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White “Freedom” T-shirt *lawn signs* are popping up everywhere where I live. Someone making a version with a second line underneath, I’m thinking red, “FOR PEDOS” could make a lot of money. Ooh, billboards! Twist the narrative.
That is what my mind thinks of at 6am. Carry on.
That is what my mind thinks of at 6am. Carry on.
November 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
White “Freedom” T-shirt *lawn signs* are popping up everywhere where I live. Someone making a version with a second line underneath, I’m thinking red, “FOR PEDOS” could make a lot of money. Ooh, billboards! Twist the narrative.
That is what my mind thinks of at 6am. Carry on.
That is what my mind thinks of at 6am. Carry on.
The Party That Stands For Nothing
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
November 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The Party That Stands For Nothing
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Done!
We’re rolling out billboards in key GOP districts that call House Republicans out by name for backing Trump’s shutdown. Please pitch in if you can to help us make sure constituents in these districts know their GOP representatives are siding with Trump over working families.
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secure.actblue.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Done!
The Trump Shutdown
If you agree that no one should have to go hungry in America, hold your Republican elected officials accountable and otherwise help end this shutdown. indivisible.org/campaign/sto...
STOP THE TRUMP SHUTDOWN
indivisible.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Trump Shutdown
What Americans hear over & over: Democrat Shutdown.
What we are NOT hearing:
Republicans Control Congress.
What we are NOT hearing:
Republicans Control Congress.
November 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
What Americans hear over & over: Democrat Shutdown.
What we are NOT hearing:
Republicans Control Congress.
What we are NOT hearing:
Republicans Control Congress.
Democrats’ food drives at polling places this November is brilliant—show empathy and kindness and emphasize the need out there.
October 31, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Democrats’ food drives at polling places this November is brilliant—show empathy and kindness and emphasize the need out there.
More Reagan ads reaching out to MAGA voters, please.
October 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
More Reagan ads reaching out to MAGA voters, please.
Spread the word.
The gaslighting is wild. THEY control the White House, the House, and the Senate—yet always find a way to blame Democrats for their mess.
The so-called “$1.5 trillion wish list” is about protecting health care, food assistance, and housing. (1/2)
The so-called “$1.5 trillion wish list” is about protecting health care, food assistance, and housing. (1/2)
October 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Spread the word.
Credit where credit is due—this shutdown is Republican-led and Republican-Fed.
Republicans in Congress could end the Trump shutdown today by passing a budget deal that protects your health care and takes away Trump’s blank checks.
Let your legislators hear from you.
Let your legislators hear from you.
October 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Credit where credit is due—this shutdown is Republican-led and Republican-Fed.
Great article to read, below. Highly recommend following Greenberg here.
Trump’s “enemy within” rhetoric isn’t bluster — it’s cultural work. Words recast dissent as treason, cities as battlegrounds, and neighbors as expendable. Preparations for military dictatorship are already underway.
#EnemyWithin #Authoritarianism #DemocracyAtRisk #NoDictatorship
#EnemyWithin #Authoritarianism #DemocracyAtRisk #NoDictatorship
Prelude to Military Dictatorship
The “enemy within” and the militarization of American politics
open.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Great article to read, below. Highly recommend following Greenberg here.
Jane Fonda relaunching her dad’s Committee for the First Amendment is **everything.** Let’s go! She gets it.
October 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Jane Fonda relaunching her dad’s Committee for the First Amendment is **everything.** Let’s go! She gets it.
Canceled my subscription after the election, but I still skim the headlines on the way down the page to the free games… saw this *today* and thought; does the NYTimes actively oppose our Disney Plus cancelations? I can believe it.
Headline: The 50 Best Movies to watch on Disney + Right Now
Headline: The 50 Best Movies to watch on Disney + Right Now
September 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Canceled my subscription after the election, but I still skim the headlines on the way down the page to the free games… saw this *today* and thought; does the NYTimes actively oppose our Disney Plus cancelations? I can believe it.
Headline: The 50 Best Movies to watch on Disney + Right Now
Headline: The 50 Best Movies to watch on Disney + Right Now
Keep pressing that heart button ❤️on posts from independent media here you trust. Even if the message is disheartening, they need to know you are paying attention. Amplify their reach!
September 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Keep pressing that heart button ❤️on posts from independent media here you trust. Even if the message is disheartening, they need to know you are paying attention. Amplify their reach!
Check this out.
MAGA didn’t reject identity politics — it inverted it. What began as protection for the excluded has become grievance for the powerful.
#MAGA #IdentityPolitics #Democracy #Authoritarianism #PoliticalEcology
#MAGA #IdentityPolitics #Democracy #Authoritarianism #PoliticalEcology
MAGA and the Politics of Identity
Why identity politics thrives in collapse—and how MAGA turned it upside down
jamesbgreenberg.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Check this out.
Ooh I like this: vaccines cause old age. Wish me well as I bravely partake the shingles vaccine this month.
September 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Ooh I like this: vaccines cause old age. Wish me well as I bravely partake the shingles vaccine this month.
