Yolanda H Steele
@yesyolanda.bsky.social
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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This is the Hands Off! map for Saturday. Nearly 400,000 people have signed up to attend over 1,000 events in all 50 states. We hope to see you in the streets in two days to let Trump and Musk know they can’t intimidate us into submission: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...
April 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This is the Hands Off! map for Saturday. Nearly 400,000 people have signed up to attend over 1,000 events in all 50 states. We hope to see you in the streets in two days to let Trump and Musk know they can’t intimidate us into submission: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...
“Just a reminder: the US is not Castro's Cuba, Putin's Russia, or Xi's China. At any moment the GOP could unite and oppose Trump and create a crisis for him. Their cowardice has been astounding but they can still act without being put in a Gulag or shot." - @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social
March 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“Just a reminder: the US is not Castro's Cuba, Putin's Russia, or Xi's China. At any moment the GOP could unite and oppose Trump and create a crisis for him. Their cowardice has been astounding but they can still act without being put in a Gulag or shot." - @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social
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If you're feeling hopeless and want to do something to fight back, @anatosaurus.bsky.social and @sunjeevbery.bsky.social have some advice.
How to Really Resist
Anat Shenker-Osorio, a political messaging expert, and Sunjeev Bery discuss sustained civil resistance.
interc.pt
February 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If you're feeling hopeless and want to do something to fight back, @anatosaurus.bsky.social and @sunjeevbery.bsky.social have some advice.
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I’m still processing what we saw in the Oval Office and it’s difficult to put into words how disgusted and ashamed I am.
This was a coordinated assault on an ally to benefit a dictator and authoritarian regime. Trump and Vance aren’t just Putin’s puppets, they’re his assets.
This was a coordinated assault on an ally to benefit a dictator and authoritarian regime. Trump and Vance aren’t just Putin’s puppets, they’re his assets.
February 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I’m still processing what we saw in the Oval Office and it’s difficult to put into words how disgusted and ashamed I am.
This was a coordinated assault on an ally to benefit a dictator and authoritarian regime. Trump and Vance aren’t just Putin’s puppets, they’re his assets.
This was a coordinated assault on an ally to benefit a dictator and authoritarian regime. Trump and Vance aren’t just Putin’s puppets, they’re his assets.
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New Yorker's editor-in-chief David Remnick expresses frustration with Democratic Party leadership, asking "when is the opposition going to come?" He then criticizes Hakeem Jeffries' remark that one shouldn't swing at every pitch, saying: "What pitch are the Democrats going to swing at finally?"
March 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
New Yorker's editor-in-chief David Remnick expresses frustration with Democratic Party leadership, asking "when is the opposition going to come?" He then criticizes Hakeem Jeffries' remark that one shouldn't swing at every pitch, saying: "What pitch are the Democrats going to swing at finally?"
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NEW: Voice of America is in upheaval. Journalists are facing HR investigations for comments critical of Trump. One of VOA's highest-profile journalists was put on leave today after a Trump aide called him a traitor. And the White House bureau chief was reassigned. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b...
Voice of America Journalists Face Investigations for Comments About Trump
The broadcaster placed a longtime journalist on leave amid growing concerns about its editorial independence.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
NEW: Voice of America is in upheaval. Journalists are facing HR investigations for comments critical of Trump. One of VOA's highest-profile journalists was put on leave today after a Trump aide called him a traitor. And the White House bureau chief was reassigned. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b...
Doyle Canning’s new newsletter is a must-read resource for anybody doing organizing or comms work (or funding) right now. Please subscribe. Thank you @doylecanning.bsky.social for your brilliant guidance!!
“DOGE Stimulus Check” is in the organic top 10 most searched in the last week in the USA, and the only one related to politics. To me, this is an indicator this isn’t going to be as easy as “letting them hang themselves with their own rope,” at least not rn. doylecanning.substack.com/p/on-playing...
On Playing Possum
Plus, Flooding the Zone (Hint: It's more than Media)
doylecanning.substack.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Doyle Canning’s new newsletter is a must-read resource for anybody doing organizing or comms work (or funding) right now. Please subscribe. Thank you @doylecanning.bsky.social for your brilliant guidance!!
Impactful action you can take today!
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If you've been asking "what can I do", if you've been feeling powerless, if you've been doomscrolling, COME TO THIS PHONEBANK.
Sign up: wfpus.org/NoCuts
If you've been asking "what can I do", if you've been feeling powerless, if you've been doomscrolling, COME TO THIS PHONEBANK.
Sign up: wfpus.org/NoCuts
February 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Impactful action you can take today!
“If you want to make your voice heard in this negotiation, the time to make your voice heard is this morning [Tuesday Feb 25]. It may be the last chance you have.”
February 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
“If you want to make your voice heard in this negotiation, the time to make your voice heard is this morning [Tuesday Feb 25]. It may be the last chance you have.”
