders in this.
Thank you for your contribution to stop Trump from rigging the 2026 election act.gavinnewsom.com/signup/ab-ty...
Your calls to action brought me to DC February 17 and again April 5, May 1 and June 14. The huge crowds, the vehement demands buoyed my spirits, juiced my activism. Your definition of protest maps onto the near success of January 6 disruptors and cautions me about tracking along with your plans.
Can we expect Democrats will delay their return to Texas until the time required for resolving a legal challenge to the redistricting vote added to the time required following that resolution to enact new maps for primary voting has passed? If so, Newsom's laudable plans may prove inconsequential.
There is no affinity for truth, only for personal advancement. And the same applies for all his appointees, for all whose livelihood and/or personal safety depend on his good graces. I found this helpful in clarifying his gambit and seeing past its onslaught. link.motherjones.com/public/40962...
Thank you, curpo.bsky.social - it worked!
We are inspired by you, Mr. Talarico. I understand donations are being accepted to assist with legislators' expenses while outside of Texas. If available, please provide that donation site or link. Anyone else have it? Please post it for the good these lawmakers are doing.
We are wisely warned, thanks Pete. Dear researchers, once this misguided administration is gone, can you return to work and pick back up where this funding cut is causing a halt? An example: Democracy Forward Fellowship program to rebuild government capacity. democracyforward.org/updates/css-...
"It’s been a long-term desire of right-wingers to smash the state ... and make way for an economically libertarian and socially conservative regime that ... would be ruled by an autocrat. Government would no longer ... be a countervailing force to the power of corporate interests and wealth."
Fighting fire with fire may require a special election in California - an expensive proposition, Governor Newsom has said. Donate here if you will to help respond to the president's and Texas' shenanigans - secure.actblue.com/donate/cfd-w...
I am old enough to remember when nominating a black man named Barack Hussein Obama was out of the question.
The "Perfect Storm" hit Astoria, Oregon, knocking out electricity, internet and cellular reception and felling trees that blocked roads in and out for five days. All we had for information was our CPB funded, generator powered local radio station, a literal lifeline for residents in need of help.
The more you speak, Mr. Talarico, the more aligned we become with the values you uphold.
Governor Newsom, his firing of the BLS Commissioner is like an "off with their heads!" reaction from the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland. Maybe that book actually suffices for the make-believe world you suggest he is in - random chaos and upheaval for his vanity alone.
Use of the term "illegal immigrants" seems to be the substance of your reference to anti-immigrant language. Different than language vilifying immigrants, to me the term "illegal Immigrants," while a mischaracterization does not infer something derogatory so much as an ignorance of their status.
It is time to start flipping tables, you say, Mr. Talarico. Show us the tables, sir, and I'll start flipping.
Leaving no tool in the tool shed for fighting Republican voter suppression, you said, "we cannot be constrained by norms." The fight for democracy requires us to act today, not tomorrow, not next year, you said, but now: www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Awaiting Governor Newsom's reponse...
Nice thought, but... please post your source along with this news -?
The distraction from Epstein is working, then...?
It's from the medics, the doctors and nurses we're told of clearly intentional assassinations of children, families, journalists and even their fellow medical staff in Gaza. This petition adds your voice for withholding US support for it. More here: sign.moveon.org/petitions/tr...
Now along with threats to eliminate the holy grail of climate regulations, he's threatening to dismantle the stations that measure CO2 in the atmosphere. No data, no truth - just denial.
430. That's my response to deniers of global warming. 250ppm CO2 in the atmosphere kept humankind cozy warm for millennia because that's what it does - holds warmth in the atmosphere like a blanket. We're now at 430ppm and climbing. We're piling on blankets and only beginning to feel the heat.
Yes, Governor. And we're all in, right there with you.
Thank you for reposting this along with your comments. Owning our complicity in this abuse may begin with confronting it as clearly as you have.
This content is so relatable. It complements your profiling of the shift in political contests from Dem vs Rep to oligarchs vs the rest of us. It's so clear, it begs the question of what distracts us from seeing it. And it would seem to be a distraction contrived by those who profit from it.
Timely, impactful elaboration of the threat and of what's at stake. Your voice is carrying, Governor, and it may well be essential.
The shoe waiting to drop may be your announcement of redistricting for California? I'd urge your team to take a hard look at CA-41.
Proves your point, Governor. We may require a constitutional amendment to enact sensible gun safety laws given the long history of court decisions granting the opposite.
So good of you, Senator, to help us understand what's happening beyond the coverage of big media. Bove, SCOTUS, Big Oil - your elaborations should rightly result in concerted action to replace what stinks with the integrity that we expect of our judges and our members of Congress.
Not tossing anything. Your heroism and gifted oratory uplift us like none other.
And Time Magazine amplifying this ridiculous deflection from our attention on Epstein - time.com/7303912/trum...
Time Magazine amplifying the sham's ridiculous deflection from Epstein onto jailing Obama ffs - time.com/7303912/trum...
Why not? I'm not challenging your reasons just really hoping to understand why you and others dislike him.
Timely question and one prospective candidates may already be spinning. The cascade of outrages since January 21 may best be reversed by an equally audacious action plan, and while constitutional amendments are challenging to enact, how else will our transformation outlast SCOTUS reversals?
Congressman Frost's characterization of those interred looking like him with none of European descent is echoed in assertions below of ethnic cleansing. But I wonder... who would tolerate that? What do you notice in this .gov site mg'd by Republicans? financialservices.house.gov/about/member...
Solidarity for ehhhver - haha yes, sing it!
I hadn't made that connection, Mr. White. Antifa. Anti-fascist. Calling someone a fascist is more the slur. Still, how did the term become a slur as used by DHS and MAGA?
Superb. Still Mr. Reich, why has this lesson that you detail so clearly not been learned in the last forty years? Even as the big wave is anti-establishment, the obstinacy may be a belief that the establishment is required not only for election wins, but also for governing effectively in office.
Haha so fun! OK, that's my feedback - let's have fun with this.
A very disheartening lede. Antifa? Anarchists? And you're repeating this?
430. How I begin countering the denial. 430 carbon ppm in the atmosphere. Civilization was comfortably warmed at 250ppm until about 150 years ago because that's what carbon is - a blanket to keep in the warmth. Now at 430 climbing to 500+, blankets are piling on and their heating has only begun.
According to this statement, ICE required their captives to delete photos and videos of the raid. Any attorneys have a comment about that? Meanwhile, if the UFW.org website is down due perhaps to heavy traffic, please try again later and donate if you can.
We learned from Goldwater and McGovern, it seems, to prioritize safe establishment candidates. And our feebleness at countering Fox News branding has left us more timid still. In this hour, maybe passion merits prioritizing. Mamdani drew hugely with first time and youth voters responding to that.
How does a country fight back without enormous risks to its economy. The announcement alone had this effect according to the article: "Brazil’s currency dropped against the US dollar... Futures in the Bovespa extended their fall... leaving them down 2.3 per cent..."
This strikes me as essential. Doesn't it seem Fox News controls the discourse of our politics? Doesn't it seem the rest of us are always put on the defensive against their BS? Fox News is the pro wrestling of news coverage and maybe it's time their viewers get called out for believing it.
Your mention of Fox News is important. 22% of us watch Fox News juiced by the sneering at all things Democrat and liberal. But as a juice, it's a Kool-Aid gravely detrimental to our democracy and the rule of law. Let's call it out. Fox News is like pro wrestling - all hype and little substance.
Bah, I almost didn't notice the uniform it looked so suited to her.
Done.
Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to eliminate subsidies for unreliable “green” energy sources like wind and solar in furtherance of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
"get off Fox propaganda" - crucial point. Per Pew Research, 22% of us are Fox News viewers. Why? 22% of us are not dolts. It may be like viewers of pro wrestling getting juiced by the sneering and pomposity while also knowing how much of it is staged. Let's remind them - it's a show.
I heed your warming, Mr. Reich. Now what's there to do? We are volunteering, making calls, coordinating actions, showing up, keeping the network humming... What else... Is the blue wave in November of 2026 what we are relying on to undo these outrages? Or can we Act Up, Fight Back immediately?
Despondency has haunted most all of our volunteers here in CA-41 and still we're organized, showing up, making calls, writing letters, keeping the network humming.
Following your lead as always, Mr. McKibben.
At one point in his speaking he gestured to his colleagues and said this is the mosaic of the American people. And around him were black women, an Asian man, a white man, a Hispanic woman... And then... As Mike Johnson delivered his remarks, what sort of mosaic did we see?
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A problem: vitriol for Democrats is Fox News DNA. Viewers are apt to believe the 2020 election was stolen; Jan 6 rioters are patriots; the crime family is Biden; global warming is a hoax... Let's call it out, name the problem, start turning the tables. Maybe Newsom's lawsuit will help do that.
A problem: vitriol for Democrats is Fox News DNA. Viewers are apt to believe the 2020 election was stolen; Jan 6 rioters are patriots; the crime family is Biden; global warming is a hoax... Let's call it out, name the problem, start turning the tables. Maybe Newsom's lawsuit will help do that.
For many years, doors of opportunity opened for presentable white men, for others not so much. In a land of opportunity, it's right for a government of by and for the people to call attention to this often unconscious bias. That's DEIA. Hiring is never based solely on merit. Looks bias factors.
Mr. Mamdani, I share this superb profile of the results with people I hear predicting bad things will come. There's logic in their forecasts - look at what's running our government in Washington. But logic like that, compelling as it is, wilts in comparison to what you/your team accomplished.
As Mr. Jeffries in his closing minutes referenced Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr, if you can't fly, then run, if you can't run, then walk, if you can't walk, then crawl. Press on and keep pressing. We press on because we can't not. And as we do, we will be all the more ready for "Project 2026."
Any fellow Americans here? Do you feel as I do Ukraine deserves our support? Here on bluesky, organizations occasionally ask for funding to buy supplies for the brave warriors fighting Russia. Using paypal, let's step up. Let's not let this President of ours deny us the chance to help Ukraine.
"Victims range from 12 to 17 years old, and the allegations date back to 2011." www.baptistpress.com/resource-lib...
Lifted sanctions on Russian banks...? - doesn't look that way at all - www.kyivpost.com/post/55461
"Perez appears to be the twelfth person to die in ICE custody this fiscal year." newrepublic.com/article/1974...
So inspiring, Mr. McKibben. "Solar energy is now the cheapest source of power on the planet – and gives us a chance to actually do something about the climate crisis. But fossil fuel billionaires are doing everything they can to shut it down." Day of Action - September 21, 2025. sunday.earth
Congratulations from Americans to Ukraine in honor of their Constitution Day, today, June 28. Glory to Ukraine!
You know I can't help but think our turnouts here are encouraging similar protests elsewhere - Belgrade and Budapest, for example
Yes, Governor Newsom. Fox News is that elephant in the room ignored as if calling attention makes it bigger. Consider: Viewers of Fox News are given to believe the 2020 election was stolen; the Jan 6 rioters are patriotic; the crime family is Biden; global warming is a hoax. Let's call it out.
The Economist today posited that Mamdani is a gift to the Republicans presuming the spin on socialism will sink him and the leadership we need. If the lessons of Goldwater and McGovern were to reject principals and favor pragmatism, let's hearken to Mamdani's example now. He won, they did not.