The Gavin Newsom merch is what this moment needs. Check it out.
August 27, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The Gavin Newsom merch is what this moment needs. Check it out.
So, will we see a Dem going on TV to say, “Texas is disenfranchising voters and cheating, basically, so we are trying to level the playing field in California.” We should be hearing this around the country esp on Fox News, but Dems are sadly bad at messaging. Cheaters gonna cheat; this needs labels.
August 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
So, will we see a Dem going on TV to say, “Texas is disenfranchising voters and cheating, basically, so we are trying to level the playing field in California.” We should be hearing this around the country esp on Fox News, but Dems are sadly bad at messaging. Cheaters gonna cheat; this needs labels.
On one hand, Republican officials call themselves "warfighters."
On the other, they become whiny crybabies at the thought of setting foot in DC streets and New York City subways that literal schoolchildren navigate every day without incident.
Real macho stuff.
On the other, they become whiny crybabies at the thought of setting foot in DC streets and New York City subways that literal schoolchildren navigate every day without incident.
Real macho stuff.
August 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Someday, Made in China stickers will be rare and collectible here in the US. Calling all Beanie Baby collectors from back in the day, start your collections!
August 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Someday, Made in China stickers will be rare and collectible here in the US. Calling all Beanie Baby collectors from back in the day, start your collections!
MAGA is more than a political movement—it’s a symbolic system that answers dislocation with identity, confusion with clarity, and loss with belonging. If we want to push back, we need more than critique. We need a new story—and the civic infrastructure to support it.
Between Stories: Understanding MAGA, Rebuilding Democracy
To counter authoritarianism, we need more than critique—we need a shared narrative and civic infrastructure grounded in belonging, dignity, and care.
jamesbgreenberg.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Happy Saturday!
I’m following 67 independent, thoughtful, informative—vital to Democracy—individuals and organizations here on Bluesky.
Only 2 showed up in my feed today. So, I took the time to visit those pages and like their excellent posts, a suggestion I share here for your to-do list.
I’m following 67 independent, thoughtful, informative—vital to Democracy—individuals and organizations here on Bluesky.
Only 2 showed up in my feed today. So, I took the time to visit those pages and like their excellent posts, a suggestion I share here for your to-do list.
May 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Happy Saturday!
I’m following 67 independent, thoughtful, informative—vital to Democracy—individuals and organizations here on Bluesky.
Only 2 showed up in my feed today. So, I took the time to visit those pages and like their excellent posts, a suggestion I share here for your to-do list.
I’m following 67 independent, thoughtful, informative—vital to Democracy—individuals and organizations here on Bluesky.
Only 2 showed up in my feed today. So, I took the time to visit those pages and like their excellent posts, a suggestion I share here for your to-do list.
Follow those taking action! Help out these folks with some suggestions, below.
Bluesky folks, with threats to SNAP, school meals, and other anti-hunger programs being floated, we're going to be taking a lot of action to protect these programs.
What'd be most helpful to keep you informed?
1) Data visualization/charts
2) Direct research
2) Text posts
3) Video explainers
What'd be most helpful to keep you informed?
1) Data visualization/charts
2) Direct research
2) Text posts
3) Video explainers
April 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Follow those taking action! Help out these folks with some suggestions, below.
Have you heard of @amightygirl.com? I’ve been learning from them for years - a good Follow suggestion.
Kseniia Petrova faces deportation to Russia for a minor offense. ICE has twice refused her lawyer's petition for parole, claiming that the shy "supernerd," as her colleagues describe her, is a "threat to U.S. security" and a "danger to the community."
Read more at www.facebook.com/amightygirl/...
Read more at www.facebook.com/amightygirl/...
April 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Have you heard of @amightygirl.com? I’ve been learning from them for years - a good Follow suggestion.
MAGA is growing among Republicans.
The sociological concept of ‘out groups’ (as opposed to ‘in groups’) applies here.
“I believe part of the answer lies in a fundamental aspect of our humanity: the urge to destroy that from which you feel excluded.”
apple.news/AgTtSWwxEQ8y...
The sociological concept of ‘out groups’ (as opposed to ‘in groups’) applies here.
“I believe part of the answer lies in a fundamental aspect of our humanity: the urge to destroy that from which you feel excluded.”
apple.news/AgTtSWwxEQ8y...
Opinion | Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature — Guardian US
Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
apple.news
April 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
MAGA is growing among Republicans.
The sociological concept of ‘out groups’ (as opposed to ‘in groups’) applies here.
“I believe part of the answer lies in a fundamental aspect of our humanity: the urge to destroy that from which you feel excluded.”
apple.news/AgTtSWwxEQ8y...
The sociological concept of ‘out groups’ (as opposed to ‘in groups’) applies here.
“I believe part of the answer lies in a fundamental aspect of our humanity: the urge to destroy that from which you feel excluded.”
apple.news/AgTtSWwxEQ8y...
Let’s get right to the point.
👇🏽 🎯 the point is to force the world to beg him for carve outs (and pay him off)
Mafia-style Government
Mafia-style Government
April 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Let’s get right to the point.