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Hello friends. I know times are dark but it is incredibly important not to lose hope. And, this week there are signs of hope and it paramount we recognize that hope, not let up and build. A thread on this if I may. You may appreciate this on a Friday. Come along with me. 🧵 (1/10)
February 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Hello friends. I know times are dark but it is incredibly important not to lose hope. And, this week there are signs of hope and it paramount we recognize that hope, not let up and build. A thread on this if I may. You may appreciate this on a Friday. Come along with me. 🧵 (1/10)
“While in this moment of emergency we must fight to preserve the democracy we have, reform and rethinking will be necessary to achieve the democracy we want for the future.”
Out of Chaos and Corruption, a Revelation and a Reckoning
Welcome back to Lucid
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February 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
“While in this moment of emergency we must fight to preserve the democracy we have, reform and rethinking will be necessary to achieve the democracy we want for the future.”
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Here is my third weekly dispatch, imagining how the US media *should* be covering the Musk coup if it was clear-eyed about the threat to our democracy. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...
Musk, Trump Establish New Era of Kleptocracy in America
A third dispatch comparing how the US media would cover this moment if it was happening overseas
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Here is my third weekly dispatch, imagining how the US media *should* be covering the Musk coup if it was clear-eyed about the threat to our democracy. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...
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THIS WEEK: Your representative is back home for recess. That means it’s time to let them know we’re paying attention. Demand that Republicans explain why they’re selling out to billionaires, urge Democrats to fight back with all they have, or take the fight to Musk himself: indivisible.org/muskorus
February 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
THIS WEEK: Your representative is back home for recess. That means it’s time to let them know we’re paying attention. Demand that Republicans explain why they’re selling out to billionaires, urge Democrats to fight back with all they have, or take the fight to Musk himself: indivisible.org/muskorus
Stark truth in this thread. This is an epic moment that must be about epic transformation.
The status quo ante is already dead. Many things will change. Whether they change for ill or for good depends on our ability to recognize that the old era is over and seize the crisis to fight like hell for a better world
February 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Stark truth in this thread. This is an epic moment that must be about epic transformation.
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As I reported during the election, Trump was running a disinformation operation not a conventional political campaign. That is continuing in the White House. The conventional media has trouble coming to terms with this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
February 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
As I reported during the election, Trump was running a disinformation operation not a conventional political campaign. That is continuing in the White House. The conventional media has trouble coming to terms with this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Clear, accurate, devastating headline
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Clear, accurate, devastating headline
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Narrating reality makes you sound unhinged.
What if there were a coup, the US government fell to a drug-addled oligarch who seized control of our money, secrets, and levers of power, and Corporate media did not report on it?
February 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Narrating reality makes you sound unhinged.
Need language for how to talk to audiences of regular people about all that’s happening? Follow messaging guru @anatosaurus.bsky.social for messages that resonate with regular people and concisely tell the story of what’s happening, who’s to blame, and what we can do about it.
As promised in their Project 2025 agenda, Trump, MAGA and Musk have proven theirs is a government of the bullies for the billionaires. While Trump raises prices and bullies us based on our races, backgrounds and genders, his shadow president Elon Musk commits armed robbery.
February 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Need language for how to talk to audiences of regular people about all that’s happening? Follow messaging guru @anatosaurus.bsky.social for messages that resonate with regular people and concisely tell the story of what’s happening, who’s to blame, and what we can do about it.
Sign the petition. Call your members of Congress.
BREAKING: Our Impeach Trump Again campaign is closing in on 200K signers + we just added a new ground to the call for an impeachment inquiry: the unlawful and corrupt empowerment and enrichment of Elon Musk and DOGE. Join us at impeachtrumpagain.org: demand accountability. @fsfp.bsky.social
IMPEACH TRUMP. AGAIN.
impeachtrumpagain.org
February 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Sign the petition. Call your members of Congress.
Important anecdote from @ezralevin.bsky.social : When some regular people got together to stage a protest, a whole bunch of Senators & MoCs clamored to join. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
“I’m not in this game to just yell at Dems and say be better. I want to be cheering them on as a unified opposition.”
@ezralevin.bsky.social tells @maddow.msnbc.com what it will take to get more Democrats to stand up to Trump.
@ezralevin.bsky.social tells @maddow.msnbc.com what it will take to get more Democrats to stand up to Trump.
February 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Important anecdote from @ezralevin.bsky.social : When some regular people got together to stage a protest, a whole bunch of Senators & MoCs clamored to join. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
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BREAKING: We are suing USTreasury for its unlawful disclosure of personal & financial information to Elon Musk’s DOGE.
This violation puts sensitive information about millions of Americans at risk.
This violation puts sensitive information about millions of Americans at risk.
February 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
BREAKING: We are suing USTreasury for its unlawful disclosure of personal & financial information to Elon Musk’s DOGE.
This violation puts sensitive information about millions of Americans at risk.
This violation puts sensitive information about millions of Americans at risk.
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
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It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE....
January 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE....