Ali Daniels Edwards
alidaniels.bsky.social
Ali Daniels Edwards
@alidaniels.bsky.social
“Muskism isn’t the beginning of the future. It’s the end of a story that started more than a century ago, in the conflict between capital and labor and between autocracy and democracy.”
Opinion | The Failed Ideas That Drive Elon Musk
His belief that liberal democracy has failed and that technologists should lead can be traced to the unusual life of his grandfather.
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April 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“When you want to fight them,” [Nika Kovac] said, “you have to build huge coalitions around one particular topic, when they are attacking something that really matters to people.” Looking at the United States, she volunteered health care as a place to start.
Opinion | There Is a Way for Democrats to Stop Trump and Save America
The Democratic Party can’t stop America’s spiral into autocracy and oligarchy unless it casts off its stale talking points and reimagines what it stands for.
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March 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
10 more reasons for modest optimism
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10 more reasons for modest optimism
Friends,
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March 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Today is the day. No shopping. If necessary, support local small, local businesses.
February 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The list is long. This doesn’t need to happen. People will die.
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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February 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.
February 27, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Add the Capitol Switchboard to your contacts & call them 3x/day.
Call Rep Panetta
Call Senator Schiff
Call Senator Padilla
Focus on one issue per call (so they can tally you accurately).
If their mailboxes are full, use the email option on their websites, but keep trying to get through by phone.
February 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
“As the Trump administration slashes and burns federal government, as his cronies take the helms of agencies designed to uphold the health and welfare of both humans and the animals we use for food, I’m preparing for a repeat of their COVID response.”

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The U.S. Is Not Ready for Bird Flu in Humans
Bird flu is infecting more people than we think. We need to stop it now before a new pandemic begins
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February 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out.

Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.

Say equity, which a just society should pursue.

Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.
February 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“We are not living in an era where we can sit back and go along for a nice ride in the country. We are either going to take the wheel ourselves or be driven off a cliff.” @traceywinterglover.bsky.social
Trump was never going to lower the price of eggs, and here’s why we shouldn’t have expected it to begin with
The price of eggs remains as high as ever, and while a lot of people have already started to call Trump out for not making good on his campaign promises to make groceries cheaper, this is possibly the...
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February 4, 2025 at 5:37 AM
With this reality, how do we come together to protect our community’s most vulnerable individuals?
Important fact: 33.55% of Monterey County voters voted for President Trump, his largest vote share in three elections.
February 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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hey question, is this bad?
January 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM